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1 И было ко мне слово Господне:

2 сын человеческий! предложи загадку и скажи притчу к дому Израилеву.

3 Скажи: так говорит Господь Бог: большой орел с большими крыльями, с длинными перьями, пушистый, пестрый, прилетел на Ливан иснял с кедра верхушку,

4 сорвал верхний из молодых побегов его и принес его вземлю Ханаанскую, в городе торговцев положил его;

5 и взял от семени этой земли, и посадил на земле семени, поместил у больших вод, как сажают иву.

6 И оно выросло, и сделалось виноградною лозою, широкою, низкою ростом, которой ветви клонились к ней, и корни ее были под неюже, и стало виноградною лозою, и дало отрасли, и пустило ветви.

7 И еще был орел с большими крыльями и пушистый; и вот, эта виноградная лоза потянулась к нему своими корнями и простерла к нему ветви свои, чтобыон поливал ее из борозд рассадника своего.

8 Она была посажена на хорошем поле, у больших вод, так что могла пускать ветви и приносить плод, сделаться лозою великолепною.

9 Скажи: так говорит Господь Бог: будет ли ей успех? Не вырвут ли корней ее, и не оборвут ли плодов ее, так что она засохнет? все молодые ветви, отросшие от нее, засохнут. И не с большою силою и не со многими людьми сорвут ее с корней ее.

10 И вот, хотя она посажена, но будет ли успех? Не иссохнет ли она, как скоро коснется ее восточный ветер? иссохнет на грядах, где выросла.

11 И было ко мне слово Господне:

12 скажи мятежному дому: разве не знаете, что это значит? – Скажи: вот,пришел царь Вавилонский в Иерусалим, и взял царя его и князей его, ипривел их к себе в Вавилон.

13 И взял другого из царского рода, и заключил с ним союз, и обязал его клятвою, и взял сильных земли той с собою,

14 чтобы царство было покорное, чтобы не могло подняться, чтобы сохраняем был союз и стоял твердо.

15 Но тот отложился от него, послав послов своих в Египет, чтобы дали ему коней и много людей. Будет ли ему успех? Уцелеет ли тот, кто это делает? Он нарушил союз и уцелеет ли?

16 Живу Я, говорит Господь Бог: в местопребывании царя, который поставил его царем, и которому данную клятву он презрел, и нарушилсоюз свой с ним, он умрет у него в Вавилоне.

17 С великою силою и с многочисленным народом фараон ничего не сделает для него в этойвойне, когда будет насыпан вал и построены будут осадные башни на погибель многих душ.

18 Он презрел клятву, чтобы нарушить союз, и вот, дал руку свою и сделал все это; он не уцелеет.

19 Посему так говорит Господь Бог: живу Я! клятву Мою, которую он презрел, и союз Мой, который он нарушил, Я обращу на его голову.

20 И закину на него сеть Мою, и пойман будет в тенета Мои; и приведу его в Вавилон, и там буду судиться с ним завероломство его против Меня.

21 А все беглецы его из всех полков его падут от меча, а оставшиеся развеяны будут по всем ветрам; и узнаете, что Я, Господь, сказал это.

22 Так говорит Господь Бог: и возьму Я с вершины высокого кедра, и посажу; с верхних побегов его оторву нежную отрасль и посажу на высокой и величественной горе.

23 На высокой горе Израилевой посажу его, и пустит ветви, и принесет плод, и сделается величественным кедром, и будут обитать под ним всякие птицы, всякие пернатые будут обитать в тени ветвей его.

24 И узнают все дерева полевые, что Я, Господь, высокое дерево понижаю, низкое дерево повышаю, зеленеющее дерево иссушаю, а сухое дерево делаю цветущим: Я, Господь, сказал, и сделаю.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6125

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6125. 'In exchange for horses' means factual knowledge supplied from the understanding. This is clear from the meaning of 'horses' as ideas forming the understanding, dealt with in 2760-2762, 3217, 5321; and since they are spoken of in connection with Egypt, which means factual knowledge, 'horses' here are factual knowledge supplied from the understanding. But what factual knowledge supplied from the understanding is must be stated. There is an understanding part and there is a will part in the human mind, and these are situated not only in his internal man but also in his external. The human understanding is developing and growing from early childhood through to manhood, and it consists in a discernment of things gained from experience and formal knowledge, also a discernment of causes from effects as well as of consequences from a chain of causes. Thus the understanding part consists in a comprehension and perception of such things as are part of everyday life, public and private. An inflowing of light from heaven brings it into existence, and for that reason everyone's understanding is capable of being made more perfect. Understanding is given to everyone in accordance with his effort to make use of what he knows, in accordance with the life he leads, and in accordance with his individual character; no one lacks it provided he is of sound mind. A person is given it to the end that he may have freedom of choice, that is, have the freedom to choose good or evil. Unless he possesses an understanding like the one just described, he has no power of his own to make that choice; thus nothing could possibly be made his own.

[2] In addition to this it should be recognized that the understanding part of a person's mind is that which receives what is spiritual, so that it is the recipient of spiritual truth and good. For no good at all, that is, no charity, nor any truth at all, that is, any faith, can be instilled into anyone if he does not have that understanding part; but they are instilled in the measure that he does have it. This also explains why a person is not regenerated by the Lord until adult life when he does possess an understanding. Till then the good of love and the truth of faith fall like seed into utterly infertile soil. But once a person has been regenerated his understanding serves the function of enabling him to see and perceive what good is and from this what truth is. For the understanding converts things belonging to the superior light of heaven into those belonging to the inferior light of the natural world, as a consequence of which the former are then seen within the latter in the same way as a person's inner affections are seen in his face when it lacks all pretence. And because the understanding serves that function, many places in the Word where the spiritual side of the Church is referred to refer also to its power of understanding, a matter which will in the Lord's Divine mercy be dealt with elsewhere.

[3] From all this one may now see what is meant by factual knowledge supplied from the understanding, namely known facts which lend support to the things a person grasps and perceives with his understanding, whether those things are bad or good. Such facts are what are meant in the Word by 'horses from Egypt', as in Isaiah,

Woe to those who go down into Egypt for help, and rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many, and on horsemen because they are extremely strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel and do not seek Jehovah. For Egypt is man (homo), not God; and his horses are flesh, not spirit. Isaiah 31:1, 3.

'Horses from Egypt' stands for factual knowledge supplied from a perverted understanding.

[4] In Ezekiel,

He rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that ha might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does this be rescued? Ezekiel 17:15.

'Horses from Egypt' again stands for factual knowledge supplied from a perverted understanding, which knowledge is resorted to in matters of faith, though there is no belief in the Word, that is, in the Lord, apart from what that knowledge provides. Thus no belief ever comes to exist, for within a perverted understanding a negative attitude reigns.

[5] The destruction which such factual knowledge underwent is represented by the drowning of Pharaoh's horses and chariots in the Sea Suph; and since that knowledge is meant by 'horses' and false matters of doctrine by 'chariots', his horses and chariots are mentioned so many times in the description of that event, see Exodus 14:17-18, 27, 26, 28. And the Song of Moses and Miriam consequently contains these words,

Pharaoh's horse went, also his chariot, also his horsemen, into the sea; but Jehovah made the waters of the sea come back over them. Sing to Jehovah, for He has highly exalted Himself; He has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea. Exodus 15:19, 21.

[6] Similar factual knowledge is also meant by the things required before-hand for a king over Israel, in Moses,

If they desire a king, from among their brothers shall a king be set over them. Only let him not multiply horses for himself nor lead the people back into Egypt in order to multiply horses. Deuteronomy 17:15-16.

'A king' represented the Lord as regards Divine Truth, 1672, 1728, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4789, 4966, 5044, 5068, thus as regards intelligence since this comes, when it is genuine, from Divine Truth. The need for intelligence to be acquired through the Word, which is Divine Truth, and not through factual knowledge taken from one's own understanding is meant by the injunction that the king should not multiply horses or lead the people back into Egypt in order to multiply horses.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2069

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2069. 'Kings of peoples will be from her' means truths that are the product of truths and goods joined together, meant by 'kings of peoples'. This is clear from the meaning of 'kings' as all truths in general, dealt with above in 2015, and from the meaning of 'peoples' also as truths, in general all things that are spiritual. For 'kings' are spoken of in reference to peoples, and not so much in reference to nations except when the nations mean evils, dealt with in 1259, 1260. In the prophetical part of the Word kings and peoples are mentioned many times, but nowhere are they used to mean kings and peoples, for at no point are kings and peoples the subject in the Word proper, which is the internal sense, but the celestial and spiritual things comprising the Lord's kingdom, and so goods and truths. The sense of the letter expresses itself by means of perceivable objects, as anyone does with words, merely to enable understanding.

[2] Since the subject here is Sarah and the promise that 'kings of peoples will be from her', and since 'Sarah' means Divine Truth which was the Lord's, 'kings of peoples' clearly means truths that are the product of truths and goods joined together, which are all the truths of the internal Church, that is, the interior truths of faith. Because these truths come from the Lord, they are frequently called 'kings' in the Word, and also 'a king's sons', as shown above in 2015.

[3] Anyone may see that some internal Divine matter lies concealed in the words that 'kings of peoples will be from her'. For the subject in this verse is Isaac, of whom it is said, 'I will bless him, and he will become nations', but of Sarah that 'kings of peoples will be from her'. Almost the same was also said of Abraham in verse 6 above, that 'kings will go out of him'; but it did not say as it does of Sarah, 'kings of peoples'. The arcanum within this lies too deep to allow it to be uncovered and described in a few words. From the representation and meaning of 'Abraham' as Divine Good and from the representation and meaning of 'Sarah' as Divine Truth the arcanum is to some extent evident, namely that from the Lord's Divine Good meant by 'Abraham' all celestial truth will come forth and have its being, and from the Lord's Divine Truth meant by 'Sarah' all spiritual truth will do so. Celestial truth is the truth which exists with celestial angels, and spiritual truth that which exists with spiritual angels. Or what amounts to the same, celestial truth was the truth which existed with members of the Most Ancient Church which came before the Flood and which was a celestial Church, spiritual truth that which existed with members of the Ancient Church which came after the Flood and was a spiritual Church. For angels, as also members of the Church, are distinguished into celestial and spiritual. That which distinguishes the celestial from the spiritual is love to the Lord, and that which distinguishes spiritual from celestial is love towards the neighbour.

[4] No more can be said about celestial truth and spiritual truth however until the difference between the celestial and the spiritual is known, or what amounts to the same, the difference between the celestial Church and the spiritual. For this see Volume One, in 202, 337, 1577; then concerning the nature of the Most Ancient Church and the nature of the Ancient Church, in 597, 607, 640, 765, 1114-1125, and in many other places. On the point that possessing love to the Lord constitutes the celestial, and possessing love towards the neighbour the spiritual, see 2023.

[5] These considerations now show what the arcanum is, namely that 'the kings who will go out of Abraham', referred to in verse 6, mean celestial truths that flow in from the Lord's Divine Good, while 'the kings of peoples who will be from Sarah', referred to in the present verse, mean spiritual truths that flow in from the Lord's Divine Truth. For the Lord's Divine Good is unable to flow in except with the celestial man since it is an influx into the will part of his mind, as was the case with the Most Ancient Church, whereas with the spiritual man the Lord's Divine Truth is flowing in since the influx is solely into the understanding part, which in him has been separated from the will part, 2053 (end). Or what amounts to the same, celestial good is flowing in with the celestial man, and spiritual good with the spiritual man. As a consequence the Lord is seen by celestial angels as the Sun, but by spiritual angels as the Moon, 1529, 1530.

  
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