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Habakuk 2

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1 Tässä minä seison minun vartiossani, ja astun minun linnaani; ja katselen nähdäkseni, mitä minulle sanotaan, ja mitä minulle sanotaan, ja mitä minä sitä vastaan, joka minua nuhtelee.

2 Mutta Herra vastasi minua ja sanoi: kirjoita se näky, ja piirrä tauluun, että ohitsekäypä sen lukis.

3 Sillä se ennustus pitää ajallansa täytettämän, ja pitää sittekin ilmaantuman ja ei vilpistelemän. Jos se viipyy, niin odota häntä; hän tulee totisesti, ja ei viivyttele.

4 Mutta joka sitä vastaan on, ei hänen sielunsa pidä menestymän; sillä vanhurskas on elävä uskostansa.

5 Mutta viina tekee ylpiän miehen petolliseksi, ettei hän taida pysyä siassansa; joka sielunsa levittää niinkuin helvetti, ja on niinkuin kuolema, joka tyytymätöin on; hän tempaa puoleensa kaikki pakanat, ja kokoo tykönsä kaikki kansat.

6 Mitämaks, nämät kaikki pitää hänestä sananlaskun tekemän, ja puheen ja tapauksen, ja sanoman: voi sitä, joka kokoo tavaransa muiden hyvyydestä! kuinka kauvan se kestää? ja sälyttää paljon lokaa päällensä.

7 Oo kuinka äkisti ne pitää tuleman, jotka sinua purevat, ja ne heräävät, jotka sinun syöksevät pois? ja sinun täytyy tulla heille saaliiksi.

8 Että sinä olet monet pakanat ryövännyt, niin pitää kaikki jääneet kansoista taas sinua ryöväämän, ihmisten veren tähden, ja maan ja kaupungin ja kaikkein sen asuvaisten tähden, jotka ryöstetyt ovat.

9 Voi sitä, joka ahne on oman huoneensa pahuudeksi, että hän panis pesänsä korkeuteen, ja pelastais itsensä onnettomuudesta.

10 Mutta sinun neuvos pitää sinun huonees häpiäksi joutuman; sillä sinä olet ylen paljon kansoja lyönyt, ja ylpiästi syntiä tehnyt.

11 Sillä kivetkin seinässä pitää huutaman, ja malat harjalta pitää heitä vastaaman.

12 Voi sitä, joka kaupungin verellä rakentaa, ja valmistaa kaupunkia vääryydellä.

13 Katso, eikö nämät Herralta Zebaotilta tapahdu? Mitä kansat ovat sinulle tehneet, se poltetaan tulessa, ja jonka tähden ihmiset ovat väsytetyt, se täytyy hukutettaa.

14 Sillä maan pitää oleman täynnä Herran kunnian tuntoa, niinkuin vedet, jotka meren peittävät.

15 Voi sinua, joka lähimmäiselles panet sisälle, sekoitat siihen julmuutes ja juovutat häntä, ettäs hänen häpiänsä näkisit.

16 Sinun pitää häpiällä ravittaman kunnian edestä: niin juo sinä myös nyt, ettäs häpys paljastaisit; sillä Herran oikian käden malja pitää sinun tykös poikkeeman, ja sinun täytyy häpiällisesti oksentaa sinun kunniaas vastaan.

17 Sillä se väkivalta, joka Libanonissa tehty on, pitää lankeeman sinun päälles, ja haaskatut eläimet pitää sinua peljättämän, ihmisten veren tähden, ja maan ja kaupungin ja kaikkein sen asuvaisten tähden, jotka ryöstetyt ovat.

18 Mitä siis kuva auttaa taitaa, jonka puuseppä tehnyt on? eli valettu kuva ja valheen saarnaaja? Miksi se, joka niitä tekee, luottaa siihen, että hän mykkiä epäjumalia tehdä taitaa?

19 Voi sitä, joka sanoo kannolle: heräjä! ja mykälle kivelle: nouse! Senkö pitäis opettaman? Katso, se on kullalla ja hopialla silattu, ja ei ole siinä ensinkään henkeä.

20 Mutta Herra on pyhässä templissänsä; vaijetkoon kaikki maailma hänen kasvoinsa edessä.

   


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Apocalypse Revealed # 774

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774. "Every kind of thyine wood, 1 every kind of ivory vessel." This symbolically means that these Roman Catholics no longer have these because they do not have any of the natural goods and truths to which such things correspond.

This statement is similar to the ones explained in nos. 772 and 773 above, the only difference being that the valuables named first mean spiritual goods and truths (as explained in no. 772 above), and that those named second mean celestial goods and truths (as explained just above in no. 773), while those named now - thyine wood and ivory vessel - mean natural goods and truths.

[2] To explain: There are three degrees of wisdom and love, and so three degrees of truth and goodness. We call the first degree celestial, the second spiritual, and the third natural. These three degrees are present from birth in every person, and they are present in general also in heaven and in the church. Because of this there are three heavens, a highest one, an intermediate one, and a lowest one, altogether distinct from each other in accordance with these degrees. The same is true of the Lord's church on earth. But this is not the place to explain the nature of the church with people in the celestial degree, with people in the spiritual degree, and with people in the natural degree. See instead what we said about them in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom, Part Three, where we dealt with degrees. Here we will say only that in the case of people coming from Babylon, they have no spiritual goods and truths, no celestial goods and truths, and not even any natural goods and truths.

Spiritual goods and truths are mentioned first, because many of those coming from Babylon can be spiritual, provided they hold the Word holy at heart, as they do with the mouth. But they cannot become celestial, because they do not turn to the Lord, but turn to people living and dead and worship them. It is for this reason that celestial goods and truths are mentioned second.

[3] Thyine wood symbolizes natural good because wood in the Word symbolizes goodness, and stone truth, and thyine wood derives its name from a word meaning two, and the number two also symbolizes goodness.

The good symbolized is natural good, because wood is not a valuable material like gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet. The same is true of stone. The case is similar with ivory, which symbolizes natural truth. Ivory symbolizes natural truth because it is white and can be polished, and because it protrudes from the mouth of an elephant and also constitutes its might. In order for ivory to symbolize the natural truth of the goodness symbolized by thyine wood, the text specifies a vessel of ivory, as a vessel symbolizes something that contains, here truth that contains good.

[4] That wood symbolizes goodness can be seen to some extent from the following considerations: That the bitter waters at Marah were made sweet by casting in something wooden (Exodus 15:25). That the tables of stone on which the Law was written were placed in an ark made of acacia wood (Exodus 25:10-16). That the Temple in Jerusalem was roofed with wood and paneled inside with wood (1 Kings 6:9, 15). And that the altar in the wilderness was made of wood (Exodus 27:1, 6).

It can be seen to some extent also from the following:

...the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the wood answers it. (Habakkuk 2:11)

They will plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise..., and they will cast your stones and your timber... into the midst of the sea. (Ezekiel 26:12)

The prophet Ezekiel was told to take a piece of wood and write on it the names of Judah and the children of Israel, and also on another piece of wood the names of Joseph and Ephraim; and that the Lord Jehovih would make them into one piece of wood (Ezekiel 37:16, 19).

We drink our water in exchange for silver, and our wood comes at a price. (Lamentations 5:4)

If someone goes with his neighbor into a forest..., and the ax head (falls) from the wooden handle...(onto) his neighbor so that he dies, he shall flee to (a city of refuge). (Deuteronomy 19:5)

The latter is said because wood symbolizes goodness, and so because the person did not kill his neighbor out of evil or with evil intention, therefore, but by accident, being impelled by good. And so on elsewhere.

[5] In an opposite sense, however, wood symbolizes something evil or cursed. So for example, they made graven images out of wood and worshiped them (Deuteronomy 4:23-28; Isaiah 37:19; 40:20; Jeremiah 10:3, 8; Ezekiel 20:32). Also, being hanged from a tree was a curse (Deuteronomy 21:22-23).

That ivory symbolizes natural truth can be seen moreover from passages which mention ivory, such as Ezekiel 27:6, 15; Amos 3:15; 6:4; Psalms 45:8.

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1. Thyine wood has not been identified. It has been associated with citron wood, and also with scented wood in general.

  
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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.

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Jeremiah 10

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1 Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!

2 Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

5 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."

6 There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.

7 Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it appertains to you; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.

8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

10 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.

11 You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

13 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

17 Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.

18 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it].

19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

20 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

22 The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.

23 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

24 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.