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Ezechiel 9

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1 Potom zavolal hlasem velikým, tak že jsem slyšel, řka: Přistupte hejtmané k tomuto městu, a jeden každý s zbrojí svou hubící v ruce své.

2 A aj, šest mužů přišlo cestou k bráně hořejší, kteráž patří na půlnoci, maje každý zbroj svou rozrážející v ruce své. Muž pak jeden byl u prostřed nich, oděný rouchem lněným, a kalamář písařský při bedrách jeho; a přišedše, stáli u oltáře měděného.

3 Sláva pak Boha Izraelského sstoupila byla s cherubína, na kterémž byla, k prahu domu, a zvolala na muže toho oděného rouchem lněným, při jehož bedrách byl kalamář písařský.

4 I řekl jemu Hospodin: Přejdi prostředkem města, prostředkem Jeruzaléma, a znamenej znamením na čelích muže ty, kteříž vzdychají a naříkají nade všemi ohavnostmi dějícími se u prostřed něho.

5 Oněmno pak řekl tak, že jsem slyšel: Projděte skrze město za ním, a bíte; neodpouštějž oko vaše, aniž se slitovávejte.

6 Starce, mládence i pannu, maličké i ženy mordujte do vyhubení, ale ke všelikému muži, na němž by bylo znamení, nepřistupujte, a od svatyně mé počněte. Takž začali od mužů těch starších, kteříž byli před chrámem.

7 (Nebo jim byl řekl: Poškvrňte domu, a naplňte síně zbitými. Jdětež.) A vyšedše, bili v městě.

8 I stalo se, když je bili, a já pozůstal, že jsem padl na tvář svou, a zvolal jsem, řka: Ach, Panovníče Hospodine, zdaliž zahubíš všecken ostatek Izraelský, vylévaje prchlivost svou na Jeruzalém?

9 I řekl mi: Nepravost domu Izraelského a Judského veliká jest velmi velice, a naplněna jest země mordy, a město plné jest převrácenců. Nebo říkali: Opustil Hospodin zemi tuto, a Hospodin nikoli nevidí nás.

10 Protož já také cestu jejich na hlavu jejich obrátím; neodpustí oko mé, aniž se slituji.

11 A aj, muž oděný rouchem lněným, při jehož bedrách byl kalamář, oznámil to, řka: Učinil jsem, jakž jsi mi rozkázal.

   

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5335. 'And Joseph was a son of thirty years' means a state when the quantity of remnants was complete. This is clear from the meaning of 'thirty' as a completed number of remnants, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'years' as states, dealt with in 482, 487, 488, 493, 893. In the Word the number thirty can mean some existence of conflict, or else it can mean a completed number of remnants. The reason why that number has this twofold meaning is that it is arrived at by multiplying five and six, or else by multiplying three and ten. When it is the product of five times six it means some existence of conflict, 2276, because 'five' means some, 649, 4638, 5291, and 'six' conflict, 720, 737, 900, 1709. But when thirty is the product of three times ten it means a completed number of remnants, because 'three' means that which is complete, 2788, 4495, and 'ten' means remnants, 576, 1906, 2284. A composite number implies much the same as the simple ones of which it is the product, 5291. Remnants are the truths joined to good which have been stored away by the Lord in a person's interior parts, see 468, 530, 560, 561, 576, 660, 1050, 1738, 1906, 2284, 5135.

[2] A completed number of remnants is likewise meant by 'thirty' - as it is also by 'sixty', and by 'a hundred' too - in Mark,

The seed which fell into good ground yielded fruit growing up and increasing. One bore thirty-fold, and another sixty, and another a hundred. Mark 4:8, 10.

Each of these numbers, being a multiple of ten, means a completed number of remnants. Also, because no one can be regenerated - that is, permitted to enter into spiritual temptations, by means of which regeneration is effected - until he has received a completed number of remnants, it was therefore laid down that no Levite should carry out any work in the tent of meeting until he was fully thirty years old. Their work or function is also called 'military service', being referred to in Moses as follows,

Take a census of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi - from sons thirty years of age and over, up to sons fifty years of age, everyone coming to perform military service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. Numbers 4:2-3.

Much the same is said regarding the sons of Gershon, and much the same regarding the sons of Merari, in verses 22, 23, 29, 30, and then in verses 35, 39, 43. Of that same chapter in Moses. And something similar is implied where it says that David began to reign when he was a son thirty years of age, 2 Samuel 5:4.

[3] From all this one may now see why the Lord did not make Himself known until He was thirty years of age, Luke 3:23. At that age a completed number of remnants existed with Him, though these remnants which the Lord possessed were ones that He Himself had acquired for Himself. They were also Divine ones and the means by which He united His Human Essence to His Divine Essence and made that Human Essence Divine, 1906. In Him therefore lies the reason why 'thirty years' means a state when the quantity of remnants is complete and why the priests the Levites began to perform their specific functions when they were thirty years old. And because he was to represent the Lord's kingship, David did not begin to reign until he was that same age. For every representative is derived from the Lord, and therefore every representative has reference to Him.

  
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