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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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988. Verse 10. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the beast, signifies the state of the church manifested as to the doctrine of faith. This is evident from the signification of "the angel pouring out the vial," as being the state of the church manifested (as above); also from the signification of "the throne of the beast," as being the doctrine of faith. "The throne of the beast" signifies the doctrine of faith because "throne" signifies the church as to the truth that reigns therein, and "the beast" signifies such faith as exists in that church, therefore "the throne of the beast" signifies the church as to the doctrine of faith. This follows also from what is said before, that "the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun," which signifies the state of the church manifested as to love (See above n. 981; consequently the vial poured out by this angel upon the throne of the beast signifies manifestation of the state of the church as to faith, since love and faith are what constitute the church, but only when they are one and not two. But "the throne of the beast" means such faith as there is at this day in that church, which is faith separated from the goods of life.

[2] The doctrine of faith is meant by "the throne of the beast," because "throne" means in the highest sense heaven and the church as to the Divine truth; and in the Christian Church the Divine truth is called faith; which was not done in the ancient churches, in which they did not know what faith is since faith involves something that is not understood and yet must be believed as if it were truth. Nearly everything of the church and of its doctrine at the present day is such; as for instance, what must be believed about the trinity, that there are three Persons of the Divinity, that the Lord was born from eternity, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from them, and that this proceeding is a Person which is God by Himself, and yet that there are not three but one, and thus that there is a trinity in the unity, and a unity in the trinity; furthermore, that faith is saving apart from its life, which is from the goods of charity or from good works; that to one who has been justified by faith alone, all works even such as are evil are pardoned, and the law does not condemn him, since the Lord has taken away the condemnation by the fulfilling of the law and by the passion of the cross; and that man will be saved when this is merely believed.

[3] There are many other things that must be believed as truths which are said to be matters of faith because whether they are true or not cannot be seen; as what is said about free will, about the faith of infants, about the flesh and blood in the Holy Supper, also about the life of man after death, and the Last Judgment, which are called things to be believed although the understanding sees in them mere paradoxes that transcend all faith; as that man after death is a shadowy or airy something, a formless phantom of ether that does not see, hear or speak, and thus is either flying in the air or is in a somewhere awaiting the judgment, which is to come with the destruction of the entire universe, both the visible heaven, the sun, moon and stars, and also the earth; and then all things of the body left in the world by death are to come together again and clothe the soul, and thus man's senses will be restored; with other like things. As these cannot fall into the understanding they cannot be called truths, but must be called faith. Such is the faith that is meant by "the throne of the beast."

[4] Who cannot see that by such a faith a man may be induced to believe mere absurdities and falsities, provided they are set up as dogmas by those placed in authority and are confirmed by others who for various reasons prefer to live in blind obedience? For by fallacies and sophistries, falsities, even infernal ones, can be so confirmed as to appear like truths, for instance, that infernal falsity that nature is everything; that whatever appears is ideal; that there is little difference between man and beast, that they die a like death and do not live after death; that the Word is not holy; and other like things; from which it is clear that all blindness in spiritual things has been induced by the faith of the present day, which was begun and brought to its densest darkness by the Babylonish nation; and although the Reformed, who separated from that nation, came forth from that thick darkness into some light by reading the Word they did not come into a light that enabled them to see truths as the ancient people did, and for the reason that they separated faith from the life, and it is from the life that a man has light, and not from any faith separated. All this makes clear what is meant by "the throne of the beast," the same as before by:

The throne that the dragon is said to have given to the beast (Revelation 13:2, see above, n. 783.

Also by the throne of Satan (Revelation 2:13).

"Thrones" signify false doctrinals in other passages in the Word, as in Ezekiel:

All the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall cast away their mantles and they shall be clothed with terrors (Ezekiel 26:16).

In Haggai:

I will overthrow the throne of the Kingdoms and I will destroy the strength of the Kingdoms of the nations (Haggai 2:22).

And in Daniel:

I beheld till thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit (Daniel 7:9).

(Continuation respecting the Sixth Commandment)

[5] How holy in themselves, that is, from creation, marriages are can be seen from the fact that they are seminaries of the human race; and as the angelic heaven is from the human race they are also the seminaries of heaven; consequently by marriages not only the earths but also the heavens are filled with inhabitants; and as the end of the entire creation is the human race, and thus heaven, where the Divine Itself may dwell as in its own and as it were in itself, and as the procreation of mankind according to Divine order is accomplished through marriages, it is clear how holy marriages are in themselves, that is, from creation, and thus how holy they should be esteemed. It is true that the earth might be filled with inhabitants by fornications and adulteries as well as by marriages, but not heaven; and for the reason that hell is from adulteries but heaven from marriages. Hell is from adulteries because adultery is from the marriage of evil and falsity, from which hell in the whole complex is called adultery; while heaven is from marriages because marriage is from the marriage of good and truth, from which heaven in its whole complex is called a marriage, as has been shown above in its proper article. That is called adultery where its love reigns, which is called the love of adultery, whether it be within matrimony or out of it, and that is called marriage where its love reigns, which is called conjugial love. Whether the earth might be filled with inhabitants by fornications and adulteries as well as by marriages will be further considered in the following article.

[6] When procreations of the human race are effected by marriages in which the holy love of good and truth from the Lord reigns, then it is on earth as it is in the heavens, and the Lord's kingdom on earth corresponds to the Lord's kingdom in the heavens. For the heavens consist of societies arranged according to all the varieties of celestial and spiritual affections, from which arrangement the form of heaven springs, and this preeminently surpasses all other forms in the universe. There would be a like form on the earth if the procreations there were effected by marriages in which love truly conjugial reigned; for then, however many families might descend in succession from one head of a family, there would spring forth as many images of the societies of heaven in a like variety. Families would then be like fruit-bearing trees of various kinds, forming as many different gardens, each containing its own kind of fruit, and these gardens taken together would present the form of a heavenly paradise. This is said in the way of comparison, because "trees" signify men of the church, "gardens" intelligence, "fruits" goods of life, and "paradise" heaven. I have been told from heaven that with the most ancient people, from whom the first church on this globe was established, which was called by ancient writers the golden age, there was such a correspondence between families on the earth and societies in the heavens, because love to the Lord, mutual love, innocence, peace, wisdom, and chastity in marriage then reigned; and it was also told me from heaven that they were then inwardly horrified at adulteries, as at the abominable things of hell.

  
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Daniel 8:3

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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.