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Ezechiel 28

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1 I stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

2 Synu člověčí, rci vývodovi Tyrskému: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Proto že se vyvyšuje srdce tvé, a říkáš: Bůh silný jsem, na stolici Boží sedím u prostřed moře, ješto jsi člověk a ne Bůh silný, ačkoli sobě přivlastňuješ srdce podobné srdci Božímu,

3 Aj hle, moudřejší jsi nad Daniele, žádná věc tajná není před tebou ukrytá;

4 Moudrosti svou a rozumností svou nashromáždils sobě zboží, a nahrnuls zlata a stříbra do pokladů svých;

5 Velikou moudrostí svou v kupectví svém rozmnožil jsi zboží svá, a tak pozdvihlo se srdce tvé zbožím tvým;

6 Z té příčiny takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Proto že sobě přivlastňuješ srdce podobné srdci Božímu,

7 Protož aj, já přivedu na tě cizozemce, nejukrutnější národy, kteříž vytrhnouce meče své na krásu moudrosti tvé, zabijí jasnost tvou.

8 Do jámy spustí tě, a umřeš smrtí hroznou u prostřed moře.

9 Budeš-liž tu ještě říkati před oblíčejem mordéře svého: Bohem jsem, poněvadž jsi člověk a ne Bůh silný, jsa v ruce toho, jenž tě mordovati bude?

10 Smrtí neobřezanců umřeš od ruky cizozemců; nebo já mluvil jsem, praví Panovník Hospodin.

11 I stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

12 Synu člověčí, vydej se v naříkání nad králem Tyrským, a rci jemu: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Ty, jenž zapečeťuješ summy, plný moudrosti a nejkrásnější,

13 V Eden, zahradě Boží, byl jsi, všelijaké drahé kamení přikrývalo tě, sardius, topazius, jaspis, tarsis, onychin, beryl, zafir, karbunkulus a smaragd i zlato; nástrojové bubnů tvých a píšťal tvých v tobě, hned jakžs se narodil, připraveni jsou.

14 Ty jsi cherubem od pomazání. Jakž jsem tě za ochránce představil, na hoře svaté Boží jsi byl, u prostřed kamení ohnivého ustavičně jsi chodil.

15 Byl jsi dokonalý na cestách svých, hned jakžs se narodil, až se našla nepravost při tobě.

16 Pro množství kupectví tvého u prostřed tebe plno jest bezpráví, a velmi jsi prohřešil. Pročež zahubím tě, a vyhladím z hory Boží, ó cherube ochránce, z prostřed kamenů ohnivých.

17 Pozdvihlo se srdce tvé slávou tvou, k zlému jsi užíval moudrosti své příčinou jasnosti své. Porazím tě na zemi, před oblíčej králů povrhu tě, aby se dívali na tebe.

18 Pro množství nepravostí tvých, a pro nespravedlnosti kupectví tvého poškvrnil jsi svatyně své. Protož vyvedu oheň z prostřed tebe, kterýž tě sžíře, a obrátí tě v popel na zemi před očima všech na tě hledících.

19 Všickni, kdož tě znali mezi národy, ztrnou nad tebou; k hrůze veliké budeš, a nebude tě na věky.

20 I stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

21 Synu člověčí, obrať tvář svou proti Sidonu, a prorokuj proti němu,

22 A rci: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Aj, já proti tobě jsem, ó Sidone, a budu oslaven u prostřed tebe. I zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin, když vykonám při něm soudy, a posvěcen budu v něm.

23 Pošli zajisté na něj mor, a krev na ulice jeho, a padati budou zranění u prostřed něho od meče na všecky strany, i zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin.

24 A tak nebude více míti dům Izraelský trnu urážejícího a bodláku bodoucího ze všech okolních pohrdajících jimi, a zvědí, že já jsem Panovník Hospodin.

25 Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Když shromáždím dům Izraelský z národů, mezi něž rozptýleni jsou, a posvěcen budu v nich před očima pohanů, a bydliti budou v zemi své, kterouž jsem byl dal služebníku svému Jákobovi:

26 Tehdy bydliti budou v ní bezpečně, a nastavějí domů, a štípí vinice. Bydliti, pravím, budou bezpečně, když vykonám soudy, při všech zhoubcích jejich vůkol nich, i zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin Bůh jejich.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 254

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254. "For You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created." This symbolically means that everything in heaven and the church has been created and formed out of the Lord's Divine love by His Divine wisdom, or out of Divine good by Divine truth, which is also the Word, and that so likewise are people reformed and reborn.

This is the spiritual meaning of this statement, because creating symbolically means to reform and regenerate by Divine truth, and the Lord's will symbolizes Divine good.

Whether one says Divine good and truth or Divine love and wisdom, the meaning is the same, as all good is connected with love, and all truth with wisdom.

In Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom we showed many times that everything in heaven and the church spring from Divine love and wisdom, in fact that the world was created out of them; and we showed too that love and good are connected with the will, and wisdom and truth with the intellect. Thus it is apparent that the Lord's will means His Divine good or love.

[2] That to create in the Word means to reform and regenerate is apparent from the following passages:

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (Psalms 51:10)

You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good... You send forth Your Spirit, they are created. (Psalms 104:28, 30)

...a people yet to be created will praise Jah. (Psalms 102:18)

...behold, I am creating a new heaven and a new earth... ...rejoice forever in what I am creating; ...behold, I shall create Jerusalem an exultation... (Isaiah 65:17-18)

...Jehovah, who created the heavens..., who spread forth the earth..., who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk on it. (Isaiah 42:5, cf. 45:12, 45:18)

...thus says Jehovah, your Creator, O Jacob, and your Former, O Israel: ...I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name... Everyone who is called by My name, for My glory I have created him. (Isaiah 43:1, 7)

On the day that you were created they were prepared... You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till perversity was found in you. (Ezekiel 28:13, 15)

The latter is said of the King of Tyre, who symbolizes people who possess intelligence through Divine truth.

...that they may see and know, and consider and understand..., that the hand of Jehovah has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it. (Isaiah 41:19-20)

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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 405

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405. And a third of the living creatures in the sea died. (8:9) This symbolically means that those who had lived that faith and continued to live it could not be reformed and receive life.

A third symbolizes all such, as said above. Creatures mean people who can be reformed (no. 290). The reason is that to create means, symbolically, to reform (no. 254). Their living means, symbolically, to be able by reformation to receive life. That they died means, symbolically, that people who live that faith alone cannot receive life. They cannot, because people are all reformed by a faith united to charity, thus by a faith accompanying charity, and none by faith alone; for charity is the life of faith.

[2] Since in the spiritual world the affections and consequent perceptions and thoughts of spirits and angels appear at a distance in the forms of animals or creatures on the earth called beasts, of creatures in the air called birds, and of creatures in the sea called fish, therefore the Word so often mentions beasts, birds, and fish, which nevertheless have precisely the meaning stated. So for example in the following places:

...Jehovah has a quarrel with the inhabitants of the land, for there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God... And everyone who dwells in it will waste away along with the beast of the field and the bird of the air; even the fish of the sea will be gathered up. (Hosea 4:1, 3)

I will consume man and beast..., the bird of the heavens, the fish of the sea, ...the stumbling blocks along with the impious... (Zephaniah 1:3)

There shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, and the fish of the sea, the bird of the heavens, and the beast of the field... shall tremble before Me. (Ezekiel 38:18-20)

You have made Him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet... the beasts of the fields, the bird of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the path of the seas. (Psalms 8:6-8)

The latter is said of the Lord.

Pray ask the beasts, and they will teach you; or the birds of the air, and they will inform you...; and the fish of the sea will tell you. Who of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this? (Job 12:7-9)

And in many other places as well.

[3] Fish, moreover, and creatures of the sea, as they are called here, mean the affections and consequent thoughts of such people as are concerned with general truths, and so who take more from a natural source than from a spiritual one. These people are meant by fish in the preceding passages, and also in the following ones:

By My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink... and die of thirst. (Isaiah 50:2)

...the king of Egypt, a great whale, you who lie in the midst of your rivers, you said, "The river is mine; I made myself..".. (Therefore) I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales..., and I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. (Ezekiel 29:3-5)

This was addressed to the king of Egypt, because Egypt symbolizes the natural level divorced from the spiritual one, and so the fish of his rivers mean people governed by doctrines, who because of them are caught up in faith separated from charity, a faith that is simply knowledge.

Because of that separation, moreover, one of the miracles in Egypt was the turning of their waters into blood, so that the fish died (Exodus 7:17-25, Psalms 105:29).

[4] Furthermore:

Why do You make mankind like fish of the sea...? Everyone draws them up with a hook, and gathers them in a net... (Habakkuk 1:14-16)

Fish here stand for people concerned with general truths and caught up in faith divorced from charity. In contrast, fish stand for people concerned with general truths and governed by a faith conjoined with charity in Ezekiel:

He said to me: "These waters flowing to the eastern boundary... enter the sea, (from which comes) every living soul that creeps... and very much fish... ...fishermen will stand by it... with a spreading of their nets. Its fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. (Ezekiel 47:1, 8-10)

In Matthew:

(Jesus said,) the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea, and they gathered (fish).... And they put the good ones into vessels and threw the bad away. (Matthew 13:47-49)

And in Jeremiah:

I will bring (the children of Israel) back into their land... And I will send for many fishermen...(who) shall fish them. (Jeremiah 16:15-16)

[5] Consequently, anyone who knows that fish symbolize people and things of the kind stated, can see the following: Why the Lord chose fishermen to be His disciples, and said,

Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men. (Matthew 4:18-19)

Why the disciples, with the Lord's blessing, caught a huge multitude of fish, and the Lord said to Peter,

Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men. (Luke 5:2-10)

Why, when they wished to exact tribute from the Lord, He told Peter to go to the sea and draw out a fish, and to give them the coin found in it for Him and for himself (Matthew 16:24-27).

Why, after His resurrection, the Lord gave His disciples fish and bread to eat (John 21:2-13).

And why He told them to "go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). For the nations they were converting possessed only general truths, and were concerned more with natural things than spiritual ones.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.