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Ezekiel 4

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1 Du Mennneskesøn tag dig en teglsten, læg den for dig og indrids i den et Billede af en By, Jerusalem;

2 og kast en Vold op omkring den, byg Belejringstårne, opkast Stormvold, lad Hære lejre sig imod den og rejs Stormbukke mod den fra alle Sider;

3 tag dig så en Jernpande og sæt den som en Jernvæg op mellem dig og Byen og ret dit Ansigt imod den. Således skal den være omringet, og du skal trænge den. Det skal være Israels Hus et Tegn.

4 Og læg du dig på din venstre Side og tag, Israels Huss Misgerning på dig; alle de Dage du ligger således, skal du bære deres Misgerning.

5 Deres Misgernings År gør jeg til lige så mange Dage for dig, 190 Dage; så længe skal du bære Israels Huss Misgerning.

6 Og når de er til Ende, læg dig så på din højre Side og bær Judas Huss Misgerning 40 Dage; for hvert År giver jeg dig en Dag.

7 Og du skal rette dit Ansigt og din blottede Arm mod det omringede Jerusalem og profetere imod det.

8 Og se, jeg lægger Bånd på dig, så du ikke kan vende dig fra den ene Side til den anden, før din Belejrings Dage er til Ende.

9 Og tag du dig Hvede, Byg, Bønner, Linser, Hirse og Spelt, kom det i et og samme Kar og lav dig Brød deraf; alle de Dage du ligger på Siden, 190 Dage, skal det være din Mad;

10 og Maden, du får, skal være efter Vægt, tyve Sekel daglig; du skal spise den een Gang daglig.

11 Og Vand skal du drikke efter Mål, en Sjettedel Hin; du skal drikke een Gang daglig.

12 Og som Bygkager skal du spise det og bage det ved Menneskeskarn i deres Påsyn.

13 Og du skal sige: "Så sige HE EN: Således skal Israeliterne have urent Brød til Føde blandt de Folk, jeg bortstøder dem til!"

14 Men jeg sagde: "Ak, Herre, HE E, jeg har endnu aldrig været uren; noget selvdødt eller sønderrevet har jeg fra Barnsben aldrig spist, og urent Kød kom aldrig i min Mund!"

15 Da svarede han: "Vel, jeg tillader dig at tage Oksegødning i Stedet for Menneskeskarn og bage dit Brød derved."

16 Videre sagde han til mig: Menneskesøn! Se, jeg bryder Brødets Støttestav i Jerusalem; Brød skal de spise efter Vægt og i Angst, og Vand skal de drikke efter Mål og i ædsel,

17 for at de må mangle Brød og Vand og alle som een være slagne af ædsel og hensmægte i deres Misgerning.

   


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Apocalypse Revealed # 610

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610. And its number is 666. This symbolically means, their character being this, that by them all the Word's truth has been falsified.

The number of the beast symbolizes the character of the arguments the clergy use from the Word to defend their doctrine and faith (nos. 608, 609). Six hundred and sixty-six symbolizes every truth having to do with goodness, and because the statement is made in application to the Word, it symbolizes every truth in the Word having to do with goodness, in this case that truth falsified, because the number is the number of the beast.

This is the symbolic meaning because six has the same symbolism as three multiplied by two, and three symbolizes completeness and all and is predicated of truths (no. 505), while two symbolizes the marriage of truth and good. So, because six is composed of these two numbers multiplied together, therefore it symbolizes every truth in the Word having to do with goodness, in this case that truth falsified. That it also was falsified by the clergy may be seen in no. 566 above.

The number is said to be 666, because it contains the number six repeated three times, and tripling it makes it complete. Multiplying six by one hundred to make six hundred, and by ten to make sixty, does not change the number's symbolic meaning, as may be seen in no. 348 above.

[2] That the number six symbolizes completeness and all, and is used when the subject is truths having to do with goodness, may be seen from passages in the Word where that number is mentioned. However, the symbolism of the number appears clearly only to people who see the things contained in the spiritual sense. As for instance, the Lord's saying that the seeds that fell on good ground yielded fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred (Mark 4:8, 20, Matthew 13:8, 23); and that a landowner went out and hired laborers for his vineyard at the third hour and at the sixth hour (Matthew 20:3, 5). Also that the table in the Tabernacle had on it cakes of showbread arranged in two rows, each containing six cakes (Leviticus 24:6). That there were set six waterpots for the purification of the Jews (John 2:6). That there were six cities of refuge or of asylum (Numbers 35:6-7, Deuteronomy 19:1-9). That the measuring reed with which the angel measured all parts of the new temple and new city was six cubits long (Ezekiel 40:5). That the prophet drank water by measure, a sixth of a hin (Ezekiel 4:11). That they took as an offering a sixth of an ephah of a homer of wheat (Ezekiel 45:13).

Since the number six symbolizes completeness, therefore words for separating a sixth part came into use, which in the spiritual sense symbolizes something that is complete and entire, as that they gave a sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley (Ezekiel 45:13). And regarding Gog, "I will turn you around and leave but a sixth part of you" (Ezekiel 39:2). This last symbolically means that in Gog all truth in the Word having to do with goodness is destroyed. Just who are meant by Gog may be seen in no. 859.

  
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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.