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Jeremia 23

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1 Ve al la pasxtistoj, kiuj pereigas kaj diskurigas la sxafojn de Mia pasxtataro! diras la Eternulo.

2 Tial tiele diras la Eternulo, Dio de Izrael, pri la pasxtistoj, kiuj pasxtas Mian popolon:Vi diskurigis Miajn sxafojn kaj dispelis ilin kaj ne observis ilin; jen Mi punos sur vi viajn malbonajn agojn, diras la Eternulo.

3 Sed Mi kolektos la restajxon de Miaj sxafoj el cxiuj landoj, kien Mi dispelis ilin, kaj Mi revenigos ilin sur ilian pasxtejon; kaj ili donos fruktojn kaj multigxos.

4 Kaj Mi starigos super ili pasxtistojn, por ke ili pasxtu ilin; kaj ili jam ne timos kaj ne tremos kaj ne estos atakataj, diras la Eternulo.

5 Jen venos tempo, diras la Eternulo, kaj Mi aperigos de David markoton virtan, kaj ekregos regxo, kaj li estos prudenta, kaj li farados jugxon kaj justecon sur la tero.

6 En lia tempo Jehuda estos savita kaj Izrael logxos sendangxere; kaj jen estas la nomo, per kiu oni lin nomos:La Eternulo estas nia justeco.

7 Pro tio jen venos tempo, diras la Eternulo, kiam oni ne plu diros:Vivas la Eternulo, kiu elkondukis la Izraelidojn el la lando Egipta;

8 sed:Vivas la Eternulo, kiu elirigis kaj venigis la idaron de la domo de Izrael el la lando norda, kaj el cxiuj landoj, kien Mi dispelis ilin; kaj ili eklogxos en sia lando.

9 Pri la profetoj. Dissxirigxas en mi mia koro, cxiuj miaj ostoj tremas; mi farigxis kiel ebriulo, kiel homo, senfortigita de vino, antaux la Eternulo kaj antaux Liaj sanktaj vortoj.

10 CXar la lando estas plena de adultuloj, cxar la lando ploras de malbeno; sekigxis la pasxtejoj de la stepo; ilia celado estas malpia, kaj ilia forto estas en malvereco.

11 CXar profeto kaj pastro hipokritas; ecx en Mia domo Mi trovas iliajn malbonagojn, diras la Eternulo.

12 Pro tio ilia vojo estos kiel glitigaj lokoj en mallumo:ili glitos tie kaj falos; cxar Mi venigos sur ilin malfelicxon en la jaro, kiam Mi punvizitos ilin, diras la Eternulo.

13 CXe la profetoj de Samario Mi vidis stultecon:ili profetis en la nomo de Baal, kaj erarigis Mian popolon Izrael;

14 sed cxe la profetoj de Jerusalem Mi vidis ion teruran:ili adultas, iras vojon de mensogoj, kaj subtenas la manojn de malbonaguloj, por ke neniu el ili konvertu sin de sia malboneco; ili cxiuj farigxis por Mi kiel Sodom, kaj la logxantoj de la urbo kiel Gomora.

15 Tial tiele diras la Eternulo Cebaot pri la profetoj:Jen Mi mangxigos al ili vermuton kaj trinkigos al ili akvon maldolcxan; cxar de la profetoj de Jerusalem disvastigxas malpieco en la tuta lando.

16 Tiele diras la Eternulo Cebaot:Ne auxskultu la vortojn de la profetoj, kiuj profetas al vi; ili trompas vin; ili predikas vizion de sia koro, sed ne el la busxo de la Eternulo.

17 Ili diras al Miaj malsxatantoj:La Eternulo diris, ke al vi estos paco; kaj al cxiu, kiu sekvas la obstinecon de sia koro, ili diras:Ne trafos vin malfelicxo.

18 Sed kiu staris en la konsilo de la Eternulo, kaj vidis kaj auxdis Lian vorton? kiu auxdis Lian vorton kaj komprenis?

19 Jen eliros ventego de la Eternulo en kolero, ventego turnigxanta; gxi falos sur la kapon de la malpiuloj.

20 Ne kvietigxos la kolero de la Eternulo, gxis Li estos farinta kaj gxis Li estos plenuminta la intencojn de Sia koro; en la tempo estonta vi tion komprenos.

21 Mi ne sendis tiujn profetojn, sed ili mem kuris; Mi nenion diris al ili, tamen ili profetas.

22 Se ili estus starintaj en Mia konsilo, ili auxdigus Miajn vortojn al Mia popolo kaj deturnus ilin de ilia malbona vojo kaj de iliaj malbonaj agoj.

23 CXu Mi estas nur Dio de proksime? diras la Eternulo; cxu Mi ne estas ankaux Dio de malproksime?

24 CXu homo povas kasxi sin en tia sekreta loko, kie Mi lin ne vidus? diras la Eternulo; cxu ne Mi plenigas la cxielon kaj la teron? diras la Eternulo.

25 Mi auxdas, kion diras la profetoj, kiuj en Mia nomo profetas malverajxon; ili diras:Mi songxis, mi songxis.

26 Kiel longe tio dauxros en la koro de la profetoj, kiuj profetas malverajxon, profetas la trompajxon de sia koro?

27 Ili pensas, ke ili forgesigos al Mia popolo Mian nomon per siaj songxoj, kiujn ili rakontas unu al la alia, tiel same, kiel iliaj patroj forgesis Mian nomon pro Baal.

28 Profeto, kiu vidis songxon, rakontu songxon; kaj tiu, al kiu aperis Mia vorto, raportu Mian vorton vere. Kio komuna estas inter pajlo kaj greno? diras la Eternulo.

29 CXu Mia vorto ne estas kiel fajro, diras la Eternulo, kaj kiel martelo, kiu disbatas rokon?

30 Tial jen Mi turnos Min kontraux la profetojn, diras la Eternulo, kiuj sxtelas Miajn vortojn unu de la alia.

31 Jen Mi turnos Min kontraux la profetojn, diras la Eternulo, kiuj esprimas sian propran parolon, kaj diras:Li diris.

32 Jen Mi turnos Min kontraux tiujn, kiuj profetas malverajn songxojn, diras la Eternulo, kaj rakontas ilin kaj erarigas Mian popolon per siaj mensogajxoj kaj per sia senprudenteco, dum Mi ne sendis ilin kaj ne donis al ili ordonojn, kaj ili ja alportas al cxi tiu popolo nenian utilon, diras la Eternulo.

33 Se cxi tiu popolo aux profeto aux pastro demandos vin, dirante:Kia estas la sxargxo de la Eternulo? tiam diru al ili koncerne la sxargxon:Mi forlasos vin, diras la Eternulo.

34 Kaj se iu el la profetoj aux pastroj aux el la popolo diros:SXargxo de la Eternulo, Mi punos tiun homon kaj lian domon.

35 Nur tiel diru cxiu al sia proksimulo kaj cxiu al sia frato:Kion respondis la Eternulo? aux:Kion diris la Eternulo?

36 Kaj la esprimon:SXargxo de la Eternulo, ne plu uzu; cxar por cxiu homo lia vorto farigxos sxargxo, pro tio, ke vi malgxustigas la vortojn de la vivanta Dio, de la Eternulo Cebaot, nia Dio.

37 Tiele diru al la profeto:Kion respondis al vi la Eternulo? kion diris la Eternulo?

38 Sed se vi diros:SXargxo de la Eternulo, tiam tiele diras la Eternulo:CXar vi eldiris tiujn vortojn:SXargxo de la Eternulo, dum Mi sendis, por diri al vi, ke vi ne uzu la esprimon:SXargxo de la Eternulo:

39 tial jen Mi tute forlasos kaj forpelos de antaux Mia vizagxo vin, kaj la urbon, kiun Mi donis al vi kaj al viaj patroj;

40 kaj Mi metos sur vin eternan honton kaj eternan malhonoron, kiu ne forgesigxos.

   

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805. 19:2 "For true and just are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her licentiousness." This symbolically means, because in accordance with justice the profane Roman Catholic religion has been condemned, which by its foul adulterations of the Word destroyed the Lord's church.

"True and just are Your judgments" symbolizes the Word's Divine truths and goods, in accordance with which the Lord executes judgment (nos. 668, 689), and which together are called righteousness. For righteousness in reference to the Lord has just this symbolic meaning, as in verse 11 below, and in Isaiah 63:1, Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16. "Because He has judged the great harlot" means, symbolically, because the profane Roman Catholic religion has been condemned, as described in the preceding chapter. It is called a great harlot because of its adulteration and profanation of the Word. "Who corrupted the earth with her licentiousness" means, symbolically, which by its foul adulterations of the Word destroyed the Lord's church - its licentiousness symbolizing an adulteration of the Word (no. 134), and the earth symbolizing the church (nos. 285, 721).

  
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134. "'To teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality.'" This symbolically means, in consequence of which faith the truths of the church are falsified.

To teach and seduce the Lord's servants means, symbolically, to teach and seduce people who can be and are willing to be instructed in truths from the Word. That servants of the Lord are what people governed by truths are called may be seen in nos. 3 and 128 above; and to commit sexual immorality means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word. To commit sexual immorality has this symbolic meaning because every particular of the Word contains a marriage of good and truth, and this marriage is broken when goodness is divorced and estranged from truth.

To be shown that every particular of the Word contains a marriage of good and truth, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 80-90. It is because of this that to commit sexual immorality means, symbolically, to adulterate the goods of the Word and falsify its truths. Moreover, because this is spiritual licentiousness, therefore people who have employed their own reason to falsify the Word become sexually licentious people when they enter the spiritual world after death. And something as yet unrecognized in the world is the fact that people who have affirmed faith alone to the exclusion of any works of charity are prompted by the lust of an adultery of a son with his mother. In the spiritual world I have often perceived them to be impelled by the lust of so unspeakable an adultery. Remember this and inquire into it after death, and you will be convinced. I have not dared to reveal this previously, because it offends the ears.

[2] This adultery is symbolized by the adultery of Reuben with Bilhah, his father's concubine (Genesis 35:22), inasmuch as Reuben symbolizes that faith. Therefore he was cursed by his father Israel, and the birthright was subsequently taken from him. For in prophesying concerning his sons, his father Israel said of Reuben,

Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength... Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my pallet. (Genesis 49:3-4)

And therefore the birthright was taken from him:

...Reuben (was) the firstborn of Israel..., but because he defiled his father's pallet, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph... (1 Chronicles 5:1)

We will see in the explanation of Revelation 7:5 that Reuben represented truth arising from good or faith springing from charity, and afterward truth divorced from good or faith divorced from charity.

[3] That references to sexual licentiousness in the Word symbolize adulterations of good and falsifications of truth can be seen from the following passages:

...when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" And he said, "What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are many?" (2 Kings 9:22)

The harlotries of Jezebel do not mean any acts of licentiousness, but her deeds, as cited in no. 132 above.

Your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms... (Numbers 14:33)

The person who has regard to mediums and soothsayers, to go whoring after them..., I will cut him off... (Leviticus 20:6)

(Do not) make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, (lest) they go whoring after their gods... (Exodus 34:15).

(Jerusalem,) you trusted in your own beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, (so that) you poured out your harlotries on everyone passing by... You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very carnal neighbors, and multiplied your acts of harlotry... You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable, (with whom) you played the harlot... You multiplied your harlotry as far as... Chaldea... The adulterous woman, who in place of her husband takes strangers. All men give payment to their harlots, but you made your payments to them all, (that they may) come to you from all around for your harlotries... Therefore, harlot, hear the word of Jehovah. (Ezekiel 16:15-16, 26, 28-29, 32-33, 35ff.)

Jerusalem there is the Israelite and Jewish Church. Its harlotries mean adulterations and falsifications of the Word. And because Egypt symbolizes the knowledge of the natural self, Assyria reasoning on the basis of it, Chaldea the profanation of truth, and Babel the profanation of good, therefore the passage says that it played the harlot with them.

[4] ...two women, the daughters of one mother, committed harlotry in Egypt; in their youth they committed harlotry... (One,) my subject, played the harlot, and she doted on her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians... She committed her harlotries with them... (Yet) she has not given up her harlotries in Egypt....

(The other) became more corrupt in her loving than she, and in her harlotries more corrupt than her sister's harlotries... She increased her harlotries... She loved (Chaldeans).... Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry. (Ezekiel 23:2-3, 5, 7-8, 11, 14, 16-17ff.)

The two daughters of the same mother are likewise the Israelite and Jewish Church, whose adulterations and falsifications of the Word are described here, as above, by harlotries.

[5] So, too, in the following passages:

...you have played the harlot with many lovers... You have profaned the land with your harlotries and your wickedness... Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and... played the harlot... Treacherous Judah... went and played the harlot also. So that... by the report of her harlotry she defiled the land; ...she committed adultery with stone and wood. (Jeremiah 3:1-2, 6, 8-9)

And elsewhere:

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see... if you can find a man... who executes judgment and seeks the truth... I satiated them, and they committed harlotry and came by troops into the harlots' house. (Jeremiah 5:1, 7)

I have seen your adulteries... your neighings, the wickedness of your harlotry, your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! You will not be made clean... (Jeremiah 13:27)

I have seen a horrible obstinacy in the prophets of Jerusalem: they commit adultery and walk in a lie. (Jeremiah 23:14)

...they have committed folly in Israel, have committed adultery..., and have spoken (My) word in My name falsely... (Jeremiah 29:23)

...they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into disrepute... They committed harlotry..., because they have forsaken Jehovah. Harlotry... enslaved (their) heart... ...your daughters commit harlotry, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. (Hosea 4:7, 10-11, 13)

I know Ephraim..., (that) he has (altogether) committed harlotry, (and) Israel is defiled. (Hosea 5:3)

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: Ephraim committed harlotry there, (and) Israel is defiled. (Hosea 6:10)

Israel there is the church, and Ephraim is its understanding of the Word, from which and in accordance with which the church is formed. Therefore Ephraim is said to have committed harlotry and Israel to be defiled.

[6] Since the church had falsified the Word, the prophet Hosea was commanded to take himself a harlot as a wife, as follows:

...take yourself a woman of harlotries and children of harlotries, for the land has committed great harlotry behind Jehovah. (Hosea 1:2).

Again:

...love a woman who is loved by a companion and is an adulteress... (Hosea 3:1)

Since the Jewish Church was such as described, therefore the Lord called the Jewish nation an adulterous generation (Matthew 12:39; 16:4, Mark 8:38); and in Isaiah, the offspring of an adulterer (Isaiah 57:3).

In Nahum:

Woe to the bloody city! Full of lying... The multitude of the slain... because of the multitude of the harlotries of the harlot..., who sells nations through her harlotries... (Nahum 3:1, 3-4)

[7] Since Roman Catholicism adulterates and falsifies the Word more than any others in the Christian world, it is therefore called Babylon, the Great Harlot, and the following things are said of it in the book of Revelation:

Babylon... has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her harlotry. (Revelation 14:8)

(Babylon has made) all the nations (drink) of the wine of the wrath of her harlotry, and the kings of the earth have committed harlotry with her... (Revelation 18:3)

(The angel said,) "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot... with whom the kings of the earth committed harlotry. (Revelation 17:1-2)

...He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her harlotry. (Revelation 19:2)

It is apparent from this now that to commit adultery and to commit sexual immorality mean, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the goods and truths of the Word.

  
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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.