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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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583. Regeneration Progresses Analogously to the Way We Are Conceived, Carried in the Womb, Born, and Brought Up

For human beings, there is a constant correspondence between the stages a person goes through physically and the stages a person goes through spiritually, or developments in the body and developments in the spirit. The reason is that at the level of our souls we are born spiritual, but we are clothed with earthly material that constitutes our physical body. When our physical body is laid aside, our soul, which has its own spiritual body, enters a world in which all things are spiritual. There we associate with other spiritual beings like ourselves.

Our spiritual body has to be formed within our physical body. The spiritual body is made out of truth and goodness that flow into us from the Lord through the spiritual world. We find a home within ourselves for that goodness and truth in things that parallel them in the physical world, which are called civic and moral forms of goodness and truth. This makes clear, then, the nature of the process that forms our spiritual body.

Since there is a constant correspondence within human beings between the stages we go through physically and the stages we go through spiritually, it follows that we go through something analogous to being conceived, carried in the womb, born, and brought up.

This explains why the statements in the Word that relate to physical birth symbolize aspects of our spiritual birth that have to do with goodness and truth. In fact, every earthly reference in the literal sense of the Word embodies, contains, and symbolizes something spiritual. (In the chapter on Sacred Scripture [189-281] it is fully demonstrated that there is a spiritual meaning within each and every detail of the literal sense of the Word.)

[2] The earthly references to birth in the Word inwardly refer to our spiritual birth, as anyone can see from the following passages:

We have conceived; we have gone into labor. We appeared to give birth, yet we have not accomplished salvation. (Isaiah 26:18)

You are having birth pangs, O earth, in the presence of the Lord. (Psalms 114:7)

Will the earth give birth in a single day? Will I break [waters] but not cause delivery? Will I cause delivery and then close [the womb]? (Isaiah 66:7-9)

Sin is having birth pangs and No will be split open. (Ezekiel 30:16)

Pains like those of a woman in labor will come upon Ephraim. He is an unwise son, because he does not remain long in the womb for children. (Hosea 13:12-13)

Many similar passages occur elsewhere.

Since physical birth in the Word symbolizes spiritual birth, and spiritual birth comes from the Lord, he is called our Maker and the one who delivered us from the womb, as is clear from the following passages.

Jehovah, who made you and formed you in the womb . . . (Isaiah 44:2)

You delivered me from the womb. (Psalms 22:9)

On you I was laid from the womb. You delivered me from my mother's belly. (Psalms 71:6)

Listen to me, you whom I carried from the womb, whom I bore from the womb. (Isaiah 46:3)

There are other such passages as well.

This is why the Lord is called the Father, as in Isaiah 9:6; 63:16; John 10:30; 14:8-9. This is why people who have received things that are good and true from the Lord are called "children of God" and "those who are born of God," and why they are said to be siblings to each other (Matthew 23:8). This is also why the church is referred to as a mother (Hosea 2:2, 5; Ezekiel 16:45).

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