Bible

 

Habakuk 3

Studie

   

1 Oratio Habacuc prophetæ, pro ignorantiis.

2 Domine, audivi auditionem tuam, et timui. Domine, opus tuum, in medio annorum vivifica illud ; in medio annorum notum facies : cum iratus fueris, misericordiæ recordaberis.

3 Deus ab austro veniet, et Sanctus de monte Pharan : operuit cælos gloria ejus, et laudis ejus plena est terra.

4 Splendor ejus ut lux erit, cornua in manibus ejus : ibi abscondita est fortitudo ejus.

5 Ante faciem ejus ibit mors, et egredietur diabolus Ante pedes ejus.

6 Stetit, et mensus est terram ; aspexit, et dissolvit gentes, et contriti sunt montes sæculi : incurvati sunt colles mundi ab itineribus æterntatis ejus.

7 Pro iniquitate vidi tentoria Æthiopiæ ; turbabuntur pelles terræ Madian.

8 Numquid in fluminibus iratus es, Domine ? aut in fluminibus furor tuus ? vel in mari indignatio tua ? Qui ascendes super equos tuos, et quadrigæ tuæ salvatio.

9 Suscitans suscitabis arcum tuum, juramenta tribubus quæ locutus es ; fluvios scindes terræ.

10 Viderunt te, et doluerunt montes ; gurges aquarum transiit : dedit abyssus vocem suam ; altitudo manus suas levavit.

11 Sol et luna steterunt in habitaculo suo : in luce sagittarum tuarum ibunt, in splendore fulgurantis hastæ tuæ.

12 In fremitu conculcabis terram ; in furore obstupefacies gentes.

13 Egressus es in salutem populi tui, in salutem cum christo tuo : percussisti caput de domo impii, denudasti fundamentum ejus usque ad collum.

14 Maledixisti sceptris ejus, capiti bellatorum ejus, venientibus ut turbo ad dispergendum me : exsultatio eorum, sicut ejus qui devorat pauperem in abscondito.

15 Viam fecisti in mari equis tuis, in luto aquarum multarum.

16 Audivi, et conturbatus est venter meus ; a voce contremuerunt labia mea. Ingrediatur putredo in ossibus meis, et subter me scateat : ut requiescam in die tribulationis, ut ascendam ad populum accinctum nostrum.

17 Ficus enim non florebit, et non erit germen in vineis ; mentietur opus olivæ, et arva non afferent cibum : abscindetur de ovili pecus, et non erit armentum in præsepibus.

18 Ego autem in Domino gaudebo ; et exsultabo in Deo Jesu meo.

19 Deus Dominus fortitudo mea, et ponet pedes meos quasi cervorum : et super excelsa mea deducet me victor in psalmis canentem.

   

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Apocalypse Revealed # 270

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 962  
  

270. Having seven horns. This symbolizes the Lord's omnipotence.

The Word often mentions horns, and a horn everywhere symbolizes power. Consequently, when a horn is mentioned in connection with the Lord, it symbolizes omnipotence. Seven horns are specified, because seven symbolizes all (no. 10), thus all power or omnipotence.

That a horn symbolizes power, and when mentioned in connection with the Lord, omnipotence, can be seen from the following passages:

You who rejoice over nothing, who say, "Have we not taken horns for ourselves by our own strength?" (Amos 6:13)

I said... to the wicked, "Do not lift up the horn. Do not lift up your horn on high...." All the horns of the wicked I will cut off; the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. (Psalms 75:4-5, 10)

Jehovah... has exalted the horn of your adversaries. (Lamentations 2:17)

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken... (Jeremiah 48:25)

...you have pushed with side and shoulder, and struck all the weak sheep with your horns... (Ezekiel 34:21)

(Jehovah) has exalted the horn of His people... (Psalms 148:14)

(Jehovah God of hosts,) the glory of their strength..., He has exalted our horn. (Psalms 89:17)

The brightness (of Jehovah God) will be like the light; He will have horns 1 coming from His hand, and the hiding of His power there. (Habakkuk 3:4)

...My arm shall strengthen (David)..., and in My name his horn shall be exalted. (Psalms 89:21, 24)

...Jehovah, my strength..., my rock...(my) horn... (Psalms 18:1-2, cf. 2 Samuel 22:3)

Arise..., O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron..., that you may break in pieces many peoples. (Micah 4:13)

(The Lord) has destroyed in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah..., (and) He has cut off... every horn of Israel. (Lamentations 2:2-3)

Powers are also symbolized by the horns of the dragon in Revelation 12:3; by the horns of the beast rising up out of the sea in Revelation 13:1; by the horns of the scarlet beast upon which the woman sat in Revelation 17:3, 7, 12; by the horns of the ram and the goat in Daniel 8:3-12, 20-22. The last symbolized the power of Divine truth in the church. And conversely, that that power would perish, by the horns of the altars in Bethel, in Amos:

...I will visit punishment on the transgressions of Israel, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel, so that the horns of the altar are cut off and fall to the ground. (Amos 3:14)

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Probably descriptive of rays of light.

  
/ 962  
  

Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.