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1 Opet mi dođe reč Gospodnja govoreći:

2 Sine čovečji prorokuj i reci: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Ridajte: Jaoh dana!

3 Jer je blizu dan, blizu je dan Gospodnji, oblačan dan, vreme narodima.

4 I mač će doći na Misir, i strah će biti u etiopskoj, kad stanu padati pobijeni u Misiru, kad se zarobi mnoštvo njegovo i raskopaju se temelji njegovi.

5 Etiopljani i Puteji i Ludeji i sva mešavina i Huveji i sinovi zemalja među kojima je vera, pašće s njima od mača.

6 Ovako veli Gospod: Pašće koji podupiru Misir, i ponos sile njegove oboriće se, od kule sinske pašće u njemu, govori Gospod Gospod.

7 I biće pusti među pustim zemljama, i gradovi će njegovi biti među pustim gradovima.

8 I poznaće da sam ja Gospod kad zapalim oganj u Misiru i svi se pomoćnici njegovi satru.

9 U onaj će dan izaći poslanici od mene na lađama da uplaše etiopsku bezbrižnu, i biće među njima strah velik kao dana misirskog; jer evo, ide.

10 Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Pogubiću mnoštvo misirsko rukom Navuhodonosora cara vavilonskog.

11 On i narod njegov s njim, najljući između naroda, biće dovedeni da zatru zemlju, i izvući će mačeve svoje na Misir i napuniće zemlju pobijenih.

12 I isušiću reke, i predaću zemlju u ruke zlim ljudima; i opusteću zemlju i šta je u njoj rukom tuđinskom. Ja Gospod govorih.

13 Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: i gadne ću bogove potrti, i istrebiću likove u Nofu, i neće više biti kneza iz zemlje misirske, i pustiću strah u zemlju misirsku.

14 I opustošiću Patros, i upaliću Soan, i izvršiću sud na Novu.

15 I izliću gnev svoj na Sin, grad misirski, i istrebiću ljudstvo u Novu.

16 Kad zapalim oganj u Misiru, ljuto će se uzmučiti Sin, i Nov će se raspasti, i Nof će biti u teskobi svaki dan.

17 Mladići avinski i pi-vesetski pašće od mača, a devojke će otići u ropstvo.

18 I u Tafnesu će pomrknuti dan kad polomim onde prevornice misirske i nestane u njemu ponosa sile njegove; oblak će ga pokriti; a kćeri će njegove otići u ropstvo.

19 I izvršiću sudove na Misiru, i oni će poznati da sam ja Gospod.

20 Opet jedanaeste godine, prvog meseca, sedmog dana, dođe mi reč Gospodnja govoreći:

21 Sine čovečji, slomih mišicu Faraonu caru misirskom, i eto neće se zaviti da se leči, neće se metnuti zavoj niti će se zaviti da bi se okrepila i mogla držati mač.

22 Zato ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Evo me na Faraona cara misirskog, i slomiću mu mišice, i zdravu i slomljenu, i izbiću mu mač iz ruke.

23 I rasejaću Misirce po narodima, i razasuću ih po zemljama.

24 I ukrepiću mišicu caru vavilonskom, i daću mu u ruku svoj mač, i polomiću mišice Faraonu, i ječaće pred njim kao što ječi čovek ranjen na smrt.

25 Da, ukrepiću mišice caru vavilonskom, a Faraonu će mišice klonuti, i poznaće se da sam ja Gospod, kad dam mač svoj u ruku caru vavilonskom da njim zamahne na zemlju misirsku.

26 I rasejaću Misirce među narodima i razasuću ih po zemljama, i poznaće da sam ja Gospod.

   

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757. "A prison for every foul spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird!" This symbolically means that the evils willed and so done by the people in those hells, and the falsities entertained in thought and in consequent intention, are diabolical, because the people have turned away from the Lord to themselves.

A prison symbolizes a hell, because these Roman Catholics were imprisoned there. A spirit symbolizes everything pertaining to their affection or will and of the consequent action, and a bird symbolizes everything pertaining to the thought or intellect and consequent intention. A foul spirit and an unclean bird accordingly symbolize all the evils willed and so done, and all the falsities entertained in thought and consequent intention. Moreover, since the evils and falsities entertained by these people are found in the hells, therefore the symbolical meaning is that their evils and falsities are diabolical. In addition, because these people have turned away from the Lord to themselves, every unclean bird is also called loathsome.

Similar symbolism is used to describe Babylon in the Prophets, as in Isaiah:

Babylon... will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited..., so that Arabs will not tarry there... But ziyyim 1 will lie there, their houses will be full of 'ochim, 2 the offspring of owls will dwell there, and satyrs will caper there. 'Iyyim 3 also will reply in its palaces, and dragons in its pleasant palaces. (Isaiah 13:19-22)

I will... cut off from Babylon the name and remnant... I will make it a possession of the bittern... (Isaiah 14:22-23)

And in Jeremiah:

...in Babylon shall dwell ziyyim 1 and 'iyyim 3 and the offspring of owls... As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors..., no son of man shall dwell in it. (Jeremiah 50:39-40)

It is apparent from this that a prison for every foul spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird, means symbolically that the evils willed and so done by the people in those hells, and the falsities entertained in thought and consequent intention, are diabolical, because the people have turned away from the Lord to themselves.

[2] It is apparent from the Word that birds symbolize such things as have to do with the intellect and thought and consequent intention, and this in both senses, bad and good. They are found in a bad sense in the following passages there:

In the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice... (At length) on the bird of abominations shall be desolation. Even until the consummation... there shall rain down devastation. (Daniel 9:27)

The pelican and the bittern shall possess (the land). The screech owl and the raven shall dwell in it. (Isaiah 34:11)

Nothing else than hellish falsities are symbolized by 'ochim, 2 ziyyim, 1 the offspring of owls, and dragons in the passages cited above, as also by the birds that came down on the carcasses which Abram drove away (Genesis 15:11), by the birds which were given human corpses for food (Jeremiah 7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; Ezekiel 29:5; Psalms 79:1-2).

[3] Birds are found in a good sense in the following passages:

Creeping thing and bird... shall praise the name of Jehovah. (Psalms 148:10, 13)

In that day I will make a covenant for them... with the birds of the sky, and the creeping things of the ground. (Hosea 2:18)

...ask the beasts, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will tell you... Who among all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah does this? (Job 12:7-9)

I looked, when behold, there was no man; all the birds of the sky had flown away. (Jeremiah 4:24-26)

Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled away..., (because) I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of dragons. (Jeremiah 9:10-11)

There is no truth, no mercy, no knowledge of God... Therefore the land will mourn... as regards the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky. (Hosea 4:1, 3)

I am God... calling a bird from the east, a man of My counsel from a far country. (Isaiah 46:9, 11)

Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon... In its branches all the birds of the sky made their nests..., and in its shade all great nations dwelled. (Ezekiel 31:3, 6)

[4] Similar statements to that made of Assyria as a cedar here are found elsewhere, as in Ezekiel 17:23, Daniel 4:10-14, 20-21, Mark 4:32, Luke 13:19.

Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: ."..come... to... a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel...." (Thus) I will set My glory among the nations. (Ezekiel 39:17, 21, cf. Revelation 19:17)

And so on regarding birds elsewhere, as in Isaiah 18:1, 6; Ezekiel 38:20; Hosea 9:11; 11:10-11.

That birds symbolize such things as have to do with the intellect and its consequent thought and intention is clearly apparent from birds in the spiritual world. There, too, one sees birds of every kind and every species - in heaven very beautiful ones, birds of paradise, turtle doves, and doves - in hell dragons, screech owls, eagle owls, and others of that kind - all of which are objective representations of thoughts springing from good affections in heaven, and of thoughts springing from evil affections in hell.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. A Hebrew word (צִיִּים), appearing six times in the Old Testament (Psalms 72:9; 74:14). It seems to refer to desert dwellers, and in contexts suggesting animals, to desert creatures, but the actual identity is unknown. It may not be a precise term.

2. Another Hebrew word (אֹחִים), appearing only once in the Old Testament (Isaiah 13:21:4 identifies them as birds of the night.

3. Another Hebrew word (אִיִּים), appearing only three times in the Old Testament (Isaiah 13:22; 34:14

  
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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.