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Daniel 8

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1 Im dritten Jahre der Regierung des Königs Belsazar erschien mir, Daniel, ein Gesicht, nach demjenigen, welches mir im Anfang erschienen war.

2 Und ich sah im Gesicht; und es geschah, als ich sah, da war ich in der Burg Susan, welche in der Landschaft Elam ist; und ich sah im Gesicht, und ich war am Flusse Ulai.

3 Und ich erhob meine Augen und sah: und siehe, ein Widder stand vor dem Flusse, der hatte zwei Hörner; und die zwei Hörner waren hoch, und das eine war höher als das andere, und das höhere stieg zuletzt empor.

4 Ich sah den Widder nach Westen und nach Norden und nach Süden stoßen, und kein Tier konnte vor ihm bestehen, und niemand rettete aus seiner Hand; und er handelte nach seinem Gutdünken und wurde groß.

5 Und während ich achtgab, siehe, da kam ein Ziegenbock von Westen her über die ganze Erde, und er berührte die Erde nicht; und der Bock hatte ein ansehnliches Horn zwischen seinen Augen.

6 Und er kam bis zu dem Widder mit den zwei Hörnern, welchen ich vor dem Flusse hatte stehen sehen; und er rannte ihn an im Grimme seiner Kraft.

7 Und ich sah ihn bei dem Widder anlangen, und er erbitterte sich gegen ihn, und er stieß den Widder und zerbrach seine beiden Hörner; und in dem Widder war keine Kraft, um vor ihm zu bestehen. Und er warf ihn zu Boden und zertrat ihn, und niemand rettete den Widder aus seiner Hand.

8 Und der Ziegenbock wurde groß über die Maßen; und als er stark geworden war, zerbrach das große Horn, und vier ansehnliche Hörner wuchsen an seiner Statt nach den vier Winden des Himmels hin.

9 Und aus dem einen von ihnen kam ein kleines Horn hervor; und es wurde ausnehmend groß gegen Süden und gegen Osten und gegen die Zierde.

10 Und es wurde groß bis zum Heere des Himmels, und es warf von dem Heere und von den Sternen zur Erde nieder und zertrat sie.

11 Selbst bis zu dem Fürsten des Heeres tat es groß; und es nahm ihm das beständige Opfer weg, und die Stätte seines Heiligtums wurde niedergeworfen.

12 Und das Heer wurde dahingegeben samt dem beständigen Opfer, um des Frevels willen. Und es warf die Wahrheit zu Boden und handelte und hatte Gelingen. -

13 Und ich hörte einen Heiligen reden; und ein Heiliger sprach zu jenem, welcher redete: Bis wann geht das Gesicht von dem beständigen Opfer und von dem verwüstenden Frevel, da sowohl das Heiligtum als auch das Heer zur Zertretung hingegeben ist?

14 Und er sprach zu mir: Bis zu zweitausend dreihundert Abenden und Morgen; dann wird das Heiligtum gerechtfertigt werden.

15 Und es geschah, als ich, Daniel, das Gesicht sah, da suchte ich Verständnis darüber; und siehe, da stand vor mir wie die Gestalt eines Mannes.

16 Und ich hörte eine Menschenstimme zwischen den Ufern des Ulai, welche rief und sprach: Gabriel, gib diesem das Gesicht zu verstehen!

17 Und er trat an den Ort, wo ich stand; und als er herzutrat, erschrak ich und fiel nieder auf mein Angesicht. Und er sprach zu mir: Merke auf, Menschensohn! Denn das Gesicht geht auf die Zeit des Endes.

18 Und als er mit mir redete, sank ich betäubt auf mein Angesicht zur Erde. Er aber rührte mich an und stellte mich auf meinen früheren Standort.

19 Und er sprach: Siehe, ich will dir kundtun, was in der letzten Zeit des Zornes geschehen wird; denn es geht auf die bestimmte Zeit des Endes.

20 Der Widder mit den zwei Hörnern, welchen du gesehen hast, sind die Könige von Medien und Persien.

21 Und der zottige Ziegenbock ist der König von Griechenland; und das große Horn, das zwischen seinen Augen war, ist der erste König.

22 Und daß es zerbrach und vier an seiner Statt aufkamen: vier Königreiche werden aus dieser Nation aufstehen, aber nicht mit seiner Macht.

23 Und am Ende ihres Königtums, wenn die Frevler das Maß voll gemacht haben werden, wird ein König aufstehen, frechen Angesichts und der Ränke kundig.

24 Und seine Macht wird stark sein, aber nicht durch seine eigene Macht; und er wird erstaunliches Verderben anrichten, und Gelingen haben und handeln; und er wird Starke und das Volk der Heiligen verderben.

25 Und durch seine Klugheit wird der Trug in seiner Hand gelingen; und er wird in seinem Herzen großtun und unversehens viele verderben. Und gegen den Fürsten der Fürsten wird er sich auflehnen, aber ohne Menschenhand zerschmettert werden.

26 Und das Gesicht von den Abenden und von den Morgen, wovon gesprochen worden, ist Wahrheit; und du, verschließe das Gesicht, denn es sind noch viele Tage bis dahin.

27 Und ich, Daniel, war dahin und war einige Tage krank. Dann stand ich auf und verrichtete die Geschäfte des Königs. Und ich war entsetzt über das Gesicht, und niemand verstand es.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 610

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610. That time shall be no more, signifies that there shall be no longer any understanding of Divine truth, nor any state of the church therefrom. This is evident from the signification of "time," as being here the state of man in respect to the understanding of the Word, and thus the state of the church, because both the one and the other are treated of in this chapter. "Time" signifies state, because times in the spiritual world are determined and distinguished only by particular and general states of life. This is because the sun in that world, which is the Lord, does not move, but remains in the same place in heaven, and that place is the east; that sun does not there revolve through the heavens as the sun in the natural world appears to do. By the apparent revolution of the sun of the natural world times in general and in particular are determined, and thus have existence; in general, the year and its four seasons, called spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Moreover, these four seasons of the year are the four natural states of the natural world corresponding to the same number of states in the spiritual world, which are its general spiritual states. In particular, within these general states in the natural world, there are determined and fixed times, called months and weeks, but especially days, and days are divided into four natural states, which are called morning, noon, evening, and night, corresponding to which there are four states in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world, because the sun, as has been said, does not revolve through the heavens but remains constant and fixed in its east, there are no years, months, weeks, days, or hours, consequently there are no determinations by times, but only determinations by states of life, general and particular. Therefore it is not known there what time is, but only what state is, for the determination of a thing is what gives the idea of it, and according to the idea is the thing named. This, then, is the reason that it is not known in the spiritual world what times are, although they succeed each other there the same as in the natural world, but instead of times there are states and their changes; this is the reason also that times, when mentioned in the Word, signify states. (But respecting time and times in the spiritual world, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 162-169; and on the Changes of States of the Angels, n.154-161. [Note from the Margin:] Notice where it is said, "it shall be when there shall be neither day nor night" [Jeremiah 33:20; Zechariah 14:7.)

[2] Since "time" means the things pertaining to time in the natural world, as those pertaining to the year and the day (those of the year are seedtime and harvest, and those of the day are morning and evening), by these things pertaining to time states of the church are described in the Word, "seedtime" describing and signifying the establishment of the church; "harvest" its fruit bearing; "morning" its first time, and "noon to evening" its progression. These natural states (or conditions) also correspond to spiritual states, which are states of heaven and the church. As concerns the church, the church in general passes through these states, so does each man of the church in particular. Moreover, each man of the church from his earliest age is also inaugurated into these states, but when the church is at its end he can no more be inaugurated, for he does not receive Divine truth, but either rejects or perverts it, therefore he has neither seedtime nor harvest, that is, no establishment and no fruit bearing, nor has he morning or evening, that is, neither beginning nor progression. These states are meant and signified by "times" in the Word; and as in the end of the church these states cease with men of the church, therefore it is here said that "time shall be no more;" and this signifies that there shall be no further understanding of Divine truth or the Word, consequently not any state of the church.

[3] The like is signified by "time" in Ezekiel:

The evil, behold one evil cometh; the end is come, the end is come, it hath awakened upon thee. Behold, the morning is come upon thee, O inhabitant of the land, the time is come (Ezekiel 7:5-7).

This, too, was said of the state of the church. The end of the former church is first described, and the establishment of a new church afterwards, the end of the former church by this, "One evil, behold the evil cometh; the end is come, the end is come;" the establishment of a new church by this, "Behold, the morning is come upon thee, O inhabitant of the land, the time is come," "morning" signifying the state of a new or commencing church, and "time" its progressive state; accordingly the meaning is similar as that of "seedtime and harvest" and "morning and evening," mentioned above, consequently it means the state of the church in respect to the understanding of truth and the will of good.

[4] In Daniel:

The fourth beast shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, for he shall think to change times and the right; and they shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time (Daniel 7:25).

"The fourth beast" means the evil that was about to vastate the church completely; falsities destroying the truths of the church are meant by "the words that he shall speak against the Most High," and by "the saints of the Most High whom he will wear out," "the saints of the Most High" signifying in the abstract sense Divine truths. That the truths of the Word and its goods will then be turned into falsities and evils is signified by "he shall change the times and the right," "times" meaning the states of the church in respect to the understanding of truth. The duration of that state in relation to the end of the church is signified by "for a time and times and half a time," which means a full state of vastation.

[5] So, too, in the following words in Daniel:

And I heard the man clothed in linen, that he lifted up his right hand and his left hand unto the heavens, and sware by Him that liveth unto the ages of the ages that it shall be for a fixed time of fixed times, and a half, when they are to make an end of dispersing the people of holiness, all these things shall be finished (Daniel 12:7).

"Time" here signifies state; and "time, times and a half" signifies a full state of vastation; therefore it is said, "when they are to make a full end of dispersing the people of holiness," "the people of holiness" meaning those of the church who are in Divine truths; or in an abstract sense Divine truths. With a similar meaning it is said in Revelation:

That the woman should be nourished in the wilderness for a time and times and half a time (Revelation 12:14).

[6] As by "time" things pertaining to time are meant, such as spring, summer, autumn, and winter, these signifying the states of one who is to be regenerated, or is regenerated, also the things pertaining to these times, such as seedtime and harvest, these signifying the state of the church in respect to the implantation of truth and the fructification of good therefrom, and as like things are signified by the times of the day, which are morning, noon, evening, and night, so these times have this signification in the following passages. In Genesis:

During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease (Genesis 8:22).

This may be seen explained in Arcana Coelestia 930-937). In David:

The day is Thine, the night also is Thine; thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter hast Thou formed (Psalms 74:16, 17).

In Jeremiah:

Jehovah giveth the sun for a light of the day, and the statutes of the moon and stars for a light of the night. If these statutes shall depart from before Me, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me all the days (Jeremiah 31:35, 36).

In the same:

Jehovah said, If I shall not have set My covenant of day and night, the statutes of heaven and earth, I will reject also the seed of Jacob and of David 1 My servant (Jeremiah 33:25, 26).

"The statutes of the sun, moon, and stars," also "the covenant of day and night," and "the statutes of heaven and earth," have a similar signification as "times," since "times" exist from those statutes. That "seedtime and harvest, summer and winter," also "day and night," have a similar signification as "times" has been said above.

[7] It follows that "times" have the same signification in these words in Genesis:

God said, Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years (Genesis 1:14-19).

The two "luminaries," the sun and moon, signify love and faith; for that chapter treats in the spiritual sense of the new creation, or the regeneration of the man of the church, and the things said respecting the sun and moon signify the things that chiefly regenerate man and make the church; therefore these words and those that follow describe the process by which regeneration is effected, and afterwards it describes their states. This makes evident what is signified by "time shall be no more."

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1. Latin has "Israel," Hebrew "David," as found in 527, 768.

  
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Habakuk 2:2

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2 Da antwortete mir Jehova und sprach: Schreibe das Gesicht auf, und grabe es in Tafeln ein, damit man es geläufig lesen könne;