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Jeremías 16

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1 Y vino a mí palabra del SEÑOR, diciendo:

2 No tomarás para ti mujer, ni tendrás hijos ni hijas en este lugar.

3 Porque así dijo el SEÑOR acerca de los hijos y de las hijas que nacieren en este lugar, y de sus madres que los den a luz, y de los padres que los engendraren en esta tierra.

4 De dolorosas enfermedades morirán; no serán endechados ni enterrados; serán por muladar sobre la faz de la tierra; y con cuchillo y con hambre serán consumidos, y sus cuerpos serán para comida de las aves del cielo y de las bestias de la tierra.

5 Porque así dijo el SEÑOR: No entres en casa de luto, ni vayas a lamentar, ni los consueles; porque yo quité mi paz de este pueblo, dijo el SEÑOR, mi misericordia y piedades.

6 Y morirán en esta tierra grandes y chicos; no se enterrarán, ni los endecharán, ni se arañarán, ni se mesarán por ellos;

7 ni por ellos partirán pan por luto, para consolarlos de su muerte; ni les darán a beber vaso de consolaciones por su padre o por su madre.

8 Asimismo no entres en casa de convite, para sentarte con ellos a comer o a beber.

9 Porque así dijo el SEÑOR de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: He aquí que yo haré cesar en este lugar, delante de vuestros ojos y en vuestros días, toda voz de gozo y toda voz de alegría, toda voz de esposo y toda voz de esposa.

10 Y acontecerá que cuando anunciares a este pueblo todas estas cosas, te dirán ellos: ¿Por qué habló el SEÑOR sobre nosotros este mal tan grande? ¿Y qué maldad es la nuestra, o qué pecado es el nuestro, que cometiéramos contra el SEÑOR nuestro Dios?

11 Entonces les dirás: Porque vuestros padres me dejaron, dice el SEÑOR, y anduvieron en pos de dioses ajenos, y los sirvieron, y a ellos se encorvaron, y me dejaron a mí, y no guardaron mi ley;

12 y vosotros habéis hecho peor que vuestros padres; porque he aquí que vosotros camináis cada uno tras la imaginación de su malvado corazón, no oyéndome a mí.

13 Por tanto, yo os haré echar de esta tierra a tierra que ni vosotros ni vuestros padres habéis conocido, y allá serviréis a dioses ajenos de día y de noche; porque no os daré misericordia.

14 Pero he aquí, vienen días, dijo el SEÑOR, que no se dirá más: Vive el SEÑOR, que hizo subir a los hijos de Israel de tierra de Egipto;

15 sino: Vive el SEÑOR, que hizo subir a los hijos de Israel de la tierra del aquilón, y de todas las tierras adonde los había arrojado; y los volveré a su tierra, la cual di a sus padres.

16 He aquí que yo envío muchos pescadores, dice el SEÑOR, y los pescarán; y después enviaré muchos cazadores, y los cazarán de todo monte, y de todo collado, y de las cavernas de los peñascos.

17 Porque mis ojos están puestos sobre todos sus caminos, los cuales no se me ocultaron, ni su maldad se esconde de la presencia de mis ojos.

18 Mas primero pagaré al doble su iniquidad y su pecado; porque contaminaron mi tierra con los cuerpos muertos de sus abominaciones, y de sus abominaciones llenaron mi heredad.

19 Oh SEÑOR, fortaleza mía, y fuerza mía, y refugio mío en el tiempo de la aflicción; a ti vendrán gentiles desde los extremos de la tierra, y dirán: Ciertamente mentira poseyeron nuestros padres, vanidad, y no hay en ellos provecho.

20 ¿Hará por ventura el hombre dioses para sí? Mas ellos no serán dioses.

21 Por tanto, he aquí, les enseñaré esta vez, les enseñaré mi mano y mi fortaleza, y sabrán que mi Nombre es el SEÑOR.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5536

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5536. 'You have bereaved me [of my children]' means that thus no Church existed any longer. This is clear from the representation of Jacob, the one who says this about himself, as the good of truth, dealt with in 3659, 3669, 3677, 3775, 4234, 4273, 4538 (and as the good of truth is represented, so also is the Church because good is the essential element of the Church. It therefore amounts to the same whether you say the good of truth or the Church, for the person who has the good of truth present with him has the Church present with him. 'Jacob' represents the Church, see 4286, 4520, and that being so his sons represent the truths known to the Church, 5403, 5419, 5427, 5458, 5512); and from the meaning of 'bereaving' as depriving the Church of its truths and forms of good, such as those here which are represented by Joseph, Benjamin, and Simeon, to whom reference is made directly after the words 'you have bereaved me'.

[2] 'Bereaving' is depriving the Church of its truths for the reason that the Church is likened to a marriage. Good is likened to the husband and truth to the wife, while the truths born from that marriage are likened to 'the sons' and the forms of good to 'the daughters', and so on. When therefore a state of bereavement or an action causing this is mentioned, the meaning is that the Church has been deprived of its truths and as a consequence ceases to be a Church. The expressions 'bereft' and 'bereavement' are also used in various other places in the Word, as in

Ezekiel,

I will send famine and evil wild animals upon you, and I will make you bereft. Ezekiel 5:17.

In the same prophet,

When I cause evil wild animals to pass through the land and they leave it bereft so that it becomes a desolation, with the result that no one passes through on account of the wild animals. Ezekiel 14:15.

In Leviticus,

I will send into you the wild animals of the field, which will leave you bereft and will cut off your beasts, 1 and make you few in number, so that your roads are laid waste. Leviticus 26:22.

[3] In these quotations 'famine' stands for an absence of cognitions of good and truth and the consequent desolation, 'evil wild animals' for falsities derived from evils, and 'the land' for the Church. 'Sending famine and evil wild animals, and leaving the land bereft' stands for destroying the Church by means of falsities derived from evils and so depriving it completely of truths. In Jeremiah,

I will winnow them with a winnowing-fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave, I will destroy My people. Jeremiah 15:7.

Here also 'bereaving' stands for depriving of truths. In the same prophet,

Give their children over to the famine, and cause them to be wiped out by the power of the sword, 2 so that their wives become bereaved [of children] and widows. Jeremiah 18:11.

'So that their wives become bereaved and widows' stands for their being left without truths or good.

[4] In Hosea,

As for the Ephraimites, their glory will fly away like a bird, away from birth, and from the belly, and from conception. Even if they bring up their sons, I will make them bereft of human beings. Hosea 9:11-12.

Here the meaning is similar. In Ezekiel,

I will cause human beings to walk upon you, even My people; and those human beings will by inheritance take possession of you and you will be an inheritance to them; no more will you bereave them [of their children]. Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Because they say to you, You have been one devouring human beings and one bereaving your peoples [of children]. Ezekiel 36:12-13.

Here also 'bereaving' stands for depriving of truths.

[5] In Isaiah,

Now hear this, you lover of pleasures, sitting securely, saying in her 3 heart, I am, and there is no one else like me; a widow I shall not sit, nor shall I know bereavement [of children]. But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day-bereavement and widowhood. Isaiah 47:8-9.

This refers to the daughter of Babel and to Chaldea, that is, to those who are outwardly holy but inwardly unholy and who call themselves the Church by virtue of that outward holiness. 'Bereavement and widowhood' stands for a deprivation of truth and good. In the same prophet,

Lift up your eyes round about, and see; they all gather together, they come to you. The children of your bereavements will say again in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; yield me a place to dwell in. But you will say in your heart, Who has begotten these for me, when yet I am bereft [of children] and alone, an exile and one who has been displaced? Who therefore has brought these up? I was left, alone. These, where were they? Isaiah 49:18, 20-21.

This refers to Zion, which is the celestial Church, and to its fruitfulness after it had been laid waste. 'The sons of bereavements' stands for the truths of which it was deprived when laid waste, but which were restored and underwent enormous increase.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. cattle

2. literally, cause them to flow down by means of the hand of the sword

3. The Latin means your but the Hebrew means her, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes this verse.

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