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1 Opet mi dođe reč Gospodnja govoreći:

2 Sine čovečji, behu dve žene, kćeri jedne matere.

3 One se kurvahu u Misiru, u mladosti svojoj kurvahu se, onde im pipaše grudi, i onde im zgnječiše dojke devojačke.

4 A imena im behu, starijoj Ola, a sestri joj Oliva; one postaše moje, i rodiše sinove i kćeri. imena im behu Ola Samariji, a Oliva Jerusalimu.

5 I Ola kad beše moja kurvaše se, i upaljivaše se za svojim milosnicima, Asircima susedima,

6 Koji nošahu porfiru, i behu knezovi i vlastelji, sve lepi mladići, vitezovi, koji jahahu na konjima.

7 I udari u kurvanje s njima, koji svi behu najlepši između sinova asirskih, i za kojima se god upaljivaše, skvrnjaše se o sve gadne bogove njihove.

8 A ni s Misircima ne okani se kurvanja svog, jer spavahu s njom od mladosti njene i oni joj gnječiše devojačke dojke i s njom se kurvaše.

9 Zato je dadoh u ruke milosnicima njenim, u ruke Asircima, za kojima se upaljivaše.

10 Oni otkriše golotinju njenu, uzeše joj sinove i kćeri, a nju mačem ubiše; i ona izađe na glas među ženama kad sudove izvršiše na njoj.

11 A sestra njena Oliva, videći to, upaljivaše se još gore nego ona, i kurvarstvo njeno beše gore od kurvarstva sestre joj.

12 Upaljivaše se za Asircima, knezovima i vlasteljima, susedima, krasno odevenim, vitezima koji jahahu na konjima i svi behu lepi mladići.

13 I videh gde se oskvrni, i gde obe idu jednim putem.

14 I ova se još više kurvaše; jer kad bi videla ljude napisane na zidu, likove haldejske napisane crvenilom,

15 Opasane pojasima po bedrima, sa šarenim kapama na glavi, koji svi behu na oči kao vojvode nalik na sinove vavilonske iz zemlje haldejske, svoje postojbine,

16 Upaljivaše se za njima čim ih viđaše očima svojim, i slaše poslanike k njima u haldejsku.

17 I Vavilonjani dolažahu k njoj na postelju ljubavnu, i skvrnjahu je kurvarstvom svojim, i pošto bi se oskvrnila s njima, odvraćaše se duša njena od njih.

18 I kad otkri kurvarstva svoja i otkri golotinju svoju, odvrati se duša moja od nje kao što se odvrati duša moja od sestre njene.

19 Jer umnoži kurvarstva svoja opominjući se dana mladosti svoje kad se kurvaše u zemlji misirskoj,

20 I upaljivaše se za svojim milosnicima, u kojih je telo kao u magarca, i tečenje kao u konja.

21 I tako si se vratila na nevaljalstvo mladosti svoje kad ti pipahu grudi u Misiru radi devojačkih dojaka tvojih.

22 Za to, Olivo, ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Evo, ja ću podignuti milosnike tvoje na te, one od kojih se odvratila duša tvoja, i dovešću ih na te od svuda,

23 Vavilonjane i sve Haldejce, Fekođane i Sojane i Kojane, sve Asirce s njima, lepe mladiće, knezove i vlastelje sve, vitezove i ljude čuvene, koji svi jašu na konjima.

24 I doći će na te s kolima i s kolicima i s točkovima i s mnoštvom naroda, i opkoliće te sa štitovima i štitićima i šlemovima; i njima ću dati sud da ti sude svojim sudom.

25 I staviću revnost svoju tebi na suprot, te će raditi s tobom gnevno, nos i uši odseći će ti, i šta te ostane pašće od mača, i uzeće sinove tvoje i kćeri tvoje, i šta te ostane proždreće oganj.

26 I svući će s tebe haljine, i uzeće krasni nakit tvoj.

27 Tako ću učiniti kraj grdilu tvom i tvom kurvanju u zemlji misirskoj, te nećeš podignuti očiju svojih k njima i nećeš se više sećati Misiraca.

28 Jer ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Evo, ja ću te dati u ruke onima na koje mrziš, u ruke onima od kojih se odvratila duša tvoja.

29 I oni će raditi s tobom neprijateljski, i uzeće svu muku tvoju, i ostaviće te golu nagu, te će se otkriti golotinja kurvarstva tvog, i grdilo tvoje i kurvarstvo tvoje.

30 To ću ti učiniti što si se kurvala za narodima, što si se oskvrnila o njihove gadne bogove.

31 Putem sestre svoje išla si, zato ću dati čašu njenu tebi u ruku.

32 Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Čašu sestre svoje ispićeš duboku i široku, bićeš podsmeh i rug, jer čaša mnogo bere.

33 Napunićeš se pijanstva i žalosti čašom pustošenja i zatiranja, čašom sestre svoje Samarije.

34 I ispićeš je i iscediti, i razbićeš je, i dojke ćeš svoje pokidati, jer ja rekoh, govori Gospod Gospod.

35 Zato ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Što si me zaboravila i bacila me za leđa svoja, za to i ti nosi grdilo svoje i kurvarstva svoja.

36 Po tom reče mi Gospod: Sine čovečji, hoćeš li suditi Oli i Olivi? Pokaži im gadove njihove,

37 Da su činile preljubu i da je krv na rukama njihovim i da su činile preljubu s gadnim bogovima svojim i vodile kroz oganj sinove svoje koje su mi rodile, da ih jedu.

38 Još i ovo mi činiše: Skvrniše svetinju moju u isti dan, i subote moje przniše.

39 Jer zaklavši sinove svoje gadnim bogovima svojim dolaziše u svetinju moju istog dana da je oskvrne; i gle, tako činiše usred doma mog.

40 I još slaše po ljude da bi došli iz daleka, i oni, čim poslanik bi poslan k njima, gle, odmah dolaziše, i njih radi si se kupala, mazala oči svoje i kitila si se nakitom.

41 I sedala si na krasan odar, pred kojim beše sto postavljen, i na nj si metala kad moj i ulje moje.

42 I beše onde vika veselog mnoštva, i osim ljudi iz gomile dovođahu Saveje iz pustinje, koji im metahu narukvice na ruke i krasne vence na glave.

43 I rekoh za ostarelu u kurvarstvu: Još će se kurvati.

44 I dolažahu k njoj kao što idu k ženi kurvi; tako dolažahu k Oli i Olivi, ženama nevaljalim.

45 Zato će im pravedni ljudi suditi kao što se sudi ženama preljubočinicama i kao što se sudi onima koje prolivaju krv; jer su preljubočinice i krv je na rukama njihovim.

46 Zato ovako govori Gospod Gospod: Dovešću na njih ljudstvo, i daću ih da se zlostave i oplene.

47 I ljudstvo će ih zasuti kamenjem, i iseći će ih mačevima svojim; sinove će njihove i kćeri njihove pobiti, i kuće će njihove spaliti ognjem.

48 I tako ću ukinuti nevaljalstvo u zemlji, i naučiće se sve žene da ne rade po vašem nevaljalstvu.

49 I vrći će vaše nevaljalstvo na vas, i nosićete grehe gadnih bogova svojih, i poznaćete da sam ja Gospod Gospod.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6432

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6432. 'The blessings of the breasts' means with affections for goodness and truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the breasts' as affections for goodness and truth. 'The breasts' means those affections because the breasts communicate with the generative organs, and for that reason they too belong to the province of conjugial love (regarding that province see 5050-5062). Now conjugial love corresponds to the heavenly marriage, which is a marriage of goodness and truth (for conjugial love comes down from that marriage, see 2618, 2728, 2729, 2803, 3132, 4434, 4835, 6179), and therefore 'the breasts' means affections for goodness and truth. In addition they derive that meaning from the fact that the breasts are what feed infants and so mean, through the affection that goes with breast-feeding, conjugial love when joined to the love of offspring.

[2] The same affections are also meant by 'the breasts' in Isaiah,

You will suck the milk of nations, and the breasts of kings you will suck. Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver. Isaiah 60:16-17.

'Sucking the breasts of kings' stands for good obtained from truth, for by 'kings' truths are meant, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148. 'The milk of nations' and 'the breasts of kings' plainly mean some profoundly spiritual matter, for those words would otherwise be meaningless. The fact that goodness and truth are meant is clear from the words that follow, which are 'Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver'; for 'bronze' is natural good, 425, 1551, and 'gold' celestial good, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658; 'iron' is natural truth, 425, 426, and 'silver' spiritual truth, 1551, 2954, 5658, 6112.

[3] In Ezekiel,

As regards increase, I gave you to be like the seed of the field, out of which you grew up and matured and reached full beauty; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Ezekiel 16:7.

This refers to Jerusalem, which here means the Ancient spiritual Church. 'Breasts that were formed' stands for interior affections for goodness and truth, 'your hair had grown for exterior affections belonging to the natural - 'hair' being the natural as regards truth, see 3301, 5247, 5569-5573. These words plainly contain a spiritual sense which is not visible in the letter, for without that sense why would it say of Jerusalem that its breasts were formed and its hair had grown?

[4] In the same prophet,

Two women, the daughters of one mother, committed whoredom in Egypt. In their youth they committed whoredom; there their breasts were squeezed, and there they contemplated their virgin busts. Ezekiel 23:2-3, 8, 21.

This passage in Ezekiel states that the two women are Jerusalem and Samaria, by whom Churches are meant in the internal sense. The statement that in their youth they committed whoredom with Egypt means that they falsified the truths of the Church by their use of factual knowledge - 'committing whoredom' is falsifying truths, see 2466, 4865, and 'Egypt' is factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5700, 5702. Consequently 'their breasts were squeezed' stands for affections for goodness and truth that became perverted through falsifications. The fact that the women's whoredom and the squeezing of their breasts mean such things can be seen by those who are prepared to look into what is meant in the description of those women.

[5] In Hosea,

Contend with your mother, let her remove her whoredoms from her sight, 1 and her adulteries from between her breasts, lest perhaps I strip her naked, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Hosea 2:1, 3.

'Mother' here stands for the Church, 289, 2691, 2717, 3703, 4257, 5581, whoredoms' for falsifications of truth, 2466, 4865, 'adulteries' for adulterations of good, 2466, 2729, 3399. Consequently 'adulteries from between her breasts' stands for adulterated affections for goodness and truth, 'stripping naked' for depriving of all truth, 1073, 4958, 5437, 'making like a wilderness, setting like a dry land, and slaying with thirst' for the annihilation of all truth.

[6] In the same prophet,

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Hosea 9:14.

'Dry breasts' stands for affections for neither truth nor good. In Isaiah,

O women without anxiety, stand still, hear My voice; O confident daughters, perceive My speech with your ears. Strip and make yourself bare, and gird [sackcloth] around your waist 2 - people beating themselves on their breasts for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine. Isaiah 32:9, 11-12.

'Daughters' stands for affections, 2362, 3024, 3963, 'being stripped bare' for being deprived of truth, 1073, 4958, 5433, 'girding [sackcloth] around one's waist' for suffering grief over good that has been lost, 'beating on breasts' for suffering grief over the good of truth that has been lost. Since these things are meant, it also says 'for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine'; for 'the field' is the Church in respect of good, thus the Church's good, 2971, 3196, 3310, 3766, and 'vine' is the spiritual Church, and therefore the good of truth, 5113, 6375, 6376.

[7] In the Book of Revelation,

I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts. Revelation 1:12-13.

'Golden lampstands' are truths of good, 'the Son of Man' is Divine Truth, 'surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts' the good of love. Anyone may deduce from the holiness of the Word that the things John saw concealed within themselves realities such as belong to the Lord's kingdom and His Church; for what holiness would there be in making predictions about kingdoms in the world? From this one may recognize that they are heavenly things that are meant by 'lampstands' and by 'the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts'.

[8] In Luke,

A certain woman lifted up her voice out of the crowd; 3 she said about Jesus, Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts that You sucked. But Jesus said, Rather than that, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Luke 11:27-28.

The Lord's reply shows what 'blessed is the womb' and what 'the breasts' mean - 'those who hear the Word of God and keep it', thus affections for truth which exist with those who hear the Word or God, and affections for good which exist with those who keep it, that is, put it into practice.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, faces

2. literally, upon your loins

3. literally, the people

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