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Judges 5:29
Apocalypse Revealed # 354
354. Of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed. This symbolizes a perception of useful endeavor, and of what is useful, in those people who will be in the New Heaven and in the Lord's New Church.
In the highest sense Naphtali symbolizes the intrinsic power of the Lord's Divine humanity; in the spiritual sense, temptation or trial, and victory; and in the natural sense, resistance on the part of the natural self. For his name was derived from a word meaning wrestling. Here, however, Naphtali symbolizes a perception of useful endeavor, and of what is useful, because in the series he comes after Asher, who symbolizes a love of useful services. Moreover those people who have overcome in temptations or trials have an interior perception of useful ends; for temptations or trials open the interior constituents of the mind.
The perception that those people have is described in Jeremiah 31:33-34. 1 They sense in themselves what is good, and see in themselves what is true.
That the tribe of Naphtali symbolizes angels and people in respect to that perception can be confirmed from the following verses in the Word:
...Naphtali... on the heights of the field. (Judges 5:18)
The heights of the field are the interior qualities of the Church as regards perception.
O Naphtali, abounding in favor, and full of the blessing of Jehovah, possess the west and the south. (Deuteronomy 33:23)
To possess the west is to possess the goodness of a love that serves, and the south is the light of wisdom which constitutes the aforesaid perception.
Naphtali is a deer let loose, who provides elegant discourses. (Genesis 49:21)
Thus is described the state after temptation or trial as to its free expression from perception.
It is recorded also that a certain man of the tribe of Naphtali, "being filled with wisdom, understanding and knowledge," did all work in bronze for Solomon's temple (1 Kings 7:14).
The narrative portions of the Word as regards names and tribes are just as symbolic as the prophetic portions.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Jehovah: I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know Jehovah,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Jehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
