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エレミヤ書 18

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1 からエレミヤに臨んだ言葉

2 「立って、陶器師のに下って行きなさい。その所でわたしはあなたにわたしの言葉を聞かせよう」。

3 わたしは陶器師のへ下って行った。見ると彼は、ろくろで仕事をしていたが、

4 粘土で造っていた器が、その人のの中で仕損じたので、彼は自分の意のままに、それをもってほかの器を造った。

5 その時、主の言葉がわたしに臨んだ、

6 は仰せられる、イスラエルのよ、この陶器師がしたように、わたしもあなたがたにできないのだろうか。イスラエルのよ、陶器師のに粘土があるように、あなたがたはわたしののうちにある。

7 ある時には、わたしが民またはを抜く、破る、滅ぼすということがあるが、

8 もしわたしの言ったがその悪を離れるならば、わたしはこれに災を下そうとしたことを思いかえす。

9 またある時には、わたしが民または建てる、植えるということがあるが、

10 もしその国がわたしのに悪と見えることを行い、わたしの声に聞き従わないなら、わたしはこれに幸を与えようとしたことを思いかえす。

11 それゆえ、ユダの人々とエルサレム住む者に言いなさい、『はこう仰せられる、見よ、わたしはあなたがたに災を下そうと工夫し、あなたがたを攻める計りごとを立てている。あなたがたはおのおのその悪しき道を離れ、その道と行いを改めなさい』と。

12 しかし彼らは言う、『それはむだです。われわれは自分の図るところに従い、おのおのその悪い強情なにしたがって行動します』と。

13 それゆえはこう言われる、異邦の民のうちのある者に尋ねてみよ、このような事を聞いた者があろうか。おとめイスラエルは恐ろしい事をした。

14 レバノンが、どうしてシリオンのを離れようか。山の水、冷たい川の流れが、どうしてかわいてしまおうか。

15 それなのにわが民はわたしを忘れて、偽りの神々に香をたいている。彼らはその道、古い道につまずき、また小道に入り、大路からはなれた。

16 自分の地を荒れすたれさせて、いつまでも人に舌打ちされるものとした。そこを通る人はみな身震いして、首を振る。

17 わたしは東のように、彼らをその散らす。その滅びのには、わたしは彼らに背を向け、を向けない」。

18 彼らは言った、「さあ、計略をめぐらして、エレミヤを倒そう。祭司には律法があり、知恵ある者には計りごとがあり、預言者には言葉があって、これらのものが滅びてしまうことはない。さあ、われわれはをもって彼を撃とう。彼のすべての言葉に、心を留めないことにしよう」。

19 よ、どうぞわたしにみ心を留め、わたしの訴えをお聞きください。

20 悪をもって善に報いるべきでしょうか。しかもなお彼らはわたしの命を取ろうとして穴を掘りました。わたしがあなたのに立って、彼らのことを良く言い、あなたの憤りを止めようとしたのを覚えてください。

21 それゆえ、彼らのどもたちをききんに渡し、彼らをつるぎの刃に渡してください。彼らのを失い、また寡婦となり、男は疫病にかかって死に、若い者は、戦争でつるぎに殺されますように。

22 あなたが敵をにわかに彼らに臨ませられるとき、彼らのから叫び声が聞えますように。彼らは穴を掘って、わたしを捕えようとし、わなをつくって、わたしのを捕えようとしたからです。

23 よ、あなたは彼らがわたしを殺すためにめぐらしている計略を皆ごぞんじです。その悪をゆるすことなく、そのをあなたのから消し去らないでください。彼らをあなたのに倒れさせてください。あなたのお怒りになる時に彼らを罰してください。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 748

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748. "And eat her flesh and burn her with fire." This symbolically means that Protestants will with hatred condemn and destroy in themselves the evils and falsities inherent in the Roman Catholic religion, and will renounce the religion itself and expunge it in themselves.

This is said of Protestants, who will deal thus with the harlot, that is, with the Roman Catholic religion. To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, about which we will say more below. And to burn her with fire means, symbolically, to renounce that religion as profane and expunge it in themselves.

This is what burning with fire means because the penalty for profaning something holy was burning. Therefore, according to Divine law, people who profaned the name of Jehovah by worshiping other gods were burned with fire - they and all their belongings (Deuteronomy 13:12-18). Therefore Moses burned with fire the golden calf that the children of Israel were profanely worshiping (Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 9:21). Moreover, because two of Aaron's sons profaned holy things, they were consumed by fire from heaven (Leviticus 10:1-6). Nor is anything else symbolized by the fire and pyre in Tophet but the fire of hell, which awaits those who profane holy things (Isaiah 30:33, Jeremiah 7:11, 31-32; 19:5-6, 2 Kings 23:10), for there the people worshiped Molech with a heinous sacrifice. 1

[2] Since the fourth beast in Daniel 7 symbolizes a religion that profanes the Word and consequently the sanctities of the church (no. 717), therefore we are told that it was burned with fire (Daniel 7:11).

Now, because it is profane worship to worship a person instead of the Lord, we are accordingly told here that they burnt the harlot with fire, which symbolically means that they renounced the religion itself and expunged it in themselves.

To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, because that is the symbolic meaning of eating her flesh. For flesh symbolizes the inherent characteristics of a thing which relate to goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, to evils and falsities, and to eat means, symbolically, to consume, thus to destroy.

That flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, which in itself is evil, is clear from the following passages:

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. (John 6:63)

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)

As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to be children of God...: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh... (John 1:12-13)

(God) remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again. (Psalms 78:39)

The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. (Isaiah 31:3)

(Jerusalem) committed harlotry with the Egyptians..., great of flesh. (Ezekiel 16:26)

Jesus... said to (Peter), ."..flesh and blood has not revealed this to you...." (Matthew 16:17)

Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm... (Jeremiah 17:5)

[3] Because flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, and people who hate others attack their personal character with the intention of destroying it, therefore to eat the flesh has also this symbolic meaning, as in the following passages:

Let the dying die, and the cut off be cut off. Those that are left eat each other's flesh. (Zechariah 11:9)

They shall devour Israel with the whole mouth... Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm - Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh. (Isaiah 9:12, 20-21)

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh... (Isaiah 49:26)

...everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend... (Jeremiah 19:9)

To eat the flesh of sons and daughters (Jeremiah 19:9, Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:53) means, symbolically, to destroy truths and goods in oneself, for sons symbolize truths, and daughters goods, as may be seen in nos. 139, 543, 545, 612[1-4] above.

Moreover, in the Word we find reference to "all flesh," and this symbolically means all mankind (Genesis 6:12-13, 17, 19).

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1. The heinous sacrifice consisted of "passing infants through the fire to Molech," by burning them alive on a sacrificial altar. Vestiges of this worship have been found elsewhere, as far as northern Africa. Tophet was a site in the valley of Hinnom at the foot of Mount Zion on the south side. Because of the nature of its worship, the valley of Hinnon (Ge' Hinnom = Gehenna) became synonymous with Hades or hell.

  
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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.