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エレミヤ書 52

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1 ゼデキヤは王となったとき二十一歳であったが、エルサレムで十一年世を治めた。の名はハムタルといい、リブナのエレミヤの娘である。

2 ゼデキヤはエホヤキムがすべて行ったように、主のの前に悪事を行った。

3 たしかに、主の怒りによって、エルサレムユダとは、そのみから捨て去られるようなことになった。

4 そこで彼の治世の九年十十日に、バビロンの王ネブカデレザルはその勢を率い、エルサレムにきて、これを包囲し、周囲に塁を築いてこれを攻めた。

5 こうしてこのは攻め囲まれて、ゼデキヤ王の十一年にまで及んだが、

6 その九日になって、の中の食糧は、はなはだしく欠乏し、その地の民は食物を得ることができなくなった。

7 そして城壁はついに打ち破られたので、兵士たちはみな逃げ、のうちに、王の園の近くの、二つの城壁の間のからをのがれ出て、カルデヤびとが、を攻め囲んでいるうちに、アラバの方へ落ちて行った。

8 しかしカルデヤびとの勢は王を追って行って、エリコの平地でゼデキヤに追いついたが、彼の勢がみな散って彼のそばを離れたので、

9 カルデヤびとは王を捕え、ハマテの地のリブラにいるバビロンの王のもとに引いていったので、王は彼の罪を定めた。

10 すなわちバビロンの王はゼデキヤの子たちをそのの前で殺させ、ユダのつかさたちをことごとくリブラで殺させ、

11 またゼデキヤのをつぶさせた。そしてバビロンの王は彼を鎖につないでバビロンへ連れて行き、その死ぬまで獄屋に入れて置いた。

12 十日に、――それはバビロンの王ネブカデレザルの世の十九年であった――バビロンの王に仕える侍衛の長ネブザラダンはエルサレムに、はいって、

13 主の宮と王の宮殿を焼き、エルサレムのすべてのを焼いた。彼は大きなをみな焼きはらった。

14 また侍衛の長と共にいたカルデヤびとの勢は、エルサレムの周囲の城壁をみな取りこわした。

15 そして侍衛の長ネブザラダンは民のうちの最も貧しい者若干、そのほかのうちに残った者、およびバビロンの王にくだった人、その他工匠たちを捕え移した。

16 しかし侍衛の長ネブザラダンはその地の最も貧しい者若干を残して、ぶどうを作る者とし、農夫とした。

17 カルデヤびとはまた主の宮の青銅のと、洗盤の台と、青銅のを砕いて、その青銅をことごとくバビロンへ運び、

18 また、つぼと、十能と、心切りばさみと、鉢と、香を盛る皿および宮の勤めに用いる青銅の器をことごとく取って行った。

19 また彼らは小鉢と、心取り皿と、鉢と、つぼと、燭台と、香を盛る皿と、灌祭の鉢を取った。金で作った物は金として、で作った物はとして、侍衛の長は運び去った。

20 ソロモン王が主の宮に造った本のと、一つのと、の十の青銅の牛と、台など、このすべての物の青銅の重さは量ることもできなかった。

21 この一本の高さは十八キュビト、周囲は十二キュビトで、指本の厚さがあり、中は、うつろであった。

22 その上に青銅の頭があり、頭の高さは五キュビト、頭の周囲は網細工と、ざくろとで飾り、これらもみな青銅であった。他のもそのざくろも、これと同じであった。

23 その四方に九十六個のざくろがあり、周囲の網細工の上にあるざくろの数は個であった。

24 侍衛の長は祭司長セラヤと次席の祭司ゼパニヤと人の門を守る者を捕え、

25 また兵士をつかさどるひとりの役人と、にいた王の側近の者七人と、その地の民を募る勢の長の書記官と、の中にいた六十人の者をから捕え去った。

26 侍衛の長ネブザラダンは、これらの人を捕えて、リブラにいるバビロンの王のもとに連れて行った。

27 バビロンの王は、ハマテの地のリブラで彼らを撃ち殺した。こうして、ユダは自分の地から捕え移された。

28 ネブカデレザルが捕え移した民の数は次のとおりである。第七年にはユダヤ人二十人。

29 またネブカデレザルはその第十八年にエルサレムから八三十二人を捕え移した。

30 ネブカデレザルの二十年に侍衛の長ネブザラダンは、ユダヤ人七四十五人を捕え移した。この総数は人であった。

31 ユダの王エホヤキンが捕え移されて後三十七年の十二二十五日に、バビロンの王エビルメロダクはその即位の年に、ユダの王エホヤキンを獄屋から出し、そのこうべを挙げさせ、

32 親切に彼を慰め、その位を、バビロンで共にいる王たちの位よりも高くした。

33 こうしてエホヤキンは獄屋のを脱いだ。そして生きている間は毎日王の食卓で食事し、

34 彼の給与としては、その死ぬまで一生の間、たえず日々の必要にしたがって、バビロンの王から給与を賜わった。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 806

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806. "And He has avenged the blood of His servants shed by her hand." This symbolizes a retribution for the injuries and violence done to the souls of worshipers of the Lord.

His avenging the blood of His servants shed by her hand symbolizes a retribution for the injuries and violence done to the souls of worshipers of the Lord, because His avenging symbolizes retribution. To shed blood means, symbolically, to do violence to the Lord's Divinity and to the Word (nos. 327, 684), in this case to worshipers of the Lord, who are meant by His servants. Roman Catholics inflicted injuries and violence on their souls by transferring Divine worship of the Lord to themselves and preventing their reading of the Word.

The Lord is said to have avenged or exacted retribution for the blood of His servants as though He did this to take revenge or punish; but still He does not act to take revenge or punish, just as He does not act out of anger or wrath, even though anger and wrath are occasionally attributed to Him in the Word (see nos. 525, 635, 658, 673 above).

Anger and revenge are attributed to the Lord when evil people are separated from the good and cast into hell, as happens at the time of a last judgment. That time is therefore called wrath and a day of wrath, and a day of vengeance. Not that the Lord is angry or vengeful, but that those people are angry at the Lord and filled with vengeance against Him. The case is like that of a criminal after sentence has been passed, who is angry at the law and filled with vengeance against the judge. For the law is not angry, nor is the judge taking revenge.

[2] Vengeance is meant in this sense in the following passages:

...the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. (Isaiah 63:4)

The reference there is to the Lord and the Last Judgment.

...the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of retribution for the case of Zion. (Isaiah 34:8)

Behold, your God will come for vengeance; for the retribution of God He will come, and He will save you. (Isaiah 35:4)

...these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. (Luke 21:22)

The reference there is to the culmination of the age, when the Last Judgment takes place.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovih is upon Me... to proclaim the day Jehovah's good pleasure, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn. (Isaiah 61:1-2)

Shall My soul not take vengeance... for this? (Jeremiah 5:9, 29)

I will take vengeance (on Babylon), and will not allow anyone to intercede. (Isaiah 47:3)

...His thought is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of Jehovah, vengeance for His temple. (Jeremiah 51:11, cf. 51:36)

Sing, O nations, His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and visit vengeance on His adversaries; He will purge His land, His people. (Deuteronomy 32:43)

  
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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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Apocalypse Revealed # 525

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525. "And Your wrath has come, and the time to judge the dead." This symbolizes the destruction of and the last judgment on those people who were without any spiritual life.

Your wrath symbolizes a last judgment (no. 340), thus their destruction. This is the symbolic meaning of the Lord's wrath because it appears to people as though the Lord casts people into hell out of anger, when in fact an evil person casts himself into hell. Indeed, the case is similar to that of an evildoer who blames his punishment on the law, or on the fire that burns him if he sticks his hand into it, or on the sword held out in the hand of someone protecting himself if he is pierced through when he rushes upon the blade. Such is the case with everyone who sets himself against the Lord and out of anger rushes upon those whom the Lord protects.

The dead who were to be judged mean, in a universal sense, people who have died and departed from the world, but in a strict sense, they mean people who are without any spiritual life. It is the latter who are spoken of in terms of judgment (John 3:18; 5:24, 29). That is because people who possess spiritual life are called the living. Spiritual life is present only in people who turn to the Lord and at the same time refrain from evils as sins.

[2] People who are without any spiritual life are those meant in the following passages:

They joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. (Psalms 106:28)

...the enemy persecutes my soul...; he has made me dwell in darkness, like the world's dead. (Psalms 143:3)

To hear the groaning of the prisoner, (and) to release those appointed to die... (Psalms 102:20)

I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, when you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die... (Revelation 3:1-2)

These are the people meant by the dead because their death means spiritual death. Consequently, the slain also mean people who have died that same death (nos. 321, 325, and elsewhere).

Those who have died and departed from the world are meant by the dead in the following places:

The dead were judged according to... the things which were written in the books. (Revelation 20:12)

The rest of the dead did not live again... (Revelation 20:5)

That is because the first death there means the natural death that is a passing on from the world, while the second death means spiritual death, which is damnation.

  
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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.