Bible

 

Ezekiel 28

Studie

   

1 Kaj aperis al mi vorto de la Eternulo, dirante:

2 Ho filo de homo, diru al la reganto de Tiro:Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Pro tio, ke via koro fierigxis, kaj vi diris:Mi estas dio, mi sidas sur dia trono en la mezo de la maroj; dum vi estas homo, sed ne dio, kvankam vi rigardas vian koron kiel koron de dio;

3 kvazaux vi estus pli sagxa ol Daniel kaj nenio estus kasxita antaux vi;

4 kvazaux per via sagxeco kaj via kompetenteco vi akirus al vi la potencon kaj kolektus oron kaj argxenton en vian trezorejon;

5 kvazaux per via granda sagxeco en via komercado vi grandigus vian ricxecon, kaj via koro fierigxis pro via ricxeco:

6 pro tio tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:CXar vi rigardas vian koron kiel koron de dio,

7 tial jen Mi venigos kontraux vin fremdulojn, la plej terurajn el la popoloj; kaj ili nudigos siajn glavojn kontraux la belajxojn de via sagxeco kaj malaperigos vian brilon.

8 En pereon ili pusxos vin, kaj vi mortos en la mezo de la maro per morto de bucxitoj.

9 CXu antaux via mortiganto vi diros:Mi estas dio; dum vi estas ne dio, sed homo en la mano de via mortiganto?

10 Per morto de necirkumciditoj vi mortos de la manoj de fremduloj; cxar Mi tion parolis, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

11 Kaj aperis al mi vorto de la Eternulo, dirante:

12 Ho filo de homo, ekkantu funebran kanton pri la regxo de Tiro, kaj diru al li:Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Vi estas sigelo de perfekteco, plena de sagxo kaj plej alta grado de beleco.

13 Vi estis en Eden, la gxardeno de Dio; cxiaspecaj multekostaj sxtonoj vin kovris:rubeno, topazo, diamanto, sukceno, berilo, jaspiso, safiro, smeraldo, ametisto, kaj oro estis la ornamo de viaj tamburinoj kaj flutoj; cxio estis preta en la tago de via kreigxo.

14 Vi estas kerubo, kiu sin etendas kaj protektas; kaj Mi metis vin sur la sanktan monton de Dio, kie vi iradis inter fajraj sxtonoj.

15 Vi estis perfekta en via konduto de post la tago de via kreigxo, gxis trovigxis en vi malbonago.

16 Pro la grandeco de via komercado via interno plenigxis de maljusteco, kaj vi pekis; tial Mi dejxetos vin de la monto de Dio, kaj malaperigos vin, ho kerubo protektanto, el inter la fajraj sxtonoj.

17 De via beleco fierigxis via koro, pro via majesteco vi perdis vian sagxon; tial Mi jxetos vin sur la teron kaj faros vin mokatajxo antaux la regxoj.

18 Per la multo de viaj malbonagoj kaj per via malhonesta komercado vi malhonoris vian sanktejon; kaj Mi elirigos el vi fajron, kiu ekstermos vin, kaj Mi faros vin cindro sur la tero antaux la okuloj de cxiuj viaj vidantoj.

19 CXiuj, kiuj konas vin inter la popoloj, eksentos teruron pri vi; vi neniigxis, kaj neniam plu ekzistos.

20 Kaj aperis al mi vorto de la Eternulo, dirante:

21 Ho filo de homo, turnu vian vizagxon al Cidon, kaj profetu pri gxi,

22 kaj diru:Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi iras kontraux vin, ho Cidon; kaj Mi glorigxos inter vi, kaj oni ekscios, ke Mi estas la Eternulo, kiam Mi faros kontraux gxi jugxon kaj montros sur gxi Mian sanktecon.

23 Mi sendos sur gxin peston, kaj sangoversxadon sur gxiajn stratojn, kaj falos en gxi mortigitoj de glavo, kiu estos direktita kontraux gxin de cxiuj flankoj; kaj oni ekscios, ke Mi estas la Eternulo.

24 Kaj gxi ne plu estos por la domo de Izrael pikanta dorno nek doloriganta pikilo pli ol cxiuj malbondezirantaj najbaroj; kaj oni ekscios, ke Mi estas la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

25 Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Kiam Mi kolektos la domon de Izrael el la popoloj, inter kiujn gxi estis disjxetita, kaj montros sur gxi Mian sanktecon antaux la okuloj de la nacioj, tiam ili logxos sur sia tero, kiun Mi donis al Mia servanto Jakob.

26 Kaj ili logxos sur gxi sendangxere, kaj konstruos domojn kaj plantos vinbergxardenojn; jes, ili logxos en sendangxereco, kiam Mi faros jugxon kontraux cxiuj iliaj malbondezirantoj cxirkaux ili; kaj ili ekscios, ke Mi, la Eternulo, estas ilia Dio.

   

Komentář

 

Towers

  

In Genesis 11:4, this signifies the worship of self, which consists of a person exalting himself above others, even to the point of worship. This is why self-love, which is arrogance and pride, is called 'height,' 'loftiness,' and 'lifting up,' and is described with anything high. Self-love in worship, or the worship of self is called 'a tower,' because 'a city' signifies doctrine, and ancient cities were fortified with towers with guards. Towers were also built on the borders of a country. This is why they were called guard towers, or watchmen in 2 Kings 9:17, 17:9, 18:8, and watch-towers, in Isaiah 23:13.

In Matthew 21:33; Isaiah 5:2, this signifies interior truths into which there is influx, and communication with heaven. (Arcana Coelestia 918[4])

In Psalm 48:12, this signifies to consider the higher or interior things of that church. (Arcana Coelestia 453[10])

'To build a tower,' as in Luke 14:27, signifies acquiring interior truths.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4599; Isaiah 25, 30, 30:25)


Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Arcana Coelestia # 4599

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 10837  
  

4599. 'And pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder' means more interior aspects of this. This is clear from the meaning of 'pitching a tent' as an advance in holiness, in this case towards more interior aspects - 'a tent' meaning holiness, see 414, 1102, 2145, 2152, 3312, 4391; from the meaning of 'beyond the tower' as into more interior aspects, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'Eder' as the nature of the state, that is to say, the nature of the advance made in holiness towards more interior aspects. This tower possessed that meaning from of old, but because there is no further reference to it in the Word apart from Joshua 15:21, this cannot be proved from parallel passages in the way other names can. The reason 'beyond the tower' means towards more interior aspects is that things which are more interior are expressed as objects that are lofty and high - as mountains, hills, towers, housetops, and the like. The reason for this is that minds which form their ideas from natural objects in the world as perceived through the external senses see things of an interior nature as objects that are higher than others, 2148.

[2] That 'towers' means interior things may also be seen from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill, 1 which he surrounded [with an enclosure] and gathered out the stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it. Isaiah 5:1-2.

'A vineyard' stands for the spiritual Church, 'the choicest vine' for spiritual good, 'he built a tower in the midst of it' for the interior aspects of truth. Similarly also in the Lord's parable in Matthew,

A householder planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants. Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1.

[3] In Ezekiel,

The sons of Arvad, and your army, were on your walls round about, and Gammadim were in your towers; they hung their shields on your walls round about; they made perfect your beauty. Ezekiel 27:11.

This refers to Tyre, by which are meant cognitions of good and truth, or people who possess these cognitions. 'Gammadim in its tower' stands for cognitions of interior truth.

[4] In Micah,

Jehovah will reign over them in Mount Zion, from now on and for ever. And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you will it come, and the former kingdom will return, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. Micah 4:7-8.

This describes the Lord's celestial kingdom. 'Mount Zion' describes the inmost part of it, which is love to the Lord; 'hill of the daughter of Zion' its immediate derivative, which is mutual love, called in the spiritual sense charity towards the neighbour; 'tower of the flock' describes its interior truths of good. The existence of a spiritual-celestial kingdom from this is meant by 'the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem'. In David,

Mount Zion will be glad, the daughters of Judah will be exultant, because of Your judgements. Encompass Zion, and go around her; count up her towers. Psalms 48:11-12.

Here 'towers' stands for interior truths which defend the things that constitute love and charity.

[5] In Luke,

Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For who of you, when he wishes to build a tower, does not first sit down and work out the cost, whether he has the means to complete it? Or what king going to encounter another king in war does not first sit down and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? So every one of you who does not renounce all that is his own cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:27-28, 31, 33.

Anyone who is not acquainted with the internal sense of the Word can only suppose that here the Lord was using comparisons, and that the expressions 'building a tower' and 'going to war' were not used to mean anything more. He does not know that each comparison in the Word has a spiritual meaning, and is representative, and that 'building a tower' means acquiring interior truths to oneself and 'going to war' fighting from those truths. For the subject in this quotation is the temptations undergone by those who belong to the Church and are here called the Lord's disciples. Those temptations are meant by 'his own cross' which each of them has to carry; and the truth that they do not in any way conquer of themselves and from what is their own but from the Lord is meant by 'he who does not renounce all that is his own cannot be My disciple'. This is how these expressions hang together; but if the references to a tower and to war are understood to be simply comparisons without a more interior sense they do not hang together. From this one may see what light flows from the internal sense.

[6] The interiors of those who are governed by self-love and love of the world, and so the falsities from which they fight and from which they reinforce their kind of religion, are also expressed as 'towers' in the contrary sense, as in Isaiah,

The height of men (vir) will be brought low, and Jehovah alone will be exalted on that day, for the day of Jehovah Zebaoth will be against everyone that is lofty and high, and against everyone that is lifted up, and he will be humbled; and against all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and against all the oaks of Bashan, and against all high mountains, and against all hills that are lifted up, and against every lofty tower and against every fortified wall. Isaiah 2:11-18.

Here the interior and exterior aspects of those loves are described by cedars, oaks, mountains, hills, a tower, and a wall - interior falsities being described by 'a tower'. Thus interior things are again described by objects that are 'high'. The difference however is this: People who are governed by these - by evils and falsities - believe that they themselves are high and above others, whereas those who are governed by goods and truths believe that they themselves are least and below others, Matthew 20:26-27; Mark 10:44. All the same, goods and truths are described as things that are 'high' because in heaven they are closer to the Most High, that is, to the Lord. Furthermore 'towers' is used in the Word in reference to truths, but 'mountains' to forms of good.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, on a horn of a son of oil

  
/ 10837  
  

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