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Ezékiel 33

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1 És lõn az Úr beszéde hozzám, mondván:

2 Embernek fia! szólj néped fiaihoz és mondjad nékik: Mikor hozándok fegyvert valamely földre, és a föld népe választ egy férfit õ magok közül, és õt õrállójokká teszik:

3 És õ látja jõni a fegyvert a földre, és megfújja a trombitát, és meginti a népet;

4 Ha valaki hallándja a trombitaszót, de nem hajt az intésre, s aztán a fegyver eljõ és õt utóléri: az õ vére az õ fején lesz.

5 Hallotta a trombitaszót, de nem hajtott az intésre, tehát az õ vére õ rajta lesz; és ha hajtott az intésre, megmentette lelkét.

6 Ha pedig az õrálló látja a fegyvert jõni, s nem fújja meg a trombitát, és a nép nem kap intést, és eljõ a fegyver s utólér közülök valamely lelket, ez a maga vétke miatt éretett utól, de vérét az õrálló kezébõl kérem elõ.

7 És te, embernek fia, õrállóul adtalak téged Izráel házának, hogy ha szót hallasz a számból, megintsed õket az én nevemben.

8 Ha ezt mondom a hitetlennek: Hitetlen, halálnak halálával halsz meg; és te nem szólándasz, hogy visszatérítsd a hitetlent az õ útjáról: az a hitetlen vétke miatt hal meg, de vérét a te kezedbõl kívánom meg.

9 De ha te megintetted a hitetlent az õ útja felõl, hogy térjen meg róla, de nem tért meg útjáról, õ vétke miatt meghal, de te megmentetted a te lelkedet.

10 Te pedig, embernek fia, mondjad Izráel házának: Ezt mondjátok, mondván: Bizony a mi bûneink és vétkeink rajtunk vannak, és bennök mi megrothadunk, mimódon éljünk azért?

11 Mondjad nékik: Élek én, ezt mondja az Úr Isten, hogy nem gyönyörködöm a hitetlen halálában, hanem hogy a hitetlen megtérjen útjáról és éljen. Térjetek meg, térjetek meg gonosz útaitokról! hiszen miért halnátok meg, oh Izráel háza!?

12 Te pedig, embernek fia, szólj néped fiaihoz: Az igaznak igazsága meg nem menti õt a napon, a melyen vétkezendik, és a hitetlen hitetlensége által el nem esik a napon, melyen megtérend hitetlenségébõl, és az igaz nem élhet az [õ igazsága] által a napon, melyen vétkezendik.

13 Mikor ezt mondom az igazról: Élvén éljen; és õ bízván igazságában, gonoszságot cselekszik: semmi igazsága emlékezetbe nem jõ, és gonoszsága miatt, melyet cselekedett, meghal.

14 S ha mondom a hitetlennek: halállal halsz meg; és õ megtér bûnébõl és törvény szerint s igazságot cselekszik;

15 Zálogot visszaad a hitetlen, rablottat megtérít, az életnek parancsolatiban jár, többé nem cselekedvén gonoszságot: élvén él, [és] meg nem hal.

16 Semmi õ vétke, melylyel vétkezett, emlékezetbe nem jön néki; törvény szerint és igazságot cselekedett, élvén él.

17 És ezt mondják néped fiai: Nem igazságos az Úrnak útja; holott az õ útjok nem igazságos.

18 Mikor az igaz elfordul az õ igazságától s gonoszságot cselekszik, meghal a miatt.

19 És mikor a hitetlen elfordul az õ hitetlenségétõl és törvény szerint s igazságot cselekszik, él a miatt.

20 És azt mondjátok: Nem igazságos az Úrnak útja: mindeniteket az õ útja szerint ítélem meg, Izráel háza.

21 És lõn fogságunknak tizenkettedik esztendejében, a tizedik hónapban, a hónap ötödikén, jöve hozzám egy menekült Jeruzsálembõl, mondván: Megvétetett a város!

22 És az Úrnak keze lõn én rajtam este a menekült eljötte elõtt, és megnyitá számat, mikorra az hozzám jöve reggel, és megnyilatkozék szám, s nem valék néma többé.

23 És lõn az Úr beszéde hozzám, mondván:

24 Embernek fia! azok, kik amaz elpusztított helyeket lakják Izráel földjén, ezt mondják, mondván: Egyetlen egy volt Ábrahám, mikor örökségül kapta a földet, mi pedig sokan vagyunk, nékünk a föld örökségül adatott.

25 Ezokáért mondjad nékik: Ezt mondja az Úr Isten: Véreset esztek, és szemeiteket bálványaitokra emelitek, és vért ontotok; és a földet örökségül kapnátok?

26 Fegyveretekben bíztatok, útálatosságot cselekedtetek, és mindenitek az õ felebarátja feleségét megfertéztette; és a földet örökségül kapnátok?

27 Ezt mondjad nékik: Így szól az Úr Isten: Élek én, hogy a kik az elpusztult helyeken vannak, fegyver miatt hullnak el; és a ki a mezõnek színén, azt a vadaknak adtam eledelül, és a kik az erõsségekben és a barlangokban vannak, döghalállal halnak meg.

28 És teszem a földet pusztaságok pusztaságává, s megszünik erõsségének kevélysége, és puszták lesznek Izráel hegyei, mert nem lesz, a ki átmenjen rajtok.

29 És megtudják, hogy én vagyok az Úr, mikor a földet pusztaságok pusztaságává teszem mindenféle útálatosságukért, melyeket cselekedtek.

30 És te, embernek fia, néped fiai beszélgetnek felõled a falak mellett s a házaknak ajtaiban; és egyik a másikkal szól, kiki az õ atyjafiával, mondván: Jertek, kérlek, és halljátok: micsoda beszéd az, amely az Úrtól jõ ki?

31 És eljõnek hozzád, a hogy a nép össze szokott jõni, s oda ülnek elõdbe, mint az én népem, és hallgatják beszédidet, de nem cselekeszik, hanem szerelmeskedõ [énekként] veszik azokat ajkokra, szívök pedig nyereség után jár.

32 És ímé, te olyan vagy nékik, mint valamely szerelmeskedõ ének, szép hangú, s mint valamely jó hegedûs; csak hallják beszédidet, de nem cselekszik azokat.

33 De ha beteljesednek, [mert] ímé beteljesednek, megtudják, hogy próféta volt közöttök.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2235

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2235. That 'righteousness' means in regard to good, and 'judgement' to truth, becomes clear from the meaning of 'righteousness' and from the meaning of 'judgement'. Righteousness and judgement are mentioned together many times in the Word, but what they mean in the internal sense has not yet been known. In the proximate sense 'righteousness' has reference to that which is righteous, and 'judgement' to that which is upright. That which is righteous occurs when something is judged from good, and according to conscience, but that which is upright when it is judged from law, and so from the righteous demands of the law, thus also according to conscience since the law gives conscience its standards. In the internal sense however, 'righteousness' is that which stems from good, and 'judgement' that which stems from truth. Good is everything that belongs to love and charity, truth everything that belongs to faith derived from love and charity. Truth derives its essence from good, and is called truth derived from good, just as faith is derived from love, and so also judgement from righteousness.

[2] That such is the meaning of 'righteousness and judgement' is clear from the following places in the Word: In Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah, Do judgement and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Woe to him who builds his house in unrighteousness, and his upper rooms not in judgement! Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgement and righteousness? Then it was well with him. Jeremiah 22:3, 13, 15.

'Judgement' stands for the things connected with truth, 'righteousness' for those connected with good. In Ezekiel,

If the wicked man turns away from his sin and does judgement and righteousness, all his sins which he has committed will not be remembered; he has done judgement and righteousness; he will surely live. When the wicked turns away from his wickedness and does judgement and righteousness he will live because of these. Ezekiel 33:14, 16, 19.

Here similarly 'judgement' stands for the truth of faith, and 'righteousness' for the good of charity.

[3] In Amos,

Let judgement flow like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Amos 5:24.

Here the meaning is similar. In Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah, Keep judgement and do righteousness, for My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to reveal itself. Isaiah 56:1.

In the same prophet,

To peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it in judgement and righteousness, from now and even for evermore. Isaiah 9:7.

Here 'judgement and righteousness' stands for the existence with them of the truths of faith, and of the goods of charity. In the same prophet,

Jehovah is exalted, for He dwells on high. He has filled Zion with judgement and righteousness. Isaiah 33:5.

'Judgement' stands for faith, 'righteousness' for love, 'Zion' for the Church. 'Judgement' is mentioned first because love comes through faith; but when 'righteousness' is mentioned first it is for the reason that faith is derived from love, as in Hosea,

I will betroth you to Me for ever, and I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and judgement, and in mercy and in compassion, 1 and I will betroth you to Me in faith, and you will know Jehovah. Hosea 2:19-20.

Here 'righteousness' is mentioned first, as also is 'mercy', which are the attributes of love, while 'judgement' is mentioned second, as also is 'compassion', which are the attributes of faith that is derived from love. And both are called 'faith' or faithfulness.

[4] In David,

O Jehovah, Your mercy is in the heavens; Your truth reaches up to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, Your judgements like the great deep. Psalms 36:5-6.

Here both 'mercy' and 'righteousness' are in a similar way the attributes of love, while 'truth' and 'judgements' are those of faith. In the same author,

Let truth spring out of the ground, and let righteousness look down from heaven. Jehovah will indeed give what is good, and our land will give its increase. Psalms 85:11-12.

Here 'truth', which constitutes faith, stands for judgement, and 'righteousness' for love or mercy. In Zechariah,

I will lead them and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and they will be My people, and I will be their God in truth and in righteousness. Zechariah 8:8.

From this place also it is evident that 'judgement' is truth and 'righteousness' good, since 'truth' is mentioned here in place of judgement. Similarly in David,

He who walks blameless and performs righteousness and speaks the truth. Psalms 15:2.

[5] Because faith is grounded in charity, that is, because truth is grounded in good, truths rooted in good are in various places called 'the judgements of righteousness', so that 'judgements' has virtually the same meaning as commandments, as in Isaiah,

Let them seek Me day by day and desire the knowledge of My ways, as though a nation that does righteousness and does not forsake the judgement of their God. Let them ask of Me the judgements of righteousness, let them desire the approach of God. Isaiah 58:2.

That 'commandments' means virtually the same may be seen in David,

Seven times in the day I have praised You for Your judgements of righteousness. All Your commandments are righteousness. Psalms 119:164, 172.

It is said in particular of the Lord that He performs 'judgement and righteousness' when He creates man anew, as in Jeremiah,

Let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Jehovah who performs mercy, judgement and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I am well pleased. Jeremiah 9:24.

Here mercy, which is an attribute of love, is described as 'judgement and righteousness'. In the same prophet,

I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will rule as king, and act intelligently, and execute judgement and righteousness in the land. Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15.

[6] Hence the following in John,

If I go away I will send the Paraclete to you. And when He comes He will convince the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgement: in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me; in regard to righteousness, because I go away to the Father, and you will see Me no more; in regard to judgement, because the prince of this world is judged. John 16:7-11.

'Sin' here stands for all faithlessness. 'He will convince in regard to righteousness' means in regard to everything that is contrary to good, when yet the Lord united the Human to the Divine to save the world, meant by 'I go away to the Father and you will see Me no more'. 'In regard to judgement' means in regard to everything that is contrary to the truth, when yet evils were cast down into their own hells so that they could not do harm any more, meant by 'the prince of this world is judged'. In general 'He will convince in regard to sin, righteousness, and judgement' means in regard to all faithlessness contrary to good and truth, and so means that no charity and faith exist. For in ancient times righteousness and judgement were used, in reference to the Lord, to mean all mercy and grace, but in reference to man all charity and faith.

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1. literally, compassions

  
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3813. As regards 'flesh', this means in the highest sense the Proprium of the Lord's Divine Human, which is Divine Good, and in the relative sense means the will side of the human proprium when made alive by the Proprium of the Lord's Divine Human, that is, by His Divine Good. This proprium is the one called the heavenly proprium which, in itself the Lord's alone, is appropriated to those who are governed by good and consequently by truth. Such a proprium exists with angels in heaven, and also with men whose interiors, that is, their spirits, are in the Lord's kingdom. But in the contrary sense 'flesh' means the will side of the human proprium, which in itself is nothing but evil, and not having been made alive by the Lord is called dead; and the individual himself is for that reason called dead.

[2] That 'flesh' in the highest sense means the Proprium of the Lord's Divine Human, and so His Divine Good, is clear from the Lord's words in John,

Jesus said, I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live for ever. The bread which I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews disputed with one another, saying, How can this man give his flesh to eat? Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you will have no life in yourselves. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day; for My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. This is the bread which came down from heaven. John 6:51-58.

Here it is quite evident that 'flesh' means the Proprium of the Lord's Divine Human, and so the Divine Good - His flesh in the Holy Supper being called 'the body'. His body or flesh in the Holy Supper is the Divine Good, and His blood the Divine Truth, see 1798, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3735. And since bread and wine have the same meaning as flesh and blood - that is to say, 'bread' is the Lord's Divine Good, and 'wine' His Divine Truth - bread and wine were commanded in place of flesh and blood. This is why the Lord says, 'I am the living bread; the bread which I will give is My flesh; he who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him; this is the bread which came down from heaven'. 'Eating' means being communicated, being joined to, and being made one's own, see 2187, 2343, 3168, 3513 (end), 3596.

[3] The same was represented in the Jewish Church by the law that the flesh of sacrifices was to be eaten by Aaron and his sons, by those persons who brought the sacrifice, and by others who were clean; and that this flesh was holy, see Exodus 12:7-9; 29:30-34; Leviticus 7:15-21; 8:31; Deuteronomy 12:27; 16:4. That being so, if any unclean person ate some of that flesh he was to be cut off from his people, Leviticus 7:21. The fact that these sacrifices were called 'bread', see 2165, and that that sacrificial flesh was called 'holy flesh', Jeremiah 11:15; Haggai 2:12. And in Ezekiel 40:43 where the new Temple is the subject, it is called 'the flesh of the offering which is on the tables in the Lord's kingdom', by which clearly worship of the Lord in His kingdom is meant.

[4] That 'flesh' in the relative sense means the will side of man's proprium when made alive by the Lord is Divine Good is clear also from the following places: In Ezekiel,

I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in your midst; and I will remove the heart of stone out of their flesh and will give them a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26.

'The heart of stone out of their flesh' stands for a will and proprium when not made alive, 'a heart of flesh' for a will and proprium when made alive; for 'the heart' is a representative of good in the will, see 2930, 3313, 3635. In David,

O God, You are my God; in the morning I seek You. My soul thirsts for You, my flesh in a dry land longs for You, and I am weary without water. Psalms 63:1.

In the same author,

My soul longs for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God. Psalms 84:2.

[5] In Job,

I have come to know my Redeemer; He is alive; and at the last He will rise above the dust; and afterwards these things will be encompassed by my skin, and out of my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself; and my eyes will behold, and no other. Job 19:25-27.

'Being encompassed by skin' stands for the natural, such as a person possesses after death, dealt with in 3539. 'Out of his flesh seeing God' stands for the proprium when made alive, which is why Job says, 'Whom I shall see for myself; and my eyes will behold, and no other'. Since it was well known in the ancient Churches that 'flesh' meant the proprium, and since the Book of Job is a book of the Ancient Church, 3540 (end), he accordingly followed the custom of the day and drew on meaningful signs to speak of these, as of many other matters. Those therefore who conclude from what Job said that their dead body is going to be reassembled from the four winds and is going to rise again do not know the internal sense of the Word. Those who are conversant with that sense know that they will enter the next life in a body, but in a purer one. In that life people have purer bodies, for they behold one another, talk to one another, and are endowed with each of the senses, which though like those in the physical body are now keener. The body which a person carries around on earth is designed for activities on earth and therefore consists of flesh and bones, whereas the body that a spirit carries around in the next life is designed for activities in that life and does not consist of flesh and bones but of such things as correspond to these, see 3726.

[6] That 'flesh' in the contrary sense means the will side of the human proprium which in itself is nothing but evil is clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

Every man will eat the flesh of his own arm. Isaiah 9:20.

In the same prophet,

I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh, and they will be drunk with their blood as with new wine. Isaiah 49:26.

In Jeremiah,

I will feed them with the flesh of their sons and with the flesh of their daughters, and every man will eat the flesh of his companion. Jeremiah 19:9.

In Zechariah,

Those that are left will eat, every one the flesh of another. Zechariah 11:9.

In Moses,

I will chastise you seven times for your sins, and you will eat the flesh of your sons: and the flesh of your daughters will you eat. Leviticus 26:28-29.

The will side of the human proprium, or man's own natural inclinations, is described in this way because it is nothing but evil and consequent falsity, and so hatred against every form of truth or good, that are meant by 'eating the flesh of their own arm', 'the flesh of sons and daughters', and 'the flesh of another'.

[7] In John,

I saw an angel standing in the sun, who called out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds flying in mid-heaven, Come and gather yourselves to the supper of the great God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and those seated on them, and the flesh of all free men and slaves, both small and great. Revelation 19:17-18; Ezekiel 39:17-20.

Anyone may see that the flesh of kings, captains, mighty men, horses and those seated on them, free men and slaves, is not meant by such expressions. 'Flesh' accordingly has another meaning which has not been known up to now. The fact that evils resulting from falsities, and evils producing falsities, are meant - which evils originate on the will side of the human proprium - is evident from each expression used here.

[8] Since falsity which springs from the understanding side of man's proprium is meant by 'blood' in the internal sense, and evil which springs from the will side of his proprium by 'flesh', the Lord speaks of the person who is to be regenerated as follows,

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His name, who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13.

For this reason 'flesh' is used to mean in general all mankind, see 574, 1050 (end). For whether you speak of man or of man's proprium it amounts to the same.

[9] That 'flesh' in the highest sense means the Lord's Divine Human is evident from the verses quoted above, as well as from the following in John,

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the Only Begotten from the Father. John 1:14.

It is by virtue of this flesh that all other flesh is made alive, that is, by virtue of the Lord's Divine Human, every human being is made alive, through making His love his own, which is meant by 'eating the flesh of the Son of Man', John 6:51-58, and by eating the bread in the Holy Supper - for the bread is His body or flesh, Matthew 26:26-27.

  
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