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Daniel 2

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1 At nang ikalawang taon ng paghahari ni Nabucodonosor ay nanaginip si Nabucodonosor ng mga panaginip; at ang kaniyang espiritu ay nabagabag, at siya'y napukaw sa pagkakatulog.

2 Nang magkagayo'y ipinatawag ng hari ang mga mahiko, at ang mga enkantador, at ang mga manghuhula, at ang mga Caldeo, upang saysayin sa hari ang kaniyang mga panaginip. Sa gayo'y nagsipasok sila at sila'y nagsiharap sa hari.

3 At sinabi ng hari sa kanila, Ako'y nanaginip ng isang panaginip, at ang aking Espiritu ay nabagabag upang maalaman ang panaginip.

4 Nang magkagayo'y nagsalita ang mga Caldeo sa hari sa wikang Siria, Oh hari, mabuhay ka magpakailan man: saysayin mo sa iyong mga lingkod ang panaginip, at aming ipaliliwanag ang kahulugan.

5 Ang hari ay sumagot, at nagsabi sa mga Caldeo, Ang bagay ay nawala sa akin: kung di ninyo ipaliliwanag sa akin ang panaginip at ang kahulugan niyaon, kayo'y pagpuputolputulin, at ang inyong mga bahay ay gagawing dumihan.

6 Nguni't kung inyong ipaliwanag ang panaginip at ang kahulugan niyaon, kayo'y magsisitanggap sa akin ng mga kaloob at mga kagantihan at dakilang karangalan: kaya't ipaliwanag ninyo sa akin ang panaginip at ang kahulugan niyaon.

7 Sila'y nagsisagot na ikalawa, at nangagsabi, Saysayin ng hari sa kaniyang mga lingkod ang panaginip, at aming ipaliliwanag ang kahulugan.

8 Ang hari ay sumagot, at nagsabi. Tunay na talastas ko na ibig ninyong magdahilan, sapagka't inyong nalalaman na nawala sa akin ang bagay.

9 Nguni't kung di ninyo ipaliwanag sa akin ang panaginip, iisang kautusan lamang mayroon sa inyo; sapagka't kayo'y nangaghanda ng pagbubulaan at mga hamak na salita sa harap ko, hanggang sa ang panahon ay magbago: kaya't saysayin ninyo sa akin ang panaginip, at malalaman ko na inyong maipaliliwanag sa akin ang kahulugan niyaon.

10 Ang mga Caldeo ay nagsisagot sa harap ng hari, at nangagsabi, Walang tao sa ibabaw ng lupa na makapagpapaaninaw ng bagay ng hari, palibhasa'y walang hari, panginoon, o pinuno man, na nagtanong ng ganyang bagay sa kanino mang mahiko, enkantador, o Caldeo.

11 At isang mahirap na bagay ang inuusisa ng hari, at walang ibang makapagpapaaninaw sa harap ng hari, liban ang mga dios, na ang tahanan ay hindi kasama ng tao.

12 Dahil sa bagay na ito ang hari ay nagalit at totoong nagalab sa galit, at nagutos na lipulin ang lahat na pantas na tao sa Babilonia.

13 Sa gayo'y itinanyag ang pasiya, at ang mga pantas na tao ay papatayin; at hinanap nila si Daniel at ang kaniyang mga kasama upang patayin.

14 Nang magkagayo'y nagbalik ng sagot si Daniel na may payo at kabaitan kay Arioch na punong kawal ng bantay ng hari, na lumabas upang patayin ang mga pantas na tao sa Babilonia;

15 Siya'y sumagot, at nagsabi kay Arioch na punong kawal ng hari, Bakit ang pasiya ay totoong madalian mula sa hari? Nang magkagayo'y ipinatalastas ni Arioch ang bagay kay Daniel.

16 At si Daniel ay pumasok, at humiling sa hari na takdaan siya ng panahon, at kaniyang ipaaaninaw sa hari ang kahulugan.

17 Nang magkagayo'y naparoon si Daniel sa kaniyang bahay, at ipinaalam ang bagay kay Ananias, kay Misael, at kay Azarias, na kaniyang mga kasama:

18 Upang sila'y magsipagnais ng kaawaan sa Dios ng langit tungkol sa lihim na ito; upang si Daniel at ang kaniyang mga kasama ay hindi mangamatay na kasama ng ibang mga pantas na tao sa Babilonia.

19 Nang magkagayo'y nahayag ang lihim kay Daniel sa isang pangitain sa gabi. Nang magkagayo'y pinuri ni Daniel ang Dios sa langit.

20 Si Daniel ay sumagot, at nagsabi, Purihin ang pangalan ng Dios magpakailan man: sapagka't ang karunungan at kapangyarihan ay kaniya.

21 At kaniyang binabago ang mga panahon at mga kapanahunan; siya'y nagaalis ng mga hari, at naglalagay ng mga hari; siya'y nagbibigay ng karunungan sa marunong at ng kaalaman sa makakaalam ng unawa;

22 Siya'y naghahayag ng malalim at lihim na mga bagay; kaniyang nalalaman kung ano ang nasa kadiliman, at ang liwanag ay tumatahang kasama niya.

23 Pinasasalamatan kita, at pinupuri kita, Oh ikaw na Dios ng aking mga magulang, na siyang nagbigay sa akin ng karunungan at lakas, at nagpatalastas ngayon sa akin ng ninais namin sa iyo; sapagka't iyong ipinaalam sa amin ang bagay ng hari.

24 Kaya't pinasok ni Daniel si Arioch na siyang inihalal ng hari na lipulin ang mga pantas na tao sa Babilonia; siya'y naparoon, at nagsabi sa kaniya ng ganito, Huwag mong lipulin ang mga pantas na tao sa Babilonia; dalhin mo ako sa harap ng hari, at aking ipaaaninaw sa hari ang kahulugan.

25 Nang magkagayo'y dinalang madali ni Arioch si Daniel sa harap ng hari, at nagsabing ganito sa kaniya, Ako'y nakasumpong ng isang lalake sa mga anak ng nangabihag sa Juda, na magpapaaninaw sa hari ng kahulugan.

26 Ang hari ay sumagot, at nagsabi kay Daniel, na ang pangalan ay Beltsasar, Maipaaaninaw mo baga sa akin ang panaginip na aking nakita, at ang kahulugan niyaon?

27 Si Daniel ay sumagot sa harap ng hari, at nagsabi, Ang lihim na itinatanong ng hari ay hindi maipaaaninaw sa hari kahit ng mga pantas na tao, ng mga enkantador, ng mga mahiko man, o ng mga manghuhula man.

28 Nguni't may isang Dios sa langit na naghahayag ng mga lihim, at siyang nagpapaaninaw sa haring Nabucodonosor kung ano ang mangyayari sa mga huling araw. Ang iyong panaginip, at ang pangitain ng iyong ulo sa iyong higaan ay ang mga ito:

29 Tungkol sa iyo, Oh hari, ang iyong mga pagiisip ay dumating sa iyo sa iyong higaan, kung ano ang mangyayari sa panahong darating; at siya na naghahayag ng mga lihim ay ipinaaninaw sa iyo kung ano ang mangyayari.

30 Nguni't tungkol sa akin ang lihim na ito ay hindi nahayag sa akin ng dahil sa anomang karunungan na tinamo kong higit kay sa sinomang may buhay, kundi upang maipaaninaw sa hari ang kahulugan at upang iyong maalaman ang mga pagiisip ng iyong puso.

31 Ikaw, Oh hari, nakakita, at narito, ang isang malaking larawan. Ang larawang ito na makapangyarihan, at ang kaniyang kakinangan ay mainam, ay tumayo sa harap mo; at ang anyo niyao'y kakilakilabot.

32 Tungkol sa larawang ito, ang kaniyang ulo ay dalisay na ginto, ang kaniyang dibdib at ang kaniyang mga bisig ay pilak, ang kaniyang tiyan at ang kaniyang mga hita ay tanso,

33 Ang kaniyang mga binti ay bakal, ang kaniyang mga paa'y isang bahagi ay bakal, at isang bahagi ay putik na luto.

34 Iyong tinitingnan hanggang sa may natibag na isang bato, hindi ng mga kamay, na tumama sa larawan sa kaniyang mga paang bakal at putik na luto, at mga yao'y binasag.

35 Nang magkagayo'y ang bakal, ang putik na luto, ang tanso, ang pilak, at ang ginto ay nagkaputolputol na magkakasama, at naging parang dayami sa mga giikan sa tagaraw; at tinangay ng hangin na walang dakong kasumpungan sa mga yaon: at ang bato na tumama sa larawan ay naging malaking bundok, at pinuno ang buong lupa.

36 Ito ang panaginip; at aming sasaysayin ang kahulugan niyaon sa harap ng hari.

37 Ikaw, Oh hari, ay hari ng mga hari, na pinagbigyan ng Dios sa langit ng kaharian, ng kapangyarihan, at ng kalakasan, at ng kaluwalhatian;

38 At alin mang tinatahanan ng mga anak ng mga tao, ng mga hayop sa parang at ng mga ibon sa himpapawid ay ibinigay sa iyong kamay, at pinapagpuno ka sa kanilang lahat: ikaw ang ulo na ginto.

39 At pagkatapos mo ay babangon ang ibang kaharian na mababa sa iyo; at ang ibang ikatlong kaharian na tanso na magpupuno sa buong lupa.

40 At ang ikaapat na kaharian ay magiging matibay na parang bakal, palibhasa'y ang bakal ay nakadudurog at nakapagpapasuko ng lahat na bagay; at kung paanong dinidikdik ng bakal ang lahat ng ito, siya'y magkakaputolputol at madidikdik.

41 At yamang iyong nakita na ang mga paa at mga daliri, ang isang bahagi ay putik na luto ng magpapalyok, at ang isang bahagi ay bakal, ay magiging kahariang hati; nguni't magkakaroon yaon ng kalakasan ng bakal, yamang iyong nakita na ang bakal ay nahahalo sa putik na luto.

42 At kung paanong ang mga daliri ng paa ay bakal ang isang bahagi at ang isang bahagi ay putik, magkakagayon ang kaharian na ang isang bahagi ay matibay, at isang bahagi ay marupok.

43 At yamang iyong nakita na ang bakal ay nahahaluan ng putik na luto, sila'y magkakahalo ng lahi ng mga tao; nguni't hindi sila magkakalakipan, gaya ng bakal na hindi lumalakip sa putik.

44 At sa mga kaarawan ng mga haring yaon ay maglalagay ang Dios sa langit ng isang kaharian, na hindi magigiba kailan man, o ang kapangyarihan man niyao'y iiwan sa ibang bayan; kundi pagpuputolputulin at lilipulin niya ang lahat na kahariang ito, at yao'y lalagi magpakailan man.

45 Yamang iyong nakita na ang isang bato ay natibag sa bundok, hindi ng mga kamay, at pumutol ng mga bakal, ng tanso, ng putik, ng pilak, at ng ginto; ipinaalam ng dakilang Dios sa hari kung ano ang mangyayari sa haharapin: at ang panaginip ay tunay at ang pagkapaaninaw niyao'y tapat.

46 Nang magkagayo'y ang haring Nabucodonosor ay nagpatirapa, at sumamba kay Daniel, at nagutos na sila'y maghandog ng alay at ng may masarap na amoy sa kaniya.

47 Ang hari ay sumagot kay Daniel, at nagsabi, Sa katotohanan ang inyong Dios ay Dios ng mga dios, at Panginoon ng mga hari, at tagapaghayag ng mga lihim, yamang ikaw ay nakapaghayag ng lihim na ito.

48 Nang magkagayo'y pinadakila ng hari si Daniel, at binigyan siya ng maraming dakilang kaloob, at pinapagpuno siya sa buong lalawigan ng Babilonia, at pinapaging pangulo ng mga tagapamahala sa lahat na pantas sa Babilonia.

49 At si Daniel ay humiling sa hari, at kaniyang inihalal, si Sadrach, si Mesach, at si Abed-nego, sa mga gawain sa lalawigan ng Babilonia; nguni't si Daniel ay nasa pintuang-daan ng hari.

   

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2162. 'Wash your feet' means that they were to take on something natural so that during the state He was then passing through His perception might be improved. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'feet' as natural things, and also in a like manner from the train of thought. That arcana lie concealed here becomes clear to a certain extent from the fact that Abraham besought the three men to take a little water and wash their feet, and to relax under a tree, even though he knew that it was the Lord or Jehovah; also from the fact that if it was not so such details would not have been mentioned.

[2] That 'feet' means natural things becomes clear from the representatives in the next life, and consequently from representatives derived from these that existed among the most ancient people and so occur in the Word. Celestial and spiritual things are represented by 'the head' and the parts of the head; by 'the breast' and the parts of the breast are represented rational concepts and aspects of these; by 'the feet and the parts of the feet are represented natural things and the different kinds of these. Consequently 'the sole' and 'the heel' of the foot mean the lowest natural things, regarding which see 259, while 'a shoe' means the lowest things of all, which are filthy, regarding which see 1748.

[3] Similar things are meant by the representations in the dreams and visions in the Prophets, such as the statue seen by Nebuchadnezzar, the head of which was fine gold, the breast and arms were silver, the belly and thighs were bronze, the legs were iron, and the feet were partly iron and partly clay, Daniel 2:32-33. In this case 'the head' means celestial things, which are inmost and are 'gold', as shown in 113, 1551, 1552; 'the breast and arms' spiritual or rational things, which are 'silver', as shown in 1551; but 'the feet' means lower things, which are natural, the truths of which are meant by 'iron' and the goods by 'clay' or mud. As regards 'iron' meaning truth, see 425, 426, and 'clay' good, 1300, both of which in the present case are natural. These things come in the same order in the Lord's kingdom in heaven, and in the Church which is the Lord's kingdom on earth, and also in every individual who is a kingdom of the Lord.

[4] It is similar with the vision which Daniel himself saw, of which the following is said,

I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a man clothed in linen whose loins were girded with gold of Uphaz and whose body was like tarshish, 1 and whose face was like the appearance of lightning, and whose eyes were like fiery torches, and whose arms and feet like the shine of burnished bronze. Daniel 10:5-6.

Specifically these words mean the interiors of the Word as to goods and truths. 'The arms and feet' are its interiors, which constitute the sense of the letter, for natural things occur there, since natural things are the source from which the exteriors of the Word are drawn. What further is meant by each of these parts, namely the loins, body, face, eyes, and many others in man, becomes clear from the representatives in the next life, which will in the Lord's Divine mercy be spoken of when the Grand Man - which is the Lord's heaven - and the representatives that originate in heaven but occur in the world of spirits are dealt with.

[5] That which one reads about Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders seeing the God of Israel, under whose feet there was so to speak a paved work of sapphire stone, like the substance of the sky for pureness, Exodus 24:9-10, means that they saw, represented in natural things, merely the external features of the Church, and also the literal sense of the Word, in which too, as has been stated, external things are represented by natural things. And these external things are 'the feet' under which there is so to speak 'a paved work of sapphire stone, like the substance of the sky itself'. It is clear that it was the Lord whom they saw, though only in those lower or natural things, since He is called 'the God of Israel', whom all things of the Church represented and whom all things of the Word in the internal sense meant. For the Lord is presented visually in accordance with the things that are meant at the time. When, for example, in John, He was seen as a Man on a white horse, the Word was in this case meant by Him, as is explicitly stated in Revelation 19:11, 13.

[6] The living creatures seen by Ezekiel, which were cherubs, are described as regards celestial and spiritual things by their faces and wings, and also many other things. But as regards natural things they are described as follows, by their feet, a straight foot, and the soles of their feet being like the sole of a calf's foot, and sparkling like the shine of burnished bronze, Ezekiel 1:7. The reason their feet, that is, natural things, are said to have sparkled like burnished bronze is that 'bronze' means natural good, dealt with in 425, 1551. It was similar when the Lord appeared to John as the Son of Man: His eyes were like a flame of fire and His feet were like burnished bronze, Revelation 1:14-15; 2:18.

[7] That 'feet' means natural things is further evident from the following places: In John, who saw,

A mighty angel coming down out of heaven, wrapped in a cloud, and a rainbow around his head, his face was like the sun and his feet like pillars of fire. In his hand he had a little book opened, and he set his right foot on the sea and his left on the land. Revelation 10:1-2.

This angel in a similar way means the Word. The nature of the Word in the internal sense is meant by 'the rainbow around his head' and by 'his face being like the sun'; but the external sense, or sense of the letter, is meant by his 'feet'. 'The sea' is natural truths, 'the land' natural goods, from which it is clear what is meant by his setting his right foot on the sea and his left on the land.

[8] Reference is made in various places in the Word to 'a footstool', but no one knows what is meant by this in the internal sense; as in Isaiah,

Jehovah said, The heavens are My throne and the earth My footstool. Where is this house which you are going to build for Me and where is this place of My rest? Isaiah 66:1.

'The heavens' means the celestial and spiritual things, and so the inmost things, both of the Lord's kingdom in heaven and of the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church. Also meant by 'the heavens' are those same things as they exist with every individual who is a kingdom of the Lord or a Church. Thus 'the heavens' also means the celestial and spiritual things regarded in themselves which are matters of love and charity and of faith that springs from these, and so means all things that belong to internal worship and similarly all things that belong to the internal sense of the Word. These things are meant by 'the heavens' and are called 'the Lord's throne', but by 'the earth' are meant all lower things corresponding to those meant by 'the heavens'. By 'the earth' lower rational and natural things are meant, which from correspondence are likewise referred to as celestial and spiritual things, such as those that exist in the lower heavens and also in the Church, and those things which belong to external worship and also those present in the literal sense of the Word. In short, all things that stem from internal things and manifest themselves in external are, being natural things, called 'the earth' and 'the Lord's footstool'. What heaven and earth mean in the internal sense of the Word, see also 82, 1733. What the new heaven and new earth mean, see 2117, 2118 (end). And that man is a miniature heaven, see 911, 978, 1900.

[9] Similarly in Jeremiah,

In His anger the Lord covers the daughter of Zion with a cloud, He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendour of Israel, and has not remembered His footstool on the day of His anger. Lamentations 2:1.

Also in David,

Exalt Jehovah our God, and bow down at His footstool. Holy is He! Psalms 99:5.

Elsewhere in the same author,

We will enter His dwelling-places, we will bow down at His footstool. Psalms 132:7.

People in the representative Church - and thus the Jews - imagined that God's house and the temple were His footstool. They did not know that by the Lord's house and the temple was meant external representative worship. What the internal features of the Church were, meant by 'heaven' or God's throne, they had no knowledge at all.

[10] In the same author,

Jehovah said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand till I make your enemies a stool for your feet. Psalms 110:1; Matthew 22:44; Mark 12:36; Luke 20:42-43.

Here 'footstool' in a similar way means natural things - both sensory impressions and factual knowledge, and man's rational ideas formed from these - which are called 'enemies' when worship is perverted by them (which is done from the literal sense of the Word). As a result worship exists solely in things that are external, and no internal worship - or rather only internal worship that is defiled - exists, concerning which see 1094, 1175, 1182. When these have became perverted and defiled in this manner they are called 'enemies'; but because, regarded in themselves, they have reference to internal worship, when this is restored, they become - both the things that belong to external worship and those that belong to the sense of the letter of the Word - 'a footstool', as stated already.

[11] In Isaiah,

The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the fir, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; and I will make the place of My feet glorious. Isaiah 60:13.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom and Church, the celestial-spiritual things of which are meant by 'the glory of Lebanon', that is, cedar trees, but the celestial-natural things of it by 'the fir, the pine, and the box', as also in other places in the Word. Thus it is the external aspects of worship that are referred to when it is said that 'I will make the place of My feet glorious'; and this cannot he made glorious by the fir, the pine, and the box, but by the things meant by these.

[12] That 'feet' means these things is also clear from the representatives in the Jewish Church, for example, by the requirement that Aaron and his sons were to wash their hands and feet before entering the tabernacle, Exodus 30:19-20; 40:31-32. No one is able to see that arcana were represented by this, for what is such washing of the hands and feet but some external act which does not do anything at all if the internal is not pure and clean? Nor can the internal be made pure and clean by such a washing. But because all the forms of ritual of that Church meant internal things that are celestial and spiritual, so it was with this form; that is to say, it meant the cleanliness of external worship, which is clean when internal worship is present within it. This explains why their lavers were made of bronze, and also the large laver which was called 'the bronze sea', together with the ten smaller ones made of bronze around Solomon's temple, 1 Kings 7:23, 38. They were made of bronze because 'bronze' represented good present in external worship, which is the same as natural good. Regarding this meaning of bronze, see 425, 1551.

[13] Similarly representative was the prohibition that no man among Aaron's descendants who had a broken foot or a broken hand should draw near to offer fire-offerings to Jehovah, Leviticus 21:19, 21. 'Broken feet and hands' represented those people whose external worship was perverted.

[14] That 'feet' means natural things is also evident from various other places in the Prophets, as in these prophetical utterances in Moses,

Blessed above sons be Asher; let him be acceptable among his brothers, and dipping his foot in oil. Your shoes will be iron and bronze. Deuteronomy 33:24-25.

These words will not be understood by anybody unless he knows what the meaning of oil, foot, iron, bronze, and shoe are in the internal sense. 'Foot' is the natural; 'shoe' the still lower natural, such as that which is connected with the senses and the body, see 1748; 'oil' is the celestial, 886; 'iron' natural truth, 425, 426; and 'bronze' natural good, 425, 1551. From these places it is evident what these words embody.

[15] In Nahum,

The way of Jehovah is in storm and tempest, and the clouds are the dust of His feet. Nahum 1:3.

Here 'the dust of the feet' means the natural and bodily things with man which give rise to clouds. The same is also meant by these words in David,

Jehovah bowed the heavens and came down, and thick darkness was under His feet. Psalms 18:9.

[16] When goods and truths of faith are perverted by natural light, as people call it, it is described in the Word as the feet and hoofs of a beast which trouble waters and trample on food, as in Ezekiel,

You have come forth into the rivers, and have troubled the waters with your feet and trampled their rivers. I will destroy all its beasts from over many waters, and the foot of man will not trouble them any longer, nor will the hoofs of beast. Ezekiel 32:2, 13.

This refers to Egypt, which meant forms of knowledge, as shown in 1164, 1165, 1462. Thus by 'feet and hoofs which trouble the rivers and water' are meant facts gained from sensory and from natural things, on the basis of which people reason about the arcana of faith and do not believe anything until they grasp it by this method. This amounts to not believing at all, for the more such people go on reasoning, the less believing they are; see what is said in 128-130, 215, 232, 233, 1072, 1385. From all these quotations it is now evident that 'feet' in the Word means natural things. But what further meaning 'feet' may have is evident from the context in which the expression occurs.

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1. A Hebrew word for a particular kind of precious stone, probably a beryl.

  
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