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Daniel 11

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1 En la unua jaro de Dario, la Medo, mi staris, por subteni kaj fortigi min.

2 Kaj nun mi sciigos al vi la veron:jen ankoraux tri regxoj estos en Persujo; la kvara superos cxiujn per sia ricxeco; kaj kiam li farigxos forta per sia ricxeco, li ekscitos cxiujn kontraux la regnon Grekan.

3 Aperos regxo potenca, kiu regos kun granda forto, kaj faros cxion, kion li volos.

4 Sed dum lia starado lia regno disrompigxos kaj dividigxos laux la kvar ventoj de la cxielo, kaj gxi transiros ne al liaj idoj, kaj ne kun tiu potenco, kun kiu li regis; lia regno estos dissxirita kaj transiros al homoj fremdaj.

5 Fortigxos unu el liaj princoj, la regxo suda, kaj farigxos pli forta ol li, kaj regos; lia potenco estos granda.

6 Sed post kelke da jaroj ili kunigxos inter si; kaj la filino de la suda regxo venos al la norda regxo, por arangxi la aferon inter ili; sed sxi ne retenos la forton en sia mano, kaj ankaux li kun sia forto ne restos; sxi kaj sxiaj akompanantoj kaj sxia infano kaj sxia kelktempa fortiganto estos transdonitaj.

7 Tamen el sxia trunko aperos brancxo, venos kun militistaro, venos al la fortikajxo de la norda regxo, kaj venkos.

8 Ankaux iliajn diojn, kun iliaj statuoj, kaj kun iliaj grandvaloraj vazoj argxentaj kaj oraj, li forportos en Egiptujon, kaj por kelke da jaroj li restos malproksima de la norda regxo.

9 CXi tiu iros al la regno de la suda regxo, sed revenos en sian landon.

10 Poste liaj filoj sin armos kaj kolektos grandan militistaron; kaj unu iros rapide, disversxigxos kiel inundo, kaj denove faros militon gxis lia fortikajxo.

11 Tiam la suda regxo indignos, eliros kaj militos kontraux li, kontraux la norda regxo, kaj starigos grandan homomulton, kaj tiu homamaso estos transdonita en lian manon.

12 Li forkondukos tiun homamason, kaj fierigxos lia koro; sed kvankam li venkos multajn milojn, li tamen ne farigxos pli forta.

13 La norda regxo denove starigos homomulton, pli grandan ol la antauxa, kaj post kelka tempo li eliros kun granda militistaro kaj kun granda ricxeco.

14 En tiu tempo multaj starigxos kontraux la suda regxo, kaj malkvietaj filoj de via popolo levigxos, por ke plenumigxu la profetajxo, sed ili falos.

15 Kaj venos la norda regxo, sxutarangxos remparon, kaj venkoprenos la fortikigitan urbon; kaj la forto de la sudo ne povos kontrauxstari, kaj gxia plej bona militistaro ne havos forton, por rezisti.

16 Kaj cxiu, kiu venos al li, faros tion, kion li postulos, neniu povos kontrauxstari al li; li starigxos en la plej bela lando, kaj pereigos gxin per sia mano.

17 Kaj li intencos veni kun la potenco de sia tuta regno kaj kun siaj bravuloj, kaj li tion faros; kaj la urbo de virinoj estos donita al li por ekstermi; kaj gxi ne povos kontrauxstari; sed gxi ankaux ne farigxos lia.

18 Kaj li direktos sian vizagxon al la insuloj kaj venkoprenos multajn; sed unu princo cxesigos lian malhonoradon, ke li ne plu malhonoru.

19 Tiam li denove turnos sin al la fortikajxoj de sia lando; sed li falpusxigxos, falos, kaj oni lin jam ne trovos.

20 Sur lia loko starigxos tia, kiu sendos impostiston tra la tuta glora regno; sed post kelke da tagoj li pereos, kvankam ne per kolero kaj ne per batalo.

21 Sur lia loko starigxos homo malestimata, sur kiun oni ne metos la regxan ornamon; sed li venos kun trankvileco, kaj ekposedos la regnon per flatajxoj.

22 Kaj la dronigantaj tacxmentegoj estos dronigitaj kaj frakasitaj de li, kaj ankaux la princo, kun kiu estis farita la interligo.

23 Kaj post la interamikigxo li faros kontraux li malicajxon, iros, kaj superfortos lin per malmulte da homoj.

24 En la pacajn kaj plej bonstatajn urbojn de la lando li venos, kaj faros tion, kion ne faris liaj patroj nek liaj prapatroj; la kaptajxon, rabajxon, kaj havajxon li disjxetos; kaj li direktos siajn intencojn kontraux la fortikigitajn urbojn, sed nur gxis certa tempo.

25 Poste li ekscitos sian forton kaj sian koron kontraux la regxon sudan kun grandega militistaro, kaj la suda regxo eliros milite kun granda kaj tre forta militistaro; sed li ne eltenos, cxar estos faritaj atencoj kontraux li.

26 Tiuj, kiuj mangxas cxe lia tablo, pereigos lin, kaj lia armeo disversxigxos, kaj falos multe da mortigitoj.

27 Ambaux regxoj havos en sia koro malbonajn intencojn, kaj cxe la sama tablo ili parolos malverajxon; sed ili ne sukcesos, cxar la fino estas ankoraux prokrastita gxis certa tempo.

28 Li iros returne al sia lando kun granda havajxo, kaj kun intencoj kontraux la sankta interligo; kaj li plenumos, kaj venos en sian landon.

29 En difinita tempo li denove iros suden; sed la lasta fojo ne estos tia, kiel la unua.

30 CXar venos kontraux lin sxipoj de la Kitidoj, kaj li perdos la kuragxon; kaj li denove farigxos kolera kontraux la sankta interligo, kaj denove agos kaj interkonsentos kun la forlasintoj de la sankta interligo.

31 Helpantoj estos starigitaj de li; ili malsanktigos la fortodonan sanktejon, cxesigos la cxiutagajn oferojn, kaj faros abomenindan ruinigon.

32 Tiujn, kiuj malbonagas kontraux la interligo, li allogos per flatajxoj. Sed la homoj, kiuj konas sian Dion, farigxos kuragxaj kaj komencos agi.

33 La klerigantoj de la popolo klerigos multajn, kvankam dum kelka tempo ili falados de glavo, fajro, mallibereco, kaj prirabado.

34 Dum sia falado ili ricevos kelkan helpon, sed multaj aligxos al ili hipokrite.

35 Kelkaj el la klerigantoj falos por tio, ke ili refandigxu, purigxu, kaj blankigxu gxis la fina tempo; cxar estas ankoraux tempo.

36 La regxo farados, kion li volos, kaj li fierigxos, kaj rigardos sin kiel pli altan ol cxiu dio, kaj pri Dio de la dioj li parolos terurajxojn, kaj li havos sukceson, gxis plenigxos la kolero; cxar kio estas decidita, tio plenumigxos.

37 Kaj pri la dioj de siaj patroj li ne pensos, li ne atentos cxarmon de virinoj, nek ian dion, sed li tenos sin pli alte ol cxio.

38 Nur la dion de fortikajxoj sur sia loko li honoros, kaj tiun dion, kiun ne konis liaj patroj, li honoros per oro, argxento, multekostaj sxtonoj, kaj juveloj.

39 Kaj li konstruos por la urboj fortikajxojn sub la nomo de fremda dio; kiu akceptos cxi tiun, al tiu li plimultigos la honorojn kaj donos potencon super multaj kaj rekompence disdonos teron.

40 Fine ekbatalos kontraux li la suda regxo, kaj jxetos sin sur lin la norda regxo kun cxaroj, rajdistoj, kaj multe da sxipoj, atakos la regionojn, inundos, kaj trairos.

41 Kaj li venos en la plej belan landon, kaj multaj pereos; savigxos kontraux lia mano nur jenaj:Edom, Moab, kaj la cxefaj el la Amonidoj.

42 Kaj li etendos sian manon kontraux diversajn landojn; ankaux la lando Egipta ne savigxos.

43 Kaj li farigxos mastro super la trezoroj de oro, argxento, kaj cxiuj grandvalorajxoj de Egiptujo; Luboj kaj Etiopoj sekvos liajn pasxojn.

44 Sed ektimigos lin famoj de oriento kaj de nordo, kaj li eliros kun granda furiozo, por pereigi kaj ekstermi multajn.

45 Kaj li starigos sian belegan tendon inter la maro kaj la monto de la bela sanktejo; sed li venos al sia fino, kaj neniu helpos al li.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3322

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3322. 'Therefore he called his name Edom' means the resulting nature of the good, to which matters of doctrine regarding truth were allied. This is clear from the meaning of 'calling the name' or calling by name as the essential nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 2009, 2724, 3006, and from the representation of 'Edom'. In the Word Esau is mentioned in various places, as also is Edom. In those places 'Esau' means the good of the natural before matters of doctrine regarding truth have been joined to it, and also before the good of life brought by an influx from the rational has been joined to it - to natural good; while 'Edom' means the good of the natural to which matters of doctrine regarding truth have been allied. But in the contrary sense 'Esau' means the evil stemming from self-love before falsities have been allied to it, that is to say, to self-love, while 'Edom' means the evil stemming from that love once they have been allied to it. The majority of names in the Word, as shown quite often, also have the contrary sense. The reason why is that in course of time the self-same things which in the Churches were forms of good and truth deteriorated into forms of evil and falsity through various kinds of adulterations.

[2] That 'Esau' and 'Edom' mean these things becomes clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

Who is this who is coming from Edom, with spattered clothes from Bozrah glorious in his apparel, marching in the vast numbers of his strength? Why are you red as to your clothing, and your clothes like his that treads in the winepress? I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no man was with me. I looked around but there was none helping, and I wondered, and there was nobody to uphold, and my own arm saved me. Isaiah 63:1-3, 5.

Here it is quite clear that 'Edom' is the Lord, and the fact that it is the Lord as regards the Divine Good of the Divine Natural is evident because the subject is the joining together of good and truth in the Lord's Human, and the conflicts brought about by temptations through which He joined the two together. 'Clothes' here means the truths of the natural man, or truths that are lower compared with other truths, see 2576, while 'red' is the good of the natural man, 3300. The Lord's work in which - by His own power, and through the conflicts brought about by temptations - He joined truths present there to good is described by the words 'I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no man was with me. I looked around but there was none helping; I wondered, and there was nobody to uphold, and my own arm saved me' - 'arm' meaning power, 878.

[3] In the Book of Judges,

O Jehovah. when You went forth from Seir, when You set out from the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, the clouds indeed dropped [water], the mountains flowed down. Judges 5:4-5.

'Setting out from the field of Edom' is almost the same in meaning as 'coming from Edom' in Isaiah. Likewise in Moses,

Jehovah came from Sinai, and dawned from Seir upon them. Deuteronomy 33:2.

In the same author,

I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near. A star will arise out of Jacob, and a sceptre will rise up out of Israel. And Edom will be an inheritance, and Seir will be an inheritance, of his enemies - with Israel doing valiantly - and will have dominion in regard to Jacob, and will destroy what is left of the city. Numbers 24:17-19.

This refers to the Lord's Coming into the world, His Human Essence being called 'a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre out of Israel'. 'Edom' and 'Seir' which are to be 'an inheritance' stand for the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Natural. Their becoming 'an inheritance of his enemies' stands for the fact that it would take the place of those things that existed previously in the Natural. Dominion at that time over the truths there is meant by 'he will have dominion over Jacob, and he will destroy what is left of the city' - 'Jacob' being the truth of the natural, 3305, and 'a city' doctrine, 402, 2268, 2449, 2712, 2943, 3216. Dominion is said to be had over those truths when they are subsidiary to and subject to good. Before this comes about they are called enemies because they constantly offer resistance, as shown above in 3321.

[4] In Amos,

On that day I will raise up the tent of David that is fallen down, and I will close up their breaches, and I will restore its destroyed places, and I will build it as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnants of Edom, and all the nations which have been called by My name. Amos 9:11-12.

'The tent of David' stands for the Church and worship of the Lord; 'the remnants of Edom' for those within the Church who are governed by good, 'the nations which have been called by His name' for those outside the Church who are governed by good - 'the nations' being those who are governed by good, 1259, 1260, 1416, 1849. In David,

Upon Edom I will cast my shoe. Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me even to Edom? Will not You, O God? Psalms 60:8-10.

'Edom' stands for the good of the natural. Its being the good of the natural is evident from the meaning of 'shoe' as the lowest part of the natural, 1748.

[5] In Daniel,

At the time of the end the king of the south will clash with him; therefore the king of the north will rush upon him like a whirlwind with chariots, and will overflow and penetrate; and when he comes into the glorious land many will fall These however will be delivered out of his hand, Edom and Moab, and the firstfruits of the children of Ammon. Daniel 11:40-41.

This refers to the final state of the Church. 'The king of the north' stands for falsities, or what amounts to the same, for people in possession of falsities. 'Edom' stands for those in whom simple good is present, the type of good that exists with those who constitute the Lord's external Church. The same applies to 'Moab' and 'the children of Ammon', 2468; and as the two of them, that is to say, Edom and Moab, mean those in whom natural good exists, both are therefore mentioned together in many places. But the difference between them is that 'Edom' is the good of the natural to which matters of doctrine concerning truth have been allied, whereas 'Moab' is natural good such as also exists with those with whom the two have not been joined together. Both sets of people seem to outward appearance to be alike, but they are not so inwardly.

[6] From this it is now evident why it was said that they were not to abhor an Edomite since he was a brother, nor an Egyptian since they had been strangers in his land, Deuteronomy 23:7. Because 'an Edomite' means the good of the natural, and 'an Egyptian' means the truths of the same, which are facts, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, therefore the two are mentioned in the good sense. It is also evident why Jehovah told Moses that they were not to quarrel 1 with the children of Esau, for none of their territory would be given to the children of Jacob, not even enough to leave a footprint, Deuteronomy 2:4-6.

[7] In the contrary sense however Esau and Edom represent those who turn away from good by utterly despising truth and who are unwilling to associate any truth of faith at all with it, which happens chiefly for reasons of self-love. Consequently Esau and Edom in the contrary sense mean those people The same was also represented by the king of Edom coming out with many people and a strong force and refusing to let Israel pass across his frontier, Numbers 20:14-22. This evil, that is to say, the evil of self-love, which is such as does not accept the truths of faith, nor thus matters of doctrine concerning truth, is described in various places in the Word as Esau and Edom, the state of the Church when it comes to be such also being described at the same time; as in Jeremiah,

Against Edom. Is there no wisdom any longer in Teman? Has counsel perished from those who have intelligence? Has their wisdom become rotten? Flee! They have turned themselves away, they have gone down to dwell in the deep, O inhabitants of Dedan, for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him. I will strip Esau bare, I will uncover his secret places, and he is not able to be concealed. His seed have been laid waste, and his brothers, and his neighbours. Leave your orphans, I will keep them alive, and let your widows trust in Me. Edom will become a waste; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss at all its plagues. Jeremiah 49:7-8, 10-11, 17, and following verses.

[8] In David,

They say, Let not the name of Israel be remembered any more, for they consult together with one accord; against You they make a covenant - the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, and Moab, and the Hagrites. Psalms 83:4-6.

In Obadiah,

Thus said the Lord Jehovih to Edom, Behold, I have made you small among the nations; you are utterly despised. The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose seat is on high, who say in your heart, Who will bring me down to the ground? Though you exalt yourself like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there will I bring you down. How are the men of Esau searched out, their hidden treasures sought out! Will I not on that day destroy the wise men out of Edom, and those who have intelligence out of Mount Esau, so that your mighty men may be dismayed, O Teman, and every man from Mount Esau cut off by slaughter? For the violence done to Jacob your brother shame will cover you, and you will be cut off for ever. The house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau turned into stubble; and they will burn them and consume them, and there will be nothing left over to the house of Esau. And the people of the south will inherit the mountain of Esau. Obad. verses 1-4, 6, 8-10, 18, 19, 21.

'Edom' and 'Esau' here stand for the evil of the natural man, which evil, arising out of self-love, despises and rejects all truth - which leads to its devastation.

[9] In Ezekiel,

Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and say to it, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a waste and a desolation. Because you possess eternal enmity, and give over the children of Israel to the power of the sword 2 in the time of their disaster and in the time of the iniquity of the end. Because you said concerning the two nations and the two lands, They are mine and we will inherit them - and Jehovah is there. And you will know that I Jehovah have heard all your insults which you have uttered against the mountains of Israel. You will be a waste, Mount Seir, and all Edom. the whole of it. Ezekiel 35:2-5, 8-10, 12, 15.

Here it is quite clear that 'Edom' in the contrary sense is those who despise, reject, and insult spiritual goods and truths, meant by 'the mountains of Israel'.

[10] In the same prophet,

Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Surely in the fire of My jealousy have I spoken against the remnants of the nations, and against the whole of Edom, who have given My land to themselves as an inheritance with the joy of all [their] heart, with utter contempt. 3 Ezekiel 36:5.

Here similarly 'giving the land to themselves as an inheritance' stands for laying waste the Church, that is, good and truth that are the Church's.

[11] In Malachi,

The Word of Jehovah against Israel; I have loved you, said Jehovah, and you say, How have You loved us? Is not Esau Jacob's brother? And I love Jacob, and I hate Esau and am making his mountain into a waste. Malachi 1:1-3.

Here 'Esau' stands for the evil of the natural which does not accept spiritual truth, meant by 'Israel', 3305, or the doctrine of truth, meant by 'Jacob', 3305, and is for that reason 'laid waste', meant by 'hating'. For 'hating' has no other meaning, as is evident from what has been introduced above from the Word regarding Esau and Edom in the good sense. But when truth does not allow itself to be allied to good, Jacob is referred to in a contrary way, as in Hosea,

He will make a visitation on Jacob over his ways and requite him according to his deeds; in the womb he supplanted his brother. Hosea 12:2-3.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, mix hands

2. literally, and cause the children of Israel to flow over the hands of the swords

3. literally, with contempt of soul

  
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