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Ezekiel 7

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

2 Ho filo de homo, tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo, pri la tero de Izrael:Fino venis, la fino por cxiuj kvar randoj de la lando.

3 Nun venos al vi la fino; kaj Mi sendos sur vin Mian koleron, kaj Mi jugxos vin laux via konduto, kaj Mi metos sur vin cxiujn viajn abomenindajxojn.

4 Ne indulgos vin Mia okulo, kaj Mi ne kompatos; cxar vian konduton Mi rekompencos sur vi, kaj viaj abomenindajxoj estos meze de vi; kaj vi ekscios, ke Mi estas la Eternulo.

5 Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Malbono, unu Malbono nun venas;

6 fino venas, venas la fino, gxi vekigxas kontraux vin, jen gxi venas.

7 Venas matenrugxo kontraux vi, ho logxanto de la lando; Venas la tempo, proksima estas la tago de tumulto, kiam oni ne plu kantos sur la montoj.

8 Nun Mi baldaux elversxos Mian indignon sur vin, Mi plene kontentigos Mian koleron sur vi, Mi jugxos vin laux via konduto, kaj Mi metos sur vin cxiujn viajn abomenindajxojn.

9 Ne indulgos Mia okulo, kaj Mi ne kompatos; laux via konduto Mi redonos al vi, kaj viaj abomenindajxoj estos meze de vi; kaj vi ekscios, ke Mi, la Eternulo, estas la batanto.

10 Jen estas la tago, jen gxi venas, levigxis la matenrugxo, la vergo elkreskis, la fiero ekfloris.

11 La perforteco levigxis kiel vergo kontraux la malpiecon; nenio restos de ili, nek de ilia amaso, nek de ilia popola bruo, neniu gxemos cxe ili.

12 Venas la tempo, alproksimigxas la tago; la acxetanto ne gxoju, kaj la vendanto ne malgxoju; cxar la kolero trafis ilian tutan amason.

13 CXar la vendanto ne plu revenos al la venditajxo, ecx se ili ankoraux estus vivantaj; cxar la vizio pri ilia tuta amaso ne retirigxos, kaj neniu fortikigos sian vivon per sia malpieco.

14 Eksonigu la trumpeton, kaj cxiu armigxu; neniu tamen iros en la militon, cxar Mia kolero estas super ilia tuta amaso.

15 La glavo estas ekstere, la pesto kaj la malsato interne; kiu estas sur la kampo, tiu mortos de la glavo, kaj kiu estas en la urbo, tiun ekstermos malsato kaj pesto.

16 Kaj tiuj el ili, kiuj forsavigxos, estos sur la montoj, kiel kolomboj el la valoj, cxiuj ili gxemos, cxiu pro siaj malbonagoj.

17 CXiuj manoj mallevigxos senforte, kaj cxiuj genuoj movigxos kiel akvo.

18 Ili zonos sin per sakajxo; teruro ilin kovros; sur cxiu vizagxo estos honto, kaj cxiuj kapoj estos senharaj.

19 Sian argxenton ili jxetos sur la stratojn, kaj ilia oro farigxos malpurajxo; ilia argxento kaj ilia oro ne povos savi ilin en la tago de la kolero de la Eternulo, ne satigos ilian animon, kaj ne plenigos ilian internajxon; cxar tio estis instigilo por iliaj malbonagoj.

20 Sian plej belan ornamon ili faris objekto de fiereco, siajn abomenindajn statuojn kaj idolojn ili starigis en gxi; tial Mi faros gxin malpurajxo por ili.

21 Kaj Mi transdonos gxin en la manojn de fremduloj por disrabi, kaj al la malpiuloj de la tero kiel militakiron, kaj ili malsanktigos gxin.

22 Mi deturnos Mian vizagxon de ili, por ke ili malsanktigu Mian misterejon; kaj rabistoj tien venos kaj malsanktigos gxin.

23 Faru cxenon; cxar la lando estas plena de sangaj krimoj kaj la urbo estas plena de perforteco.

24 Mi venigos la plej malbonajn el la nacioj, kaj ili ekposedos iliajn domojn; Mi neniigos la fierecon de la fortuloj, kaj iliaj sanktajxoj estos malsanktigitaj.

25 Pereo venas; oni sercxos pacon, sed ne trovos gxin.

26 Malfelicxo post malfelicxo venos, sciigo post sciigo; oni sercxos vizion cxe profeto; malaperos la instruo cxe la pastro, kaj konsilo cxe la maljunuloj.

27 La regxo malgxojos, la princo estos kovrita de teruro, kaj la manoj de la simpla popolo malkuragxigxos. Laux ilia konduto Mi agos kun ili, laux iliaj meritoj Mi jugxos ilin; kaj ili ekscios, ke Mi estas la Eternulo.

   

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Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture # 35

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35. As we showed in no. 28, the prophets of the Old Testament represented the Lord in relation to the Word, and consequently represented the doctrine of the church drawn from the Word, and for that reason they were called sons of man. It follows from this that by the various hardships they suffered and bore, they represented the violence done by the Jews to the Word’s literal sense.

For instance, the prophet Isaiah put off the sackcloth from his loins and put off the sandals from his feet, and went naked and barefoot for three years (Isaiah 20:2-3).

The prophet Ezekiel likewise drew a barber’s razor over his head and beard, burned a third part of the hair in the midst of the city, struck another third part with a sword, scattered the remaining third part into the wind, bound a few of the hairs in the edges of his garment, and finally threw them into the midst of the fire and burned them (Ezekiel 5:1-4).

[2] Because, as we said above, the prophets represented the Word and so symbolized the doctrine of the church drawn from the Word, and because the head symbolizes wisdom from the Word, therefore the hair of the head and a beard symbolized the outmost expression of truth.

Because this is what they symbolized, therefore it was a sign of great mourning and also a great disgrace to make oneself bald or to be seen bald. It was for this reason and no other that the prophet shaved off the hair of his head and his beard, in order for him to represent by it the state of the Jewish church in relation to the Word. It was for this reason and no other that the forty-two she-bears tore apart the boys who called Elisha bald (2 Kings 2:23-24), inasmuch as the prophet represented the Word, as we said before, and baldness symbolized the Word without its outmost sense.

[3] Nazirites represented the Lord in relation to the Word in its outmost expressions, as will be seen in no. 49 in the next section. Therefore they were required to let their hair grow and not to shave any of it off. The word “Nazirite” in the Hebrew also means the hair.

The high priest, too, was required not to shave his head (Leviticus 21:10). Likewise those who were heads of families (Leviticus 21:5).

So it was that baldness was, for the people then, a great disgrace, as can be seen from the following:

On all their heads baldness, and every beard shaved. (Isaiah 15:2, cf. Jeremiah 48:37)

Shame on every face, and baldness on all their heads. (Ezekiel 7:18)

Every head made bald, and every shoulder shaved. (Ezekiel 29:18)

I will cause sackcloth to ascend upon all loins, and baldness on every head. (Amos 8:10)

Put on baldness and shave yourself for your precious children, and expand your baldness..., for they shall go from you.... (Micah 1:16)

To put on baldness here and expand it means, symbolically, to falsify the Word’s truths in its outmost expressions. When these are falsified, as they were by the Jews, the whole Word is destroyed. For the outmost expressions of the Word are its supports and underpinnings. Indeed, every single word supports and underpins its celestial and spiritual truths.

[4] Because the hair of the head symbolizes truth in outmost expressions, therefore all those in the spiritual world who scorn the Word and falsify its literal sense appear bald, whereas those who honor and love it appear to have attractive hair.

On this subject, see also no. 49 below.

  
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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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Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture # 49

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49. We have so far shown that the Word in its natural sense, the literal sense, is in its holiness and in its fullness. We must now say something about the Word’s being in that sense present also in its power.

The magnitude and nature of the power of Divine truth in heaven, as well as on earth, can be seen from what we said in the book Heaven and Hell 228-233, about the power angels have in heaven.

The power of Divine truth is especially a power against falsities and evils, thus against the hells. One must fight against these by means of truths from the Word’s literal sense. It is also by means of the truths a person has that the Lord has the power to save him. For a person is reformed and regenerated by means of truths drawn from the Word’s literal sense, and he is then released from hell and introduced into heaven. This power is one that the Lord took on also in respect to His Divine humanity, after He had fulfilled everything in the Word, even to its outmost expressions. [2] That is why, when the Lord was about to fulfill the last of these by His suffering of the cross, He said to the chief priest,

“...hereafter you will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the Power, coming on the clouds of heaven.” (Matthew 26:64, cf. Mark 14:62)

The Son of man is the Lord in relation to the Word. The clouds of heaven are the Word in its literal sense. Sitting at the right hand of God (as also in Mark 16:19) is omnipotence exercised by means of the Word.

The Lord’s power emanating from the outmost expressions of the Word was represented in the Jewish Church by Nazirites, and by Samson, of whom we are told that he was a Nazirite from his mother’s womb, and that his power lay in his hair. Nazirite or the state of being a Nazirite also means a person’s hair.

[3] That Samson’s power lay in his hair, he himself declared, saying,

No razor has come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite...from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. (Judges 16:17)

It is impossible for anyone to know why the vow of a Nazirite, which means a person’s hair, was instituted, and why it is that Samson drew his power from his hair, unless he knows what the head symbolizes in the Word. The head symbolizes the wisdom of heaven, which angels and people have from the Lord by means of Divine truth. Therefore the hair of the head symbolizes the wisdom of heaven in outmost expressions, and also Divine truth in outmost expressions.

[4] Because this is the symbolic meaning of the hair by its correspondence with the heavens, therefore it was a statute for Nazirites that they not shave the hair of their heads, because it was the consecration of God upon their heads (Numbers 6:1-21). And for the same reason it was also a statute that the high priest and his sons not shave their heads, lest they die, and wrath come upon the whole house of Israel (Leviticus 10:6).

[5] Because the hair, on account of that symbolic meaning, which it had from its correspondence, was so holy, therefore the Son of man, that is, the Lord in relation to the Word, is described even in respect to His hair, that it was “like wool as white as snow” (Revelation 1:14). The Ancient of Days is described similarly (Daniel 7:9).

On this subject, see also something above in no. 35.

In sum, the power of Divine truth, or of the Word, lies in the literal sense, and that is because the Word is present there in its fullness, and because in that sense angels in both of the Lord’s kingdoms and people are together.

  
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Thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.