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Lamentaciones 5

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1 ACUÉRDATE, oh Jehová, de lo que nos ha sucedido: Ve y mira nuestro oprobio.

2 Nuestra heredad se ha vuelto á extraños, Nuestras casas á forasteros.

3 Huérfanos somos sin padre, Nuestras madres como viudas.

4 Nuestra agua bebemos por dinero; Nuestra leña por precio compramos.

5 Persecución padecemos sobre nuestra cerviz: Nos cansamos, y no hay para nosotros reposo.

6 Al Egipcio y al Asirio dimos la mano, para saciarnos de pan.

7 Nuestros padres pecaron, y son muertos; Y nosotros llevamos sus castigos.

8 Siervos se enseñorearon de nosotros; No hubo quien de su mano nos librase.

9 Con peligro de nuestras vidas traíamos nuestro pan Delante del cuchillo del desierto.

10 Nuestra piel se ennegreció como un horno A causa del ardor del hambre.

11 Violaron á las mujeres en Sión, A las vírgenes en las ciudades de Judá.

12 A los príncipes colgaron por su mano; No respetaron el rostro de los viejos.

13 Llevaron los mozos á moler, Y los muchachos desfallecieron en la leña.

14 Los ancianos cesaron de la puerta, Los mancebos de sus canciones.

15 Cesó el gozo de nuestro corazón; Nuestro corro se tornó en luto.

16 Cayó la corona de nuestra cabeza: ­Ay ahora de nosotros! porque pecamos.

17 Por esto fué entristecido nuestro corazón, Por esto se entenebrecieron nuestro ojos:

18 Por el monte de Sión que está asolado; Zorras andan en él.

19 Mas tú, Jehová, permanecerás para siempre: Tu trono de generación en generación.

20 ¿Por qué te olvidarás para siempre de nosotros, Y nos dejarás por largos días?

21 Vuélvenos, oh Jehová, á ti, y nos volveremos: Renueva nuestros días como al principio.

22 Porque repeliendo nos has desechado; Te has airado contra nosotros en gran manera.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 900

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900. And over the gates twelve angels, with names written on them, which are those of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. This symbolizes the Divine truths and goods of heaven in those concepts, which are also the Divine truths and goods of the church, and at the same time safeguards to keep someone from entering into them unless he does so from the Lord.

The twelve angels symbolize here all the truths and goods of heaven, since in the highest sense angels symbolize the Lord, in a more general sense heaven, which is composed of angels, and in a more particular sense the truths and goods of heaven from the Lord. See nos. 5, 170, 258, 344, 415, 465, 647, 648, 657, 718. Here they symbolize the truths and goods of heaven, because the statement follows, "with names written on them, which are those of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel," and these symbolize all the truths and goods of the church (no. 349).

Being over the gates means, symbolically, in those concepts, inasmuch as "over" in the Word symbolically means "within." The reason is that the highest component in sequential order becomes the inmost in concurrent order. Consequently the third heaven is called both the highest heaven and the inmost heaven. That is why "over the gates" symbolically means in the concepts of truth. The names written on the angels symbolize their whole character, thus also the character within them, for every quality in outward expressions originates from inner attributes.

It is apparent that the same words symbolize safeguards to keep someone from entering the church without having those concepts from the Lord, because the angels were seen standing over the gates, and the names of the tribes of Israel were also written on them.

We say that the truths and goods of heaven and the church are present in the concepts coming from the Word that serve to introduce into the church, because when concepts of truth and good from the Word have in them a spiritual quality from heaven from the Lord, they are called not concepts, but truths. But if those concepts do not have in them a spiritual quality from heaven from the Lord, they are nothing more than articles of knowledge.

  
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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.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 647

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647. 14:17 Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. This symbolizes the heavens of the Lord's spiritual kingdom, and the Word's Divine truth in them.

In the highest sense an angel symbolizes the Lord, and also the angelic heaven, and likewise the Divine truth emanating from the Lord (see nos. 5, 65, 170, 258, 342-344, 415, 465 above). Here, however, the angel symbolizes the heavens of the spiritual kingdom, and consequently the Divine truths there, because we are told in the next verse that another angel came out from the altar, who symbolizes the heavens of the Lord's celestial kingdom, thus the Divine goodness there, as shown in the next number.

All the heavens are divided into two kingdoms - the spiritual kingdom and the celestial kingdom. The spiritual kingdom is the kingdom of the Lord's wisdom, because the angels in it are in a state of wisdom gained from Divine truths received from the Lord; and the celestial kingdom is the kingdom of the Lord's love, because the angels there are prompted by love received from the Lord and so possess every kind of goodness.

That all the heavens are divided into two kingdoms may be seen in the book Heaven and Hell (London, 1758), nos. 20-28. Also in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom (Amsterdam, 1763), nos. 101, 381.

A temple symbolizes the whole of heaven, as in no. 644 above; but because it is called here the temple which is in heaven, and after that mention is made of the altar, the temple symbolizes the heaven of the Lord's spiritual kingdom, as said just above. And the sharp sickle symbolizes Divine truth in the Word, as in nos. 643, 645 above.

[2] Previously the text said that He who sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle and the earth was reaped, and now that an angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle, and he thrust it into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth; and the reason is that the earth which was reaped by Him who sat on the cloud, or the Lord, symbolizes the church throughout the world, while the vine of the earth symbolizes the church in the Christian world.

This description includes elements similar to those in what the Lord foretold in the parable of the sower and his gathering in of the harvest in Matthew 13, which we quoted above at the end of no. 645. There we said that the harvest is the culmination of the age, that is, the end of the church, and that the reapers are angels who symbolize Divine truths. For angels are not sent to reap, that is, to perform the actions symbolized, but the Lord accomplishes the actions through the Divine truths in His Word. As the Lord says, "the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day" (John 12:48). See nos. 233, 273 above.

  
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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.