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Et respondens rex ait Chaldæis : Sermo recessit a me : nisi indicaveritis mihi somnium, et conjecturam ejus, peribitis vos, et domus vestræ publicabuntur.
Daniel 2:5
Arcana Coelestia # 10050
10050. ‘Et crura ejus’: quod significet purificationem exteriorum quae naturalis hominis, constat ex significatione 'lavare crura quod sit purificatio naturalis hominis; quod ‘lavare’ sit purificare 1 , videatur mox supra n. 10049; et ex significatione ‘crurum’ quod sint exteriora quae naturalis hominis; quod ‘crura’ significent illa 2 , est quia simul intelliguntur pedes, nam crura bestiarum sunt quattuor, et cohaerent pedibus, et ‘pedes’ ex correspondentia significant naturale seu 3 externum hominis, videatur n. 2162, 3147, 4 3761, 4938-4952.
[2] Simile per ‘crura’ significatur apud Amos, Sicut eripuit pastor ex ore leonis duo crura, aut particulam auris, sic eripientur filii Israelis habitantes in Samaria, in angulo lecti, et in extremitate spondae, 3:12;
per ‘leonem’ hic significantur qui vastant Ecclesiam, per ‘crura’ externum ejus, quod etiam est naturalis hominis, per ‘ 5 particulam auris’ apperceptivum ejus, per ‘habitantes in Samaria’ illi qui in cultu externo sunt; ‘angulus lecti et extremitas spondae’ est infimum naturale, quod est sensuale externum, et ejus verum et bonum.
[3] Per ‘crura’, ubi agitur de statua Nebuchadnezaris apud Danielem,
quod caput ejus esset ex auro puro, pectus et bracchia ex argento, venter et latus ex aere, crura ex ferro, ac pedes partim ex ferro et partim ex argilla, 2:32, 33, significatur verum fidei in externo seu naturali homine, quod etiam est ‘ferrum’, videatur n. 10030; quod ‘crura’ hic distinguantur a pedibus, est causa quia crura se aliter habent apud hominem quam apud bestias.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. purificatio
2. quod per crura significetur naturale is deleted, but nothing has been inserted in its place.
3. quod
4. The editors of the third Latin edition made a minor correction here. For details, see the end of the appropriate volume of that edition.
5. The editors of the third Latin edition made a minor correction here. For details, see the end of the appropriate volume of that edition.
Psalms 73
1
Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
2
But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.
3
For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4
For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.
5
They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
7
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
8
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
9
They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
10
Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.
11
They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
12
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
13
Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,
14
For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.
15
If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
16
When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;
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Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
20
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
21
For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
22
I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
23
Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
24
You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25
Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.
26
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
27
For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
28
But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. A contemplation by Asaph.
