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Hesekiel 13

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1 Ja minulle tuli tämä Herran sana:

2 "Ihmislapsi, ennusta Israelin ennustavista profeetoista ja sano noille, jotka ovat profeettoja oman sydämensä voimasta: Kuulkaa Herran sana.

3 Näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Voi profeettahoukkia, jotka seuraavat omaa henkeänsä ja sitä, mitä eivät ole nähneet!

4 Niinkuin ketut raunioissa ovat sinun profeettasi, Israel.

5 Te ette ole nousseet muurin aukkoihin ettekä korjanneet muuria Israelin heimon ympärillä, että se kestäisi sodassa, Herran päivänä.

6 Mitä he ovat nähneet, on petosta, ja heidän ennustelunsa on valhetta, kun he sanovat: 'Näin sanoo Herra', vaikka Herra ei ole heitä lähettänyt; ja he muka odottavat, että hän toteuttaisi heidän sanansa.

7 Ettekö ole petollisia näkyjä nähneet ja valhe-ennusteluja puhuneet, kun olette sanoneet: 'Näin sanoo Herra', vaikka minä en ole puhunut?

8 Sentähden, näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Koska te olette puhuneet petosta ja nähneet valhenäkyjä, niin sentähden, katso, minä käyn teidän kimppuunne, sanoo Herra, Herra.

9 Minun käteni on profeettoja vastaan, jotka petosnäkyjä näkevät ja valhetta ennustelevat. Ei pidä heidän oleman minun kansani yhteydessä, ei heitä kirjoiteta Israelin heimon kirjaan, eivätkä he tule Israelin maahan; ja te tulette tietämään, että minä olen Herra, Herra.

10 Koska he, koska he vievät minun kansani harhaan, sanoen: 'rauha!', vaikka ei rauhaa ole, ja katso, koska he, kun kansa rakentaa seinän, valkaisevat sen kalkilla,

11 niin sano noille kalkilla-valkaisijoille, että se kaatuu. Tulee kaatosade, te syöksytte alas, raekivet, ja sinä pusket puhki, myrskynpuuska,

12 ja katso, seinä kaatuu! Eikö silloin teiltä kysytä: 'Missä on valkaisu, jonka olette sivelleet?'

13 Sentähden, näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Minä kiivaudessani annan myrskynpuuskan puhjeta, kaatosade tulee minun vihastani ja raekivet minun kiivaudestani, niin että tulee loppu.

14 Minä hajotan seinän, jonka te olitte kalkilla valkaisseet, ja syöksen sen maahan, niin että sen perustus paljastuu; niin se kaatuu, ja te saatte siinä lopun. Ja te tulette tietämään, että minä olen Herra.

15 Niin minä panen kiivauteni täytäntöön seinässä ja niissä, jotka sen kalkilla valkaisivat, ja sanon teille: Ei ole enää seinää eikä sen valkaisijoita,

16 Israelin profeettoja, jotka ennustivat Jerusalemista ja näkivät sille rauhan näkyjä, vaikka ei rauhaa ollut; sanoo Herra, Herra.

17 Ja sinä, ihmislapsi, käännä kasvosi kansasi tyttäriä vastaan, jotka joutuvat hurmoksiin oman sydämensä voimasta, ja ennusta heitä vastaan

18 ja sano: Näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Voi niitä naisia, jotka sitovat taikasiteet kaikkiin ranteisiin ja tekevät hunnut kaikenkorkuisiin päihin pyydystääksensä sieluja! Toisia sieluja te pyydystätte minun kansaltani pois, toisten sielujen annatte elää omaksi eduksenne.

19 Ja te häpäisette minut kansani edessä muutamista ohrakourallisista ja leipäpalasista, kun kuoletatte sieluja, joiden ei olisi kuoltava, ja annatte elää sielujen, jotka eivät saisi elää; kun valhettelette minun kansalleni, joka kuuntelee valhetta.

20 Sentähden, näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Minä käyn käsiksi teidän taikasiteisiinne, joilla olette pyydystäneet sieluja niinkuin lintuja, ja revin ne teidän käsivarsistanne ja lasken ne sielut irti-sielut, jotka te olette pyydystäneet-niinkuin linnut.

21 Ja minä revin teidän huntunne ja pelastan kansani teidän käsistänne, niin etteivät he enää joudu teidän kätenne saaliiksi; ja te tulette tietämään, että minä olen Herra.

22 Koska olette valheella murehduttaneet vanhurskaan sydämen, vaikka minä en tahtonut häntä murehduttaa, ja olette vahvistaneet jumalattoman käsiä, ettei hän kääntyisi pahalta tieltänsä ja saisi elää,

23 sentähden ette enää saa petosnäkyjä nähdä ettekä ennustella ennustelujanne, vaan minä pelastan kansani teidän käsistänne; ja te tulette tietämään, että minä olen Herra."

   

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1 Kings 22:12

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12 Ja kaikki profeetat ennustivat samalla tavalla, sanoen: "Mene Gileadin Raamotiin, niin sinä saat voiton; Herra antaa sen kuninkaan käsiin".

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Arcana Coelestia # 1664

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1664. That the wars in this chapter mean in the internal sense nothing other than spiritual conflicts, which are temptations, has been stated already in the preliminary section. 1 Nor do the wars in the rest of the Word, especially in the Prophets, have any other meaning. Wars waged by men can have no place whatever in the internal parts of the Word, for such things as wars are not the spiritual and celestial things which alone constitute the Word. That 'wars' in the Word means conflicts with the devil, or what amounts to the same, with hell, becomes clear from the following places besides many others: In John,

They are spirits of demons, performing signs, to go out to the kings of the land and of the whole earth, to assemble them for the war of that great day of God Almighty. Revelation 16:14.

Here anyone may see that no other kind of war on the great day of God Almighty is meant.

[2] In the same book,

The beast that comes up from the Abyss will make war. Revelation 11:7.

Here 'the Abyss' is hell. In the same book,

The dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her seed, who kept the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:17.

It 2 was allowed to make war on the saints. Revelation 13:7.

All these wars are conflicts such as constitute temptations. Nor are the wars of the kings of the south and of the north, and the other wars of Daniel 8, 11, and also those involving Michael, Daniel 10:13, 21; 12:1; Revelation 12:7, anything different.

[3] That wars have no other meaning is clear from the rest of the Prophets as well, as in Ezekiel,

You have not gone up into the breaches and made a hedge for the house of Israel, to stand in war on the day of Jehovah. Ezekiel 13:5.

This refers to the prophets. In Isaiah,

They will beat their swords into hoes, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4.

Clearly no other wars [than spiritual wars] are meant here, and therefore instruments of war, such as swords, spears, shields, and many others, mean nothing else in the Word than things that belong to such wars.

[4] In the same prophet,

To the thirsty bring water; O inhabitants of the land of Tema, meet with his bread the fugitive, 3 for they will flee 4 before the swords, before the drawn sword, and before the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. Isaiah 21:14-15.

In Jeremiah,

Shepherds and their flocks will come against the daughter of Zion, they will pitch their tents against her round about; they will graze, each off his own space. Declare a sacred war against her; arise and let us go up at noon. Jeremiah 6:3-5.

Here, since it is waged against 'the daughter of Zion', that is, the Church, no other kind of war is meant.

[5] In the same prophet,

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of My joy? Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut down on that day. Jeremiah 49:25-26.

'The city of praise and of joy' stands for the things that belong to the Church, 'the men of war' for those who fight.

[6] In Hosea,

I will make for them a covenant on that day, with the wild animals of the field, and with the birds of the air, 5 and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish 6 the bow, and the sword, and war from the land, and I will make them lie down in safety. Hosea 2:18.

Here similarly 'war' stands for conflicts, and the various instruments of war stand for the things belonging to spiritual conflict which are 'broken' when a person comes into the calmness of peace as evil desires and falsities come to an end.

[7] In David,

Behold the works of Jehovah who makes solitary places in the earth, making wars cease even to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and snaps the spear, He burns the chariots with fire. Psalms 46:8-9.

Here too the meaning is similar. In the same author,

In Salem is the dwelling-place of God, and His habitation in Zion. There He broke the bow's fiery arrows, the shield and the sword, and war. Psalms 76:2-3.

Because the priests represented the Lord who alone fights on man's behalf, their duties are called military service, Numbers 4:23, 35, 39, 43, 47.

[8] It is a constant truth that Jehovah alone, that is, the Lord, fights and overcomes the devil present with a person when he is involved in the conflicts brought by temptations, even though to that person this does not appear to be so. For evil spirits have no power at all to exert the slightest influence on man unless they are permitted to do so, and angels cannot act to avert anything at all unless enabled to do so by the Lord. Thus it is the Lord alone who endures every conflict and overcomes, something that was also represented at various times by the wars that the children of Israel waged against the nations. That He alone does so is also stated in Moses,

Jehovah your God is going 7 before you, He Himself will fight for you. Deuteronomy 1:30.

In the same book,

Jehovah your God is going 7 with you to fight for you with your enemies, to save you. Deuteronomy 20:4.

[9] So too in Joshua, such as 23:3, 5. For all the wars that were being waged at that time against the idolatrous inhabitants of the land of Canaan represented the Lord's conflicts with hell, and consequently the conflicts of His Church, and of members of the Church. This also accords with the following statements in Isaiah,

As the lion roars, and the young lion, over its prey (when a multitude of shepherds run towards him he is not dismayed by their voice nor daunted by the tumult they make) so Jehovah Zebaoth will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill. Isaiah 31:4.

[10] For the same reasons also Jehovah, or the Lord, is called 'a Man of War', as in Moses,

Jehovah is a Man of War, Jehovah is His name. Exodus 15:3.

In Isaiah,

Jehovah will go forth as a Mighty Man, as a Man of Wars. He will stir up zeal; He will cry out, yes, He will shout aloud, He will prevail over His enemies. Isaiah 42:13.

This also is why many things that war entails are attributed to the Lord, such as 'crying out', and 'shouting aloud' here.

[11] Spirits and angels also appear as men of war, when a representation is being made, as in Joshua,

Joshua lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a man was standing before him, with his sword drawn in his hand. He said to Joshua, I am the Prince of the army of Jehovah; and Joshua fell on his face 8 to the earth. Joshua 5:13-14.

These things were seen taking the form they did because they were representative, and this also is why descendants of Jacob called their wars the Wars of ]Jehovah.

It was similar in the Ancient Churches among whom there were books which also were called The Wars of Jehovah, as is clear in Moses.

It is said in the Book of the Wars of Jehovah. Numbers 21:14-15.

These were written about in a way not unlike the wars described in this chapter; but wars involving the Church were meant. Such a manner of writing was common in those times, for they were interior men and their thoughts were of more exalted things.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. in 1659

2. i.e. the beast

3. literally, the wanderer

4. literally, they will wander

5. literally,. bird of the heavens (or the skies)

6. literally, break

7. literally, walking

8. literally, faces

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.