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Sakarias 14

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1 Se, det kommer en Herrens dag, da det hærfang som er tatt fra dig, skal skiftes ut i din midte;

2 for jeg vil samle alle hedningefolkene til krig mot Jerusalem, og staden skal bli tatt og husene bli plyndret, og kvinnene bli skjendet, og halvdelen av staden skal måtte gå i landflyktighet, men resten av folket skal ikke utryddes av staden.

3 For Herren skal dra ut og stride mot disse hedningefolk, som han før har stridt på kampens dag.

4 På den dag skal hans føtter stå på Oljeberget, som ligger midt imot Jerusalem i øst, og Oljeberget skal revne tvert over mot øst og vest, så der blir en stor dal, idet den ene halvdel av fjellet viker mot nord, og den andre halvdel mot syd.

5 Og I skal fly til dalen mellem mine fjell, for dalen mellem fjellene skal nå like til Asel*; I skal fly som I flydde for jordskjelvet i Judas konge Ussias' dager. Da skal Herren min Gud komme, og alle hellige med dig, min Gud. / {* MIK 1, 11.}

6 På den dag skal lyset bli borte; de herlige himmellys skal formørkes.

7 Og det skal komme én dag - Herren kjenner den - det skal hverken være dag eller natt; men mot aftens tid, da skal det bli lys.

8 Og på den dag skal levende vann strømme ut fra Jerusalem, den ene halvdel av dem til havet i øst og den andre halvdel av dem til havet i vest; både sommer og vinter skal det være så.

9 Da skal Herren bli konge over hele landet; på den dag skal Herren være én, og hans navn ett.

10 Og hele landet, fra Geba til immon sønnenfor Jerusalem, skal bli som den øde mark*, og det** skal heve sig høit og trone på sitt sted, like fra Benjamin-porten til det sted hvor den forrige port var, til Hjørneporten, og fra Hananels tårn til kongens vinperser. / {* d.e. Jordan-dalen.} / {** Jerusalem.}

11 Og folket skal bo der, og der skal aldri mere lyses bann over det; Jerusalem skal ligge der trygt.

12 Men denne plage skal Herren la ramme alle de folk som har stridt imot Jerusalem: Han skal la kjøttet råtne på dem alle mens de står på sine føtter, og deres øine skal råtne i sine huler, og tungen skal råtne i deres munn.

13 På den dag skal Herren sende en stor redsel over dem, så de tar fatt på hverandre og løfter hånd mot hverandre.

14 Også Juda skal stride i Jerusalem, og fra alle kanter skal hedningefolkenes gods sankes sammen, gull og sølv og klær i stor mengde.

15 Den samme plage* skal også ramme hestene, muleslene, kamelene, asenene og alle de andre dyr i leirene. / { V. 12.}

16 Og alle de som blir igjen av alle de hedningefolk som angrep Jerusalem, skal år efter år dra op for å tilbede Kongen, Herren, hærskarenes Gud, og for å delta i løvsalenes fest.

17 Men om noget av jordens folk ikke drar op til Jerusalem for å tilbede Kongen, Herren, hærskarenes Gud, så skal det ikke komme regn hos dem;

18 om Egyptens folk ikke drar op og ikke møter frem, da skal det ikke komme regn hos dem heller; den samme plage skal ramme dem som Herren lar ramme de hedningefolk som ikke drar op for å delta i løvsalenes fest.

19 Sådan skal den straff være som rammer Egypten og alle de hedningefolk som ikke drar op for å delta i løvsalenes fest.

20 På den dag skal det stå på hestenes bjeller: Helliget til Herren, og grytene i Herrens hus skal være som offerskålene foran alteret,

21 og hver gryte i Jerusalem og i Juda skal være helliget til Herren, hærskarenes Gud, og alle de som ofrer, skal komme og ta av dem til å koke i; og det skal ikke mere være nogen kana'anitt* i Herrens, hærskarenes Guds hus på den dag. / {* JES 35, 8; 52, 1. JOE 3, 22.}

   

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8408. 'When we sat by a pot of flesh' means a life according to their own pleasure, and such as they craved for. This is clear from the meaning of 'a pot' as a container of good, and in the contrary sense a container of evil, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'flesh' as the heavenly proprium, thus good, and in the contrary sense as the proprium that is man's own, thus evil, also dealt with below. 1 And since 'flesh' means the proprium, 'sitting by a pot of flesh' means a life according to one's own pleasure, and such as one craves for; for that is the life of the proprium. The reason why 'a pot' means a container of good, and in the contrary sense a container of evil, is that 'the flesh' cooked in it means good and in the contrary sense evil. And having these meanings 'a pot' also means the bodily level or the natural level of the human mind, since these are containers of good or of evil. This being so, it is used in a general sense to mean a person, and in an even more general sense to mean a people or a city; and when 'a pot' is used to mean these, 'flesh' means the good or the evil that is in them, as in Ezekiel,

... the men who think iniquity and give wicked counsel in this city, saying, [The time] is not near; [the city] itself is the pot, we are the flesh. Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovih, Your slain whom you have placed in the midst of it, 2 they are the flesh, but it is the pot. Ezekiel 11:2-3, 7.

Here 'the pot' stands for the city or the people there, and 'the flesh' for evil, since 'the slain', who are called 'the flesh', are those among whom goodness and truth have been wiped out, 4503.

[2] In the same prophet,

Tell a parable against the house of rebellion, and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Put on the pot, put it on, and also pour [water into it gather] the pieces into it - every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice of the bones. The Lord Jehovih said, Woe to the city of blood, 3 to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out of it! Ezekiel 24:3-6.

Here 'the pot' stands for the city or the people there, among whom there exists the evil that results when good is profaned. The good or flesh there is 'the thigh and the shoulder'; the evil is 'the scum' coming from it, and good when profaned is the scum remaining, which also accounts for the city's being called 'the city of blood'.

[3] In Jeremiah,

Jehovah said to Jeremiah, What do you see? I said, A puffed out pot do I see, its face towards the north. Then Jehovah said, From the north evil will be opened over all the inhabitants of the land. Jeremiah 1:11-14.

'A puffed-out pot' stands for a people whom falsities have taken possession of, and 'the north' for the sensory and bodily levels of the human mind, from which evil pours out. The subject here is the end of the Church, when what belongs to the external and therefore to sensory and bodily levels, together with falsity and evil, has dominion; for the Lord's Church moves in a series of stages from what is internal to what is external, at which point it breathes its last.

[4] In Zechariah,

On that day there will be on the horses' bells, Holiness to Jehovah. And the pots in the house of Jehovah will be as the bowls before the altar. And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holiness to Jehovah Zebaoth; and all offering sacrifice will come, and take from them, and cook in them. Zechariah 14:20-21.

The subject here is the salvation of faithful believers, faithful believers being 'the pots', which they are called because they receive good from the Lord; and because they receive that good every 'pot' is said to be 'holiness to Jehovah'. 'The bells of the horses, with Holiness on them' are truths in agreement with good. Since 'pots' are recipients and containers of good, they like all the other vessels for the altar were made of bronze, Exodus 38:3; for 'bronze' means the good of the natural, 425, 1551.

[5] In addition to this 'the pot' may mean religious teachings because these hold the Church's good and truth within them. Such teachings are meant by 'the pot' in which at Elisha's command a soup was boiled for the sons of the prophets, described as follows in the second Book of Kings,

Elisha came again to Gilgal, when there was a famine in the land. When the sons of the prophets were sitting before him he said to his servant, Put on a great pot, and boil a soup for the sons of the prophets. One of them went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, and gathered from it wild gourds, and cut them up into the pot of soup. While they were eating of the soup they cried out, There is death in the pot, O man of God! But he said that they should bring flour, which he threw into the pot, and said, Pour out for the people and let them eat. Then there was not anything bad in the pot. 2 Kings 4:38-41.

It should be recognized that all Divine miracles have to do with things connected with the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 7337, 8364, and that 'Elisha' represents the Word of the Lord, 2762, and 'prophets' teachings derived from it, 2534, 7269. From this one may see what thing connected with the Church was represented by this miracle, which was that if the Church's good has been falsified it is made good again by means of truth from the Word. 'A famine' is a lack of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good; 'the pot' is religious teachings; 'soup' is the good of the Jewish Church's outward religious observances; 'gourds from a wild vine' is falsification; and 'flour' is truth from the Word, 2177, used to make good again that which has been falsified, meant by 'death in the pot'. The reason why 'pots' means containers of good is that they were included among the utensils in which food was prepared, and 'food', every kind of it, means such things as nourish the soul, that is, affections for good and truth, 681, 1480, 3114, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5340, 5342, 5576, 5410, 5915.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes proprium as A distinctive characteristic; the essential nature, selfhood. It is a Latin word meaning 'one's own (thing)'. Swedenborg uses it in the specialized sense of 'what is of the self.'

2. i.e. the city

3. literally, bloods

  
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