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1 I videvši Valam da je Božja volja da blagosilja Izrailja, ne hte više ni ići kao pre po vračanje, nego se okrete licem k pustinji,

2 I podigavši oči svoje ugleda Izrailja gde stoji po plemenima svojim; i duh Božji dođe na nj.

3 I otvori priču svoju, i reče: Kaže Valam, sin Veorov; Kaže čovek kome su otvorene oči.

4 Kaže onaj koji čuje reči Božje, koji vidi utvaru Svemogućeg, koji kad padne otvorene su mu oči:

5 Kako su lepi šatori tvoji, Jakove, i kolibe tvoje, Izrailju!

6 Pružili su se kao potoci, kao vrtovi kraj reke, kao mirisava drveta koja je posadio Gospod, kao kedri na vodi.

7 Poteći će voda iz vedra njegovog, i seme će njegovo biti među velikim vodama, i car će se njegov podignuti svrh Agaga, i carstvo će se njegovo uzvisiti.

8 Bog ga je izveo iz Misira, i On mu je kao snaga jednorogova; poješće narode koji su mu neprijatelji, i kosti će njegove potrti, i strelama svojim postreljati ih.

9 Spustio se, leži kao lavići kao ljuti lav; ko će ga probuditi? Ko tebe blagosilja, biće blagosloven; a ko tebe kune, biće proklet.

10 Tada se razgnevi Valak na Valama, i pljesnu se rukama, i reče Valak Valamu: Dozvah te da prokuneš neprijatelje moje, a ti si ih blagoslovio eto većtri puta.

11 Odlazi u svoje mesto; rekoh da ću te darivati, a eto Gospod ne da ti dara.

12 A Valam reče Valaku: Nisam li i poslanicima tvojim koje si poslao k meni rekao govoreći:

13 Da mi da Valak kuću svoju punu srebra i zlata, ne bih mogao prestupiti reči Gospodnje da učinim šta dobro ili zlo od sebe; šta kaže Gospod ono ću kazati.

14 Ja sada evo idem k narodu svom, ali da ti kažem šta će taj narod učiniti narodu tvom najposle.

15 Potom otvori priču svoju, i reče: Kaže Valam sin Veorov, Kaže čovek kome su otvorene oči,

16 Kaže koji čuje reči Božje, i zna znanje o Višnjem, i koji vidi utvaru Svemogućeg i kad padne otvorene su mu oči.

17 Vidim Ga, ali ne sad; gledam Ga, ali ne izbliza; izaći će zvezda iz Jakova i ustaće palica iz Izrailja, koja će razbiti knezove moavske i razoriti sve sinove sitove.

18 I Edoma će osvojiti i Sira će osvojiti neprijatelji njegovi; jer će Izrailj raditi junački.

19 I vladaće koji je od Jakova, i zatrće ostatak od grada.

20 A ugleda Amalika, otvori priču svoju, i reče: Amalik je početak narodima, ali će najposle propasti.

21 A ugledavši Keneja, otvori priču svoju, i reče: Tvrd ti je stan, i na steni si savio gnezdo svoje;

22 Ali će biti izagnan Kenej; Asur će ga zarobiti.

23 I opet otvori priču svoju, i reče: Jaoh! Ko će biti živ kad to učini Bog!

24 I lađe iz zemlje Kitimske doploviće i dosadiće Asircima i dosadiće Jevrejima; ali će i sami propasti.

25 Potom ustavši Valam otide, i vrati se u svoje mesto; i Valak otide svojim putem.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 406

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406. And a third of the ships were destroyed. This symbolically means that concepts of goodness and truth from the Word that are serviceable for application to life, in them had all been destroyed.

A third means, symbolically, all, as in nos. 400, 404, 405 above. Ships symbolize concepts of goodness and truth from the Word that are serviceable for application to life. Ships have this symbolism because ships travel the sea and bring back the necessities that the natural self needs for its every endeavor, and concepts of goodness and truth are the necessities that the spiritual self needs for its every endeavor. For out of them is formed the doctrine of the church, and in accordance with that a person's life.

Ships symbolize these concepts because they are vessels, and in many places in the Word a vessel is used to express what it contains, as a cup for wine, a dish for food, the Tabernacle or Temple for the sacred objects in it, the Ark for the Law, altars for worship, and so on.

[2] Ships symbolize concepts of goodness and truth in the following places:

Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore, and serve as a haven for ships... (Genesis 49:13)

Zebulun means the conjunction of goodness and truth.

Your builders (O Tyre) have perfected your beauty. They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make you a mast. Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; they made your beam of ivory, your deck of pines from the isles of Kittim... Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; your wise men were... your shipmasters... All the ships of the sea and their sailors were in you to market your merchandise... Ships of Tarshish were your companies in your commerce, by which you were filled and honored greatly in the midst of the seas. (Ezekiel 27:4-9, 25)

This is said of Tyre, because Tyre in the Word symbolizes the church in respect to its concepts of truth and goodness, as can be seen from the particulars about it in this chapter, and in the following one, chapter 28, understood in its spiritual sense. Moreover, because the church's concepts of truth and goodness are symbolically meant by Tyre, therefore the ship is described in its various parts, and each part symbolizes some aspect of those concepts leading to intelligence. What does the Word have in common with ships of Tyre and its commerce?

[3] The devastation of that same church is afterward described in the following way:

The common-land will shake at the sound of the cry of your shipmasters, and all who handle the oar will come down from your ships; all the sailors and shipmasters of the sea... because of you will cry bitterly... (Ezekiel 27:28-30; see also Isaiah 23:14-15)

The devastation of Babylon is similarly described in respect to all its concepts of truth in the following verses in the book of Revelation:

...in one hour such great riches were devastated. Every shipmaster, and everyone traveling on ships, and sailors... cried out... saying, "Alas, alas, the great city (Babylon), in which all became rich who had ships on the sea...." (Revelation 18:17, 19)

See below for the exposition.

[4] Ships symbolize concepts of truth and goodness also in the following places:

My days have been swift...; they fled away, they saw no good. They passed by with ships of longing... (Job 9:25-26)

Those who go down to the sea in ships, doing work on many waters, they see the works of Jehovah, and His wonders in the deep. (Psalms 107:23-24)

...the coastlands shall trust in Me, and ships of Tarshish will be first to bring your sons from afar... (Isaiah 60:9)

...the kings assembled...; fear took hold of them... With an east wind You will break the ships of Tarshish. (Psalms 18:4, 6-7)

Wail, you ships of Tarshish! (Isaiah 23:1, 14)

And so on elsewhere, as in Numbers 24:24, Judges 5:17, Psalms 104:26, Isaiah 33:21.

  
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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.