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Jezekilj 8

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1 A šeste godine, šestog meseca, dana petog, kad seđah u svojoj kući i starešine Judine seđahu preda mnom, pade onde na me ruka Gospoda Gospoda.

2 I videh, a to oblik na oči kao oganj, od bedara Mu dole beše oganj, a od bedara gore beše kao svetlost, kao jaka svetlost.

3 I pruži kao ruku, i uhvati me za kosu na glavi, i podiže me duh među nebo i zemlju, i odnese me u Jerusalim u utvari Božjoj na vrata unutrašnja koja gledaju na sever, gde stajaše idol od revnosti, koji draži na revnost.

4 I gle, onde beše slava Boga Izrailjevog na oči kao ona što je videh u polju.

5 I reče mi: Sine čovečji, podigni oči svoje k severu. I podigoh oči svoje k severu, i gle, sa severa na vratima oltarskim beše onaj idol od revnosti na ulasku.

6 Potom mi reče: Sine čovečji, vidiš li šta ti rade? Velike gadove koje tu čini dom Izrailjev da otidem daleko od svetinje svoje? Ali ćeš još videti većih gadova.

7 I odvede me na vrata od trema, i pogledah, a to jedna rupa u zidu.

8 A On mi reče: Sine čovečji, prokopaj ovaj zid. I prokopah zid, a to jedna vrata.

9 Tada mi reče: Uđi i vidi opake gadove koje čine tu.

10 I ušavši videh, i gle, svakojake životinje što gamižu i svakojaki gadni skotovi, i svi gadni bogovi doma Izrailjevog behu napisani po zidu svuda unaokolo.

11 I pred njima stajaše sedamdeset ljudi između starešina doma Izrailjevog s Jazanijom, sinom Safanovim, koji stajaše među njima, svaki s kadionicom svojom u ruci, i podizaše se gust oblak od kada.

12 Tada mi reče: Vidiš li, sine čovečji, šta čine starešine doma Izrailjevog u mraku svak u svojoj pisanoj kleti? Jer govore: Ne vidi nas Gospod, ostavio je Gospod ovu zemlju.

13 Potom mi reče: Još ćeš videti većih gadova koje oni čine.

14 I odvede me na vrata doma Gospodnjeg koja su sa severa; i gle, žene seđahu i plakahu za Tamuzom.

15 I reče mi: Jesi li video, sine čovečji? Još ćeš videti većih gadova od tih.

16 I odvede me u trem unutrašnji doma Gospodnjeg; i gle, na ulasku u crkvu Gospodnju između trema i oltara beše oko dvadeset i pet ljudi okrenutih leđima k crkvi Gospodnjoj, licem k istoku, i klanjahu se suncu prema istoku.

17 Tada mi reče: Jesi li video, sine čovečji? Malo li je domu Judinom što čine te gadove koje čine ovde? Nego još napuniše zemlju nasilja i okrenuše se da me draže; i eto drže granu pred nosom svojim.

18 Zato ću i ja učiniti u gnevu, neće žaliti oko moje, niti ću se smilovati, i kad stanu vikati glasno u moje uši, neću ih uslišiti.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 919

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919. 21:23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and the Lamb is its lamp. This symbolically means that people of the New Church will not be caught up in self-love and their own intelligence and so possess a natural sight only, but from the Word's Divine truth will possess a spiritual light from the Lord alone.

The sun here symbolizes natural love divorced from spiritual love, which is self-love. And the moon symbolizes a natural intelligence and faith divorced from a spiritual intelligence and faith, which is one's native intelligence and a self-made faith. This is the love and the intelligence and faith symbolized by the sun and moon here, which people of the Lord's New Church will have no need of to light their sight.

The glory of God which illumines the city symbolizes the Word's Divine truth (no. 629), and because that illumination or enlightenment comes from the Lord, we are told as well that the Lamb is its lamp.

The symbolism here is similar to that found in the following verses in Isaiah:

You shall call your walls salvation, and your gates praise. The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; but Jehovah will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory. Your sun shall no longer go down, nor shall your moon wane; for Jehovah will be your everlasting light... Your people shall all be righteous. (Isaiah 60:18-21)

The sun and moon that will no longer give light mean self-love and one's native intelligence. And the sun and moon that will no longer go down mean love from the Lord for the Lord, and an intelligence and faith from Him. That Jehovah will be an everlasting light has the same symbolic meaning as what is said here, that the glory of God will illumine the city and the Lamb be its lamp.

That the sun symbolizes love for the Lord, and in an opposite sense self-love, may be seen in nos. 53 and 414 above. And that the moon symbolizes intelligence from the Lord and faith from Him, in nos. 332, 413, 414. Thus the moon in an opposite sense symbolizes one's native intelligence and a self-made faith.

Since the sun in an opposite sense symbolizes self-love, and the moon one's native intelligence and a self-made faith, therefore it was an abomination to worship the sun, moon and stars, as may be seen in Jeremiah 8:1-2.

  
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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.