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Jeremiáše 51

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1 Takto praví Hospodin: Aj, já vzbudím proti Babylonu a proti těm, kteříž bydlejí u prostřed povstávajících proti mně, vítr hubící.

2 A pošli na Babylon ty, jenž vějí, kteřížto převívati budou jej, a vyprázdní zemi jeho, když budou proti němu vůkol v den bídy.

3 Natahujícímu, kterýž silně natahuje lučiště své, a kráčí v pancíři svém, dím: Neslitovávejtež se nad mládenci jeho, zahlaďte jako proklaté všecko vojsko jeho.

4 Ať padnou zbití v zemi Kaldejské, a probodnutí na ulicích jeho.

5 Nebo není opuštěn Izrael a Juda od Boha svého, od Hospodina zástupů, ačkoli země jejich plná jest provinění proti Svatému Izraelskému.

6 Utecte z prostředku Babylona, a zachovejte jeden každý život svůj, abyste nebyli vypléněni v nepravosti jeho. Nebo čas bude pomsty Hospodinovy, sám odplatu dá jemu.

7 Byltě koflíkem zlatým Babylon v ruce Hospodinově, opojujícím všecku zemi; víno jeho pili národové, protož se zbláznili národové.

8 Ale v náhle padne Babylon, a potřín bude. Kvělte nad ním, nabeřte masti pro bolesti jeho, snad bude moci zhojen býti.

9 Hojili jsme Babylon, ale není zhojen, opusťme jej, a poďme jeden každý do země své; nebo až k nebi dosahá soud jeho, a vznesen jest až k nejvyšším oblakům.

10 Vyvedl Hospodin při naši; poďte, a vypravujme na Sionu dílo Hospodina Boha našeho.

11 Vytřete střely, shledejte, což nejvíc můžete, pavéz, Hospodin vzbudil ducha králů Médských, proto že proti Babylonu usouzení jeho jest, aby jej zkazil; pomsta zajisté jest Hospodinova, pomštění chrámu jeho.

12 Na zdech Babylonských zdvihněte korouhev, osaďte stráž, postavte strážné, připravte zálohy; nebo i myslil Hospodin, i učiní, což řekl proti obyvatelům Babylonským.

13 Ó ty, kterýž bydlíš při vodách velikých, ó kterýž máš množství pokladů, přišloť skončení tvé, cíl lakomství tvého.

14 Přisáhlť jest Hospodin zástupů skrze samého sebe: Jistotně naplním tě lidmi jako brouky, kteříž by prokřikovali nad tebou radostně:

15 Ten, kterýž učinil zemi mocí svou, kterýž utvrdil okršlek světa moudrostí svou, a opatrností svou roztáhl nebesa,

16 Kterýžto, když vydává hlas, ječí vody na nebi, a kterýž působí to, aby vystupovaly páry od kraje země, blýskání s deštěm přivodí, a vyvodí vítr z pokladů svých.

17 Tak zhlupěl každý člověk, že nezná toho, že zahanben bývá každý zlatník od rytiny; nebo faleš jest slitina jeho, a není ducha v nich.

18 Marnost jsou a dílo podvodů; v čas, v němž navštíveni budou, zahynou.

19 Neníť jim podobný díl Jákobův; nebo on jest stvořitelem všeho, a částka dědictví jeho, Hospodin zástupů jest jméno jeho.

20 Ty jsi mým kladivem rozrážejícím, nástroji válečnými, abych rozrážel skrze tebe národy, a kazil skrze tebe království,

21 Abych rozrážel skrze tebe koně s jezdcem jeho, abych rozrážel skrze tebe vůz s tím, kdož jezdí na něm.

22 Abych rozrážel skrze tebe muže i ženu, abych rozrážel skrze tebe starého i dítě, abych rozrážel skrze tebe mládence i pannu,

23 Abych rozrážel skrze tebe pastýře s stádem jeho, abych rozrážel skrze tebe oráče s spřežením jeho, abych rozrážel skrze tebe vývody a knížata.

24 Ale jižť odplatím Babylonu i všechněm obyvatelům Kaldejským za všecko bezpráví jejich, kteréž činili Sionu před očima vašima, dí Hospodin.

25 Aj, já jsem proti tobě, ó horo, kteráž hubíš, dí Hospodin, kteráž hubíš všecku zemi; a vztáhna ruku svou na tebe, svalím tě z těch skal, a obrátím tě v horu spálenou.

26 A nevezmou z tebe kamene k úhlu, ani kamene k základům; nebo pustinou věčnou budeš, praví Hospodin.

27 Vyzdvihněte korouhev v zemi, trubte trubou mezi národy, připravte proti němu národy, svolejte proti němu království Ararat, Minni, Ascenez, ustanovte hejtmana proti němu, přiveďte koní jako brouků počet nesčíslný.

28 Připravte proti Babylonu národy, krále země Médské, vývody její a všecka knížata její, i všecku zemi panování jejich.

29 I bude se třásti země a bolestiti, když vykonáváno bude usouzení Hospodinovo proti Babylonu, aby obrátil zemi Babylonskou v pustinu, v níž by se žádný neosazoval.

30 Přestanou silní Babylonští bojovati, seděti budou v ohradách, zhyne síla jejich, budou jako ženy, zapálí příbytky jejich, polámány budou závory jejich.

31 Pošta jedna druhou potká, a posel posla, aby oznámeno bylo králi Babylonskému, že vzato jest město jeho na kraji,

32 A že brodové vzati, i jezera vypálena ohněm, a muži bojovní předěšeni.

33 Nebo takto praví Hospodin zástupů, Bůh Izraelský: Dcera Babylonská jest jako humno, jehož nabíjení čas; ještě maličko, a přijde čas žně její.

34 Vyjídá mne, potírá mne Nabuchodonozor král Babylonský, vystavuje mne nádobu prázdnou, požírá mne jako drak, naplňuje břich svůj rozkošemi mými, vyhání mne.

35 Násilé, kteréž se mně a mému tělu děje, přijdiž na Babylon, praví obyvatelkyně Sionská, a krev má na obyvatele země Kaldejské, praví Jeruzalém.

36 Protož takto praví Hospodin: Aj, já vyvedu při tvou, a pomstím tě; nebo vysuším moře jeho, vysuším i vrchoviště jeho.

37 I bude Babylon v hromady, v příbytek draků, v užasnutí a ckání, tak že nebude v něm žádného obyvatele.

38 Jako lvové spolu řváti budou, skučeti budou jako lvíčata.

39 Když se rozpálí, učiním jim hody, a tak je opojím, že zkřiknouti a snem věčným zesnouti musejí, tak aby neprocítili, dí Hospodin.

40 Povedu je jako berany k zabití, jako skopce s kozly.

41 Jakž by dobyt býti mohl Sesák? Jakž by vzata býti mohla chvála vší země? Jakž by přijíti mohl na spuštění Babylon mezi národy?

42 Vystoupí proti Babylonu moře, množstvím vlnobití jeho přikryt bude.

43 Města jeho budou pustinou, zemí vyprahlou a pustou, zemí, v jejíchž městech neosadí se žádný, aniž projde skrze ně syn člověka.

44 Navštívím také Béle v Babyloně, a vytrhnu, což sehltil, z úst jeho, i nepohrnou se k němu více národové; také i zdi Babylonské padnou.

45 Vyjděte z prostředku jeho, lide můj, a vysvoboďte jeden každý duši svou od prchlivosti hněvu Hospodinova.

46 A nebuďtež choulostivého srdce, aniž se bojte pověsti, kteráž slyšána bude v té zemi, když přijde tohoto roku pověst, a potom druhého roku pověst, i ukrutenství v zemi, a pán na pána.

47 Protož aj, dnové přijdou, že navštívím rytiny Babylonské, a všecka země jeho zahanbena bude, i všickni zbití jeho padnou u prostřed něho.

48 I budou prozpěvovati nad Babylonem nebesa i země, a cožkoli v nich jest, když na něj od půlnoci přitáhnou ti zhoubcové, dí Hospodin.

49 Ano i Babylon padnouti musí, ó zbití Izraelovi, i s Babylonem padnou zbití vší země jeho.

50 Ó kdož jste znikli meče, jděte, nezastavujte se; zpomínejte, daleko jsouce, na Hospodina, a Jeruzalém nechť vstupuje na srdce vaše.

51 Rcete: Stydímeť se, že slýcháme útržku, hanbí se tváře naše, že cizozemci chodí do svatyní domu Hospodinova.

52 Protož aj, dnové přijdou, dí Hospodin, že navštívím rytiny jeho, a po vší zemi jeho stonati bude zraněný.

53 Byť pak vstoupil Babylon na nebe, a byť pak ohradil velmi vysokou pevnost svou, přitáhnou ode mne na něj zhoubcové, praví Hospodin.

54 Zvuk křiku z Babylona, a potření veliké z země Kaldejské.

55 Nebo Hospodin popléní Babylon, a vyhladí z něho hřmot veliký, byť pak zvučela vlnobití jejich jako vody mnohé, vydáván byl hluk hlasu jejich,

56 Když přitáhne na něj, na Babylon zhoubce. I budou jati silní jeho, potříno bude lučiště jejich; nebo Bůh silný odplatí, Hospodin vrchovatě odplatí.

57 Opojím knížata jeho i moudré jeho, vývody jeho i znamenitější jeho i silné jeho, aby zesnuli snem věčným, a neprocítili, dí král, jehož jméno jest Hospodin zástupů.

58 Takto praví Hospodin zástupů: Oboje zed Babylonská velmi široká do gruntu zbořena bude, a brány jeho vysoké ohněm spáleny budou, a tak nadarmo pracovati budou lidé a národové při ohni, až ustanou.

59 Slovo, kteréž přikázal Jeremiáš prorok Saraiášovi synu Neriášovu, synu Maaseiášovu, když se vypravil od Sedechiáše krále Judského do Babylona, léta čtvtého kralování jeho, (byl pak Saraiáš kníže Menuchské),

60 Když sepsal Jeremiáš všecko zlé, kteréž přijíti mělo na Babylon, do knihy jedné, všecka ta slova, kteráž jsou psána proti Babylonu.

61 I řekl Jeremiáš Saraiášovi: Když přijdeš do Babylona, a uzříš jej, tedy čti všecka ta slova.

62 A rci: Ó Hospodine, ty jsi mluvil o místě tomto, že je zkazíš, tak že nebude v něm obyvatele, od člověka až do hovada, ale že hrozně zpuštěno na věky bude.

63 Když pak do konce přečteš knihu tuto, přivaž k ní kámen, a hoď ji do prostřed Eufrates,

64 A rci: Tak potopen bude Babylon, a nepovstane z toho zlého, kteréž já uvedu na něj, ačkoli ustávati budou. Až potud slova Jeremiášova.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9596

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9596. 'From fine twined linen and violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet' means the spiritual and celestial realities from which those truths are derived. This is clear from the meaning of 'fine twined linen' as truth from a celestial origin, dealt with in 9469; from the meaning of 'violet' as the celestial love of truth, dealt with in 9466; from the meaning of 'purple' as the celestial love of good, dealt with in 9467; and from the meaning of 'twice-dyed scarlet' as spiritual good or the good of truth, dealt with in 9468. Such is the order in which the spiritual and celestial realities, or the truths and forms of good, present with a person or an angel who is in the middle or second heaven follow one another. For truth from a celestial origin, meant by 'fine twined linen' comes first; then the love of or affection for truth, meant by 'violet'; after that the resulting love of or affection for good, meant by 'purple'; and finally spiritual good, meant by 'twice-dyed scarlet'.

[2] Because this is the order in which the spiritual and celestial realities follow one another 'fine twined linen' is here mentioned first; but in the case of the veil that hung between the dwelling-place and the ark, or between the holy place and the holy of holies, dealt with in verse 31 of the present chapter, it is mentioned last. The reason why 'fine twined linen' is mentioned last in the case of the veil is that 'the veil' means the intermediary uniting the inmost heaven to the middle heaven, and therefore within this intermediary it must come last, in order that - to link the two heavens - it may then be first in the second of them.

[3] But properly 'fine twined linen' means the understanding part of the mind as it exists with the spiritual man or with an angel in the Lord's spiritual heaven. The reason why the understanding part is meant by 'fine twined linen' is that with the spiritual man a new will part is implanted by the Lord within the understanding part of his mind, see 863, 875, 895, 927, 1023, 1043, 1044, 1555, 2256, 4328, 4493, 5113; and since the understanding part in the spiritual man is meant by 'fine twined linen', so too is spiritual truth meant. This is because all truth belongs to the understanding part, and all good to the will part, 3623, 9300; for the understanding part is the receiver (subjectum) or container and the truth is what belongs to it, and these two make one. From these considerations also it may be seen that the actual understanding part of the mind with those who belong to the Lord's spiritual kingdom is in the strict sense 'the dwelling-place', 9296, 9297, and that the spreading out of the curtains serves to describe it.

[4] From all this what 'spreading and stretching out the heavens' means in the following places may be recognized, such as in Isaiah,

Jehovah is He who stretches out the heavens, spreads out the earth, gives breath 1 to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk on it. Isaiah 42:5.

In the same prophet,

I am Jehovah who makes all things, stretches out the heavens Alone, [and] spreads out the earth by Myself. Isaiah 44:24.

In the same prophet,

It was I that made the earth and created man on it. It was I - My hands - that stretched out the heavens. Isaiah 45:12.

In Jeremiah,

... He who makes the earth by His power, prepares the world by His wisdom, and stretches out the heavens by His intelligence. Jeremiah 51:15.

In Zechariah,

Jehovah is He who stretches out the heavens, and founds the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him. Zechariah 12:1.

[5] 'Stretching out the heavens and spreading out the earth' is plainly similar in meaning to stretching and spreading out a dwelling-place by the use of curtains. And by this is meant regenerating a person and thereby creating or forming a new understanding in which there is a new will, which is the spiritual person's actual heaven in which the Lord dwells with that person. The fact that the regeneration or the formation of a new understanding, and of a new will within it, and so of a new person, is what 'stretching out the heavens and spreading out the earth' means is evident from actual explanations provided in the places quoted above. For they speak of Him who gives breath to the people on the earth, and spirit to those who walk on it, and also of Him who forms the spirit of man within him. 'Heaven and earth' means the Church, internal and external, see 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355, 4535, and 'the earth' in general means the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 9334; and these meanings too are plainly apparent in those places. For if 'the earth' did not have that meaning what sense could be made of 'spreading out the earth' and 'founding the earth', or 'forming the spirit of man within him 2 '?

[6] The fact that 'stretching out the heavens and spreading out the earth' here is similar in meaning to stretching and spreading out a dwelling-place by the use of curtains is clear from other places where the same idea is stated even more plainly, as in Isaiah,

Jehovah is He who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:22.

In the same prophet,

Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwelling-places. Isaiah 54:2.

And in David,

Jehovah covers Himself with light, as if with a garment; He stretches out the heavens as a curtain. Psalms 104:2.

These places also show what 'the expanse' or that which is spread out means in the first chapter of Genesis,

God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let there be a distinguishing of the waters from the waters. And God made the expanse and He made a distinction between the waters that were under the expanse and the waters that were above the expanse, And God called the expanse Heaven. Genesis 1:6-8.

That first chapter describes the regeneration of a member of the celestial Church, 'the expanse' describing his new will and understanding. 'The waters under the expanse and those above the expanse' are the truths of the external man and those of the internal man. For the meaning of 'waters' as truths, see 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 8568, 9323.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, soul

2. The Latin here is in ea (in it, i.e. in the earth). But in his rough draft Swedenborg has, as in other places, in medio ejus which is usually taken to mean within him but could possibly mean in the midst of it.

  
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3701. 'And behold, the angels of God going up and coming down on it' means an infinite and eternal communication and the consequent joining together - a going up, so to speak, from what is lowest, and after that, when order has been inverted, a coming down to it. This is clear from the meaning of 'the angels' as some aspect of the Lord's Divine meant by the expression 'angels' when used in the Word, dealt with in 1925, 2319, 2821, 3039. The aspect meant here is Divine Truth. This is clear from the fact that they are called 'the angels of God', for the name God is used when truth is the subject in the internal sense, but Jehovah when good is the subject, see 2586, 2769, 2807, 2822. This is why although the name Jehovah is used directly after this in the phrase 'Jehovah standing above it', they are nevertheless referred to here as 'the angels of God', since the subject is truth from which good springs, represented by 'Jacob' here, as stated many times above. As regards the expression 'going up and coming down on the stairway' meaning in the highest sense infinite and eternal communication and the consequent joining together, this is clear without further explanation. But one cannot speak of a communication between, and the consequent joining together of the Lord's Divine itself and His Divine Human unless at the same time one calls these attributes infinite and eternal, for in the Lord everything is infinite and eternal - infinite so far as Being (Esse) is concerned and eternal so far as Manifestation (Existere) is concerned. From what has been stated up to now it is evident that 'a stairway set up on the earth, and its top reaching to heaven, and behold, the angels of God going up and coming down on it' means in a nutshell a going up so to speak from what is lowest, and after that, when order is inverted, a coming down to it.

[2] The nature of this going up and coming down becomes clear from what has been stated and shown above in 3539, 3548, 3556, 3563, 3570, 3576, 3603, 3607, 3610, 3665, 3690. But because this order - which comes into effect when a person is being regenerated and which is described in the internal sense here and in what follows - is completely unknown in the Church, let the nature of it be illustrated further: It is well known that a person is born into the same disposition as his parents, grandparents, and great grandparents, going back for centuries, and so into hereditary evil gradually accumulated by all those before him, so much so that there is nothing but evil in what he does when he acts from himself. As a consequence both his understanding and his will have been totally spoiled and of himself he does not will anything good at all and therefore does not understand anything true at all. That which he calls good, indeed believes to be good, is in fact evil, and that which he calls the truth, indeed believes to be the truth, is in fact falsity. Take, for example, loving himself more than others, wanting things to be better for himself than for others, desiring what belongs to someone else, and considering only himself and not others unless he himself will benefit. Because he desires these things of himself he indeed calls them good and also true. And what is more, if anyone harms or tries to harm these things which by him are called good and true, he hates him and is also filled with thoughts of revenge. He desires and also seeks that person's ruin, and takes delight in this insofar as he actually strengthens such intentions in himself, that is, as frequently as he actually puts them into effect.

[3] When such a person enters the next life his desires remain the same. The actual disposition which he has acquired in the world by the life he led remains, and that delight is perceived plainly by others. Consequently he is unable to be in any heavenly community where everyone wants things to be better for others than for himself; but he is in some community of hell whose delight is similar to his own. It is that disposition of his which needs to be rooted out while he is living in the world, something that cannot possibly be achieved except through regeneration from the Lord, that is, through receiving quite another will and therefore quite another understanding - by becoming a new person so far as both those powers of mind are concerned. But for this to come about he must first of all be born like a young child again, learn what evil and falsity are, and learn what good and truth are, for without knowledge or awareness of these he is unable to have any good conferred on him. Indeed of himself he does not acknowledge anything else as good except that which is evil, nor anything else as truth except that which is false.

[4] To make a person new, cognitions are instilled into him such as are not completely contrary to those he has already - for example, the idea that all love starts in himself; the idea that one should consider oneself first and others only after that; the idea that those people who are outwardly poor and wretched should be helped irrespective of what they are like inwardly; and that similarly widows and orphans should be helped solely because they are called such; and at length the idea that enemies in general should be helped irrespective of who they may be; and also the idea that by acting in these ways one is able to merit heaven. These and other ideas like them are the cognitions proper to the early childhood of his new life. They are such that because they derive to some extent from his previous life, or the disposition belonging to his previous life, they also derive to some extent from his new life into which he is being led in this way. They are consequently such as allow into themselves things that contribute towards the formation of a new will and of a new understanding. They are the lowest forms of good and truth, and it is with these that people who are being regenerated start out. And because these lowest forms of good and truth allow more interior truths into themselves, that is, truths closer to Divine truths, falsities which a person had previously believed to be truths are also rooted out.

[5] People who are being regenerated however do not learn such things simply as matters of knowledge but as matters of life, for they practice those truths. But their practice of them has its beginnings in the new will which the Lord is instilling, though they are totally unaware of it. And to the extent they welcome that new will they also welcome those cognitions, put them into practice, and believe them. But to the extent they do not welcome that new will they are indeed able to learn such truths but not to put them into effect since they consider them purely as matters of knowledge and not of life.

[6] That state is the state of early and later childhood as regards the new life which is to replace the previous life, but the state of the early and later youth of that life is a state when no attention is paid to any person's outward presentation of himself but to what he is like with regard to good - first of all with regard to it in public affairs, then in private affairs, and at length in spiritual, at which point he starts to possess and to love good first and foremost, and from good the person. And when after that he is more perfect still his concern is to aid those who are governed by good, his help depending on the kind of good present with those whom he helps. At length he takes delight in helping them. And because he takes delight in good he also takes pleasure in ideas that support it. Those supporting ideas he acknowledges as truths, which also constitute the truths of his new understanding which flow from the forms of good which belong to his new will.

[7] To the same extent as he takes delight in that good and takes pleasure in those truths he also feels an aversion to the evils of his previous life and a displeasure in its falsities. This is why things belonging to the previous will are now separated from those belonging to the new will, and those belonging to the previous understanding from those belonging to the new understanding. The determining factor in this separation is not the affection for knowing them, but the affection for doing them. As a consequence he now sees that the truths belonging to his early childhood in relation one to another have existed inversely and that those same truths have been reorganized little by little into another order, that is to say, their interrelationship has been changed so that those which initially occupied the first place now occupy the last. In this way he sees that by means of those truths which belonged to his early and later childhood the angels of God so to speak went up by means of a stairway from earth to heaven, whereas now by means of the truths belonging to his adult life the angels of God so to speak come down by means of the stairway from heaven to earth.

  
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