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Hesekiel 9

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1 Siis ta hüüdis mu kuuldes valju häälega, öeldes: 'Tulge siia, linna nuhtlejad, ja igaühel olgu käes hävitusriist!'

2 Ja vaata, kuus meest tuli Ülavärava poolt, mis on põhja poole, ja igaühel oli käes oma purustusriist; aga nende seas oli mees, linased riided seljas ja kirjutustarbed puusal; ja nad tulid ning asusid vaskaltari kõrvale.

3 Ja Iisraeli Jumala auhiilgus tõusis keerubi pealt, mille peal ta oli, koja lävele ja hüüdis linaste riietega meest, kellel olid kirjutustarbed puusal.

4 Ja Issand ütles temale: 'Mine läbi linna, läbi Jeruusalemma, ja tee märk nende laubale, kes ohkavad ja ägavad jäleduste pärast, mida selles linnas tehakse!'

5 Ja neile teistele ütles ta minu kuuldes: 'Minge tema järel läbi linna ja lööge! Teie silm ärgu kurvastagu ja ärge andke armu!

6 Tapke sootuks vanad, noored mehed ja neitsid, lapsed ja naised, aga ärge puudutage ühtegi, kellel on märk küljes! Ja alustage minu pühamust!' Ja nad alustasid meestest, vanemaist, kes olid koja ees.

7 Ja ta ütles neile: 'Rüvetage koda ja täitke õued mahalöödutega! Minge!' Ja nad läksid välja ning alustasid linnas tapatööd.

8 Aga kui nad olid maha löömas ja mina olin üksi jäänud, siis ma langesin silmili maha ja kisendasin ning ütlesin: 'Oh Issand Jumal! Kas sa tahad hävitada kogu Iisraeli jäägi, et sa valad oma tulise viha Jeruusalemma peale?'

9 Siis ta ütles mulle: 'Iisraeli ja Juuda soo süü on väga suur; maa on täis veresüüd ja linn on täis õiguseväänamist, sest nad ütlevad: Issand on maa maha jätnud, Issand ei näe!

10 Sellepärast minugi silm ei kurvasta ja ma ei anna armu. Ma panen nende eluviisid neile pea peale.'

11 Ja vaata, linaste riietega mees, kellel olid kirjutustarbed puusal, tõi sõna, öeldes: 'Ma tegin, nagu sa mind käskisid.'

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 308

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308. What 'the east' means and what 'the garden of Eden' means has been shown already and therefore there is no need to pause over them here. But the fact that 'cherubim' means the Lord's providing against a person's insanely entering into mysteries of faith from the proprium, sensory evidence, and factual knowledge as the starting point, and against his profaning those mysteries, and in so doing perishing, becomes clear from several places in the Word where mention is made of cherubim. Because the Jews were the kind of people who, if they had had any clear knowledge about the Lord's Coming, about the fact that the representatives, or types, in that Church meant the Lord, about life after death, about the inner man, and if they had had any clear knowledge of the internal sense of the Word, they would have committed profanation and would have perished for ever; the Lord's protection against this therefore was represented by the cherubim on the Mercy Seat over the Ark, and by those on the curtains of the Tabernacle, and on its veil, and similarly in the Temple. And the provision of the cherubim meant the Lord's care and protection of them, Exodus 25:18-21; 26:1, 31;1 Kings 6:23-29, 32, 35. For the Ark, which contained the covenant, had the same meaning as the tree of life 1 does here, that is, the Lord and heavenly things which are altogether His. Consequently the Lord is also many times called 'the God of Israel seated upon the cherubim'; and it was from between the cherubim that He spoke to Aaron and Moses, Exodus 25:22; Numbers 7:89.

[2] A plain description of this exists in Ezekiel where the following is stated,

The glory of the God of Israel was raised up from above the cherub over which it had been, towards the threshold of the house. He called out to the man clothed in linen. And He said to him, Pass through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark upon the foreheads of the men who groan and sigh over all the abominations committed in the middle of it. And to the others He said, Pass through the city after him and smite; let not your eye spare, and show no clemency; slay outright old men, young men, virgins, little children, and women. Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. 2 Ezekiel 9:3-7.

And later on,

He said to the man clothed in linen, Go into the wheel underneath the cherub, and fill the palms of your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and spread them over the city. A cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and he took [some of it] and put it into the palms of the man clothed in linen; and he took it and went out. Ezekiel 10:1-7.

From these verses it is clear that the Lord's providence which guards against people's penetrating mysteries of faith is meant by 'the cherubim', and that people were therefore abandoned to their insane desires, which in this quotation are also meant by 'the fire which was spread over the city', and by 'nobody's being spared'.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, of lives

2. literally, the pierced

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