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Miicaah 3

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1 Mi diris:Auxskultu, ho cxefoj de Jakob kaj estroj de la domo de Izrael! Vi devas ja scii la juron;

2 tamen vi malamas la bonon, amas la malbonon; vi desxiras de ili ilian hauxton kaj la karnon de iliaj ostoj.

3 Kaj kiam ili mangxas la karnon de mia popolo, desxiras de ili ilian hauxton, rompas kaj dispecigas iliajn ostojn kvazaux por poto kaj la karnon kvazaux por kaldrono:

4 tiam ili krios al la Eternulo; sed Li ne respondos al ili, Li kasxos antaux ili Sian vizagxon en tiu tempo, cxar ili faris siajn malbonajn agojn.

5 Tiele diras la Eternulo pri la profetoj, kiu erarigas mian popolon, kiuj mordas per siaj dentoj kaj predikas pacon, kaj kontraux tiu, kiu ne donas ion en ilian busxon, ili predikas militon:

6 Tial estos cxe vi nokto, sed ne vizioj, mallumo, sed ne antauxdiroj; subiros la suno super la profetoj, kaj mallumigxos super ili la tago.

7 Hontos tiuj viziistoj, mokindaj farigxos la antauxdiristoj, kaj ili cxiuj fermos sian busxon; cxar ili ne havas respondon de Dio.

8 Sed mi estas plena de forto de la spirito de la Eternulo, de praveco kaj kuragxo, por montri al Jakob lian krimon kaj al Izrael lian pekon.

9 Auxskultu cxi tion, ho cxefoj de la domo de Jakob kaj estroj de la domo de Izrael, kiuj abomenas juron kaj kurbigas cxion rektan,

10 kiuj konstruas Cionon per sango kaj Jerusalemon per maljustajxoj.

11 GXiaj cxefoj jugxas pro subacxeto, gxiaj pastroj instruas pro pago, kaj gxiaj profetoj antauxdiras pro mono; tamen ili apogas sin sur la Eternulo, kaj diras:La Eternulo estas ja meze de ni, ne trafos nin malfelicxo.

12 Tial pro vi Cion estos plugita kiel kampo, Jerusalem farigxos ruinajxo, kaj la monto de la templo farigxos arbara altajxo.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 435

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435. And their teeth were like lions' teeth. This symbolically means that matters of the senses, which constitute the lowest elements of the natural self's life, appeared to them to have power over all else.

Teeth symbolize the lowest elements of the natural self's life, which are called sensual, as discussed in no. 424 above. These sensual elements are of two kinds, one having to do with the will, the other with the intellect. Sensual elements having to do with the will are symbolized by women's hair, as said just above in no. 434; and sensual elements having to do with the intellect are symbolized by teeth. The latter, which is to say, sensual people caught up in falsities by conviction, appear to themselves to have power over everything, so that they cannot be overcome. Therefore the locusts' teeth, which symbolize such sensual elements, were like lions' teeth - a lion symbolizing power (no. 241).

That teeth symbolize the lowest elements of a person's life - those elements called sensual - and that when these are divorced from the interior levels of the mind, they are caught up in nothing but falsities and attack truths and destroy them, can be seen from the following passages:

With my soul I lie down among lions...; their teeth are a spear and arrows... (Psalms 57:4)

O God, destroy their teeth in their mouth! Turn aside the molars of the young lions... (Psalms 58:6)

...a nation has come up against My land, strong..., its teeth the teeth of a lion, and it has the molars of a fierce lion. (Joel 1:6)

...O Jehovah..., You have broken the teeth of the impious. (Psalms 3:7)

...a beast (came up from the sea), terrible, dreadful, and exceedingly strong, which had huge iron teeth; it was devouring and breaking in pieces... (Daniel 7:3, 7).

Blessed be Jehovah, who has not given us as prey to their teeth. (Psalms 124:6)

Since sensual people do not see any truth in its own light, but reason and argue about everything as to whether it is so, and since these altercations in the hells sound outside the hells like the gnashing of teeth, which regarded in itself is a colliding of falsity and truth, it is apparent what the gnashing of teeth symbolizes in Matthew 8:12; 13:42, 50; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30, and Luke 13:28; and in some measure what to gnash with the teeth symbolizes in Job 16:9, Psalms 35:15-16; 37:12; 112:10, Micah 3:5, and Lamentations 2:16.

  
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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.