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1 Lorsqu'Ephraïm parlait, c'était une terreur: Il s'élevait en Israël. Mais il s'est rendu coupable par Baal, et il est mort.

2 Maintenant ils continuent à pécher, Ils se font avec leur argent des images en fonte, Des idoles de leur invention; Toutes sont l'oeuvre des artisans. On dit à leur sujet: Que ceux qui sacrifient baisent les veaux!

3 C'est pourquoi ils seront comme la nuée du matin, Comme la rosée qui bientôt se dissipe, Comme la balle emportée par le vent hors de l'aire, Comme la fumée qui sort d'une fenêtre.

4 Et moi, je suis l'Eternel, ton Dieu, dès le pays d'Egypte. Tu ne connais d'autre Dieu que moi, Et il n'y a de sauveur que moi.

5 Je t'ai connu dans le désert, Dans une terre aride.

6 Ils se sont rassasiés dans leurs pâturages; Ils se sont rassasiés, et leur coeur s'est enflé; C'est pourquoi ils m'ont oublié.

7 Je serai pour eux comme un lion; Comme une panthère, je les épierai sur la route.

8 Je les attaquerai, comme une ourse à qui l'on a enlevé ses petits, Et je déchirerai l'enveloppe de leur coeur; Je les dévorerai, comme une lionne; Les bêtes des champs les mettront en pièces.

9 Ce qui cause ta ruine, Israël, C'est que tu as été contre moi, contre celui qui pouvait te secourir.

10 Où donc est ton roi? Qu'il te délivre dans toutes tes villes! Où sont tes juges, au sujet desquels tu disais: Donne-moi un roi et des princes?

11 Je t'ai donné un roi dans ma colère, Je te l'ôterai dans ma fureur.

12 L'iniquité d'Ephraïm est gardée, Son péché est mis en réserve.

13 Les douleurs de celle qui enfante viendront pour lui; C'est un enfant peu sage, Qui, au terme voulu, ne sort pas du sein maternel.

14 Je les rachèterai de la puissance du séjour des morts, Je les délivrerai de la mort. O mort, où est ta peste? séjour des morts, où est ta destruction? Mais le repentir se dérobe à mes regards!

15 Ephraïm a beau être fertile au milieu de ses frères, Le vent d'orient viendra, le vent de l'Eternel s'élèvera du désert, Desséchera ses sources, tarira ses fontaines. On pillera le trésor de tous les objets précieux.

16 Samarie sera punie, parce qu'elle s'est révoltée contre son Dieu. Ils tomberont par l'épée; Leurs petits enfants seront écrasés, Et l'on fendra le ventre de leurs femmes enceintes.

   

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Ézéchiel 17:2

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Arcana Coelestia # 6397

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6397. 'Will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that it is one of the truths in general which the tribes of Israel represent. This is clear from the meaning of 'judging' as truth exercising its proper function, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'people' as those governed by truth, dealt with in 1259, 1260, 2928, 3295, 3581, 4619, at this point those guided by truth but not as yet by good, since they are Dan, that is, the people of Dan, 6396; and from the representation of 'the tribes of Israel' as all truths and forms of good in general, dealt with in 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335. Consequently 'will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that the truth which 'Dan' represents is one of the general truths that 'the tribes of Israel' represent. The reason why 'judging his people' means truth exercising its proper function is that all truths in general are represented by 'the tribes of Israel', as may become clear from the paragraphs referred to above; and since truths are what act as judges, 'judging his people' means truth exercising its proper function.

[2] In the Word one reads the description that the twenty-four elders will sit on thrones and judge nations and peoples, and that the twelve apostles will similarly sit on thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. A person with no knowledge of the internal sense of the Word will think that precisely that is going to happen. But how those descriptions should be understood becomes clear when one knows from the internal sense what 'the twenty-four elders', 'the twelve apostles', and also 'thrones' mean, namely all truths in their entirety, in accordance with which judgement is effected. The same goes for one's understanding here of 'judging his people as one of the tribes of Israel'. The meaning is not that these or any other elders among them will act as judges, but that the actual truths meant by them, therefore the Lord alone since every truth comes forth from Him, will do so. The reference to the twenty-four elders who will sit on thrones and act as judges occurs in John as follows,

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders seated, clad in white garments, who had crowns of gold on their heads. Revelation 4:4; 11:16.

In the same book,

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgement was given to them. Revelation 20:4.

The reference to the twelve apostles occurs in Matthew,

Jesus said, You who have followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew 19:28.

And in Luke,

I bestow on you, just as My father bestowed on Me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Luke 21:29-30.

Here neither the twenty-four elders nor the twelve apostles are what are really meant but all truths and forms of good in general, as may be recognized from the consideration that nobody, not even any angel, can judge anyone; for no one except the Lord alone can know what a person is or ever will be like interiorly. With regard to the twelve apostles, that they had a similar meaning to the twelve tribes, which was all truths and forms of good in their entirety, see 2129, 2553, 3488, 3858 (end). From all this it is now evident that 'Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that the truth represented by 'Dan' is one of the general truths by means of which judgement is effected.

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