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Даниил 12

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1 И восстанет в то время Михаил, князь великий, стоящий за сынов народа твоего; и наступит время тяжкое, какого не бывало с тех пор, как существуют люди, до сего времени; но спасутся в это время из народа твоего все, которые найдены будут записанными в книге.

2 И многие из спящих в прахе земли пробудятся, одни для жизни вечной, другие на вечное поругание и посрамление.

3 И разумные будут сиять, как светила на тверди, и обратившие многих к правде – как звезды, вовеки, навсегда.

4 А ты, Даниил, сокрой слова сии и запечатай книгу сию до последнего времени; многие прочитают ее, и умножится ведение".

5 Тогда я, Даниил, посмотрел, и вот, стоят двое других, один на этом берегу реки, другой на том берегу реки.

6 И один сказал мужу в льняной одежде, который стоял над водами реки: „когда будет конец этих чудных происшествий?"

7 И слышал я, как муж в льняной одежде, находившийся над водами реки, подняв правую и левую руку к небу, клялся Живущим вовеки, что к концу времени и времен и полувремени, и по совершенном низложении силы народа святого, все это совершится.

8 Я слышал это, но не понял, и потому сказал: „господин мой! что же после этого будет?"

9 И отвечал он: „иди, Даниил; ибо сокрыты и запечатаны слова сии до последнего времени.

10 Многие очистятся, убелятся и переплавлены будут в искушении ; нечестивые же будут поступать нечестиво, и не уразумеет сего никто из нечестивых, а мудрые уразумеют.

11 Со времени прекращения ежедневной жертвы и поставления мерзости запустения пройдет тысяча двести девяносто дней.

12 Блажен, кто ожидает и достигнет тысячи трехсот тридцати пяти дней.

13 А ты иди к твоему концу и упокоишься, и восстанешь для получения твоего жребия в конце дней".

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 199

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199. And I will not blot his name out of the book of life, signifies that they will be in heaven because they are fitted for it. This is evident from the signification of "name," as being the quality of man's state of life (See above, n. 148); and from the signification of "the book of life," as being heaven (of which presently); therefore, "not to blot his name out of the book of life" signifies that they will be in heaven because their state in respect to love and faith is such, thus because they are fitted for heaven. "The book of life" signifies heaven, because a man who is in the love to the Lord and faith in Him is a heaven in least form, and this heaven of man corresponds to heaven in the greatest form; therefore he who has heaven in himself also comes into heaven, for he is fitted for it. (That there is such correspondence, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 51-58, 73-77, 87-102; and The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 230-236.) From this it is that "the book of life" is that with man that corresponds to the heaven with him. Because this remains with man to eternity, if he has become spiritual by means of the knowledges of truth and good applied to life in the world, it is said, "I will not blot his name out of the book of life." In the world indeed it may be blotted out if man does not remain spiritual to the end of life; but if he does so remain it cannot be blotted out, because he is conjoined to the Lord by love and faith, and such conjunction with the Lord as there has been in the world remains with man after death.

[2] From this it can be seen that "the book of life" means that from the Lord which has been written on man's spirit, that is, on his heart and soul, or what is the same, on his love and faith; and what is written by the Lord in man is heaven. From this it is clear what is meant by "the book of life" in the following passages. In Daniel:

The Ancient of Days sat, and the books were opened (Daniel 7:9-10).

In the same:

The people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book (Daniel 12:1).

In David:

Let them be blotted out of the book of lives, and not be written with the righteous (Psalms 69:28).

In Moses:

Moses said, Blot me, I pray, out of the book which Thou hast written. And Jehovah said, Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of the book (Exodus 32:32-33).

In Revelation:

All shall worship the beast whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life (Revelation 13:8; 17:8).

Again:

I saw that the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is that of life; and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. And if any was not found written in the book of life he was cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:12-13, 15).

Again:

There shall enter into the New Jerusalem only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life (Revelation 21:27).

In David:

My bone was not hidden from Thee when I was made in secret. Upon Thy book all the days were written in which they were formed, and not one of them is wanting (Psalms 139:15-16).

"All the days were written" means all states of life. (That each and all things that man has thought, willed, spoken, and done, even all that he has seen and heard, are with him in his spirit as if written therein, so that nothing whatever is wanting, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 462, 463; and Arcana Coelestia 2469-2494, 7398; and that this is man's "book of life," see n. 2474, 9386, 9841, 10505, n. 5212, 8067, 9334, 9723, 9841.

  
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