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1 Vidění Abdiášovo. Takto praví Panovník Hospodin o zemi Idumejské: Pověst jsme slyšeli od Hospodina, a legáta k národům vyslaného: Nuže, povstaňmež k boji proti ní.

2 Aj, způsobím to, abys byl nejšpatnější mezi národy, a abys byl v náramném pohrdání.

3 Pýcha srdce tvého zklamá tě, ó ty, kterýž bydlíš v rozsedlinách skalních, v převysokém obydlí svém, říkaje v srdci svém: Kdož by mne strhl na zem?

4 Bys pak vysoko udělal jako orlice, nýbrž bys mezi hvězdami položil hnízdo své, i odtud strhnu tě, praví Hospodin.

5 Kterak jsi popléněn? Zdali zloději přišli na tebe? Zdali loupežníci noční? Zdaliž by kradli přes spotřebu svou? Kdyby ti, kteříž zbírají víno, přišli na tebe, zdaž by nepozůstavili aspoň paběrků?

6 Jakť jsou vystiženy věci Ezau, vyhledáni pokladové jeho!

7 Až ku pomezí vystrčí tě všickni, s kterýmiž smlouvu máš; podvedou tě, zmocní se tebe ti, s nimiž pokoj máš; náchlebníci tvoji udělajíť ránu zrádně, již nebude lze vyrozuměti.

8 Zdaliž v ten den, praví Hospodin, nevyhladím moudrých z země Idumejské, a rozumných s hory Ezau?

9 I budou se děsiti udatní tvoji, ó Temane, proto, že poraženi jsouce, vypléněni budou všickni s hory Ezau.

10 Pro nátisk bratru tvému Jákobovi činěný přikryje tě hanba, a vypléněn budeš na věčnost.

11 Stál jsi v ten den naproti, a když zajímali cizí vojsko jeho, a když cizozemci vcházeli do bran jeho, a o Jeruzalém metali losy, ty jsi také byl jako jeden z nich.

12 Nedívejž se tedy na den bratra svého, na den zajetí jeho, aniž se vesel nad syny Judskými v den zahynutí jejich, aniž pyšně mluv ústy svými v den uzkosti.

13 Nevcházej do brány lidu mého v den bídy jejich, aniž se dívej trápení jeho v den bídy jeho, a nechtěj sahati na statek jeho v den bídy jeho.

14 Aniž stůj při mezeře, abys hubil ty, kteříž z nich ucházejí, aniž vydávej nepříteli v moc těch, kteříž z nich pozůstali v den úzkosti.

15 Nebo blízko jest den Hospodinův proti všechněm těm národům. Jakž jsi činil, tak se stane tobě, odplata tvá navrátí se na hlavu tvou.

16 Nebo poněvadž vy na mé hoře svaté píti bedete, nadtoť píti budou všickni národové ustavičně. Píti, pravím, a požírati budou, až budou, jako by jich nebylo.

17 Na hoře pak Sion bude vysvobození, a bude svatá, a tak dědičně držeti bude dům Jákobův dědictví svá.

18 I bude dům Jákobův oheň, a dům Jozefův plamen, dům pak Ezau plevy, i rozpálí se na ně a sehltí je, aniž kdo pozůstane z domu Ezau; nebo Hospodin mluvil.

19 A tak děditi budou v krajině polední s horou Ezau, i v rovině s Filistinskými; vládnouti také budou krajinou Efraimovou i krajinou Samařskou, a Beniaminovou i Galádskou.

20 I zajaté vojsko toto synů Izraelských v tom, což bylo Kananejských až do Sarepty, zajatí pak Jeruzalémští v tom, což jest na konci panství, děditi budou s městy na poledne.

21 I vstoupí vysvoboditelé na horu Sion, aby soudili horu Ezau, a tak bude Hospodinovo království.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 649

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649. And he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes of the vine of the earth." This symbolizes the Lord's operation from the goodness of His love through the Word's Divine truth into the works of charity and faith among people belonging to the Christian Church.

This is the spiritual meaning of these words, inasmuch as the two angels symbolize the heavens of the Lord's spiritual and celestial kingdoms (nos. 647, 648), and the heavens do nothing of themselves, but from the Lord. For the angels in the heavens are only recipient vessels. Consequently in the spiritual sense nothing else is symbolized but the Lord's operation, here His operation into the church in the Christian world and into the works of charity and faith among the people in it. The vine, indeed, symbolizes that church, as we shall see after this in number 651, and grapes and clusters of grapes symbolize works of charity. This is the symbolism of grapes and clusters of grapes because they are the fruits of the vine in a vineyard, and fruits in the Word symbolize good works.

[2] The angel who came out from the altar told the angel who came out of the temple to thrust in his sickle and gather the grapes because, as we said before, the angel who came out from the altar symbolizes the heavens of the celestial kingdom, or heavens characterized by the goodness of love, while the angel who came out of the temple symbolizes the heavens of the spiritual kingdom, or heavens characterized by truths of wisdom; and the goodness of love does nothing by itself, but only through the truth of wisdom, and the truth of wisdom does nothing by itself, but only in response to the goodness of love. The reality of this is something we showed many times in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom. That is why the angel who came out from the altar told the angel who came out of the temple to thrust in his sickle and gather the clusters of grapes of the vine of the earth.

That now is why this description symbolizes the Lord's operation from the goodness of His love through the Divine truth of His Word.

[3] That grapes and clusters of grapes symbolize goods and the works of charity can be seen from the following passages:

Woe is me! ...I have become like the gatherings of summer, like the gleanings of vintage grapes; there is no cluster to eat; first-ripe fruit my soul desires. The holy man has perished from the earth, and the upright among men. (Micah 7:1-2)

Their grapes are grapes of gall, they have bitter clusters. (Deuteronomy 32:32)

My beloved had a vineyard... He expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced wild grapes. (Isaiah 5:1-2, 4)

They look to other gods, they love flagons of grapes. (Hosea 3:1)

...every tree is known by its own fruit. ...people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. (Luke 6:44)

...in the midst of the land... it shall be... like the gleanings of grapes when the grape harvest is done. (Isaiah 24:12-13)

If the gatherers of the grapes come to you, they will not leave any gleanings. (Jeremiah 49:9, cf. Obadiah verses 4, 5)

The plunderer has fallen on... your grape harvest. (Jeremiah 48:32-33)

You will be troubled, you complacent ones, for the grape harvest is failing, the gathering will not come. (Isaiah 32:9-10)

And so on elsewhere where the fruit of the vineyard and the fruit of the vine are mentioned.

Some goods are the goods of a celestial love, and some are the goods of a spiritual love. The goods of a celestial love are those of love toward the Lord, and the goods of a spiritual love are those of a love for the neighbor. The latter goods are called goods of charity and are those meant by the fruits of the vineyard, which are grapes and clusters of grapes. But the goods of love toward the Lord are meant in the Word by the fruits of trees, primarily olives.

[4] "For her grapes are ripe." This symbolically means, because the Christian Church has reached its last state.

The ripening of the vineyard's grapes has the same symbolic meaning as the drying of the harvest above, but a harvest is mentioned in reference to the church in general, while a vineyard is mentioned in reference to the church in particular. The drying of the harvest symbolizes the last state of the church, as may be seen in no. 645 above, and so likewise does the ripening of the grapes of the vineyard.

A vineyard symbolize the church which has the Word's Divine truth and where the Lord is thereby known, since wine symbolizes the interior truth that comes from the Lord through the Word. The vineyard here accordingly symbolizes the Christian Church.

That wine symbolizes truth springing from the goodness of love, thus from the Lord, may be seen in no. 316 above.

  
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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.