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Pláč Jeremjášův 2

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1 Jak hustým oblakem prchlivosti své přikryl Pán dceru Sionskou! Shodil s nebe na zem slávu Izraelovu, aniž se rozpomenul na podnože noh svých v den prchlivosti své.

2 Sehltil Pán beze vší lítosti všecky příbytky Jákobovy, zbořil v prchlivosti své ohrady dcery Judské, udeřil jimi o zem, v potupu uvedl království i knížata její.

3 Odťal v rozpálení hněvu všecken roh Izraelův, odvrátil zpět pravici svou od nepřítele, a rozpáliv se proti Jákobovi jako oheň plápolající, pálí do cela vůkol.

4 Natáhl lučiště své jako nepřítel, postavil pravici svou jako protivník, i zbil všecky nejzdařilejší z lidu, a vylil do stánku dcery Sionské jako oheň prchlivost svou.

5 Učiněn jest Pán podobný nepříteli, sehltil Izraele, sehltil všecky paláce jeho, zkazil ohrady jeho, a rozmnožil v lidu Judském zámutek a žalost.

6 Mocí zajisté odtrhl jako od zahrady plot svůj, zkazil stánek svůj, v zapomenutí uvedl Hospodin na Sionu slavnost a sobotu, a v prchlivosti hněvu svého zavrhl krále i kněze.

7 Zavrhl Pán oltář svůj, v ošklivost vzal svatyni svou, vydal v ruku nepřítele zdi a paláce Sionské; křičeli v domě Hospodinově jako v den slavnosti.

8 Uložiltě Hospodin zkaziti zed dcery Sionské, roztáhl šňůru, a neodvrátil ruky své od zhouby; pročež val i zed kvílí, a spolu mdlejí.

9 Poraženy jsou na zem brány její, zkazil a polámal závory její; král její i knížata její mezi pohany. Není ani zákona, proroci také její nemívají vidění od Hospodina.

10 Starší dcery Sionské usadivše se na zemi, mlčí, posýpají prachem hlavy své, a přepasují se žíněmi panny Jeruzalémské, svěšují k zemi hlavy své.

11 Zhynuly od slz oči mé, zkormoutily se vnitřnosti mé, a vykydla se na zem játra má, pro potření dcery lidu mého, když i nemluvňátka a prsí požívající na ulicích města se svírají.

12 A říkají matkám svým: Kdež jest obilé a víno? když se jako zraněný svírají po ulicích města, a vypouštějí duše své na klíně matek svých.

13 Kohoť za svědka přivedu? Koho připodobním k tobě, ó dcero Jeruzalémská? Koho tobě přirovnám, abych tě potěšil, panno dcero Sionská? Nebo veliké jest jako moře potření tvé. Kdož by tě zhojiti mohl?

14 Proroci tvoji předpovídali tobě lživé a ničemné věci, a neodkrývali nepravosti tvé, aby odvrátili zajetí tvé, ale předpovídali tobě těžkosti, oklamání a vyhnání.

15 Všickni, kteříž jdou cestou, tleskají nad tebou rukama, diví se a potřásají hlavou svou za tebou, dcero Jeruzalémská, říkajíce: To-li jest to město, o němž říkávali, že jest nejkrásnější a utěšením vší země?

16 Všickni nepřátelé tvoji rozdírají na tebe ústa svá, hvízdají a škřipí zuby, říkajíce: Sehlťme ji. Totoť jest jistě ten den, jehož jsme očekávali; jižtě nastal, vidíme.

17 Učinil Hospodin to, což byl uložil, splnil řeč svou, kterouž přikazoval ode dnů starodávních, bořil bez lítosti, a obveselil nad tebou nepřítele, povýšil rohu protivníků tvých.

18 Vykřikovalo srdce jejich proti Pánu. Ó ty zdi dcery Sionské, vylévej jako potok slzy dnem i nocí, nedávej sobě odpočinutí, aniž se spokojuj zřítelnice oka tvého.

19 Vstaň, křič v noci, při počátku bdění, vylévej jako vodu srdce své před oblíčejem Páně; pozdvihuj k němu rukou svých za život dítek svých svírajících se hladem, na rohu všech ulic, a rci:

20 Pohleď, Hospodine, a popatř, komu jsi tak kdy učinil? Zdaliž jídají ženy plod svůj, nemluvňátka rozkošná? Zdaliž mordován býti má v svatyni Páně kněz a prorok?

21 Leží na zemi po ulicích mladý i starý, panny mé i mládenci moji padli od meče, zmordoval jsi je, a zbil v den prchlivosti své bez lítosti.

22 Svolal jsi jako ke dni slavnosti z vůkolí ty, jichž se velice straším, a nebylo v den prchlivosti Hospodinovy, kdo by ušel neb pozůstal. Kteréž jsem na rukou pěstovala a vychovala, ty nepřítel můj do konce zhubil.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 49

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49. His feet were like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace. (1:15) This symbolizes natural Divine good.

The Lord's feet symbolize His natural Divinity. Fire or being fired symbolizes goodness. And fine brass symbolizes the natural goodness of truth. Consequently the feet of the Son of Man like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace, symbolize natural Divine good.

His feet have this symbolic meaning because of their correspondence.

Present in the Lord, and so emanating from the Lord, are a celestial Divinity, a spiritual Divinity, and a natural Divinity. His celestial Divinity is meant by the head of the Son of Man; His spiritual Divinity by His eyes and by His breast girded with a golden girdle; and His natural Divinity by His feet.

[2] Because these three elements are present in the Lord, therefore the same three are also present in the angelic heaven. The third or highest heaven exists on the celestial Divine level, the second or middle heaven on the spiritual Divine level, and the first or lowest heaven on the natural Divine level. The like is the case with the church on earth. For the whole of heaven is, in the Lord's sight, like a single person, in which those who are governed by the Lord's celestial Divinity form the head, and those who are governed by His spiritual Divinity form the trunk, while those who are governed by His natural Divinity form the feet.

For this reason, too, every person, having been created in the image of God, has in him the same three degrees, and as they are opened he becomes an angel either of the third heaven, or of the second, or of the last.

It is owing to this also that the Word contains three levels of meaning - a celestial one, a spiritual one, and a natural one.

The reality of this may be seen in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom, particularly in Part Three, in which we discussed these three degrees.

To be shown that feet, the soles of the feet, and heels correspond to natural attributes in people, and that in the Word, therefore, they symbolize natural attributes, see in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), published in London, nos. 2162 and 4938-4952.

[3] Natural Divine good is also symbolically meant by feet in the following passages. In Daniel:

I lifted my eyes and looked; behold, a... man clothed in linen garments, whose loins were girded with the gold of Uphaz! And his body was like beryl, and... his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and his feet like the sheen of burnished bronze. (Daniel 10:5-6)

In the book of Revelation:

I saw... an angel coming down from heaven, ...his feet like pillars of fire. (Revelation 10:1)

And in Ezekiel:

(The feet of the cherubim) sparkled like the sheen of burnished bronze. (Ezekiel 1:7)

Angels and cherubim so appeared for the reason that the Lord's Divinity was represented in them.

[4] Since the Lord's church exists below the heavens, thus under the Lord's feet, it is therefore called His footstool in the following places:

The glory of Lebanon shall come to you..., to beautify the place of My sanctuary; ...I will make the place of My feet honorable. And... they shall bow themselves at the soles of your feet. (Isaiah 60:13-14)

Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. (Isaiah 66:1)

(God) does not remember His footstool in the day of His anger. (Lamentations 2:1)

...worship (Jehovah) in the direction of His footstool. (Psalms 99:5)

Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah (Bethlehem).... We will go into His dwelling places, we will bow ourselves at His footstool. (Psalms 132:6-7)

That is why worshipers fell at the Lord's feet (Matthew 28:9, Mark 5:22, Luke 8:41, John 11:32), and why they kissed His feet and wiped them with their hair (Luke 7:37-38, 44-46, John 11:2; 12:3).

[5] Because feet symbolize the natural self, therefore the Lord said to Peter, when He washed Peter's feet,

He who is washed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is completely clean. (John 13:10)

To wash the feet is to purify the natural self. When it has been purified, the whole self also is purified, as we showed many times in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), and in The Doctrines of the New Jerusalem. 1 The natural self, which is also the outer self, is purified when it refrains from the evils which the spiritual or inner self sees to be evils and ones to be shunned.

[6] Now because the feet mean the natural component of a person, and this perverts everything if it is not washed or purified, therefore the Lord says,

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than to have two feet and be cast into hell, into the unquenchable fire... (Mark 9:45)

The foot here does not mean the foot, but the natural self.

The like is meant by treading down the good pasture with the feet and troubling waters with the feet (Ezekiel 32:2; 34:18-19, Daniel 7:7, 19, and elsewhere).

[7] Since the Son of Man means the Lord in relation to the Word, it is apparent that His feet mean the Word in its natural sense as well, which we dealt with at length in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, and also that the Lord came into the world to fulfill everything in the Word and to become thereby an embodiment of the Word, even in its outmost expressions (The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 98-100). But this is a secret for people who will be in the New Jerusalem.

[8] The Lord's natural Divinity was also symbolized by the bronze serpent that Moses was commanded to set up in the wilderness, so that all who had been bitten by serpents were healed by looking at it (Numbers 21:6, 8-9). That this symbolized the Lord's natural Divinity, and that those people are saved who look to it, the Lord Himself teaches in John:

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:14-15)

The serpent was made of bronze because bronze, like fine brass, symbolizes the natural self in respect to good, as may be seen in no. 775 below.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Perhaps The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem, and The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding Faith (Amsterdam, 1763). But perhaps The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (London, 1758).

  
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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.