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Даниил 10

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1 В третий год Кира, царя Персидского, было откровение Даниилу, который назывался именем Валтасара; и истинно было это откровение и великой силы. Он понял это откровение и уразумел это видение.

2 В эти дни я, Даниил, был в сетовании три седмицы дней.

3 Вкусного хлеба я не ел; мясо и вино не входило в уста мои, и мастями я не умащал себя до исполнения трех седмиц дней.

4 А в двадцать четвертый день первого месяца был я на берегу большой реки Тигра,

5 и поднял глаза мои, и увидел: вот один муж, облеченный в льняную одежду, и чресла его опоясаны золотом из Уфаза.

6 Тело его – как топаз, лице его – как вид молнии; очи его – как горящие светильники, руки его и ноги его по виду – как блестящая медь, и глас речей его – как голос множества людей.

7 И только один я, Даниил, видел это видение, а бывшие со мною люди не видели этого видения; но сильный страх напал на них и они убежали, чтобы скрыться.

8 И остался я один и смотрел на это великое видение, но во мне не осталось крепости, и вид лица моего чрезвычайно изменился, не стало во мне бодрости.

9 И услышал я глас слов его; и как только услышал глас слов его, воцепенении пал я на лице мое и лежал лицем к земле.

10 Но вот, коснулась меня рука и поставила меня на колени мои и на длани рук моих.

11 И сказал он мне: „Даниил, муж желаний! вникни в слова, которые яскажу тебе, и стань прямо на ноги твои; ибо к тебе я послан ныне". Когда он сказал мне эти слова, я встал с трепетом.

12 Но он сказал мне: „не бойся, Даниил; с первого дня, как ты расположил сердце твое, чтобы достигнуть разумения и смирить тебя пред Богом твоим, слова твои услышаны, и я пришел бы по словам твоим.

13 Но князь царства Персидского стоял против меня двадцать один день; но вот, Михаил, один из первых князей, пришел помочь мне, и я остался там при царях Персидских.

14 А теперь я пришел возвестить тебе, что будет с народом твоим в последние времена, так как видение относится к отдаленным дням".

15 Когда он говорил мне такие слова, я припал лицем моим к земле и онемел.

16 Но вот, некто, по виду похожий на сынов человеческих, коснулся уст моих, и я открыл уста мои, стал говорить и сказал стоящему передо мною: „господин мой! от этого видения внутренности мои повернулись во мне, и не стало во мне силы.

17 И как может говорить раб такого господина моего с таким господиноммоим? ибо во мне нет силы, и дыхание замерло во мне".

18 Тогда снова прикоснулся ко мне тот человеческий облик и укрепилменя

19 и сказал: „не бойся, муж желаний! мир тебе; мужайся, мужайся!" И когда он говорил со мною, я укрепился и сказал: „говори, господин мой; ибо ты укрепил меня".

20 И он сказал: „знаешь ли, для чего я пришел к тебе? Теперь я возвращусь, чтобы бороться с князем Персидским; а когда я выйду, то вот, придет князь Греции.

21 Впрочем я возвещу тебе, что начертано в истинном писании; и нет никого, кто поддерживал бы меня в том, кроме Михаила, князя вашего.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8813

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8813. 'That there were voices and lightnings' means a Divine state in which revelation took place. This is clear from the meaning of 'voices', which are the sounds made by claps of thunder, as God's truths; and from the meaning of 'lightnings' as the radiance and brilliance which those truths possess, for God's truths are made brilliant and radiant by the fiery brightness of light that shines from the sun of heaven. This is why 'voices and lightnings' means a Divine state in which revelation takes place, a Divine state being meant by the fact that they come down out of the sky, and revelation by the fact that 'voices' and 'lightnings' mean God's truths. For the meaning of 'voices', which are the products of lightning from the sky, as God's truths, see 7573; and the fact that 'lightnings' means brilliant flashes from them which strike a person's inward eye, enlightening those guided by truth derived from good and bewildering those steeped in falsity arising from evil, is clear from places in the Word where 'lightnings' are mentioned, as in David,

The clouds dropped water, the skies gave voice; and Your arrows went out The voice of Your thunder went into the world, 1 the lightnings lit up the earth, the earth was shaken violently and quaked. Psalms 77:17-18.

Here 'the voice of thunder' stands for God's truth, 7573, 'lightnings' for its brilliance, and 'the earth' for the Church. Consequently ' the lightnings lit up the earth' stands for the enlightenment of the Church by God's truth.

[2] Something similar occurs in the same author,

His lightnings will enlighten the earth, the earth will see and fear; the mountains will melt like wax before Jehovah. Psalms 97:4-5.

In the same author,

What Jehovah wills He does in heaven and on earth, in the seas and in all deep places. He causes the vapours to go up from the ends of the earth, He makes lightnings for the rain. Psalms 135:6-7; Jeremiah 10:13; 51:16.

'Lightnings for the rain' stands for the brightness of the truth coming down from heaven. In John,

There were lightnings, voices, and thunders. Revelation 11:19; 16:18.

'Voices, lightnings, and thunders' stands for God's truths which enlighten the good and terrify the evil.

[3] In Ezekiel,

The appearance of the living creatures (who were cherubs) was like burning coals of fire, Like the appearance of lamps. It was moving between the living creatures, so that there was the brightness of fire, and out of the fire went forth lightning. And the living creatures ran forth and back, in appearance like a flash of lightning. Ezekiel 1:13-14.

Here 'fire' stands for the good of love, and 'out of the fire went forth lightning' for God's truth derived from that good. The Lord's Divine providence, which is God's truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good, is described here by 'the cherubs'.

[4] In Daniel, behold, one clothed in linen whose loins were girded with gold of Uphaz, and his body was like tarshish; 2 his face was like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes were like fiery torches. Daniel 10:5-6.

'A face like the appearance of lightning' stands for the love of truth; for truth radiated by love carries with it a characteristic, meant by 'lightning', which is like a flame flashing from fire.

[5] In Zechariah,

Jehovah will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning; and the Lord Jehovih will sound a blast on the trumpet, and move forward in storms of the south. Zechariah 9:14.

'The arrow which will go forth like lightning' stands for God's truth which strikes and penetrates, 'an arrow' being truth coming from doctrine, see 2686, 2709, so that 'an arrow from Jehovah' is truth coming from God.

[6] In Nahum,

The glitter of the sword, the lightning-flash of the spear, 3 and the multitude of the slain. Nahum 3:3

In Moses,

I will sharpen My flashing sword 4 . Deuteronomy 32:41.

This stands for the penetration of God's truth as experienced by the evil, 'sword' standing for truth engaged in conflict, 2799, 8294, and 'lightning' for its brightness which strikes the understanding and deprives it of the ability to see truth. Something similar occurs in Ezekiel 21:15, 28. From all this it is also evident that 'lightning' is used to mean God's truth in Matthew 28:3, and Luke 17:24.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The Hebrew, word here means a wheel or a whirlwind.

2. A Hebrew word for a particular kind of stone, possibly a beryl.

3. literally, The brightness of the sword, the lightning of the spear

4. literally, the lightning of My sword

  
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Exodus 19

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1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.

8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.