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Hesekiel 12

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1 Ja mulle tuli Issanda sõna; ta ütles:

2 'Inimesepoeg, sa elad vastupanija soo hulgas, kellel on silmad nägemiseks, aga nad ei näe, kõrvad kuulmiseks, aga nad ei kuule, sest see on vastupanija sugu.

3 Aga sina, inimesepoeg, valmista enesele teekonnavarustus ja mine teele päevaajal nende nähes; mine nende nähes oma asupaigast teise paika; vahest nad märkavad, kuigi nad on vastupanija sugu!

4 Vii välja päeva ajal nende nähes oma asjad, nagu teekonnavarustus; ise aga mine õhtul välja nende nähes, nagu vangiminejad lähevad!

5 Murra nende nähes müürist läbi ja vii asjad sealtkaudu välja!

6 Tõsta need nende nähes õlale, vii pimedas välja; kata nägu, et sa ei näeks maad, sest ma olen pannud sind endeks Iisraeli soole!'

7 Ja ma tegin, nagu mind kästi: ma viisin päeval välja asjad, nagu teekonnavarustuse; õhtul aga murdsin ma oma käega müürist läbi, pimeduses viisin need välja, tõstsin nende nähes õlale.

8 Aga hommikul tuli mulle Issanda sõna; ta ütles:

9 'Inimesepoeg, kas pole Iisraeli sugu, see vastupanija sugu, sinult küsinud: 'Mis sa teed?'

10 Vasta neile: Nõnda ütleb Issand Jumal: See on ennustus Jeruusalemma vürsti ja kogu Iisraeli soo kohta, kes teie keskel on.

11 Ütle: Mina olen teile endeks. Nõnda nagu mina tegin, nõnda tehakse nendega - nad lähevad vangiteekonnale.

12 Ja vürst, kes on nende keskel, peab pimedas kandami õlale tõstma ja välja minema - müürist murtakse läbi, et asju sealtkaudu välja viia -; ta peab katma oma näo, et ta ei näeks oma silmaga maad.

13 Mina laotan oma võrgu tema peale ja ta püütakse mu püünisesse; ma viin ta Paabelisse, kaldealaste maale, aga ta ei saa seda näha ja seal ta sureb.

14 Ja kõik, kes ümberkaudu on temale abiks, ja kõik ta väesalgad hajutan ma kõigi tuulte poole ja tõmban mõõga nende taga.

15 Ja nad saavad tunda, et mina olen Issand, kui ma neid olen pillutanud paganate sekka ja puistanud mööda maid.

16 Aga ma jätan neist pisut inimesi mõõga, nälja ja katku käest alles, et nad jutustaksid paganate seas, kuhu nad tulevad, kõigist oma häbitegudest; ja nad saavad tunda, et mina olen Issand.'

17 Ja mulle tuli Issanda sõna; ta ütles:

18 'Inimesepoeg, söö oma leiba vabisedes ja joo oma vett värisedes ja murega

19 ning ütle maa rahvale: Nõnda ütleb Issand Jumal Jeruusalemma elanike kohta Iisraeli maal: Nad peavad sööma oma leiba murega ja jooma oma vett suure hirmuga, sellepärast et nende maa laastatakse kõigest, mis seal on, kõigi seal elavate vägivalla pärast.

20 Asustatud linnad muutuvad varemeiks ja maa jääb lagedaks; ja te saate tunda, et mina olen Issand.'

21 Ja mulle tuli Issanda sõna; ta ütles:

22 'Inimesepoeg, mis kõneviis see teil on Iisraeli maal, et te ütlete: 'Aeg venib pikale ja kõik nägemused lähevad tühja'?

23 Seepärast ütle neile: Nõnda ütleb Issand Jumal: Ma lõpetan selle kõneviisi ja nõnda ei kõnelda enam Iisraelis. Ja ütle neile: Ligidal on aeg ja kõigi nägemuste täitumine.

24 Sest edaspidi ei ole enam ühtegi valenägemust ega kahtlast ennustust Iisraeli soo keskel.

25 Sest mina, Issand, räägin: See sõna, mis ma ütlen, läheb täide ega viibi enam; sest teie päevil, sa vastupanija sugu, ütlen ma sõna ja viin selle täide, ütleb Issand Jumal.'

26 Ja mulle tuli Issanda sõna; ta ütles:

27 'Inimesepoeg, vaata, Iisraeli sugu ütleb: 'Nägemus, mida see näeb, täitub ehk hulga aja pärast, ja ta kuulutab prohvetlikult kaugetest aegadest.'

28 Seepärast ütle neile: Nõnda ütleb Issand Jumal: Ei viibi enam ükski mu sõna. sõna, mis ma ütlen, läheb täide, ütleb Issand Jumal.'

   

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Jeremija 32:39

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39 Ja ma annan neile ühesuguse südame ja ühesuguse tee, nõnda et nad alati kardavad mind, kasuks neile ja nende lastele pärast neid.

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Arcana Coelestia # 6432

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6432. 'The blessings of the breasts' means with affections for goodness and truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the breasts' as affections for goodness and truth. 'The breasts' means those affections because the breasts communicate with the generative organs, and for that reason they too belong to the province of conjugial love (regarding that province see 5050-5062). Now conjugial love corresponds to the heavenly marriage, which is a marriage of goodness and truth (for conjugial love comes down from that marriage, see 2618, 2728, 2729, 2803, 3132, 4434, 4835, 6179), and therefore 'the breasts' means affections for goodness and truth. In addition they derive that meaning from the fact that the breasts are what feed infants and so mean, through the affection that goes with breast-feeding, conjugial love when joined to the love of offspring.

[2] The same affections are also meant by 'the breasts' in Isaiah,

You will suck the milk of nations, and the breasts of kings you will suck. Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver. Isaiah 60:16-17.

'Sucking the breasts of kings' stands for good obtained from truth, for by 'kings' truths are meant, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148. 'The milk of nations' and 'the breasts of kings' plainly mean some profoundly spiritual matter, for those words would otherwise be meaningless. The fact that goodness and truth are meant is clear from the words that follow, which are 'Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver'; for 'bronze' is natural good, 425, 1551, and 'gold' celestial good, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658; 'iron' is natural truth, 425, 426, and 'silver' spiritual truth, 1551, 2954, 5658, 6112.

[3] In Ezekiel,

As regards increase, I gave you to be like the seed of the field, out of which you grew up and matured and reached full beauty; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Ezekiel 16:7.

This refers to Jerusalem, which here means the Ancient spiritual Church. 'Breasts that were formed' stands for interior affections for goodness and truth, 'your hair had grown for exterior affections belonging to the natural - 'hair' being the natural as regards truth, see 3301, 5247, 5569-5573. These words plainly contain a spiritual sense which is not visible in the letter, for without that sense why would it say of Jerusalem that its breasts were formed and its hair had grown?

[4] In the same prophet,

Two women, the daughters of one mother, committed whoredom in Egypt. In their youth they committed whoredom; there their breasts were squeezed, and there they contemplated their virgin busts. Ezekiel 23:2-3, 8, 21.

This passage in Ezekiel states that the two women are Jerusalem and Samaria, by whom Churches are meant in the internal sense. The statement that in their youth they committed whoredom with Egypt means that they falsified the truths of the Church by their use of factual knowledge - 'committing whoredom' is falsifying truths, see 2466, 4865, and 'Egypt' is factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5700, 5702. Consequently 'their breasts were squeezed' stands for affections for goodness and truth that became perverted through falsifications. The fact that the women's whoredom and the squeezing of their breasts mean such things can be seen by those who are prepared to look into what is meant in the description of those women.

[5] In Hosea,

Contend with your mother, let her remove her whoredoms from her sight, 1 and her adulteries from between her breasts, lest perhaps I strip her naked, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Hosea 2:1, 3.

'Mother' here stands for the Church, 289, 2691, 2717, 3703, 4257, 5581, whoredoms' for falsifications of truth, 2466, 4865, 'adulteries' for adulterations of good, 2466, 2729, 3399. Consequently 'adulteries from between her breasts' stands for adulterated affections for goodness and truth, 'stripping naked' for depriving of all truth, 1073, 4958, 5437, 'making like a wilderness, setting like a dry land, and slaying with thirst' for the annihilation of all truth.

[6] In the same prophet,

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Hosea 9:14.

'Dry breasts' stands for affections for neither truth nor good. In Isaiah,

O women without anxiety, stand still, hear My voice; O confident daughters, perceive My speech with your ears. Strip and make yourself bare, and gird [sackcloth] around your waist 2 - people beating themselves on their breasts for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine. Isaiah 32:9, 11-12.

'Daughters' stands for affections, 2362, 3024, 3963, 'being stripped bare' for being deprived of truth, 1073, 4958, 5433, 'girding [sackcloth] around one's waist' for suffering grief over good that has been lost, 'beating on breasts' for suffering grief over the good of truth that has been lost. Since these things are meant, it also says 'for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine'; for 'the field' is the Church in respect of good, thus the Church's good, 2971, 3196, 3310, 3766, and 'vine' is the spiritual Church, and therefore the good of truth, 5113, 6375, 6376.

[7] In the Book of Revelation,

I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts. Revelation 1:12-13.

'Golden lampstands' are truths of good, 'the Son of Man' is Divine Truth, 'surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts' the good of love. Anyone may deduce from the holiness of the Word that the things John saw concealed within themselves realities such as belong to the Lord's kingdom and His Church; for what holiness would there be in making predictions about kingdoms in the world? From this one may recognize that they are heavenly things that are meant by 'lampstands' and by 'the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts'.

[8] In Luke,

A certain woman lifted up her voice out of the crowd; 3 she said about Jesus, Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts that You sucked. But Jesus said, Rather than that, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Luke 11:27-28.

The Lord's reply shows what 'blessed is the womb' and what 'the breasts' mean - 'those who hear the Word of God and keep it', thus affections for truth which exist with those who hear the Word or God, and affections for good which exist with those who keep it, that is, put it into practice.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, faces

2. literally, upon your loins

3. literally, the people

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.