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Jeremia 46

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1 Jen estas la vorto de la Eternulo, kiu aperis al la profeto Jeremia pri la nacioj:

2 Pri Egiptujo, pri la militistaro de Faraono Nehxo, regxo de Egiptujo, kiu estis cxe la rivero Euxfrato en Karkemisx, kaj kiun venkobatis Nebukadnecar, regxo de Babel, en la kvara jaro de Jehojakim, filo de Josxija, regxo de Judujo:

3 Pretigu sxildon kaj kirason, kaj iru en batalon.

4 Jungu la cxevalojn kaj surcxevaligu la rajdistojn, starigxu en kaskoj, akrigu la lancojn, surmetu sur vin armajxojn.

5 Kial Mi vidas, ke ili ektimis kaj kuras malantauxen? iliaj herooj estas frapitaj, kaj forkuras rapide, ne deturnante sin; teruro estas cxirkauxe, diras la Eternulo.

6 Ne forkuros la rapidpiedulo, ne forsavigxos la heroo; norde, cxe la rivero Euxfrato, ili falpusxigxos kaj falos.

7 Kiu estas tiu, kiu levigxas kiel Nilo kaj kies akvo ondigxas kiel torentoj?

8 Egiptujo levigxas kiel Nilo, kaj kiel torentoj, en kiuj ondigxas la akvo; kaj gxi diras:Levigxante, mi kovros la teron, mi pereigos urbon kun gxiaj logxantoj.

9 Levigxu sur la cxevalojn, kaj kuru rapide sur la cxaroj; eliru la herooj, la Etiopoj kaj la Putidoj, tenantaj sxildon, kaj la Ludidoj, tenantaj kaj strecxantaj pafarkon.

10 Kaj tiu tago estos cxe la Sinjoro, la Eternulo Cebaot, tago de vengxo, por vengxi al Liaj malamikoj; kaj la glavo mangxegos kaj satigxos kaj ebriigxos de ilia sango; cxar bucxofero estos al la Sinjoro, la Eternulo Cebaot, en la lando norda, cxe la rivero Euxfrato.

11 Iru en Gileadon kaj prenu balzamon, ho virga filino de Egiptujo; vane vi multigas la kuracilojn; ne ekzistas por vi resanigxo.

12 La nacioj auxdis vian malhonoron, kaj via plorado plenigis la teron; cxar fortulo falpusxigxis kontraux fortulo, kaj ambaux kune falis.

13 Jen estas la vorto, kiun la Eternulo diris al la profeto Jeremia pri la veno de Nebukadnecar, regxo de Babel, por frapi la landon Egiptan:

14 Sciigu en Egiptujo, proklamu en Migdol, proklamu en Nof kaj en Tahxpanhxes, diru:Starigxu kaj pretigxu, cxar la glavo ekstermas vian cxirkauxajxon.

15 Kial estas forpusxita via fortulo, ne povis stari? cxar la Eternulo lin renversis.

16 Li multigis la falpusxigxantojn; falis unu sur la alian; kaj ili diras:Levigxu, ni reiru al nia popolo kaj al la lando de nia naskigxo, for de la glavo de la tirano.

17 Oni kriis tie:Faraono, regxo de Egiptujo, estas nur bruo; li preterlasis la difinitan tempon.

18 Kiel Mi vivas, diras la Regxo, kies nomo estas Eternulo Cebaot, li venos kiel Tabor inter la montoj kaj kiel Karmel cxe la maro.

19 Pretigu al vi cxion, kio estas necesa por elmigro, ho logxantino, filino de Egiptujo; cxar Nof estos ruinigita kaj dezertigita, ke neniu en gxi logxos.

20 Tre bela bovidino estas Egiptujo; sed de nordo venas jam la bucxonto.

21 Ankaux gxiaj dungitoj interne de gxi estas kiel bone nutritaj bovidoj; sed ili ankaux turnis sin malantauxen, kune forkuris, ne povis kontrauxstari; cxar la tago de ilia malfelicxo venis sur ilin, la tempo de ilia puno.

22 GXia vocxo sonos kiel vocxo de serpento; cxar ili iros kun militistaro, kaj kun hakiloj ili venos al gxi, kiel lignohakistoj.

23 Ili elhakos gxian arbaron, diras la Eternulo, kvankam gxi estas nekalkulebla; cxar ili estas pli multenombraj ol akridoj, kaj oni ne povas ilin kalkuli.

24 Hontigita estas la filino de Egiptujo, transdonita en la manojn de norda popolo.

25 La Eternulo Cebaot, Dio de Izrael, diras:Jen Mi punvizitos Amonon en No, kaj Faraonon, kaj Egiptujon kaj gxiajn diojn kaj gxiajn regxojn, Faraonon mem, kaj tiujn, kiuj fidas lin.

26 Kaj Mi transdonos ilin en la manojn de tiuj, kiuj celas ilian morton, kaj en la manojn de Nebukadnecar, regxo de Babel, kaj en la manojn de liaj servantoj; sed poste gxi estos logxata, kiel en la tempo antauxa, diras la Eternulo.

27 Sed vi ne timu, ho Mia servanto Jakob, kaj ne tremu, ho Izrael; cxar jen Mi savos vin el malproksime kaj vian idaron el la lando de ilia kaptiteco, kaj Jakob revenos kaj vivos trankvile kaj pace, kaj neniu lin timigos.

28 Vi ne timu, ho Mia servanto Jakob, diras la Eternulo, cxar Mi estas kun vi; cxar Mi ekstermos cxiujn popolojn, inter kiujn Mi dispelis vin, sed vin Mi ne ekstermos; Mi nur punos vin modere, por ke Mi ne lasu vin tute sen puno.

   

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8002. 'A stranger and a hired servant shall not eat it' means that those who are prompted by a merely natural inclination to do good, and those who do it for the sake of gain, shall not be together with them. This is clear from the meaning of 'a stranger' as those who are prompted to do good by a merely natural inclination, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'a hired servant' as those who do good for the sake of gain, also dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'not eating it' as not being together with them, dealt with immediately above in 8001. 'A stranger' means those who are prompted by a merely natural inclination to do good because strangers were newcomers from other peoples. They were inhabitants, dwelling with the Israelites and Jews in one house; and 'dwelling with' means sharing in the same good. But since, as has just been said, they were from peoples outside the Church the good that is meant is not a kind of good that is prominent in the Church but is the kind to be found outside the Church. And this is called natural good because it is a product of the hereditary inclinations that a person is born with. With some people such good may also be the product of poor health or debility of mind. This is what one should understand when the good done by those meant by 'strangers' is mentioned.

[2] This kind of good is completely different from the good prominent in the Church, for by means of the Church's kind of good conscience is established in a person; and conscience is the level on which the angels come in and which brings him into company with them. Natural good cannot provide any such level for angels to enter. Those whose good is natural do good in the dark, led by blind instinct, not in the light of truth, under the influence of heaven. In the next life therefore they are carried away like chaff by the wind, by anyone and everyone, whether evil or good, but especially by an evil person who knows how to add a certain amount of charm and persuasion to his arguments. Nor can angels at this time guide them away, for angels operate through the truths and forms of the good of faith; they enter in on the level formed within a person out of those truths and forms of the good of faith. From all this it is evident that those who are prompted by a merely natural inclination to do good cannot be integrated among angels. Regarding these people and their lot in the next life, see 3470, 3471, 3518, 4988, 4992, 5032, 6208, 7197.

[3] The fact that 'strangers' are those who are not in their own land nor in their own house but are those staying in a foreign land is clear in Moses,

The land shall [not] be sold outright, for the land is Mine; but you are sojourners and strangers with Me. Leviticus 25:23.

In David,

Hear my prayers, O Jehovah; do not be silent at my tears. For I am a sojourner with You, a stranger as all my fathers were. Psalms 39:12.

And in the Book of Genesis,

Abraham said to the sons of Heth, I am a sojourner and a stranger among you; give me possession of a grave. Genesis 13:3-4.

'A sojourner', like 'a stranger', means a newcomer and inhabitant from another land; but 'a sojourner' means those who were taught and accepted the Church's truths, whereas those who were not taught them because they were unwilling to accept them are meant by 'strangers'.

[4] As for hired servants, they were people who worked for wages; they were servants, but not ones who had been bought. The fact that they were called 'hired', see Leviticus 19:13; 25:4-6; Deuteronomy 24:14-15. Because hired servants were those who worked for wages they mean in the internal sense those who do good for the sake of gain in the world, and in a yet more internal sense those who do good for the sake of reward in the next life, thus those who wish to earn merit through works.

[5] Those who do good solely for the sake of gain in the world cannot possibly be integrated among angels, since their final objective for doing it is the world, that is, affluence and prestige, not heaven, that is, the blessedness and happiness of their souls. The final objective is what gives direction to actions and what gives them their specific character. Those who do good solely for the sake of gain are described by the Lord as follows in John,

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life 1 for the sheep. But a hired servant, he who is not the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them, and scatters the sheep. But the hired servant flees because he is a hired servant. John 10:11-13.

And in Jeremiah,

A very beautiful heifer was Egypt; destruction has come from the north. Her hired servants are like calves of the stall, 2 for they also have turned about, fled away together, and not made a stand, because the day of their ruin has come upon them. Jeremiah 46:20-21.

[6] A law forbidding strangers and hired servants to share in holy things along with those belonging to the Church is stated in Moses as follows,

No outsider shall eat what is holy; a stranger staying with a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat what is holy. Leviticus 22:10.

And a law which allowed people to buy from the sons of strangers slaves who would serve them for evermore appears in the same book,

You shall buy a male or a female slave from the nations that are around you. And also from the sons of strangers sojourning among you - from them you shall buy, and from their families which are with you, even if they were born in your land, in order that they may be your possession. And you may pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you to inherit as a possession. Forever you shall be their masters. Leviticus 25:44-46.

'The sons of strangers' means factual knowledge acquired with the aid of merely natural light. The necessity for spiritual truths to dominate that knowledge is meant by the law that slaves should be bought from the sons of strangers as possessions for evermore.

[7] People however who do good for the sake of reward in the next life, people who are also meant by 'hired servants', differ from those spoken about immediately above, in that they have life and happiness in heaven as their final objective. But this objective turns and alters the direction of their Divine worship away from the Lord towards themselves, as a consequence of which they want things to go well only for themselves, not for others except insofar as these want the same for them. When this is so self-love resides in their every desire, not love of the neighbour; that is, they do not have any genuine charity. Nor can these people be integrated among angels, for angels utterly loathe both the word and the notion of reward or repayment. The Lord teaches in Luke that one ought to do what is good without reward as the objective,

Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing from it; then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Highest. Luke 6:32-35; 14:12-14.

Regarding the nature of good deeds performed to earn merit, see 1110, 1111, 1774, 1835, 1877, 2027, 2273, 2340, 2373, 2400, 3816, 4007 (end), 4174, 4943, 6388-6390, 6392, 6393, 6478.

[8] The reason why the Lord says so many times that those who do good will have their reward in heaven - as in Matthew 5:11-12; 6:1-2, 26; 10:41-42; 20:1-16; Mark 9:41; Luke 6:23, 35; 14:14; John 4:36 - is that before a person has been regenerated he cannot help thinking about reward. But it is different once he has been regenerated. Then he is indignant if anyone thinks that he does good to his neighbour for the sake of reward; for he feels delight and bliss in the doing of good, but not in repayment. In the internal sense 'reward' is the delight belonging to the affection that goes with charity, see 3816, 3956, 6388, 6478.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, soul

2. i.e. mercenaries who are like fat bulls

  
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