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Jeremías 48

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1 De Moab. Así dijo el SEÑOR de los ejércitos, Dios de Israel: ¡Ay de Nebo! Que fue destruida, fue avergonzada; Quiriataim fue tomada; fue confusa Misgab, y desmayó.

2 No se alabará ya más Moab; contra Hesbón maquinaron mal, diciendo : Venid, y quitémosla de entre las naciones. También tú, Madmena, serás cortada, espada irá tras ti.

3 ¡Voz de clamor de Horonaim, destrucción y gran quebrantamiento!

4 Moab fue quebrantada; hicieron que se oyese el clamor de sus pequeños.

5 Porque a la subida de Luhit con lloro subirá el que llora; porque a la bajada de Horonaim los enemigos oyeron clamor de quebranto.

6 Huid, salvad vuestra vida, y sed como retama en el desierto.

7 Pues por cuanto confiaste en tus haciendas, en tus tesoros, tú también serás tomada; y Quemos saldrá en cautiverio, sus sacerdotes y sus príncipes juntamente.

8 Y vendrá destruidor a cada una de las ciudades, y ninguna ciudad escapará; se arruinará también el valle, y será destruida la campiña, como dijo el SEÑOR.

9 Dad alas a Moab, para que volando se vaya; pues serán desiertas sus ciudades hasta no quedar en ellas morador.

10 Maldito el que hiciere engañosamente la obra del SEÑOR, y maldito el que detuviere su cuchillo de la sangre.

11 Quieto estuvo Moab desde su juventud, y sobre sus heces ha estado él reposado, y no fue vaciado de vaso en vaso, ni nunca fue en cautiverio; por tanto, quedó su sabor en él, y su olor no se ha cambiado.

12 Por eso, he aquí que vienen días, dijo el SEÑOR, en que yo le enviaré transportadores que lo harán transportar; y vaciarán sus vasos, y romperán sus odres.

13 Y se avergonzará Moab de Quemos, a la manera que la Casa de Israel se avergonzó de Betel, su confianza.

14 ¿Cómo diréis: Somos valientes, y robustos hombres para la guerra?

15 Destruido fue Moab, y sus ciudades asoló, y sus jóvenes escogidos descendieron al degolladero, dijo el Rey, el SEÑOR de los ejércitos es su Nombre.

16 Cercano está el quebrantamiento de Moab para venir, y su mal se apresura mucho.

17 Compadeceos de él todos los que estáis alrededor suyo; y todos los que sabéis su nombre, decid: ¿Cómo se quebró la vara de fortaleza, el báculo de hermosura?

18 Desciende de la gloria, siéntate en seco, moradora hija de Dibón; porque el destruidor de Moab subió contra ti, disipó tus fortalezas.

19 Párate en el camino, y mira, oh moradora de Aroer; pregunta a la que va huyendo, y a la que escapó; dile: ¿Qué ha acontecido?

20 Se avergonzó Moab, porque fue quebrantado; aullad y clamad; denunciad en Arnón que Moab es destruido.

21 Y que vino juicio sobre la tierra de la campiña; sobre Holón, sobre Jahaza, y sobre Mefaat,

22 y sobre Dibón, y sobre Nebo, y sobre Bet-diblataim,

23 y sobre Quiriataim, y sobre Bet-gamul, y sobre Bet-meon,

24 y sobre Queriot, y sobre Bosra, y sobre todas las ciudades de tierra de Moab, las de lejos y las de cerca.

25 Cortado es el cuerno de Moab, y su brazo quebrantado, dijo el SEÑOR.

26 Embriagadlo, porque contra el SEÑOR se engrandeció; y revuélquese Moab sobre su vómito, y sea también él por escarnio.

27 ¿Y no te fue a ti Israel por escarnio, como si lo tomaran entre ladrones? Porque desde que de él hablaste, tú te has movido.

28 Desamparad las ciudades, y habitad en peñascos, oh moradores de Moab; y sed como la paloma que hace nido detrás de la boca de la caverna.

29 Hemos oído la soberbia de Moab, que es muy soberbio, su hinchazón y su orgullo, y su altivez y la altanería de su corazón.

30 Yo conozco, dice el SEÑOR, su cólera; mas no tendrá efecto; sus mentiras no han de aprovecharle.

31 Por tanto, yo aullaré sobre Moab; y sobre todo Moab haré clamor, y sobre los varones de Kir-hares gemiré.

32 Con lloro de Jazer lloraré por ti, oh vid de Sibma; tus sarmientos pasaron el mar, llegaron hasta el mar de Jazer; sobre tu agosto y sobre tu vendimia vino destruidor.

33 Y será cortada la alegría y el regocijo de los campos labrados, y de la tierra de Moab; y haré cesar el vino de los lagares; no pisarán con canción; la canción no será canción.

34 El clamor, desde Hesbón hasta Eleale; hasta Jahaza dieron su voz; desde Zoar hasta Horonaim, becerra de tres años: porque también las aguas de Nimrim serán destruidas.

35 Y haré cesar de Moab, dice el SEÑOR, quien sacrifique en altar, y quien ofrezca sahumerio a sus dioses.

36 Por tanto, mi corazón resonará como flautas por causa de Moab, asimismo resonará mi corazón a modo de flautas por los hombres de Kir-hares; porque las riquezas que hizo perecieron.

37 Porque en toda cabeza habrá calvicie, y toda barba será raída; sobre todas las manos rasguños, y cilicio sobre todos los lomos.

38 Sobre todas las techumbres de Moab y en sus plazas, todo él será llanto; porque yo quebranté a Moab como a vaso que no agrada, dijo el SEÑOR.

39 Aullad: ¡Cómo ha sido quebrantado! ¡Cómo volvió la cerviz Moab, y fue avergonzado! Y fue Moab en escarnio y en espanto a todos los que están en sus alrededores.

40 Porque así dijo el SEÑOR: He aquí que como águila volará, y extenderá sus alas a Moab.

41 Tomadas son las ciudades, y tomadas son las fortalezas; y será aquel día el corazón de los valientes de Moab como el corazón de mujer en angustias.

42 Y Moab será destruido para dejar de ser pueblo: porque se engrandeció contra el SEÑOR.

43 Miedo y hoyo y lazo sobre ti, oh morador de Moab, dijo el SEÑOR.

44 El que huyere del miedo, caerá en el hoyo; y el que saliere del hoyo, será preso del lazo; porque yo traeré sobre él, sobre Moab, el año de su visitación, dijo el SEÑOR.

45 A la sombra de Hesbón se pararon los que huían de la fuerza; porque salió fuego de Hesbón, y llama de en medio de Sehón, y quemó el rincón de Moab, y la mollera de los hijos revoltosos.

46 ¡Ay de ti, Moab! Pereció el pueblo de Quemos; porque tus hijos fueron presos para cautividad, y tus hijas para cautiverio.

47 Pero haré tornar el cautiverio de Moab en lo postrero de los tiempos, dijo el SEÑOR. Hasta aquí es el juicio de Moab.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 235

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235. I am about to vomit thee out of My mouth, signifies separation from the knowledges from the Word. This is evident from the signification of "vomiting out," when said by the Lord, as being separation; not that the Lord separates them from Himself, but they separate themselves from the Lord. It is said "to vomit out," because the "lukewarm" are treated of, and in the world what is lukewarm produces vomiting. And this is also from correspondence; for the food that man takes corresponds to knowledges, and thence in the Word signifies knowledges; therefore separation from knowledges means non-admission; but as those here treated of do admit something from the Word, it means ejection or vomiting. (That "food," from correspondence, signifies knowledges and intelligence therefrom, see Arcana Coelestia 3114, 4459, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5340, 5342, 5410, 5426, 5576, 5582, 5588, 5655, 8562; for the reason that knowledges nourish the internal man or spirit, as food nourishes the external man or body, n. 4459, 5293, 5576, 6277, 8418.) This is evident also from the signification of "out of My mouth," as being, in reference to the Lord, out of the Word. "Out of the mouth" signifies, in reference to the Lord, out of the Word, because the Word is Divine truth, and this proceeds from the Lord, and what proceeds from the Lord and flows in with man is said to be "out of the mouth," although it is not from the mouth, but is like light from the sun. For the Lord is seen above the heavens where the angels are as a sun, and light therefrom is Divine truth, from which angels and men have all their intelligence and wisdom (See in the work on Heaven and Hell 116-125, 126-140). From this it can be seen that "I will vomit thee out of My mouth" signifies to separate from Divine truth, or what is the same, from the knowledges from the Word.

[2] That those who are "lukewarm," that is, "neither cold nor hot," who are those that live according to the doctrine of faith alone and justification by faith (of which just above), are separated from the knowledges from the Word, is not known to themselves, for they believe that they are in knowledges more than others; but they are not, yea, they are in scarcely any knowledge; and this for the reason that the principles of their doctrine and religion are false, and from false principles nothing results but falsities; when therefore they read the Word, they keep their minds in their falsities, and as a consequence, either they do not see truths, or if they see them they pass them by or falsify them. These false principles are, that salvation is by faith alone, and that man is justified by faith. That they are separated from the knowledges from the Word and that they do not see truths therein, they may know if they will; for what is more frequently declared by the Lord, than that they ought to do His words, His commandments, His will, and that everyone shall be recompensed according to his deeds; also that the whole Word is based upon two commandments, which are to love God, and to love the neighbor; also that loving God is doing His commandments (John 14:21, 23, 24)? What men must do in order to be saved is said a thousand times in each Testament, also that hearing and knowing are nothing without doing. But do those who have confirmed themselves in faith alone and justification by faith, see these things? And if they see them do they not falsify them? Consequently they have no doctrine of life, but a doctrine of faith alone; when yet, life makes the man of the church, and those things come to be of his faith which are of his life.

[3] That such persons are separated from the knowledges from the Word, can be seen also from this, that they are not aware that they are to live as men after the death of the body; that they have a spirit that lives; that heaven is from the human race, and hell also; that they know nothing at all about heaven and heavenly joy; nothing about hell and infernal fire; thus nothing about the spiritual world; nothing about the internal or spiritual sense of the Word; nothing about the glorification of the Lord's Human; nothing about regeneration; nothing about temptation; about baptism, what it involves; about the Holy Supper, and what the flesh and blood, or the bread and wine in it signify; nothing about free will; nothing about the internal man; nothing about charity, about the neighbor, about good, about love; neither do they know what the remission of sins is; and many other things. Moreover, I have heard angels say that when they are permitted to look into the church, and to see those who believe themselves to be intelligent from doctrine, that they see nothing but mere thick darkness, and those so believing are seen as if deep down under waters.

[4] These are separated from the knowledges from the Word for two reasons; first, because they cannot be illustrated by the Lord, for the Lord flows into man's good, and from that illustrates him in truths, that is, He flows into man's love and therefrom into his faith; secondly, because they profane truths by falsifications, and those who do this are separated from truths themselves while they live in the world, that they may not know them, but in the other life they cast away from themselves all things they knew from the Word while in the world. Both these separations are meant by "being vomited out of the mouth." Like things are meant by "vomiting" and "vomit" elsewhere in the Word; as in the following passages. In Isaiah:

Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perversities in the midst of Egypt; whence they have led Egypt astray in every work thereof, even as a drunkard goeth astray in his vomit (Isaiah 19:14).

"Egypt" signifies the knowledge [scientia] of things, both spiritual and natural; "mingling the spirit of perversities in the midst thereof" signifies to pervert and falsify these things; "a drunkard" signifies those who are insane in spiritual things; and as truths mingled with falsities are cast out, it is said "as a drunkard goeth astray in his vomit." (That "Egypt" signifies knowledge [scientia], see Arcana Coelestia 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5700, 5702, 6015, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, 7296; also the knowledges [scientifica] of the church, n. 7296, 9340, 9391; that "drunkards" signify those who are insane in spiritual things, n. 1072.)

[5] In Jeremiah:

Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit and fall, and rise not because of the sword (Jeremiah 25:27).

"To drink and be drunken" is to drink in falsities and mix them with truths, and thence to be insane; "to vomit and fall" is altogether to cast out things falsified; "the sword," because of which they shall not rise, signifies falsity destroying and laying waste truth (See Arcana Coelestia 2799, 4499, 7102); which shows clearly what is meant by "vomiting and falling." In the same:

Make Moab drunken, for he hath magnified himself against Jehovah, that he may clap the hands in his vomit (Jeremiah 48:26).

"Moab" signifies those who adulterate the goods of the church, therefore "vomiting" is predicated of them.

[6] In Habakkuk:

Woe unto him that maketh his companion to drink even making him drunken, that thou mayest look upon their nakednesses. Thou shalt be satiated with disgrace instead of glory; drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered; the cup of Jehovah shall go about unto thee, and disgraceful vomiting shall be on thy glory (Habakkuk 2:15-16).

"To drink even making him drunken" also signifies to drink in truths and mix them with falsities; the "nakednesses" upon which they look, signify the deprivation of truth and of intelligence therefrom (See Arcana Coelestia 1073, 5433, 9960). The "foreskin that shall be uncovered" signifies the defilement of good (See Arcana Coelestia 2056, 3412, 3413, 4462, 7225, 7245); "glory" signifies Divine truth, thus the Word (See Arcana Coelestia 4809, 5922, 8267, 8427, 9429); which shows what is meant by "disgraceful vomiting upon their glory."

[7] In Isaiah:

These err through wine, through strong drink they are gone astray; the priest and the prophet err through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they err among the seeing, they stumble in judgment; yea, even all tables are full of the vomit of filthiness; there is no place. Whom shall he teach knowledge? (Isaiah 28:7-9).

Here "wine" and "strong drink," by which they err, signify truths mixed with falsities; "priest" and "prophet" signify those who teach goods and truths, and in an abstract sense, the goods and truths of the church; "the seeing" among whom they err signify those who might be about to see truths; "to stumble in judgment" signifies insanity; "tables" signify all things that should nourish spiritual life, for tables mean the food that is on them, and "food" signifies all truths and goods, because these are what nourish spiritual life; therefore "tables full of the vomit of filthiness" signify the same things falsified and adulterated.

[8] In Moses:

Defile not yourselves with any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you; whence the land is defiled; and the land hath vomited out her inhabitants; thus the land will not vomit you out, as it vomited out the nations that were before you (Leviticus 18:24-25, 28).

Adulteries of every kind are here treated of, by which in the spiritual sense all kinds of adulterations of good and falsifications of truth or profanations are meant; and as it is not possible for evils and goods, nor for the falsities of evil and the truths of good to exist together without being cast out, therefore it is said that "the land," that is, the church, "hath vomited them out." From this it can be seen what is signified by "vomiting out."

  
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