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Jeremiás 30

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1 Az a szó, a melyet szólott az Úr Jeremiásnak, mondván:

2 Ezt mondja az Úr, Izráel Istene, mondván: Mindama szókat, a melyeket mondottam néked, írd meg magadnak könyvben;

3 Mert ímé, eljõnek a napok, azt mondja az Úr, és visszahozom az én népemet, az Izráelt és Júdát, azt mondja az Úr, és visszahozom õket arra a földre, a melyet az õ atyáiknak adtam, és bírni fogják azt.

4 Ezek pedig azok a szók, a melyeket az Úr Izráel és Júda felõl szólott.

5 Ezt mondta ugyanis az Úr: A félelemnek, rettentésnek szavát hallottuk, és nincs békesség.

6 Kérdjétek meg csak és lássátok, ha szûl-é a férfi? Miért látom minden férfi kezét az ágyékán, mintegy gyermekszûlõét, és miért változtak orczáik fakósárgává?

7 Jaj! mert nagy az a nap annyira, hogy nincs hozzá hasonló; és háborúság ideje az Jákóbon; de megszabadul abból!

8 És azon a napon, azt mondja a Seregek Ura, letöröm majd az õ igáját a te nyakadról, köteleidet leszaggatom, és nem szolgálnak többé idegeneknek.

9 Hanem szolgálnak az Úrnak az õ Istenöknek, és Dávidnak az õ királyoknak, a kit feltámasztok nékik.

10 Te azért ne félj, oh én szolgám Jákób, azt mondja az Úr, se ne rettegj Izráel; mert ímhol vagyok én, a ki megszabadítlak téged a messze földrõl, és a te magodat az õ fogságának földébõl; és visszatér Jákób és megnyugoszik, és bátorságban lesz, és nem lesz, a ki megháborítsa.

11 Mert veled vagyok én, azt mondja az Úr, hogy megtartsalak téged: mert véget vetek minden nemzetnek, a kik közé kiûztelek téged, csak néked nem vetek véget, hanem megfenyítelek téged ítélettel, mert nem hagylak egészen büntetés nélkül.

12 Mert ezt mondja az Úr: Veszedelmes a te sebed, gyógyíthatatlan a te sérülésed.

13 Senki sincsen, a ki megítélje a te ügyedet, hogy bekösse [sebedet,] orvosságok és balzsam nincsenek számodra.

14 Elfeledkezett rólad minden szeretõd, és nem keres téged: mert megvertelek ellenséges veréssel, kegyetlen ostorozással, a te bûnödnek sokaságáért, [és hogy] eláradtak a te vétkeid.

15 Miért kiáltozol a te sebed miatt? veszedelmes a te sérülésed? a te bûnöd sokaságáért és vétkeidnek eláradásáért cselekedtem ezeket veled.

16 Azért mindazok, a kik benyelnek téged, elnyeletnek, és valamennyi ellenséged mind fogságra jut: és a te fosztogatóidat kifosztottakká, és minden te zsákmánylóidat zsákmánynyá teszem.

17 Mert orvosságot adok néked, és kigyógyítlak a te sérülésedbõl, azt mondja az Úr. Mert számkivetettnek hívtak téged, Sion; nincs, a ki tudakozódjék felõle.

18 Ezt mondja az Úr: Ímé, visszahozom Jákób sátorának foglyait, és könyörülök az õ hajlékain, és a város felépíttetik az õ magas helyén, és a palota a maga helyén marad.

19 És hálaadás és öröm szava jõ ki belõlök, és megsokasítom õket és meg nem kevesednek, megöregbítem õket és meg nem kisebbednek.

20 És az õ fiai olyanok lesznek, mint eleintén, és az õ gyülekezete erõsen megáll az én orczám elõtt, de megbüntetem mindazokat, a kik nyomorgatták õt.

21 És az õ fejedelme õ belõle támad, és az õ uralkodója belõle jõ ki, és magamhoz bocsátom õt, hogy közeledjék hozzám: mert kicsoda az, a ki szívét arra hajtaná, hogy hozzám jõjjön, azt mondja az Úr.

22 És népemmé lesztek, én pedig a ti Istenetek leszek.

23 Ímé, az Úrnak szélvésze, haragja tör elõ, [és a] rohanó szélvész a hitetlenek fejére zúdul.

24 Nem szûnik meg az Úr felgerjedt haragja, míg végbe nem viszi, és míg meg nem valósítja az õ szívének gondolatait. Az utolsó napokban értitek meg e dolgot.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 565

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565. And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and it went off to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (12:17) This symbolizes the hatred ignited in those people who believe themselves wise because of their arguments in support of the mystical union of the Divine and the human in the Lord and in support of justification by faith alone, against those who acknowledge the Lord alone as God of heaven and earth and the Ten Commandments as law to be lived, and their attacking new converts with the intention of leading them astray.

All of this is contained in these few words, because they follow in sequence from those of the preceding verse, where we are told that the earth helped the woman, and opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had spewed out of its mouth, which means, symbolically, that their reasonings flowing from falsities came to nothing (no. 564), and accordingly that they tried in vain to destroy the New Church. The dragon's being enraged with the woman symbolizes, therefore, hatred ignited and a longing for vengeance seething against the Church. The rage or wrath of the dragon symbolizes hatred (no. 558). To make war means, symbolically, to attack and assail with reasonings flowing from falsities (no. 500).

The rest of her offspring or seed who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ means newcomers who accept the doctrine regarding the Lord and the Ten Commandments. What the testimony of Jesus Christ is may be seen in nos. 6 and 490 above.

[2] The dragon here means people who believe themselves wise because of their arguments in support of the mystical union of the Divine and the human in the Lord and in support of justification by faith alone, because they pride themselves on their wisdom and know how to reason. From that pride or conceit then springs hatred, and from that hatred rage and a longing for vengeance against people who do not believe as they do. By the mystical union, also called a hypostatic union, we mean their fictions regarding the influx and operation of the Lord's Divinity into His humanity as though into another entity, their not knowing that God and man, or the Divine and the human in the Lord, are not two persons, but one, united like soul and body, in accordance with the doctrine accepted throughout the Christian world which has its name from Athanasius. But this is not the place to cite their fictions regarding the mystical union, as they are absurd.

[3] That the offspring or seed of the woman here means people of the New Church, who possess its doctrinal truths, can be seen from the symbolic meaning of offspring in the following passages:

Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants among peoples. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the offspring whom Jehovah has blessed. (Isaiah 61:9)

...they are the offspring of the blessed of Jehovah... (Isaiah 65:23)

...as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me..., so shall your offspring... remain. (Isaiah 66:22)

Offspring that will serve Him shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation... (Psalms 22:30)

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and the offspring (of the woman). (Genesis 3:15)

Does the one seek the offspring of God? (Malachi 2:15)

Behold, the days are coming..., (when) I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man... (Jeremiah 31:27)

If he makes His soul a guilt offering, he shall see his offspring... (Isaiah 53:10)

Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east... (Isaiah 43:5-6)

...you shall break out to the right and to the left, and your offspring will inherit the nations... (Isaiah 54:3)

I had planted you a noble vine, the offspring of truth. How then have you turned before Me into the offshoots of an alien vine? (Jeremiah 2:21)

Their fruit You shall destroy from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of men. (Psalms 21:10)

...the... seeds are the children of the kingdom... (Matthew 13:38)

The offspring or seed of Israel has the same symbolic meaning, because "Israel" is the church (Isaiah 41:8-9; 44:3). So likewise the seed of the field, in many places, because a field symbolizes the church.

On the other hand, the offspring or seed of evil people has an opposite meaning (Isaiah 1:4; 14:20; 57:3-4).

565. [repeated]. Then I stood on the sand of the sea. 1 (12:18) This symbolizes John's spiritual state now natural, like that of people in the first or lowest heaven.

The sand of the sea symbolizes that state, because the sea symbolizes the external component of the church. We call this state spiritually natural, like the state of people in the first or lowest heaven.

John had previously been up above in heaven when he saw the dragon, its battle with Michael, its being cast down, and its pursuing the woman. But now that the dragon has been cast down, and it continues to be dealt with in the following chapter, John was conveyed down in spirit in order to see the further events involving the dragon beneath the heavens and describe them. In that state he saw the two beasts, one rising up out of the sea and the other coming up out of the earth, which he could not have seen from heaven, since it is not granted to any angel to look down from heaven into lower regions, though if he wishes, he may descend.

It should be known that a place in the spiritual world corresponds to the inhabitants' state, for no one can be anywhere else than where his state of life is found. And because John now stood on the sand of the sea, it follows that his state was now a spiritually natural one.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. In most manuscripts, the Textus Receptus, the received text of the Greek New Testament, makes this verse part of the first verse of the next chapter (13:1), as do numerous translations into other languages. The Alexandrian text, however, and the text of Westcott and Hort, together with some translations, including those Latin versions consulted by the writer, make it verse 18 of the present chapter.

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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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Malachi 2

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1 "Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

2 If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

3 Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

5 "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

8 But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

9 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

10 Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

12 Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.

13 This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

14 Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

16 For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'