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Habakkuk 2

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1 Sur mia gardista posteno mi staris; kaj, starigxinte sur turo, mi observis, por vidi, kion Li diros al mi kaj kion mi devas respondi al la riprocxo kontraux mi.

2 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al mi, kaj diris:Enskribu la vizion, kaj desegnu bone sur la tabeloj, por ke leganto povu facile tralegi.

3 CXar la vizio koncernas tempon difinitan kaj parolas pri la fino, sed gxi ne mensogas; se gxi prokrastigxus, atendu gxin, cxar gxi nepre plenumigxos, ne estos fordecidita.

4 Vidu, kiu estas malhumila, ties animo ne estos trankvila en li; sed virtulo vivos per sia fideleco.

5 La vino trompas viron fieran, kaj li ne humiligxas; li largxigas sian animon kiel SXeol, kaj kiel la morto li estas nesatigebla, li kolektas al si cxiujn naciojn kaj kaptas al si cxiujn popolojn.

6 Sed ili ja cxiuj parolos pri li alegorion kaj mokan enigmon, kaj diros:Ve al tiu, kiu tro multigas al si fremdajxon sen fino kaj metas sur sin tro grandan sxargxon de sxuldoj!

7 Subite ja levigxos viaj pikontoj kaj vekigxos viaj pusxontoj, kaj vi farigxos ilia rabatajxo.

8 CXar vi prirabis multe da nacioj, tial ankaux vin prirabos la ceteraj popoloj, pro la sango de homoj, pro la premado de la lando, de la urbo, kaj de cxiuj gxiaj logxantoj.

9 Ve al tiu, kiu kolektas por sia domo maljustan akirajxon, por arangxi alte sian neston, por defendi sin kontraux mano de malbonulo!

10 Vi elpensis malhonoron por via domo, disbatante multe da popoloj kaj pekigante vian animon.

11 La sxtonoj el la muroj krias, kaj la lignaj traboj respondas al ili.

12 Ve al tiu, kiu konstruas urbon per sangoversxado kaj pretigas fortikajxon per maljusteco!

13 Tio venas ja de la Eternulo Cebaot, ke la popoloj klopodas por la fajro kaj la gentoj lacigas sin vane.

14 CXar la tero plenigxos de konado de la gloro de la Eternulo, kiel la akvo plenigas la maron.

15 Ve al vi, kiu drinkigas sian proksimulon, por elversxi vian koleron, kaj ebriigas lin, por vidi lian honton!

16 Vi satigxis per honto anstataux per honoro; drinku do ankaux vi, kaj kovru vin per honto; ankaux al vi venos la kaliko el la dekstra mano de la Eternulo, kaj neniigo de via gloro.

17 CXar via perforteco sur Lebanon falos sur vin, kaj atakate de bestoj vi estos terurata pro la sango de homoj, pro la premado de la lando, de la urbo, kaj de cxiuj gxiaj logxantoj.

18 Kion helpos la skulptajxo, kiun skulptis la artisto, la fanditajxo kaj malvera instruanto, kvankam la majstro fidis sian propran faritajxon, farante mutajn idolojn?

19 Ve al tiu, kiu diras al ligno:Levigxu, kaj al muta sxtono:Vekigxu! CXu gxi povas instrui? gxi estas ja tegita per oro kaj argxento, sed havas en si nenian spiriton.

20 Sed la Eternulo estas en Sia sankta templo; la tuta tero silentu antaux Li!

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 672

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672. 15:7 Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls. This symbolizes the truths and goods by which evils and falsities in the church are exposed, drawn from the literal sense of the Word.

The four living creatures, being cherubim, symbolize the Word in its outmost expressions, and protections to keep its genuine truths and goods from being violated, as may be seen in no. 239 above. And because the interior truths and goods in the Word are protected by its literal meaning, therefore that meaning of the Word is symbolized by one of the four living creatures.

The seven bowls have the same symbolic meaning as the seven plagues, for the bowls are vessels, and vessels in the Word have the same symbolic meaning as their contents. So for example, a cup has the same symbolic meaning as the wine in it, and a dish the same symbolic meaning as the food. That cups, goblets, bowls, plates and saucers have the same symbolic meaning as their contents may be seen from the passages that follow after this.

We have already said what the seven angels symbolize above.

The angels were given the bowls because the subject is the influx of truth and goodness into the church in order to expose its evils and falsities, and naked goods and truths cannot flow in, as they are not accepted, but truths clothed can, such as are found in the literal sense of the Word. Moreover, the Lord also operates always from inmost elements through outmost ones, or in fullness. This is the reason the angels were given bowls, which symbolize containing truths and goods such as constitute the Word's literal sense, by which falsities and evils are exposed.

That the literal sense of the Word is a containing vessel may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, 27-36nos. and 37-49.

[2] That bowls, saucers, cups and goblets, and also wineskins, have the same symbolic meaning as the things they contain can be seen from the following passages:

(Jehovah said,) "Take this... cup of wrath from My hand, and cause all the nations... to drink... ...when they refuse to take the cup..., then you shall say to them, '...You shall surely drink!'" (Jeremiah 25:15-16, 28)

Babylon was a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunk. (Jeremiah 51:7)

...I will put (your sister's) cup in your hand... You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of... devastation, the cup of your sister Samaria. (Ezekiel 23:31-34)

The cup of... Jehovah will come around to you, that there may be vomit on your glory. (Habakkuk 2:16)

...O daughter of Edom...; the cup shall also pass over to you; you shall be drunk and laid bare. (Lamentations 4:21)

Upon the wicked (Jehovah) will rain... stormy winds, the portion of their cup. (Psalms 11:6)

...in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and He has mixed it with wine; He has filled it with the mixed wine and poured it out; ...all the wicked of the earth shall drink... (Psalms 75:8)

(Those who worship the beast) shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed with pure wine in the cup of His indignation. (Revelation 14:10)

Awake...! Arise, O Jerusalem, who have drunk from the hand of Jehovah the cup of His wrath; You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling... (Isaiah 51:17)

The woman... having in her hand a golden chalice full of abominations and the filthiness of her licentiousness. (Revelation 17:4)

...repay her double...; in the cup in which she has mixed, mix double for her. (Revelation 18:6)

...I am making Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the surrounding peoples... (Zechariah 12:2)

Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup..., that the outside of them may be clean also. (Matthew 23:25-26, cf. Luke 11:39)

Jesus... said (to the sons of Zebedee), ."..Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink....?" (Matthew 20:22-23)

...Jesus said to Peter, ."..Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me?" (John 18:11)

(In Gethsemane Jesus said,) ."..if it be possible, let this cup pass from me." (Matthew 26:39, 42, 44)

(Jesus) taking the cup, ...gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. This is My blood, the blood of the new covenant...." (Matthew 26:27-28, Luke 22:17)

O Jehovah, You are... my cup, You uphold my lot. (Psalms 16:5)

You will prepare a table before me...; my cup shall overflow. (Psalms 23:5)

What shall I render to Jehovah...? I will take the cup of salvation... (Psalms 116:12-13)

...the cup of consolation to drink... (Jeremiah 16:7)

A bowl has the same symbolic meaning as a cup or chalice, and so also does a wineskin (Matthew 9:17; Luke 5:37-38; Jeremiah 13:12; 48:12; Habakkuk 2:15).

Bowls, censers and thuribles containing incense have the same symbolic meaning as incense. Vessels of every kind in general have the same symbolic meaning as the things they contain.

  
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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.