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Ezekiel 2

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1 At sinabi niya sa akin, Anak ng tao, tumayo ka ng iyong mga paa, at ako'y makikipagsalitaan sa iyo.

2 At ang Espiritu ay sumaakin nang siya'y magsalita sa akin, at itinayo ako sa aking mga paa; at aking narinig siya na nagsasalita sa akin.

3 At kaniyang sinabi sa akin, Anak ng tao, sinusugo kita sa mga anak ni Israel, sa mga bansa na mapanghimagsik, na nanganghimagsik laban sa akin: sila at ang kanilang mga magulang ay nagsisalangsang laban sa akin, hanggang sa kaarawan ngang ito.

4 At ang mga anak ay walang galang at mapagmatigas na loob; sinusugo kita sa kanila: at iyong sasabihin sa kanila, Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

5 At sila sa didinggin man nila, o sa itatakuwil man nila (sapagka't sila'y mapanghimagsik na sangbahayan), gayon man ay matatalastas nila na nagkaroon ng propeta sa gitna nila.

6 At ikaw, anak ng tao, huwag matakot sa kanila, o matakot man sa kanilang mga salita, bagaman maging mga dawag at mga tinik ang kasama mo, at bagaman ikaw ay tumatahan sa gitna ng mga alakdan: huwag kang matakot sa kanilang mga salita, o manglupaypay man sa kanilang mga tingin, bagaman sila'y mapanghimagsik na sangbahayan.

7 At iyong sasalitain ang aking mga salita sa kanila, sa didinggin, o sa itatakuwil man; sapagka't sila'y totoong mapanghimagsik.

8 Nguni't ikaw, anak ng tao, dinggin mo kung ano ang sinasabi ko sa iyo; huwag kang mapanghimagsik na gaya niyaong mapanghimagsik na sangbahayan; ibuka mo ang iyong bibig, at iyong kanin ang ibinibigay ko sa iyo.

9 At nang ako'y tumingin, narito, isang kamay ay nakaunat sa akin; at narito, isang balumbon ay nandoon;

10 At ikinadkad niya sa harap ko: at nasusulatan sa loob at sa labas; at may nakasulat doon na mga taghoy, at panangis, at mga daing.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 510

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510. But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet. (11:11) This symbolically means that at the end of the prior church, as the New Church commences and grows, these two essential elements of the New Church are made living by the Lord in people who accept them.

Three and a half days means, symbolically, at the end and then the beginning (no. 505), thus at the end of the church still existing and the beginning of a new one, here the beginning of the church in people in whom the New Church commences and grows, because we are told now in regard to the two witnesses that the breath of life entered them and they stood on their feet.

The breath of life from God symbolizes spiritual life, and standing on their feet symbolizes natural life in harmony with spiritual life, and thus one made living by the Lord. This is the symbolic meaning because the breath of life refers to a person's inner being, called his inner self, which regarded in itself is spiritual. For it is a person's spirit that thinks and wills, and to think and will is, in itself, a spiritual activity. 1 Standing on the feet symbolizes a person's outer being, called his outer self, which in itself is natural. For it is the body that says and does what the spirit in it thinks and wills, and to speak and act is a natural activity. That the feet symbolize natural things may be seen in nos. 49, 468.

[2] We need to say what all this means specifically. Everyone who is reformed is reformed first in respect to his inner self, and afterward in respect to his outer self. The inner self is reformed, not by simply knowing and understanding the truths and goods by which a person is saved, but by willing and loving them, and the outer self by saying and doing what the inner self wills and loves. To the extent the outer self does this, then, to the same extent the person is regenerated. He is not regenerated prior to that because before then his inner self is not present in the effect, but subsists only in the cause, and unless a cause has an effect, it dissipates. It is like a house founded on a field of ice, a house that sinks to the bottom when the sun melts the ice. In short, it is like a person without feet on which to stand and walk. The same is the case with the inner or spiritual self unless it is founded on the outer or natural self.

This, now, is what is symbolically meant by the two witnesses' standing on their feet after breath from God entered them, and also by similar statements in Ezekiel:

(Jehovah) said to me, "Prophesy regarding the breath...." And (when) I prophesied... breath came into them, and they... stood upon their feet... (Ezekiel 37:9-10)

Also in Ezekiel:

(The voice speaking to me said,) "Son of man, stand on your feet...." Then the spirit 1 entered me... and set me on my feet. (Ezekiel 2:1-2)

And again in Ezekiel:

...I fell on my face. But the spirit 1 ...entered me and set me on my feet... (Ezekiel 3:23-24)

This, too, is the meaning of the Lord's words to Peter:

...Peter said..., ."..(wash) not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is completely clean." (John 13:9-10)

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1. In the original Latin, the word for breath and spirit is the same, and it is translated here as both breath and spirit.

  
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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.