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1 Βαλτασαρ ο βασιλευς εκαμε συμποσιον μεγα εις χιλιους εκ των μεγιστανων αυτου και επινεν οινον ενωπιον των χιλιων.

2 Και εν τη γευσει του οινου προσεταξεν ο Βαλτασαρ να φερωσι τα σκευη τα χρυσα και τα αργυρα, τα οποια Ναβουχοδονοσορ ο πατηρ αυτου αφηρεσεν εκ του ναου του εν Ιερουσαλημ, δια να πιωσιν εν αυτοις ο βασιλευς και οι μεγιστανες αυτου, αι γυναικες αυτου και αι παλλακαι αυτου.

3 Και εφερθησαν τα σκευη τα χρυσα, τα οποια αφηρεθησαν εκ του ναου του οικου του Θεου του εν Ιερουσαλημ· και επινον εν αυτοις ο βασιλευς και οι μεγιστανες αυτου, αι γυναικες αυτου και αι παλλακαι αυτου.

4 Επινον οινον και ηνεσαν τους θεους τους χρυσους και αργυρους, τους χαλκους, τους σιδηρους, τους ξυλινους και τους λιθινους.

5 Εν αυτη τη ωρα εξηλθον δακτυλοι χειρος ανθρωπου και εγραψαν κατεναντι της λυχνιας επι το κονιαμα του τοιχου του παλατιου του βασιλεως· και ο βασιλευς εβλεπε την παλαμην της χειρος, ητις εγραψε.

6 Τοτε η οψις του βασιλεως ηλλοιωθη και οι διαλογισμοι αυτου συνεταραττον αυτον, ωστε οι συνδεσμοι της οσφυος αυτου διελυοντο και τα γονατα αυτου συνεκρουοντο.

7 Και εβοησεν ο βασιλευς μεγαλοφωνως να εισαξωσι τους επαοιδους, τους Χαλδαιους και τους μαντεις. Τοτε ο βασιλευς ελαλησε και ειπε προς τους σοφους της Βαβυλωνος, Οστις αναγνωση την γραφην ταυτην και μοι δειξη την ερμηνειαν αυτης, θελει ενδυθη πορφυραν, και η αλυσος η χρυση θελει τεθη περι τον τραχηλον αυτου και θελει εισθαι ο τριτος αρχων του βασιλειου.

8 Τοτε εισηλθον παντες οι σοφοι του βασιλεως· πλην δεν ηδυναντο να αναγνωσωσι την γραφην ουδε την ερμηνειαν αυτης να φανερωσωσι προς τον βασιλεα.

9 Και ο βασιλευς Βαλτασαρ εταραχθη μεγαλως και ηλλοιωθη εν αυτω η οψις αυτου και οι μεγιστανες αυτου συνεταραχθησαν.

10 Η βασιλισσα εκ των λογων του βασιλεως και των μεγιστανων αυτου εισηλθεν εις τον οικον του συμποσιου· και ελαλησεν η βασιλισσα και ειπε, Βασιλευ, ζηθι εις τον αιωνα· μη σε ταραττωσιν οι διαλογισμοι σου και η οψις σου ας μη αλλοιουται.

11 Υπαρχει ανθρωπος εν τω βασιλειω σου, εις τον οποιον ειναι το πνευμα των αγιων θεων· και εν ταις ημεραις του πατρος σου φως και συνεσις και σοφια, ως η σοφια των θεων, ευρεθησαν εν αυτω, τον οποιον ο βασιλευς Ναβουχοδονοσορ ο πατηρ σου, ο βασιλευς ο πατηρ σου, κατεστησεν αρχοντα των μαγων, των επαοιδων, των Χαλδαιων και των μαντεων.

12 Διοτι πνευμα εξοχον και γνωσις και συνεσις, ερμηνεια ενυπνιων και εξηγησις αινιγματων και λυσις αποριων, ευρεθησαν εν αυτω τω Δανιηλ, τον οποιον ο βασιλευς μετωνομασε Βαλτασασαρ· τωρα λοιπον ας προσκληθη ο Δανιηλ, και θελει δειξει την ερμηνειαν.

13 Τοτε εισηχθη ο Δανιηλ εμπροσθεν του βασιλεως. Και ο βασιλευς ελαλησε και ειπε προς τον Δανιηλ, Συ εισαι ο Δανιηλ εκεινος, οστις εισαι εκ των υιων της αιχμαλωσιας του Ιουδα, τους οποιους εφερεν εκ της Ιουδαιας ο βασιλευς ο πατηρ μου;

14 Ηκουσα τωοντι περι σου, οτι το πνευμα των θεων ειναι εν σοι και φως και συνεσις και σοφια εξοχος ευρεθησαν εν σοι.

15 Και τωρα εισηλθον εμπροσθεν μου οι σοφοι και οι επαοιδοι, δια να αναγνωσωσι την γραφην ταυτην και να φανερωσωσιν εις εμε την ερμηνειαν αυτης, πλην δεν ηδυνηθησαν να δειξωσι του πραγματος την ερμηνειαν.

16 Και εγω ηκουσα περι σου, οτι δυνασαι να ερμηνευης και να λυης αποριας· τωρα λοιπον, εαν δυνηθης να αναγνωσης την γραφην και να φανερωσης προς εμε την ερμηνειαν αυτης θελεις ενδυθη πορφυραν και η αλυσος η χρυση θελει τεθη περι τον τραχηλον σου και θελεις εισθαι ο τριτος αρχων του βασιλειου.

17 Τοτε ο Δανιηλ απεκριθη και ειπεν εμπροσθεν του βασιλεως, Τα δωρα σου ας ηναι εν σοι και δος εις αλλον τας αμοιβας σου· εγω δε θελω αναγνωσει την γραφην εις τον βασιλεα και θελω φανερωσει την ερμηνειαν προς αυτον.

18 Βασιλευ, ο Θεος ο υψιστος εδωκεν εις τον Ναβουχοδονοσορ τον πατερα σου βασιλειαν και μεγαλειοτητα και δοξαν και τιμην.

19 Και δια την μεγαλειοτητα, την οποιαν εδωκεν εις αυτον, παντες οι λαοι, εθνη και γλωσσαι ετρεμον και εφοβουντο εμπροσθεν αυτου· οντινα ηθελεν εφονευε και οντινα ηθελεν εφυλαττε ζωντα και οντινα ηθελεν υψωνε και οντινα ηθελεν εταπεινονεν·

20 αλλ' οτε η καρδια αυτου επηρθη και ο νους αυτου εσκληρυνθη εν τη υπερηφανια, κατεβιβασθη απο του βασιλικου θρονου αυτου και αφηρεθη η δοξα αυτου απ' αυτου·

21 και εξεδιωχθη εκ των υιων των ανθρωπων, και η καρδια αυτου εγεινεν ως των θηριων και η κατοικια αυτου ητο μετα των αγριων ονων· με χορτον ως οι βοες ετρεφετο και το σωμα αυτου εβρεχετο υπο της δροσου του ουρανου· εωσου εγνωρισεν οτι ο Θεος ο υψιστος ειναι Κυριος της βασιλειας των ανθρωπων και οντινα θελει, στηνει επ' αυτην.

22 Και συ ο υιος αυτου, ο Βαλτασαρ, δεν εταπεινωσας την καρδιαν σου, ενω εγνωριζες παντα ταυτα·

23 αλλ' υψωθης εναντιον του Κυριου του ουρανου· και τα σκευη του οικου αυτου εφεραν εμπροσθεν σου, και επινετε οινον εξ αυτων και συ και οι μεγιστανες σου, αι γυναικες σου και αι παλλακαι σου· και εδοξολογησας τους θεους τους αργυρους και τους χρυσους, τους χαλκους, τους σιδηρους, τους ξυλινους και τους λιθινους, οιτινες δεν βλεπουσιν ουδε ακουουσιν ουδε νοουσι· τον δε Θεον, εις του οποιου την χειρα ειναι η πνοη σου και εις την εξουσιαν αυτου πασαι αι οδοι σου, δεν εδοξασας.

24 Δια τουτο εσταλη απ' εμπροσθεν αυτου η παλαμη της χειρος και ενεχαραχθη η γραφη αυτη.

25 Και αυτη ειναι η γραφη ητις ενεχαραχθη· Μενε, Μενε, Θεκελ, Ο υ φ α ρ σ ι ν.

26 Αυτη ειναι η ερμηνεια του πραγματος· Μενε, εμετρησεν ο Θεος την βασιλειαν σου και ετελειωσεν αυτην·

27 Θεκελ, εζυγισθης εν τη πλαστιγγι και ευρεθης ελλιπης·

28 Φερες, διηρεθη η βασιλεια σου και εδοθη εις τους Μηδους και Περσας.

29 Τοτε προσεταξεν ο Βαλτασαρ και ενεδυσαν τον Δανιηλ την πορφυραν, και περιεθηκαν την αλυσον την χρυσην περι τον τραχηλον αυτου, και διεκηρυξαν περι αυτου, να ηναι ο τριτος αρχων του βασιλειου.

30 Την αυτην νυκτα εφονευθη ο Βαλτασαρ ο βασιλευς των Χαλδαιων.

31 Και Δαρειος ο Μηδος ελαβε την βασιλειαν, ων περιπου ετων εξηκοντα δυο.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9229

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9229. 'And men of holiness shall you be to Me' means a state of life then composed of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'men of holiness' as those who are led by the Lord, for the Divine which emanates from the Lord is holiness itself, 6788, 7499, 8127 (end), 8302, 8806. Consequently those who receive that emanation in faith and also in love are called holy ones. Anyone who imagines that a person is holy from any other source, or that anything present with a person is holy apart from that which comes and is received from the Lord is very much mistaken; for that which is the person's own, and is called his proprium, is evil.

The human proprium is nothing but evil, see 210, 215, 694, 874-876, 987, 1047, 4328, 5660, 5786, 8480, 8944.

To the extent that a person can be withheld from his proprium, the Lord can be present with him, and therefore to the same extent holiness resides with him, 1023, 1044, 1581, 2256, 2388, 2406, 2411, 8206, 8393, 8988 (end), 9014.

[2] The truth that the Lord is the Only Holy One, and that nothing is holy except that which emanates from the Lord, and so that which a person receives from the Lord, is evident from everywhere in the Word, as in John,

I make Myself holy, that they also may be made holy in the truth. John 17:19.

'Making Himself holy' means making Himself Divine by His own power. Consequently those who receive Divine Truth emanating from the Lord in faith and life are said to be 'made holy in the truth'.

[3] This also explains why after the Resurrection, when the Lord spoke to the disciples, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit, John 20:22. 'Breathing on (or into)' was a sign that represented the imparting of life through faith and love, as also in Genesis,

Jehovah breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man (homo) became a living soul. Genesis 2:7.

Other examples like this may be seen elsewhere, such as Psalms 33:6; 104:29-30; Job 32:8; 33:4; John 3:8. Therefore also the Word is said to be inspired because it comes from the Lord, and those who wrote the Word have been called 'inspired'. Breathing, and so breathing on or inspiring, corresponds to the life of faith, see 97, 1119, 1120, 3883-3896. This explains why the term spirit in the Word is derived from the word for wind, and holiness from the Lord is called Jehovah's wind, 8286, and why the Holy Spirit is the holiness emanating from the Lord, 3704, 4673 (end), 5307, 6788, 6982, 6993, 8127 (end), 8302, 9199.

[4] So also it says in John 1:33 that the Lord baptizes with the Holy Spirit, and in Luke 3:16 that He baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 'Baptizing' in the internal sense means regenerating, 4255, 5120 (end), 9088; 'baptizing with the Holy Spirit' means regenerating by means of the good of faith; and 'baptizing with fire' means regenerating by means of the good of love, 'fire' being the good of love, see 934, 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324. In John,

Who is not going to fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. Revelation 15:4.

In Luke the angel telling Mary about the Lord said,

That which is holy will be born from you. Luke 1:35.

And in Daniel,

I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and behold, a vigilant and holy one came down from heaven. Daniel 4:13.

In these places 'that which is holy' and 'a holy one' stand for the Lord.

[5] Because the Lord alone is holy He is called in the Old Testament the Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer, the Saviour, and the Regenerator, as in Isaiah 1:4; 5:19, 24; 10:20; 12:6; 17:7; 29:19; 30:11-12, 15; 31:1; 37:23; 41:14, 16, 20; 43:3, 14; 45:11; 47:4; 48:17; 49:7; 54:5; 55:5; 60:9, 14; Jeremiah 50:29; 51:5; Ezekiel 39:7; Psalms 71:22; 78:41; 89:18. This is why the Lord in heaven, and consequently heaven itself, is called the dwelling-place of holiness, Jeremiah 25:30; 31:23; 1 Isaiah 63:15; the sanctuary, 2 Ezekiel 11:16; 24:21; and also the mountain of holiness, Psalms 3:4. It is also why the middle of the tent [of meeting], where the ark containing the law was, was called The Holy of Holies, Exodus 26:33-34; for the law in the ark in the middle of the tent [of meeting], represented the Lord in respect of the Word. For the law is the Word, 6752, 7463.

[6] All this shows why it is that the angels are called holy in Matthew 25:31; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; Psalms 149:1; Daniel 8:13; also the prophets, Luke 1:70; and the apostles too, Revelation 18:20. Not that they are holy by their own virtue but that the Lord, who alone is holy and the only source of holiness, makes them so. For truths are meant by 'the angels', because they are those who receive truth from the Lord, 1925, 4085, 4295, 4402, 7268, 7873, 8192, 8301; teachings which present the truth that comes through the Word from the Lord are meant by 'the prophets', 2534, 7269; and all the truths and forms of the good of faith in their entirety which come from the Lord are meant by 'the apostles', 3488, 3858 (end), 6397.

[7] Consecrations 3 among the Israelite and Jewish people took place in order that the Lord who alone was holy might be represented, and in order that holiness, which He alone is the source of, might be represented. This is the reason for the consecration of Aaron and his sons, Exodus 29:1ff; Leviticus 8:10-11, 13, 30; the consecration of their garments, Exodus 29:21ff; the consecration of the altar in order that it might be most holy, 4 Exodus 29:37ff; the consecration of the tent of meeting, the ark of the Testimony, the table, all the vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering and its vessels, and the laver and its base, Exodus 30:26ff.

[8] The truth that the Lord is the real Holiness that was represented is evident also from the Lord's words in Matthew when they are seen in the internal sense,

Fools and blind! Which of the two is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold holy? And which of the two is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? Matthew 23:17-19.

'The temple' represented the Lord Himself, and so did 'the altar', while 'the gold' was a sign of the good that comes from the Lord, and 'the gift' or a sacrifice was a sign of things constituting faith and charity that come from the Lord.

The Lord was represented by 'the temple', see 2777, 3720, and by 'the altar', 2777, 2811, 4489, 8935, 8940. 'Gold' was a sign of good that comes from the Lord, 1551, 1552, 5658, and 'a sacrifice' a sign of worship springing from faith and charity that come from the Lord, 922, 923, 2805, 2807, 2830, 6905, 8680, 8682, 8936.

[9] From all this it is now evident why it is that the children of Israel were called a holy people in Deuteronomy 26:19 and elsewhere, or as in the present verse men of holiness. That is to say, they were so called because every single aspect of their worship represented Divine realities that are the Lord's, and celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom and Church. On this account they were called holy in a representative sense; they themselves were not holy on that account, because representatives had regard to the holy things that were represented, not to the person who represented them, see 665, 1097 (end), 1361, 3147, 3881 (end), 4208, 4281, 4288, 4293, 4307, 4444, 4500, 6304, 7048, 7439, 8588, 8788, 8806.

[10] On that account also was Jerusalem called holy, and Zion the mountain of holiness in Zechariah 8:3 and elsewhere, as well as in Matthew,

And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of dead holy ones were raised; and coming out of their tombs after the Lord's resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. Matthew 27:52-53.

Here Jerusalem is called 'the holy city', when in fact, quite to the contrary, it was unholy because the Lord was crucified there at that time, for which reason it is called 'Sodom and Egypt' in John,

Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Revelation 11:8.

Yet it is called holy, because it means the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 402, 2117, 3654. The appearance of 'dead holy ones' there, an event witnessed by some in vision, was a sign of the salvation of people who belonged to the spiritual Church, and of the raising of those people to the Holy Jerusalem, which is heaven - the people who had been kept up to that time on the lower earth, spoken of in 6854, 6914, 7091, 7828, 7932, 8049, 8054, 8159, 8321.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Jeremiah 31:23 refers to a dwelling-place of righteousness [and] mountain of holiness, to be exact

2. i.e. an especially holy place

3. i.e. dedicating persons or things to holy functions or purposes

4. literally, the holiness of holinesses

  
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1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.

7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.

23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.

27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.

28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counseller, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

   

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