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Zeechaarja 11

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1 Malfermu, ho Lebanon, viajn pordojn, ke la fajro ekstermu viajn cedrojn.

2 GXemegu, ho cipreso, cxar falis la cedro kaj la potenculoj estas ruinigitaj. GXemegu, ho kverkoj de Basxan, cxar falis la fortika arbaro.

3 Oni auxdas ploradon de pasxtistoj, cxar ilia belegajxo estas ruinigita; oni auxdas kriadon de junaj leonoj, cxar forigita estas la beleco de Jordan.

4 Tiele diras la Eternulo, mia Dio:Pasxtu la bucxotajn sxafojn,

5 kiujn iliaj acxetintoj mortigas, ne farante pekon, kaj iliaj vendintoj diras:Dank� al la Eternulo, mi ricxigxis; kaj iliaj pasxtistoj ne bedauxras ilin.

6 Pro tio Mi ne plu indulgos la logxantojn de la tero, diras la Eternulo; jen Mi transdonos la homojn cxiun en la manon de lia proksimulo kaj en la manon de lia regxo, kaj ili frapados la teron, kaj Mi ne savos el ilia mano.

7 Kaj mi pasxtis la sxafojn bucxotajn, la plej malfelicxajn el la sxafoj. Kaj mi prenis al mi du bastonojn, la unu mi nomis Afableco kaj la duan Ligilo; kaj mi pasxtis la sxafojn.

8 Kaj mi forigis tri pasxtistojn en unu monato; kaj deturnis sin de ili mia animo, kiel ankaux ilia animo deturnis sin de mi.

9 Kaj mi diris:Mi vin ne pasxtos:la mortonta mortu, la pereonta pereu, kaj la ceteraj mangxu unu la karnon de la alia.

10 Kaj mi prenis mian bastonon Afableco kaj rompis gxin, por detrui la interligon, kiun mi faris kun cxiuj popoloj;

11 kaj gxi estis detruita en tiu tago. Kaj tiam la malfelicxaj sxafoj, kiuj atentadis min, eksciis, ke tio estas vorto de la Eternulo.

12 Kaj mi diris al ili:Se placxas al vi, donu al mi mian laborpagon; se ne, tiam ne faru tion. Kaj ili pesis al mi kiel mian laborpagon tridek argxentajn monerojn.

13 Kaj la Eternulo diris al mi:JXetu tion en la trezorejon; bela prezo, per kiu ili taksis Min! Kaj mi prenis la tridek argxentajn monerojn kaj jxetis ilin en la trezorejon de la domo de la Eternulo.

14 Kaj mi rompis mian duan bastonon Ligilo, por detrui la fratecon inter Jehuda kaj Izrael.

15 Kaj la Eternulo diris al mi:Prenu al vi ankoraux la ilaron de pasxtisto malsagxa;

16 cxar jen Mi starigos sur la tero pasxtiston, kiu ne sercxos la sxafojn perdigxintajn, ne zorgos pri la junaj, ne kuracos la malsanajn, ne nutros la sanajn, sed mangxos la viandon de la grasaj kaj disbatos iliajn hufojn.

17 Ve al la malsagxa pasxtisto, kiu forlasas la sxafojn! la glavo trafos lian brakon kaj lian dekstran okulon; lia brako velksekigxos, kaj lia dekstra okulo tute perdos sian vidadon.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1585

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1585. 'And he saw all the plain of Jordan' means the goods and truths that resided with the external man. This is clear from the meaning of 'a plain' and of 'the Jordan'. In the internal sense 'the plain surrounding the Jordan' means the external man as regards all his goods and truths. The reason the plain of Jordan has this meaning is that the Jordan was a boundary of the land of Canaan. 'The land of Canaan', as stated and shown already, means the Lord's kingdom and Church, and in particular its celestial and spiritual things; this also explains why it was called the Holy Land, and the heavenly Canaan. And because it means the Lord's kingdom and Church, it means in the highest sense the Lord Himself, who is the All in all of His kingdom and of His Church.

[2] For this reason all things in the land of Canaan were representative. Those in the midst of the land, or that were inmost, represented His internal Man - Mount Zion and Jerusalem, for example, representing respectively celestial things and spiritual things. More outlying districts represented things more remote from internals. And the most outlying districts, or those which formed the boundaries, represented the external man. There were several boundaries to the land of Canaan, but in general they were the two rivers Euphrates and Jordan, and also the Sea, 1 for which reason the Euphrates and the Jordan represented external things. Here therefore 'the plain of Jordan' means, as it also represents, all things residing in the external man. The meaning of the land of Canaan is similar when used in reference to the Lord's kingdom in heaven, to the Lord's Church on earth, to the member of that kingdom or Church, or abstractly to the celestial things of love, and so on.

[3] Almost all the cities therefore, and indeed all the mountains, hills, valleys, rivers, and other features in the land of Canaan, were representative. The river Euphrates, being a boundary, represented, as shown already in 120, sensory evidence and facts that belong to the external man, and so too did the Jordan and the plain of Jordan, as becomes clear from the following places: In David,

O my God, my soul bows itself down within me; 2 therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons from the little mountain. Psalms 42:6.

Here 'the land of Jordan' stands for that which is lowly and so is distant from the celestial, as a person's externals are from his internals.

[4] The crossing of the Jordan when the children of Israel entered the land of Canaan and the dividing of its waters at that time also represented the approach to the internal man by way of the external, as well as a person's entry into the Lord's kingdom, and much more besides, Joshua 3:14 on to the end of Chapter 4. And because the external man is constantly hostile towards the internal and strives for domination over it, the arrogance or the pride of the Jordan came to be phrases used by the Prophets, as in Jeremiah,

How will you compete with horses? And confident in a land of peace how do you deal with the pride of the Jordan? Jeremiah 12:5.

'The pride of the Jordan' stands for those things belonging to the external man which rear up and wish to have dominion over the internal, such as reasonings, meant here by 'horses', and 'the confidence' they give.

[5] In the same prophet,

Edom will become a desolation. Behold, like a lion it will come up from the arrogance of the Jordan against the habitation of Ethan. Jeremiah 49:17, 19.

'The arrogance of the Jordan' stands for the pride of the external man against the goods and truths of the internal. In Zechariah,

Howl, O fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the magnificent ones have been laid waste! Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has come down. The sound of the howling of shepherds [is heard], for their magnificence has been laid waste; the sound of the roaring of young lions, that the pride of the Jordan has been laid waste. Zechariah 11:2-3.

The fact that the Jordan was a boundary of the land of Canaan is clear from Numbers 34:12, and the eastern boundary of the land of Judah, in Joshua 15:5.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. the Great or Mediterranean Sea

2. literally, upon me

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 120

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120. Like Egypt, the Euphrates too means knowledge or facts, and also sensory evidence from which facts are obtained. This is clear from the Word in the Prophets, as in Micah, She, my enemy, said, Where is Jehovah your God? A day on which He will build your walls. On that day what has been determined will be absent afar off. That day also He will come to you from Asshur, and to the cities of Egypt and to the River (the Euphrates) Micah 7:10-12.

The Prophets spoke in this way when referring to the coming of the Lord, who was going to regenerate man so that he would become as a celestial man. In Jeremiah,

What have you to do with the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? And what have you to do with the way to Asshur, to drink the waters of the River (the Euphrates)? Jeremiah 2:18.

Here similarly 'Egypt' and 'the Euphrates' stand for facts, and 'Asshur' for reasonings based on them. In David,

You did cause a vine to journey out of Egypt. You did cast out the nations, You did plant it. You did send out its shoots even to the sea, and its little branches to the River (the Euphrates) Psalms 80:8, 11.

Here too 'the river Euphrates' stands for sensory evidence and factual knowledge. Indeed the Euphrates was the boundary to Israel's territories in the direction of Asshur, just as factual knowledge in the memory is the boundary of intelligence and wisdom of the spiritual and celestial man. The same is meant by these words addressed to Abraham,

To your seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river, the river Euphrates. Genesis 15:18.

Both of these two boundaries have the same meaning.

  
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