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Sakarias 11

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1 Lat op dine porter, Libanon, så ilden kan fortære dine sedrer!

2 Jamre dig, du cypress, fordi sederen er falt, fordi de herlige trær er ødelagt! Jamre eder, I Basans eker, fordi den utilgjengelige skog er felt!

3 Hør hvor hyrdene jamrer fordi deres herlighet* er ødelagt! Hør hvor de unge løver brøler fordi Jordans prakt** er ødelagt. / {* herlige beitemark; JE 25, 36.} / {** JE 12, 5.}

4 Så sa Herren min Gud: økt slaktefårene!

5 De som kjøper dem, slakter dem uten å bøte for det, og de som selger dem, sier: Lovet være Herren! nu blir jeg rik; og deres hyrder sparer dem ikke.

6 For jeg vil ikke mere spare landets innbyggere, sier Herren; men jeg vil overgi menneskene i hverandres hender og i hendene på deres konge, og de skal herje landet, og jeg vil ikke redde nogen av deres hånd.

7 Så røktet jeg slaktefårene, endog de usleste av fårene; og jeg tok mig to staver, den ene kalte jeg liflighet, og den andre kalte jeg bånd*, og jeg røktet fårene, / {* SK 11, 14.}

8 og jeg gjorde de tre hyrder til intet i én måned. Jeg blev lei av dem, og de likte heller ikke mig,

9 og jeg sa: Jeg vil ikke lenger røkte eder; det som er nær ved å dø, får dø, og det som er nær ved å bli tilintetgjort, får bli tilintetgjort, og de som blir igjen, får fortære hverandres kjøtt.

10 Så tok jeg min stav liflighet og brøt den i stykker for å gjøre den pakt til intet som jeg hadde gjort med alle folkene.

11 Og den blev gjort til intet på den dag; og således skjønte de usleste av fårene, de som aktet på mig, at det var Herrens ord.

12 Derefter sa jeg til dem: Om I så synes, så gi mig min lønn, men hvis ikke, så la det være! Så veide de op til mig min lønn, tretti sølvpenninger.

13 Da sa Herren til mig: Kast den bort til pottemakeren, den herlige pris som jeg er aktet verd av dem! Og jeg tok de tretti sølvpenninger og kastet dem i Herrens hus til pottemakeren.

14 Så brøt jeg i stykker min andre stav bånd for å gjøre brorskapet mellem Juda og Israel til intet.

15 Og Herren sa til mig: Ta dig atter en stav - en dårlig hyrdes stav!

16 For se, jeg lar en hyrde stå frem i landet, en som ikke ser til de får som er nær ved å omkomme, ikke søker efter det som er bortkommet, og ikke læger det som har fått skade, og ikke sørger for det som holder sig oppe, men eter kjøttet av de fete og endog bryter deres klover i stykker.

17 Ve den dårlige hyrde, som forlater fårene! Sverd over hans arm og over hans høire øie! Hans arm skal visne bort, og hans høire øie skal utslukkes.

   

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6767. 'Do you intend to kill me . . .' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith ... This is clear from the meaning of 'killing' as destroying, dealt with below; and from the meaning of a Hebrew man, to whom 'me' refers here, as one who belongs to the Church. Faith too is accordingly meant, for faith goes together with the Church, and the two are so bound up with each other that a person who destroys the faith present with someone destroys the Church with him. This is also 'to kill him', for by taking faith away he takes spiritual life away, the life that remains being a life that is called death. From this it is evident that 'Do you intend to kill me?' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith?

[2] The fact that 'killing' is taking away spiritual life is evident from many places in the Word, as in Jeremiah,

Drag them away like sheep for the slaughter, and destine them to the day of killing. How long will the land mourn and the plant of every field wither, on account of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds will be devoured. Jeremiah 12:3-4.

'The day of killing' stands for the time that the Church is laid waste, when there is no longer any faith because there is no charity. 'The land which will mourn' stands for the Church; 'the plant of every field' stands for all the facts known to the Church that hold truth within them; 'the beasts and the birds will be devoured' stands for the fact that forms of good and truths will be destroyed. For the meaning of 'the land' as the Church, see 566, 662, 1067, 1262, 1413, 1607, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 2928, 3755, 4447, 4535, 5577. The meaning of 'the plant' as factual knowledge holding truth within it is clear from places in the Word where plant is mentioned. And for the meaning of 'the field' as that which is of the Church, see 2971, 3710, 3766, of 'the beasts' as affections for good, thus forms of good, 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 719, 1823, 2179, 2180, 3218, 3519, 5198, and of 'the birds' as affections for truth, 5149. From all this one may recognize what the meaning of these words is, and also that the spiritual sense is present in every detail there. Anyone can see that without the inner meaning there could be no understanding of what 'the day of killing' is, or of what is described by the details 'will the land mourn', 'the plant of every field wither, on account of the wickedness of those who dwell in it', and 'the beasts and the birds will be devoured'.

[3] In Zechariah,

Thus said Jehovah my God, Feed the sheep for killing, whose owners kill them. Zechariah 11:4-5.

'The sheep for killing' plainly stands for people whose faith is destroyed by those who are their owners. In Ezekiel,

You have desecrated Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for crusts of bread, to kill souls that ought not to die, and to keep alive souls that ought not to live. Ezekiel 13:19.

Here also 'killing' plainly stands for destroying spiritual life, that is, charity and faith. In Isaiah,

What will you do on the day of visitation and vastation? They will fall beneath the bound and beneath the killed. Isaiah 10:3-4.

Here 'the killed' stands for those who are in hell, thus for those immersed in evils and falsities.

[4] In the same prophet,

You are cast out from your sepulchre like an abominable branch, [like] a garment of the killed, [like] those pierced with the sword. You will not be united with them in the sepulchre, for you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. Isaiah 14:19-20.

'The killed' stands for those who have been deprived of spiritual life; 'you have killed your people' stands for his destruction of forms of the truth and good of faith. In John,

The thief does not come except in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that they may have life. John 10:10.

'Killing' stands for destroying the life of faith, and therefore it says, 'I have come in order that they may have life'. In Mark,

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his children, and the children will rise up against parents and kill them. Mark 13:12.

This refers to the last days of the Church when there is no longer any charity and therefore no faith either. 'Brother', 'children', and 'parents' in the internal sense are the Church's forms of good and its truths; and 'killing' is destroying them.

[5] Because one who had been 'killed' meant a person who had been deprived of spiritual life, and 'the field' meant the Church, it had therefore been decreed in the representative church that if anyone on the surface of the field touched somebody who had been pierced with the sword, or who had been killed, he would be unclean for seven days, Numbers 19:16. 'Slain with the sword' means truth wiped out by falsity, see 4507; for 'the sword' is falsity that wipes out truth, 2799, 4499, 653. It was likewise decreed that if anyone was found killed in the land which was their inheritance, lying on the field, and it was not known who had killed him, the elders and judges were to measure the distances to the cities which were round about. Having found out by doing this which was the nearest city, they were to take a heifer and break its neck at a fast-flowing river, and to do many other things, Deuteronomy 21:1-10.

  
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