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Ezechiël 26

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1 En het gebeurde in het elfde jaar, op den eersten der maand, dat des HEEREN woord tot mij geschiedde, zeggende:

2 Mensenkind! daarom dat Tyrus van Jeruzalem gezegd heeft: Heah! zij is verbroken, de poort der volken; zij is tot mij omgewend; ik zal vervuld worden, zij is verwoest!

3 Daarom, alzo zegt de Heere Heere: Ziet, Ik wil aan u, o Tyrus! en Ik zal vele heidenen tegen u doen opkomen, alsof Ik de zee met haar golven deed opkomen.

4 Die zullen de muren van Tyrus verderven, en haar torens afbreken; ja, Ik zal haar stof van haar wegvagen, en zal haar tot een gladde steenrots maken.

5 Zij zal in het midden der zee zijn tot uitspreiding van netten; want Ik heb het gesproken, spreekt de Heere Heere; en zij zal den heidenen ten roof worden.

6 En haar dochteren, die in het veld zijn, zullen met het zwaard gedood worden; en zij zullen weten, dat Ik de HEERE ben.

7 Want alzo zegt de Heere Heere: Ziet, Ik zal Nebukadrezar, den koning van Babel, den koning der koningen, van het noorden, tegen Tyrus brengen, met paarden en met wagenen, en met ruiteren, en krijgs vergaderingen, en veel volks.

8 Hij zal uw dochteren op het veld met het zwaard doden, en hij zal sterkten tegen u maken, en een wal tegen u opwerpen, en rondassen tegen u opheffen.

9 En hij zal muurbrekers tegen uw muren stellen, en uw torens met zijn zwaarden afbreken.

10 Vanwege de menigte zijner paarden zal u derzelver stof bedekken; uw muren zullen beven vanwege het gedruis der ruiteren, en wielen, en wagenen, als hij door uw poorten zal intrekken, gelijk door de ingangen ener doorbrokene stad.

11 Hij zal met de hoeven zijner paarden al uw straten vertreden; uw volk zal hij met het zwaard doden, en elk een van de kolommen uwer sterkten zal ter aarde nederstorten.

12 En zij zullen uw vermogen roven, en uw koopmanswaren plunderen, en uw muren afbreken, en uw kostelijke huizen omwerpen; en uw stenen, en uw hout, en uw stof zullen zij in het midden der wateren werpen.

13 Zo zal Ik het gedeun uwer liederen doen ophouden, en het geklank uwer harpen zal niet meer gehoord worden.

14 Ja, Ik zal u maken tot een gladde steenrots; gij zult zijn tot uitspreiding der netten, gij zult niet meer gebouwd worden; want Ik, de HEERE, heb het gesproken, spreekt de HEERE HEERE.

15 Alzo zegt de Heere Heere tot Tyrus: Zullen niet de eilanden van het geluid uws vals beven, als de dodelijk verwonde zal kermen, wanneer men in het midden van u schrikkelijk zal moorden?

16 En alle vorsten der zee zullen afdalen van hun tronen, en hun mantels van zich doen, en hun gestikte klederen uittrekken; met sidderingen zullen zij bekleed worden, op de aarde zullen zij nederzitten, en te elken ogenblik sidderen, en over u ontzet zijn;

17 En zij zullen een klaaglied over u opheffen, en tot u zeggen: Hoe zijt gij uit de zeeen vergaan, gij welbewoonde, gij beroemde stad, die sterk geweest is ter zee, zij en haar inwoners; die hunlieder schrik gaven aan allen, die in haar woonden!

18 Nu zullen de eilanden sidderen ten dage uws vals; ja, de eilanden, die in de zee zijn, zullen beroerd worden vanwege uw uitgang.

19 Want alzo zegt de Heere Heere: Als Ik u zal stellen tot een verwoeste stad, gelijk de steden, die niet bewoond worden; als Ik een afgrond over u zal doen opkomen, en de grote wateren u zullen overdekken,

20 Dan zal Ik u doen nederdalen met degenen die in den kuil nederdalen tot het oude volk, en zal u doen nederliggen in de onderste plaatsen der aarde, in de woeste plaatsen, die van ouds geweest zijn, met degenen, die in den kuil nederdalen, opdat gij niet bewoond wordt; en Ik zal het sieraad herstellen in het land der levenden.

21 Maar u zal Ik tot een groten schrik stellen, en gij zult er niet meer zijn; als gij gezocht wordt, zo zult gij niet meer gevonden worden in eeuwigheid, spreekt de Heere Heere.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 166

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166. "'Who have not defiled their garments.'" This symbolically means, who possess truths, and have not soiled their worship by evil practices and the falsities attendant on these.

Garments in the Word symbolize truths that clothe good, and in an opposite sense, falsities that clothe evil. For a person embodies either his goodness or his evilness. Truths or falsities are therefore his garments.

Angels and spirits all appear dressed in clothing that reflects the truths of their goodness or the falsities of their evilness - on which subject, see the book Heaven and Hell, published in London, nos. 177-182. It is apparent from this that not defiling their garments symbolizes their possessing truths and not soiling their worship by evil practices and the falsities attendant on these.

[2] It is apparent from the following passages that garments in the Word symbolize truths, and in an opposite sense, falsities:

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem... (Isaiah 52:1)

(Jerusalem), I clothed you in embroidered cloth, gave you sandals of badger skin, clothed you with fine linen..., and adorned you with ornaments... You were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth..., (so that) you became exceedingly beautiful... But you took some of your garments and made for yourself multicolored high places, so as to play the harlot on them... You took your embroidered garments... and made for yourself male images with which you played the harlot. 1 (Ezekiel 16:10-18)

The Jewish Church is described here, as having been given truths, because they had the Word, but that they falsified them. To play the harlot means to falsify (no. 134).

[3] The king's daughter is all glorious within, (and) her clothing is woven with gold. She shall be brought to the King in embroidered garments. (Psalms 45:13-14)

The king's daughter is the church in relation to its affection for truth.

O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet elegantly, and put ornamentation of gold on your apparel. (2 Samuel 1:24)

This is said of Saul because as a king he symbolized Divine truth (no. 20).

...I will visit judgment on the princes and the king's children, and on all clothed with foreign apparel. (Zephaniah 1:8)

(Your enemies) shall also strip you of your garments, and take away your adornments. (Ezekiel 23:26)

Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing (thus) before the Angel, (who said) "Take away the filthy garments from him (and clothe him with other garments). (Zechariah 3:3-5)

...the king came in and saw the guests, and he saw a man... who did not have on a wedding garment. So he said to him, "Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?" (Matthew 22:11-13)

A wedding garment is Divine truth from the Word.

[4] Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing... (Matthew 7:15)

No one puts a piece of cloth from a new garment on an old garment; otherwise the new one tears (the old), and the piece from the new one does not match the old. (Luke 5:36-37)

Because a garment symbolizes truth, therefore the Lord compares the truths of the previous church, which were external and representative of spiritual ones, to a piece of cloth belonging to an old garment, while comparing the truths of the new church, which were internal and spiritual, to a piece of cloth from a new garment.

...on the thrones... twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments. (Revelation 4:4)

(Those who stood) before the throne... in the presence of the Lamb (were) clothed with white robes..., and they washed their robes and made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:9, 13-14)

...white robes were given to each (of those who were under the altar). (Revelation 6:11)

...the armies (of Him who sat on the white horse) followed Him..., clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:14)

[5] Because angels symbolize Divine truths, therefore angels seen in the Lord's sepulchre appeared in white and shining garments (Matthew 28:3, Luke 24:4).

Because the Lord is Divine good and Divine truth, and truths are meant by garments, therefore when He was transfigured "His face shone like the sun, and His garments became [as white] as the light" (Matthew 17:2), or "blazing white (Luke 9:29), or "shining white, like snow, such that no launderer on earth can whiten them" (Mark 9:3).

Of the Ancient of Days, which also is the Lord, it is said that "His garment was as white as snow" (Daniel 7:9).

Moreover we find the following, too, said of the Lord:

He has anointed... all your garments with myrrh, aloes and cassia. (Psalms 45:7-8)

...He washed his clothing in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes. (Genesis 49:11)

Who is this who comes from Edom, having sprinkled his garments from Bozrah? This One honorable in His apparel...? ...Why are You red in Your apparel? Your garments as though of one who treads in the winepress...? Their victory is sprinkled upon My garments, and I have polluted all My vesture. (Isaiah 63:1-3)

This also is said of the Lord. His garments there are the Word's truths.

...He who sat on (the white horse)...was clothed with a garment dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. (Revelation 19:11, 13)

[6] From the symbolic meaning of garments it can be seen why the Lord's disciples put their garments upon the donkey and its colt when the Lord was ready to enter Jerusalem, and why the people spread their garments on the road (Matthew 21:7-9, Mark 11:7-8), thus what is symbolically meant by this verse in the Psalms,

They divided My garments..., and over My vesture they cast lots. (Psalms 22:18)

[7] The symbolism of garments makes it apparent moreover why the people rent their garments whenever someone spoke against the Divine truth of the Word (Isaiah 37:1 and elsewhere). Also why they washed their garments in order to purify themselves (Exodus 19:14, Leviticus 11:25, 40; 14:8-9).

Someone who knows what garments symbolize in general and in particular can know what the vestments of Aaron and his sons symbolized - the ephod, the robe, the lace tunic, the girdle, the breeches, and the turban.

Since light symbolizes Divine truth, and a garment likewise, therefore we find it said in the Psalms that Jehovah covers Himself "with light as a with garment" (Psalms 104:2).

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The last two clauses are reversed from the order in which they appear in the original Hebrew.

  
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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.

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2 Samuel 1:24

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24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.