343. Retenant les quatre vents de la terre, afin que ne soufflât point un vent sur la terre, ni sur la mer, ni sur aucun arbre, signifie qu'un influx plus proche et par suite plus fort dans les lieux inférieurs, où les bons avaient été conjoints aux méchants, fut retenu et suspendu par le Seigneur. Il faut qu'on sache que le Jugement Dernier a lieu, quand les méchants au-dessous des Cieux dans le Monde des esprits sont multipliés à un tel point, que les Anges dans les Cieux ne peuvent se soutenir dans l'état de leur amour et de leur sagesse, car alors il n'y a pour eux ni soutien ni fondement ; et comme cela existe parla multiplication des méchants au-dessous des Cieux, le Seigneur, pour conserver l'état des Anges, influe par conséquent de plus fort en plus fort avec son Divin, et cela a lieu jusqu'au moment où ils ne peuvent plus être conservés par aucun influx, à moins que les méchants qui sont au-dessous ne soient séparés d'avec les bons ; et cette séparation se fait par l'abaissement et l'approche des Cieux, et par conséquent par un influx plus fort, au point que les méchants ne le supportent pas ; et alors les méchants s'enfuient, et se jettent eux-mêmes dans l'enfer ; c'est aussi cela qui est signifié dans le Chapitre précédent par ces paroles :

— « Ils disaient aux montagnes et aux rochers : Tombez sur nous, et cachez-nous de la face de Celui qui est assis sur le Trône, et de la colère de l'Agneau, parce qu'il est venu le jour grand de sa colère, et qui peut se maintenir ? » — Apocalypse 6:16-17.

— Maintenant, venons à l'explication : Par les quatre Vents est signifié l'Influx des Cieux ; par la terre, la mer et tout arbre, sont signifiés tous les inférieurs et les choses qui y sont ; par la terre et la mer, tous les inférieurs, et par tout arbre, toutes les choses qui y sont. Que le Vent signifie l'influx, et proprement l'influx du vrai dans l'entendement, on peut le voir par les passages suivants :

— « Ainsi a dit le Seigneur Jéhovah: Des quatre VENTS viens, esprit ; et souille en ces tués, afin qu'ils vivent. » — Ézéchiel 37:9-10.

— « Quatre Chars apparurent, auxquels il y avait quatre Chevaux ; ce sont les quatre VENTS des Cieux. » — Zacharie 6:1-5

— « Il faut que vous soyez engendrés de nouveau. Le VENT souffle où il veut, et tu ne sais d'où il vient, ni où il va. » — Jean 3:7-8.

— « Le Facteur de la terre dispose le globe par sa sagesse ; il tire le VENT de ses trésors. » — Jérémie 10:12-13 ; 51:15-16 ; Psaumes 135:7.

— « Jéhovah fait souffler son VENT, et les eaux coulent ; il annonce sa Parole, ses statuts et ses jugements. » — Psaumes 147:17-18, 19.

— « Qu'il loue Jéhovah, le vent de tempête exécutant sa Parole. » — Psaumes 148:8.

— « Jéhovah fait de ses Anges des vents. » — Psaumes 104:3-4.

— « Jéhovah porté sur les ailes du VENT. » — Psaumes 18:10-11 ; Psaumes 104:3 ;

— les ailes du Vent sont les Divins Vrais qui influent ; c'est pourquoi Le Seigneur est appelé Souffle des narines, — Lamentations 4:20 ; — et il est dit qu'il souffla dans les narines d'Adam âme de vies, — Genèse 2:7 ; — et qu'il insuffla en ses disciples, et leur dit : Recevez Esprit Saint, — Jean 20:21-22 ; — l'Esprit Saint est le Divin Vrai procédant du Seigneur, dont l'influx dans les disciples a été représenté et par suite est signifié en ce qu'il insuffla en eux. Si le Vent et la Respiration signifient l'influx du Divin Vrai dans l'entendement, c'est d'après la correspondance du poumon avec l'entendement ; sur cette correspondance, voir dans LA SAGESSE ANGELIQUE SUR LE DIVIN AMOUR ET SUR LA DIVINE SAGESSE 371-429. Comme un influx Divin plus proche et plus fort à travers les Cieux disperse les vrais chez les méchants, c'est pour cela que le Vent signifie la dispersion du vrai chez eux, et par suite leur conjonction avec l'enfer et leur perle, comme on peut le voir par ces passages :

— « J'amènerai sur Élam quatre VENTS des quatre extrémités des Cieux, et je les disperserai. » — Jérémie 49:36.

— « Tu les disperseras, de sorte que le VENT les emporte, et que la tempête les dissipe. » — Ésaïe 41:16.

— « LE SOUFFLE DE JEHOVAH comme un fleuve de souffre les embrase. » — Ésaïe 30:33.

— « Ceux qui machinent l'iniquité par le SOUFFLE DE DIEU périssent, et par l'ESPRIT DE SON NEZ ils sont consumés. » — Job 4:8-9.

— « Découverts ont été les fondements du globe par ta réprimande, Jéhovah, par le SOUFFLE DE L'ESPRIT DE TON NEZ. » — Psaumes 18:16.

— « Voyant je fus dans ma vision, et voici, les quatre VENTS s'élançaient vers la grande mer, et quatre Bêtes montaient. » — Daniel 7:2-3, et suivants.

— « Voici, une TEMPETE DE JEHOVAH, une colère est sortie ; sur la tête des impies elle se précipitera. » — Jérémie 23:19 ; 30:23.

— « Mon Dieu! poursuis-les par ton OURAGAN, par ta TEMPETE épouvante-les. » — Psaumes 83:16.

— « De Jéhovah dans la TOURMENTE et dans la TEMPETE (est) le Chemin. » — Nahum 1:3.

— et en outre ailleurs ; par exemple, — Jérémie 25:32 ; Ézéchiel 13:13 ; Hosée 8:7 ; Amos 1:14 ; Zacharie 9:14 ; Psaumes 11:6 ; 50:3 ; 55:9.

— et Psaumes 107, où sont ces paroles :

— « Il dit, et se présenta un VENT DE TEMPETE ; et Dieu fit arrêter la TEMPETE, afin que restassent en silence les flots. » — 107:25, 29 :

— de là on voit clairement ce qui est signifié dans le sens spirituel par ces paroles :

— « Jésus, dans la barque, réprimanda le VENT, et il dit à la Mer : Tais-toi ; et il y eut un calme. » — Marc 4:37 à 39 ; Luc 8:23-24 ;

— ici, par la Mer est signifié l'Enfer, et par le Vent l'influx qui en provient. Il n'est pas signifié autre chose qu'un influx fort par le VENT ORIENTAL, — Ézéchiel 17:10 ; Jérémie 18:17 ; Ézéchiel 19:12 ; Hosée 13:15 ; Psaumes 48:8.

— et aussi par ce même Vent, par lequel fut desséchée la Mer de Suph, — Exode 14:21.

— et dont Moïse parle ainsi :

— « PAR LE VENT DE TES NARINES ont été amassées les eaux ; TU AS SOUFFLE PAR TON VENT, la Mer les a couverts. » — Exode 15:8, 10.

— Maintenant, d'après ce qui vient d'être rapporté, on peut voir que par retenir les quatre Vents, afin que ne soufflât aucun vent sur la terre, il est signifié retenir et suspendre l'influx plus proche et plus fort dans les lieux inférieurs.

3654. In the internal sense of the Word 'Judea' does not mean Judea, any more than 'Jerusalem' means Jerusalem. This becomes clear from many places in the Word. In the Word Judea is mentioned less frequently than the land of Judah, which, like the land of Canaan, means the Lord's kingdom, and therefore the Church also since the Church is the Lord's kingdom on earth. And Judea has this meaning because Judah or the Jewish nation represented the Lord's celestial kingdom, and Israel or the Israelitish people His spiritual kingdom. And because His kingdom was represented by them, therefore when that nation or people is mentioned in the Word, nothing else is meant in its internal sense.

[2] The truth of this will be evident from those things which in the Lord's Divine mercy will be stated later on regarding Judah and the land of Judah. For the present it will be evident from the following few examples in the Prophets: In Isaiah,

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. ¹ He surrounded it [with an enclosure] and gathered out the stones, and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress in it. And he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem and man of Judah, judge, I pray you, between Me and My vineyard. I will make it a desolation, for the vineyard of Jehovah Zebaoth is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah His pleasant plant. ² And He looked for judgement, but behold, festering; for righteousness, but behold, a cry. Isaiah 5:1-3, 6-7.

Here the subject in the sense of the letter is the perverted state of the

Israelites and Jews, but in the internal sense it is the perverted state of the Church represented by Israel and Judah. 'Inhabitant of Jerusalem' is the Church's good - 'inhabitant' meaning good, or what amounts to the same, those with whom good is present, see 2268, 2451, 2712, 3613, and 'Jerusalem' the Church, 402, 2117. 'The house of Israel' has a similar meaning - 'house' meaning good, 710, 1708, 2233, 2331, 3142, 3538, and 'Israel' the Church, 3305. 'The man of Judah' also is very similar, for 'a man' means truth, 265, 749, 1007, 3134, 3310, 3459, and Judah good. The difference however is that 'the man of Judah' means truth grounded in the good of love to the Lord, which is called celestial truth, that is, those governed by that kind of truth are meant.

[3] In the same prophet,

He will raise an ensign for the nations, and will gather the outcasts of Israel, and will assemble the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Then the rivalry of Ephraim will depart, and the enemies of Judah be cut off. Ephraim will not vie with Judah, and Judah will not harass Ephraim. Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and will shake His hand over the River with the might of His spirit. Then there will be a highway for the remnant of His people which will remain from Asshur. Isaiah 11:12-13, 15-16.

Here the subject in the sense of the letter is the bringing back of the Israelites and Jews from captivity, but in the internal sense it is a new Church in general and with each person in particular who is being regenerated or becoming the Church. 'The outcasts of Israel' stands for their truths, 'the dispersed of Judah' for their goods. 'Ephraim' stands for the understanding part of their minds, which will no longer offer any resistance. 'Egypt' stands for facts, and 'Asshur' for reasoning based on these, which they have perverted. 'The outcasts', 'the dispersed', 'the remnant', and 'those who remain' stand for truths and goods which survive. For 'Ephraim' means the understanding part of the mind, as will be shown elsewhere, while 'Egypt' means factual knowledge, see 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 2588, 3325, 'Asshur' reasoning, 119, 1186, and 'remnant' the goods and truths that the Lord has stored away in the interior man, 468, 530, 560, 561, 660, 661, 798, 1050, 1738, 1906, 2284.

[4] In the same prophet,

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and who came out of the waters of Judah. For they are called after the city of holiness, and upon the God of Israel they place their reliance. Isaiah 48:1-2.

'The waters of Judah' stands for truths which spring from the good of love to the Lord. The truths from that source are actually the goods of charity, which are called spiritual goods and constitute the spiritual Church, the internal of this Church being meant by 'Israel' and the external by 'the house of Jacob'. This shows what is meant by 'the house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and who came out of the waters of Judah'.

[5] In the same prophet,

I will bring forth seed from Jacob, and from Judah the heir of My mountains, and My chosen ones will possess it, and My servants will dwell there. Isaiah 65:9.

'From Judah the heir of mountains' stands in the highest sense for the Lord, and in the representative sense for those in whom love to Him is present and so the good of love to Him and the good of love towards the neighbour. As regards 'mountains' meaning these forms of good, this has been shown above in 3652.

[6] In Moses,

A lion's whelp is Judah; from the prey you have gone up, my son. He crouched, he lay down like a lion, and like an old lion; who will rouse him up? Genesis 49:9.

Here it is quite evident that in the highest sense 'Judah' is used to mean the Lord, and in the representative sense those with whom the good of love to Him is present. In David,

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a foreign people, Judah became His sanctuary, Israel His dominions. Psalms 114:1-2.

Here also 'Judah' stands for celestial good, which is the good of love to the Lord, while 'Israel' stands for celestial truth, which is spiritual good.

[7] In Jeremiah,

Behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, and I will raise up for David a righteous branch, who will reign as king, and will prosper, and execute judgement and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name which they will call Him, Jehovah our Righteousness. Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16.

This refers to the Coming of the Lord. 'Judah' stands for those with whom the good of love to the Lord is present, 'Israel' for those with whom the truth that goes with that good is present. For 'Judah' is not used to mean Judah, nor 'Israel' to mean Israel, as may be seen from the fact that neither Judah nor Israel was actually preserved any longer. Similarly in the same prophet,

I will bring back the captivity of Judah, and the captivity of Israel, and build them as they were previously. Jeremiah 33:7.

The like may be seen here also. In the same prophet,

In those days and at that time, says Jehovah, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together, weeping as they come; and they will seek Jehovah their God; and they will seek Zion on the way, their faces towards it. Jeremiah 50:4-5.

In the same prophet,

At that time they will call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah, and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, because of the name of Jehovah; and they will go no more after the stubbornness of their own evil heart. In those days the house of Judah will go to the house of Israel, and together they will come over the land out of the land of the north. Jeremiah 3:17-18.

[8] In the same prophet,

Behold, the days are coming, said Jehovah, in which I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast; and I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant. This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days: I will put My law in the midst of them, and will write it on their heart. Jeremiah 31:27, 31, 33.

This shows plainly that Israel or the house of Israel was not meant, for once dispersed among the gentiles they were never brought back from captivity. Nor consequently was Judah or the house of Judah meant. Instead Israel and Judah meant in the internal sense members of the Lord's spiritual and celestial kingdoms. It is with these people that the new covenant is made, and in whose hearts the law is written. 'The new covenant' stands for being joined to the Lord by means of good, 665, 666, 1023, 1038, 1864, 1996, 2003, 2021, 2037. 'The law written in their heart' stands for a perception of good and of truth springing from that good, and also for conscience.

[9] In Joel,

It will happen on that day that the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the streams of Judah will flow with water; and a spring will come forth from the house of Jehovah and will water the river of Shittim. Egypt will become a waste, and Edom a desolate wilderness, ³ on account of the violence done to the children of Judah whose innocent blood they have shed in their land. And Judah will abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. Joel 3:18-20.

From every detail here also it is evident that 'Judah' is not used to mean Judah, nor 'Jerusalem' to mean Jerusalem, but those in whom the holiness of love and charity dwells, for they are 'to abide for ever' and 'from generation to generation'.

[10] In Malachi,

Behold, I am sending My angel, who will prepare the way before Me; and suddenly there will come to His temple the Lord whom you are seeking, and the angel of the covenant in whom you delight. Then the minchah ⁴ of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to Jehovah, as in the days of eternity, and as in former years. Malachi 3:1, 4.

This refers to the Coming of the Lord, at which time, it is clear, the minchah of Judah and Jerusalem was not acceptable to Jehovah. From this it is evident that Judah and Jerusalem mean such things as constitute the Lord's Church. The same applies wherever else Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem are mentioned in the Word. From this one may now see what is meant in Matthew by 'Judea', namely the Lord's Church, in that case when vastated.

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