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Jeremia 25

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1 Das Wort, welches zu Jeremia geschah über das ganze Volk von Juda, im vierten Jahre Jojakims, des Sohnes Josias, des Königs von Juda, das ist das erste Jahr Nebukadrezars, des Königs von Babel,

2 welches Jeremia, der Prophet, zu dem ganzen Volke von Juda und zu allen Bewohnern von Jerusalem redete, indem er sprach:

3 Vom dreizehnten Jahre Josias, des Sohnes Amons, des Königs von Juda, bis auf diesen Tag, diese 23 Jahre, ist das Wort Jehovas zu mir geschehen; und ich habe zu euch geredet, früh mich aufmachend und redend, aber ihr hörtet nicht.

4 Und Jehova hat alle seine Knechte, die Propheten, zu euch gesandt, früh sich aufmachend und sendend; aber ihr hörtet nicht und neigtet eure Ohren nicht, um zu hören.

5 Und er sprach: Kehret doch um, ein jeder von seinem bösen Wege und von der Bosheit eurer Handlungen, so sollt ihr in dem Lande, das Jehova euch und euren Vätern gegeben hat, wohnen von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit.

6 Und wandelt nicht anderen Göttern nach, um ihnen zu dienen und euch vor ihnen niederzubeugen; und reizet mich nicht durch das Werk eurer Hände, daß ich euch nicht Übles tue.

7 Aber ihr habt nicht auf mich gehört, spricht Jehova, um mich durch das Werk eurer Hände zu reizen, euch zum Unglück.

8 Darum, so spricht Jehova der Heerscharen: Weil ihr auf meine Worte nicht gehört habt,

9 siehe, so sende ich hin und hole alle Geschlechter des Nordens, spricht Jehova, und sende zu Nebukadrezar, dem König von Babel, meinem Knechte, und bringe sie über dieses Land und über seine Bewohner und über alle diese Nationen ringsum; und ich will sie vertilgen (Eig. verbannen, dem Bannfluch anheimgeben) und sie zum Entsetzen machen und zum Gezisch und zu ewigen Einöden.

10 Und ich will unter ihnen aufhören lassen die Stimme der Wonne und die Stimme der Freude, die Stimme des Bräutigams und die Stimme der Braut, das Geräusch der Mühlen und das Licht der Lampe.

11 Und dieses ganze Land wird zur Einöde, zur Wüste werden; und diese Nationen werden dem König von Babel dienen siebzig Jahre.

12 Und es wird geschehen, wenn siebzig Jahre voll sind, werde ich an dem König von Babel und an jenem Volke, spricht Jehova, ihre Schuld heimsuchen, und an dem Lande der Chaldäer; und ich werde es zu ewigen Wüsteneien machen.

13 Und ich werde über jenes Land alle meine Worte bringen, die ich über dasselbe geredet habe: alles, was in diesem Buche geschrieben steht, was Jeremia geweissagt hat über alle Nationen.

14 Denn viele Nationen und große Könige werden auch sie (d. h. die Chaldäer) dienstbar machen; und ich werde ihnen nach ihrem Tun und nach dem Werke ihrer Hände vergelten.

15 Denn so hat Jehova, der Gott Israels, zu mir gesprochen: Nimm diesen Becher Zornwein aus meiner Hand, und gib ihn zu trinken all den Nationen, zu welchen ich dich sende;

16 damit sie trinken, und taumeln und rasen wegen des Schwertes, das ich unter sie sende. -

17 Und ich nahm den Becher aus der Hand Jehovas und ließ trinken all die Nationen, zu welchen Jehova mich gesandt hatte:

18 Jerusalem und die Städte von Juda, und ihre Könige, ihre Fürsten, um sie zur Einöde, zum Entsetzen, zum Gezisch und zum Fluche zu machen, wie es an diesem Tage ist;

19 den Pharao, den König von Ägypten, und seine Knechte und seine Fürsten und sein ganzes Volk,

20 und alle gemischten Völker, und alle Könige des Landes Uz (Vergl. Klag. 4,21;) und alle Könige des Landes der Philister, und Askelon und Gasa und Ekron und den Überrest von Asdod;

21 Edom und Moab und die Kinder Ammon;

22 und alle Könige von Tyrus und alle Könige von Zidon; und die Könige der Inseln, welche jenseit des Meeres sind (d. h. der Inseln und Küstenländer des Mittelmeeres;)

23 Dedan und Tema und Bus, und alle mit geschorenen Haarrändern (Vergl. 3. Mose 19,27;)

24 und alle Könige von Arabien und alle Könige der gemischten Völker, die in der Wüste wohnen;

25 und alle Könige von Simri und alle Könige von Elam und alle Könige von Medien;

26 und alle Könige des Nordens, die nahen und die fernen, den einen nach dem anderen (Eig. zu dem anderen hin, d. h. der eihe nach;) und alle Königreiche der Erde, die auf der Fläche des Erdbodens sind. -Und der König von Scheschak (Eine durch künstliche Buchstabenversetzung entstandene Benennung von Babel) soll nach ihnen trinken.

27 Und sprich zu ihnen: So spricht Jehova der Heerscharen, der Gott Israels: Trinket, und werdet berauscht und speiet, und fallet und stehet nicht wieder auf wegen des Schwertes, das ich unter euch sende.

28 Und es soll geschehen, wenn sie sich weigern, den Becher aus deiner Hand zu nehmen, um zu trinken, so sollst du zu ihnen sagen: Also spricht Jehova der Heerscharen: Ihr sollt trinken.

29 Denn siehe, bei der Stadt, welche nach meinem Namen genannt ist, beginne ich Übles zu tun (O. zu verderben, zu vernichten,) und ihr solltet etwa ungestraft bleiben? Ihr werdet nicht ungestraft bleiben; denn ich rufe das Schwert über alle Bewohner der Erde, spricht Jehova der Heerscharen.

30 Und du, weissage ihnen alle diese Worte und sprich zu ihnen: Jehova wird brüllen aus der Höhe und seine Stimme erschallen lassen aus seiner heiligen Wohnung; brüllen wird er gegen seine Wohnstätte, einen lauten uf erheben, wie die Keltertreter, gegen alle Bewohner der Erde.

31 Ein Getöse dringt bis an das Ende der Erde, denn Jehova rechtet mit den Nationen, er hält Gericht mit allem Fleische; die Gesetzlosen gibt er dem Schwerte hin, spricht Jehova. -

32 So spricht Jehova der Heerscharen: Siehe, Unglück geht aus von Nation zu Nation, und ein gewaltiger Sturm macht sich auf von dem äußersten Ende der Erde.

33 Und die Erschlagenen Jehovas werden an jenem Tage liegen von einem Ende der Erde bis zum anderen Ende der Erde; sie werden nicht beklagt und nicht gesammelt noch begraben werden; zu Dünger auf der Fläche des Erdbodens sollen sie werden. -

34 Heulet, ihr Hirten, und schreiet! und wälzet euch in der Asche, ihr Herrlichen der Herde! denn eure Tage sind erfüllt, um geschlachtet zu werden; und ich zerstreue euch, daß ihr hinfallen werdet wie ein kostbares Gefäß.

35 Und die Zuflucht ist den Hirten verloren, und das Entrinnen den Herrlichen der Herde.

36 Horch! Geschrei (W. Stimme des Geschreis) der Hirten, und Heulen der Herrlichen der Herde; denn Jehova verwüstet ihre Weide.

37 Und die Auen des Friedens werden zerstört vor der Glut des Zornes Jehovas.

38 Gleich einem jungen Löwen hat er sein Dickicht verlassen; denn ihr Land ist zur Wüste geworden vor dem verderbenden (O. gewalttätigen) Schwerte (Im hebr. Texte steht: vor der verderbenden Glut; doch vergl. Kap. 46,16;50,16) und vor der Glut seines Zornes.

   

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10283. 'It shall not be poured onto the flesh of a person' means no imparting [of what is the Lord's] to a person's proprium or self. This is clear from the meaning of 'the flesh of a person' as his proprium, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'pouring onto' as imparting to. For 'pouring' has a similar meaning to 'touching'; but 'pouring' is used in connection with liquids, namely oil, wine, and water, and 'pouring out' in connection with Divine, heavenly, and spiritual realities, whereas 'touching' is used in connection with dry substances and with bodily things. For the meaning of 'touching' as imparting, see 10130. From this it follows that 'the anointing oil shall not be poured onto the flesh of a person' means that there is no imparting of the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Love to a person's proprium or self, because a person's proprium is nothing but evil and the Lord's Divine Good cannot be imparted to what is evil.

A person's proprium or self is nothing but evil, see 210, 215, 694, 731, 874-876, 987, 1023, 1024, 1047, 5660, 5786, 8480.

[2] One part of the human proprium belongs to the will and the other part to the understanding; the will part consists of evil, and the understanding part of falsity arising from this. The former - the will part of the proprium - is meant by human flesh, and the understanding part by the blood of that flesh. The truth of this is clear from the following places: In Matthew,

Jesus said, Blessed are you, Simon, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. Matthew 16:17.

It is plainly evident that 'flesh' here, and also 'blood', means the human proprium or self.

[3] In John,

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, who were born, not of blood 1 , nor of the will of the flesh, but of God. John 1:12-13.

'Blood' here means falsities that come out of the understanding part of the human proprium, and 'the will of the flesh' evils that spring from the will part of it. For the meaning of 'blood' as falsity arising from evil, thus what is in the understanding part of the proprium as a result of what is in the will part, see 4735, 9127.

[4] In Isaiah,

I will feed your oppressors with their flesh and they will be drunk with their blood as with new wine. Isaiah 49:26.

'Feeding them with their flesh' and 'making them drunk with their blood' stands for filling them up with evil and the falsity of evil, thus with what is of the proprium or what is one's own; for both the evil and the falsity come out of the proprium.

[5] In Jeremiah,

Cursed is the man (homo) who trusts in man (homo) and makes flesh his arm. Jeremiah 17:5.

'Trusting in man and making flesh his arm' means trusting in oneself and one's proprium.

[6] In Isaiah,

The people have become as fuel for the fire. If any of them cuts down on the right he will be hungry, and if any eats on the left they will not be satisfied. Each will eat the flesh of his own arm 2 ; Manasseh [will eat] Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh. Isaiah 9:19-21.

'Fuel for the fire' means making the evils or desires of self-love and love of the world one's own, 'being hungry' and 'not being satisfied' mean not accepting the good or the truth of faith, and 'the flesh of his arm' means both parts of the human proprium, 'Manasseh' meaning evil in the will, 'Ephraim' falsity in the understanding, and 'eating' making one's own.

'Fire' means the evils or desires of self-love and love of the world, see 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141.

The reason why 'being hungry' and 'not being satisfied' mean not accepting the good or the truth of faith is that 'hunger' or famine and 'thirst' mean desolation with regard to goodness and truth, 5360, 5376, 6110, 7102, 8568(end).

'The right' means good from which truth emanates, and 'the left' truth through which good comes, 10061; consequently 'being hungry if any of them cuts down on the right, and not being satisfied if any eats on the left' means that no matter how much instruction they may receive about goodness and truth they will not accept them.

[7] 'Manasseh' means good in the will, 5351, 5353, 5354(end), 6222, 6234, 6238, 6267, and 'Ephraim' truth in the understanding, 3969, 5354, 6222, 6234, 6238, 6267, so that in the contrary sense 'Manasseh' means evil in the will and 'Ephraim' falsity in the understanding, since almost everything in the Word also has a contrary meaning.

'Eating' means making one's own, 3168, 3513(end), 3596, 4745, from which it is evident what 'eating the flesh of his own arm' means, namely making evil and falsity originating in the proprium one's own.

The expression 'flesh of the arm' is used because 'the arm', like 'the hand', means the powers present in a person, in which he puts his trust, see in the places referred to in 10019.

[8] In Zechariah,

I said, I will not feed you. Let the one that is dying die; [the sheep] that are left will eat, every one the flesh of another. Zechariah 11:9.

'Not feeding' stands for not teaching and reforming, 'dying' for loss of spiritual life, and 'eating the flesh of another' for making evils originating in the proprium of another one's own.

[9] In Ezekiel,

Jerusalem committed whoredom with the sons of Egypt, her neighbours, the great in flesh. Ezekiel 16:26.

'Jerusalem' stands for the perverted Church, 'committing whoredom with the sons of Egypt, the great in flesh' for falsifying the Church's truths by means of factual knowledge which begins in the natural man alone, thus by means of factual knowledge based on sensory evidence.

'Jerusalem' means the Church, see 402, 2117, 3654, in this instance the Church when it has been perverted.

'Committing whoredom' means falsifying truths, 2466, 2729, 8904.

'Sons' means truths, or else falsities, 1147, 3373, 4257, 9807.

'Egypt' means factual knowledge, in either [a good or a bad] sense, see in the places referred to in 9340, and also the natural, in the places referred to in 9391.

Consequently the words 'the great in flesh' describe people who, relying on sensory evidence, reason and draw conclusions about the Church's truths. Those who do this lay hold of falsities as truths, for to rely on sensory evidence to reason and draw conclusions about anything is to rely on the illusions of the bodily senses. People therefore who are ruled by their senses are meant by 'the great in flesh'; for their own bodily perceptions govern their thinking.

[10] In Isaiah,

Egypt is man (homo) and not God, and his horses are flesh, but not spirit. Isaiah 31:3.

Here also 'Egypt' stands for factual knowledge, 'his horses' for a power of understanding consisting of this. That power is called 'flesh, not spirit' when people use what is their own and not God's to draw conclusions.

By 'horses' is meant the power of understanding, see 2761, 2762, 3217, 5321, 6534, and by 'the horses of Egypt' factual knowledge supplied from a perverted understanding, 6125, 8146, 8148.

[11] The fact that 'flesh' means a person's proprium or selfhood, or what amounts to the same thing, his own evil will, is clear in Moses, where the subject is the Israelite people's desire for flesh to eat, described as follows,

The rabble who were in the midst of the people had a strong craving and said, Who will feed us with flesh? Jehovah said, Tomorrow you will eat flesh. Not for one day will you eat it, nor for two days, nor for five days, nor for ten days, nor for twenty days, [but] for a whole month. And a wind set out from Jehovah, and it cut off the quails from the sea and sent them down 3 over the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the land. The people rose up that whole day, and the whole night, and the whole of the next day, and gathered them and spread them out all around the camp. The flesh was still between their teeth, before it could be swallowed, and Jehovah's anger flared up against the people, and He struck the people with an extremely great plague. So he called the name of the place The Graves of Craving. Numbers 11:4, 18-20, 31-34.

[12] The fact that 'flesh' meant that nation's proprium becomes clear from every detail in these verses; for unless this had been meant what evil could there have been in their desire for flesh, especially as flesh had been promised them on a previous occasion, Exodus 16:12? But since it meant the proprium, thus an evil will, which that nation possessed in greater measure than other nations, it says - when they desired flesh - that they 'had a strong craving', on account of which they were struck with a great plague, and on account of which the place where they were buried was called The Graves of Craving. Whether you speak of an evil will or of craving, it amounts to the same thing, for an evil will consists in craving. The human proprium has no desire for anything apart from what belongs to itself; it has no desire for anything that concerns the neighbour or anything that concerns God, unless this is beneficial to itself. Since that nation was like this it says that they would eat flesh not for one day, not for two, not for five, nor for ten, nor for twenty, but for a whole month, meaning that this nation would be like that forever (for 'a whole month' means forever); and for the same reason it says that while the flesh was still between their teeth, before it could be swallowed, they were struck with a great plague. For by 'teeth' the bodily level of the proprium, the lowest of a person's mind, is meant, 4424(end), 5565-5568, 9062. The fact that this nation was like this may be seen in the places referred to in 9380, and in the Song of Moses, at Deuteronomy 32:20, 22-26, 28, 32-34.

[13] In the Word spirit is set in contrast to flesh, for 'spirit' means life from the Lord and 'flesh' life from man, as in John,

It is the Spirit which bestows life, the flesh does not profit anything. The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:63.

From this it is clear that 'spirit' means life from the Lord, which is the life of love to Him and faith in Him, received from Him, and that 'flesh' means life from man, thus his selfhood. This is why it says 'the flesh does not profit anything'. Something similar is meant elsewhere in John,

That which has been born from the flesh is flesh, but that which has been born from the spirit is spirit. John 3:6.

In David,

God remembered that they were flesh; a spirit which would pass away would not come back. Psalms 78:39.

[14] Since 'flesh' in reference to man means his proprium, which consists of the evil of self-love and love of the world, it is evident what 'flesh' means when used in reference to the Lord, namely His Proprium, which consists of the Divine Good of Divine Love. This is what 'the Lord's flesh' means in John,

The bread which I will give you is My flesh. Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you will have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life; for My flesh is truly food and My blood is truly drink. John 6:51, 53-55.

'The flesh' of the Lord means the Divine Good of His Divine Love, and 'the blood' the Divine Truth emanating from that Divine Good, so that they are similar in meaning to the bread and wine in the Holy Supper; and those Divine Realities are His own, present within His Divine Human, see 1001, 3813, 4735, 6978, 7317, 7326, 7850, 9127, 9393, 10026, 10033, 10152. Also, the sacrifices represented forms of good that originate in the Lord, and therefore the flesh of those sacrifices meant forms of good, 10040, 10079. Furthermore, various places in the Word use the expression 'all flesh', by which every human being should be understood, as in Genesis 6:12-13, 17, 19; Isaiah 40:5-6; 49:26; 66:16, 23-24; Jeremiah 25:31; 32:27; 45:5; Ezekiel 20:48; 21:4-5; and elsewhere.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, bloods

2. literally, they will eat, a man (vir) the flesh of his own arm

3. Reading demisit (sent down) for dimisit (allowed to depart)

  
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