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1 ရေလွှမ်းမိုးသောနောက်၊ နောဧသား ရှေမ၊ ဟာမ၊ ယာဖက်တို့မှ ဆင်းသက်သော သားစဉ်မြေးဆက် တို့ကို ဆိုပေအံ့။

2 ယာဖက်၏သားကား ဂေါမာ၊ မာဂေါဂ၊ မာဒဲ၊ ယာဝန်၊ တုဗလ၊ မေရှက်၊ ထိုက်တည်း။

3 ဂေါမသားကား၊ အာရှေကနတ်၊ ရိဖတ် တော်ဂမတည်း။

4 ယာဝန်သားကား၊ ဧလိရှား၊ တာရှု၊ ကိတ္တိမ်၊ ဒေါဒနိမ်တည်း။

5 ဤသူတို့သည် လူအမျိုးမျိုး တကျွန်းတနိုင်ငံ မြေနယ်တို့ကို ဘာသာအသီးအသီး၊ အမျိုးအနွယ် အသီးသီးရှိသည့်အတိုင်း၊ အချင်းချင်း ခွဲဝေကြ၏။

6 ဟာမသားကား၊ ကုရှ၊ မိဇရိမ်၊ ဇုတ၊ ခါနာန်တည်း။

7 ကုရှသားကား၊ သေဘ၊ ဟာဝိလ၊ သာဘတ၊ ရာဂမ၊ သတ္တေခါတည်း။ ရာဂမသားကား၊ ရှေဘ၊ ဒေဒန်တည်း။

8 ကုရှသည် သားနိမ်ရောဒကိုလည်း ရသေး၏။ ထိုသားသည် မြေကြီးပေါ်မှာ အဦးွမ်းနိုင်သော သူဖြ်၏။

9 ထာဝရဘုရားရှေ့မှာ အားကြီးသော မုဆိုးဖြစ်၏။ ထိုကြောင့် စကားပုံ၌ကား၊ ဘုရားရှေ့နိမ်ရောဒ၊ အားကြီးမုဆိုး၊ ပြုလုပ်သည်လိုဟု စပ်ဆိုသတည်း။

10 သူ၏ နိုင်ငံအဦးကား၊ ရှိနာပြည်၌ ဗာဗုလုန်မြို့၊ ဧရက်မြို့၊ အက္ကမြို့ကာလနေမြို့တည်း။

11 ထိုပြည်မှာအာရှရိပြည်သို့သွား၍ နိနေဝမြို့၊ ရဟောဘုတ်မြို့ ကာလမြို့ကို၎င်း၊

12 နိနေဝေမြို့နှင့်၊ ကာလမြို့စပ်ကြားမှာ ကြီးစွာသော မြို့တည်းဟူသော ရေသင်မြို့ကို၎င်း တည်ဆောက် လေ၏။

13 မိဇရိမ်သားကား၊ လုဒိမ်လူ၊ အာနမိမ်လူ၊ လဟာဗိမ်လူ၊ နတ္တုဟိမ်လူ၊

14 ပါသရူသိမ်လူ၊ ကာသလုဟိမ်လူ၊ ကတ္တောရိမ် လူတည်း။ ကာသလုဟိမ်အမျိုးထဲက ဖိလိတ္တိလူဖြစ် သတည်း။

15 ခါနာန်သား အကြီးကား၊ ဇိဒုန်။ ထိုနောက် ဟေသ။

16 ထိုနောက် ယေဗုသိလူ၊ အာမောရိလူ။ ဂိရဂါရှိ လူ၊

17 ဟိဝိ လူ၊ အာကိလူ၊ သိနိလူ၊

18 အာဝဒိ လူ၊ ဇေမရိလူ၊ ဟာမသိ လူတည်း။ ထိုနောက်ခါနာန် အမျိုးသားအသီးသီးတို့သည် နှံ့ပြားကြ လေ၏။

19 ခါနာန်အမျိုးသား နေရာပြည်နယ်သည် ဇိဒုန်မြို့မှဂေရာမြို့၊ ဂါဇမြို့တိုင်အောင်၎င်း တဖန်သောဒုမြို့၊ ဂေါမာရမြို့၊ အာဒမာမြို့ ဇောဘိုင်မြို့ကိုလွန်၍ လာရှမြို့ တိုင်အောင်၎င်း ရှိသတည်း။

20 ဤသူတို့သည် သီးခြားသော အမျိုးအနွယ်၊ သီးခြားသော ဘာသာအလိုက်၊ အပြည်အပြည် အတိုင်းတိုင်း၌ နေသော ဟာမသားများ ဖြစ်သတည်း။

21 ယာဖက်ညီ၊ ဟေဗြဲလူအပေါင်းတို့၏ အဘ၊ ရှေမသည်လည်း သားများကိုမြင်လေ၏။

22 ရှေသားကား၊ ဧလံ၊ အာရှရ၊ အာဖါဇဒ်၊ လုဒ၊ အာရံတည်း။

23 အာရံသားကား၊ ဥဇ၊ ဟုလ၊ ဂေသာ၊ မာရှတည်း။

24 အာဖာဇ်သားရှာလ၊ ရှာလသားဟေဗာတည်း။

25 ဟေဗာသည်လည်း သားနှစ်ယောက်ကို မြင်လေ၏။ သားတယောက်ကား၊ ဖာလက်အမည်ရှိ၏။ အကြောင်းမူကား၊ သူ့လက်ထက်၌ မြေကြီးကို ခွဲဝေကြ၏။ သူ၏ညီကား၊ ယုတ္တန် အမည်ရှိ၏။

26 ယုတ္တန်သားကား၊ အာလမောဒဒ်၊ ရှေလပ်၊ ဟာဇာမာဝက်၊ ယေရ

27 ဟဒေါရံ၊ ဥဇလ၊ ဒိကာလ၊

28 ဩဗလအဘိမေလ၊ ရှေဘ၊

29 ဩဖိရဟဝိလ၊ ယောဗပ်၊ ဤသူအပေါင်းတို့ သည် ယုတ္တန်သားဖြစ်သတည်း။

30 သူတို့နေရာမူကား၊ မေရှမြို့မှသည် အရှေ့ မျက်နှာ၌သေဖာတောင်တိုင်အောင် ရှိသတည်း။

31 ဤသူတို့သည် သီးခြားသော အမျိုးအနွယ်၊ သီးခြားသော ဘာသာအလိုက်၊ အပြည်ပြည်အတိုင်းတိုင်း တို့၌နေသော ရှေသားများဖြစ်သတည်း။

32 ဤရွှေ့ကား မိမိတို့အမျိုးအနွယ် အသီးသီး အလိုက်မှတ်သားထားသော နောဧသား ဆွေစဉ် မျိုးဆက်စာရင်းပေးသတည်း။ ထိုသူတို့သည် ရေလွှမ်းမိုးသောနောက်၊ မြေကြီးပေါ်မှာ သီးခြားသော တိုင်းပြည် တို့ကိုတည်ထောင်ကြလေ၏။

   

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1259. There is something further to be said about 'nations' meaning goods and evils within worship: In most ancient times people dwelt distinguished into separate nations, families, and houses, as stated already, in order that the Church on earth might represent the Lord's kingdom where all people are distinguished into communities, those communities into larger ones, and these into still larger, all these distinctions existing according to general and specific differences of love and faith, about which see 684, 685. Thus the Lord's kingdom is similarly distinguished so to speak into houses, families, and nations. This is why 'houses, families, and nations' in the Word means the goods that stem from love and its derivative faith, where also a careful distinction is made between nations and people. 'Nation' means good or evil, but 'people' truth or falsity. And this distinction is preserved so consistently as never to vary, as becomes clear from the following places:

[2] In Isaiah,

There will be on that day the root of Jesse which is standing as an ensign of the peoples; towards that root the nations will seek to go, and his rest will be glory. On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to acquire the remnants of His people, who remain from Asshur, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And He will raise an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah. Isaiah 11:10-12.

Here 'peoples' stands for the truths of the Church, 'nations' for its goods, between which a clear distinction is made. The subject here is the Lord's kingdom and the Church, and in the universal sense every regenerate person. The names mentioned mean the things that have been described already. 'Israel' means the spiritual things of the Church, 'Judah' its celestial things. In the same prophet,

This people walking in darkness have seen a great light. You have multiplied the nation, You have increased its joy. Isaiah 9:2-3.

Here 'people' stands for truths, hence the reference to 'their walking in darkness and seeing a [great] light'. 'Nation' stands for goods.

[3] In the same prophet,

What will one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah has founded Zion, and in her the wretched members of His people will put their trust. Isaiah 14:32.

Here likewise 'nation' stands for good, 'people' for truth. In the same prophet,

Jehovah Zebaoth will swallow up on this mountain the face 1 of the covering, of the covering over all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. Isaiah 25:7.

This refers to a new Church, that is, the Church of the nations. 'People' stands for its truths, 'nations' for its goods. In the same prophet,

Open the gates that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. Isaiah 26:2.

Here 'nation' plainly stands for goods. In the same prophet,

All the nations will be gathered together, and the peoples will be assembled. Isaiah 43:9

This too refers to the Church of the nations. 'Nations' stands for its goods, and 'peoples' for its truths. And since the two are distinct and separate from each other, both are dealt with; otherwise it would be a pointless repetition. In the same prophet,

The Lord Jehovih said, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations and raise My ensign to the peoples; and they will bring your sons in their bosom and carry your daughters on their shoulder. Isaiah 49:22.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom, 'nations' again standing for goods, and 'peoples' for truths.

[4] In the same prophet,

You will break out to the right and to the left, and your seed will inherit the nations, and they will dwell in the desolate cities. Isaiah 54:3.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom and to the Church called the Church of the nations. That 'the nations' stands for goods that stem from charity, or what amounts to the same, for people with whom the goods of charity exist, is clear from the promise that their 'seed', or faith, 'will inherit them'. 'Cities' stands for truths. In the same prophet,

Lo, I have given Him as a witness to the peoples, a Prince and Lawgiver to the peoples Lo, you will call a nation you do not know, and a nation that knew you not will run to you. Isaiah 55:4-5.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom. 'Peoples' stands for truths, 'nations' for goods. In the Church those who are endowed with goods that stem from charity are 'nations' while those who are endowed with truths of faith are 'peoples'. For goods and truths are attributes of the subjects to which they apply. In the same prophet,

Nations will walk to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Then you will see and overflow, and your heart will be astounded and enlarged, because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you, the armies of the nations will come to you. Isaiah 60:3, 5.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom and the Church of the nations. 'Nations' stands for goods, while 'kings', who go together with 'peoples', stands for truths.

[5] In Zephaniah,

The remnants of My people will plunder them, and the residue of My nation will inherit them. Zephaniah 2:9.

In Zechariah,

Many peoples and numerous nations will come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem. Zechariah 8:22.

'Jerusalem' stands for the Lord's kingdom and for the Church, 'peoples' those with whom the truths of faith predominate, 'nations' for those with whom the goods of charity do so, and therefore they are mentioned separately. In David,

You will deliver me from the strivings of the people; You will set me as the head of nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. Psalms 18:43.

Here similarly 'people' stands for those with whom truths predominate, 'nations' for those with whom good does so. And because these are what constitute the member of the Church, both are mentioned. In the same author,

The peoples will confess You, O God, all the peoples will confess You; the nations will be glad and exultant, for You will judge the peoples with uprightness, and You will guide the nations into the land. Psalms 67:3-4.

'Peoples' clearly stands for those with whom truths of faith predominate, and 'nations' for those with whom the good of charity predominates.

[6] In Moses,

Remember the days of old, understand the years of generation after generation; ask your father and he will show you, and your elders and they will tell you, When the Most High gave to the nations an inheritance and separated the sons of man, He fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. Deuteronomy 32:7-8.

This refers to the Most Ancient Church and the Ancient Churches, which are respectively 'the days of old' and 'the years of generation after generation'. Those with whom the good of charity predominated were called 'the nations' to whom an inheritance was given. 'The sons of man' and in the next sentence 'the peoples' mean those with whom the truths of faith deriving from charity predominated. Since 'the nations' means the goods of the Church and 'the peoples' its truths, it was therefore said of Esau and Jacob when they were still in the womb,

Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from your bowels. Genesis 25:23.

These places now make clear what the Church of the nations is in the genuine sense. The Most Ancient Church was the true Church of the nations, as was the Ancient Church after that.

[7] Since those governed by charity are called 'nations' and those governed by faith are called 'peoples', the Lord's priesthood is therefore associated with 'nations' because it has reference to celestial things, which are goods, while His kingship is associated with 'peoples' because it has reference to spiritual things, which are truths This distinction was also represented in the Jewish Church in which they were 'a nation' before they had kings, but became 'a people' after they received them.

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1. literally, the faces

  
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