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Daniel 6

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1 Daarejaves näki hyväksi asettaa valtakuntaansa sata kaksikymmentä satraappia, että heitä olisi kaikkialla valtakunnassa.

2 Ja heitä ylempänä oli kolme valtaherraa, joista Daniel oli yksi. Heille tuli satraappien tehdä tili, ettei kuningas kärsisi vahinkoa.

3 Mutta Daniel oli etevämpi muita valtaherroja sekä satraappeja, sillä hänessä oli erinomainen henki; ja kuningas aikoi asettaa hänet koko valtakunnan päämieheksi.

4 Silloin toiset valtaherrat sekä satraapit etsivät Danielia vastaan syytä valtakunnan hallinnossa. Mutta he eivät voineet löytää mitään syytä eikä rikkomusta, sillä hän oli uskollinen, eikä hänestä laiminlyöntiä eikä rikkomusta löydetty.

5 Silloin nämä miehet sanoivat: "Me emme löydä tuossa Danielissa mitään syytä-ellemme löydä sitä hänen jumalanpalveluksessaan".

6 Senjälkeen nämä valtaherrat ja satraapit riensivät kiiruusti kuninkaan tykö ja sanoivat hänelle näin: "Kuningas Daarejaves eläköön iankaikkisesti!

7 Kaikki kuninkaalliset valtaherrat, maaherrat, satraapit, hallitusmiehet ja käskynhaltijat ovat keskenänsä neuvotelleet, että olisi annettava kuninkaallinen julistus ja vahvistettava kielto, että kuka ikinä kolmenkymmenen päivän kuluessa rukoilee jotakin yhdeltäkään jumalalta tai ihmiseltä, paitsi sinulta, kuningas, se heitettäköön jalopeurain luolaan.

8 Nyt, kuningas! Säädä kielto ja kirjoita kirjoitus, jota meedialaisten ja persialaisten peruuttamattoman lain mukaan ei voida muuttaa."

9 Niin kuningas Daarejaves kirjoitti kirjoituksen ja kiellon.

10 Niin pian kuin Daniel oli saanut tietää, että kirjoitus oli kirjoitettu, meni hän taloonsa, jonka yläsalin ikkunat olivat avatut Jerusalemiin päin. Ja hän lankesi kolmena hetkenä päivässä polvillensa, rukoili ja kiitti Jumalaansa, aivan niinkuin hän ennenkin oli tehnyt.

11 Silloin nuo miehet riensivät kiiruusti sinne ja tapasivat Danielin rukoilemasta ja avuksi huutamasta Jumalaansa.

12 Sitten he astuivat kuninkaan eteen ja muistuttivat kuninkaan kiellosta: "Etkö ole kirjoittanut kieltoa, että kuka ikinä kolmenkymmenen päivän kuluessa rukoilee jotakin yhdeltäkään jumalalta tai ihmiseltä, paitsi sinulta, kuningas, se heitettäköön jalopeurain luolaan?" Kuningas vastasi ja sanoi: "Kielto on luja, meedialaisten ja persialaisten peruuttamattoman lain mukaan".

13 Silloin he vastasivat ja sanoivat kuninkaalle: "Daniel, joka on juutalaisia pakkosiirtolaisia, ei välitä sinusta, kuningas, eikä kiellosta, jonka olet kirjoittanut, vaan kolmena hetkenä päivässä hän toimittaa rukouksensa".

14 Mutta kun kuningas sen kuuli, tuli hän sangen murheelliseksi, ja hän mietti, miten voisi pelastaa Danielin; auringon laskuun asti hän vaivasi itseään vapauttaaksensa hänet.

15 Silloin ne miehet riensivät kiiruusti kuninkaan tykö ja sanoivat kuninkaalle: "Tiedä, kuningas, meedialaisten ja persialaisten laki on, ettei mitään kuninkaan vahvistamaa kieltoa tai julistusta peruuteta".

16 Silloin kuningas käski tuoda Danielin ja heittää hänet jalopeurain luolaan. Ja kuningas puhui Danielille ja sanoi: "Sinun Jumalasi, jota sinä lakkaamatta palvelet, pelastakoon sinut". Sitten tuotiin kivi ja pantiin luolan suulle,

17 ja kuningas sinetöi sen omallaan ja ylimystensä sineteillä, ettei Danielin asiassa muutosta tapahtuisi.

18 Sitten kuningas meni palatsiinsa ja vietti yönsä paastoten eikä sallinut tuoda eteensä naisia, ja hänen unensa pakeni häneltä.

19 Aamun sarastaessa kuningas sitten nousi ja meni kiiruusti jalopeurain luolalle.

20 Ja lähestyessään luolaa hän huusi Danielille murheellisella äänellä, ja kuningas lausui ja sanoi Danielille: "Daniel, sinä elävän Jumalan palvelija, onko sinun Jumalasi, jota lakkaamatta palvelet, voinut pelastaa sinut jalopeuroilta?"

21 Silloin Daniel vastasi kuninkaalle: "Kuningas eläköön iankaikkisesti!

22 Minun Jumalani on lähettänyt enkelinsä ja sulkenut jalopeurain kidat, niin etteivät ne ole minua vahingoittaneet, sillä minut on havaittu nuhteettomaksi hänen edessänsä, enkä minä ole sinuakaan vastaan, kuningas, rikosta tehnyt."

23 Silloin kuningas ihastui suuresti ja käski ottaa Danielin ylös luolasta. Ja kun Daniel oli otettu ylös luolasta, ei hänessä havaittu mitään vammaa; sillä hän oli turvannut Jumalaansa.

24 Ja kuningas käski tuoda ne miehet, jotka olivat syyttäneet Danielia, ja heittää heidät lapsineen ja vaimoineen jalopeurain luolaan; eivätkä he ehtineet luolan pohjaan, ennenkuin jalopeurat hyökkäsivät heidän kimppuunsa ja murskasivat kaikki heidän luunsa.

25 Sitten kuningas Daarejaves kirjoitti kaikille kansoille, kansakunnille ja kielille, mitä koko maan päällä asuu: "Suuri olkoon teidän rauhanne!

26 Minä olen antanut käskyn, että minun valtakuntani koko valtapiirissä vavistakoon ja peljättäköön Danielin Jumalaa. Sillä hän on elävä Jumala ja pysyy iankaikkisesti. Hänen valtakuntansa ei häviä, eikä hänen herrautensa lopu.

27 Hän pelastaa ja vapahtaa, hän tekee tunnustekoja ja ihmeitä taivaassa ja maan päällä, hän, joka pelasti Danielin jalopeurain kynsistä."

28 Ja tämä Daniel oli korkeassa arvossa ja kunniassa Daarejaveksen valtakunnassa sekä persialaisen Kooreksen valtakunnassa.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9093

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9093. 'And divide the silver from it' means that its truth will be dispersed. This is clear from the meaning of 'dividing' as banishing and dispersing, dealt with in 6360, 6361; and from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2048, 5658, 6112, 6914, 6917, 7999. The reason why 'dividing' means dispersing is that if things existing in association are divided they are also scattered, as when a person destroys his mind by dividing it. For the human mind consists of two parts existing in association; one part is called the understanding, the other part is called the will. A person who divides these two parts scatters what belongs to each part individually; for one part must receive its life from the other, and therefore when one perishes, so does the other. It is similar when someone divides truth from good, or what amounts to the same thing, faith from charity; when anyone does this he destroys both. In short, all the things which ought to be a single whole perish if they are divided.

[2] This division is meant by the Lord's words in Luke,

No one can serve two masters; either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will prefer the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Luke 16:13.

That is, it is not possible to serve the Lord through belief in Him and at the same time serve the world by loving it, thus to acknowledge truth and at the same time to do evil. Anyone who behaves in this way has his mind divided, as a result of which it is destroyed. From all this it is evident why it is that 'dividing' means dispersing; and the same is clearly the meaning in Matthew also,

The master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and in an hour he does not know. And he will divide him and assign him his part with the hypocrites. Matthew 24:50-51.

'Dividing' here means separating and removing from forms of good and truths, 4424, thus dispersing them.

[3] In Moses,

Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is hard. 1 I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:7.

These words occur in Israel's prophetic utterance regarding Simeon and Levi. 'Simeon' and 'Levi' here represent those steeped in faith separated from charity, 6352; and 'Jacob' and 'Israel' represent the external and the internal Church, also the external and the internal man, 4286, 4598, 5973, 6360, 6361. 'Dividing them in Jacob' means banishing them from the external Church, and 'scattering them in Israel' from the internal Church, thus dispersing the Church's forms of good and its truths residing with them.

[4] It is also evident that 'dividing' has this meaning from the words written on the wall when Belshazzar king of Babel, together with his nobles, wives, and concubines, drank wine out of the vessels of gold and of silver that had belonged to the Temple in Jerusalem, Daniel 5:2-4, 25, 28. What was written said, 'Numbered, numbered, weighed, and divided,' 'divided' here meaning separated from the kingdom. Those verses show how all things at that time were representative. They describe the profanation of goodness and truth, which is meant by 'Babel'. Profanation is meant by 'Babel', see 1182, 1283, 1295, 1304-1308, 1321, 1322, 1326. Forms of the good of love, also the truths of faith, received from the Lord, are meant by 'the vessels of gold and silver', 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917. Profanation is meant by drinking out of them, and by praising then the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone (as verse 4 says there), which are a string of evils and falsities, 4402 (end), 4544, 7873, 8941. 'The Temple in Jerusalem' from which the vessels had come means in the highest sense the Lord, and in the representative sense His kingdom and Church, 3720. Belshazzar's kingdom when it had been divided was a sign of the dispersion of goodness and truth, and his being killed that very night a sign of deprivation of the life of truth and good, which is damnation. For 'being divided' is being dispersed; 'king' is the truth of good, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148, the same thing being meant by 'kingdom', 1672, 2547, 4691; 'being killed' means being deprived of the life of truth and good, 3607, 6767, 8902; and 'the night' in which he was killed is a state of evil and falsity, 2353, 7776, 7851, 7870, 7947. From this it is evident that all things there were representative.

[5] It says in David,

They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing cast lots. Psalms 22:18.

And in Matthew,

They divided the garments (the Lord's), casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was said by the prophet. Matthew 27:35.

Also in John,

The soldiers took the garments and made four parts; and the tunic. The tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said regarding it Let us not divide it, but cast lots for it, whose it may be - so that the Scripture might be fulfilled. John 19:23-24.

The person who reads these things, knowing nothing about the internal sense of the Word, is unaware of any arcanum that lies concealed within them, when in fact every detail holds a Divine arcanum. The arcanum was that Divine Truths had been dispersed by the Jews. For the Lord was Divine Truth, which is why He is called the Word in John 1:1 and the following verses, 'the Word' being Divine Truth. His garments represented truths in the outward form they take, His tunic truths in their inward form; and the dividing of the garments represented the dispersing of the truths of faith by the Jews. For the meaning of 'garments' as truths in the outward form they take, see 2576, 5248, 5954, 6918, and for that of 'tunic' as truth in its inward form, 4677. Truths in their outward form are truths as they exist in the literal sense of the Word, but truths in their inward form are truths as they exist in the spiritual sense of the Word. 'Dividing the garments into four parts' meant total dispersion, in the same way that dividing does in Zechariah 14:4, and elsewhere. Dividing into two parts - as it says in Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38, regarding the veil of the Temple - has a like meaning. The splitting apart of the rocks also at that time, Matthew 27:51, represented the dispersing of all matters of faith; for 'rock' means the Lord in respect of faith, and therefore means faith received from the Lord, 8581.

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4677. 'And he made him a tunic of various colours' means the resulting appearances of truth by which the spiritual of the natural is recognized and distinguished. This is clear from the meaning of 'a tunic' as the truth of the natural, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'various colours' as appearances of truth by which the spiritual of the natural is recognized and distinguished. No one can know that these things are meant by 'various colours' unless he knows that colours may be seen in the next life no less than in the world - colours which are far more beautiful and various - and unless he knows the origins of those colours. Colours seen in the next life are produced by the variegation of light there and are so to speak modifications of intelligence and wisdom, for the light which is seen there is a manifestation of Divine Truth received from the Lord, that is, it is the Divine Spiritual from Him, or what amounts to the same, is Divine Intelligence and Wisdom. These two are seen as light before the eyes of angels and spirits. From this one may see what is meant by the colours being products of that light, namely different kinds and so appearances of truth that are due to varying affections for good and truth. Regarding colours in the next life, see 1042, 1043, 1053, 1624, 3993, 4530.

[2] It has been stated already in 3301 that 'a tunic' means the truth of the natural, but as this meaning was not substantiated there from other places in the Word, let these be mentioned here. Because kings in the Jewish Church represented the Lord as regards the Divine Spiritual or Divine Truth, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, their daughters therefore wore tunics of various colours, for 'daughters' meant affections for good and truth, and so meant Churches, 2362, 3963. The following is said of them in the second Book of Samuel,

On Tamar, David's daughter, there was a tunic of various colours, for virgin daughters of the king wore such clothes. 2 Samuel 13:18.

[3] And because high priests represented the Lord as regards the Divine

Celestial or Divine Good, Aaron therefore wore vestments which represented Divine Truth that was derived from the Lord's Divine Good; for Divine Good exists within the Lord, whereas Divine Truth proceeds from Him. This was what those vestments represented. Something similar was represented when the Lord was transfigured before Peter, James, and John, in that Divine Good was seen as the sun, and Divine Truth was manifested by means of His garments which had the appearance of light, Matthew 17:2.

[4] Regarding the vestments worn by Aaron and his sons, the following is said in Moses,

You shall make for Aaron a tunic of fine linen, and a turban of fine linen; and you shall make a girdle, the work of an embroiderer. And you shall make tunics for Aaron's sons, and you shall make girdles for them, and you shall make head-coverings for them, for glory and adornment. Exodus 28:39-40.

Each article of clothing here meant something connected with Divine Truth derived from the Lord's Divine Good, 'a tunic of fine linen' meaning specifically the Divine Spiritual. The same applies elsewhere in the same author,

You shall take the vestments, and put the tunic on Aaron, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and you shall clothe him with the girdle of the ephod. Then you shall cause his sons to come near, and you shall put them in tunics. Exodus 29:5, 8; 40:14.

What each article of clothing means here will in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated when those verses come up for consideration. 'Garments' in general are truths, see 297, 1073, 2576, 4545.

[5] Prophets too wore tunics, though theirs were made of hair. This was because prophets represented the Lord as regards truths of doctrine, and since truths belong to the natural or external man, their tunics were made of hair - 'hair' meaning the natural, see 3301.

[6] The fact that 'a tunic' means Divine Truth received from the Lord is evident further still from those places where a tunic is mentioned in the New Testament, as in John,

The soldiers took His garments and made four parts, a part for each soldier, and His tunic. But the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout. Therefore they said to one another, Let us not divide it - so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saying They divided My garments for themselves, and for My tunic they cast lots. John 19:23-24.

Anyone reading this description supposes that it does not hold anything deeper within it than the facts that the garments were divided among the soldiers and that lots were cast for the tunic. But each detail described here represented and meant spiritually something Divine - that is to say, those two details about the garments being divided into four and about the tunic not being divided but having lots cast for it, and above all the detail about the tunic being without seam and woven from the top throughout. 'The tunic' meant the Lord's Divine Truth, which being singular - derived from Good - was represented by the tunic's being without seam and woven from the top throughout.

[7] Much the same was meant by Aaron's tunic which, as is evident in Moses, was woven or the work of a weaver,

They made tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver, for Aaron and his sons Exodus 39:27.

Also represented by the tunic without seam was the fact that the Lord did not allow Divine Truth to be torn apart, as was done by the Jews to the lower truths of the Church.

[8] Because Divine Truth is singular - that is to say, it is derived solely from Divine Good - the twelve disciples were commanded, when they were being sent out to preach the gospel of the kingdom, not to have two tunics. This is recorded in Luke as follows,

Jesus sent the twelve disciples to preach the kingdom of God. And He said to them, Take nothing for the way, neither staves, nor bag, nor bread, nor silver, nor have two tunics each. Luke 9:2-3.

In Mark,

He charged them to take nothing for the way except a staff; not a bag, nor bread, nor bronze in the belt, but to wear sandals; and do not put on two tunics. Mark 6:8-9.

And in Matthew,

Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor bronze in your belts, nor bag for the way, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staves. Matthew 10:9-10.

[9] All the individual instructions given in these places are representative of the celestial and spiritual things of the Lord's kingdom which the disciples were sent to preach. The reason they were not to take gold, silver, bronze, bag, or bread with them was that those things meant different kinds of good and truth received from the Lord alone. 'Gold' means good, 113, 1551, 1552, while 'silver' means truth derived from that good, 1551, 2954; 'bronze' means natural good, 425, 1551, and 'bread' the good of love, which is heavenly good, 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 3478, 3735, 4211, 4217. 'Tunic' however and 'sandal' meant the truths with which they were to be endued, and 'staff the power of truth derived from good. For 'staff' means that power, see 4013, 4015; 'sandal' the lowest natural, 1748, here its truth; and 'tunic' interior natural truth. Now because these things had to be not twofold but singular, they were forbidden to have two staves, two pairs of sandals, or two tunics. These are the arcana contained in what the Lord commanded, but no one can possibly know about them except from the internal sense.

[10] All the detailed instructions spoken by the Lord were representative of Divine things, and consequently of the celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom. They were accordingly suited to the mental grasp of men and at the same time to the understanding of spirits and angels. Therefore the things spoken by the Lord pervaded the whole of heaven and continue to do so. From this it is also evident how valuable and important it is to know the internal sense of the Word. Without it anyone can use the Word to support whatever dogma he likes; and because this is seen to be so by those who are subject to evil, they therefore deride the Word and think it is anything but Divine.

  
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