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エレミヤ書 31

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1 は言われる、その時わたしはイスラエルの全部族のとなり、彼らはわたしの民となる」。

2 はこう言われる、「つるぎをのがれて生き残った民は、荒野で恵みを得た。イスラエルが安息を求めた時、

3 は遠くから彼に現れた。わたしは限りなきをもってあなたをしている。それゆえ、わたしは絶えずあなたに真実をつくしてきた。

4 イスラエルのおとめよ、再びわたしはあなたを建てる、あなたは建てられる。あなたは再び鼓をもって身を飾り、出て行って、喜び楽しむ者と共に踊る。

5 またあなたはぶどうの木をサマリヤのに植える。植える者は、植えてその実を食べることができる。

6 見守る者がエフライムのの上に立って呼ばわるが来る。『立って、シオンに上り、われわれのに、もうでよう』と」。

7 はこう仰せられる、「ヤコブのために喜んで声高く歌い、万のかしらのために叫び声をあげよ。告げ示し、ほめたたえて言え、『はその民イスラエルの残りの者を救われた』と。

8 見よ、わたしは彼らをから連れ帰り、彼らを地の果から集める。彼らのうちには、盲人やあしなえ、妊婦、産婦も共にいる。彼らは大きな群れとなって、ここに帰ってくる。

9 彼らは泣き悲しんで帰ってくる。わたしは慰めながら彼らを導き帰る。彼らがつまずかないように、まっすぐな道により、の流れのそばを通らせる。それは、わたしがイスラエルの父であり、エフライムはわたしの長子だからである。

10 の民よ、あなたがたは主の言葉を聞き、これを遠い、海沿いの地に示して言いなさい、『イスラエルを散らした者がこれを集められる。牧者がその群れを守るようにこれを守られる』と。

11 すなわちはヤコブをあがない、彼らよりも強い者のから彼を救いだされた。

12 彼らは来てシオンの山で声高くい、から賜わった良い物のために、穀物と酒と油および若きと牛のために、喜びに輝く。そのは潤う園のようになり、彼らは重ねて憂えることがない。

13 その時おとめたちは舞って楽しみ、若い者も老いた者も共に楽しむ。わたしは彼らの悲しみ喜びにかえ、彼らを慰め、憂いの代りに喜びを与える。

14 わたしは多くのささげ物で、祭司の心を飽かせ、わたしの良き物で、わたしの民を満ち足らせるとは言われる」。

15 はこう仰せられる、「嘆き悲しみ、いたく泣く声がラマで聞える。ラケルがそのらのために嘆くのである。らがもはやいないので、彼女はそのらのことで慰められるのを願わない」。

16 はこう仰せられる、「あなたは泣く声をとどめ、から涙をながすことをやめよ。あなたのわざに報いがある。彼らはの地から帰ってくるとは言われる。

17 あなたの将来には希望があり、あなたの供たちは自分の国に帰ってくるとは言われる。

18 わたしは確かに、エフライムがこう言って嘆くの聞いた、『あなたはわたしを懲しめられた、わたしはくびきに慣れない子牛のように懲しめをうけた。よ、あなたはわたしのでいらせられる、わたしを連れ帰って、もとにかえしてください。

19 わたしはそむき去った、悔い、教をうけた、ももを打った。若い時のはずかしめが身にあるので、わたしはじ、うろたえた』。

20 は言われる、エフライムはわたしの愛する、わたしの喜ぶであろうか。わたしは彼について語るごとに、なお彼を忘れることができない。それゆえ、わたしの心は彼をしたっている。わたしは必ず彼をあわれむ。

21 みずからのために道しるべを置き、みずからのために標柱を立てよ。大路に、あなたの通って行った道にを留めよ。イスラエルのおとめよ、帰れ、これらの、あなたの々に帰れ。

22 不信の娘よ、いつまでさまようのか。は地の上に新しい事を創造されたのだ、女が男を保護する事である」。

23 イスラエルのはこう言われる、「わたしが彼らを再び栄えさせる時、人々はまたユダの地とその々でこの言葉言う、『正義のすみかよ、聖なるよ、どうかがおまえを祝福してくださるように』。

24 ユダとそのすべてのの人、および農夫と群れを飼って歩き回る者は共にそこに住む

25 わたしが疲れを飽き足らせ、すべて悩んでいるを慰めるからである」。

26 ここでわたしは目をさましたが、わたしの眠りは、ここちよかった。

27 は言われる、見よ、わたしが人の種との種とをイスラエルのユダとにまく来る

28 わたしは彼らを抜き、砕き、倒し、滅ぼし、悩まそうと待ちかまえていたように、また彼らを建て、植えようと待ちかまえているとは言われる。

29 その時、彼らはもはや、『父がすっぱいぶどうを食べたので、どものがうく』とは言わない。

30 人はめいめい自分のによって死ぬ。すっぱいぶどうを食べる人はみな、そのがうく。

31 は言われる、見よ、わたしがイスラエルのユダとに新しい契約を立てる来る

32 この契約はわたしが彼らの先祖をそのをとってエジプトの地から導き出したに立てたようなものではない。わたしは彼らの夫であったのだが、彼らはそのわたしの契約を破ったとは言われる。

33 しかし、それらのにわたしがイスラエルのに立てる契約はこれである。すなわちわたしは、わたしの律法を彼らのうちに置き、そのにしるす。わたしは彼らのとなり、彼らはわたしの民となるとは言われる。

34 人はもはや、おのおのその隣とその兄弟に教えて、『あなたはを知りなさい』とは言わない。それは、彼らが小より大に至るまで皆、わたしを知るようになるからであるとは言われる。わたしは彼らの不義をゆるし、もはやそのを思わない」。

35 はこう言われる、すなわち太陽を与えて昼のとし、とを定めてとし、をかき立てて、その波を鳴りとどろかせる者――その名は万いう

36 は言われる、「もしこの定めがわたしのですたれてしまうなら、イスラエルの子孫もすたって、永久にわたしので民であることはできない」。

37 はこう言われる、「もし上の天を量ることができ、の地の基を探ることができるなら、そのとき、わたしはイスラエルのすべての子孫をそのもろもろの行いのために捨て去るとは言われる」。

38 は言われる、「見よ、このが、ハナネルのから隅のまで、主のために再建される時が来る

39 測りなわはそれよりも遠くまっすぐに延びて、ガレブの丘に達し、ゴアのほうに向かう。

40 死体と灰とのの全部、またキデロンのに行くまでと、東のほうののすみに行くまでとのすべての畑はみな主の聖なる所となり、永遠にわたって、ふたたび抜かれ、また倒されることはない」。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8918

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8918. 'And stood afar off' means remoteness from internal things. This is clear from the meaning of 'standing a long way off' as existing remotely, in this instance remotely from internal things, since it was Mount Sinai - by which heaven and the Divine there is meant, 8805 - that they stood away from. Whether you say remotely from the Divine, or from heaven, or from internal things, it amounts to the same thing, since heaven consists in internal things. For inwardly a person resides in the light of heaven, and outwardly in the light of the world; or what amounts to the same thing, a person's soul or spirit resides in heaven, but his body in the world. Heaven is nearer the Divine than the world is, because there the Lord's Divine is what reigns and is the All in all.

Before any further consideration is given to the meaning of 'afar off', it should be recognized that 'afar off' in the spiritual sense has no regard to spatial distance but to the Divine, and so to goodness and truth. Distance from actual goodness that emanates from the Divine produces appearances of spatial distances in heaven. Angelic communities appear distinct and separate there, indeed at a distance from one another; but this notion of space between them comes about as a result of their distance from goodness and truth which emanate, as has been stated, from the Lord's Divine. This is bound to seem incomprehensible, indeed as something absurd, to many in the world. The reason for this is that a person's thoughts and ideas are based on spatial distances and lengths of time, so much so that a person cannot engage in thought without them. Consequently if you take away lengths of time and spatial distances from a person's thought he can grasp scarcely anything. Yet the thinking of angels in heaven is altogether free from anything temporal or spatial, so completely that their thoughts are a thousand times, indeed ten thousand times superior in intelligence and wisdom to man's thoughts. And what is astounding, if with them an idea of a temporal or spatial origin intrudes, shadow and thick darkness immediately overtakes their minds, because they then fall from the superior light of heaven into the inferior light of the natural order, which to them is thick darkness.

[2] The fact that there are no spatial distances or periods of time in the next life, but states instead, or that appearances of them exist as a result of variations of state in respect of goodness and truth, see 2625, 2837, 3356, 3387, 3404, 4321, 4882, 5605, 7381. From this one may now see what 'standing afar off' means in the spiritual sense, namely remoteness from heaven where the Divine is, at this point remoteness from internal things, because as stated above, that nation which stood at that time a long way off from Mount Sinai was most remote from internal things. They were interested solely in outward things, and considered worship of God to consist wholly in them. That nation was also allowed to do this because they were then able to represent heavenly and Divine realities; for in order that these may be represented an outward form is necessary, and this may exist devoid of anything internal, 3147, 3670, 4208, 4281, 4288, 4307, 8588.

[3] 'Afar off' means remote from goodness and truth that come from the Lord, and so remote from internal things, in the following places as well: In Luke,

The rich man in hell lifting up his eyes saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Abraham said to him, Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass across from here to you cannot, nor can those who are there pass across to us. Luke 16:23, 25, 26.

'Abraham' here is not used to mean Abraham, for he is not known in heaven, but in the highest sense to mean the Lord, and in the relative sense to mean those in heaven who are governed by the good of love to and faith in the Lord, 1834, 1876, 1965, 1989, 2011, 3245, 3305 (end), 6098, 6185, 6276, 6804. Those in hell are said 'to see afar off' those in heaven because they are in a state extremely remote from goodness and truth. 'A great gulf' between them is the actual remoteness from good, which also produces the appearance of a gulf lying in between.

[4] Those who whenever they think rely on spatial ideas, as all people in the world do, inevitably envisage hell, and also heaven, to be a place far away from a person. But the truth of the matter is that hell and heaven are near a person; indeed they are in a person, hell being in a bad person, heaven in a good person. Everyone after death also enters that hell or that heaven he was in when in the world. But after death a change of state takes place, in that the hell which was not recognized in the world becomes recognizable, and the heaven which too was not recognized in the world becomes recognizable, the heaven being full of all happiness, and the hell of all unhappiness. The truth that heaven is within us is what the Lord teaches in Luke,

The kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21.

In Isaiah,

They are coming from a land far away, from the end of heaven. Isaiah 13:5; Jeremiah 5:15.

In Isaiah,

Hear, you that are afar off what I have done; and know, you that are near, My strength. Isaiah 33:13.

In the same prophet,

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not withhold. Bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the end of the earth. Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. Isaiah 43:6, 8; 49:12.

In the same prophet,

Listen to Me, O islands, and hearken, O peoples from afar. Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 31:10.

In Jeremiah,

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of My people from a land far away, Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Jeremiah 8:19.

In the same prophet,

O Jehovah, You have planted them, and they have also taken root. You are near in their mouth but far away from their heart. 1 Jeremiah 12:2.

In the same prophet, I am a God near at hand, and not a God afar off. Jeremiah 23:23.

In all these places 'afar off' means remote from good.

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Arcana Coelestia # 2025

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2025. That 'I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings' means that the Lord acquired to Himself by His own powers all things meant by 'the land of sojournings' is clear from the meaning of 'sojourning' as receiving instruction, dealt with in 1463. And because man acquires life to himself chiefly through instruction in facts, matters of doctrine, and cognitions of faith, sojourning is consequently the life so acquired. When applied to the Lord it is the life which He obtained for Himself through cognitions, through the conflicts that constituted temptations, and through victories in temptations; and because He obtained it by His own powers, this is what 'the land of your sojournings' means here.

[2] That the Lord obtained all things for Himself by His own powers, and by His own powers united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence and Divine Essence to Human Essence, and that He alone in this way became righteousness, is quite clear in the Prophets, as in Isaiah,

Who is this coming from Edom, marching in the vast numbers of His strength? I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. I looked around and there was no one helping; and I was astonished that there was no one upholding; therefore My own arm brought Me salvation. Isaiah 63:1, 3, 5.

'Edom' stands for the Lord's Human Essence, 'strength' and 'arm' for power. Plain statements to the effect that He acted from His own power are contained in the phrases 'no one helping' and 'no one upholding', and in that about His own arm bringing Him salvation.

[3] In the same prophet,

He saw that there was no one, and wondered that there was nobody to intercede; and His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness upheld Him. And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head. Isaiah 59:16-17.

This similarly means that He acted by His own power, and in so doing became righteousness. That the Lord is righteousness is stated in Daniel,

Seventy weeks have been decreed to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Daniel 9:24.

And in Jeremiah,

I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and He will reign as king and act with understanding, and He will execute judgement and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell in confidence. And this is His name which they will call Him, Jehovah our Righteousness. Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16.

For this reason He is also called 'the Habitation of Righteousness' in Jeremiah 31:23; 50:7, and 'wonderful' and 'Hero' in Isaiah 9:6.

[4] The reason why the Lord so many times attributes to the Father that which is His own has been explained above in 1999, 2004; for Jehovah was within Him, and so within every single part of Him. Something similar in man may be used for illustration, although there can be no comparison. Within man is his soul, and because it is within him, the soul is within every individual part of him, that is to say, within every individual part of his thinking and every individual part of his activity. Anything that does not have his soul within it is not part of him. The Lord's soul was Life itself or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, for He was conceived from Jehovah; thus Life itself was present within every individual part of Him. And because Life itself, or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, belonged to Him in the way that the soul does to man, so that which was Jehovah's was His, which is what the Lord says in His statements about His being in the bosom of the Father, John 1:18, and about all things that the Father has being His, John 16:15; 17:10-11.

[5] From good which is Jehovah's He united the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, and from truth united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and so achieved every single thing all from Himself. Indeed His Human was left to Itself in order that of Himself He might fight against all the hells and overcome them; and because He had life within Himself, as stated, which was His own, He overcame them by His own power and strength, as is also clearly stated in the places quoted from the Prophets. So then, because He acquired all things to Himself by His own powers, He became Righteousness, cleared the world of spirits of hellish genii and spirits, and in so doing rescued the human race from destruction - for the human race is governed by means of spirits - and thus redeemed it. This is why the Old Testament Word speaks so often of Him as Rescuer and Redeemer, and also Saviour, as His name Jesus describes.

  
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