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Cefanja 3

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1 Ve al la abomeninda kaj malpurigita urbo-premanto!

2 GXi ne auxskultas vocxon, ne akceptas admonon; la Eternulon gxi ne fidas, al sia Dio gxi sin ne turnas.

3 GXiaj eminentuloj meze de gxi estas kiel blekegantaj leonoj; gxiaj jugxistoj estas kiel lupoj vespere; ili nenion restigas gxis mateno.

4 GXiaj profetoj estas facilanimaj kaj perfidaj; gxiaj pastroj malsanktigas la sanktejon, kripligas la instruon.

5 La Eternulo estas justulo meze de gxi, Li ne faras maljustajxon; cxiumatene Li montras Siajn legxojn, ne cxesas; sed la malpiulo ne konas honton.

6 Mi ekstermis naciojn; ruinigitaj estas iliaj turoj; Mi dezertigis iliajn stratojn tiel, ke neniu trairas ilin; iliaj urboj estas ruinigitaj tiel, ke tie trovigxas jam neniu homo, neniu logxanto.

7 Mi diris al gxi:Timu Min, akceptu admonon! Kaj ne estus ekstermita gxia logxejo, kiom ajn Mi punus gxin; sed ili rapidis malbonigi cxiujn siajn agojn.

8 Tial atendu Min, diras la Eternulo, gxis Mi Miatempe levigxos; cxar Mi decidis kolekti la naciojn, kunvenigi la regnojn, por elversxi sur ilin Mian koleron, la tutan flamon de Mia indigno; cxar de la fajro de Mia severeco forbrulos la tuta tero.

9 Tiam Mi redonos al la popoloj lingvon puran, por ke cxiuj vokadu la nomon de la Eternulo kaj servadu al Li unuanime.

10 El trans la riveroj de Etiopujo Miaj adorantoj, Mia disjxetita popolo, alportos al Mi donacojn.

11 En tiu tempo vi ne plu hontos pri cxiuj viaj agoj, per kiuj vi krimis kontraux Mi; cxar tiam Mi forigos el inter vi viajn fierajn fanfaronulojn, kaj vi ne plu tenos vin malhumile sur Mia sankta monto.

12 Mi restigos en via mezo popolon humilan kaj malricxan, kaj ili fidados la nomon de la Eternulo.

13 La restintoj el Izrael ne faros maljustajxon, ne parolos mensogon, kaj en ilia busxo ne trovigxos lango trompa, sed ili pasxtigxados kaj ripozados, kaj neniu ilin timigos.

14 GXojkriu, ho filino de Cion; triumfu, ho Izrael; gxoju kaj estu gaja el la tuta koro, ho filino de Jerusalem.

15 La Eternulo forigis la verdikton pri vi, forpelis vian malamikon; la Regxo de Izrael, la Eternulo, estas meze de vi, kaj vi ne plu vidos malfelicxon.

16 En tiu tempo oni diros al Jerusalem:Ne timu! kaj al Cion:Viaj manoj ne senfortigxu.

17 La Eternulo, via Dio, estas meze de vi, forta Savanto; Li gxojos pri vi gaje, Li pardonos al vi pro Sia amo, Li gxoje triumfos pri vi.

18 La sentauxgulojn el via mezo Mi forprenos, por ke vi ne plu havu malhonoron pro ili.

19 Jen Mi faros finon en tiu tempo al cxiuj viaj premantoj, Mi helpos la lamulojn, Mi kolektos la dispelitojn, kaj Mi faros ilin gloraj kaj honorataj en cxiuj landoj, kie oni malestimis ilin.

20 En tiu tempo Mi venigos vin, kaj en tiu tempo Mi kolektos vin; cxar Mi faros vin gloraj kaj honorataj inter cxiuj popoloj de la lando, kiam Mi revenigos viajn kaptitojn antaux viaj okuloj, diras la Eternulo.

   

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Heaven and Hell # 365

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365. We may gather from this that rich people arrive in heaven just as much as poor people do, one as easily as the other. The reason people believe that it is easy for the poor and hard for the rich is that the Word is misunderstood when it talks about the rich and the poor. In the spiritual meaning of the Word, "the rich" means people who are amply supplied with understandings of what is true and good, that is, people in the church where the Word is. "The poor" means people who lack these understandings but who long for them, or people outside the church, where the Word is not found.

[2] The rich person dressed in purple and fine linen who was cast into hell means the Jewish nation. Because they had the Word and were therefore amply supplied with understandings of what is good and true, they are called "rich." The garments of purple actually mean understandings of what is good, and the fine linen means understandings of what is true. 1 The poor person who was lying in the gateway and who longed to feast on the crumbs that were falling from the rich person's table, who was carried up into heaven by angels, means the non-Jews who did not have understandings of what is good and true but who still longed for them (Luke 16:19, 31).

The rich who were invited to the great feast but who excused themselves also mean the Jewish nation, and the poor who were brought in to replace them mean the non-Jews who were outside the church (Luke 12:16-24, 14:16-24).

[3] We need also to explain who are meant by the rich of whom the Lord said, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:24). "The rich person" here means the rich in both senses, natural and spiritual. Rich people in the natural sense are people who have abundant wealth and set their hearts on it, while in a spiritual sense they are people who are amply supplied with insights and knowledge (for these are spiritual wealth) and who want to use them to get themselves into heavenly and ecclesiastical circles by their own intellect. Since this is contrary to the divine design, it says that it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle. On this level of meaning, a camel means our cognitive and informational level in general, and the eye of a needle means spiritual truth. 2

Nowadays people do not know that this is the meaning of the camel and the eye of a needle because there has not yet been any access to the knowledge that teaches what is meant spiritually by the things that the Word says literally. There is spiritual meaning in the details of the Word, and natural meaning as well; because the Word was written in pure correspondences of natural realities with spiritual ones in order to effect a union of heaven and the world, or of angels with us, once the direct union had ceased. We can see from this exactly who are meant by the rich in the Word.

[4] We may gather from a number of passages that on the spiritual level "the rich" in the Word refers to people who enjoy insights into what is good and true and that wealth means those insights themselves, which are spiritual riches: see Isaiah 10:12-14; 30:6-7; 45:3, Jeremiah 17:3; 47:7 [Jeremiah 48:7?], Jeremiah 50:36-37; 51:13, Daniel 5:2-4, Ezekiel 26:7, 12; 27:1-36; Zechariah 9:3-4; Psalms 45:12; Hosea 12:9; Revelation 3:17-18, Luke 14:33, and elsewhere. On the poor in the spiritual sense as people who do not have insights into what is good and true but who long for them, see Matthew 11:5; Luke 6:20-21; 14:21; Isaiah 14:30; 29:19; 41:17-18; Zephaniah 3:12, 18 [13]. An explanation of the spiritual meaning of all these passages may be found in 10227 of Secrets of Heaven.

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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Garments mean things that are true, and therefore insights: 1033 [1073?], 2576, 5319, 5954, 9212, 9216, 9952, 10536. Purple means heavenly good: 9467. Linen means truth of a heavenly origin: 5319, 9469, 9744.

2. [Swedenborg's footnote] A camel in the Word means our cognitive and informational level in general: 3048, 3071, 3143, 3145. What embroidery, embroidering, and therefore needles Arcana Coelestia 9688. To start from outward facts in order to gain access to truths of faith is contrary to the divine design: 10236. People who do this become insane in matters of heaven and the church: 128-130, 232-233, 6047; and in the other life, when they think about spiritual things, they become virtually drunk: 1072. More about their nature: 196. Examples to illustrate the fact that spiritual things cannot be grasped if they are approached on this basis: 233, 2094, 2196, 2203, 2209. It is all right to go from spiritual truth into the knowledge appropriate to our natural level, but not the other way around, because there is an inflow of the spiritual into the natural but not an inflow of the natural into the spiritual: 3219, 5119, 5259, 5427-5428, 5478, 6322, 9110-9111 [10199?]. We need first to acknowledge the truths of the Word and the church, and then it is all right to take our secular learning into account; but not the other way around: 6047.

  
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