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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 # 2625

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2625. 'At the appointed time' means when the Rational was such that it was receptive. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'time'. There are two things which appear to be indispensable while a person lives in the world because they exist as essential elements of the natural order - those two things being space and time. Living in the world or natural order therefore is living in space and time. But these two cease to have any existence in the next life. They do, it is true, appear to exist to some extent in the world of spirits, the reason for this being that spirits recently arrived from life in the body bring with them mental pictures of natural things. But subsequently they perceive that space and time do not exist in that life but states instead, and that states in the next life correspond to extensions of space and of time within the natural order - states in respect to Being corresponding to those of space, and in respect to Manifestation to those of time. Regarding space or place, see 1274, 1379, 1380, 1382.

[2] From this anyone may see what kind of mental pictures a person is able to have while in the world or natural order regarding things which belong to the next life and about many arcana of faith. He may see that such a person is unwilling to believe those things unless he can take them in by means of objects that exist in the world, indeed by sensory evidence. For he cannot do other than suppose that if he were to divest himself of his mental pictures that have been formed from space and time, more so to divest himself of space and time themselves, he would cease to be anything at all and so would have nothing left to him from which he could perceive with his senses or have thoughts of anything apart from that which was unintelligible to him. But in actual fact quite the reverse is the case: the life of angels is such that it is the wisest and happiest of all.

[3] This is the reason why people's ages mentioned in the Word do not in the internal sense mean ages but states, so that in this verse 'old age' does not mean old age. Nor does any number mean a number but some specific state, as in the case of 'a hundred years' mentioned further on. From this it now becomes clear that 'the appointed time' means the state when the rational was such that it was receptive.

[4] As regards the specific teaching presented here - that the Divine Rational received being and was given manifestation from the Lord's Divine spiritual united to His Divine celestial, when the days had been completed for him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive (meant in the internal sense by 'Sarah conceived and bore to Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time') - the following needs to be known:

The human has its beginnings in the inmost part of the rational, see 2106, 2194. The Lord advanced gradually towards the union of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence, and of the Divine Essence with the Human Essence, 1864, 2033, 2523.

He did so by His own power, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2083, through continuing temptations and repeated victories, 1690, 1737, 1813, and through receiving revelations repeatedly from His own Divine, 1616, 2500, till at length He cast out the whole human from the mother, 1414, 1444, 2574.

And in this way He made His Human - as to the Rational - Divine, as taught by the things that occur in this verse.

From all this it is evident how the explanation 'when the days had been completed for Him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive' is to be understood.

[5] Some idea of this matter may be had from what happens to people who are being regenerated. The celestial things of love, and the spiritual things of faith, are instilled into them by the Lord not all at once but gradually; and when by means of those things a person's rational has become such that it is able to be receptive, he is for the first time becoming regenerate, mostly by means of temptations in which he overcomes. While these experiences are taking place the days are being completed to cast off the old man and put on the new. Regarding man's regeneration, see 677, 679, 711, 848, 986, 1555, 2475.

  
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