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1 Teško onima koji smišljaju bezakonje i o zlu se trude na posteljama svojim, i kad svane izvršuju, jer im je sila u ruci.

2 Žele njive, i otimaju ih; žele kuće, i uzimaju; čine silu čoveku i kući njegovoj, čoveku i nasledstvu njegovom.

3 Zato ovako veli Gospod: Evo, ja mislim zlo tom rodu, iz kog nećete izvući vratove svoje, niti ćete hoditi ponosito, jer će biti zlo vreme.

4 U ono vreme govoriće se priča o vama, i naricaće se žalosno govoreći: Propadosmo; promeni deo naroda mog. Kako mi uze! Uzevši njive naše razdeli.

5 Zato nećeš imati nikoga ko bi ti povukao uže za žreb u zboru Gospodnjem.

6 Nemojte prorokovati, neka oni prorokuju; ako im ne prorokuju, neće odstupiti sramota.

7 O ti, koji se zoveš dom Jakovljev, je li se umalio Duh Gospodnji? Jesu li to dela Njegova? Eda li moje reči nisu dobre onome koji hodi pravo?

8 A narod se moj pre podiže kao neprijatelj; preko haljine skidate plašt s onih koji prolaze ne bojeći se, koji se vraćaju iz boja.

9 Žene naroda mog izgonite iz milih kuća njihovih, od dece njihove otimate slavu moju navek.

10 Ustanite i idite, jer ovo nije počivalište; što se oskvrni, pogubiće vas pogiblju velikom.

11 Ako ko hodi za vetrom i kazuje laži govoreći: Prorokovaću ti za vino i za silovito piće, taj će biti prorok ovom narodu.

12 Doista ću te sabrati svog, Jakove, doista ću skupiti ostatak Izrailjev; postaviću ih zajedno kao ovce vosorske, kao stado usred tora njihovog, biće vreva od ljudstva.

13 Pred njima će ići koji razbija; oni će razbiti i proći kroz vrata, i izaći će; i car će njihov ići Pred njima, i Gospod će biti Pred njima.

   

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True Christian Religion # 156

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156. (vi) A PERSON'S SPIRIT IS HIS MIND, AND WHATEVER COMES FROM IT.

A person's spirit, regarded as an object, is nothing but his mind. It is this which lives on after death, and it is then called a spirit; if he is good, an angelic spirit and later an angel, if wicked, a satanic spirit and afterwards a Satan. Everyone's mind is his internal man, which is the real person and resides within the external man composed of his body. So when the body is cast off as the result of death, the internal man has a fully human form. Those, then, are in error who believe that a person's mind resides only in his head. There it is only in its beginnings, from which first emerge everything a person's understanding allows him to think and his will induces him to do. But in the body the mind is present in derivatives from those beginnings, and these have been so constructed as to permit sensation and action. Since it is inwardly attached to the bodily structures, it imparts to them sensation and movement, together with a feeling that the body thinks and acts of itself. Yet every intelligent person knows that this is a fallacy. Now since a person's spirit is allowed by his understanding to think and is induced by his will to act, and the body does not do so of itself but from the spirit, it follows that a person's spirit means his intelligence and the affection of his love, and everything which comes from it and acts.

[2] There are numerous passages in the Word to prove that a person's spirit means such things as are to do with the mind; their mere quotation will show anyone that this is so. The following are a few among many:

Bezaleel was filled with the spirit of wisdom, intelligence and knowledge, Exodus 31:3.

Nebuchadnezzar said of Daniel that an outstanding spirit of knowledge, intelligence and wisdom was in him, Daniel 5:12, 14.

Joshua was filled with the spirit of wisdom, Deuteronomy 34:9.

Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, Ezekiel 18:31.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for of such is the kingdom of the heavens, Matthew 5:3.

I dwell in a broken and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, Isaiah 57:15.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, Psalms 51:17.

I will give a cloak of praise in place of a depressed spirit, Isaiah 61:3.

Spirit also stands for the products of a wrong and unjust mind, as these passages prove:

He said to the foolish prophets, who run after their own spirit, Ezekiel 13:3.

Conceive chaff, bring forth stubble; as to your spirit, fire shall devour you, Isaiah 33:11.

A man who is in spirit a vagabond and utters a lie, Micah 2:11.

A generation whose spirit is not steadfast with God, Psalms 78:8.

A spirit of whoring, Hosea 4:12; 5:4.

That every heart may melt and every spirit be depressed, Ezekiel 21:7.

That which rises upon your spirit shall never be, Ezekiel 20:32.

Provided there is no deceit in his spirit, Psalms 32:2.

The spirit of Pharaoh was troubled, Genesis 41:8.

Likewise that of Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 2:3.

These and very many other passages plainly establish that spirit means a person's mind and what is to do with it.

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