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Obadja 1

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1 Gesicht Obadjas. So spricht der Herr, Jehova, von Edom: Eine Kunde haben wir von Jehova gehört, und ein Bote ist unter die Nationen gesandt worden: "Machet euch auf, und laßt uns wider dasselbe aufstehen zum Kriege!"

2 Siehe, ich habe dich klein gemacht unter den Nationen, du bist sehr verachtet.

3 Der Übermut deines Herzens hat dich verführt, der du in Felsenklüften, auf hohem Sitze wohnst und in deinem Herzen sprichst: Wer wird mich zur Erde hinabstürzen?

4 Wenn du dein Nest auch hoch baust wie der Adler, und wenn es zwischen die Sterne gesetzt wäre: ich werde dich von dort hinabstürzen, spricht Jehova.

5 Wenn Diebe über dich gekommen wären, wenn nächtliche äuber-wie bist du vernichtet! -würden sie nicht gestohlen haben nach ihrer Genüge? Wenn Winzer über dich gekommen wären, würden sie nicht eine Nachlese übriggelassen haben?

6 Wie sind die von Esau durchsucht, ausgeforscht ihre verborgenen Schätze!

7 Alle deine Bundesgenossen haben dich bis zur Grenze geschickt; betrogen, überwältigt haben dich deine Freunde, die dein Brot aßen (Eig. die Männer deines Friedens, deines Brotes. Der hebr. Text ist nicht klar;) sie legten eine Schlinge unter dich. Es ist kein Verstand in ihm.

8 Werde ich nicht an jenem Tage, spricht Jehova (Eig. ist der Spruch Jehovas,) die Weisen aus Edom vertilgen und den Verstand vom Gebirge Esaus?

9 Und deine Helden, Teman, werden verzagen, auf daß jedermann vom Gebirge Esaus ausgerottet werde durch Ermordung.

10 Wegen der an deinem Bruder Jakob verübten Gewalttat wird Schande dich bedecken, und du wirst ausgerottet werden auf ewig.

11 An dem Tage, da du gegenüber standest, an dem Tage, da Fremde sein Vermögen hinwegführten, und Ausländer zu seinen Toren einzogen und über Jerusalem das Los warfen, da warst auch du wie einer von ihnen.

12 Und du solltest nicht auf den Tag deines Bruders sehen (Eig. mit Vergnügen (Schadenfreude) sehen; so auch v 13) am Tage seines Mißgeschicks, und dich nicht freuen über die Kinder Juda am Tage ihres Untergangs, noch dein Maul aufsperren am Tage der Bedrängnis;

13 du solltest nicht in das Tor meines Volkes einziehen am Tage seiner Not, und du, auch du, nicht auf sein Unglück sehen am Tage seiner Not, noch deine Hand ausstrecken nach (Eig. noch langen nach) seinem Vermögen am Tage seiner Not;

14 und du solltest nicht am Kreuzwege stehen, um seine Flüchtlinge zu vertilgen, und solltest seine Entronnenen (O. Übriggebliebenen) nicht ausliefern am Tage der Bedrängnis.

15 Denn der Tag Jehovas ist nahe über (O. wider) alle Nationen: wie du getan hast, wird dir getan werden; dein Tun wird auf dein Haupt zurückkehren.

16 Denn gleichwie ihr getrunken habt auf meinem heiligen Berge, so werden beständig trinken alle Nationen; ja, sie werden trinken und schlürfen, und werden sein wie solche, die nie gewesen sind.

17 Aber auf dem Berge Zion wird Errettung sein (O. werden Entronnene sein,) und er wird heilig sein; und die vom Hause Jakob werden ihre Besitzungen wieder in Besitz nehmen (O. besitzen.)

18 Und das Haus Jakob wird ein Feuer sein, und das Haus Joseph eine Flamme, und das Haus Esau zu Stoppeln; und sie werden unter ihnen brennen und sie verzehren. Und das Haus Esau wird keinen Übriggebliebenen haben, denn Jehova hat geredet.

19 Und die vom Süden werden das Gebirge Esaus, und die von der Niederung die Philister in Besitz nehmen; und sie (nämlich die Übrigen von Juda) werden das Gefilde Ephraims und das Gefilde Samarias, und Benjamin wird Gilead in Besitz nehmen;

20 und die Weggeführten dieses Heeres der Kinder Israel werden in Besitz nehmen, was den Kanaanitern gehört bis nach Zarpath (Hebr. Zarephat) hin; und die Weggeführten von Jerusalem, welche in Sepharad sind, die Städte des Südens.

21 Und es werden etter auf den Berg Zion ziehen, um das Gebirge Esaus zu richten; und das eich (O. Königtum) wird Jehova gehören.

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Arcana Coelestia # 10582

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10582. 'That I will put you in a cleft of the rock' means obscurity and falsity of faith such as exists with those whose interest lies in external things and not in what is internal. This is clear from the meaning of 'a cleft of the rock' as obscurity and falsity of faith, for 'the rock' means faith, as just above in 10580, and 'a cleft' obscurity in it, and falsity as well, dealt with below. The words 'such as exists with those whose interest lies in external things and not in what is internal' are used because every truth of faith with them lies in obscurity, together with falsity as well. For those among them who believe the Word take every statement in it literally, and not according to its inner meaning. People with that kind of belief in it cannot have any light, because the light from heaven flows into the external by way of the internal; and also what they believe without the light from heaven looks like the truth, but is nevertheless falsity with them. For they have material and earthly ideas about what is true and not at the same time spiritual and heavenly ones; and all material and earthly ideas, if the light from heaven does not shine on them, swarm with illusions. Take James and John, for example. Because they had earthly ideas about the Lord's kingdom they asked to sit one on His right and the other on the left in His kingdom. But Jesus said,

You do not know what you ask. You know that the rulers of the gentiles lord it over them. It shall not be so among you, but whoever has the wish to become great among you must be your minister, and whoever has the wish to be first must be your servant. Matthew 20:21-22, 25-27.

[2] No one with such earthly ideas as they entertained then can know what the heavenly kingdom is. People like this do not know what the glory there is, nor what love is, nor indeed what faith is; in general they do not know what good is. For their judgements are based on bodily and earthly things. Everything that delights the body and its senses is what they call good; pre-eminence over others is what they call glory; love of the world and self-love are what they call heavenly love; and belief which is based on factual knowledge but is no more than persuasion they call faith. When they think about God they do so in a materialistic way, as a consequence of which either they deny the existence of God and replace Him with nature, or they worship idols or people who have died. From this it is evident how much obscurity of faith exists with those whose interest lies in external things alone, and that falsity as well does so.

[3] Obscurity and falsity of faith such as this exists with those who believe only the literal sense of the Word, without the aid of religious teachings drawn from it in a state of enlightenment. Those who read the Word without the aid of those teachings are like people who walk in the dark without a lamp. All who think on no more than a sensory level are like this. It is evident that the Jewish nation is like this, for they explain everything in the Word literally, because their interest lies in external things separated from what is internal. In the next life people like them do not live on rocks, but either in caves among those rocks or in clefts.

[4] The fact that 'a cleft of the rock' means obscurity and falsity of faith is also clear from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

On that day Jehovah will whistle for the fly that is in the farthest parts of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Asshur. They will come and all of them will rest in the rivers of desolations, and in the clefts of the rocks. Isaiah 7:18-19.

This refers to the Lord's Coming and to the state of the Church at that time, when everything constituting spiritual truth and good has been desolated. For these words mean that people of the Church will by then have forsaken internal things and become altogether external, thus sensory-minded and no more than this. People become sensory-minded when they accept and believe nothing apart from what their outward senses tell them. 'The fly in the farthest parts of the rivers of Egypt' is falsity existing with a person who is altogether external, that is, who is sensory-minded and no more than this; 'the bee in the land of Asshur' is falsity that belongs to reasoning based on sensory evidence; 'the rivers of desolations' are the truths which belong to religious teachings but have been completely desolated; and 'the clefts of the rocks' are the falsities of faith that exist as a result. Who would ever guess that those words mean such things? And the things they mean would remain completely hidden if the internal sense was not used to uncover them.

[5] In the same prophet,

On that day a person will cast away the idols which they made for themselves to bow down to, to the moles and bats, to go into the splits of the rocks, and into the clefts of the crags. Isaiah 2:20-21.

'Bowing down to the moles and bats' means worshipping such things as exist in total darkness and in the shades of night, that is, external things without their inner substance. 'Going into the splits of the rocks and into the clefts of the crags' means entering into matters of faith that are full of obscurity and thick darkness, thus entering into falsities.

[6] In Jeremiah,

I will bring back the children of Israel over their land. And I am sending to many fishermen who will fish them, and to hunters who will hunt them from upon every mountain, upon every hill, and from the holes of the rocks. Jeremiah 16:15-16.

This refers to the re-establishment of the Church, meant by 'bringing back the children of Israel over their land'. 'Fishing them' means giving them instruction in the outward things of the Church, 'hunting them' doing so in the inward things. Those upon mountain and hill are those who live in love and charity, and those in the holes of the rocks are those who live in faith but are not as yet enlightened, thus those who dwell in obscurity of faith.

[7] In the same prophet,

I have made you least among the nations. The pride of your heart dwelling in the holes of the rock holds the height of the hill. Jeremiah 49:15-16.

In Obadiah,

The pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the splits of the rock, whose seat is high 1 - he who says in his heart, Who will bring me down to earth? If you raise yourself up like the eagle, and if you place your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there. Obad. verses 3-4.

'Dwelling in the holes of the rock' means living in falsities of faith. The subject is those who raise themselves above others, in the belief that they are better informed than everyone else, when in fact they are immersed in falsities and cannot even see truths. In the next life they dwell in the holes of rocks. Sometimes they force their way up on top of the rocks, but they are nevertheless cast down from there into their holes in the rocks or into caves beneath them. This is what is meant by 'holding the height of the hill', 'raising themselves up like the eagle, placing their nest among the stars, and nevertheless being brought down'.

From all this it now becomes clear that 'putting Moses in a cleft of the rock' means obscurity and falsity of faith such as exists with those whose interest lies in external things and not in what is internal. For here 'Moses' is used to mean the people, because here he represents the head of that nation, see 10556.

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1. literally, in the height of his seat

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