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Esekiel 26

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1 I det ellevte år, på den første dag i måneden, kom Herrens ord til mig, og det lød så:

2 Menneskesønn! Fordi Tyrus sier om Jerusalem: Ha, ha! Sønderbrutt er den, denne folkenes port; den er flyttet til mig, jeg blir fylt - den er ødelagt,

3 derfor sier Herren, Israels Gud, så: Se, jeg kommer over dig, Tyrus, og fører mange folk frem mot dig, likesom havet fører sine bølger frem.

4 Og de skal ødelegge Tyrus' murer og rive ned dets tårner, og jeg vil feie bort dets grus av det og gjøre det til nakent berg;

5 det skal bli til en tørkeplass for fiskegarn ute i havet. For jeg har talt, sier Herren, Israels Gud, og det skal bli til hærfang for folkene,

6 og dets døtre på fastlandet* skal slåes ihjel med sverd, og de skal kjenne at jeg er Herren. / {* d.e. de til Tyrus hørende mindre byer.}

7 For så sier Herren, Israels Gud: Se, jeg lar Nebukadnesar, Babels konge, kongenes konge, komme mot Tyrus fra Norden med hester og vogner og ryttere og med en hær og meget folk.

8 Dine døtre på fastlandet skal han slå ihjel med sverd, og han skal bygge skanser mot dig og kaste en voll op mot dig og reise skjoldtak mot dig.

9 Og sin murbrekker skal han sette mot dine murer, og dine tårn skal han bryte ned med sine jern.

10 Hans hester er så mange at støvet av dem skal dekke dig; for larmen av ryttere og hjul og vogner skal dine murer beve, når han drar inn gjennem dine porter, som en drar inn i en hærtatt by.

11 Med sine hesters hover skal han trampe ned alle dine gater; ditt folk skal han slå ihjel med sverd, og dine sterke søiler skal synke til jorden.

12 De skal røve ditt gods og rane dine varer og bryte ned dine murer og rive ned dine herlige hus og kaste dine stener og ditt treverk og ditt støv ut i vannet.

13 Jeg lar dine larmende sanger høre op, og lyden av dine citarer skal ikke høres mere.

14 Jeg vil gjøre dig til nakent berg; du skal bli til en tørkeplass for fiskegarn; du skal aldri bygges op igjen; for jeg, Herren, har talt, sier Herren, Israels Gud.

15 sier Herren, Israels Gud, til Tyrus: Se, kystene skal beve ved braket av ditt fall, ved de såredes stønn og ved de mange mord midt i dig.

16 Alle havets fyrster skal stige ned fra sine troner og legge av sine kapper og ta av sig sine utsydde klær; de skal klæ sig i redsel, sitte på jorden og reddes hvert øieblikk og forferdes over dig.

17 De skal stemme i en klagesang over dig og si til dig: Hvorledes er du gått til grunne, du som hadde dine innbyggere fra havene, du den lovpriste stad, som var så mektig på havet, både du og dine innbyggere, som utbredte redsel for dig blandt alle som bodde der?

18 Nu gripes øene av redsel på den dag du faller - øene i havet forferdes over den ende du fikk.

19 For så sier Herren, Israels Gud: Når jeg gjør dig til en ødelagt by, lik de byer som det ikke lenger bor folk i, når jeg lar dypets vann stige op over dig, så vannmassene skjuler dig,

20 da lar jeg dig fare ned likesom de som farer ned i graven, til fortidens folk, og lar dig bo i dødsrikets land, i ruiner fra eldgammel tid, likesom de som farer ned i graven, forat ingen mere skal bo i dig; men jeg vil gjøre herlige ting* i de levendes land. / {* forherlige Israel.}

21 Til en forferdelse vil jeg gjøre dig, og du skal ikke være til mere; de skal søke efter dig, men aldri i evighet finne dig, sier Herren, Israels Gud.

   

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Heaven and Hell # 365

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365. We may gather from this that rich people arrive in heaven just as much as poor people do, one as easily as the other. The reason people believe that it is easy for the poor and hard for the rich is that the Word is misunderstood when it talks about the rich and the poor. In the spiritual meaning of the Word, "the rich" means people who are amply supplied with understandings of what is true and good, that is, people in the church where the Word is. "The poor" means people who lack these understandings but who long for them, or people outside the church, where the Word is not found.

[2] The rich person dressed in purple and fine linen who was cast into hell means the Jewish nation. Because they had the Word and were therefore amply supplied with understandings of what is good and true, they are called "rich." The garments of purple actually mean understandings of what is good, and the fine linen means understandings of what is true. 1 The poor person who was lying in the gateway and who longed to feast on the crumbs that were falling from the rich person's table, who was carried up into heaven by angels, means the non-Jews who did not have understandings of what is good and true but who still longed for them (Luke 16:19, 31).

The rich who were invited to the great feast but who excused themselves also mean the Jewish nation, and the poor who were brought in to replace them mean the non-Jews who were outside the church (Luke 12:16-24, 14:16-24).

[3] We need also to explain who are meant by the rich of whom the Lord said, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:24). "The rich person" here means the rich in both senses, natural and spiritual. Rich people in the natural sense are people who have abundant wealth and set their hearts on it, while in a spiritual sense they are people who are amply supplied with insights and knowledge (for these are spiritual wealth) and who want to use them to get themselves into heavenly and ecclesiastical circles by their own intellect. Since this is contrary to the divine design, it says that it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle. On this level of meaning, a camel means our cognitive and informational level in general, and the eye of a needle means spiritual truth. 2

Nowadays people do not know that this is the meaning of the camel and the eye of a needle because there has not yet been any access to the knowledge that teaches what is meant spiritually by the things that the Word says literally. There is spiritual meaning in the details of the Word, and natural meaning as well; because the Word was written in pure correspondences of natural realities with spiritual ones in order to effect a union of heaven and the world, or of angels with us, once the direct union had ceased. We can see from this exactly who are meant by the rich in the Word.

[4] We may gather from a number of passages that on the spiritual level "the rich" in the Word refers to people who enjoy insights into what is good and true and that wealth means those insights themselves, which are spiritual riches: see Isaiah 10:12-14; 30:6-7; 45:3, Jeremiah 17:3; 47:7 [Jeremiah 48:7?], Jeremiah 50:36-37; 51:13, Daniel 5:2-4, Ezekiel 26:7, 12; 27:1-36; Zechariah 9:3-4; Psalms 45:12; Hosea 12:9; Revelation 3:17-18, Luke 14:33, and elsewhere. On the poor in the spiritual sense as people who do not have insights into what is good and true but who long for them, see Matthew 11:5; Luke 6:20-21; 14:21; Isaiah 14:30; 29:19; 41:17-18; Zephaniah 3:12, 18 [13]. An explanation of the spiritual meaning of all these passages may be found in 10227 of Secrets of Heaven.

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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Garments mean things that are true, and therefore insights: 1033 [1073?], 2576, 5319, 5954, 9212, 9216, 9952, 10536. Purple means heavenly good: 9467. Linen means truth of a heavenly origin: 5319, 9469, 9744.

2. [Swedenborg's footnote] A camel in the Word means our cognitive and informational level in general: 3048, 3071, 3143, 3145. What embroidery, embroidering, and therefore needles Arcana Coelestia 9688. To start from outward facts in order to gain access to truths of faith is contrary to the divine design: 10236. People who do this become insane in matters of heaven and the church: 128-130, 232-233, 6047; and in the other life, when they think about spiritual things, they become virtually drunk: 1072. More about their nature: 196. Examples to illustrate the fact that spiritual things cannot be grasped if they are approached on this basis: 233, 2094, 2196, 2203, 2209. It is all right to go from spiritual truth into the knowledge appropriate to our natural level, but not the other way around, because there is an inflow of the spiritual into the natural but not an inflow of the natural into the spiritual: 3219, 5119, 5259, 5427-5428, 5478, 6322, 9110-9111 [10199?]. We need first to acknowledge the truths of the Word and the church, and then it is all right to take our secular learning into account; but not the other way around: 6047.

  
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