Bible

 

Иеремия 39

Studie

   

1 В девятый год Седекии, царя Иудейского, в десятый месяц, пришел Навуходоносор, царь Вавилонский, со всем войском своим к Иерусалиму, и обложили его.

2 А в одиннадцатый год Седекии, в четвертый месяц, в девятый день месяца город был взят.

3 И вошли в него все князья царя Вавилонского, и расположились в средних воротах, Нергал-Шарецер, Самгар-Нево, Сарсехим, начальник евнухов, Нергал-Шарецер, начальник магов, и все остальные князья царя Вавилонского.

4 Когда Седекия, царь Иудейский, и все военные люди увидели их, – побежали, и ночью вышли из города через царский сад в ворота между двумя стенами и пошли по дороге равнины.

5 Но войско Халдейское погналось за ними; и настигли Седекию на равнинах Иерихонских; и взяли его и отвели к Навуходоносору, царю Вавилонскому, в Ривлу, в землю Емаф, где он произнес суд над ним.

6 И заколол царь Вавилонский сыновей Седекии в Ривле перед его глазами, и всех вельмож Иудейских заколол царь Вавилонский;

7 а Седекии выколол глаза и заковал его в оковы, чтобы отвести его в Вавилон.

8 Дом царя и домы народа сожгли Халдеи огнем, и стены Иерусалима разрушили.

9 А остаток народа, остававшийся в городе, и перебежчиков, которые перешли к нему, и прочий оставшийся народ Навузардан, начальник телохранителей, переселил в Вавилон.

10 Бедных же из народа, которые ничего не имели, Навузардан, начальник телохранителей, оставил в Иудейской земле и дал им тогда же виноградники и поля.

11 А о Иеремии Навуходоносор, царь Вавилонский, дал такое повеление Навузардану, начальнику телохранителей:

12 возьми его и имей его во внимании, и не делай ему ничего худого, но поступай с ним так, как он скажет тебе.

13 И послал Навузардан, начальник телохранителей, и Навузазван, начальник евнухов, и Нергал-Шарецер, начальник магов, и все князья царя Вавилонского

14 послали и взяли Иеремию со двора стражи, и поручили его Годолии, сыну Ахикама, сына Сафанова, отвести его домой. И он остался жить среди народа.

15 К Иеремии, когда он еще содержался во дворе темничном, было слово Господне:

16 иди, скажи Авдемелеху Ефиоплянину: так говорит Господь Саваоф, Бог Израилев: вот, Я исполню слова Мои о городе сем во зло, а не в добро ему, и они сбудутся в тот день перед глазами твоими;

17 но тебя Я избавлю в тот день, говорит Господь, и не будешь предан в руки людей, которых ты боишься.

18 Я избавлю тебя, и ты не падешь от меча, и душа твоя останется у тебя вместо добычи,потому что ты на Меня возложил упование, сказал Господь.

   

Komentář

 

Four

  
Four Mandalas

The number "four" in the Bible represents things being linked together or joined. This is partly because four is two times two, and two represents the ultimate linking between our desire to be good and our understanding of truth. We can also see this in the fact that most buildings are rectangular, with the four sides linking together to make a whole. We also divide directions into four -- north, east, south and west -- and talk about the "four corners" of something meaning all of it. So our special thinking naturally looks at four sides as linking together into a whole.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 417; Arcana Coelestia 1686, 9103, 9601, 9767, 9864)

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Arcana Coelestia # 2776

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 10837  
  

2776. 'Offer him as a burnt offering' means that He was to sanctify Himself to the Divine. This is clear from the representation of 'a burnt offering' among the Hebrew nation, and in the Jewish Church, as the holiest act of their worship. There were burnt offerings and there were sacrifices, and as regards what these represented, see 922, 923, 1823, 2180. Sanctifications were effected by means of burnt offerings and sacrifices, and that is why in this verse 'offering a burnt offering' means being sanctified to the Divine. For the Lord sanctified Himself to the Divine, that is, He united the Human to the Divine by means of the conflicts brought about by temptations, and by means of the victories in these, see 1663, 1690, 1692 (end), 1692, 1737, 1787, 1812, 1813, 1820.

[2] It is generally believed at the present day that the burnt offerings and sacrifices were signs of the Lord's passion, and that by His passion the Lord atoned for the iniquities of all. Indeed it is believed that He drew away those iniquities on to Himself, and thus bore them Himself, so that those who believe are made righteous and are saved, if only they think, even in the last hour prior to death, that the Lord suffered on their behalf, no matter how they may have lived throughout the whole course of their lives. But such beliefs are mistaken. The passion of the Cross was the utmost degree of temptation endured by the Lord, by means of which He fully united the Human to the Divine and the Divine to the Human, and by doing this glorified Himself. That union itself is the means by which people possessing faith in Him that is grounded in charity are able to be saved. For the Supreme Divine Itself was no longer able to reach the human race which had removed itself so far away from the celestial things of love, and from the spiritual things of faith, that people did not even recognize them any more, let alone perceive them. Consequently to enable the Supreme Divine to come down to all such as this, the Lord came into the world and united the Human to the Divine within Himself. This union could not have been effected except by means of the very severe conflicts brought about by temptations and by means of victories in these, and at length by means of the final temptation, which was that of the Cross.

[3] As a result of this the Lord is able from the Divine Human to enlighten human minds, even those that are quite remote from the celestial things of love, provided that faith grounded in charity is present in them. For in the next life the Lord appears to celestial angels as the Sun, and to spiritual angels as the Moon, 1053, 1521, 1529, 1530, 2441, 2495 - all the light of heaven flowing from Him. The light of heaven is such that when it enlightens the eyes of spirits and angels it also at the same time enlightens their understanding. This ability to enlighten the understanding also exists inherently within that light, so that the amount of internal light, that is, of understanding, which anyone possesses in heaven is the same as the amount of external light he has. This shows the way in which the light of heaven is different from the light of the world. It is the Lord's Divine Human that enlightens both the eyes and the understanding of those who are spiritual, but this could never be done unless the Lord had united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence. And unless He had united them neither men in the world, nor indeed any spiritual angel in heaven, would any longer have possessed any ability to understand or to perceive that which is good or true. Nor thus would they have possessed any blessedness and happiness at all, nor consequently any salvation at all. From this it becomes clear that the human race could not have been saved unless the Lord had assumed the Human and glorified it.

[4] From what has now been stated anyone may decide for himself the truth or otherwise of the idea that people are saved, no matter how they may have lived, if only they think from some inner emotion that the Lord suffered on their behalf and bore their sins. But in reality the light of heaven received from the Lord's Divine Human is able to reach none except those with whom there exists the good that accompanies faith, that is, who lead charitable lives, or what amounts to the same, who possess conscience. The level itself into which that light can operate, that is, the receptacle for that light, is the good that accompanies faith, which is charity and thus conscience. That those who are spiritual have salvation from the Lord's Divine Human, see 1043, 2661, 2716, 2718.

  
/ 10837  
  

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