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Jeremia 22

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1 So spricht der HERR: Gehe hinab in das Haus des Königs Judas und rede daselbst dies Wort

2 und sprich: Höre des HERRN Wort, du König Judas, der du auf dem Stuhl Davids sitzest, beide, du und deine Knechte und dein Volk, die zu diesen Toren eingehen.

3 So spricht der HERR: Haltet Recht und Gerechtigkeit und errettet den Beraubten von des Frevlers Hand und schindet nicht die Fremdlinge, Waisen und Witwen und tut niemand Gewalt und vergießet nicht unschuldig Blut an dieser Stätte.

4 Werdet ihr solches tun, so sollen durch die Tore dieses Hauses einziehen Könige, die auf Davids Stuhl sitzen, beide, zu Wagen und zu Roß, samt ihren Knechten und Volk.

5 Werdet ihr aber solchem nicht gehorchen, so habe ich bei mir selbst geschworen, spricht der HERR, dies Haus soll verstöret werden.

6 Denn so spricht der HERR von dem Hause des Königs Judas: Gilead, du bist mir das Haupt im Libanon; was gilt's, ich will dich zur Wüste und die Städte ohne Einwohner machen?

7 Denn ich habe Verderber über dich bestellet, einen jeglichen mit seinen Waffen; die sollen deine auserwählten Zedern umhauen und ins Feuer werfen.

8 So werden viel Heiden vor dieser Stadt vorübergehen und untereinander sagen: Warum hat der HERR mit dieser großen Stadt also gehandelt?

9 Und man wird antworten: Darum daß sie den Bund des HERRN, ihres Gottes, verlassen und andere Götter angebetet und denselbigen gedienet haben.

10 Weinet nicht über die Toten und grämet euch nicht darum; weinet aber über den, der dahinzieht; denn er wird nimmer wiederkommen, daß er sein Vaterland sehen möchte.

11 Denn so spricht der HERR von Sallum, dem Sohne Josias, des Königs Judas, welcher König ist anstatt seines Vaters Josia, der von dieser Stätte hinausgezogen ist: Er wird nicht wieder herkommen,

12 sondern muß sterben an dem Ort, dahin er gefangen geführet ist, und wird dies Land nicht mehr sehen.

13 Wehe dem, der sein Haus mit Sünden bauet und seine Gemächer mit Unrecht, der seinen Nächsten umsonst arbeiten läßt und gibt ihm seinen Lohn nicht

14 und denkt: Wohlan, ich will mir ein groß Haus bauen und weite Paläste; und läßt ihm Fenster drein bauen und mit Zedern täfeln und rot malen.

15 Meinest du, du wollest König sein, weil du mit Zedern prangest? Hat dein Vater nicht auch gegessen und getrunken und hielt dennoch über dem Recht und Gerechtigkeit, und ging ihm wohl?

16 Er half dem Elenden und Armen zum Recht, und ging ihm wohl. Ist's nicht also, daß solches heißt mich recht erkennen? spricht der HERR.

17 Aber deine Augen und dein Herz stehen nicht also, sondern auf deinem Geiz, auf unschuldig Blut zu vergießen, zu freveln und unterzustoßen.

18 Darum spricht der HERR von Jojakim, dem Sohn Josias, dem Könige Judas: Man wird ihn nicht klagen: Ach Bruder, ach Schwester! Man wird ihn nicht klagen: Ach HERR, ach Edler!

19 Er soll wie ein Esel begraben werden, zerschleift und hinausgeworfen vor die Tore Jerusalems.

20 Ja, dann gehe hinauf auf den Libanon und schreie und laß dich hören zu Basan und schreie von Abarim; denn alle deine Liebhaber sind jämmerlich umgebracht.

21 Ich habe dir's vorhergesagt, da es noch wohl um dich stund; aber du sprachest: Ich will nicht hören. Also hast du dein Lebetage getan, daß du meiner Stimme nicht gehorchtest.

22 Der Wind weidet alle deine Hirten, und deine Liebhaber ziehen gefangen dahin; da mußt du doch zu Spott und zuschanden werden um aller deiner Bosheit willen.

23 Die du jetzt im Libanon wohnest und in Zedern nistest, wie schön wirst du sehen, wenn dir Schmerzen und Wehe kommen werden wie einer in Kindesnöten!

24 So wahr ich lebe, spricht der HERR, wenn Chanja, der Sohn Jojakims, der König Judas, ein Siegelring wäre an meiner rechten Hand, so wollte ich dich doch abreißen

25 und in die Hände geben derer, die nach deinem Leben stehen, und vor welchen du dich fürchtest, nämlich in die Hände Nebukadnezars, des Königs zu Babel, und der Chaldäer.

26 Und will dich und deine Mutter, die dich geboren hat, in ein ander Land treiben, das nicht euer Vaterland ist; und sollst daselbst sterben.

27 Und in das Land, da sie von Herzen gerne wieder hin wären, sollen sie nicht wiederkommen.

28 Wie ein elender, verachteter, verstoßener Mann ist doch Chanja! ein unwert Gefäß! Ach, wie ist er doch samt seinem Samen so vertrieben und in ein unbekanntes Land geworfen!

29 O Land, Land, Land; höre des HERRN Wort!

30 So spricht der HERR: Schreibet an diesen Mann für einen Verdorbenen, einen Mann, dem es sein Lebetage nicht gelinget. Denn er wird das Glück nicht haben, daß jemand seines Samens auf dem Stuhl Davids sitze und fürder in Juda herrsche.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 767

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767. Verse 17. And the dragon was angry against the woman, signifies the hatred of those who are meant by "the dragon" against the church that is the New Jerusalem, enkindled by a perception that it is favored by many. This is evident from the signification of "anger," as being, in reference to the dragon, hatred (of which above, n. 754, 758), therefore "to be angry" means to hate; that this is a grievous hatred enkindled by a perception that the church is favored by many, follows as a consequence from what precedes and from what follows; from what precedes, namely, that "the earth opened her mouth and helped the woman, and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth," which signifies that the church, in which there are also dragons, rendered assistance, and did not accept their keen reasonings respecting faith alone; and from what follows namely, that "the dragon went away to make war with the remnant of her seed," which signifies an ardent effort from that hatred to assault the truths of doctrine of that church. So "the anger of the dragon" here signifies such hatred enkindled by a perception that it is favored by many; for, as has been said above, "the woman fled into the wilderness into a place prepared by God" signifies that the church which is the New Jerusalem was among a few, while provision was making for it among many, and for its growing to fullness.

  
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Apocalypse Explained # 625

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625. Upon peoples, and nations, and tongues, and many kings, signifies with all who are in truths and goods in respect to life, and at the same time in goods and truths in respect to doctrine according to each one's religion, consequently to teach the Word in respect to the goods of life and the truths of doctrine. This is evident from the signification of "peoples and nations," as being those who are of the spiritual church and those who are of the celestial church; those who are of the spiritual church are called in the Word "peoples," but those who are of the celestial church are called "nations." Those who are of the spiritual church, who are called "peoples," are they who are in truths in respect to doctrine and life; and they who are of the celestial church, who are called "nations," are they who are in the good of love to the Lord, and thus in good in respect to life. (But on this signification of "peoples and nations" in the Word, see above, n. 175, 331.) Also from the signification of "tongues and many kings," as being those who are in goods and truths in respect to life and doctrine, but according to each one's religion; for "tongues" signify the goods of truth and confession of these according to each one's religion (See above, n. 330, 455); and "kings" signify truths that are from good, and "many kings" various truths from good, but according to each one's religion. (That "kings" signify truths from good, see above, n. 31, 553)

[2] "Many kings" signify various truths that are from good, because the peoples and nations outside of the church were for the most part in falsities as to doctrine, and yet because they lived a life of love to God and of charity towards the neighbor the falsities of their religion were accepted by the Lord as truths, for the reason that there was inwardly in their falsities the good of love, and the good of love gives its quality to every truth, and in this case it gives its quality to the falsity that such accept as truth; and moreover, the good that lies concealed within causes such when they come into the other life to perceive genuine truths and accept them. Again there are truths that are only appearances of truth, like those truths that are in the sense of the letter of the Word; these appearances of truth are accepted by the Lord as genuine truths when there is in them the good of love to the Lord and the good of charity towards the neighbor; and with such in the other life the good that lies hidden within dissipates the appearances, and makes bare the spiritual truths which are genuine truths. From this it can be seen what is here meant by "many kings." (But respecting the falsities in which there is good that exist among the Gentiles, see in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 21.)

[3] From what has been said and shown in this and the preceding article, it can be seen that "he must again prophesy upon peoples, and nations, and tongues, and many kings" signifies that the Word must still be taught to those who are in goods and truths in respect to doctrine, and thence are in life; but as it is said "upon peoples, nations, tongues, and kings," these words signify also that the Word must be taught in respect to the goods of life and the truths of doctrine, for these two are what the Word in its whole complex contains.

[4] This is the sense of these words abstracted from persons, which is the truly spiritual sense. The sense of the letter in most places has regard to persons, and mentions persons, but the truly spiritual sense is without any regard whatever to persons. For angels who are in the spiritual sense of the Word have no idea of person or of place in any particular of what they think or speak, for the idea of person or of place limits and confines the thoughts, and thereby renders them natural; it is otherwise when the idea is abstracted from persons and places. It is from this that angels have intelligence and wisdom, and that thence angelic intelligence and wisdom are ineffable. While man lives in the world he is in natural thought, and natural thought derives its ideas from persons, places, times, and material things, and if these should be taken away from man, his thought which comes to perception would perish, for without these he comprehends nothing; but angelic thought is apart from ideas drawn from persons, places, times, and material things; and this is why angelic thought and speech are ineffable, and to man also incomprehensible.

[5] And yet a man who has lived in the world a life of love to the Lord and of charity towards the neighbor comes, after his departure from the world, into that ineffable intelligence and wisdom; for his interior mind, which is the very mind of his spirit, is then opened, and then the man, when he becomes an angel, thinks and speaks from that mind, and consequently thinks and speaks such things as he could not utter or comprehend in the world. Such a spiritual mind, which is like the angelic mind, every man has; but because man while in the world speaks, sees, hears, and feels, by means of a material body, that mind lies hidden within the natural mind, or lives above it; and what man thinks in that mind he is wholly ignorant of; for the thought of that mind then flows into the natural mind, and there limits, bounds, and so presents itself as to be seen and perceived. So long as man is in the body in the world, he does not know that he has within him this mind, and in it possesses angelic intelligence and wisdom, because, as has been said, all things that abide there flow into the natural mind, and thus become natural according to correspondences. This has been said to make known what the Word is in the spiritual sense, which sense is wholly abstracted from persons and places, that is, from such things as derive their quality from the material things of the body and the world.

  
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