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1 Tada me podiže duh, i odnese me na istočna vrata doma Gospodnjeg, koja gledaju na istok, i gle, na vratima beše dvadeset i pet ljudi, i među njima videh Jezaniju, sina Azurovog i Felatiju sina Venajinog, poglavare narodne.

2 I reče mi: Sine čovečji, ovi ljudi smišljaju bezakonje, i zlo savetuju u tom gradu,

3 Govoreći: Nije blizu; da gradimo kuće; ovaj je grad lonac a mi meso.

4 Zato prorokuj protiv njih, prorokuj, sine čovečji.

5 I pade na me duh Gospodnji i reče mi: Reci: Ovako veli Gospod: Dome Izrailjev, tako govoriste, i znam misli srca vašeg.

6 Mnoge pobiste u tom gradu, i napuniste ulice njihove pobijenih.

7 Zato ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Koje pobiste i pobacaste usred njega, oni su meso, a on je lonac, a vas ću izvesti iz njega.

8 Bojite se mača; mač ću pustiti na vas, govori Gospod Gospod.

9 I izvešću vas iz njega, i daću vas u ruke tuđincima, i izvršiću na vama sudove.

10 Od mača ćete pasti, na međi Izrailjevoj sudiću vam, i poznaćete da sam ja Gospod.

11 Ovaj grad neće vam biti lonac niti ćete vi biti u njemu meso; na međi Izrailjevoj sudiću vam.

12 I poznaćete da sam ja Gospod, jer po uredbama mojim ne hodiste niti zakone moje izvršavaste, nego činiste po zakonima tih naroda što su oko vas.

13 A kad prorokovah, umre Felatija sin Venajin; tada padoh na lice svoje i povikah glasno i rekoh: Jaoh Gospode Gospode! Hoćeš li da istrebiš ostatak Izrailjev?

14 A glas Gospodnji dođe mi govoreći:

15 Sine čovečji, braća su tvoja, braća tvoja, rodbina tvoja i dom Izrailjev vaskoliki, kojima govoriše Jerusalimljani: Idite daleko od Gospoda, nama je data zemlja u nasledstvo.

16 Zato reci: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Ako ih i odagnah daleko među narode, ako ih i rasejah po zemljama, opet ću im biti svetinja za malo u zemljama u koje otidoše.

17 Zato reci: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Sabraću vas iz naroda i pokupiću vas iz zemalja u koje se rasejaste, i daću vam zemlju Izrailjevu.

18 I kad dođu u nju, izbaciće iz nje sve gadove njene i sve gnusobe njene.

19 I daću im jedno srce, i nov duh metnuću u njih, i izvadiću iz tela njihovog kameno srce i daću im srce mesno,

20 Da bi hodili po mojim uredbama i držali moje zakone i izvršavali ih; i biće mi narod, i ja ću im biti Bog.

21 A kojima srce ide po želji gnusoba njihovih i gadova njihovih, njihov ću put obratiti na njihovu glavu, govori Gospod Gospod.

22 Potom mahnuše heruvimi krilima svojim, i točkovi otidoše prema njima, i slava Boga Izrailjevog beše ozgo nad njima.

23 I podiže se slava Gospodnja isred grada, i stade na gori koja je s istoka gradu.

24 A mene duh podiže i odnese u utvari duhom Božjim u Haldejsku k roblju: i utvara koju videh otide od mene.

25 I kazah roblju sve reči Gospodnje što mi pokaza.

   

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501. And their bodies will lie in the street of the great city. (11:8) This symbolically means that these two essential elements of the New Church have been utterly rejected by people inwardly caught up in the doctrinal falsities connected with justification by faith alone.

The bodies of the two witnesses symbolize the two essential elements of the New Church, namely, an acknowledgment of the Lord as the only God of heaven and earth, and conjunction with Him by a life in accordance with the Ten Commandments (nos. 490ff.). The street of the great city symbolizes doctrinal falsity connected with justification by faith alone - the street symbolizing falsity, as we shall see next, and the city symbolizing doctrine (no. 194). It is called a great city because the doctrine is the prevailing doctrine throughout the Protestant Reformed Christian world among the clergy, though not in the same way among the laity.

Streets in the Word have almost the same symbolic meaning as ways, because streets are a city's ways. Still, streets symbolize doctrinal truths or falsities, because a city symbolizes doctrine (no. 194), while ways symbolize a church's truths or falsities, because the earth symbolizes the church (no. 285).

[2] That streets symbolize doctrinal truths or falsities can be seen from the following passages:

Justice has been rejected, and righteousness stands afar off, for truth has stumbled in the street, and rectitude cannot enter. (Isaiah 59:14)

The chariots raced madly in the streets, they rushed in every direction in the town squares. (Nahum 2:4)

In the days of Jael, the ways were deserted... The town squares were deserted... in Israel... (Judges 5:6-7)

How the glorious city is forsaken...! Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets... (Jeremiah 49:25-26, cf. 50:30)

Those who ate delicacies are devastated in the streets... Darker than black is the appearance (of the Nazirites); they go unrecognized in the streets... They wandered blind in the streets... They tracked our steps so that we could not go into our streets. (Lamentations 4:5, 8, 14, 18)

I will cut off nations, their corners will be devastated; I will make their streets desolate... (Zephaniah 3:6)

(After) sixty-two weeks, the street (of Jerusalem) shall be built again..., but in distressful times. (Daniel 9:25)

...the street of the city (New Jerusalem) was pure gold, like transparent glass. (Revelation 21:21)

In the middle of its street... on this side and that, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits... (Revelation 22:1-2)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 15:3; 24:10-11; 51:20.

As streets symbolize the church's doctrinal truths, therefore they taught in the streets (2 Samuel 1:20). And we are told,

We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets. (Luke 13:26)

For this reason also hypocrites prayed on street corners (Matthew 6:2, 5). And for this reason the master of the house in Luke 14:21 ordered his servants to go out into the streets and squares and bring people in.

For the same reason, too, anything false or falsified is called mire, filth and excrement in the streets (Isaiah 5:25; 10:6, Micah 7:10, Psalms 18:42).

Prophets who prophesied falsely were cast out into the streets of Jerusalem, and no one buried them (Jeremiah 14:16).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.