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Mateo 9

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1 ENTÓNCES entrando en el barco, pasó á la otra parte, y vino á su ciudad.

2 Y hé aquí le trajeron un paralítico echado en una cama: y viendo Jesus la de ellos, dijo al paralítico: Confia hijo: tus pecados te son perdonados.

3 Y hé aquí algunos de los escribas decian dentro de sí: Este blasfema.

4 Y viendo Jesus sus pensamientos, dijo: ¿Por qué pensais mal en vuestros corazones?

5 Porque, ¿Qué es más fácil, decir: los pecados te son perdonados: O decir: Levántate, y anda?

6 Pues para que sepais que el Hijo del hombre tiene potestad en la tierra de perdonar pecados, (dice entónces al paralítico): Levántate, toma tu cama, y vete á tu casa.

7 Entónces él se levantó, y se fué á su casa.

8 Y las gentes viéndo[lo], se maravillaron, y glorificaron á Dios, que habia dado tal potestad á los hombres.

9 Y pasando Jesus de allí, vió á un hombre, que estaba sentado al banco de los públicos tributos el cual se llamaba Mateo; y dícele: Sígueme. Y se levantó, y le siguió.

10 Y aconteció que estando él sentado á la mesa en casa, hé aquí que muchos publicanos y pecadores, que habian venido, se sentaron juntamente á la mesa con Jesus y sus discípulos.

11 Y viendo [esto] los Fariséos, dijeron á sus discípulos: ¿Por que come vuestro Maestro con los publicanos y pecadores,

12 Y oyéndolo Jesus les dijo: los que están sanos, no tienen necesidad de médico, sino los enfermos.

13 Andad pues, y aprended qué cosa es, Misericordia quiero, y no sacrificio: Porque no he venido á llamar justos, sino pecadores á arrepentimiento.

14 Entónces los discípulos de Juan vienen á él, diciendo: ¿Por qué nosotros y los Fariséos ayunamos muchas veces, y tus discípulos no ayunan?

15 Y Jesus les dijo: ¿Pueden los que son de bodas tener luto entre tanto que el Esposo está con ellos? mas vendrán dias, cuando el Esposo será quitado de ellos, y entónces ayunarán.

16 Y nadie echa remiendo de paño recio en vestido viejo; porque el tal remiendo tira del vestido, y se hace peor la rotura.

17 Ni echan vino nuevo en cueros viejos: de otra manera los cueros se rompen, y el vino se derrama, y se pierden los cueros: mas echan el vino nuevo en cueros nuevos, y lo uno y lo otro se conserva juntamente.

18 Hablando él estas cosas á ellos, hé aquí vino un principal, y le adoraba, diciendo: Mi hija es muerta poco há: mas ven, y pon tu mano sobre ella, y vivirá.

19 Y se levantó Jesus, y le siguió, y sus discípulos.

20 Y hé aquí una mujer enferma de flujo de sangre doce años habia, llegándose por detrás, tocó la franja de su vestido:

21 Porque decia entre sí: Si tocare solamente su vestido, seré salva.

22 Mas Jesus volviéndose, y mirándola, dijo: Confia, hija, tu te ha salvado. Y la mujer fué salva desde aquella hora.

23 Y llegado Jesus á casa del principal, viendo los tañedores de flautas, y la gente que hacia bullicio,

24 Díceles: Apartáos, que la muchacha no es muerta, mas duerme. Y se burlaban de él.

25 Y como la gente fué echada fuera, entró, y tomóla de la mano, y se levantó la muchacha.

26 Y salió esta fama por toda aquella tierra.

27 Y pasando Jesus de allí, le siguieron dos ciegos dando voces, y diciendo: Ten misericordia de nosotros, Hijo de David.

28 Y llegado á la casa, vinieron á él los ciegos; y Jesus les dice: ¿Creeis que puedo hacer esto? Ellos dicen: Sí, Señor.

29 Entónces tocó los ojos de ellos, diciendo: Conforme á vuestra os sea hecho.

30 Y los ojos de ellos fueron abiertos. Y Jesus les encargó rigurosamente, diciendo: Mirad [que] nadie [lo] sepa.

31 Mas ellos salidos, divulgaron su fama por toda aquella tierra.

32 Y saliendo ellos, hé aquí le trajeron un hombre mudo endemoniado.

33 Y echado fuera el demonio, el mudo hablo: y las gentes se maravillaron diciendo: Nunca ha sido vista cosa semejante en Israel.

34 Mas los Fariséos decian: Por el príncipe de los demonios echa fuera los demonios.

35 Y rodeaba Jesus por todas las ciudades y aldéas, enseñando en las sinagogas de ellos, y predicando el Evangelio del reino, y sanando toda enfermedad y todo achaque en el pueblo.

36 Y viendo las gentes, tuvo compasion de ellas; porque estaban derramadas y esparcidas, como ovejas que no tienen pastor.

37 Entónces dice á sus discípulos: A la verdad la mies [es] mucha, mas los obreros pocos.

38 Rogad pues al Señor de la mies, que envie obreros para su mies.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 316

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316. "And do not harm the oil and the wine." This symbolizes the Lord's provision that they not violate and profane the goods and truths concealed inwardly in the Word.

Oil symbolizes the goodness of love, and wine the truth springing from that goodness. Thus the oil here symbolizes sacred goodness, and the wine sacred truth. The Lord's provision that these not be violated and profaned is symbolized by the people's being told not to harm them. For this instruction came from the midst of the four living creatures, thus from the Lord (no. 314). Whatever the Lord says He also provides. That this is something He provides may be seen in nos. 314 and 255 above.

That oil symbolizes the goodness of love - this we will see in nos. 778, 779 below.

That wine symbolizes the truth springing from that goodness is clear from the following passages:

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes..., buy wine and milk without money... (Isaiah 55:1)

It shall come to pass in that day that the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills flow with milk... (Joel 3:18, cf. Amos 9:13-14)

Joy is taken away... from Carmel, and in the vineyards there will be no singing... No treaders will tread out wine in the presses; I have made their shouting cease. (Isaiah 16:10, cf. Jeremiah 48:32-33)

Carmel symbolizes the spiritual church, because it had vineyards there.

[2] ...wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth... The vinedressers have wailed... (Joel 1:5, 10-11)

Almost the same images occur in Hosea 9:2-3.

He washes his clothing in wine, and His vesture in the blood of grapes. His eyes are red with wine... (Genesis 49:11-12)

The subject is the Lord, and the wine symbolizes Divine truth. That is why the Lord instituted the Holy Supper, in which the bread symbolizes the Lord in respect to Divine good, and the wine the Lord in respect to Divine truth; and in their recipients the bread symbolizes a sacred goodness, and the wine sacred truth, received from the Lord. Therefore He said,

I say to you, that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you... in My Father's kingdom. (Matthew 26:29, cf. Luke 22:18)

Because bread and wine have these symbolic meanings, so too Melchizedek, going to meet Abram, brought out bread and wine, he being a priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram (Genesis 14:18-19).

[3] The grain offering and drink offering used in sacrifices had similar symbolic meanings, as described in Exodus 29:40, Leviticus 23:12-13, 18-19ff. The grain offering was an offering of wheat flour, thus taking the place of bread, and the drink offering was an offering of wine.

It can be seen from this what these words of the Lord symbolize:

Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins... But they put the... wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. (Matthew 9:17, cf. Luke 5:37-38)

New wine is the Divine truth in the New Testament, thus in the New Church, and the old wine is the Divine truth in the Old Testament, thus in the old church.

A similar idea is symbolized by these words of the Lord at the wedding in Cana of Galilee:

Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now! (John 2:1-10)

[4] Something similar is symbolized by the wine in the Lord's parable concerning the man wounded by thieves, on whose wound the Samaritan poured oil and wine (Luke 10:33-34); for the man wounded by thieves means people whom the Jews wounded spiritually by evils and falsities, and to whom the Samaritan brought aid by pouring oil and wine on their wounds, that is, by teaching them goodness and truth, and as far as possible, healing them.

Sacred truth is symbolized by wine and new wine also elsewhere in the Word, as in Isaiah 1:21-22; 25:6; 36:17.

[5] Because of this, a vineyard in the Word symbolizes a church that possesses truths from the Lord.

That wine symbolizes sacred truth can be seen also from its opposite meaning, in which it symbolizes truth falsified and profaned, as in the following places:

Harlotry, wine, and new wine have taken hold of the heart... Their wine is gone, they commit harlotry continually. (Hosea 4:11, 18)

Harlotry symbolizes the falsification of truth, and so, too, do the wine and new wine here.

...in the hand of Jehovah a cup, and He mixed it with wine; He filled it with the mixture and poured it out, and its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth, sucking, drink. (Psalms 75:8)

Babylon was a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore they are deranged. (Jeremiah 51:7)

Babylon has fallen..., because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication... If anyone worships the beast..., he shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed with undiluted wine in the cup of the wrath (of God). (Revelation 14:8-10)

(Babylon has made) all the nations (drink) of the wine... of her fornication. (Revelation 18:3)

...great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath. (Revelation 16:19)

...the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication. (Revelation 17:1-2)

[6] The wine that Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, and his lords and wives and concubines drank from the vessels of the Temple in Jerusalem, while they praised the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone (Daniel 5:2-4) - that wine symbolized nothing else but the sacred truth of the Word and church profaned, which is why the writing then appeared on the wall, and the king that very night was slain (Daniel 5:25, 30)

Wine symbolizes truth falsified also in Isaiah 5:11-12, 21-22; 28:1, 3, 7; 29:9; 56:11-12.

The drink offering that they poured out as an offering to idols has the same symbolic meaning in Isaiah 65:11; 57:6; Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17-19; Ezekiel 20:28; Deuteronomy 32:38.

It is owing to its correspondence that wine symbolizes sacred truth, and in an opposite sense, truth profaned. For when a person reads "wine" in the Word, angels - who apprehend everything spiritually - have just this interpretation of it. Such is the correspondence between the natural thoughts of people and the spiritual thoughts of angels. The case is the same with the wine in the Holy Supper. That is why the Holy Supper occasions an introduction into heaven (no. 224 at the end).

  
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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.