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Jeremija 16

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1 Ja mulle tuli Issanda sõna; ta ütles:

2 'Ära võta enesele naist ja ärgu olgu sul siin paigas poegi ega tütreid!

3 Sest nõnda ütleb Issand poegade ja tütarde kohta, kes sünnivad siin paigas, ja nende emade kohta, kes neid sünnitavad, ja nende isade kohta, kes neid sigitavad siin maal:

4 Nad surevad surmahaigustesse, neid ei leinata ja neid ei maeta, nad jäävad maale sõnnikuks. Nad hukkuvad mõõga ja nälja läbi ning nende laibad saavad taeva lindude ja maa loomade roaks.

5 Sest Issand ütleb nõnda: Ära mine leinakotta, ära käi kurtmas ja ära tunne neile kaasa, sest mina võtan sellelt rahvalt oma rahu, armu ja halastuse, ütleb Issand.

6 Ja nad surevad, niihästi suured kui väikesed siin maal, neid ei maeta ega peeta neile leinakaebust, ja ükski ei lõika enesele märke ega aja pead paljaks nende pärast.

7 Ei murta neile leinaleiba lohutuseks surnu pärast ega joodeta neid troostikarikast nende isa ja ema pärast.

8 Ära mine peomajja koos nendega istuma, sööma ja jooma!

9 Sest nõnda ütleb vägede Issand, Iisraeli Jumal: Vaata, ma lõpetan siit paigast teie silme ees ja teie päevil lustihääle ja rõõmuhääle, peigmehe hääle ja pruudi hääle.

10 Ja kui sa kuulutad sellele rahvale kõiki neid sõnu ja nemad küsivad sinult: 'Mispärast räägib Issand meile kogu sellest suurest õnnetusest ja mis on meie süü ja patt, mida me oleme teinud Issanda, oma Jumala vastu?',

11 siis vasta neile: Sellepärast et teie vanemad jätsid minu maha, ütleb Issand, ja läksid teiste jumalate järele ja teenisid ning kummardasid neid, jätsid minu maha ega pidanud minu Seadust.

12 Teie aga olete teinud halvemini kui teie vanemad, sest vaata, te käite igaüks oma kurja südame paadumuses mind kuulda võtmata.

13 Sellepärast ma paiskan teid sellelt maalt maale, mis on tundmatu teile ja teie vanemaile, ja te teenite seal teisi jumalaid päevad ja ööd, sest mina ei anna teile armu.

14 Ometi, vaata, päevad tulevad, ütleb Issand, kui enam ei öelda: 'Nii tõesti kui elab Issand, kes tõi Iisraeli lapsed ära Egiptusemaalt',

15 vaid: 'Nii tõesti kui elab Issand, kes tõi Iisraeli lapsed ära põhjamaalt ja kõigist maadest, kuhu ta oli nad pillutanud.' Sest ma toon nad tagasi nende maale, mille ma olen andnud nende vanemaile.

16 Vaata, ma läkitan paljude kalameeste järele, ütleb Issand, et nood püüaksid neid; ja pärast seda ma läkitan paljude küttide järele, et nood kütiksid neid kõigilt mägedelt ja kõigilt künkailt ning kaljulõhedest.

17 Sest minu silmad on kõigi nende teede peal, nad ei ole minu eest varjul ja nende süü ei ole peidetud mu silme eest.

18 Aga esmalt tasun ma kahekordselt nende süü ja patu, sellepärast et nad on teotanud minu maad oma põlastusväärsete ebajumalate laipadega ja on täitnud mu pärisosa oma jäledustega.

19 Issand, mu tugevus ja varjupaik, mu pelgupaik hädaajal. Sinu juurde tulevad rahvad maa äärtest ja ütlevad: 'Meie vanemail oli pärisosaks ainult vale, tühised ebajumalad, ja nende hulgas ei olnud ühtegi, kellest oleks olnud kasu.'

20 Kas saab inimene valmistada enesele jumalaid? Need ju ei olegi jumalad!

21 Seepärast, vaata, nad saavad tunda, seekord ma annan neile tunda oma kätt ja oma väge, et nad teaksid, et minu nimi on Issand.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 797

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797. "And the sound of a bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore." This symbolically means that those caught up in the Roman Catholic religion because of its doctrine and a life in accordance with it have no conjunction of goodness and truth, which is what forms the church.

The sound here symbolizes joy, because it is the sound of a bridegroom and bride. In the highest sense a bridegroom means the Lord in respect to Divine good, and a bride means the church in respect to Divine truth from the Lord. For a church is a church by virtue of its reception of the Lord's Divine goodness in the Divine truths that it has from Him.

It is apparent from the Word that the Lord is called a bridegroom and also a husband, and that the church is called a bride and also a wife. That this produces the heavenly marriage that is a marriage of goodness and truth will be seen in a short work, On Marriage. 1

Now because this heavenly marriage is produced in people in the church by their receiving Divine goodness from the Lord in Divine truths drawn from the Word, it is apparent that there is no conjunction of goodness and truth in people caught up in the Roman Catholic religion because of its doctrine and so a life in conformity with it, since they have no conjunction with the Lord, but instead a conjunction with men, living and dead. This conjunction in people caught up in a love of exercising dominion from a love of self over the Divine sanctities belonging to the Lord, and over the Lord Himself, is as though a conjunction with the Devil, who, as we said in the preceding number, is that love. And to turn to the Devil in order to come by him to God is detestable.

[2] That the Lord is called a bridegroom and the church a bride is apparent from the following passages:

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. (John 3:29)

This John the Baptist said in reference to the Lord.

Jesus said..., "As long as the bridegroom is with them, the wedding guests cannot fast. The day will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast. (Matthew 9:15, cf. Mark 2:19-20)

I... saw the holy city, New Jerusalem..., prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Revelation 21:2)

(An angel said,) "Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife." (Revelation 21:9-10)

...(the time for) the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready... Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. (Revelation 19:7, 9)

The bridegroom whom the ten virgins went out to meet, also means the Lord (Matthew 25:1-13).

[3] From these passages it is apparent what the sound and joy of a bridegroom and bride symbolize in following places:

As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. (Isaiah 62:5)

My soul shall rejoice over my God..., as a bridegroom puts on the turban, and as a bride adorns herself with her vessels. (Isaiah 61:10)

Again there shall be heard in this place... the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the sound of the bridegroom and the sound of the bride, the sound of those saying, "Confess Jehovah Zebaoth...." (Jeremiah 33:10-11)

Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, and the bride from her room. (Joel 2:16)

I will cause to cease... from the streets of Jerusalem the sound of mirth and the sound of gladness, the sound of the bridegroom and the sound of the bride. (Jeremiah 7:34, cf. 16:9)

I will take from them the sound of mirth and the sound of gladness, the sound of the bridegroom and the sound of the bride, the sound of mills and the light of the lamp. And this whole land shall be a desolation (because of) the king of Babylon... (Jeremiah 25:10-11)

[4] From this one can now see the successive meanings in these two verses, that those caught up in the Roman Catholic religion will not have any affection for spiritual truth and goodness (no. 792); that they are without any understanding of spiritual truth, and so are without any thought of spiritual truth (no. 793), for thought springs from affection and accords with it; that neither do they inquire into, investigate, or confirm spiritual truth (no. 794); that they are also without any enlightenment from the Lord and so without any perception of spiritual truth (no. 796); and finally that they have no conjunction of goodness and truth, which is what forms the church (no. 797).

Thus the literal pronouncements also follow in sequence.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. A reference to a work by that title never published by the writer. Extant in manuscript are a brief outline, a relatively short preliminary draft, and two indices for a longer draft on the subject of marriage that has not been found. The content of the existing material makes clear that these manuscripts, including the missing longer draft, were written in preparation for Delights of Wisdom Relating to Married Love (or Conjugial Love), Followed By Pleasures of Insanity Relating to Licentious Love, which the writer published in 1768, two years after publishing the present work on the Apocalypse.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.