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エレミヤ書 33

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1 エレミヤがなお監視の庭に閉じ込められている時、主の言葉はふたたび彼に臨んだ、

2 「地を造られた、それを造って堅く立たせられた、その名をと名のっておられる者がこう仰せられる、

3 わたしに呼び求めよ、そうすれば、わたしはあなたに答える。そしてあなたの知らない大きな隠されている事を、あなたに示す。

4 イスラエルのは塁と、つるぎとを防ぐために破壊されたこのと、ユダの王のについてこう言われる、

5 カルデヤびとは来て戦い、わたしが怒りと憤りをもって殺す人々の死体を、それに満たす。わたしは人々のもろもろの悪のために、このにわたしのをおおい隠した

6 見よ、わたしは健康と、いやしとを、ここにもたらして人々をいやし、豊かな繁栄と安全とを彼らに示す。

7 わたしはユダイスラエルを再び栄えさせ、彼らを建てて、もとのようにする。

8 わたしは彼らがわたしに向かって犯したのすべてのとがを清め、彼らがわたしに向かって犯したと反逆のすべてのとがをゆるす。

9 この町は地のもろもろの民の前に、わたしのために喜びの名となり、誉となり、栄えとなる。彼らはわたしがわたしの民に施すもろもろの恵みのことを聞く。そして、わたしがこの町に施すもろもろの恵みと、もろもろの繁栄のために恐れて身をふるわす。

10 はこう言われる、あなたがたが、『それは荒れて、人もおらずもいない』というこの所、すなわち、荒れて、人もおらず住む者もなく、もいないユダエルサレムのちまたに、

11 再び喜びの声、楽しみの声、花婿の声、花嫁の声、および『万に感謝せよ、は恵みふかく、そのいつくしみは、いつまでも絶えることがない』といって、感謝の供え物を主の宮に携えてくる者の声が聞える。それは、わたしがこの地を再び栄えさせて初めのようにするからであるとは言われる。

12 はこう言われる、荒れて、人もおらずもいないこの所と、そのすべての々に再びその群れを伏させる牧者のすまいがあるようになる。

13 地の々と、平地の々と、ネゲブの々と、ベニヤミンの地、エルサレムの周囲と、ユダ々で、群れは再びそれを数える者のを通りすぎるとは言われる。

14 は言われる、見よ、わたしがイスラエルのユダに約束したことをなし遂げる来る

15 その、その時なるならば、わたしはダビデのため一つの正しい枝を生じさせよう。彼は公平と正義を地行う。

16 そのユダは救を得、エルサレムは安らかにおる。その名は『はわれわれの正義』ととなえられる。

17 はこう仰せられる、イスラエルのの位に座する人がダビデの子孫のうちに欠けることはない。

18 またわたしのに燔祭をささげ、素祭を焼き、つねに犠牲をささげる人が、レビびとである祭司のうちに絶えることはない」。

19 主の言葉エレミヤに臨んだ、

20 はこう仰せられる、もしあなたがたが、昼と結んだわたしの契約を破り、またと結んだわたしの契約を破り、昼とが定められた時に来ないようにすることができるならば、

21 しもべダビデとわたしが結んだ契約もまた破れ、彼はその位に座して王となるを与えられない。またわたしがわたしに仕えるレビびとである祭司に立てた契約も破れる。

22 天の星は数えることができず、浜のは量ることができない。そのようにわたしは、しもべダビデの子孫と、わたしに仕えるレビびとである祭司の数を増そう」。

23 主の言葉エレミヤに臨んだ、

24 「あなたはこの民が、『は自ら選んだつのやからを捨てた』といっているのを聞かないか。彼らはこのようにわたしの民を侮って、これをとみなさないのである。

25 はこう言われる、もしわたしが昼ととに契約を立てず、また天地のおきてを定めなかったのであれば、

26 わたしは、ヤコブとわたしのしもべダビデとの子孫を捨てて、再び彼の子孫のうちからアブラハム、イサク、ヤコブの子孫を治める者を選ばない。わたしは彼らを再び栄えさせ、彼らにあわれみをたれよう」。

   

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9031. 'And thoroughly cure him' means restoration, that is to say, through explanation; for if statements in the literal sense of the Word are looked at on a more internal level, all are in agreement. The situation here is as it is with statements in the Word which speak of the sun's rising or setting, though in reality it neither rises nor sets. However, it presents the appearance of doing so to inhabitants on earth, because of the earth's daily rotation on its axis. This natural truth lies hidden within the former, which accords with the appearance presented to the eyes. If the truth had been stated in the Word contrary to that appearance, the common people would not have understood it; and what the common people do not understand they do not believe either. It is similar with the Sun of heaven, which is the Lord; this too is said to rise. But it is said to rise in the heart when a person is being regenerated, and also when he is governed by the good of love and faith; and it is said to set when a person is immersed in evil and in falsity arising from it. But in reality the Lord is always where the sun is rising, for which reason also He is called the Sunrise or the East, and never where it is setting. Nor does He turn away from anyone; rather a person turns away from Him, which is the reason for the appearance that the Lord turns His face away, and even brings about what is ill. Therefore also such a thing is said of Him in the Word; and that too is a truth, though it is an apparent truth, and so does not conflict with the former. From all this one may now see what 'thoroughly curing' means in the internal sense, namely the restoration of spiritual truth, which is brought about by correct explanation of factual truth, or truth belonging to the literal sense of the Word.

[2] The situation is just the same with every truth that belongs to the literal sense. In natural light, which a person who perceives things on a sensory level possesses, that truth is seen as it is actually stated in the Word. For the literal sense is natural and is for those who perceive things on a sensory level. But when the same truth is presented in the light of heaven it is seen according to the internal sense; for this sense is spiritual and is for those whose perception lies on a heavenly level, because the things that belong to natural light vanish in the light of heaven. Natural light is like gloom or like a cloud, but heavenly light is like the glory and brightness after the cloud has been removed. Therefore also the literal sense of the Word is called 'a cloud' and the internal sense 'the glory', see Preface to Genesis 18, and 4391, 5922, 6343, 8106, 8443, 8781.

[3] The reason why 'thoroughly curing' means restoring in the spiritual sense is that 'sickness' and 'illness' mean poor health of the internal man. The internal man is in poor health when its life, which is spiritual life, is sick, that is, when the person turns aside from truth to falsity and from good to evil. When this happens that life is sick; and when the person turns away completely from truth and good that life dies. But its death is called spiritual death, which is damnation. This being the situation with the life of the internal man, such things as constitute sicknesses and death in the natural world refer, when spoken of in the Word, to sicknesses of spiritual life and to the death of that life. So too with curings or healings from sickness, as in Isaiah,

Jehovah strikes Egypt striking and curing, as a consequence of which they turn themselves towards Jehovah; and He will be entreated by them, and He will cure them. Isaiah 19:22.

In the same prophet,

But He was pierced because of our transgressions, bruised because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are cured. 1 Isaiah 53:5.

These words refer to the Lord.

[4] In Jeremiah,

Return, O perverse children, I will cure you of backsliding. 2 Jeremiah 3:22.

In the same prophet,

Behold, I will bring curing and remedy to it; 3 and I will cure them and reveal to them the abundance of peace, and truth. Jeremiah 33:6.

In the same prophet,

Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied medicaments; there is no curing for you. Jeremiah 46:11.

And in Ezekiel,

Beside the river there is rising up upon its bank, on this side and on that, [every] tree for food, whose leaf does not fall, and whose fruit does not fail it is reborn monthly, for its waters flow out from the sanctuary, wherefore its fruit is for food, and its leaf for medicaments. Ezekiel 47:12.

'Fruit for food' stands for the good of love and charity, which serves to nourish spiritual life, and 'leaf for medicaments' for the truths of faith which serve to refresh and restore that life. For the meaning of 'fruit' as the good of love and charity, see 3146, 7690; and for the meaning of 'leaf' as the truth of faith, 885.

[5] Since sicknesses and illnesses, also curings and medicaments, mentioned in the Word do not refer to natural life but to another kind of life distinct and separate from natural life, it is evident to anyone who ponders on the matter for a while that a person possesses another kind of life, which belongs to his internal man. Those who think materialistically of the life a person has do not believe that he has any life other than that of the body which is the life of the external or natural man. They wonder what the life of the internal man may be, indeed what the internal man may be. If they are told that this life is the life of faith and charity, and that the internal man is the person's spirit which lives after death, and which in essence is the real person, they wonder all the more. And those of them who live solely for the body and not for the soul, thus who are altogether natural people, understand nothing of what they are told about the life of faith and charity or about the internal man. For when they think, they see things altogether in natural light and not at all in spiritual light, on account of which also after death their thought remains materialistic. They live then 'in the shadow of death', that is, steeped in falsities arising from evil; they are in utter darkness and are blind to the light of heaven.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, and in His wound curing has been given to us

2. literally, cure your turnings away

3. literally, I will cause curing and remedy to go up to it

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