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Danieli 9

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1 Léta prvního Daria syna Asverova z semene Médského, kteréhož učiněn jest králem v království Kaldejském,

2 Léta prvního kralování jeho já Daniel porozuměl jsem z knih počtu let, o nichž se stalo slovo Hospodinovo k Jeremiášovi proroku, že se vyplní zpuštění Jeruzaléma sedmdesátého léta.

3 A obrátil jsem tvář svou ku Pánu Bohu, hledaje ho modlitbou a pokornými prosbami, v postu, v žíni a popele.

4 I modlil jsem se Hospodinu Bohu svému, a vyznávaje se, řekl jsem: Prosím , Pane Bože silný, veliký a všeliké cti hodný, ostříhající smlouvy a dobrotivosti k těm, kteříž tě milují, a ostříhají přikázaní tvých.

5 Zhřešiliť jsme a převráceně jsme činili, bezbožnost jsme páchali, a protivili jsme se, a odvrátili od přikázaní tvých a soudů tvých.

6 Aniž jsme poslouchali služebníků tvých proroků, kteříž mluvívali ve jménu tvém králům našim, knížatům našim a otcům našim, i všemu lidu země.

7 Toběť, ó Pane, přísluší spravedlnost, nám pak zahanbení tváři, jakž se to děje nyní mužům Judským a obyvatelům Jeruzalémským, a všechněm Izraelským, blízkým i dalekým, ve všech zemích, kamž jsi je zahnal pro přestoupení jejich, jímž přestupovali proti tobě.

8 Námť, ó Hospodine, sluší zahanbení tváři, králům našim, knížatům našim a otcům našim, neboť jsme zhřešili proti tobě,

9 Pánu Bohu pak našemu milosrdenství a slitování, poněvadž jsme se protivili jemu,

10 A neposlouchali jsme hlasu Hospodina Boha našeho, abychom chodili v naučeních jeho, kteréž předkládal před oči naše skrze služebníky své proroky.

11 Nýbrž všickni Izraelští přestoupili zákon tvůj a odvrátili se, aby neposlouchali hlasu tvého; protož vylito jest na nás to prokletí a klatba, kteráž jest zapsána v zákoně Mojžíše služebníka Božího, nebo jsme zhřešili proti němu.

12 Pročež splnil slovo své, kteréž mluvil proti nám a proti soudcům našim, kteříž nás soudili, a uvedl na nás toto zlé veliké, jehož se nestalo pode vším nebem, jakéž se stalo v Jeruzalémě.

13 Tak jakž zapsáno jest v zákoně Mojžíšově, všecko to zlé přišlo na nás, a však ani tak jsme se nekořili před tváří hněvivou Hospodina Boha našeho, abychom se odvrátili od nepravostí svých, a šetřili pravdy jeho.

14 Protož neobmeškal Hospodin s tím zlým, ale uvedl je na nás; nebo spravedlivý jest Hospodin Bůh náš ve všech skutcích svých, kteréž činí, jehož hlasu poslušni jsme nebyli.

15 Nyní však, ó Pane Bože náš, kterýž jsi vyvedl lid svůj z země Egyptské rukou silnou, a způsobils sobě jméno, jakéž jest dnešního dne, zhřešili jsme, bezbožně jsme činili.

16 Ó Pane, podlé vší tvé dobrotivosti nechť se, prosím, odvrátí hněv tvůj a prchlivost tvá od města tvého Jeruzaléma, hory svatosti tvé; nebo pro hříchy naše a pro nepravosti otců našich Jeruzalém a lid tvůj v pohanění jest u všech, kteříž jsou vůkol nás.

17 Nyní tedy, ó Bože náš, vyslyš modlitbu služebníka svého, a pokorné prosby jeho, a zasvěť tvář svou nad svatyní svou spuštěnou, pro Pána.

18 Nakloň, Bože můj, ucha svého a slyš, otevři oči své a viz zpuštění naše i města, kteréž jest nazváno od jména tvého; nebo ne pro nějaké naše spravedlnosti padajíce, pokorně prosíme tebe, ale pro milosrdenství tvá mnohá.

19 Vyslyšiž, ó Pane, Pane, odpusť, Pane, pozoruj a učiň; neprodlévejž pro sebe samého, můj Bože, nebo od jména tvého nazváno jest město toto i lid tvůj.

20 Ještě jsem mluvil a modlil se, a vyznával hřích svůj i hřích lidu svého Izraelského, a padna, pokorně jsem se modlil před tváří Hospodina Boha svého, za horu svatosti Boha svého,

21 Ještě, pravím, mluvil jsem při modlitbě, a muž ten Gabriel, kteréhož jsem viděl v tom vidění na počátku, rychle přiletěv, dotekl se mne v čas oběti večerní.

22 A slouže mi k srozumění, mluvil se mnou a řekl: Danieli, nyní jsem vyšel, abych tě naučil vyrozumívati tajemstvím.

23 Při počátku pokorných proseb tvých vyšlo slovo, a já jsem přišel, aťbych je oznámil, nebo jsi velmi milý; pročež pozoruj slova toho, a rozuměj vidění tomu.

24 Sedmdesáte téhodnů odečteno jest lidu tvému a městu svatému tvému k zabránění převrácenosti a k zapečetění hříchů, i vyčištění nepravosti a k přivedení spravedlnosti věčné, a k zapečetění vidění i proroctví, a ku pomazání Svatého svatých.

25 Věziž tedy a rozuměj, že od vyjití výpovědi o navrácení a o vystavení Jeruzaléma až do Mesiáše vývody bude téhodnů sedm, potom téhodnů šedesáte dva, když již zase vzdělána bude ulice a příkopa, a ti časové budou přenesnadní.

26 Po téhodnech pak těch šedesáti a dvou zabit bude Mesiáš, však jemu to nic neuškodí; nýbrž to město i tu svatyni zkazí, i lid ten svůj budoucí, tak že skončení jeho bude hrozné, ano i do vykonání boje bude boj stálý všelijak do vyplénění.

27 Utvrdí však smlouvu mnohým v téhodni posledním, u prostřed pak toho téhodne učiní konec oběti zápalné i oběti suché; a skrze vojsko ohavné, až do posledního a uloženého poplénění hubící, na popléněné vylito bude zpuštění.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2025

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2025. That 'I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings' means that the Lord acquired to Himself by His own powers all things meant by 'the land of sojournings' is clear from the meaning of 'sojourning' as receiving instruction, dealt with in 1463. And because man acquires life to himself chiefly through instruction in facts, matters of doctrine, and cognitions of faith, sojourning is consequently the life so acquired. When applied to the Lord it is the life which He obtained for Himself through cognitions, through the conflicts that constituted temptations, and through victories in temptations; and because He obtained it by His own powers, this is what 'the land of your sojournings' means here.

[2] That the Lord obtained all things for Himself by His own powers, and by His own powers united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence and Divine Essence to Human Essence, and that He alone in this way became righteousness, is quite clear in the Prophets, as in Isaiah,

Who is this coming from Edom, marching in the vast numbers of His strength? I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. I looked around and there was no one helping; and I was astonished that there was no one upholding; therefore My own arm brought Me salvation. Isaiah 63:1, 3, 5.

'Edom' stands for the Lord's Human Essence, 'strength' and 'arm' for power. Plain statements to the effect that He acted from His own power are contained in the phrases 'no one helping' and 'no one upholding', and in that about His own arm bringing Him salvation.

[3] In the same prophet,

He saw that there was no one, and wondered that there was nobody to intercede; and His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness upheld Him. And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head. Isaiah 59:16-17.

This similarly means that He acted by His own power, and in so doing became righteousness. That the Lord is righteousness is stated in Daniel,

Seventy weeks have been decreed to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Daniel 9:24.

And in Jeremiah,

I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and He will reign as king and act with understanding, and He will execute judgement and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell in confidence. And this is His name which they will call Him, Jehovah our Righteousness. Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16.

For this reason He is also called 'the Habitation of Righteousness' in Jeremiah 31:23; 50:7, and 'wonderful' and 'Hero' in Isaiah 9:6.

[4] The reason why the Lord so many times attributes to the Father that which is His own has been explained above in 1999, 2004; for Jehovah was within Him, and so within every single part of Him. Something similar in man may be used for illustration, although there can be no comparison. Within man is his soul, and because it is within him, the soul is within every individual part of him, that is to say, within every individual part of his thinking and every individual part of his activity. Anything that does not have his soul within it is not part of him. The Lord's soul was Life itself or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, for He was conceived from Jehovah; thus Life itself was present within every individual part of Him. And because Life itself, or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, belonged to Him in the way that the soul does to man, so that which was Jehovah's was His, which is what the Lord says in His statements about His being in the bosom of the Father, John 1:18, and about all things that the Father has being His, John 16:15; 17:10-11.

[5] From good which is Jehovah's He united the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, and from truth united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and so achieved every single thing all from Himself. Indeed His Human was left to Itself in order that of Himself He might fight against all the hells and overcome them; and because He had life within Himself, as stated, which was His own, He overcame them by His own power and strength, as is also clearly stated in the places quoted from the Prophets. So then, because He acquired all things to Himself by His own powers, He became Righteousness, cleared the world of spirits of hellish genii and spirits, and in so doing rescued the human race from destruction - for the human race is governed by means of spirits - and thus redeemed it. This is why the Old Testament Word speaks so often of Him as Rescuer and Redeemer, and also Saviour, as His name Jesus describes.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 1463

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1463. That 'sojourning' means receiving instruction becomes clear from the meaning in the Word of 'sojourning' as receiving instruction, and it has this meaning because sojourning and passing on, or moving from one place to another, is in heaven nothing else than a change of state, as shown already in 1376, 1379. Therefore every time travelling, sojourning, or transferring from one place to another occurs in the Word nothing else suggests itself to angels than a change of state such as takes place with them. There are changes of state both of thoughts and of affections. Changes of the state of thoughts are cognitions, which in the world of spirits are represented by means of forms of instruction. This also explains why members of the Most Ancient Church, having communication with the angelic heaven, did not perceive anything else by 'sojourning'. Thus the statement here that 'Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn' does not mean anything other than the Lord's being instructed.

[2] Something similar is meant by Jacob and his sons going down into Egypt, as in Isaiah,

Thus said the Lord Jehovih, My people went down to Egypt at first to sojourn there, and Asshur oppressed them without cause. Isaiah 52:4.

Here 'Asshur' stands for reasonings. This is also why in the Jewish Church people who were receiving instruction were called 'sojourners, sojourning in their midst' who, it was commanded, were to receive the same treatment as the native-born, Exodus 12:48-49; Leviticus 24:22; Numbers 15:13-16, 26, 29; 19:10. Regarding sojourners it is said in Ezekiel,

You shall divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel. You shall divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves and for sojourners, sojourning in your midst. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel, they shall cast lots with you for an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel. In the tribe with which the sojourner has sojourned, there shall you give him his inheritance. Ezekiel 47:21-23.

This refers to the new Jerusalem, or the Lord's kingdom. 'Sojourners sojourning' is used to mean people who allow themselves to receive instruction, consequently the gentiles. That 'sojourners' stands for people who are receiving instruction is clear from the fact that it is said 'in the tribe with which he has sojourned, there shall an inheritance be given him'. 'Tribes' stands for the things that constitute faith.

[3] 'Sojourning' is also similar in meaning to travelling and dwelling. 'Travelling' means the established patterns and order of life, while 'dwelling' means living, both dealt with already in 1293. For the same reasons the land of Canaan is also called 'the land of the sojournings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob', in Genesis 28:4; 36:7; 37:1; Exodus 6:4. And Jacob said to Pharaoh,

The days of the years of my sojournings; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings. Genesis 47:9.

Here 'sojourning' stands for life and for forms of instruction.

  
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