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1 Когда Я врачевал Израиля, открылась неправда Ефрема и злодействоСамарии: ибо они поступают лживо; и входит вор, и разбойник грабит по улицам.

2 Не помышляют они в сердце своем, что Я помню все злодеяния их; теперь окружают их дела их; они пред лицем Моим.

3 Злодейством своим они увеселяют царя и обманами своими – князей.

4 Все они пылают прелюбодейством, как печь, растопленная пекарем, который перестает поджигать ее, когда замесит тесто и оно вскиснет.

5 День нашего царя!" говорят князья, разгоряченные до болезни вином, а он протягивает руку свою к кощунам.

6 Ибо они коварством своим делают сердце свое подобным печи: пекарь ихспит всю ночь, а утром она горит, как пылающий огонь.

7 Все они распалены, как печь, и пожирают судей своих; все цари ихпадают, и никто из них не взывает ко Мне.

8 Ефрем смешался с народами, Ефрем стал, как неповороченный хлеб.

9 Чужие пожирали силу его и он не замечал; седина покрыла его, а он не знает.

10 И гордость Израиля унижена в глазах их и при всем том они не обратились к Господу Богу своему и не взыскали Его.

11 И стал Ефрем, как глупый голубь, без сердца: зовут Египтян, идут в Ассирию.

12 Когда они пойдут, Я закину на них сеть Мою; как птиц небесных низвергну их; накажу их, как слышало собрание их.

13 Горе им, что они удалились от Меня; гибель им, что они отпали от Меня! Я спасал их, а они ложь говорили на Меня.

14 И не взывали ко Мне сердцем своим, когда вопили на ложах своих; собираются из-за хлеба и вина, а от Меня удаляются.

15 Я вразумлял их и укреплял мышцы их, а они умышляли злоепротив Меня.

16 Они обращались, но не к Всевышнему, стали – как неверный лук; падут от меча князья их за дерзость языка своего; это будет посмеянием над ними в земле Египетской.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 7356

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7356. 'And into your ovens, and into your kneading bowls' means into delights belonging to evil desires. This is clear from the meaning of 'ovens', since they are what bread is baked in, as forms of exterior good (forms of exterior good being those which exist in the natural and are as a general rule called delights; for when forms of interior good, which are offshoots of [heavenly] kinds of love and resulting affections, pass into the natural they are experienced as delights there, and these delights are meant in a good sense by 'ovens') or in the contrary sense, in which 'ovens' is used here, as delights belonging to evil desires, that is, delights springing from hellish kinds of love, which are self-love and love of the world; and from the meaning of 'kneading bowls' too as delights belonging to evil desires in the natural, but even more external ones since kneading bowls are the vessels in which the dough is prepared when bread is made. Another way of saying that reasonings will enter into delights belonging to evil desires is to say that it will be the delight of their life to use reasonings arising from falsities to deceive others and lead them astray. Indeed the evil take very great delight in spreading falsities around, proving that they are well-founded, mocking truths, and especially leading others astray.

[2] The fact that 'an oven' means delight belonging to affections that go with charity and faith, and in the contrary sense delight belonging to evil desires that go with selfish and worldly love, is evident in Hosea,

They are all committing adultery, like an oven heated by a baker; the raiser 1 ceases from kneading his dough. When like an oven they transform 2 their desire (animus) while they lie in wait, their baker being sleepy all night, in the morning it is burning, like a flaming fire. All become hot, like an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings fall. Hosea 7:4, 6-7.

'Oven' stands for delight belonging to evil desires, which are evil people's desires. 'Burning', 'becoming hot', and 'flaming fire' stand for the desires themselves, 'fire being the desire for evil, see 1297, 1861, 2446, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324 (end). 'They devour their judges; all their kings fall' stands for the fact that they destroy forms of good and truths. Anyone may see that without the internal sense in which such things are meant nobody can know what 'they are all committing adultery, like an oven heated by a baker' is, or 'all become hot, like an oven, and devour their judges', and 'their kings fall'.

[3] 'Oven' is used in the good sense in Isaiah,

The saying of Jehovah, whose hearth is in Zion, and His oven in Jerusalem. Isaiah 31:9.

'Zion' stands for the celestial Church, thus for the good of love, which is the good of this Church, 'Jerusalem' for the spiritual Church, thus for the good of love in this Church, which is the good of charity and consequently of faith, while 'oven' here stands for more internal delight belonging to affections for goodness and truth. 'Oven' has this meaning because the bread which is baked in an oven means the good of celestial and spiritual love, for which meaning of 'bread' see 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3478, 3775, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976, 5915. And as 'oven' receives its meaning from this, the bread called a minchah that was baked for sacrifices in an oven was distinguished from the minchah baked on a griddle, and from the minchah baked in a covered pan, Leviticus 2:4-5, 7. Different forms of the good of love were meant by these varieties of minchah.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Whether the raiser means stirrer of the fire or raiser of the dough is not clear.

2. literally, convert

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.