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Jeremías 32

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1 Palabra que vino a Jeremías, del SEÑOR el año décimo de Sedequías rey de Judá, que fue el año decimooctavo de Nabucodonosor.

2 Y entonces el ejército del rey de Babilonia tenía cercada a Jerusalén; y el profeta Jeremías estaba preso en el patio de la guarda que estaba en la casa del rey de Judá.

3 Pues Sedequías rey de Judá lo había tomado preso, diciendo: ¿Por qué profetizas tú diciendo: Así dijo el SEÑOR: He aquí yo entrego esta ciudad en mano del rey de Babilonia, y la tomará?

4 Y Sedequías rey de Judá no escapará de la mano de los caldeos, sino que de cierto será entregado en mano del rey de Babilonia, y hablará con él boca a boca, y sus ojos verán sus ojos,

5 y hará llevar a Sedequías a Babilonia, y allá estará hasta que yo le visite; dijo el SEÑOR: si peleareis con los caldeos, no os sucederá bien?

6 Y dijo Jeremías: Palabra del SEÑOR vino a mí, diciendo:

7 He aquí que Hanameel, hijo de Salum tu tío, viene a ti, diciendo: Cómprame mi heredad que está en Anatot; porque tú tienes derecho a ella para comprarla.

8 Y vino a mí Hanameel, hijo de mi tío, conforme a la palabra del SEÑOR, al patio de la guarda, y me dijo: Compra ahora mi heredad que está en Anatot, en tierra de Benjamín, porque tuyo es el derecho de la herencia, y a ti compete la redención; cómprala para ti. Entonces conocí que era palabra del SEÑOR.

9 Y compré la heredad de Hanameel, hijo de mi tío, la cual estaba en Anatot, y le pesé el dinero: siete siclos y diez monedas de plata.

10 Y escribí la carta, y la sellé, e hice atestiguar a testigos, y pesé el dinero con balanza.

11 Tomé luego la carta de venta, sellada según el derecho y costumbre, y el traslado abierto.

12 Y di la carta de venta a Baruc hijo de Nerías, hijo de Maasías, delante de Hanameel el hijo de mi tío, y delante de los testigos que habían suscrito en la carta de venta, delante de todos los judíos que estaban en el patio de la guarda.

13 Y di orden a Baruc delante de ellos, diciendo:

14 Así dijo el SEÑOR de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: Toma estas cartas, esta carta de venta, la sellada, y ésta que es la carta abierta, y ponlas en un vaso de barro, para que se guarden muchos días.

15 Porque así dijo el SEÑOR de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: Aún se comprarán y venderán casas, y heredades, y viñas en esta tierra.

16 Y después que di la carta de venta a Baruc hijo de Nerías, oré al SEÑOR, diciendo:

17 ¡Oh Señor DIOS! He aquí que tú hiciste el cielo y la tierra con tu gran poder, y con tu brazo extendido, ni hay nada que se esconda;

18 que haces misericordia en millares, y vuelves la maldad de los padres en el seno de sus hijos después de ellos; Dios grande, poderoso, el SEÑOR de los ejércitos es su Nombre;

19 grande en consejo, y magnífico en hechos, porque tus ojos están abiertos sobre todos los caminos de los hijos de los hombres, para dar a cada uno según sus caminos, y según el fruto de sus obras;

20 que pusiste señales y portentos en tierra de Egipto hasta este día, y en Israel, y en el hombre; y te has hecho nombre cual es este día;

21 y sacaste tu pueblo Israel de tierra de Egipto con señales y portentos, y con mano fuerte y brazo extendido, con terror grande;

22 y les diste esta tierra, de la cual juraste a sus padres que se la darías, tierra que mana leche y miel;

23 y entraron, y la poseyeron; mas no oyeron tu voz, ni anduvieron en tu ley; nada hicieron de lo que les mandaste hacer; por tanto has hecho venir sobre ellos todo este mal.

24 He aquí que con arietes han acometido la ciudad para tomarla; y la ciudad es entregada en mano de los caldeos que pelean contra ella, a causa de la espada, y del hambre y de la pestilencia; ha pues, venido, a ser lo que tú dijiste, y he aquí tú lo estás viendo.

25 Y tú Señor DIOS me dijiste a mí: Cómprate la heredad por dinero, y pon testigos; y la ciudad es entregada en manos de los caldeos.

26 Y vino palabra del SEÑOR a Jeremías, diciendo:

27 He aquí que yo soy el SEÑOR, Dios de toda carne; ¿por ventura se me encubrirá a mí alguna cosa?

28 Por tanto, así dijo el SEÑOR: He aquí que yo entrego esta ciudad en mano de los caldeos, y en mano de Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia, y la tomará;

29 y vendrán los caldeos que combaten esta ciudad, y encenderán esta ciudad a fuego, y la abrasarán, asimismo las casas sobre cuyas azoteas ofrecieron perfumes a Baal y derramaron libaciones a dioses ajenos, para provocarme a ira.

30 Porque los hijos de Israel y los hijos de Judá no han hecho sino lo malo delante de mis ojos desde su juventud; porque los hijos de Israel no han hecho más que provocarme a ira con la obra de sus manos, dijo el SEÑOR.

31 De manera que para enojo mío y para ira mía me ha sido esta ciudad, desde el día que la edificaron hasta hoy, para que la haga quitar de mi presencia;

32 por toda la maldad de los hijos de Israel y de los hijos de Judá, que han hecho para enojarme, ellos, sus reyes, sus príncipes, sus sacerdotes, y sus profetas, y los varones de Judá, y los moradores de Jerusalén.

33 Y me volvieron la cerviz, y no el rostro; y cuando los enseñaba, madrugando y enseñando, no oyeron para recibir castigo;

34 antes asentaron sus abominaciones en la casa sobre la cual es llamado mi nombre, contaminándola.

35 Y edificaron altares a Baal, los cuales están en el valle de Ben-Hinom, para hacer pasar por el fuego sus hijos y sus hijas a Moloc; lo cual no les mandé, ni me vino al pensamiento que hiciesen esta abominación, para hacer pecar a Judá.

36 Y por tanto, ahora, así dice el SEÑOR Dios de Israel, a esta ciudad, de la cual decís vosotros, Entregada será en mano del rey de Babilonia a cuchillo, a hambre, y a pestilencia:

37 He aquí que yo los junto de todas las tierras a las cuales los eché con mi furor, y con mi enojo y saña grande; y los haré tornar a este lugar, y los haré habitar seguramente.

38 Y me serán ellos a mí por pueblo, y yo seré a ellos por Dios.

39 Y les daré un corazón, y un camino, para que me teman perpetuamente, para que tengan bien ellos, y sus hijos después de ellos.

40 Y haré con ellos pacto eterno, que no tornaré atrás de hacerles bien, y pondré mi temor en el corazón de ellos, para que no se aparten de mí.

41 Y me alegraré con ellos haciéndoles bien, y los plantaré en esta tierra con verdad, de todo mi corazón y de toda mi alma.

42 Porque así dijo el SEÑOR: Como traje sobre este pueblo todo este gran mal, así traeré sobre ellos todo el bien que acerca de ellos hablo.

43 Y poseerán heredad en esta tierra de la cual vosotros decís: Está desierta, sin hombres y sin animales; es entregada en manos de los caldeos.

44 Heredades comprarán por dinero, y harán carta, y la sellarán, y pondrán testigos, en tierra de Benjamín y en los contornos de Jerusalén, y en las ciudades de Judá; y en las ciudades de las montañas, y en las ciudades de los campos, y en las ciudades que están al Mediodía; porque yo haré tornar su cautividad, dice el SEÑOR.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 610

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610. That time shall be no more, signifies that there shall be no longer any understanding of Divine truth, nor any state of the church therefrom. This is evident from the signification of "time," as being here the state of man in respect to the understanding of the Word, and thus the state of the church, because both the one and the other are treated of in this chapter. "Time" signifies state, because times in the spiritual world are determined and distinguished only by particular and general states of life. This is because the sun in that world, which is the Lord, does not move, but remains in the same place in heaven, and that place is the east; that sun does not there revolve through the heavens as the sun in the natural world appears to do. By the apparent revolution of the sun of the natural world times in general and in particular are determined, and thus have existence; in general, the year and its four seasons, called spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Moreover, these four seasons of the year are the four natural states of the natural world corresponding to the same number of states in the spiritual world, which are its general spiritual states. In particular, within these general states in the natural world, there are determined and fixed times, called months and weeks, but especially days, and days are divided into four natural states, which are called morning, noon, evening, and night, corresponding to which there are four states in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world, because the sun, as has been said, does not revolve through the heavens but remains constant and fixed in its east, there are no years, months, weeks, days, or hours, consequently there are no determinations by times, but only determinations by states of life, general and particular. Therefore it is not known there what time is, but only what state is, for the determination of a thing is what gives the idea of it, and according to the idea is the thing named. This, then, is the reason that it is not known in the spiritual world what times are, although they succeed each other there the same as in the natural world, but instead of times there are states and their changes; this is the reason also that times, when mentioned in the Word, signify states. (But respecting time and times in the spiritual world, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 162-169; and on the Changes of States of the Angels, n.154-161. [Note from the Margin:] Notice where it is said, "it shall be when there shall be neither day nor night" [Jeremiah 33:20; Zechariah 14:7.)

[2] Since "time" means the things pertaining to time in the natural world, as those pertaining to the year and the day (those of the year are seedtime and harvest, and those of the day are morning and evening), by these things pertaining to time states of the church are described in the Word, "seedtime" describing and signifying the establishment of the church; "harvest" its fruit bearing; "morning" its first time, and "noon to evening" its progression. These natural states (or conditions) also correspond to spiritual states, which are states of heaven and the church. As concerns the church, the church in general passes through these states, so does each man of the church in particular. Moreover, each man of the church from his earliest age is also inaugurated into these states, but when the church is at its end he can no more be inaugurated, for he does not receive Divine truth, but either rejects or perverts it, therefore he has neither seedtime nor harvest, that is, no establishment and no fruit bearing, nor has he morning or evening, that is, neither beginning nor progression. These states are meant and signified by "times" in the Word; and as in the end of the church these states cease with men of the church, therefore it is here said that "time shall be no more;" and this signifies that there shall be no further understanding of Divine truth or the Word, consequently not any state of the church.

[3] The like is signified by "time" in Ezekiel:

The evil, behold one evil cometh; the end is come, the end is come, it hath awakened upon thee. Behold, the morning is come upon thee, O inhabitant of the land, the time is come (Ezekiel 7:5-7).

This, too, was said of the state of the church. The end of the former church is first described, and the establishment of a new church afterwards, the end of the former church by this, "One evil, behold the evil cometh; the end is come, the end is come;" the establishment of a new church by this, "Behold, the morning is come upon thee, O inhabitant of the land, the time is come," "morning" signifying the state of a new or commencing church, and "time" its progressive state; accordingly the meaning is similar as that of "seedtime and harvest" and "morning and evening," mentioned above, consequently it means the state of the church in respect to the understanding of truth and the will of good.

[4] In Daniel:

The fourth beast shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, for he shall think to change times and the right; and they shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time (Daniel 7:25).

"The fourth beast" means the evil that was about to vastate the church completely; falsities destroying the truths of the church are meant by "the words that he shall speak against the Most High," and by "the saints of the Most High whom he will wear out," "the saints of the Most High" signifying in the abstract sense Divine truths. That the truths of the Word and its goods will then be turned into falsities and evils is signified by "he shall change the times and the right," "times" meaning the states of the church in respect to the understanding of truth. The duration of that state in relation to the end of the church is signified by "for a time and times and half a time," which means a full state of vastation.

[5] So, too, in the following words in Daniel:

And I heard the man clothed in linen, that he lifted up his right hand and his left hand unto the heavens, and sware by Him that liveth unto the ages of the ages that it shall be for a fixed time of fixed times, and a half, when they are to make an end of dispersing the people of holiness, all these things shall be finished (Daniel 12:7).

"Time" here signifies state; and "time, times and a half" signifies a full state of vastation; therefore it is said, "when they are to make a full end of dispersing the people of holiness," "the people of holiness" meaning those of the church who are in Divine truths; or in an abstract sense Divine truths. With a similar meaning it is said in Revelation:

That the woman should be nourished in the wilderness for a time and times and half a time (Revelation 12:14).

[6] As by "time" things pertaining to time are meant, such as spring, summer, autumn, and winter, these signifying the states of one who is to be regenerated, or is regenerated, also the things pertaining to these times, such as seedtime and harvest, these signifying the state of the church in respect to the implantation of truth and the fructification of good therefrom, and as like things are signified by the times of the day, which are morning, noon, evening, and night, so these times have this signification in the following passages. In Genesis:

During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease (Genesis 8:22).

This may be seen explained in Arcana Coelestia 930-937). In David:

The day is Thine, the night also is Thine; thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter hast Thou formed (Psalms 74:16, 17).

In Jeremiah:

Jehovah giveth the sun for a light of the day, and the statutes of the moon and stars for a light of the night. If these statutes shall depart from before Me, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me all the days (Jeremiah 31:35, 36).

In the same:

Jehovah said, If I shall not have set My covenant of day and night, the statutes of heaven and earth, I will reject also the seed of Jacob and of David 1 My servant (Jeremiah 33:25, 26).

"The statutes of the sun, moon, and stars," also "the covenant of day and night," and "the statutes of heaven and earth," have a similar signification as "times," since "times" exist from those statutes. That "seedtime and harvest, summer and winter," also "day and night," have a similar signification as "times" has been said above.

[7] It follows that "times" have the same signification in these words in Genesis:

God said, Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years (Genesis 1:14-19).

The two "luminaries," the sun and moon, signify love and faith; for that chapter treats in the spiritual sense of the new creation, or the regeneration of the man of the church, and the things said respecting the sun and moon signify the things that chiefly regenerate man and make the church; therefore these words and those that follow describe the process by which regeneration is effected, and afterwards it describes their states. This makes evident what is signified by "time shall be no more."

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1. Latin has "Israel," Hebrew "David," as found in 527, 768.

  
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