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Mateo 16

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1 Y LLEGÁNDOSE los Fariséos y los Saducéos, para tentar[le,] le pedian que les mostrase señal del cielo.

2 Mas él respondiendo, les dijo: Cuando es la tarde del dia, decís: Sereno; porque el cielo tiene arreboles:

3 Y á la mañana: Hoy tempestad; porque tiene arreboles el cielo triste. Hipócritas, que sabeis hacer diferencia en la faz del cielo; ¿y en las señales de los tiempos no podeis?

4 La generacion mala y adulterina demanda señal, mas señal no le será dada sino la señal de Jonás profeta. Y dejándolos, se fué.

5 Y viniendo sus discípulos de la otra parte [del lago,] se habian olvidado de tomar pan.

6 Y Jesus les dijo: Mirad, y guardáos de la levadura de los Fariséos, y de los Saducéos.

7 Y ellos pensaban dentro de sí, diciendo: [Esto dice] porque no tomamos pan.

8 Y entendiéndo[lo] Jesus, les dijo: ¿Por qué pensais dentro de vosotros, [hombres] de poca fe, que no tomasteis pan?

9 ¿No entendeis aun, ni os acordais de los cinco panes [entre] cinco mil [hombres,] y cuántos cestos alzásteis?

10 ¿Ni de los siete panes [entre] cuatro mil, y cuántas espuertas tomásteis?

11 ¿Cómo [es que] no entendeis que no por el pan os dije, que os guardaseis de la levadura de los Fariséos y de los Saducéos?

12 Entónces entendieron que no les habia dicho que se guardasen de la levadura de pan, sino de la doctrina de los Fariséos y de los Saducéos.

13 Y viniendo Jesus á las partes de Cesaréa de Filipo, preguntó á sus discípulos, diciendo: ¿Quién dicen los hombres que es el Hijo del hombre?

14 Y ellos dijeron: Unos, Juan el Bautista; y otros, Elías; y otros, Jeremías, ó alguno de los profetas.

15 El les dice: Y vosotros, ¿quién decís que soy?

16 Y respondiendo Simon Pedro, dijo: Tu eres el Cristo, el Hijo del Dios viviente.

17 Entónces respondiendo Jesus, le dijo: Bienaventurado eres, Simon, hijo de Jonás: porque no te [lo] reveló carne ni sangre; mas mi Padre que [está] en los cielos.

18 Mas yo tambien te digo, que tú eres Pedro; y sobre esta piedra edificaré mi iglesia; y las puertas del infierno no prevalecerán contra ella.

19 Y á tí daré las llaves del reino de los cielos: y todo lo que ligares en la tierra, será ligado en los cielos: y todo lo que desatares en la tierra, será desatado en los cielos.

20 Entónces mandó á sus discípulos que á nadie dijesen que él era Jesus el Cristo.

21 Desde aquel tiempo comenzó Jesus á declarar á sus discípulos, que le convenia ir á Jerusalem, y padecer mucho de los ancianos, y de los príncipes de los sacerdotes, y de los escribas, y ser muerto, y resucitar al tercero dia.

22 Y Pedro, tomándole aparte, comenzó á reprenderle, diciendo: Señor, ten compasion de tí: en ninguna manera esto te acontezca.

23 Entónces él volviéndose, dijo á Pedro: Quítate de delante de mí, Satanás; me eres escándalo; porque no entiendes lo que [es] de Dios, sino lo que [es] de los hombres.

24 Entónces Jesus dijo á sus discípulos: Si alguno quiere venir en pos de mí, niéguese á sí mismo, y tome su cruz, y sígame.

25 Porque cualquiera que quisiere salvar su vida, la perderá; y cualquiera que perdiere su vida por causa de mí, la hallará.

26 Porque ¿de qué aprovecha al hombre, si granjeare todo el mundo, y perdiere su alma? O, ¿qué recompensa dará el hombre por su alma?

27 Porque el Hijo del hombre vendrá en la gloria de su Padre con sus ángeles, y entónces pagará á cada uno conforme á sus obras.

28 De cierto os digo, [que] hay algunos de los que están aquí, que no gustarán la muerte, hasta que hayan visto el Hijo del hombre viniendo en su reino.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 748

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748. "And eat her flesh and burn her with fire." This symbolically means that Protestants will with hatred condemn and destroy in themselves the evils and falsities inherent in the Roman Catholic religion, and will renounce the religion itself and expunge it in themselves.

This is said of Protestants, who will deal thus with the harlot, that is, with the Roman Catholic religion. To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, about which we will say more below. And to burn her with fire means, symbolically, to renounce that religion as profane and expunge it in themselves.

This is what burning with fire means because the penalty for profaning something holy was burning. Therefore, according to Divine law, people who profaned the name of Jehovah by worshiping other gods were burned with fire - they and all their belongings (Deuteronomy 13:12-18). Therefore Moses burned with fire the golden calf that the children of Israel were profanely worshiping (Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 9:21). Moreover, because two of Aaron's sons profaned holy things, they were consumed by fire from heaven (Leviticus 10:1-6). Nor is anything else symbolized by the fire and pyre in Tophet but the fire of hell, which awaits those who profane holy things (Isaiah 30:33, Jeremiah 7:11, 31-32; 19:5-6, 2 Kings 23:10), for there the people worshiped Molech with a heinous sacrifice. 1

[2] Since the fourth beast in Daniel 7 symbolizes a religion that profanes the Word and consequently the sanctities of the church (no. 717), therefore we are told that it was burned with fire (Daniel 7:11).

Now, because it is profane worship to worship a person instead of the Lord, we are accordingly told here that they burnt the harlot with fire, which symbolically means that they renounced the religion itself and expunged it in themselves.

To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, because that is the symbolic meaning of eating her flesh. For flesh symbolizes the inherent characteristics of a thing which relate to goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, to evils and falsities, and to eat means, symbolically, to consume, thus to destroy.

That flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, which in itself is evil, is clear from the following passages:

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. (John 6:63)

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)

As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to be children of God...: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh... (John 1:12-13)

(God) remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again. (Psalms 78:39)

The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. (Isaiah 31:3)

(Jerusalem) committed harlotry with the Egyptians..., great of flesh. (Ezekiel 16:26)

Jesus... said to (Peter), ."..flesh and blood has not revealed this to you...." (Matthew 16:17)

Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm... (Jeremiah 17:5)

[3] Because flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, and people who hate others attack their personal character with the intention of destroying it, therefore to eat the flesh has also this symbolic meaning, as in the following passages:

Let the dying die, and the cut off be cut off. Those that are left eat each other's flesh. (Zechariah 11:9)

They shall devour Israel with the whole mouth... Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm - Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh. (Isaiah 9:12, 20-21)

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh... (Isaiah 49:26)

...everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend... (Jeremiah 19:9)

To eat the flesh of sons and daughters (Jeremiah 19:9, Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:53) means, symbolically, to destroy truths and goods in oneself, for sons symbolize truths, and daughters goods, as may be seen in nos. 139, 543, 545, 612[1-4] above.

Moreover, in the Word we find reference to "all flesh," and this symbolically means all mankind (Genesis 6:12-13, 17, 19).

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1. The heinous sacrifice consisted of "passing infants through the fire to Molech," by burning them alive on a sacrificial altar. Vestiges of this worship have been found elsewhere, as far as northern Africa. Tophet was a site in the valley of Hinnom at the foot of Mount Zion on the south side. Because of the nature of its worship, the valley of Hinnon (Ge' Hinnom = Gehenna) became synonymous with Hades or hell.

  
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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.