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Jeremiah 23

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1 ὦ-I ὁ- A--NPM ποιμήν-N3--NPM ὁ- A--NPM διασκορπίζω-V1--PAPNPM καί-C ἀποὀλλύω-V5--PAPNPM ὁ- A--APN πρόβατον-N2N-APN ὁ- A--GSF νομή-N1--GSF ἐγώ- P--GS

2 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ὅδε- D--APN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ἐπί-P ὁ- A--APM ποιμαίνω-V1--PAPAPM ὁ- A--ASM λαός-N2--ASM ἐγώ- P--GS σύ- P--NP διασκορπίζω-VAI-AAI2P ὁ- A--APN πρόβατον-N2N-APN ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C ἐκὠθέω-VA--AAD2P αὐτός- D--APN καί-C οὐ-D ἐπισκέπτομαι-VAI-AMI2P αὐτός- D--APN ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS ἐκδικέω-VF--FAI1S ἐπί-P σύ- P--AP κατά-P ὁ- A--APN πονηρός-A1A-APN ἐπιτήδευμα-N3M-APN σύ- P--GP

3 καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS εἰςδέχομαι-VF--FMI1S ὁ- A--APM κατάλοιπος-A1B-APM ὁ- A--GSM λαός-N2--GSM ἐγώ- P--GS ἀπό-P πᾶς-A1S-GSF ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF οὗ-D ἐκὠθέω-VA--AAI1S αὐτός- D--APM ἐκεῖ-D καί-C καταἵστημι-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--APM εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASF νομή-N1--ASF αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C αὐξάνω-VC--FPI3P καί-C πληθύνω-VC--FPI3P

4 καί-C ἀναἵστημι-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--DPM ποιμήν-N3--APM ὅς- --NPM ποιμαίνω-VF2-FAI3P αὐτός- D--APM καί-C οὐ-D φοβέω-VC--FPI3P ἔτι-D οὐδέ-C πτοέω-VC--FPI3P λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM

5 ἰδού-I ἡμέρα-N1A-NPF ἔρχομαι-V1--PMI3P λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM καί-C ἀναἵστημι-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--DSM *δαυίδ-N---DSM ἀνατολή-N1--ASF δίκαιος-A1A-ASF καί-C βασιλεύω-VF--FAI3S βασιλεύς-N3V-NSM καί-C συνἵημι-VF--FAI3S καί-C ποιέω-VF--FAI3S κρίμα-N3M-ASN καί-C δικαιοσύνη-N1--ASF ἐπί-P ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF

6 ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPF ἡμέρα-N1A-DPF αὐτός- D--GSM σώζω-VC--FPI3S *ἰούδας-N1T-NSM καί-C *ἰσραήλ-N---NSM κατασκηνόω-VF--FAI3S πείθω-VX--XAPNSM καί-C οὗτος- D--NSN ὁ- A--NSN ὄνομα-N3M-NSN αὐτός- D--GSM ὅς- --NSN καλέω-VF--FAI3S αὐτός- D--ASM κύριος-N2--NSM *ιωσεδεκ-N---NSM

9 ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPM προφήτης-N1M-DPM συντρίβω-VDI-API3S ὁ- A--NSF καρδία-N1A-NSF ἐγώ- P--GS ἐν-P ἐγώ- P--DS σαλεύω-VCI-API3S πᾶς-A3--NPN ὁ- A--NPN ὀστέον-N2N-NPN ἐγώ- P--GS γίγνομαι-VCI-API1S ὡς-C ἀνήρ-N3--NSM συντρίβω-VP--XMPNSM καί-C ὡς-C ἄνθρωπος-N2--NSM συνἔχω-V1--PMPNSM ἀπό-P οἶνος-N2--GSM ἀπό-P πρόσωπον-N2N-GSN κύριος-N2--GSM καί-C ἀπό-P πρόσωπον-N2N-GSN εὐπρεπεία-N1A-GSF δόξα-N1S-GSF αὐτός- D--GSM

10 ὅτι-C ἀπό-P πρόσωπον-N2N-GSN οὗτος- D--GPM πενθέω-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--NSF γῆ-N1--NSF ξηραίνω-VCI-API3P ὁ- A--NPF νομή-N1--NPF ὁ- A--GSF ἔρημος-N2--GSF καί-C γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S ὁ- A--NSM δρόμος-N2--NSM αὐτός- D--GPM πονηρός-A1A-NSM καί-C ὁ- A--NSF ἰσχύς-N3--NSF αὐτός- D--GPM οὐ-D οὕτως-D

11 ὅτι-C ἱερεύς-N3V-NSM καί-C προφήτης-N1M-NSM μολύνω-VCI-API3P καί-C ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSM οἶκος-N2--DSM ἐγώ- P--GS ὁράω-VBI-AAI1S πονηρία-N1A-APF αὐτός- D--GPM

12 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN γίγνομαι-VB--AMD3S ὁ- A--NSF ὁδός-N2--NSF αὐτός- D--GPM αὐτός- D--DPM εἰς-P ὀλίσθημα-N3M-ASN ἐν-P γνόφος-N2--DSM καί-C ὑποσκελίζω-VS--FPI3P καί-C πίπτω-VF2-FMI3P ἐν-P αὐτός- D--DSF διότι-C ἐπιἄγω-VF--FAI1S ἐπί-P αὐτός- D--APM κακός-A1--APN ἐν-P ἐνιαυτός-N2--DSM ἐπίσκεψις-N3I-GSF αὐτός- D--GPM φημί-V6--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM

13 καί-C ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPM προφήτης-N1M-DPM *σαμαρεία-N1A-GSF ὁράω-VBI-AAI1S ἀνόμημα-N3M-APN προφητεύω-VAI-AAI3P διά-P ὁ- A--GSF *βααλ-N---GSF καί-C πλανάω-VAI-AAI3P ὁ- A--ASM λαός-N2--ASM ἐγώ- P--GS *ἰσραήλ-N---ASM

14 καί-C ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPM προφήτης-N1M-DPM *ἰερουσαλήμ-N---GSF ὁράω-VX--XAI1S φρικτός-A1--APN μοιχάομαι-V1--PMPAPM καί-C πορεύομαι-V1--PMPAPM ἐν-P ψευδής-A3H-DPM καί-C ἀντιλαμβάνω-V1--PMPAPM χείρ-N3--GPF πονηρός-A1A-GPM ὁ- A--GSN μή-D ἀποστρέφω-VD--APN ἕκαστος-A1--ASM ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GSF ὁδός-N2--GSF αὐτός- D--GSM ὁ- A--GSF πονηρός-A1A-GSF γίγνομαι-VCI-API3P ἐγώ- P--DS πᾶς-A3--NPM ὡς-C *σοδομα-N---NSF καί-C ὁ- A--NPM καταοἰκέω-V2--PAPNPM αὐτός- D--ASF ὥσπερ-D *γομορρα-N---NSF

15 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ὅδε- D--APN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS ψωμίζω-VF2-FAI1S αὐτός- D--APM ὀδύνη-N1--ASF καί-C ποτίζω-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--APM ὕδωρ-N3--ASN πικρός-A1A-ASN ὅτι-C ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GPM προφήτης-N1M-GPM *ἰερουσαλήμ-N---GSF ἐκἔρχομαι-VBI-AAI3S μολυσμός-N2--NSM πᾶς-A1S-DSF ὁ- A--DSF γῆ-N1--DSF

16 οὕτως-D λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM παντοκράτωρ-N3 -NSM μή-D ἀκούω-V1--PAD2P ὁ- A--APM λόγος-N2--APM ὁ- A--GPM προφήτης-N1M-GPM ὅτι-C ματαιόω-V4--PAI3P ἑαυτοῦ- D--DPM ὅρασις-N3I-ASF ἀπό-P καρδία-N1A-GSF αὐτός- D--GPM λαλέω-V2--PAI3P καί-C οὐ-D ἀπό-P στόμα-N3M-GSN κύριος-N2--GSM

17 λέγω-V1--PAI3P ὁ- A--DPM ἀποὠθέω-V2--PMPDPM ὁ- A--ASM λόγος-N2--ASM κύριος-N2--GSM εἰρήνη-N1--NSF εἰμί-VF--FMI3S σύ- P--DP καί-C πᾶς-A3--DPM ὁ- A--DPM πορεύομαι-V1--PMPDPM ὁ- A--DPN θέλημα-N3M-DPN αὐτός- D--GPM πᾶς-A3--DSM ὁ- A--DSM πορεύομαι-V1--PMPDSM πλάνη-N1--DSF καρδία-N1A-GSF αὐτός- D--GSM εἶπον-VAI-AAI3P οὐ-D ἥκω-VF--FAI3S ἐπί-P σύ- P--AS κακός-A1--NPN

18 ὅτι-C τίς- I--NSM ἵστημι-VHI-AAI3S ἐν-P ὑπόστημα-N3M-DSN κύριος-N2--GSM καί-C ὁράω-VBI-AAI3S ὁ- A--ASM λόγος-N2--ASM αὐτός- D--GSM τίς- I--NSM ἐνωτίζομαι-VA--AMI3S καί-C ἀκούω-VAI-AAI3S

19 ἰδού-I σεισμός-N2--NSM παρά-P κύριος-N2--GSM καί-C ὀργή-N1--NSF ἐκπορεύομαι-V1--PMI3S εἰς-P συσσεισμός-N2--ASM συνστρέφω-V1--PMPNSF ἐπί-P ὁ- A--APM ἀσεβής-A3H-APM ἥκω-VF--FAI3S

20 καί-C οὐκέτι-D ἀποστρέφω-VF--FAI3S ὁ- A--NSM θυμός-N2--NSM κύριος-N2--GSM ἕως-C ἄν-X ποιέω-VA--AAS3S αὐτός- D--ASN καί-C ἕως-C ἄν-X ἀναἵστημι-VA--AAS3S αὐτός- D--ASN ἀπό-P ἐγχείρημα-N3M-GSN καρδία-N1A-GSF αὐτός- D--GSM ἐπί-P ἔσχατος-A1--GSN ὁ- A--GPF ἡμέρα-N1A-GPF νοέω-VF--FAI3P αὐτός- D--APN

21 οὐ-D ἀποστέλλω-V1I-IAI1S ὁ- A--APM προφήτης-N1M-APM καί-C αὐτός- D--NPM τρέχω-V1I-IAI3P οὐ-D λαλέω-VAI-AAI1S πρός-P αὐτός- D--APM καί-C αὐτός- D--NPM προφητεύω-V1I-IAI3P

22 καί-C εἰ-C ἵστημι-VAI-AAI3P ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF ὑπόστασις-N3I-DSF ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C εἰςἀκούω-VAI-AAI3P ὁ- A--GPM λόγος-N2--GPM ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C ὁ- A--ASM λαός-N2--ASM ἐγώ- P--GS ἄν-X ἀποστρέφω-V1I-IAI3P αὐτός- D--APM ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GPN πονηρός-A1A-GPN ἐπιτήδευμα-N3M-GPN αὐτός- D--GPM

23 θεός-N2--NSM ἐγγίζω-V1--PAPNSM ἐγώ- P--NS εἰμί-V9--PAI1S λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM καί-C οὐ-D θεός-N2--NSM πόρρωθεν-D

24 εἰ-C κρύπτω-VD--FPI3S ἄνθρωπος-N2--NSM ἐν-P κρυφαῖος-A1A-DPM καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS οὐ-D ὁράω-VF--FMI1S αὐτός- D--ASM μή-D οὐ-D ὁ- A--ASM οὐρανός-N2--ASM καί-C ὁ- A--ASF γῆ-N1--ASF ἐγώ- P--NS πληρόω-VF--FAI1S λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM

25 ἀκούω-VAI-AAI1S ὅς- --APN λαλέω-V2--PAI3P ὁ- A--NPM προφήτης-N1M-NPM ὅς- --APN προφητεύω-V1--PAI3P ἐπί-P ὁ- A--DSN ὄνομα-N3M-DSN ἐγώ- P--GS ψευδής-A3H-APN λέγω-V1--PAPNPM ἐνυπνιάζω-VAI-AMI1S ἐνύπνιον-N2N-ASN

26 ἕως-C πότε-D εἰμί-VF--FMI3S ἐν-P καρδία-N1A-DSF ὁ- A--GPM προφήτης-N1M-GPM ὁ- A--GPM προφητεύω-V1--PAPGPM ψευδής-A3H-APN καί-C ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN προφητεύω-V1--PAN αὐτός- D--APM ὁ- A--APN θέλημα-N3M-APN καρδία-N1A-GSF αὐτός- D--GPM

27 ὁ- A--GPM λογίζομαι-V1--PMPGPM ὁ- A--GSN ἐπιλανθάνω-VB--AMN ὁ- A--GSM νόμος-N2--GSM ἐγώ- P--GS ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPN ἐνύπνιον-N2N-DPN αὐτός- D--GPM ὅς- --APN διαἡγέομαι-V2--IMI3P ἕκαστος-A1--NSM ὁ- A--DSM πλησίον-D αὐτός- D--GSM καθάπερ-D ἐπιλανθάνω-VBI-AMI3P ὁ- A--NPM πατήρ-N3--NPM αὐτός- D--GPM ὁ- A--GSN ὄνομα-N3M-GSN ἐγώ- P--GS ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF *βααλ-N---DSF

28 ὁ- A--NSM προφήτης-N1M-NSM ἐν-P ὅς- --DSM ὁ- A--NSN ἐνύπνιον-N2N-NSN εἰμί-V9--PAI3S διαἡγέομαι-VA--AMD3S ὁ- A--ASN ἐνύπνιον-N2N-ASN αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C ἐν-P ὅς- --DSM ὁ- A--NSM λόγος-N2--NSM ἐγώ- P--GS πρός-P αὐτός- D--ASM διαἡγέομαι-VA--AMD3S ὁ- A--ASM λόγος-N2--ASM ἐγώ- P--GS ἐπί-P ἀλήθεια-N1A-GSF τίς- I--ASN ὁ- A--ASN ἄχυρον-N2N-ASN πρός-P ὁ- A--ASM σῖτος-N2--ASM οὕτως-D ὁ- A--NPM λόγος-N2--NPM ἐγώ- P--GS λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM

29 οὐ-D ὁ- A--NPM λόγος-N2--NPM ἐγώ- P--GS ὥσπερ-D πῦρ-N3--NSN φλέγω-V1--PAPNSN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM καί-C ὡς-C πέλυξ-N3K-NSM κόπτω-V1--PAPNSM πέτρα-N1A-ASF

30 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS πρός-P ὁ- A--APM προφήτης-N1M-APM λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ὁ- A--APM κλέπτω-V1--PAPAPM ὁ- A--APM λόγος-N2--APM ἐγώ- P--GS ἕκαστος-A1--NSM παρά-P ὁ- A--GSM πλησίον-D αὐτός- D--GSM

31 ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS πρός-P ὁ- A--APM προφήτης-N1M-APM ὁ- A--APM ἐκβάλλω-V1--PAPAPM προφητεία-N1A-APF γλῶσσα-N1S-GSF καί-C νυστάζω-V1--PAPAPM νυσταγμός-N2--ASM ἑαυτοῦ- D--GPM

32 ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS πρός-P ὁ- A--APM προφήτης-N1M-APM ὁ- A--APM προφητεύω-V1--PAPAPM ἐνύπνιον-N2N-APN ψευδής-A3H-APN καί-C διαἡγέομαι-V2--IMI3P αὐτός- D--APN καί-C πλανάω-VAI-AAI3P ὁ- A--ASM λαός-N2--ASM ἐγώ- P--GS ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPN ψευδής-A3H-DPN αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPM πλάνος-N2--DPM αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS οὐ-D ἀποστέλλω-VAI-AAI1S αὐτός- D--APM καί-C οὐ-D ἐντέλλομαι-VAI-AMI1S αὐτός- D--DPM καί-C ὠφέλεια-N1A-ASF οὐ-D ὠφελέω-VF--FAI3P ὁ- A--ASM λαός-N2--ASM οὗτος- D--ASM

33 καί-C ἐάν-C ἐρωτάω-VA--AAS3P σύ- P--AS ὁ- A--NSM λαός-N2--NSM οὗτος- D--NSM ἤ-C ἱερεύς-N3V-NSM ἤ-C προφήτης-N1M-NSM λέγω-V1--PAPNSM τίς- D--NSN ὁ- A--NSN λῆμμα-N3M-NSN κύριος-N2--GSM καί-C εἶπον-VF2-FAI2S αὐτός- D--DPM σύ- P--NP εἰμί-V9--PAI2P ὁ- A--NSN λῆμμα-N3M-NSN καί-C ῥάσσω-VF--FAI1S σύ- P--AP λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM

34 καί-C ὁ- A--NSM προφήτης-N1M-NSM καί-C ὁ- A--NSM ἱερεύς-N3V-NSM καί-C ὁ- A--NSM λαός-N2--NSM ὅς- --NPM ἄν-X εἶπον-VB--AAS3P λῆμμα-N3M-NSN κύριος-N2--GSM καί-C ἐκδικέω-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--ASM ἄνθρωπος-N2--ASM ἐκεῖνος- D--ASM καί-C ὁ- A--ASM οἶκος-N2--ASM αὐτός- D--GSM

35 ὅτι-C οὕτως-D εἶπον-VF2-FAI2P ἕκαστος-A1--NSM πρός-P ὁ- A--ASM πλησίον-D αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C ἕκαστος-A1--NSM πρός-P ὁ- A--ASM ἀδελφός-N2--ASM αὐτός- D--GSM τίς- I--ASN ἀποκρίνω-VCI-API3S κύριος-N2--NSM καί-C τίς- I--ASN λαλέω-VAI-AAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM

36 καί-C λῆμμα-N3M-NSN κύριος-N2--GSM μή-D ὀνομάζω-V1--PAD2P ἔτι-D ὅτι-C ὁ- A--NSN λῆμμα-N3M-NSN ὁ- A--DSM ἄνθρωπος-N2--DSM εἰμί-VF--FMI3S ὁ- A--NSM λόγος-N2--NSM αὐτός- D--GSM

37 καί-C διά-P τίς- I--ASN λαλέω-VAI-AAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ἐγώ- P--GP

38 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ὅδε- D--APN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ἀντί-P ὅς- --GPM εἶπον-VAI-AAI2P ὁ- A--ASM λόγος-N2--ASM οὗτος- D--ASM λῆμμα-N3M-NSN κύριος-N2--GSM καί-C ἀποστέλλω-VAI-AAI1S πρός-P σύ- P--AP λέγω-V1--PAPNSM οὐ-D εἶπον-VF2-FAI2P λῆμμα-N3M-NSN κύριος-N2--GSM

39 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS λαμβάνω-V1--PAI1S καί-C ῥάσσω-V1--PAI1S σύ- P--AP καί-C ὁ- A--ASF πόλις-N3I-ASF ὅς- --ASF δίδωμι-VAI-AAI1S σύ- P--DP καί-C ὁ- A--DPM πατήρ-N3--DPM σύ- P--GP

40 καί-C δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S ἐπί-P σύ- P--AP ὀνειδισμός-N2--ASM αἰώνιος-A1A-ASM καί-C ἀτιμία-N1A-ASF αἰώνιος-A1A-ASF ὅστις- X--NSF οὐ-D ἐπιλανθάνω-VC--FPI3S

7 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ἰδού-I ἡμέρα-N1A-NPF ἔρχομαι-V1--PMI3P λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM καί-C οὐ-D εἶπον-VF2-FAI3P ἔτι-D ζάω-V3--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ὅς- --NSM ἀναἄγω-VBI-AAI3S ὁ- A--ASM οἶκος-N2--ASM *ἰσραήλ-N---GSM ἐκ-P γῆ-N1--GSF *αἴγυπτος-N2--GSF

8 ἀλλά-C ζάω-V3--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ὅς- --NSM συνἄγω-VBI-AAI3S ἅπας-A3--ASN ὁ- A--ASN σπέρμα-N3M-ASN *ἰσραήλ-N---GSM ἀπό-P γῆ-N1--GSF βορέας-N1T-GSM καί-C ἀπό-P πᾶς-A1S-GPF ὁ- A--GPF χώρα-N1A-GPF οὗ-D ἐκὠθέω-VA--AAI3S αὐτός- D--APM ἐκεῖ-D καί-C ἀπο καταἵστημι-VHI-AAI3S αὐτός- D--APM εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASF γῆ-N1--ASF αὐτός- D--GPM

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 134

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134. "'To teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality.'" This symbolically means, in consequence of which faith the truths of the church are falsified.

To teach and seduce the Lord's servants means, symbolically, to teach and seduce people who can be and are willing to be instructed in truths from the Word. That servants of the Lord are what people governed by truths are called may be seen in nos. 3 and 128 above; and to commit sexual immorality means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word. To commit sexual immorality has this symbolic meaning because every particular of the Word contains a marriage of good and truth, and this marriage is broken when goodness is divorced and estranged from truth.

To be shown that every particular of the Word contains a marriage of good and truth, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 80-90. It is because of this that to commit sexual immorality means, symbolically, to adulterate the goods of the Word and falsify its truths. Moreover, because this is spiritual licentiousness, therefore people who have employed their own reason to falsify the Word become sexually licentious people when they enter the spiritual world after death. And something as yet unrecognized in the world is the fact that people who have affirmed faith alone to the exclusion of any works of charity are prompted by the lust of an adultery of a son with his mother. In the spiritual world I have often perceived them to be impelled by the lust of so unspeakable an adultery. Remember this and inquire into it after death, and you will be convinced. I have not dared to reveal this previously, because it offends the ears.

[2] This adultery is symbolized by the adultery of Reuben with Bilhah, his father's concubine (Genesis 35:22), inasmuch as Reuben symbolizes that faith. Therefore he was cursed by his father Israel, and the birthright was subsequently taken from him. For in prophesying concerning his sons, his father Israel said of Reuben,

Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength... Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my pallet. (Genesis 49:3-4)

And therefore the birthright was taken from him:

...Reuben (was) the firstborn of Israel..., but because he defiled his father's pallet, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph... (1 Chronicles 5:1)

We will see in the explanation of Revelation 7:5 that Reuben represented truth arising from good or faith springing from charity, and afterward truth divorced from good or faith divorced from charity.

[3] That references to sexual licentiousness in the Word symbolize adulterations of good and falsifications of truth can be seen from the following passages:

...when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" And he said, "What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are many?" (2 Kings 9:22)

The harlotries of Jezebel do not mean any acts of licentiousness, but her deeds, as cited in no. 132 above.

Your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms... (Numbers 14:33)

The person who has regard to mediums and soothsayers, to go whoring after them..., I will cut him off... (Leviticus 20:6)

(Do not) make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, (lest) they go whoring after their gods... (Exodus 34:15).

(Jerusalem,) you trusted in your own beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, (so that) you poured out your harlotries on everyone passing by... You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very carnal neighbors, and multiplied your acts of harlotry... You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable, (with whom) you played the harlot... You multiplied your harlotry as far as... Chaldea... The adulterous woman, who in place of her husband takes strangers. All men give payment to their harlots, but you made your payments to them all, (that they may) come to you from all around for your harlotries... Therefore, harlot, hear the word of Jehovah. (Ezekiel 16:15-16, 26, 28-29, 32-33, 35ff.)

Jerusalem there is the Israelite and Jewish Church. Its harlotries mean adulterations and falsifications of the Word. And because Egypt symbolizes the knowledge of the natural self, Assyria reasoning on the basis of it, Chaldea the profanation of truth, and Babel the profanation of good, therefore the passage says that it played the harlot with them.

[4] ...two women, the daughters of one mother, committed harlotry in Egypt; in their youth they committed harlotry... (One,) my subject, played the harlot, and she doted on her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians... She committed her harlotries with them... (Yet) she has not given up her harlotries in Egypt....

(The other) became more corrupt in her loving than she, and in her harlotries more corrupt than her sister's harlotries... She increased her harlotries... She loved (Chaldeans).... Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry. (Ezekiel 23:2-3, 5, 7-8, 11, 14, 16-17ff.)

The two daughters of the same mother are likewise the Israelite and Jewish Church, whose adulterations and falsifications of the Word are described here, as above, by harlotries.

[5] So, too, in the following passages:

...you have played the harlot with many lovers... You have profaned the land with your harlotries and your wickedness... Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and... played the harlot... Treacherous Judah... went and played the harlot also. So that... by the report of her harlotry she defiled the land; ...she committed adultery with stone and wood. (Jeremiah 3:1-2, 6, 8-9)

And elsewhere:

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see... if you can find a man... who executes judgment and seeks the truth... I satiated them, and they committed harlotry and came by troops into the harlots' house. (Jeremiah 5:1, 7)

I have seen your adulteries... your neighings, the wickedness of your harlotry, your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! You will not be made clean... (Jeremiah 13:27)

I have seen a horrible obstinacy in the prophets of Jerusalem: they commit adultery and walk in a lie. (Jeremiah 23:14)

...they have committed folly in Israel, have committed adultery..., and have spoken (My) word in My name falsely... (Jeremiah 29:23)

...they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into disrepute... They committed harlotry..., because they have forsaken Jehovah. Harlotry... enslaved (their) heart... ...your daughters commit harlotry, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. (Hosea 4:7, 10-11, 13)

I know Ephraim..., (that) he has (altogether) committed harlotry, (and) Israel is defiled. (Hosea 5:3)

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: Ephraim committed harlotry there, (and) Israel is defiled. (Hosea 6:10)

Israel there is the church, and Ephraim is its understanding of the Word, from which and in accordance with which the church is formed. Therefore Ephraim is said to have committed harlotry and Israel to be defiled.

[6] Since the church had falsified the Word, the prophet Hosea was commanded to take himself a harlot as a wife, as follows:

...take yourself a woman of harlotries and children of harlotries, for the land has committed great harlotry behind Jehovah. (Hosea 1:2).

Again:

...love a woman who is loved by a companion and is an adulteress... (Hosea 3:1)

Since the Jewish Church was such as described, therefore the Lord called the Jewish nation an adulterous generation (Matthew 12:39; 16:4, Mark 8:38); and in Isaiah, the offspring of an adulterer (Isaiah 57:3).

In Nahum:

Woe to the bloody city! Full of lying... The multitude of the slain... because of the multitude of the harlotries of the harlot..., who sells nations through her harlotries... (Nahum 3:1, 3-4)

[7] Since Roman Catholicism adulterates and falsifies the Word more than any others in the Christian world, it is therefore called Babylon, the Great Harlot, and the following things are said of it in the book of Revelation:

Babylon... has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her harlotry. (Revelation 14:8)

(Babylon has made) all the nations (drink) of the wine of the wrath of her harlotry, and the kings of the earth have committed harlotry with her... (Revelation 18:3)

(The angel said,) "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot... with whom the kings of the earth committed harlotry. (Revelation 17:1-2)

...He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her harlotry. (Revelation 19:2)

It is apparent from this now that to commit adultery and to commit sexual immorality mean, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the goods and truths of the Word.

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