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Ezechiel 39

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1 Tu autem, fili hominis, vaticinare adversum Gog, et dices : Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Ecce ego super te, Gog, principem capitis Mosoch et Thubal.

2 Et circumagam te, et educam te, et ascendere te faciam de lateribus aquilonis, et adducam te super montes Israël.

3 Et percutiam arcum tuum in manu sinistra tua, et sagittas tuas de manu dextera tua dejiciam.

4 Super montes Israël cades tu, et omnia agmina tua, et populi tui qui sunt tecum : feris, avibus, omnique volatili et bestiis terræ dedi te ad devorandum.

5 Super faciem agri cades, quia ego locutus sum, ait Dominus Deus.

6 Et immittam ignem in Magog, et in his qui habitant in insulis confidenter : et scient quia ego Dominus.

7 Et nomen sanctum meum notum faciam in medio populi mei Israël, et non polluam nomen sanctum meum amplius : et scient gentes quia ego Dominus, Sanctus Israël.

8 Ecce venit, et factum est, ait Dominus Deus : hæc est dies de qua locutus sum.

9 Et egredientur habitatores de civitatibus Israël, et succendent et comburent arma, clypeum et hastas, arcum et sagittas, et baculos manuum et contos : et succendent ea igni septem annis.

10 Et non portabunt ligna de regionibus, neque succident de saltibus, quoniam arma succendent igni, et deprædabuntur eos quibus prædæ fuerant, et diripient vastatores suos, ait Dominus Deus.

11 Et erit in die illa : dabo Gog locum nominatum sepulchrum in Israël, vallem viatorum ad orientem maris, quæ obstupescere faciet prætereuntes : et sepelient ibi Gog, et omnem multitudinem ejus, et vocabitur vallis multitudinis Gog.

12 Et sepelient eos domus Israël, ut mundent terram septem mensibus.

13 Sepeliet autem eum omnis populus terræ : et erit eis nominata dies in qua glorificatus sum, ait Dominus Deus.

14 Et viros jugiter constituent lustrantes terram, qui sepeliant et requirant eos qui remanserant super faciem terræ, ut emundent eam : post menses autem septem quærere incipient.

15 Et circuibunt peragrantes terram : cumque viderint os hominis, statuent juxta illud titulum, donec sepeliant illud pollinctores in valle multitudinis Gog.

16 Nomen autem civitatis Amona, et mundabunt terram.

17 Tu ergo, fili hominis, hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Dic omni volucri, et universis avibus, cunctisque bestiis agri : Convenite, properate, concurrite undique ad victimam meam, quam ego immolo vobis, victimam grandem super montes Israël, ut comedatis carnem, et bibatis sanguinem.

18 Carnes fortium comedetis, et sanguinem principum terræ bibetis, arietum, et agnorum, et hircorum, taurorumque et altilium, et pinguium omnium.

19 Et comedetis adipem in saturitatem, et bibetis sanguinem in ebrietatem, de victima quam ego immolabo vobis :

20 et saturabimini super mensam meam de equo, et equite forti, et de universis viris bellatoribus, ait Dominus Deus.

21 Et ponam gloriam meam in gentibus : et videbunt omnes gentes judicium meum quod fecerim, et manum meam quam posuerim super eos.

22 Et scient domus Israël quia ego Dominus Deus eorum, a die illa et deinceps.

23 Et scient gentes quoniam in iniquitate sua capta sit domus Israël, eo quod dereliquerint me, et absconderim faciem meam ab eos, et tradiderim eos in manus hostium, et ceciderint in gladio universi.

24 Juxta immunditiam eorum et scelus feci eis, et abscondi faciem meam ab illis.

25 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Nunc reducam captivitatem Jacob, et miserebor omnis domus Israël, et assumam zelum pro nomine sancto meo.

26 Et portabunt confusionem suam, et omnem prævaricationem qua prævaricati sunt in me, cum habitaverint in terra sua confidenter, neminem formidantes :

27 et reduxero eos de populis, et congregavero de terris inimicorum suorum, et sanctificatus fuero in eis, in oculis gentium plurimarum.

28 Et scient quia ego Dominus Deus eorum, eo quod transtulerim eos in nationes, et congregaverim eos super terram suam, et non dereliquerim quemquam ex eis ibi.

29 Et non abscondam ultra faciem meam ab eis, eo quod effuderim spiritum meum super omnem domum Israël, ait Dominus Deus.

   

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988. 'Upon every bird of the air' 1 means over falsities that go with reasoning. This is clear from the meaning of 'a bird'. In the Word birds mean intellectual concepts - gentle, useful, and beautiful ones mean intellectual concepts that are true, but savage, useless, and ugly ones intellectual concepts that are false, that is, falsities that go with reasoning. That they mean intellectual concepts, see 40, 776, 870. From this it is also evident that birds mean reasonings and the falsities that go with them. To leave no one in any doubt, the places quoted below, in addition to what is mentioned in 866 concerning the raven, will serve to confirm the point. In Jeremiah,

I will visit them with four kinds [of destroyers], with the sword to slay, with dogs to tear, with the birds of the air, 1 and with the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. Jeremiah 15:3.

In Ezekiel,

Upon its ruin will dwell every bird of the air, 1 and on its branches will be every wild animal of the field. Ezekiel 37:13.

In Daniel,

At length upon the bird of abominations will come desolation. Daniel 9:27.

In John,

Babylon, a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. Revelation 18:1.

And the Prophets declare many times that dead bodies would be given as food to the birds of the air 1 and to the beasts of the earth, Jeremiah 7:33; 19:7; 34:20; Ezekiel 29:5; 39:4; Psalms 79:2; Isaiah 18:6. This meant that they would be destroyed by falsities, which are 'the birds of the air' 2 , and by evils or evil desires, which are 'the beasts of the earth'.

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1. literally, bird of heaven (or the sky)

2. literally, birds of heaven (or the sky)

  
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