Bible

 

Ezechiele 21:16

Studie

       

16 (H21-21) Spada! raccogliti! volgiti a destra, attenta! Volgiti a sinistra, dovunque è diretto il tuo filo!

Komentář

 

Road

  

These days we tend to think of "roads" as smooth swaths of pavement and judge them by how fast we can drive cars on them. A "path" is something different, suitable only for walking or maybe bicycles, and a "way" has more to do with giving directions than any physical reality. When we get "lost" it usually means we're in a car on an unfamiliar road -- a far cry from being in the middle of a trackless wilderness with no idea which direction to go. The ancient world was very different, with isolated towns and endless square miles of trackless wilderness. Then a "way" was a set of landmarks to follow to get from one place to another through the wilderness. A "path" was a way used enough to leave a visible trace on the ground, and a "road" was a heavily used path, easily followed and walkable. So it makes sense that when used in the Bible, all three terms represent guiding truth, ideas that lead us where we want to go. This is pictured in the modern use of "way" -- when we talk about the "way" to do something or the "way" to get somewhere. We're talking about the correct, best, most efficient method of doing something or getting somewhere. And it's good information -- truth -- that helps us find that best way.

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Arcana Coelestia # 10421

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 10837  
  

10421. 'Whom you caused to come up out of the land of Egypt' means whom, you believed, you had led to the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'causing to come up out of the land of Egypt' as raising from the external level to the internal, thus leading to the Divine. 'Causing to go up' means raising from the external to the internal, and 'Egypt' means the natural or external man from which a person is raised.

'Causing to go up' means raising from the external to the internal, see 3084, 4539, 4969, 5406, 5817.

'Egypt' is the natural or external level, see in the places referred to in 9391.

  
/ 10837  
  

Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.