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Avakum 2

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1 Na straži svojoj stadoh, i stajah na kuli, i motrah da vidim šta će mi reći i šta bih odgovorio onome koji me koraše.

2 I odgovori mi Gospod i reče: Piši utvaru, i da bude razgovetno na pločama da se lako čita.

3 Jer će još biti utvara do određenog vremena, i govoriće šta će biti do kraja i neće slagati; ako okleva, čekaj je, jer će zacelo doći, i neće odocniti.

4 Gle, ko se ponosi, njegova duša nije prava u njemu; a pravednik će od vere svoje živ biti.

5 A kako vino vara, takav je čovek ohol, niti ostaje u stanu; jer raširuje duh svoj kao grob, i kao smrt je, koja se ne može nasititi i zbira k sebi sve narode i skuplja k sebi sva plemena.

6 Neće li ga svi oni uzeti u priču i u zagonetke, i reći: Teško onom koji umnožava šta nije njegovo! Dokle će? I koji trpa na se gusto blato.

7 Neće li najedanput ustati oni koji će te gristi? I neće li se probuditi oni koji će te rastrzati, i kojima ćeš biti grabež?

8 Što si ti oplenio mnoge narode, tebe će opleniti sav ostatak od naroda, za krv ljudsku i za nasilje učinjeno zemlji, gradu i svima koji žive u njemu.

9 Teško onome koji se lakomi na gadan dobitak kući svojoj, da postavi gnezdo svoje na visokom mestu i sačuva se oda zla.

10 Smislio si sramotu kući svojoj da zatreš mnoge narode, i ogrešio si se o svoju dušu.

11 Jer će kamen iz zida vikati, i čvor iz drveta svedočiće.

12 Teško onome koji gradi grad krvlju i osniva grad nepravdom.

13 Gle, nije li od Gospoda nad vojskama da ljudi rade za oganj i narodi se trude nizašta?

14 Jer će se zemlja napuniti poznanja slave Gospodnje kao što je more puno vode.

15 Teško onome koji poji bližnjeg svog, dodaje meh svoj da bi ga opojio i gledao mu golotinju.

16 Nasitićeš se sramote mesto slave, pij i ti, i otkrij golotinju svoju; doći će k tebi čaša u desnici Gospodnjoj, i bljuvotina će sramna biti na slavi tvojoj.

17 Jer nasilje učinjeno Livanu pokriće te i pustoš među zverjem koja ga je plašila, za krv ljudsku i nasilje učinjeno zemlji, gradu i svima koji žive u njemu.

18 Šta pomaže rezan lik što ga izreza umetnik njegov? Šta liven lik i učitelj laži, te se umetnik uzda u delo svoje gradeći neme idole?

19 Teško onome koji govori drvetu: Preni se! I nemom kamenu: Probudi se! Hoće li on učiti? Eto, obložen je zlatom i srebrom, a nema duha u njemu.

20 A Gospod je u svetoj crkvi svojoj; ćuti pred Njim sva zemljo!

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 213

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213. "'That the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed.'" This symbolically means, so as not to profane and adulterate the goodness of heavenly love.

No one can know the symbolic meaning of the shame of nakedness unless he knows that the reproductive organs in both sexes, called also the genitalia, correspond to celestial love.

To be shown that the human body and all its constituents have a correspondence with the heavens, see the book Heaven and Hell, published in London in , nos. 87-102. And to be shown that the reproductive organs correspond to celestial love, see Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), also published in London, nos. 5050-5062.

Now because these organs correspond to celestial love, which is the love found in the third or inmost heaven, and because a person is born of his parents into loves contrary to that love, it is apparent that if he does not acquire for himself the goodness of love and the truth of wisdom from the Lord, which are symbolically meant by gold refined in fire and white garments, he will be seen to be impelled by a contrary love, which in itself is profane.

[2] This latter circumstance is symbolically meant by uncovering nakedness and manifesting the shame of it, in the following places:

Blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and his private parts be seen. (Revelation 16:15)

...daughter of Babylon (and of the Chaldeans), sit on the ground... Uncover your hair..., uncover the thigh, pass through the rivers. Let your nakedness be uncovered; yes, let your shame be seen. (Isaiah 47:1-3)

Woe to the bloody city! ...Because of the multitude of (her) harlotries... I will uncover your skirts in front of you, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your disgrace. (Nahum 3:1, 4-5)

Contend with your mother... lest I strip her naked... (Hosea 2:2-4)

When I passed by you... I covered your nakedness... Then I washed you... and... I clothed you... But you... played the harlot... not remembering your youth, when you were naked and bare... (Therefore) your nakedness was uncovered... (Ezekiel 16:6ff.)

Jerusalem has sinned gravely; therefore... all... despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. (Lamentations 1:8)

Jerusalem, of which these things were said, means the church; and to play the harlot means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word (no. 134).

Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink..., making him drunk, that you may look on his nakedness! ...Drink, you too, that your uncircumcised foreskin may be exposed! (Habakkuk 2:15-16)

[3] Someone who knows what nakedness symbolizes can understand what is symbolically meant by the statement that when Noah was drunk from drinking wine he lay uncovered inside his tent, and Ham saw and laughed at his nakedness, but Shem and Japheth covered his nakedness, turning their faces away so as not to see it (Genesis 9:21-23). He can understand also why it was decreed that Aaron and his sons should not go up by steps to the altar, that their nakedness might not be exposed (Exodus 20:26). And so, too, why it was decreed that they should make for them linen trousers to cover their naked flesh, that they should have these on when they came near the altar, and that otherwise they would bear their iniquity and die (Exodus 28:42-43).

Nakedness in these places symbolizes the evils into which a person is born, which, because they are contrary to the goodness of celestial love, are in themselves profane and are removed only by truths and by living in accordance with those truths. Linen also symbolizes truth (no. 671[1-2]).

[4] Nakedness in addition symbolizes innocence, and also ignorance of goodness and truth. Innocence is symbolized by the statement, "they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they had no cause for shame" (Genesis 2:25). Ignorance of goodness and truth is symbolized by the following:

...this... fast that I choose: ...to break bread with the hungry..., and... when you see the naked man, to cover him. (Isaiah 58:6-7)

He gives his bread to the hungry man, and covers the naked one with clothing. (Ezekiel 18:7)

...I was hungry and you gave Me food...; I was naked and you clothed Me. (Matthew 25:35-36)

  
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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.