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Ezequiel 35

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1 Veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

2 Filho do homem, dirige o teu rosto contra o monte Seir, e profetiza contra ele.

3 E dize-lhe: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Eis que eu estou contra ti, ó monte Seir, e estenderei a minha mão contra ti, e te tornarei em desolação e espanto.

4 Farei desertas as tuas cidades, e tu serás assolado; e saberás que eu sou o Senhor.

5 Pois que guardaste perpétua inimizade, e entregaste os filhos de Israel ao poder da espada no tempo da sua calamidade, no tempo do castigo final;

6 por isso vivo eu, diz o Senhor Deus, que te prepararei para sangue, e o sangue te perseguirá; visto que não aborreceste o sangue, por isso o sangue te perseguirá.

7 Farei do monte Seir um espanto e uma desolação, e exterminarei dele o que por ele passar, e o que por ele voltar;

8 e encherei os seus montes dos seus mortos; nos teus outeiros, e nos teus vales, e em todas as tuas correntes d'água cairão os mortos à espada.

9 Em desolações perpétuas te porei, e não serão habitadas as tuas cidades. Então sabereis que eu sou o Senhor.

10 Visto como dizes: Estes dois povos e estas duas terras serão meus, e havemos de possuí-los, sendo que o Senhor se achava ali;

11 portanto, vivo eu, diz o Senhor Deus, que procederei conforme a tua ira, e conforme a tua inveja, de que usaste, no teu ódio contra eles; e me darei a conhecer entre eles, quando eu te julgar.

12 E saberás que eu, o Senhor, ouvi todas as tuas blasfêmias, que proferiste contra os montes de Israel, dizendo: Já estão assolados, a nós nos são entregues por pasto.

13 Vós vos engrandecestes contra mim com a vossa boca, e multiplicastes as vossas palavras contra mim. Eu o ouvi.

14 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Quando a terra toda se alegrar, a ti te farei uma desolação.

15 Como te alegraste com a herança da casa de Israel, porque foi assolada, assim eu te farei a ti: assolado serás, ó monte Seir, e todo o Edom, sim, todo ele; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 643

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643. And if anyone will hurt them, thus must he be killed, signifies that according to their endeavor to inflict evil they perish. This is evident from the signification of "will hurt," as being the endeavor to inflict evil, for to will is to endeavor; also from the signification of "to be killed," as being to perish, here in respect to spiritual life, which is destroyed solely by the evils and the falsities of evil, for such are the cause of spiritual death (See above, n. 315, 589). It is here again said "If any will hurt them," because it is meant that everyone perishes according to his wish or endeavor to inflict evil, for it is the will that makes the life of everyone. Everyone perishes according to his wish to hurt "the two witnesses," who are the "two olive trees and the two lampstands," that is, the good of love and charity, and the truth of doctrine and faith, because he is in the opposite will, and the will that is opposite to the good of love and the truth of doctrine is hell in the measure of such opposition; consequently "thus must he be killed," that is, perish, so far as he desires to hurt them. Moreover, every man and spirit is under the Lord's protection, the evil as well as the good; and to him who is under the Lord's protection no evil can happen: for it is the Lord's will that no one should perish or be punished. But so far as anyone is under the Lord's protection he abstains from doing evil, but so far as he does not abstain he removes himself from the Lord's protection, and so far as he so removes himself he is hurt by the evil spirits who are from hell; for infernal spirits have an unceasing desire to do evil to others; and so far as any are outside of the Lord's Divine protection, that is, so far as they do evil, they come into the power of those who do evil to them by inflicting punishment and depriving them of such things as belong to spiritual life. In a word, so far as anyone desires to hurt the goods of love and the truths of doctrine he is "devoured by fire and is killed," that is, he is possessed by evils and the falsities of evil, and so far he spiritually dies, and this comes to pass not from the Divine but from the evil itself that he does.

  
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Job 29:22

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22 After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them.