47. 1. Par Esprit, il est entendu la Vie de l'homme: on peut le voir d'après le langage ordinaire: Quand un homme meurt, on dit qu'il rend l'esprit; c'est pourquoi, par l'esprit, dans ce sens, il est entendu la Vie de la respiration; et même le mot Esprit tire sa dérivation de Respiration; c'est de là que, dans la Langue Hébraïque, il y a un seul mot pour esprit et vent. Chez l'homme, il y a deux sources de vie; l'une est le mouvement du cœur, et l'autre la respiration du poumon; c'est la vie par la respiration du poumon qui est proprement entendue par l'esprit, et aussi par l'âme; on verra en son lieu que cette vie fait un avec la pensée de l'homme qui procède de l'entendement, et que la vie qui vient du mouvement du cœur fait un avec l'amour de la volonté de l'homme. Que la Vie de l'homme soit entendue dans la Parole par l'esprit, on le voit par ces passages: « Retires-tu leur esprit, ils expirent, et ils retournent en leur poussière. » - Psaumes 104:29.

- « Il s'est souvenu qu'ils étaient chair, un esprit qui s'en allait et ne revenait point. » - Psaumes 78:39.

- « Lorsque son esprit sera sorti, il s'en retournera en sa terre. » - Psaumes 146:4.

- « Ezéchias se lamentait de ce que « la vie de son esprit s'en allait. » - Esaïe 38:16.

- « L'esprit de Jacob fut ravivé. » - Genèse 45:27. « Son image défunte est un mensonge, il n'y a point d'esprit en elle. » - Jérémie 51:17.

- « Ainsi a dit le Seigneur Jéhovah à ces os desséchés: Je ramènerai l'Esprit en vous pour que vous viviez, des quatre vents, viens, esprit et souffle en ces tués, et qu'ils vivent. Et l'esprit, vint en eux et ils revécurent. » - Ezéchiel 37:5-6, 9-10.

- « Jésus ayant pris la main de la fille de Jaïrus, son esprit revint et elle se leva à l'instant. » - Luc 8:54-55.

635. 14:10 "He himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed with pure wine in the cup of His indignation." This symbolically means that they falsify the Word's goods and truths and steep themselves in a life in accordance with their falsification of them.

This is the symbolic meaning of this declaration, because the wine of the wrath of God mixed with pure wine symbolizes the Word's truth falsified. The cup of His indignation symbolizes truth which leads to good, likewise falsified. And to drink means, symbolically, to adopt these falsified truths, or to steep oneself in a life in accordance with them.

That wine symbolizes the Word's truth may be seen in no. 316. That the wine of the wrath of God symbolizes the Word's truth adulterated and falsified may be seen in no. 632. Being mixed with pure wine clearly symbolizes its falsification. The cup also has the same symbolic meaning as the wine, because the cup is its containing vessel.

To drink means, symbolically, to steep one's life in the falsifications, because this declaration is made to people who live in accordance with the doctrine of justification by faith alone, as may be seen just above in no. 634.

Mixing wine, or wine mixed, symbolizes the falsification of truth also in the book of Psalms:

...in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and He has mixed it with wine; He has filled it with mixed wine and poured it out, and... all the impious of the earth shall drink it. (Psalms 75:8)

[2] The Word in many places mentions wrath and indignation together, and wrath there is predicated of evil, while indignation is predicated of falsity, because people caught up in evil are wrathful, while people caught up in falsity are indignant. Both characteristics, moreover, are in the Word attributed to Jehovah, that is, to the Lord, but it means that someone is wrathful or indignant at the Lord (see no. 525 above).

That the Word mentions wrath and indignation together is apparent from the following passages there:

...Jehovah comes... with indignation and wrath... ...the earth will move out of her place... in the day (of the indignation) of His wrath. (Isaiah 13:5, 9, 13)

...Assyria, the rod of My wrath... I will order him... against the people of My indignation (Isaiah 10:4-7)

I... will fight against you... in wrath... and in... indignation. (Jeremiah 21:5)

Behold, I am gathering them... in My wrath and in My indignation... (Jeremiah 32:37)

...the wrath of Jehovah is against all nations, and His indignation against the whole host of them. (Isaiah 34:2)

...Jehovah... will repay in His indignation and wrath... (Isaiah 66:15)

I have trodden down the peoples in My wrath, and made them drunk in My indignation... (Isaiah 63:6)

...My wrath and My indignation will be poured out on this place... (Jeremiah 7:20)

And so on elsewhere, as in Jeremiah 33:5, Ezekiel 5:13, Deuteronomy 29:28. Also the indignation of wrath, Isaiah 13:13.

But in Isaiah:

Only in Jehovah... righteousness and strength... And all shall be ashamed who are indignant against Him. (Isaiah 45:24)