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786. "Every helmsman, everyone traveling by ship, and sailors, as many as work at sea." This symbolizes those Roman Catholics called laymen, both those established in a greater position of eminence and those in a lesser one, down to the common people, who are devoted to that religion and love it and kiss it or acknowledge and venerate it at heart.
From verse 9 to verse 16 the subject has been Roman Catholic clerics who by virtue of that religion have been in positions of dominion and have exercised the Lord's Divine authority, and who by it have gained the world. Now the subject is Roman Catholics who have not been engaged in any ministerial order, but who still love and kiss that religion, or acknowledge and venerate it at heart, and are called laymen. Every helmsman means the highest placed of these - emperors, kings, dukes and princes. Everyone traveling by ship means people engaged in various functions in a greater or lesser degree. Sailors mean the lowest class, called the masses. As many as work at sea means all people in general who are devoted to the Roman Catholic religion and love and kiss it or acknowledge and venerate it at heart.
[2] That all of these are meant here is apparent from the sequence of subjects in the spiritual sense, and from the symbolic meaning of being on ships and of travelers on ships and sailors, and from the symbolic meaning of workers at sea. The helmsmen of ships, travelers on them and sailors can only mean people who bring in the valuables that above are called merchandise, which are the valuables the clergy gather into their treasuries and have as possessions, and in exchange for which the people take away blessings and beatifications as merits, and other like things that they desire for their souls. When these are understood to be meant, it is apparent that every helmsman means the highest placed of them, that everyone traveling by ship means all those in subordinate positions, and that sailors mean the lowest class.
That ships symbolize spiritual merchandise, which are concepts of goodness and truth, may be seen in no. 406 above. Here the merchandise is natural merchandise, for which laymen take away merchandise that they think is spiritual. As many as work at sea means all Roman Catholics whatever who love and kiss that religion, or acknowledge and venerate it at heart, because the sea symbolizes that religion; for the sea symbolizes the outward form of a church, as may be seen in nos. 238, 290, 403, 404, 420, 470, 565[r], 659, 661 above, and the Roman Catholic religion is a religion in outward form only.
Similar symbolical meanings are contained in these verses in Isaiah:
Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon and break down all the bars... of those whose cry is in the ships...." Thus said Jehovah, who made a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters. (Isaiah 43:14, 16)
It says, "whose cry is in the ships," as it does also here, saying that they stood at a distance and cried out from the ships. 1
Moreover, in Ezekiel as well:
At the sound of the cry of your ship captains the countryside will shake, and all who handle the oar, all the mariners and captains of the sea, will come down from your ships... and... because of you... will cry bitterly... (Ezekiel 27:28-30)
But this has to do with the devastation of Tyre, which symbolizes the church in respect to its concepts of truth and goodness.
[3] People should know, however, that the only Roman Catholics meant here are those who love and kiss that religion, or acknowledge and venerate it at heart. But people of that same religion, who acknowledge it indeed, having been born and raised in it, yet know nothing of the schemes and snares the hierarchy use to arrogate the worship of God to themselves and to possess all the goods of everyone in the world, and are people who do good from an honest heart and moreover turn their eyes to the Lord - these come to be among the blessed after death; for once instructed there, they accept truths and reject adoration of the pope and the invocation of saints, and they acknowledge the Lord as God of heaven and earth, are raised up into heaven, and become angels.
Consequently there are also many heavenly societies of such people in the spiritual world, and set over them are persons of honor who have lived in the same manner.
I have been given to see that some of those set over these societies have even been emperors, kings, dukes and princes, who acknowledged the pope indeed as the highest governor of the church, but not as the Lord's vicar, and who also acknowledged some of the papal bulls, and yet held the Word holy and acted justly in their administrations.
For more on these Roman Catholics, see A Continuation Concerning the Last Judgment and the Spiritual World 58-60, reported from personal experience.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. Verses 17, 18.
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The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there.
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Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.
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When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."
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Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."
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His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."
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Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
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Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim.
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He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it.
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When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,
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and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"
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This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
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After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
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The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
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He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.
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To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
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His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."
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The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
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Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
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The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?"
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But he spoke of the temple of his body.
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When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
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Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
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But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
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and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
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