1298. Quod ‘fuit iis later pro lapide’ significet quod falsum iis esset pro vero, constat a significatione ‘lateris’, de qua mox supra, quod sit falsum; tum ex significatione ‘lapidis’ quod sit in lato sensu verum, de quo prius n. 643. Quod ‘lapides’ significaverint verum, causa fuit quod termini antiquissimorum designarentur per lapides et quod erigerent lapides in testes quod ita, seu quod verum, ut constat ex lapide quem posuit Jacobus in statuam, Gen. 28:22; 35:14, et ex statua lapidum inter Labanem et Jacobum, Gen. 31:46, 47, 52, et ex altari quod exstruxerunt filii Reubenis, Gadis et Menassis juxta Jordanem in testem, Jos. 22:10, 28, 34. Inde in Verbo per ‘lapides’ significantur vera, usque adeo ut non solum per lapides altaris, sed etiam per lapides pretiosos super humeris ephodi Aharonis et super pectorali judicii, significata sint sancta vera quae sunt amoris:

[2] quod altare attinet, cum cultus inceptus sacrificiorum super altaribus, tunc ‘altare’ significabat cultum repraesentativum Domini in communi; ipsi autem ‘lapides’ sancta vera illius cultus;

Quare mandatum ut exstrueretur altare ex lapidibus integris, non caesis, et prohibitum ne ferrum moveretur super illis, Deut. 27:5-7; Jos. 8:31;

ex causa quod ‘lapides caesi et super quos ferrum motum’ significarent artificialia, et sic fictitia cultus, hoc est, quae ex proprio, seu ex figmento cogitationis et cordis hominis, quod erat profanare cultum, ut manifeste dicitur Exod. 20:25. Ex eadem causa nec fuit ferrum motum super lapides templi, 1 Reg. 6:7.

[3] Quod lapides pretiosi super humeris ephodi Aharonis et in pectorali judicii similiter significaverint sancta vera, prius n. 114 ostensum est; quod etiam constat apud Esaiam,

Ecce Ego accubare faciam in carbunculo, lapides tuos, et fundabo in sapphiris, et ponam pyropum soles tuos (fenestras), et portas tuas in lapides gemmae, et omnem finem tuum in lapides desiderii; et omnes filii tui docti Jehovae, et multa pax filiorum tuorum, ¹ 54:11, 12, 13; lapides hic nominati pro sanctis veris, quare dicitur, quod ‘omnes filii tui docti Jehovae’: inde quoque apud Johannem dicitur, Quod fundamenta muri urbis sanctae Hierosolymae essent omni lapide pretioso exornata, quae nominantur, Apoc. 21:19, 20;

‘sancta Hierosolyma’ pro regno Domini in caelis et in terris, cujus ‘fundamenta’ sunt sancta vera. Similiter per tabulas lapidum quibus inscripta fuerunt praecepta Legis seu decem verba, significata sunt sancta vera, quare ex lapide fuerunt, seu fundus illorum fuit lapis, de quibus, Exod. 24:12; 31:18; 34:1; Deut. 5:19 [KJV 5:22]; 10:1, ipsa enim praecepta non sunt nisi vera fidei.

[4] Quia nunc per ‘lapides’ antiquitus significata sunt vera, et dein cum cultus inceptus super statuis, altaribus et in templo, per ‘statuas, altaria, et templum’ significata sunt sancta vera, ideo Dominus quoque dictus ‘Lapis’;

apud Mosen,

Fortis Jacobi, inde Pastor, Lapis Israelis, Gen. 49:24:

apud Esaiam,

Dixit Dominus Jehovih, Ego fundans in Zione Lapidem, Lapidem probationis anguli, pretii, fundamenti fundati, 28:16:

apud Davidem,

Lapis quem reprobarunt architecti, factus est in caput angeli, Ps. 118:22:

similiter apud Danielem,

Per lapidem e petra excisum, qui contrivit statuam Nebuchadnezzaris, 2:34, 35, 45.

[5] Quod ‘lapides’ significent vera, etiam constat apud Esaiam,

Per hoc expiabitur iniquitas Jacobi, et hic erit omnis fructus, removere peccatum suum; cum Posuerit opes lapides altaris sicut lapides calcis dispersos, 27:9;

‘lapides altaris’ pro veris in cultu quae dissipata:

apud eundem,

Complanate viam populi, sternite, sternite semitam, elapidate [e] lapide, 62:10;

‘via et lapis’ pro veris:

apud Jeremiam,

Ego contra te, mons perdens, ... devolvam te de petris et dabo te in montem combustionis; et non sument de te lapidem angulo, aut lapidem fundamentis, 51:25, 26;

ubi de Babele; ‘mons combustionis’ est amor sui; quod ‘non lapis inde’ est quod non verum.

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3698. 'He dreamed' means foresight. This is clear from the meaning of 'dreaming' in the internal sense as foretelling things to come, for prophetical dreams, which were Divine, were foretellings of things to come, as becomes clear from the dreams described in the Word, 1975, 1976. Because 'dreams' and 'dreaming' in the internal sense mean things to come, foresight is meant in the highest sense in which the subject is the Lord, for the Lord's Divine foresight is the source of foretellings of things to come. The fact that the foretellings of events which are out of the ordinary and cannot therefore be foreseen have no other origin becomes clear from the Word, as from the following words in Moses,

When a prophet has spoken in the name of Jehovah but that event has not happened or taken place it was not Jehovah who spoke. The prophet spoke it presumptuously. Deuteronomy 18:22.

[2] And even the foretellings of events which did take place may have been made by evil people and worshippers of another god, as stated in the same book,

If a prophet or the dreamer of a dream arises in the midst of you, and gives you a sign or else a wonder, and the sign or wonder he has told you comes to pass, and he says, Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us serve them; you shall not obey the words of that prophet or the dreamer of that dream; for Jehovah your God is testing you. Deuteronomy 13:1-3.

From these words it is evident that the actual foretelling originated in the Divine but the incitement to worship other gods in the proprium of the prophet, who was allowed to make such a suggestion to people so that they could be tested, as is stated. This among other reasons is also why on many occasions in former times people who worshipped the baals and other gods even prophesied, saw visions, and dreamed dreams, and also why what they uttered actually happened, so that they frequently led others astray. These people are referred to in Jeremiah 23. And besides these there were others called diviners, soothsayers, sorcerers, familiar spirits, among those who applied themselves to natural magic, from which nothing at all Divine could be foretold, only what was contrary to the Divine, that is, to the Lord, and contrary to the good of love and to the truth of faith in Him. This is magic, no matter what it looks like in outward appearance.