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Malachiáš 4

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1 Nebo aj, den ten přichází hořící jako pec, v němž budou všickni pyšní, a všickni pášící bezbožnost jako strniště. I zažhne je ten den, kterýž přijíti má, praví Hospodin zástupů, tak že neostaví jim ani kořene ani ratolesti.

2 Vám pak, kteříž se bojíte jména mého, vzejde slunce spravedlnosti, a zdraví bude na paprslcích jeho. Tedy vycházeti budete,a porostete jako telata vykrmená.

3 A pošlapáte bezbožné, tak že budou jako popel pod nohami vašimi v den, kterýž já učiním, praví Hospodin zástupů.

4 Pamatujtež na zákon Mojžíše služebníka mého, jemuž jsem přikázal na Orébě přednesti všemu Izraeli ustanovení a soudy.

5 Aj, já pošli vám Eliáše proroka, prvé nežli přijde den Hospodinův veliký a hrozný,

6 Aby obrátil srdce otců k synům, a srdce synů k otcům jejich, abych přijda, neranil země prokletím.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 243

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243. The third living creature had a face like a human being. This symbolizes the Divine truth of the Word in respect to its wisdom.

A human being in the Word symbolizes wisdom, because the human being was born to receive wisdom from the Lord and become an angel. The wiser someone is, therefore, the more human he is. True human wisdom consists in perceiving the existence of God, the nature of God, and what pertains to God. This is what the Divine truth of the Word teaches.

That a human being symbolizes wisdom is apparent from the following passages:

I will make a man more rare than fine gold, and a human being more rare than the gold of Ophir. (Isaiah 13:12)

A man means intelligence, and a human being wisdom.

...the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned up, and rare will be the human being left. (Isaiah 24:6)

...I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of a human being and the seed of an animal. (Jeremiah 31:27)

You are My flock...; you are humankind, I am your God. (Ezekiel 34:31)

...the ruined cities shall be filled with a flock of humankind. (Ezekiel 36:38)

I looked upon the earth when, lo, it was empty and void, and to the heavens when they had not their light... I looked when, lo, there was no human being... (Jeremiah 4:23, 25)

They sacrifice a human being, they kiss the calves. (Hosea 13:2)

He measured the wall (of the Holy Jerusalem): one hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a human being, which is that of an angel. (Revelation 21:17)

So, too, in many other places, where a human being symbolizes someone who is wise, and in an abstract sense, wisdom itself.

  
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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.