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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 # 9057

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9057. 'Blow for blow' means if anything of affection in the understanding is wiped out or injured. This is clear from the meaning of 'blow' as the wiping out or injuring of affection in the understanding, that is, of affection for truth. 'Blow' is expressed in the original language by a word that means a bruise resulting from a gathering of blood or corrupted blood; and 'blood' in the internal sense is the truth of faith derived from the good of love and in the contrary sense truth that has been falsified and rendered profane, 4735, 6978, 7317, 7326. 'A blow' therefore is truth that has been injured or wiped out. 'Blows' or 'plagues' 1 have the same meaning in Revelation 9:20; 11:6; 13:12; 15:1, 6, 8; 16:21; 18:8; also in Jeremiah 30:12, 14, 17; Ezekiel 7:2; Zechariah 14:12-15; Psalms 38:5; and in Luke 10:30-35, where it speaks about the one who fell among thieves, who inflicted blows on him, and left him half dead, and about a Samaritan who bandaged his blows, poured in oil and wine, lifted him onto his own animal, and brought him to an inn.

[2] A person with an understanding of the internal sense of the Word can know why the Lord said that a Samaritan bandaged the victim's blows, poured in oil and wine, and set him on his own animal. In the internal sense 'a Samaritan' means someone with an affection for truth; 'bandaging blows' means healing that affection when it has been injured; 'pouring in oil and wine' means introducing the good of love and the good of faith; and 'lifting onto his animal' means supporting with his own power of understanding. Thus those words were used to describe charity towards the neighbour, in a natural way for the benefit of people in the world and in a spiritual way for the benefit of angels in heaven - in a natural way in the sense of the letter, and in a spiritual way in the internal sense. The reason why 'a Samaritan' is someone with an affection for truth is that in the Word 'Samaria' means that affection. For the meaning of 'oil' as the good of love, see 886, 3728, 4582; of 'wine' as the good of faith, 1798, 6377; of 'an animal' as the power of understanding, 2761, 2762, 2781, 3217, 5321, 5741, 6125, 6401, 6534, 7024, 8146, 8148. The Lord spoke in this manner, but few understand it; for they think that such details were mentioned by Him merely in order to make up some story that was a parable. But in that case they would not be words from God. Words from God all hold within themselves such things as tell of the Lord, of heaven, and of the Church, in every tiny detail, see above in 9049 (end).

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1. The Latin word plaga is sometimes rendered blow, at other times plague.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 4601

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4601. 'That Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine' means the profanation of good by means of faith separated from charity; 'and Israel heard' means that this faith was cast aside. This is clear from the representation of 'Reuben' as faith present in doctrine and in the understanding, which is the attribute of the Church that is born first, dealt with in 3861, 3866, at this point when that faith has been separated from charity, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'lying with Bilhah his father's concubine' as the profanation of good, for committing adultery means perverting or adulterating forms of good, 2466, 2729, 3399, but 'lying with a father's concubine' profaning them; and from the meaning of 'Israel heard' as the fact that this faith was cast aside. In the proper sense the expression 'Israel heard' means that the spiritual Church knew this and assented to it, for 'hearing' means hearkening, while 'Israel' means the spiritual Church. But the fact that the true Church does not assent to it will be evident from what is going to be said about Reuben. In the internal sense however the meaning is that that faith was cast aside, for although Jacob's feelings and thoughts concerning this unmentionable and outrageous deed are not stated, his utter disgust and abhorrence is evident from his prophecy concerning Reuben,

Reuben, you my firstborn, are my strength and the beginning of my might, excelling in eminence, and excelling in power. Unstable as water, may you not excel, for you went up to your father's bed; then you profaned It. He went up to my couch. Genesis 49:3-4.

The same is also evident from the fact that because of what he did Reuben was deprived of the birthright, 1 Chronicles 5:1. These considerations show that 'Israel heard' means that that faith was cast aside. As regards the birthright meaning the faith of the Church, see 352, 2435, 3325.

[2] The profanation of good by faith separated from charity takes place when people acknowledge and believe the truth of the Church and its good and yet lead lives contrary to these. Indeed with those who in understanding and consequently in life separate matters of faith from those of charity, evil is joined to truth and falsity to good; and it is this joining together that is called profanation. The situation is different with those who, though they know what the truth and good of faith are, nevertheless do not in their hearts have any belief in these. See what has been stated and shown already concerning profanation in 301-303, 571, 582, 593, 1001, 1003, 1008, 1010, 1059, 1327, 1328, 2051, 2426, 3398, 3399, 3402, 3489, 3898, 4050, 4289; also that the profanation of good by faith separated from charity was represented by Cain when he killed Abel, by Ham when he was cursed by his father, and by the Egyptians when they were drowned in the Red Sea, 3325, 1 as well as here by Reuben, 3325, 3870.

[3] In order that members of the spiritual Church might be saved the Lord miraculously separated the understanding part of their minds from the will part and imparted to the understanding the ability to accept a new will, 863, 875, 895, 927, 928, 1023, 1043, 1044, 2256, 4328, 4493. When therefore the understanding takes hold of and perceives the [truth and] good of faith and makes these its own, and yet the person's own will - that is, his will to do evil - reigns and rules, truth comes to be joined to evil and good to falsity. This joining of truth to evil and of good to falsity is profanation and is meant by eating and drinking in an unworthy manner in the Holy Supper. From people like this the good meant by the body and the truth meant by the blood [cannot] be separated; for when these have been joined to falsity and evil as described, they cannot be separated ever at all, and as a consequence the deepest hell awaits those persons. But those who know what the truth and good of faith are and yet in their hearts have no belief in them, as is the case with the vast majority of people at the present day, are unable to profane them because the understanding does not accept them and absorb them into itself.

[4] The subject here is the casting aside of this faith, for in what follows immediately after this the subject is truths and goods in their genuine order, and immediately after that the joining of these to the rational or understanding part, 'the sons of Jacob' who in the verses immediately after this are mentioned by name being truths and goods in that order, 'Isaac' the rational or understanding part, and 'Jacob's coming with his sons to Isaac' being in the internal sense that joining to the understanding part.

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13325 refers to the death of the firstborn but not to the drowning in the Red Sea.

  
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