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Ezekiel 28

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1 And the word of Jehovah was unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, say unto the monarch of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Jehovih*; Because thy heart is·​·haughty, and thou hast said, I am god, I sit in the dwelling of god, in the heart of the seas; but thou art man, and not god, but thou givest thy heart as the heart of god;

3 behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; all that is blocked·​·off they will not obscure from thee.

4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast made thee belongings, and hast made gold and silver in thy treasures.

5 By the multitude of thy wisdom, by thy merchandise hast thou multiplied thy belongings, and thy heart is·​·haughty with thy belongings.

6 Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovih: Because thou hast put thy heart as the heart of God,

7 behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall unsheathe their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall·​·profane thy shining·​·forth.

8 They shall bring· thee ·down to the ditch, and thou shalt·​·die the deaths of the slain in the heart of the seas.

9 Wilt thou saying say before him that kills thee, I am god? but thou art man, and not god, in the hand of him that profanes thee.

10 Thou shalt·​·die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Jehovih.

11 And the word of Jehovah was unto me, saying,

12 Son of man, lift up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord Jehovih; Thou sealest the dimension, full of wisdom, and complete in beauty.

13 Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering*, the ruby, topaz, and the diamond, the tarshish*, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the chrysoprase, and the garnet, and gold; the work of thy timbrels and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

14 Thou art the anointed sheltering cherub; and I have given thee so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, until perversity was·​·found in thee.

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have·​·filled thy midst with violence, and thou hast sinned; and I will remove thee as profane from the mountain of God: and I will make· thee ·perish, O sheltering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

17 Thy heart was·​·haughty in thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom on·​·account·​·of thy shining·​·forth; I will cast thee on the land, I will put thee before kings, that they may see thee.

18 Thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the perversity of thy merchandise; and I will bring·​·forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will turn thee to ashes upon the earth before the eyes of all them that see thee.

19 All they that know thee among the peoples shall be·​·astonished over thee; vexations thou shalt become, and thou shalt be nothing even·​·to eternity.

20 And the word of Jehovah was unto me, saying,

21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

22 and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovih: Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall have made judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

23 And I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in the midst of her by the sword upon her all around; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

24 And there shall not be any·​·more a pricking thorn for the house of Israel, nor any painful thorn from all that are all around them, having·​·contempt for them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovih.

25 Thus says the Lord Jehovih; When I shall have brought·​·together the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them before the eyes of the nations, then shall they dwell upon their ground that I have given to My servant Jacob.

26 And they shall dwell securely on it, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; and they shall dwell securely, when I have made judgments upon all those having·​·contempt for them all around them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah their God.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 1201

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1201. That 'Sidon' means the exterior cognitions of spiritual things is clear from the fact that he is called 'Canaan's firstborn', for in the internal sense the firstborn of every Church is faith, see 352, 367. Here however, where faith does not exist because internal things are missing they are no more than exterior cognitions of spiritual things taking the place of faith, thus cognitions such as those with the Jews which are cognitions not only of the ceremonies of external worship but also of many other things belonging to that worship, such as matters of doctrine. That 'Sidon' has this meaning is also evident from the fact that Tyre and Sidon were the furthest limits of Philistia, and were in fact by the sea. 'Tyre' therefore meant interior cognitions, and 'Sidon' those which were exterior, and yet cognitions of spiritual things. This is also clear from the Word: in Jeremiah,

On the day that is coming to lay waste all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains, for Jehovah is laying waste the Philistines, the remnants of the island of Caphtor. Jeremiah 47:4.

Here 'the Philistines' stands for knowledge of the cognitions of faith and charity, 'Tyre' for interior cognitions, and 'Sidon' for cognitions of spiritual things.

[2] In Joel,

What are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the borders of Philistia? You have taken My silver and gold, and My good and desirable treasures you have carried into your temples. Joel 3:4-5.

Here 'Tyre' and 'Sidon' clearly stand for cognitions and are called 'the borders of Philistia', for 'gold and silver' and 'good and desirable treasures' are cognitions. In Ezekiel,

The princes of the north, all of them, and every Sidonian, who have gone down with the slain 1 into the pit. He was made to lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those slain' by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude. Ezekiel 32:30, 32.

Here 'the Sidonian' stands for exterior cognitions, which when devoid of things that are internal are nothing else than facts, and it is for this reason that he is mentioned along with Pharaoh, or Egypt, who means facts. In Zechariah,

Hamath also will border on it, Tyre and Sidon, for it is exceedingly wise. Zechariah 9:2.

This refers to Damascus. 'Tyre and Sidon' stands for cognitions.

[3] In Ezekiel,

The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your wise men, O Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots. Ezekiel 27:8.

Here 'Tyre' stands for interior cognitions, and therefore her wise men are called 'pilots', while 'Sidon' stands for exterior cognitions and her inhabitants are therefore called 'rowers', for such is the relationship of interior cognitions to exterior. In Isaiah,

The inhabitants of the island are silent, O merchant of Sidon passing over the sea; they have replenished you. But on the great waters the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the river, was her revenue, and was the merchandise of nations. Blush, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea saying, I have not gone into labour, nor have I given birth, nor reared young men, nor brought up virgins. Isaiah 23:2-5.

Here 'Sidon' stands for exterior cognitions which, because they have nothing internal within them are called 'the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the river, her revenue, the merchandise of the nations', and also 'the sea, the stronghold of the sea', and 'one that does not go into labour and give birth'. What these expressions may mean could never be discerned in the literal sense, but their meaning is perfectly plain in the internal sense, as with everything else in the Prophets. Since 'Sidon' means exterior cognitions it is also referred to as the region surrounding Israel, which is the spiritual Church, Ezekiel 28:24, 26, for exterior cognitions are like a surrounding region.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, pierced

  
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