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1 Ve de trygge på Sion og de sorgløse på Samarias fjell, de fornemme blandt det ypperste av folkene, dem som Israels hus pleier å vende sig til!

2 Dra over til Kalne og se, og gå videre til det store Hamat, og stig ned til Gat i Filisterland! Er de bedre enn disse riker, eller er deres land større enn eders land?

3 I som jager den onde dag langt bort og flytter urettens sete nær til eder*, / {* I vil intet høre om straffens dag, og allikevel lar I vold og urett råde blandt eder.}

4 I som ligger på elfenbensbenker og dovner eder på eders leier, og som eter lam av hjorden og kalver fra fjøset,

5 som synger allslags tull til harpens toner og har uttenkt eder strengeinstrumenter, likesom David,

6 som drikker vin av skåler og salver eder med den ypperste olje, men ikke sørger over Josefs skade.

7 Derfor skal de nu vandre ut av landet fremst blandt dem som føres bort, og med skrålet av dem som dovner sig, skal det være slutt.

8 Herren, Israels Gud, har svoret ved sig selv, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Jeg avskyr Jakobs stolthet og hater hans palasser, og jeg vil overgi byen og alt det som er i den.

9 Og om det er ti menn tilbake i ett hus, da skal de dø.

10 Og en manns nærmeste frende, som skal brenne ham*, skal ta ham og bære benene ut av huset, og han skal si til den som er i husets innerste krok: Er det ennu nogen hos dig? Og han skal svare: Nei, ingen! Da skal han si: Hysj! Herrens navn må ikke nevnes! / {* fordi mengden av de døde (AMO 8, 3) gjør det umulig å begrave dem.}

11 For se, Herren byder, og de slår det store hus så det synker i grus, og det lille hus så det revner.

12 Springer vel hestene opefter fjellet, eller pløies det der med okser? siden I har forvendt retten til gift og rettferdighetens frukter til malurt.

13 I som gleder eder over det som intet er, og som sier: Er det ikke ved vår egen styrke vi har vunnet oss velde?

14 For se, jeg opvekker et folk mot eder, Israels hus, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, og de skal undertrykke eder fra der hvor veien går til Hamat, og like til bekken i ødemarken.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 576

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576. That the number ten means remnants, just as tenths do, becomes clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

Many houses will be a desolation, large and beautiful ones, without inhabitant, for ten acres of vineyard will yield but one bath, and a homer of seed will yield an ephah. Isaiah 5:9-10.

This refers to the vastation of spiritual and celestial things. 'Ten acres of vineyard will yield but one bath' stands for remnants of spiritual things being so few, while 'a homer of seed will yield an ephah' stands for remnants of celestial things being so few. In the same prophet,

And there will be many forsaken places in the midst of the land; and yet there will be a tenth part in it, and this will return; it will be however an uprooting. Isaiah 6:12-13.

'The midst of the land' stands for the internal man, 'a tenth part' for such a small quantity of remnants. In Ezekiel,

You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, the bath containing a tenth of a homer; and the ephah a tenth of a homer, the measure for it shall be after the homer. And the fixed portion of oil, of the bath of oil, shall be a tenth of a bath from a cor, which is ten baths to the homer; for ten baths are a homer. Ezekiel 45:10-11, 14.

The quantities mentioned here relate to holy things, which are Jehovah's. They mean different kinds of holy things. 'Ten' here means remnants of celestial things and so of spiritual things. For what are the specific numerical quantities mentioned in this and in previous chapters of this prophet where the heavenly Jerusalem and the new Temple are the subject, and in other prophets, and also in the various rites of the Jewish Church, if they do not contain sacred arcana?

[2] In Amos,

She has fallen, no more to rise, the virgin of Israel. Thus said the Lord Jehovah, The city that goes forth a thousand will have remnants of a hundred, and that which goes forth a hundred will have remnants of ten to the house of Israel. Amos 5:2-3.

The word 'remnants' is used here, of which only a fraction will remain, for this is only a tenth part, or the remnants of remnants. In the same prophet,

I hate the pride of Jacob and his palaces, and I will shut up the city and all that is in it. And it will be that if ten men will have remained in one house, they will die. Amos 6:8-9.

'Ten' stands for remnants that are not likely to remain. In Moses,

The Ammonite and the Moabite shall not come into the assembly of Jehovah; even the tenth generation belonging to them shall not come into the assembly of Jehovah forever. Deuteronomy 23:3.

'The Ammonite and the Moabite' stands for the profanation of the celestial and the spiritual things of faith, the remnants of which have been dealt with already.

[3] From this it is clear that 'tenths' represents remnants, of which Malachi speaks as follows,

Bring all the tithes 1 to the treasure-house, that there may be plunder in My house, and let them put Me to the test in this matter whether I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing for you. Malachi 3:10.

'That there may be plunder in My house stands for remnants in the internal man, which are likened to 'plunder' because they are implanted, so to speak, by stealth among so many evils and falsities; and by way of such remnants comes every blessing. The fact that the whole of a person's charity comes to him by way of the remnants that are in the internal man was also represented in the Jewish Church by the requirement that once they had paid their tithes, 1 they were then to give to the Levite, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, Deuteronomy 26:12 and following verses.

[4] Since remnants are the Lord' s alone, tenths are therefore called 'Holiness to Jehovah', and are spoken of in Moses as follows,

All the tithes 1 of the land - of the seed of the land, of the fruit of the tree - are Jehovah's; they are Holiness to Jehovah. All tithes 1 of the herd and of the flock, every tenth one that passes under the (herdsman's) staff shall be Holiness to Jehovah. Leviticus 27:30, 32.

Since the Decalogue consisted of Ten Commandments, or Ten Words, and Jehovah wrote them on tablets, Deuteronomy 10:4, remnants are meant; and the fact that they were written by the hand of Jehovah means that such remnants are the Lord's alone. Their presence in the internal man was represented by the tablets.

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