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1 A jedanaeste godine, trećeg meseca, prvog dana, dođe mi reč Gospodnja govoreći:

2 Sine čovečji, kaži Faraonu caru misirskom i narodu njegovom: Na šta si nalik u veličini svojoj?

3 Eto, Asirac beše kedar na Livanu, lepih grana i debelog hlada i visokog rasta, kome vrhovi behu među gustim granama.

4 Voda ga odgoji, bezdana ga uzvisi; ona rekama svojim tečaše oko njegovog stabla i puštaše potoke svoje k svim drvetima poljskim.

5 Zato rast njegov nadvisi sva drveta poljska, i umnožiše se grane njegove, i od mnoštva vode raširiše se odvode njegove kad ih puštaše.

6 Na granama njegovim vijahu gnezda sve ptice nebeske, i pod granama njegovim sve zveri poljske ležahu se, i u hladu njegovom seđahu svi veliki narodi.

7 I beše lep veličinom svojom i dužinom grana svojih, jer mu koren beše kod velike vode.

8 Kedri u vrtu Božjem ne mogahu ga zakloniti, jele ne mogahu se izjednačiti s njegovim granama, i javori ne behu kao ogranci njegovi; nijedno drvo u vrtu Božjem ne beše na lepotu tako kao on.

9 Učinih ga lepog mnoštvom grana da mu zaviđahu sva drveta edemska što behu u vrtu Božjem.

10 Zato ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Što je visok narastao, i digao vrh svoj među guste grane, i srce se njegovo ponelo visinom njegovom,

11 Zato ga dadoh u ruku najsilnijem među narodima da čini s njim šta hoće, odvrgoh ga za bezbožnost njegovu.

12 I tuđinci, najljući između naroda, posekoše ga i ostaviše ga; grane mu popadaše po gorama i po svim dolinama, i ogranci mu se izlomiše po svim potocima na zemlji; i svi narodi zemaljski otidoše iz hlada njegovog i ostaviše ga.

13 Na izvaljenom panju njegovom stanuju sve ptice nebeske, i na granama su njegovim sve zveri poljske,

14 Da se ne ponosi visinom svojom ni jedno drvo kraj vode i ne diže vrha svog među guste grane, i od svih što se natapaju da se ni jedno ne uzda u sebe radi svoje veličine; jer su svi predani na smrt, bačeni u najdonji kraj zemlje među sinove ljudske s onima koji silaze u jamu.

15 Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: U koji dan siđe u grob, učinih žalost, pokrih bezdanu njega radi, i ustavih reke njene, i velika voda stade, i rascvelih za njim Livan, i sva drveta poljska povenuše za njim.

16 Praskom padanja njegovog ustresoh narode, kad ga svalih u grob s onima koji silaze u jamu; i utešiše se na najdonjoj strani zemlje sva drveta edemska, što je najbolje i najlepše na Livanu, sva što se natapahu.

17 I oni siđoše s njim u grob k onima što su pobijeni mačem, i mišica njegova, i koji seđahu u hladu njegovom među narodima.

18 Na koje si među drvetima edemskim nalik slavom i veličinom? Ali ćeš biti oboren s drvetima edemskim u najdonji kraj zemlje, među neobrezanima ćeš ležati s onima koji su pobijeni mačem. To je Faraon i sav narod njegov, govori Gospod Gospod.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8278

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8278. 'The depths have covered them' means that falsities resulting from evil desires have overwhelmed them. This is clear from the meaning of 'the depths' as falsities which exist as a result of evil desires. In the Word 'depths' is used to mean waters and large amounts of waters in deep places, 'waters' in the good sense meaning truths and in the contrary sense falsities, 739, 790, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 5668, and deep places' meaning the hells. So it is that 'depths' means falsities resulting from evil desires, as well as meaning the hells. The fact that 'depths' is used in the Word to mean waters in deep places and to mean large amounts of waters is clear in Ezekiel,

The waters caused the cedar to grow, the depth made it high, so that it went with its rivers around the place of its planting, and he sent out his lines of water to all the trees of the field. Ezekiel 31:4.

In David,

He split the rocks in the wilderness, and caused them to drink the great depths. He brought streams out of the rock and caused waters to descend as streams. Psalms 78:15-16.

In Moses,

... a good land, a land of rivers of water, springs, and depths gushing out of valley and mountain. Deuteronomy 8:7.

In these places 'depths' stands for waters in large amounts; and waters in large amounts or 'depths' stands for the truths of faith in abundance. 'Causing them to drink great depths from the rock' stands for the truths of faith never failing, for 'rock' is faith derived from the Lord, thus the Lord in respect of faith. 'Depths gushing out of valley and mountain' stands for the truths of faith coming out of love. This also explains why the blessings of Joseph included the blessings of the deep Lying beneath, Genesis 49:25; Deuteronomy 33:13

[2] The fact that 'the depths' 1 means falsities resulting from evil desires as well as meaning the hells is clear in Isaiah,

Awake as in the days of antiquity, the generations of long ago. Do You not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep, and make the deep places of the sea a road, in order that the redeemed may go across? Isaiah 51:9-11.

In the same prophet,

... Jehovah who divided the waters before them, who led them through the depths; as a horse in the wilderness they did not stumble. Isaiah 63:12-14.

In Ezekiel,

Thus said the Lord Jehovih, When I make you a city laid desolate, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I shall cause the deep to come up against you, and many waters have covered you ... Ezekiel 26:19.

In John,

I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth. To him was given the key of the pit of the abyss; and he opened the pit of the abyss. Revelation 9:1-2, 11.

In the same author,

The beast that comes up from the abyss will make 2 war with them. Revelation 11:7.

Yet again in the same author,

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will come up out of the abyss and go away to perdition. Revelation 17:8.

In these places 'the depths', 'the deep', or 'the abyss' stands for the hells, and so also for the falsities resulting from evil desires, since these desires exist in the hells and constitute them.

[3] Since these things are meant by 'the depths', temptations are also meant by them, for temptations are brought about by falsities and evils which the hells have introduced. This further meaning occurs in Jonah,

The waters surrounded me, even to [my] soul, the deep closed around me. Jonah 2:5. In David,

Deep is calling to deep at the noise of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me. Psalms 42:7.

You who have shown me many severe troubles, 3 turn back and revive me, and cause me to turn back and come up from the depths of the earth. Psalms 71:20.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. In the quotations that follow the same Latin word is rendered variously - the depths, the deep, or the abyss.

2. Reading faciet (will make), which Swedenborg has in his rough draft and also in another place where he quotes this verse, for fecit (has made)

3. literally, many and evil distresses

  
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