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Hesekiel 5

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1 Ja sina, inimesepoeg, võta enesele terav mõõk; tarvita seda kui habemenuga ja lase see käia üle oma pea ning habeme; siis võta enesele vaekausid ja jaota karvad:

2 kolmandik põleta tules keset linna, siis kui piiramispäevad on lõppenud; kolmandik võta ja raiu mõõgaga ümber linna; kolmandik puista tuulde, ja mina tõmban mõõga välja nende taga;

3 võta neid vähesel määral ja seo oma kuuehõlma;

4 võta neist veel osa ja viska tulle ning põleta tules; siit läheb tuli kogu Iisraeli soo kallale.

5 Nõnda ütleb Issand Jumal: See on Jeruusalemm; ma olen pannud selle paganate keskele ja selle ümber on maad.

6 Aga see on vastu pannud mu seadustele õelamalt kui paganad ja mu määrustele rohkem kui maad, mis on selle ümber; sest nad on põlanud mu seadusi ega ole käinud mu määruste järgi.

7 Seepärast ütleb Issand Jumal nõnda: Et te olete rohkem vastu pannud kui teie ümberkaudsed paganad ega ole käinud mu määruste järgi, ei ole teinud mu seaduste järgi ega ole teinud ka oma ümberkaudsete paganate seaduste järgi,

8 seepärast ütleb Issand Jumal nõnda: Vaata, ka mina olen sinu vastu ja mõistan kohut su keskel paganate silme all

9 ja ma talitan sinuga kõigi su jäleduste pärast, nagu ma enne ei ole talitanud ja milletaoliselt ma enam ei talitagi.

10 Sellepärast peavad sinu keskel isad sööma oma lapsi ja lapsed sööma oma isasid; ja ma mõistan kohut sinu üle ning puistan kogu su jäägi kõigi tuulte poole.

11 Sellepärast, nii tõesti kui ma elan, ütleb Issand Jumal, tõesti, sellepärast et sa oled rüvetanud mu pühamu kõigi oma põlastusväärsustega ja kõigi oma jäledustega, siis lõikan minagi: mu silm ei kurvasta ja ma ei anna armu.

12 Kolmandik sinust sureb katku ja lõpeb su keskel nälga, kolmandik langeb su ümber mõõga läbi ja kolmandiku puistan ma kõigi tuulte poole ning tõmban mõõga välja nende taga.

13 Mu viha mõõt saab täis ja ma vaigistan oma raevu nende kallal ning maksan kätte. Ja nad saavad tunda, et mina, Issand, olen rääkinud oma pühas vihas, kui ma olen tühjendanud oma raevu nende peale.

14 Ja ma teen sind varemeks ning teotuseks su ümberkaudsete paganate seas, iga möödamineja silma ees.

15 Ja sa saad teotuseks ja sõimuks, hoiatuseks ja ehmatuseks su ümberkaudseile paganaile, kui ma mõistan kohut su üle vihas ja raevus ning vihaste manitsustega - mina, Issand, olen rääkinud -,

16 kui ma läkitan nende kallale nälja kurjad nooled, mis ma läkitan teid hävitama ja mis saavad hukatuseks; ja ma suurendan veelgi teie nälga ning murran katki teie leivatoe.

17 Ja ma läkitan teie kallale nälja ja kurjad metsloomad, kes jätavad sind lasteta; katk ja veri käivad sinust üle ja ma toon mõõga su kallale. Mina, Issand, olen rääkinud.'

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 65

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65. And girt about at the paps with a golden girdle, signifies Divine good likewise. This is evident from the signification of "being girt about at the paps with a girdle," as being to be encompassed about the breast; "paps" and "girdle" are mentioned, because paps stand out from the breast, and a girdle encompasses. Divine good going forth from the Lord is here meant because this is signified by the "breast" in general and by the "paps" in particular. Good proceeding is meant because all garments signify things that proceed, for they are outside the body and clothe it; as things that proceed are also outside the body and encompass it. (That this is so can be seen from what is said in the work on Heaven and Hell, of The Garments with which Angels are Clothed, n. 177-182; namely, that everyone is clothed with garments according to his affection for becoming intelligent and wise, and this affection is what proceeds from them; for there is a sphere that proceeds from every angel and spirit, which is a sphere of affection, and is called the sphere of his life, and their garments are according to this sphere. That this is so does not appear before their eyes, but yet they know that it is so. Of this sphere, see Arcana Coelestia 2489, 4464, 5179, 7454, 8630.)

[2] From this it can be seen that the "Lord's garments" signify the proceeding Divine, which is Divine truth united to Divine good, which fills the universal heaven and enters into the interiors of the mind, and gives to him who receives it intelligence and wisdom. This is meant by being "clothed with white garments." Because the proceeding Divine good is signified by "the girdle" with which the Lord was girded, therefore the girdle appeared golden, for "gold" signifies the good of love (See Arcana Coelestia 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917, 9510, 9874, 9881). The "paps" are mentioned instead of the breast, which was girt with the girdle, because "paps" signify spiritual love, and "breast" signifies the good itself of that love. This love is signified by "paps" in Isaiah:

I will make thee a magnificence of eternity, the joy of generation and generation. Thou shalt suck the milk of the nations, and shalt suck the paps of kings (Isaiah 60:15 (Isaiah 60:18)).

"Kings" are truths out of good from the Lord (See above, n. 31; "paps" and "breast" are that good, which is the good of spiritual love.

[3] That "breast" signifies the good of spiritual love is from correspondence with heaven; for the whole heaven corresponds to all things of man; the inmost or third heaven corresponding to the head; the middle or second to the breast; and the outmost or first to the feet. Because there is this correspondence, heaven is also called the Greatest Man. And as the inmost or third heaven corresponds to the head, by "head" is signified the good of celestial love, which is the good of love to the Lord; because that good rules and makes that heaven; and as the middle or second heaven corresponds to the breast, by "breast" is signified the good of spiritual love, which is the good of love to the neighbor, because that good rules and makes that heaven; and as the outmost or first heaven corresponds to the feet, by "feet" is signified the good of natural love from spiritual love, which is the good of faith; because that good rules and makes that heaven. From this it is clear why "paps" signify spiritual love, and the "breast" its good. (But these things may be better understood from what is shown in the work on Heaven and Hell, especially in the following chapters: On the Three Heavens, n. 29-39; That the Divine of the Lord in the Heavens is Love to Him and Charity towards the Neighbor, n. 13-19; That the Universal Heaven represents one Man, n. 59-67; That there is a Correspondence of Heaven with all things of Man, n. 87-102; and in the Arcana Coelestia, n. 4938, 4939, 10087. It may be permitted to cite from that work, by way of illustration, this further reason why the "breast" signifies the good of spiritual love, namely, that within the breast are the heart and lungs, and the "heart" from correspondence signifies celestial love, while the "lungs" signify spiritual love, but the lungs fill the breast. That there is this correspondence, see in the Arcana Coelestia, n. 3883-3896, 9280, 9300. What celestial love is, and what spiritual love, see in the work on Heaven and Hell, n. 23.)

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 10099

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10099. 'Shall be for his sons after him' means within the natural, successively. This is clear from the meaning of 'Aaron's sons' as those things which emanate from Divine Good as the Father, dealt with in 9807, 10068; and from the meaning of 'after him' as successively or in successive order. And when those things are said of Aaron's garments, which represented the Divine Spiritual, 10098, the statement that 'they shall be for his sons after him' means the Divine Spiritual within the natural, successively. For there are three entities which succeed one another in heaven and which, if people are to have any clear-cut idea of them, must be called by their particular names - celestial, spiritual, and natural. These three emanate there in order one from another; they are interconnected by an influx passing successively from one on to the next, and in this way they make one. What is Divine and the Lord's in the heavens is referred to by these different names on account of differences in the reception of it.

[2] The subject at present is the second ram, called the ram of fillings [of the hand]; and 'filling the hand' means consecration to represent what is Divine and the Lord's in the heavens, and the transmission and the reception of it there, 10019. Consequently, in order that the reception of it in the natural may also be described, the present verse speaks about Aaron's garments, about their being worn in succeeding years by his sons after him. By this the succeeding stage of that reality in the heavens which is meant by 'the filling of the hands' should be understood. From this it is evident that these matters in the internal sense hold together in an unbroken sequence, even though in the sense of the letter a break in the series of details regarding what had to be done with the ram is apparent here.

Since things which exist in successive order in heaven are the subject here, something must also be stated to explain what 'successive' means. The majority of learned people at the present day have no other idea of things existing in successive order than of a continuation, or of things held together by continuing one into the next. This being their idea of the way that things succeed one another they can have no conception of the nature of the difference between exterior and interior things in a person, nor consequently of the difference between a person's body and his spirit. When therefore they contemplate these matters with the ideas they have they cannot possibly understand how a person's spirit can be alive within a human form after the decay or death of the body.

[3] But things existing in successive order are not continuous, merging one into the next; instead they are discrete, that is, belong to distinct degrees that are clear-cut one from the next. For interior things are entirely distinct from exterior ones, so distinct that the exterior things can be separated and the interior ones still retain the life they have. So it is that a person can be withdrawn from the body and think within his spirit or, as an expression commonly used by the ancients puts it, withdrawn from sensory perceptions and raised to more internal things. The ancients also knew that when a person is withdrawn from perceiving things with his physical senses he is drawn up or raised to the light belonging to his spirit, that is, the light of heaven. So it was also that learned ancients knew that when their body had decayed they would be living a more internal life, which they called their spirit. And since they regarded this life to be the truly human life they also knew that they would be living within a human form. Such was the idea they had regarding a person's soul. And since that life partook of Divine life they perceived that their soul was immortal; for they knew that that part of a person which was a partaker of Divine life and for this reason linked to it could never die.

[4] But this idea of a person's soul and spirit disappeared after those ancient times, for the reason, as stated above, that people did not have a right idea about things existing in successive order. This also explains why those who in their thinking rely on present-day learning do not know what the spiritual is, nor that this is distinct from the natural. For those who conceive of things in successive order as something continuous inevitably take the spiritual to be nothing more than a purer extension of the natural, when yet the spiritual and the natural are as distinct from each other as prior and posterior, and so as that which begets and that which is begotten. Consequently learned people such as these do not see the difference between the internal or spiritual man and the external or natural man, nor therefore between a person's inward thought and will and his outward thought and will. Consequently also they cannot understand anything regarding faith and love, heaven and hell, or the life of a person after death.

[5] But those who have a right and distinct idea about things existing in successive order can in some measure comprehend that with a person who is being regenerated interior things are opened in successive order, and that as they are opened they are also raised to interior light and life, and nearer to the Divine; and that this opening and consequent raising is accomplished by means of God's truths, which are vessels receptive of the good of love from the Divine. The good of love is what joins a person directly to the Divine, for love is spiritual togetherness. From this it follows that a person can be opened and raised up on increasingly internal levels, in the measure that the good of love from the Divine exists in him, and conversely that there is no such opening or consequent raising up with the person who does not receive God's truths, which happens if evil resides in him. But a fuller statement regarding this successive order and its mysteries will in the Lord's Divine mercy be presented elsewhere 1 .

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1. This intention was not fulfilled in Arcana Caelestia. But see Divine Love and Wisdom published in 1763, paragraphs 173-281, in particular 205-208.

  
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