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Jeremiah 30

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1 Tämä on se sana, joka tapahtui Herralta Jeremialle, sanoen:

2 Näin sanoo Herra Israelin Jumala, sanoen: kirjoita itselles kirjaan kaikki ne sanat, jotka minä puhun sinulle.

3 Sillä katso, se aika tulee, sanoo Herra, että minä tahdon kääntää kansani vankiuden, sekä Israelin että Juudan, sanoo Herra, ja annan heidän tulla jälleen siihen maahan, jonka minä heidän isillensä antanut olen, että he sen omistaman pitää.

4 Ja nämät ovat ne sanat, jotka Herra puhui Israelista ja Juudasta.

5 Sillä näin sanoo Herra: me kuulemme pelvon äänen, siellä on sula pelko ja ei yhtään rauhaa.

6 Kysykäät nyt ja katsokaat, taitaako miehenpuoli synnyttää? Kuinkasta siis minä näen kaikkein miesten kädet lanteissansa niinkuin lapsensynnyttäjän, ja että kaikki kasvot ovat niin valjut?

7 Voi! se on suuri päivä, ja ei ole senkaltaista ollut; ja murheen aika on Jakobissa, kuitenkin pitää heitä siitä autettaman.

8 Mutta sen pitää tapahtuman siihen aikaan, sanoo Herra Zebaot, että minä taitan hänen ikeensä rikki kaulastas, ja repäisen sinun sitees, niin ettei heidän enään siellä pidä muukalaisia palveleman;

9 Vaan heidän pitää palveleman Herraa Jumalaansa ja Davidia kuningastansa, jonka minä heille herättänyt olen.

10 Sentähden älä pelkää palveliani Jakob, sanoo Herra, ja Israel älä hämmästy! sillä katso, minä tahdon auttaa sinua kaukaa, ja sinun siementäs vankiutensa maasta, niin että Jakobin pitää tuleman jällensä, elämän rauhassa ja oleman hyvässä levossa, ja ei kenenkään pidä häntä peljättämän.

11 Sillä minä olen sinun tykönäs, sanoo Herra, auttamassa sinua; ja teloitan kaikki pakanat, joihin minä olen sinut hajoittanut; mutta en minä sinua lopeta, vaan tahdon sinua kurittaa kohtuudella, ja en tahdo sinua peräti viattomana pitää.

12 Sillä näin sanoo Herra: sinun haavas on kuoleman haava, ja sinun kipus juuri paha.

13 Ei toimita kenkään sinun asias sortajaa vastaan; ei kenkään taida sinua parantaa.

14 Kaikki sinun rakastajas unhottavat sinun, ja ei kysy sinua; sillä minä olen lyönyt sinua, niinkuin vihollista armottomalla kurituksella, suurten pahaintekois tähden ja raskasten synteis tähden.

15 Mitäs huudat haavais tähden ja suuresta kivustas? Minä olen tämän tehnyt sinulle suurten pahaintekois ja raskasten synteis tähden.

16 Sentähden kaikki, jotka sinua ovat syöneet, heitä pitää taas syötämän, ja kaikki sinun vihollises pitää vangiksi tuleman; jotka sinua ovat ryöstäneet, pitää jälleen ryöstettämän, ja kaikki ne, jotka sinun ovat ryövänneet, tahdon minä saaliiksi antaa.

17 Mutta sinun minä jälleen parannan, ja teen terveeksi haavas, sanoo Herra, sillä he ovat sinun kutsuneet ulosajetuksi ja Zionin siksi, jota ei kenkään kysy.

18 Näin sanoo Herra: katso, minä käännän Jakobin majan vankiuden, ja armahdan hänen asumistansa; ja kaupunki pitää jälleen mäelle rakennettaman, ja kirkon pitää oleman entisellä muodollansa.

19 Ja kiitoksen ja riemun äänen pitää siitä kuuluman; sillä minä tahdon heitä enentää ja en vähentää, minä tahdon heitä kunnioittaa, ja ei heidän pidä huonoksi tuleman.

20 Hänen poikansa pitää oleman niinkuin ennenkin, ja hänen yhteinen kansansa pitää menestymän minun edessäni; sillä minä tahdon rangaista kaikki ne, jotka heitä vaivaavat.

21 Ja hänen ruhtinaansa pitää itse hänestä syntymän, ja hänen hallitsiansa tuleman itse hänestä. Ja minä tahdon antaa hänen lähestyä ja tulla minun eteeni; sillä kuka on se, joka minua niin sydämellisesti lähestyy? sanoo Herra.

22 Ja teidän pitää oleman minun kansani, ja minä olen teidän Jumalanne.

23 Katso, Herran ilma on tuleva julmuudella, kauhia rajuilma on lankeeva jumalattomain pään päälle.

24 Herran julma viha ei ole taukoava, siihenasti kuin hän tekee ja toimittaa, mitä hänen mielessänsä on. Viimein pitää teidän sen kyllä ymmärtämän.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 10545

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10545. 'And Moses took a tent' means the holiness of worship, the Church, and the Word. This is clear from the meaning of 'a tent' in the highest sense as the Lord, also heaven and the Church, and in the relative sense as everything holy belonging to heaven and the Church, consequently also the holiness of worship and the holiness of the Word; for worship and the Word belong to the Church, and they are the Lord's since they are derived from Him. The reason why 'a tent' means these things is that the most ancient people used to live in tents and also to hold their holy worship in them. Among these people the celestial Church existed, and this was holier than all the Churches that came after it. For the one they worshipped was the Lord; for them Jehovah was none other than Him. And since it was He who led them, they were in direct contact with the angels of heaven, as a consequence of which they possessed heavenly wisdom that comes from the Lord. The establishment of that Church is what the creation of heaven and earth in the first chapter of Genesis describes, and their wisdom is what paradise describes; for 'heaven and earth' in the Word means the Church, 'paradise' means intelligence and wisdom, and 'man' (homo) means the Church itself, as does 'the ground', from which the name Adam derives.

'Heaven and earth' in the Word means the Church, 'heaven' the internal Church and 'earth' the external Church, see 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355(end), 4535, 10373.

Intelligence and wisdom is described by paradise-like and other gardens, 100, 108, 2702, 3220.

'Man' means the Church, 478, 768, 4287, 9276, and so does 'the ground', 566, 1068.

'Creating man' means establishing the Church, 16, 88, 10373.

See in addition 8891, 9942.

[2] Because this Church was the Lord's beloved more than all the rest and the Lord had His home with them in their tents (for the Lord is said to have His home with the person who loves Him, John 14:23), therefore to commemorate these things the tabernacle or tent of meeting was erected among the Israelite nation, to house their holy worship. And this was why the feast of tabernacles or tents was instituted.

[3] The fact that 'tent' means those holy things, and in particular the holiness of worship, is clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

Sing, O barren one that did not bear. Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwelling-places. Isaiah 54:1-2.

'Enlarging the place of the tent' means doing so to the things which belong to the Church and consequently to those which belong to worship. 'Stretching out the curtains of the dwelling-places' means multiplying truths, 'curtains' meaning the Church's truths, see 9595, 9596, 9606, 9756. 'Barren one' means the person with whom the Church's truths and forms of good have not existed hitherto, 3908, 9325.

[4] In Jeremiah,

The whole land has been laid waste. Suddenly My tents have been laid waste, My curtains in a moment. Jeremiah 4:20.

'The land' means the Church, see in the places referred to in 9325; and since the Church is the Church by virtue of forms of the good of love and by virtue of the truths of faith it says that tents and curtains have been laid waste, 'tents' being the Church's forms of good and 'curtains' its truths.

[5] In the same prophet,

My tent has been laid waste, and all My ropes torn away. My sons have gone away from Me, and they are not. There is no one stretching out My tent any more, or setting up My curtains. For the shepherds have become stupid. Jeremiah 10:20-21.

Similar things are meant here by 'tent' and 'curtains'. 'Ropes torn away' means that goodness and truth are no longer joined together, nor truths to one another. Therefore also it says 'My sons have gone away', for truths are meant by 'sons'.

'Ropes' means a joining together, see 9777, 9854, 9880.

'Sons' means truths, 489, 491, 533, 2623, 2803, 2813, 3373, 3704, 4257, 9807.

[6] In David,

O Jehovah, who will sojourn in Your tent? Who will dwell on Your holy mountain? He who walks blameless and who does righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart. Psalms 15:1-2.

'Sojourning in Jehovah's tent' means abiding in heaven, and in the good of love there. In the same author,

I will remain in Your tent forever. Psalms 61:4.

Here the meaning is similar.

[7] In Amos,

On that day I will raise up the tent of David that is fallen down, and I will close up its breaches and restore its destroyed places. Amos 9:11.

'The tent of David' means the Lord's Church and the holiness that goes with worship of Him. 'Closing up breaches and restoring destroyed places' means renewing those things by moving falsities away from them. 'David' in the Word means the Lord, see 1888, 9954, so that 'the tent of David' means the Lord's Church and the holiness that goes with worship. In Jeremiah,

Behold, I will bring back the captivity 1 of the tents of Jacob, and will have compassion on his dwellings. Jeremiah 30:18.

'The tents of Jacob' and 'his dwellings' stand for the Church's forms of good and its truths.

[8] Since forms of good present in the Church and in worship are meant by 'tents', forms of evil present in worship and in the Church are meant in the contrary sense by 'tents', as may be recognized from the following places: In Jeremiah,

I will liken the daughter of Zion to one who is comely. Shepherds and their flocks will come to her and pitch their tents against her round about. Jeremiah 6:2-3.

In the same prophet,

Go up against Arabia, and lay waste the sons of the east. They will take their tents and their flocks, their curtains and all their vessels. Jeremiah 49:28-29.

In Hosea,

What will you do on the solemn day, and on the day of the feast of Jehovah? For behold, they have gone away on account of the devastation; the thorn will possess their precious things of silver, the nettle will be in their tents. Hosea 9:5-6.

In David,

He smote all the firstborn of Egypt, the beginning of strength in the tents of Ham. Psalms 78:51.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. restore the fortunes

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 9228

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9228. The fact that 'seven' means a whole period from start to finish, thus what is complete, is clear from a large number of places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

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, on the day when Jehovah will bind up the hurt 1 of His people. Isaiah 30:26.

This refers to the salvation of faithful believers and their intelligence and wisdom in the Lord's kingdom. 'The moon' is faith received from the Lord, thus belief in the Lord, and 'the sun' is love derived from the Lord, thus love to the Lord, 30-38, 1521, 1529-1531, 2441, 2495, 3636, 3643, 4060, 4321 (end), 4696, 5377, 7078, 7083, 7171, 8644. 'The light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days' means a complete state of intelligence and wisdom because of love to and belief in the Lord.

[2] In Ezekiel,

The inhabitants of the cities of Israel will go out, and they will set alight and burn the weapons, both shield and buckler, together with bow and arrows, and hand-staff, and spear; they will set fire to them for seven years, that they may not bring wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests. And they will cleanse the land in seven months. Ezekiel 39:9-10, 12.

This refers to the destruction of falsity. 'The weapons' that are listed here are falsities used by those who are evil to fight against the Church's truths. 'Setting fire to them for seven years' means complete destruction brought about by the desires of self-love and love of the world. 'In order that they may bring no wood from the field or cut down any from the forests' means when no good at all survives, neither in the internal man nor in the external. 'Cleansing the land in seven months' means the complete restoration of goodness and truth within the Church. It has been shown in very many places that 'weapons' are truths fighting against falsities, and in the contrary sense falsities fighting against truths; that 'bow and arrows' means teachings that present truth, and in the contrary sense teachings that present falsity; that 'hand-staff' means the power of truth, and in the contrary sense the power of falsity; that 'setting alight and burning' means laying waste through the desires of self-love and love of the world; that 'wood from the field' means the Church's forms of interior good, and 'wood from the forests' factual knowledge of goodness and truth; and that 'the land' means the Church. Anyone can see that different things are meant here from those which present themselves in the letter, as when it says that they will burn the weapons, and set them alight for seven years, in order that they may bring no wood from the field or cut down any from the forests. People do indeed know that things of a holy and Divine nature are meant, because the Word is holy and comes from God. But they cannot by any means know which things of a holy and Divine nature are contained in these words unless they know what the meaning is of 'weapons', 'seven years' and 'seven months', 'wood from the field' and 'wood from the forests'. From this it is evident that without knowledge gained from the internal sense those prophetic utterances are completely unintelligible.

[3] In David,

Seven times in the day I praise You over the judgements of Your righteousness. Psalms 119:164.

In the same author,

Repay [our] neighbours sevenfold into their bosom. Psalms 79:12.

'Sevenfold' means completely. The meaning is similar in Moses, where it says that they would be punished sevenfold if they went against commandments and statutes, Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28. Anyone who does not know that 'seven' means a whole period from start to finish, and therefore what is complete, will suppose that 'seven weeks' in Daniel means seven lengths of time,

Know and perceive that from the going forth of the Word to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks. Daniel 9:25.

But 'seven weeks until the Messiah, the Prince' means what is said of the Lord, namely that He will come in the fullness of time, so that 'seven weeks' means a whole period. From this it is evident that the seven spirits before God's throne, Revelation 1:4, the book sealed with seven seals, Revelation 5:1, and the seven angels holding 'the seven bowls, which are the seven last plagues, Revelation 15:1, 6-7; 21:9, do not mean seven spirits, seven seals, or seven angels, bowls, and plagues, but all things even to completeness. The statement in 1 Samuel 2:5 that the barren has borne seven in like manner does not mean seven but a great amount, even to a complete amount.

[4] Because 'seven' had this meaning it was stipulated that a priest at his initiation should wear the garments for seven days, Exodus 29:30; that his hands should be filled for seven days, 2 Exodus 29:35; that the altar should be sanctified for seven days, Exodus 29:37; and that those initiated into the priesthood should not depart from the tent [of meeting] for seven days, Leviticus 8:33-34. So too with the reference to the unclean spirit going out of a person and returning with seven others, Matthew 12:43-45; Luke 11:26; also where it says that if a brother sins seven times in a day and is seven times converted he is to be forgiven, Luke 17:4; and that the heart of Nebuchadnezzar was changed from [that of] a human being and the heart of a beast was given to him while seven times passed by, Daniel 4:15, 25, 32. For the same reasons also Job's friends sat down with him on the earth seven days and seven nights and spoke nothing to him, Job 2:13. Seventy in a similar way means that which is complete, see 6508, as also does a week, 2044, 3845. From all this it now becomes clear that 'the eighth day' means the initial phase of the following state.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, break

2. i.e. his consecration should continue for seven days

  
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