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Ezekiel 26

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1 En la dek-unua jaro, en la unua tago de la monato, aperis al mi vorto de la Eternulo, dirante:

2 Ho filo de homo! pro tio, ke Tiro diras pri Jerusalem:Ha, ha! gxi estas frakasita, la pordo de la popoloj, gxi turnas sin al mi, mi plenigxos de gxia dezertigxo-

3 pro tio tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi iras kontraux vin, ho Tiro, kaj Mi levos kontraux vin multe da nacioj, kiel maro levas siajn ondojn.

4 Kaj ili detruos la muregojn de Tiro kaj disrompos gxiajn turojn; kaj Mi forbalaos de gxi gxian polvon, kaj Mi faros gxin nuda roko.

5 Loko por sternado de retoj gxi farigxos meze de la maro, cxar Mi tion parolis, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo; kaj gxi farigxos rabajxo por la nacioj.

6 Kaj gxiaj filinoj, kiuj estas sur la kampo, estos mortigitaj per glavo; kaj ili ekscios, ke Mi estas la Eternulo.

7 CXar tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi venigos kontraux Tiron de norde Nebukadnecaron, regxon de Babel, la regxon de regxoj, kun cxevaloj, cxaroj, kaj rajdistoj, kun homamaso kaj multe da popolo.

8 Viajn filinojn sur la kampo li mortigos per glavo; li faros kontraux vi bastionojn, li sxutarangxos cxirkaux vi remparojn, kaj starigos kontraux vi siajn sxildojn;

9 kaj li starigos siajn muregrompilojn kontraux viaj muregoj, kaj viajn turojn li detruos per siaj hakiloj.

10 Pro la multo de siaj cxevaloj li kovros vin per polvo; de la bruo de la rajdistoj, radoj, kaj cxaroj ektremos viaj muregoj, kiam li eniros en viajn pordegojn, kiel oni eniras en urbon trarompitan.

11 Per la hufoj de siaj cxevaloj li dispremos cxiujn viajn stratojn; vian popolon li mortigos per glavo, kaj la monumentojn de via forto li jxetos sur la teron.

12 Ili disrabos vian havon kaj diskaptos viajn komercajxojn; ili detruos viajn murojn, ili disrompos viajn belajn domojn; viajn sxtonojn, vian lignon, kaj vian teron ili jxetos en la akvon.

13 Mi cxesigos la lauxtan sonadon de viaj kantoj, kaj la vocxo de viaj harpoj ne plu estos auxdata.

14 Mi faros vin nuda roko; vi farigxos loko por sternado de retoj, vi ne plu estos rekonstruata; cxar Mi, la Eternulo, tion parolis, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

15 Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo, pri Tiro:Vere, de la bruo de via falado, de la gxemado de viaj vunditoj, kiam meze de vi estos farata mortigado, ektremos la insuloj.

16 Kaj malsupreniros de siaj tronoj cxiuj princoj de la maro, ili demetos de si sian purpuron kaj siajn broditajn vestojn; timo ilin atakos; ili sidigxos sur la tero, tremos cxiuminute, kaj eksentos teruron pro vi.

17 Kaj ili ekkantos pri vi funebran kanton, kaj diros pri vi:Kiele vi pereis, vi, logxata de maristoj, glora urbo, kiu estis forta sur la maro, gxi kaj gxiaj logxantoj, kiuj jxetadis timon sur cxiujn logxantojn de la mara regiono!

18 Nun ektremos la maraj regionoj en la tago de via falo, kaj la insuloj sur la maro konsternigxos pro via finigxo.

19 CXar tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Kiam Mi faros vin urbo dezerta simila al la urboj nelogxataj, kiam Mi levos sur vin la abismon kaj granda akvo vin kovros,

20 tiam Mi mallevos vin al tiuj, kiuj iris en la tombon, al la popolo eterna, kaj Mi pusxos vin en la profundon subteran, en la eternan dezerton, al tiuj, kiuj iris en la tombon, por ke vi ne plu estu logxata; tiam Mi restarigos belecon sur la tero de la vivantoj.

21 Mi neniigos vin, kaj vi ne plu ekzistos; oni sercxos vin, sed ne plu trovos en eterneco, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

   

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9688. 'The work of an embroiderer' means things that belong to factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'the work of an embroiderer', or embroidery, as factual knowledge. A large number of places in the Word speak of that which has been embroidered and of embroidery, and in every case factual knowledge is meant by it. The reason for this goes back to representatives in the next life; there garments embroidered in various ways are seen, and by these garments truths on the level of factual knowledge are meant.

[2] Truths on the level of factual knowledge differ from those on the level of the understanding in the same way as outward things differ from inward ones, or as the natural level with a person differs from the spiritual. Facts serve the understanding as objects from which it may deduce truths; for the power of understanding is the internal or spiritual man's power of sight, and known facts are its objects in the external or natural man. These facts are meant by 'the work of an embroiderer' whereas that power of understanding is meant by 'the work of a designer', 9598, for designing is a function of the understanding, and embroidering a function of the knowledge and skill employed by the understanding. This explains why the objects within the dwelling-place, which were signs meaning inner realities, were the work of a designer, such as the curtains that formed it, verse 1, and the veil between the holy place and the holy of holies, verse 31. But the objects which were signs meaning outer realities were the work of an embroiderer, such as the screen in place of a tent door, and the screen in place of a gate of the court, Exodus 38:18, and also the girdle, Exodus 39:29, 'the girdle' being what is external linking everything internal, 'the court' being the lowest part of heaven, and 'the tent door' the place where there is an exit from the middle heaven into the lowest.

[3] The fact that 'embroidery' and that which has been 'embroidered' mean factual knowledge belonging to the external or natural man is clear from the following places in the Word: In Ezekiel,

Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail; violet and purple from the islands of Elishah was your covering. Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks; [they exchanged for your wares] chrysoprase and purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen. The merchants of Sheba [came] with balls of violet and with embroidered work. Ezekiel 27:7, 16, 24.

This refers to Tyre, by which those in possession of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good are meant, and in the abstract sense those cognitions themselves, 1201. 'Fine linen with embroidery' means truth on the level of factual knowledge, for 'fine linen' means truth from a celestial origin, 5319, 9469, and 'embroidery' is factual knowledge. This also is the reason why it says that it came from Egypt - for 'Egypt' means factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 2588, 4749, 4964, 4966, 5700, 5702, 6004, 6015, 6125, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, 6750, 7779 (end), 9391 - and also from Syria and from Sheba, since cognitions of truth and good are meant by 'Syria', 1232, 1234, 3051, 3249, 3664, 3680, 4112, and in like manner by 'Sheba', 1171, 3240. Cognitions of truth and good constitute the Church's factual knowledge. Anybody endowed with the ability to think intelligently and weigh things up can see that in these verses from Ezekiel one should not understand embroidery, fine linen, violet, or purple, but that these commodities mean things such as are worthy of mention in the Word, namely spiritual realities that belong to heaven and the Church.

[4] In the same prophet,

All the princes of the sea will step down from upon their thrones, and will cast away their robes and will strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with tremblings. Ezekiel 26:16.

This too refers to Tyre. 'The princes of the sea' are the first and foremost known facts, which are called dogmas, 'princes' meaning things which are first and foremost, see 1482, 2089, 5044, and 'the sea' factual knowledge in general 28, 2850. 'Robes' are external truths, 'embroidered' are truths on the level of factual knowledge, which too are external ones. For the meaning of 'garments' as truths, 2576, 4545, 4763, 5248, 5319, 5954, 6914, 6917, 6918, 9093, 9158, 9212, 9216.

[5] In the same prophet,

I clothed you with embroidered cloth, and shod you with badger; I swathed you in fine linen and covered you with silk. Thus were you adorned with gold and silver; and your garments were fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. But you took your embroidered garments and covered the images, with which you committed whoredom. 1 Ezekiel 16:10, 13, 18.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which the Church is meant. 'Embroidered garments' stands for truths on the level of factual knowledge. 'Covering the images, with which she committed whoredom' stands for giving strength to falsities, for 'committing whoredom' means perverting truths by bringing them into contact with falsities or with evils. Is there anyone who cannot see that since these verses describe Jerusalem 'fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth' are not used to mean fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth? Yet what they really mean the Christian world does not seek to know, because it supposes that heavenly and spiritual matters in the Word reside in its literal sense; the more internal contents of the Word it calls mystical, but has no interest in them.

[6] In the same prophet,

A great eagle with great wings, with long pinions, full of feathers, 2 which had embroidery ... Ezekiel 17:3.

This refers to the house of Israel, which means the spiritual Church; and this Church is called 'an eagle' by virtue of its perception of truth, 3901, 8764, 'which had embroidery' standing for its possession of factual knowledge. In David,

All glorious is the king's daughter within, in her clothing with gold interweavings; in an embroidered [robe] she will be led to the king. Psalms 45:13-14.

'The king's daughter' stands for an affection for truth, 'an embroidered [robe]' for factual knowledge of truth. In the Book of Judges,

Will they not divide the spoil, ... the spoil of colours for Sisera, the spoil of colours of embroidered work, embroiderers' colour - on the necks of the spoil? 3 Judges 5:30.

In this verse, which is part of the Song of Deborah and Barak, 'embroidered [work]' stands for factual knowledge belonging to the natural man.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Here verse 18 of Ezekiel 16 has become confused with the preceding verse 17.

2. literally, A great eagle, great with wings, long with pinions, and full with feathers,

3. The meaning in the Hebrew of this verse is very obscure. The Latin rendering by Sebastian Schmidt, which Swedenborg relies on here, is literal and equally difficult to make sense of.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.