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Jérémie 39

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1 La neuvième année de Sédécias Roi de Juda, au dixième mois, Nébucadnetsar Roi de Babylone vint avec toute son armée contre Jérusalem, et ils l'assiégèrent.

2 Et la onzième année de Sédécias, au quatrième mois, le neuvième jour du mois, il y eut une brèche faite à la ville.

3 Et tous les principaux [Capitaines] du Roi de Babylone [y entrèrent], et s'assirent à la porte du milieu, [savoir] Nergal-saréetser, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim, Rabsaris, Nergal, Saréetser, Rabmag, et tout le reste des principaux [Capitaines] du Roi de Babylone.

4 Or il arriva qu'aussitôt que Sédécias Roi de Juda, et tous les hommes de guerre les eurent vus, ils s'enfuirent, et sortirent de nuit hors de la ville, par le chemin du jardin du Roi, par la porte [qui était] entre les deux murailles, et ils s'en allaient par le chemin de la campagne.

5 Mais l'armée des Caldéens les poursuivit, et ils atteignirent Sédécias dans les campagnes de Jérico; et l'ayant pris, ils l'amenèrent vers Nébucadnetsar Roi de Babylone à Ribla, qui est au pays de Hamath, où on lui fit son procès.

6 Et le Roi de Babylone fit égorger à Ribla les fils de Sédécias en sa présence; le Roi de Babylone fit aussi égorger tous les magistrats de Juda.

7 Puis il fit crever les yeux à Sédécias, et le fit lier de doubles chaînes d'airain, pour l'emmener à Babylone.

8 Les Caldéens brûlèrent aussi les maisons royales, et les maisons du peuple, et démolirent les murailles de Jérusalem.

9 Et Nébuzar-adan, prévôt de l'hôtel, transporta à Babylone le reste du peuple qui était demeuré dans la ville, et ceux qui s'étaient allés rendre à lui, le résidu, dis-je, du peuple qui était demeuré de reste.

10 Mais Nébuzar-adan, prévôt de l'hôtel, laissa d'entre le peuple les plus pauvres qui n'avaient rien dans le pays de Juda, et en ce jour-là il leur donna des vignes et des champs.

11 Or Nébucadnetsar Roi de Babylone avait donné ordre et commission à Nébuzar-adan prévôt de l'hôtel, touchant Jérémie, en disant :

12 Retire cet homme-là, et aie les yeux sur lui, et ne lui fais aucun mal; mais fais pour lui tout ce qu'il te dira.

13 Nébuzar-adan donc, prévôt de l'hôtel, envoya, et aussi Nébusazban, Rabsaris, Nergal, Saréetser, Rabmag, et tous les principaux [Capitaines] du Roi de Babylone;

14 Ils envoyèrent, [dis-je], retirer Jérémie de la cour de la prison, et le donnèrent à Guédalia fils d'Ahikam, fils de Saphan, pour le conduire à la maison; ainsi il demeura parmi le peuple.

15 Or la parole de l'Eternel avait été [adressée] à Jérémie, du temps qu'il était enfermé dans la cour de la prison, en disant :

16 Va, et parle à Hebed-mélec Cusien, et lui dis : ainsi a dit l'Eternel des armées, le Dieu d'Israël : voici, je m'en vais faire venir mes paroles sur cette ville pour son malheur, et non point pour son bien, et elles seront accomplies ce jour-là, en ta présence.

17 Mais je te délivrerai en ce jour-là, dit l'Eternel, et tu ne seras point livré entre les mains des hommes dont tu as peur.

18 Car certainement je te délivrerai, tellement que tu ne tomberas point par l'épée; mais ta vie te sera pour butin, parce que tu as eu confiance en moi, dit l'Eternel.

   

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Meeting of three kings in Potsdam and Charlottenburg, 1709, by Samuel Theodor Gericke

In Genesis 14:1, kings signify apparent goods and truths having the upper hand. In the next verse, they stand for the dominant evils and falsities against which the Lord fought as he passed He grew up on Earth.

In Genesis 14:3, we see that these evils and falsities were unclean; and in Genesis 14:4, that they burst forth later. (Arcana Coelestia 1661-1664).

In Genesis 14:14-15, this signifies that the Lord gained victory over them the evils represented earlier in the chapter. (Arcana Coelestia 1711-1715)

In Isaiah 33:17, a king signifies seeing genuine truth. (Apocalypse Explained 304[31])

In Revelation 9:11, a king signifies one who is in truth from an affection for what is good, and abstractly that truth itself -- here, in the opposite sense. (Apocalypse Revealed 440)

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1661. 'And so it was in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim' means just so many kinds of apparent goods and truths which are not in themselves goods and truths, and which were present with the Lord's external Man. This becomes clear from the meaning of all these in the internal sense, and also from what follows. For the subject is the Lord's conflict against evils and falsities, here His first conflict which came during His childhood and earliest adolescence. That conflict He first entered into and endured after He had been endowed with knowledge and cognitions, hence the expression 'in the days of' these kings.

[2] Nobody can possibly fight against evils and falsities until he knows what evil and falsity are, not therefore until he has received instruction. A person does not know what evil is, still less what falsity is, before he is capable of understanding and of forming judgements for himself, which is the reason why a person does not enter into temptations until he has reached the age of maturity. Thus everyone is tempted in adult life, but the Lord was tempted even in childhood.

[3] Everyone fights first of all from the goods and truths he has received by means of cognitions, and it is from them and by means of them that he forms judgements concerning evils and falsities. Everyone furthermore when he first starts to fight imagines that these goods and truths from which he fights are his own, that is, he ascribes them to himself, and at the same time ascribes to himself the power by which he resists. This is allowed because a person cannot at the time know anything different. Before anyone has been regenerated he cannot possibly know, so as to be able to say that he knows, acknowledges, and believes, that no good or truth at all comes from self, but that everything good and true comes from the Lord; nor can he possibly know that he is unable by his own power to resist any evil or falsity. Indeed he does not know that evil spirits are activating and implanting the evils and falsities, still less that he is in communication with hell by means of evil spirits, and that hell presses on him like the sea against every part of a dike, which he can by no means resist by his own strength. Yet because he cannot do otherwise, until he has been regenerated, than imagine that he resists by his own strength, this too is permitted; and in this condition he is admitted into conflicts, or temptations. Subsequently however he becomes more and more enlightened.

[4] When a person's state is such that he imagines that good and truth originate in himself and that the power to resist is his own, the goods and truths from which he fights against evils and falsities are not really goods and truths, however much they appear to be so, for they have that which is his own within them, and he places self-merit in victory, boasting as though it were he that had overcome evil and falsity, when in fact it is the Lord alone who fights and overcomes. That this is indeed so none can know except those who are being regenerated by means of temptations.

[5] Because the Lord in earliest childhood was led into very serious conflicts against evils and falsities it was inevitable that at that time even He should think that way. This happened both because it was according to Divine order that His Human Essence should through continuous conflicts and victories be brought to the Divine Essence and united to it, and because the goods and truths from which He fought against evils and falsities belonged to the External Man. And because those goods and truths were not completely Divine they are for that reason called appearances of good and truth. His Divine Essence brought the Human Essence to itself in this way in order that it might overcome by its own power. The arcana here however are more than can possibly be described. In short, in those first conflicts the goods and truths residing with the Lord from which He fought were permeated by things inherited from the mother, and insofar as they were permeated by things inherited from the mother they were not Divine. Gradually however, as He overcame evil and falsity they were purified and made Divine.

  
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