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Daniel 9

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1 Ensimäisenä Dariuksen Ahasveruksen pojan vuonna Mediläisten suvusta, joka Kaldean valtakuntaa hallitsi.

2 Juuri sinä ensimäisenä hänen valtakuntansa vuotena, löysin minä Daniel kirjoista vuosiluvun, josta Herra puhunut oli Jeremialle prophetalle, että Jerusalemin hävitys piti täytettämän seitsemäntenäkymmenentenä ajastaikana.

3 Ja minä käänsin minuni etsimään Herraa Jumalaa rukouksella ja anomisella, paastolla säkissä ja tuhassa.

4 Ja rukoilin Herraa minun Jumalaani, tunnustin ja sanoin: Herra, sinä suuri ja hirmuinen Jumala, joka liiton ja armon pidät niille, jotka sinua rakastavat ja sinun käskys pitävät.

5 Me olemme syntiä ja väärin tehneet, jumalattomat ja tottelemattomat olleet. Me olemme sinun käskyistäs ja oikeuksistas poikenneet.

6 Emme totelleet sinun palvelioitas prophetaita, jotka saarnasivat sinun nimees meidän kuninkaillemme, päämiehillemme ja isillemme ja myös kaikelle kansalle maakunnassa.

7 Sinä Herra olet vanhurskas. Mutta meidän täytyy hävetä, niinkuin tänäpänä tapahtuu Juudan miehille ja Jerusalemin asuvaisille ja kaikelle Israelille, sekä niille, jotka läsnä että niille, jotka kaukana ovat kaikissa maakunnissa, kuhunka sinä heitä hyljännyt olet heidän pahain tekoinsa tähden, joita he ovat tehneet sinua vastaan.

8 Ja Herra; meidän ja meidän kuninkaamme, meidän päämiehemme ja meidän isämme täytyy hävetä, että me olemme syntiä tehneet sinua vastaan.

9 Herra meidän Jumalamme on laupius ja anteeksi antamus, vaikka me olemme vastahakoiset olleet.

10 Ja emme totelleet Herran meidän Jumalamme ääntä, että me vaeltaneet olisimme hänen käskyissänsä, jotka hän meille antoi palveliainsa prophetain kautta.

11 Vaan koko Israel rikkoi sinun lakis ja suuttui kuulemasta sinun ääntäs. Sentähden on myös se kirous ja vala sattunut meihin, joka kirjoitettu on Moseksen Jumalan palvelian laissa, että me olemme syntiä tehneet häntä vastaan.

12 Ja hän on sanansa pitänyt, jonka hän puhunut on meitä ja meidän tuomareitamme vastaan, jotka meitä tuomitsivat; että hän niin suuren onnettomuuden on antanut tulla meidän päällemme, ettei sen kaltaista kaiken taivaan alla tapahtunut ole kuin Jerusalemissa tapahtunut on.

13 Niinkuin kirjoitettu on Moseksen laissa, niin on kaikki tämä onnettomuus meille tapahtunut. Emme myös rukoilleet Herran meidän Jumalamme edessä, että me synnistä palajaisimme ja sinun totuutes ymmärtäisimme.

14 Sentähden on myös Herra valvonut tässä onnettomuudessa, ja on sen saattanut meidän päällemme. Sillä Herra meidän Jumalamme on hurskas kaikissa töissänsä, joita hän tekee, koska emme totelleet hänen ääntänsä.

15 Ja nyt Herra meidän Jumalamme, joka sinun kansas Egyptistä olet johdattanut ulos väkevällä kädellä ja tehnyt itselles nimen, niinkuin se tänäpänä on: Me olemme syntiä tehneet, ja jumalattomat olleet.

16 Ah Herra! Kaiken sinun vanhurskautes tähden kääntyköön nyt sinun vihas ja hirmuisuutes pois sinun kaupungistas Jerusalemista ja sinun pyhästä vuorestas! Sillä meidän syntimme tähden ja meidän isäimme pahain tekoin tähden häväistään Jerusalem ja sinun kansas kaikkein seassa, jotka meidän ympärillämme ovat.

17 Ja nyt meidän Jumalamme, kuule palvelias rukous ja anomus, ja katso armollisesti sinun pyhäs puoleen, joka kukistettu on, Herran tähden.

18 Kallista korvas, minun Jumalani ja kuule. Ja avaa silmäs ja näe, kuinka me hävitetyt olemme ja se kaupunki, joka sinun nimelläs nimitetty on. Sillä emme rukoile sinua meidän omassa vanhurskaudessamme, vaan sinun suuren laupiutes tähden.

19 Oi Herra, kuule. Oi Herra, ole armollinen. Oi Herra, ota vaari ja tee se ja älä viivy itse tähtes, minun Jumalani! Sillä sinun kaupunkis ja sinun kansas on sinun nimelläs nimitetty.

20 Kuin minä vielä puhuin ja rukoilin ja minun syntiäni ja minun kansani Israelin syntiä tunnistin ja olin minun rukouksissani Herran minun Jumalani edessä, minun Jumalani pyhän vuoren tähden;

21 Juuri silloin, kuin minä näin rukoilin, lensi äkisti minun tyköni se mies Gabriel, jonka minä ennen nähnyt olin näyssä, ja rupesi minuun ehtoouhrin ajalla.

22 Ja hän neuvoi minua, puhui minun kanssani ja sanoi: Daniel, nyt minä olen lähtenyt sinua neuvomaan, ettäs ymmärtäisit.

23 Sinun rukoustes alussa kävi ulos käsky, ja minä tulin sinulle ilmoittamaan, sillä sinä olet otollinen. Niin ota nyt vaari sanasta, ettäs näyn ymmärtäisit.

24 Seitsemänkymmentä viikkoa on määrätty sinun kansalles ja pyhälle kaupungilles, niin ylitse käyminen lopetetaan ja synnit peitetään ja pahat teot sovitetaan ja ijankaikkinen vanhurskaus tuodaan edes. Ja näky ja ennustus suljetaan ja se kaikkein pyhin voidellaan.

25 Niin tiedä nyt ja ota vaari, että siitä ajasta kuin käsky annetaan ulos, että heidän pitää jälleen kotia palajaman ja Jerusalem rakennettaman, päämieheen Kristukseen asti, on seitsemän viikkoa. Niin myös kaksiseitsemättäkymmentä viikkoa, joina kadut ja muurit jälleen rakennetaan, vaikka surkialla ajalla.

26 Ja kahden viikon perästä seitsemättäkymmentä surmataan Kristus, ja ei enää ole. Ja päämiehen kansa tulee ja kukistaa kaupungin ja pyhän, niin että ne loppuvat, niinkuin virran kautta. Ja sodan loppuun asti pitää sen hävitettynä oleman.

27 Mutta hän monelle liiton vahvistaa yhdessä viikossa. Ja puolessa viikossa lakkauttaa uhrin ja ruokauhrin. Ja siipien tykönä seisoo hävityksen julmuus. Ja on päätetty, että se loppuan asti pitää hävitetty oleman.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 9406

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9406. 'And under His feet' means the lowest level of meaning, which is that of the letter itself. This is clear from the meaning of 'feet' as natural things, dealt with in 2162, 3147, 3761, 3986, 4280, 4938-4952, so that the soles under the feet are the lowest things in the natural order. The reason why the lowest level of meaning in the Word, which is the sense of the letter, is meant here by 'under the feet' is that these words refer to Divine Truth or the Word, which comes from the Lord and is the Lord, as may be recognized from what has come before. And the lowest level of God's truth or the Word is the Word as it exists in the sense of the letter, that is, the natural sense since it is intended for the natural man. The fact that the sense of the letter contains an internal sense, which in comparison is spiritual and heavenly, is clear from all those things which have been shown up to now regarding the Word. But the more worldly- and bodily-minded a person is, the less he understands this, because he does not allow himself to be raised into spiritual light and from there to see what the Word is like, namely that in the letter it is natural and in the internal sense is spiritual. For it is possible to see from the spiritual world or the light of heaven what lower things down to the lowest are like, but not from below upwards, 9401 (end), and so to see that the Word in the letter is as described above.

[2] Since the Word in the letter is natural, and natural things are meant by 'the feet', the lowest level of the Word, like the lowest of the Church, is called 'the place of Jehovah's feet', also 'His footstool', 1 as well as 'clouds and darkness' in comparison, as in Isaiah,

They will keep Your gates open continually, to bring to You the army 2 of the nations, and their kings in procession. 3 The glory of Lebanon will come to You, the fir, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; and I will make the place of My feet glorious. Isaiah 60:11, 13.

This refers to the Lord and to His kingdom and Church. 'The army of the nations' is used to mean those with whom forms of the good of faith exist, and 'kings' to mean those with whom the truths of faith are present. For the meaning of 'nations' as those with whom forms of the good of faith exist, see 1259, 1328, 1416, 1849, 4574, 6005, and for that of 'kings' as those with whom truths are present, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148. 'The glory of Lebanon', or the cedar, is spiritual good and truth; 'the fir, the pine, and the box tree' are corresponding, natural forms of good and truth; 'the place of the sanctuary' is heaven and the Church, and the Word as well; 'the place of the feet' is heaven, the Church, and the Word as well, on their lowest levels. The reason why the Word as well is meant is that heaven is heaven, and the Church likewise the Church, by virtue of Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, and Divine Truth which makes the Church and heaven is the Word. This also explains why the inmost part of the tent in which the ark containing the law was is called 'the sanctuary'; for 'the law' is the Word, 6752. In the same prophet,

The heavens are My throne and the earth My footstool. Isaiah 66:1.

[3] In David,

Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at His footstool. Holy is He! Moses and Aaron were among His priests; He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. Psalms 99:5-7.

'Jehovah's footstool' which they were to worship at is Divine Truth on its lowest levels, thus the Word. 'Moses and Aaron' in the representative sense are the Word, see 7089, 7382, 9373, 9374, and 'cloud' is the Word in the letter or Divine Truth on its lowest levels, see Preface to Genesis 18, and 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343 (end), 6752, 8106, 8781; and from all this it is evident what 'speaking in the pillar of cloud' means.

[4] In the same author,

We heard of Him in Ephrathah, we found Him in the fields of the wood. We will enter His dwelling-places, and we will bow down at His footstool. Psalms 132:6-7.

This refers to the Lord and the revelation of Himself in the Word. 'Finding Him in Ephrathah' means doing so in the spiritual-celestial sense of the Word, 4585, 4594, 'in the fields of the wood' in the natural or literal sense of the Word, 3220, 9011 (end). 'Footstool' stands for Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, as it exists on the lowest levels of the Word.

[5] In the same author,

Jehovah bowed heaven, and thick darkness was under His feet. He made darkness His hiding-place - darkness of waters, clouds of the heavens. From the brightness before Him His clouds passed away. Psalms 18:9, 11-12.

This refers to the Lord's coming and presence in the Word. 'Thick darkness under His feet' stands for the sense of the letter of the Word, as does 'darkness of waters' and 'clouds of the heavens'. The fact that this very sense holds within itself Divine Truth as this exists in the heavens is meant by 'He made darkness His hiding-place'; and the fact that at the presence of the Lord the internal sense then appears, as it exists in heaven, and in its glory, is meant by 'from the brightness before Him His clouds pass away'. In Nahum,

The way of Jehovah is in storm and tempest, and the clouds are the dust of His feet. Nahum 1:3.

Here also 'the clouds' stands for the Word in the sense of the letter, which is also meant by 'storm and tempest', in which 'the way of Jehovah' lies.

[6] When God's truth as it is in heaven shines through for a person in the actual sense of the letter, this sense is then portrayed as 'the feet', which have a shine 'like that of burnished bronze', as also in Daniel,

I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a Man clothed in linen whose loins were girded with gold of Uphaz, and His body was like tarshish; 4 and His face was like the appearance 5 of lightning, and His eyes were like fiery torches; His arms and His feet were like the shine of burnished bronze, and the sound of His words like the sound of a crowd. Daniel 10:5-6.

Here 'a Man clothed in linen' is used to mean in the highest sense the Lord; and since the Lord is meant it is also used to mean Divine Truth emanating from Him. For Divine Truth that emanates from the Lord is the Lord Himself in heaven and in the Church. God's truth or the Lord on lowest levels is meant by 'arms and feet like the shine of burnished bronze', and also by 'the sound of His words like the sound of a crowd'; and something similar is meant in Ezekiel 1:7.

[7] The successive state of the Church on this planet so far as reception of God's truth emanating from the Lord is concerned is also meant by the statue seen by Nebuchadnezzar, in Daniel,

The head of the statue was gold, its breast and its arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze, its legs were iron, its feet were partly iron and partly clay which did not cohere with each other. And the stone cut out of the rock smashed to pieces the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold. Daniel 2:32-35, 43, 45.

The first state of the Church so far as reception of God's truth emanating from the Lord is concerned is 'the gold', because 'gold' means celestial good, which is the good of love to the Lord, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 8932. The second state is meant by 'the silver', this being spiritual good, which is the good of faith in the Lord and of charity towards the neighbour, 1551, 2954, 5658, 7999. The third state is meant by 'the bronze', which is natural good, 425, 1551. And the fourth state is meant by 'the iron', which is natural truth, 425, 426. 'The clay' means falsity, which does not cohere with truth and good. The smashing to pieces of the iron, bronze, silver, and gold by the stone cut out of the rock means the destruction of the Church so far as reception of truth from the Word is concerned when the sense of the letter of the Word is used to reinforce falsity and evil. This happens when the Church is in its final state, at which time it is no longer governed by any heavenly love, only by worldly and bodily love. This was how it was with the Word so far as reception of it among the Jewish nation was concerned when the Lord came into the world. And it is how it is with the Word among the majority at the present day. They are not even aware that there is anything inwardly present in the Word; and if they were told that there is and what it is like they would not accept it. Yet in most ancient times, which are meant by 'the gold', people saw within the sense of the letter of the Word nothing apart from what was heavenly, almost independently of the letter.

From all this it may now be recognized that 'the God of Israel' and what was seen 'under His feet' means the Word on its lowest level of meaning, which is the sense of the letter.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the stool of His feet

2. Though the Hebrew word means army it may be rendered alternatively as strength or as wealth. Most English versions of the Scriptures prefer one of these.

3. literally, their kings will be led

4. A Hebrew word for a particular kind of precious stone, possibly a beryl.

5. literally, the face

  
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1530. The truth of this could be proved to anyone from the Word, for example, when the Lord revealed Himself to Peter, James, and John, for His face at that time shone like the sun and His garments became white as the light, Matthew 17:2. The sole reason why He appeared to them in this way was that their interior sight had been opened. The same is also confirmed from the Prophets, as in Isaiah when reference is being made to the Lord's kingdom in heaven,

The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days. Isaiah 30:26.

And in John, where reference is being made to the Lord's kingdom which is called the New Jerusalem,

The city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shed light in it; for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. Revelation 21:23.

And elsewhere in the same book,

There will be no night there, nor do they need a lamp or light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. Revelation 22:5.

And in addition when the Lord appeared to Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders, it is said that they saw the God of Israel under whose feet there was so to speak a paved work of sapphire stone, like the substance of the sky for clearness, Exodus 24:10. Because the Lord's celestial and spiritual appears before the external sight of the angels as the Sun and the Moon, 'the sun' in the Word therefore means what is celestial, and 'the moon' what is spiritual.

  
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