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Hesekiel 14

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1 Und es kamen Männer von den Ältesten Israels zu mir, und sie setzten sich vor mir nieder.

2 Und das Wort Jehovas geschah zu mir also:

3 Menschensohn, diese Männer haben ihre Götzen in ihrem Herzen aufkommen lassen und den Anstoß zu ihrer Missetat vor ihr Angesicht gestellt; sollte ich mich wohl von ihnen befragen lassen?

4 Darum rede mit ihnen und sprich zu ihnen: So spricht der Herr, Jehova: Jedermann aus dem Hause Israel, der seine Götzen in seinem Herzen aufkommen läßt und den Anstoß zu seiner Missetat vor sein Angesicht stellt, und zu dem Propheten kommt ich, Jehova, werde ihm demgemäß antworten, gemäß der Menge seiner Götzen:

5 damit ich das Haus Israel an seinem Herzen fasse, weil sie allesamt durch ihre Götzen von mir abgewichen sind. -

6 Darum sprich zum Hause Israel: So spricht der Herr, Jehova: Kehret um, und wendet euch ab von euren Götzen, und wendet von allen euren Greueln euer Angesicht ab!

7 Denn jedermann aus dem Hause Israel und von den Fremdlingen, die in Israel weilen, welcher sich von mir trennt und seine Götzen in seinem Herzen aufkommen läßt und den Anstoß zu seiner Missetat vor sein Angesicht stellt, und zu dem Propheten kommt, um mich für sich zu befragen ich, Jehova, werde ihm in meiner Weise antworten.

8 Und ich werde mein Angesicht wider selbigen Mann richten, und werde ihn zu einem Denkzeichen und zu Sprichwörtern machen; und ich werde ihn ausrotten aus der Mitte meines Volkes. Und ihr werdet wissen, daß ich Jehova bin. -

9 Wenn aber der Prophet sich bereden läßt und ein Wort redet, so habe ich, Jehova, diesen Propheten beredet; und ich werde meine Hand wider ihn ausstrecken und ihn aus der Mitte meines Volkes Israel vertilgen.

10 Und so sollen sie ihre Schuld tragen; wie die Schuld des Fragenden, also wird die Schuld des Propheten sein:

11 damit das Haus Israel nicht mehr von mir abirre und sie sich nicht mehr durch alle ihre Übertretungen verunreinigen; und sie werden mein Volk, und ich werde ihr Gott sein, spricht der Herr, Jehova.

12 Und das Wort Jehovas geschah zu mir also:

13 Menschensohn, wenn ein Land gegen mich sündigt, indem es Treulosigkeit begeht, und ich meine Hand wider dasselbe ausstrecke, und ihm den Stab des Brotes zerbreche und Hunger darein sende, und Menschen und Vieh darin ausrotte,

14 und diese drei Männer wären in demselben: Noah, Daniel und Hiob, sie würden durch ihre Gerechtigkeit nur ihre eigene Seele erretten, spricht der Herr, Jehova. -

15 Wenn ich böse Tiere in das Land bringe, damit sie es entvölkern und es eine Wüste werde, so daß wegen der Tiere niemand hindurchzieht:

16 Wären diese drei Männer in demselben, so wahr ich lebe, spricht der Herr, Jehova, sie würden weder Söhne noch Töchter erretten können; sie allein würden errettet, das Land aber würde eine Wüste werden. -

17 Oder wenn ich das Schwert über selbiges Land bringe und spreche: Schwert, fahre durch das Land! und Menschen und Vieh darin ausrotte,

18 und diese drei Männer wären in demselben: So wahr ich lebe, spricht der Herr, Jehova, sie würden weder Söhne noch Töchter erretten können; sondern sie allein würden errettet werden. -

19 Oder wenn ich die Pest in selbiges Land sende, und meinen Grimm in Blut über dasselbe ausgieße, um Menschen und Vieh darin auszurotten,

20 und Noah, Daniel und Hiob wären in demselben: So wahr ich lebe, spricht der Herr, Jehova, sie würden weder Sohn noch Tochter erretten können; sie würden durch ihre Gerechtigkeit nur ihre eigene Seele erretten.

21 Denn so spricht der Herr, Jehova: Wieviel mehr, wenn ich meine vier bösen Gerichte, Schwert und Hunger und böse Tiere und die Pest, gegen Jerusalem entsenden werde, um Menschen und Vieh darin auszurotten!

22 Doch siehe, Entronnene sollen darin übrigbleiben, die herausgeführt werden, Söhne und Töchter; siehe, sie werden zu euch hinausziehen, und ihr werdet ihren Weg und ihre Handlungen sehen; und ihr werdet euch trösten über das Unglück, welches ich über Jerusalem gebracht, alles, was ich über dasselbe gebracht habe.

23 Und sie werden euch trösten, wenn ihr ihren Weg und ihre Handlungen sehen werdet; und ihr werdet erkennen, daß ich nicht ohne Ursache alles getan habe, was ich an ihm getan, spricht der Herr, Jehova.

   

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459. And idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood. This symbolically means that thus they engage in worship founded on nothing but falsities.

Idols in the Word symbolize falsities in worship, and therefore worshiping them symbolizes worship founded on falsities. Worshiping idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, then, symbolizes worship founded on falsities of every kind, and when taken in combination, worship founded on nothing but falsities. Moreover, the materials, figures, and garments of the idols among ancient peoples represented the falsities of religion on which they founded their worship. Idols of gold symbolized falsities regarding matters pertaining to God; idols of silver, falsities regarding matters pertaining to the spirit; idols of brass, falsities regarding charity; idols of stone, falsities regarding faith; and idols of wood, falsities regarding good works.

All of these falsities are held by people who do not repent, that is, who do not refrain from evils as being sins against God.

[2] Idols, which were carved and cast images, have this symbolic meaning in the spiritual sense in the following passages:

Everyone has been made stupid by knowledge; every metalsmith is has been put to shame by a carved image; for his cast image is a falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are futile, a work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish. (Jeremiah 10:14-15; 51:17-18)

(Carved images are) the work of the hands of the workman... They do not speak... They are both foolish and stupid; the wood is a worthless teacher... They are all the work of skillful men. (Jeremiah 10:3-5, 8-10)

What profit is the carved image, that its maker has carved it, ...and a teacher of lies, that the maker of the lie trusts in it...? ...in it there is no breath. (Habakkuk 2:18-19)

In that day a man will cast away to the moles and bats his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship... (Isaiah 2:18, 20)

...they made for themselves cast images of their silver, idols according to their skill, all of it the work of craftsmen. (Hosea 13:2)

I will sprinkle clean water on you, that you may be cleansed... from all your uncleanness and from all your idols. (Ezekiel 36:25)

Clean waters are truths; idols are falsities in worship.

You shall judge unclean the covering of your graven images of silver, and the attire of your cast images of gold. You will throw them away as a menstrual cloth; you will call it excrement. (Isaiah 30:22)

[3] Falsities in religion and thus in worship are precisely what are symbolically meant by the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that Belshazzar, king of Babylon, praised (i.e., worshiped) when with his great men, wives and concubines he drank wine from the vessels of gold and silver taken from the temple in Jerusalem, on which account he was driven from mankind and became as a beast (Daniel 5:1-5ff.).

And so also in many other places, as in Isaiah 10:10-11; 21:9; 31:7; 40:19-20; 41:29; 42:17; 48:5, Leviticus 26:30.

Properly speaking, idols symbolize falsities in worship springing from people's own intelligence. How a person fashions them and afterward adapts them so that they appear to be true is fully described in Isaiah 44:9-20.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Jeremiah 9

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1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

4 Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

7 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

11 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?

13 Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;

15 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.

17 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:

18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

20 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.

22 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].

23 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;

24 but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.

25 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:

26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.