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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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Arcana Coelestia # 9715

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9715. 'From shittim wood' means righteousness. This is clear from the meaning of 'shittim wood' as the good of merit, and righteousness, which are the Lord's alone, dealt with in 9472, 9486. What righteousness and merit are, which are the Lord's alone, must be stated here and now. People think that the Lord earned merit and righteousness because He fulfilled all the requirements of the law and by His passion on the Cross saved the human race. But this is not what anyone should understand in the Word by the Lord's merit and righteousness. Rather they should understand by His merit and righteousness that He fought alone against all the hells and overcame them, and in so doing He restored to order everything in the hells and at the same time everything in the heavens. For each person has spirits from hell present with him, and angels from heaven; without them a person cannot lead any life at all. Unless the hells had been overcome by the Lord and the heavens restored to order no one could ever have been saved.

[2] Salvation could not have been won except through His Human, that is to say, except through conflicts with the hells, fought from His Human. And since the Lord did this by His own power, thus did it alone, to the Lord alone belong merit and righteousness. And for the same reason it is He alone who still conquers the hells with a person; for He who conquers them once conquers them for evermore. No one therefore has any merit or righteousness whatever; yet the Lord's merit and righteousness are his when he acknowledges that none is attributable to himself but all to the Lord. So it is that the Lord alone regenerates a person; for regenerating a person involves driving the hells away from him, consequently the evils and falsities which come from the hells, and implanting heaven in place of them, that is, forms of the good of love and the truths of faith since these constitute heaven. Through the conflicts engaged in repeatedly with the hells the Lord also glorified His Human, that is, made it Divine; for even as a person is regenerated by means of conflicts, which are temptations, so the Lord was glorified by means of conflicts, which were temptations. The glorification of the Lord's Human by His own power therefore is also merit and righteousness; for through this the person is saved because through it the Lord holds all the hells in subjection for evermore.

[3] The truth of all this is clear from places in the Word where the Lord's merit and righteousness are referred to, as in Isaiah,

Who is this who comes from Edom, with spattered clothes from Bozrah, marching in the vast numbers of His strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Why are You red as to Your clothes, and Your clothes like his that treads in the winepress? I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples not a man (vir) was with Me. Therefore I have trodden them in My anger, and trodden them down in My fury. Consequently their blood 1 has been sprinkled on My clothes, and I have stained all My clothing. For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed had come. I looked around, but there was no helper, and I wondered, but there was no one to uphold; therefore My own arm brought salvation to Me, and My own fury sustained Me. And I trod down the peoples in My anger, and shed their blood onto the ground. 2 Therefore He became the Saviour. Isaiah 63:1-8.

These words, it is well known, have regard to the Lord. His conflicts with the hells are described by the references to spattered clothes, redness as to His clothes, clothes like his that treads in the winepress, and to the day of vengeance. His victories over the hells and His placing them in subjection are described by the statements that He trod them in His anger, as a consequence of which their blood was sprinkled on His clothes, and that He trod down the peoples in fury 3 and shed their blood onto the ground. The Lord's doing these things by His own power is described by the statements that He trod the winepress alone and from the peoples not a man was with Him; that He looked around but there was no helper, He wondered but there was no one to uphold; and that His own arm brought salvation to Him. Salvation coming as a result of all this is described by the statements that He was marching in the vast numbers of His strength, mighty to save; that the year of His redeemed had come; and that therefore He became their Saviour.

[4] The fact that all these things are aspects of righteousness is even more plainly evident elsewhere in the same prophet,

He saw that there was no man (vir), and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness lifted Him up. Consequently He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon His head. He put on clothes of vengeance, and covered Himself with zeal as if with a cloak. Isaiah 59:16-17.

And in the same prophet,

My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, and My arms will judge the peoples. In Me the islands will hope, and on My arm they will trust. Isaiah 51:5.

'The arm' which brought salvation to Him and on which they will trust is His own power by which He placed the hells in subjection, 'arm' being power, see 4932, 7205. From this it is evident what righteousness is and what merit is, which are the Lord's alone.

[5] Something similar occurs elsewhere in the same prophet,

Who stirred up [One] from the East, [One] whom in righteousness He called to be His follower, gave the nations before Him, and caused Him to have dominion over kings? Isaiah 41:2.

In the same prophet,

I have caused My righteousness to draw near, it is not far off; My salvation will not delay. Isaiah 46:13.

In the same prophet,

Jehovah will clothe Me with the garments of salvation; with the robe of righteousness He has covered Me. Isaiah 61:10.

In David,

My mouth will tell of 4 Your righteousness, of Your salvation all the day; I cannot measure them. 5 I will make mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone. Do not forsake me, until I have declared Your arm, Your power; for Your righteousness [reaches] all the way to the highest, O You who have done great things. Psalms 71:15-16, 18-19, 24.

In Jeremiah,

Behold, the days are coming when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, who will reign as King, and will prosper, and execute judgement and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name which they will call Him, Jehovah our Righteousness. Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16.

And in Daniel,

Seventy weeks have been decreed to atone for iniquity, and to bring everlasting righteousness. 6 Daniel 9:24.

[6] The truth that righteousness and merit, which are the Lord's alone, consist in the Lord's subjection of the hells, His restoration of the heavens to order, and the glorification of His Human, and in the salvation that results from all this for the person who receives the Lord in love and faith, becomes clear from the places which have just been quoted. Yet people can have no understanding of this if they do not know that spirits from hell are present with a person and that from them evils and falsities come to him, and also that angels from heaven are present and that from them forms of good and truths come to him; if they do not know that a person's life is for this reason linked on one side to the hells and on the other to the heavens, that is, through the heavens to the Lord; and if they do not know that therefore no one could ever be saved unless the hells had been subdued and the heavens restored to order, and all things had accordingly been made subject to the Lord.

[7] From all this it may be seen why it should be that the good of merit that is the Lord's is the one and only good that reigns in the heavens, as stated above in 9486. For the good of merit now consists also in the everlasting subjection of the hells and the protection of true believers. This good is the good of the Lord's love; for it was from Divine Love that He engaged in conflict while in the world and was victorious. And it is from Divine Power in the Human acquired through that victory that, then and for evermore, on behalf of heaven and the Church and thus the entire human race, He fights alone, conquers, and so brings salvation. This then is the good of merit, which is called righteousness; for the work of righteousness consists in keeping the hells in check as they try to destroy the human race, and in protecting and saving those who are good and are true believers.

Regarding the Lord's conflicts or temptations when He was in the world, see 1663, 1668, 1690, 1691 (end), 1692, 1737, 1787, 1812, 1813, 1820, 2776, 2786, 2795, 2803, 2814, 2816, 4287, 7193, 8273.

The Lord fights alone for the human race against the hells, 1692 (end), 6574, 8159, 8172, 8175, 8176, 8273, 8969.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, victory

2. literally, caused their victory to go down into the earth

3. The Latin means anger.

4. literally, will enumerate

5. literally, do not know the numberings

6. The Latin word rendered righteousness is sometimes translated justice, as it is in at least one previous quotation of this verse.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 8159

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8159. 'And Pharaoh drew near' means an oppressive influx from there of falsity arising from evil. This is clear from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as those steeped in falsities arising from evil, dealt with in 8132, 8135, 8146, 8148; and from the meaning of 'drawing near' as influx. The internal sense deals with the first temptation of those who have been delivered, and all temptation comes about through influx from the hells. For spirits from there stir up and bring out all the wicked deeds a person has performed and wicked thoughts he has entertained, and they use these to incriminate him and condemn him. As a result he suffers pangs of conscience, and anxiety fills his mind. These feelings are brought about by an influx from the hells, in particular from the hell that is represented by the Sea Suph. From all this one may see that in the spiritual sense, which is dealing with temptations, 'drawing near' means influx.

[2] Since the verses which immediately follow deal with the first temptation of those belonging to the spiritual Church, it should be realized that those people could not undergo temptations until after the Lord had glorified His Human, that is, made it Divine, and was present among them in this glorified Human. If they had undergone them before then they would have given way; for those belonging to the spiritual Church were saved solely by the Lord's Divine Human. The temptations of those belonging to the spiritual Church, which they were to undergo after the Lord had come into the world, when He would be able to fight from the Divine Human for them against the hells, are meant by the following words in Malachi,

Suddenly there will come to His temple the Lord whom you seek, and the angel of the covenant in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming, said Jehovah Zebaoth. Who can endure the day of His Coming, and who will stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold, and like silver, in order that they may bring to Jehovah a minchah in righteousness. Then the minchah of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to Jehovah, as in the days of eternity, and as in former years. Malachi 3:1-4.

This plainly refers to the Lord's Coming. 'The sons of Levi' here are members of the spiritual Church, for 'Levi' means charity or spiritual good, 3875, 4497, 4502, 4503. 'A refiner's fire' is temptation, the means of purification, which 'purifying and purging them like gold and silver' is used to mean. 'The minchah' they will bring to Jehovah is faith and charity; and 'the days of eternity' and 'former years' are the Ancient Churches and states of worship of the Lord in those times.

[3] As regards the nature of temptations, it is as has been stated above in 8131, that the hells fight against a person and the Lord for a person. Any falsity that the hells introduce is met with a response from the Divine. The falsities which come from hell are thrust into and enter the external or natural man, but the response from the Divine enters the internal or spiritual man. The person is less conscious of this response which comes from the Divine than he is of those falsities. It does not touch his individual thoughts, only his general awareness, yet in such a way that he scarcely comes to be conscious of it except as hope and consequent comfort, which however hold within them countless blessings that the person has no knowledge of. These are such that they are suited to his affection or love, especially his affection for or love of truth and goodness, which form his conscience.

[4] These things have been stated to let it be known that the life of the children of Israel in the wilderness describes the temptations, in the sequence in which they occurred, that were undergone by those who belonged to the Lord's spiritual Church and were delivered. The reason why they underwent the temptations was in order that they might be prepared further for heaven. For through temptations, through them as the one and only means, forms of good and truths are corroborated and joined together. Through them charity becomes the charity that goes with faith, and faith becomes the faith that goes with charity. The fact that those who belong to the Church must undergo temptations is what one should understand by the following things the Lord said, in Matthew,

Whoever does not take up his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. Matthew 10:38-39; Mark 8:31 end.

In the same gospel,

He said to His disciples, If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. Matthew 16:24-25; Luke 9:23-24.

In Luke,

Whoever does not carry his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. Luke 14:27.

In Mark,

Jesus said to the rich [young ruler], Come, follow Me, taking up the cross. Mark 10:21.

And in Matthew,

Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34.

[5] But it should be recognized that in temptations a person does not do the fighting; the Lord alone does it for the person, though the appearance is that it is done by the person. And when the Lord does the fighting for a person, the person is in all things victorious. At the present day few are allowed to experience temptations because they do not live as faith requires and do not therefore possess a conscience composed of truth; and anyone without a conscience composed of truth as a result of leading a good life goes under, and then his latter state is worse than his former.

  
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