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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 # 6125

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6125. 'In exchange for horses' means factual knowledge supplied from the understanding. This is clear from the meaning of 'horses' as ideas forming the understanding, dealt with in 2760-2762, 3217, 5321; and since they are spoken of in connection with Egypt, which means factual knowledge, 'horses' here are factual knowledge supplied from the understanding. But what factual knowledge supplied from the understanding is must be stated. There is an understanding part and there is a will part in the human mind, and these are situated not only in his internal man but also in his external. The human understanding is developing and growing from early childhood through to manhood, and it consists in a discernment of things gained from experience and formal knowledge, also a discernment of causes from effects as well as of consequences from a chain of causes. Thus the understanding part consists in a comprehension and perception of such things as are part of everyday life, public and private. An inflowing of light from heaven brings it into existence, and for that reason everyone's understanding is capable of being made more perfect. Understanding is given to everyone in accordance with his effort to make use of what he knows, in accordance with the life he leads, and in accordance with his individual character; no one lacks it provided he is of sound mind. A person is given it to the end that he may have freedom of choice, that is, have the freedom to choose good or evil. Unless he possesses an understanding like the one just described, he has no power of his own to make that choice; thus nothing could possibly be made his own.

[2] In addition to this it should be recognized that the understanding part of a person's mind is that which receives what is spiritual, so that it is the recipient of spiritual truth and good. For no good at all, that is, no charity, nor any truth at all, that is, any faith, can be instilled into anyone if he does not have that understanding part; but they are instilled in the measure that he does have it. This also explains why a person is not regenerated by the Lord until adult life when he does possess an understanding. Till then the good of love and the truth of faith fall like seed into utterly infertile soil. But once a person has been regenerated his understanding serves the function of enabling him to see and perceive what good is and from this what truth is. For the understanding converts things belonging to the superior light of heaven into those belonging to the inferior light of the natural world, as a consequence of which the former are then seen within the latter in the same way as a person's inner affections are seen in his face when it lacks all pretence. And because the understanding serves that function, many places in the Word where the spiritual side of the Church is referred to refer also to its power of understanding, a matter which will in the Lord's Divine mercy be dealt with elsewhere.

[3] From all this one may now see what is meant by factual knowledge supplied from the understanding, namely known facts which lend support to the things a person grasps and perceives with his understanding, whether those things are bad or good. Such facts are what are meant in the Word by 'horses from Egypt', as in Isaiah,

Woe to those who go down into Egypt for help, and rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many, and on horsemen because they are extremely strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel and do not seek Jehovah. For Egypt is man (homo), not God; and his horses are flesh, not spirit. Isaiah 31:1, 3.

'Horses from Egypt' stands for factual knowledge supplied from a perverted understanding.

[4] In Ezekiel,

He rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that ha might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does this be rescued? Ezekiel 17:15.

'Horses from Egypt' again stands for factual knowledge supplied from a perverted understanding, which knowledge is resorted to in matters of faith, though there is no belief in the Word, that is, in the Lord, apart from what that knowledge provides. Thus no belief ever comes to exist, for within a perverted understanding a negative attitude reigns.

[5] The destruction which such factual knowledge underwent is represented by the drowning of Pharaoh's horses and chariots in the Sea Suph; and since that knowledge is meant by 'horses' and false matters of doctrine by 'chariots', his horses and chariots are mentioned so many times in the description of that event, see Exodus 14:17-18, 27, 26, 28. And the Song of Moses and Miriam consequently contains these words,

Pharaoh's horse went, also his chariot, also his horsemen, into the sea; but Jehovah made the waters of the sea come back over them. Sing to Jehovah, for He has highly exalted Himself; He has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea. Exodus 15:19, 21.

[6] Similar factual knowledge is also meant by the things required before-hand for a king over Israel, in Moses,

If they desire a king, from among their brothers shall a king be set over them. Only let him not multiply horses for himself nor lead the people back into Egypt in order to multiply horses. Deuteronomy 17:15-16.

'A king' represented the Lord as regards Divine Truth, 1672, 1728, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4789, 4966, 5044, 5068, thus as regards intelligence since this comes, when it is genuine, from Divine Truth. The need for intelligence to be acquired through the Word, which is Divine Truth, and not through factual knowledge taken from one's own understanding is meant by the injunction that the king should not multiply horses or lead the people back into Egypt in order to multiply horses.

  
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