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Ezekiel 24

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1 Muli, nang ikasiyam na taon, nang ikasangpung araw ng buwan, ang salita ng Panginoon ay dumating sa akin, na nagsasabi,

2 Anak ng tao, isulat mo ang pangalan ng kaarawan, ang kaarawan ding ito: ang hari sa Babilonia ay nagpakalapit sa Jerusalem sa kaarawan ding ito.

3 At ipagsabi mo ng isang talinhaga ang mapanghimagsik na sangbahayan, at sabihin mo sa kanila, Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios, Magsalang ka ng kaldera, isalang mo, at buhusan mo rin naman ng tubig:

4 Pisanin mo ang mga putol niyaon doon, lahat ng mabuting putol, ang hita, at ang balikat; punuin mo ng mga piling buto.

5 Kumuha ka ng pinili sa kawan, at ibunton mo ang mga buto sa ilalim niyaon: pakuluan mong mabuti; oo, lutuin mo ang mga buto sa loob niyaon.

6 Kaya't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Sa aba ng mabagsik na bayan, ng kaldera na may kalawang, at ang kalawang ay hindi naalis doon! ilabas mo na putolputol; walang sapalaran na ginawa roon.

7 Sapagka't ang dugo niya ay nasa gitna niya; kaniyang inilagay sa luwal na bato; hindi niya ibinuhos sa lupa, na tabunan ng alabok.

8 Upang pukawin ang kapusukan ng manghihiganti, inilagay ko ang kaniyang dugo sa luwal na bato, upang huwag matakpan.

9 Kaya't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios; Sa aba ng mabagsik na bayan! akin ding palalakihin ang bunton.

10 Ibunton ang kahoy, paningasin ang apoy, pakuluang mabuti ang laman, palaputin ang sabaw, at sunugin ang mga buto.

11 Kung magkagayo'y ipatong mong walang laman sa mga baga niyaon, upang uminit, at ang tanso niyao'y masunog, at ng ang dumi niyaon ay matunaw roon, upang mapugnaw ang kalawang niyaon.

12 Siya'y nagpakapagod sa paggawa; gayon ma'y ang maraming kalawang ay hindi naaalis; ang kalawang niyaon ay hindi naaalis sa pamamagitan ng apoy.

13 Nasa iyong karumihan ang kahalayan: sapagka't ikaw ay aking nilinis at hindi ka nalinis, hindi ka na malilinis pa sa iyong karumihan, hanggang sa aking malubos ang aking kapusukan sa iyo.

14 Akong Panginoon ang nagsalita: mangyayari, at aking gagawin; hindi ako magbabalik-loob, ni magpapatawad man, ni magsisisi man; ayon sa iyong mga lakad, at ayon sa iyong mga gawa, kanilang hahatulan ka, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

15 Ang salita ng Panginoon ay dumating din sa akin, na nagsasabi,

16 Anak ng tao, narito, aalisin ko sa iyo sa pamamagitan ng kamatayan ang nasa ng iyong mga mata: gayon ma'y hindi ka tatangis, ni iiyak man, ni aagos man ang iyong mga luha.

17 Magbuntong-hininga ka, nguni't huwag malakas; huwag mong tangisan ang patay; itali mo ang pugong mo sa ulo, at isuot mo ang iyong mga panyapak sa iyong mga paa, at huwag mong takpan ang iyong mga labi, at huwag kang kumain ng tinapay ng mga tao.

18 Sa gayo'y nagsalita ako sa bayan nang kinaumagahan; at sa kinahapunan ay namatay ang aking asawa; at aking ginawa nang kinaumagahan ang gaya ng iniutos sa akin.

19 At sinabi ng bayan sa akin, Hindi mo baga sasaysayin sa amin kung anong mga bagay ito sa amin, na ikaw ay gumagawa ng ganyan?

20 Nang magkagayo'y sinabi ko sa kanila, Ang salita ng Panginoon ay dumating sa akin, na nagsasabi:

21 Salitain mo sa sangbahayan ni Israel, Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Narito, aking lalapastanganin ang aking santuario, na kapalaluan ng inyong kapangyarihan, na nasa ng inyong mga mata, at kinahihinayangan ng inyong kalooban, at ang inyong mga anak na lalake at babae na inyong iniwan sa hulihan ay mangabubuwal sa pamamagitan ng tabak.

22 At inyong gagawin ang aking ginawa; hindi ninyo tatakpan ang inyong mga labi, o kakain man ng tinapay ng mga tao.

23 At ang inyong turbante ay malalagay sa inyong mga ulo, at ang inyong mga panyapak sa inyong mga paa: kayo'y hindi tatangis o iiyak man; kundi kayo'y manganglulupaypay sa inyong mga kasamaan, at mangagdadaingang isa't isa.

24 Ganito magiging isang tanda sa inyo si Ezekiel; ayon sa lahat niyang ginawa ay inyong gagawin: pagka ito'y nangyari ay inyo ngang malalaman na ako ang Panginoong Dios.

25 At ikaw, anak ng tao, hindi baga mangyayari sa araw na aking alisin sa kanila ang kanilang lakas, ang kagalakan ng kanilang kaluwalhatian, ang nasa ng kanilang mga mata, at ang kanilang pinaglalagakan ng kanilang puso, ang kanilang mga anak na lalake at babae,

26 Na sa araw na yaon ang makatatanan ay paroroon sa iyo, upang iparinig sa iyo ng iyong mga pakinig?

27 Sa araw na yaon ay mabubuka ang iyong bibig sa kaniya na nakatanan, at ikaw ay magsasalita, at hindi na mapipipi pa: gayon magiging isang tanda ka sa kanila; at kanilang malalaman na ako ang Panginoon.

   

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9229. 'And men of holiness shall you be to Me' means a state of life then composed of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'men of holiness' as those who are led by the Lord, for the Divine which emanates from the Lord is holiness itself, 6788, 7499, 8127 (end), 8302, 8806. Consequently those who receive that emanation in faith and also in love are called holy ones. Anyone who imagines that a person is holy from any other source, or that anything present with a person is holy apart from that which comes and is received from the Lord is very much mistaken; for that which is the person's own, and is called his proprium, is evil.

The human proprium is nothing but evil, see 210, 215, 694, 874-876, 987, 1047, 4328, 5660, 5786, 8480, 8944.

To the extent that a person can be withheld from his proprium, the Lord can be present with him, and therefore to the same extent holiness resides with him, 1023, 1044, 1581, 2256, 2388, 2406, 2411, 8206, 8393, 8988 (end), 9014.

[2] The truth that the Lord is the Only Holy One, and that nothing is holy except that which emanates from the Lord, and so that which a person receives from the Lord, is evident from everywhere in the Word, as in John,

I make Myself holy, that they also may be made holy in the truth. John 17:19.

'Making Himself holy' means making Himself Divine by His own power. Consequently those who receive Divine Truth emanating from the Lord in faith and life are said to be 'made holy in the truth'.

[3] This also explains why after the Resurrection, when the Lord spoke to the disciples, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit, John 20:22. 'Breathing on (or into)' was a sign that represented the imparting of life through faith and love, as also in Genesis,

Jehovah breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man (homo) became a living soul. Genesis 2:7.

Other examples like this may be seen elsewhere, such as Psalms 33:6; 104:29-30; Job 32:8; 33:4; John 3:8. Therefore also the Word is said to be inspired because it comes from the Lord, and those who wrote the Word have been called 'inspired'. Breathing, and so breathing on or inspiring, corresponds to the life of faith, see 97, 1119, 1120, 3883-3896. This explains why the term spirit in the Word is derived from the word for wind, and holiness from the Lord is called Jehovah's wind, 8286, and why the Holy Spirit is the holiness emanating from the Lord, 3704, 4673 (end), 5307, 6788, 6982, 6993, 8127 (end), 8302, 9199.

[4] So also it says in John 1:33 that the Lord baptizes with the Holy Spirit, and in Luke 3:16 that He baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 'Baptizing' in the internal sense means regenerating, 4255, 5120 (end), 9088; 'baptizing with the Holy Spirit' means regenerating by means of the good of faith; and 'baptizing with fire' means regenerating by means of the good of love, 'fire' being the good of love, see 934, 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324. In John,

Who is not going to fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. Revelation 15:4.

In Luke the angel telling Mary about the Lord said,

That which is holy will be born from you. Luke 1:35.

And in Daniel,

I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and behold, a vigilant and holy one came down from heaven. Daniel 4:13.

In these places 'that which is holy' and 'a holy one' stand for the Lord.

[5] Because the Lord alone is holy He is called in the Old Testament the Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer, the Saviour, and the Regenerator, as in Isaiah 1:4; 5:19, 24; 10:20; 12:6; 17:7; 29:19; 30:11-12, 15; 31:1; 37:23; 41:14, 16, 20; 43:3, 14; 45:11; 47:4; 48:17; 49:7; 54:5; 55:5; 60:9, 14; Jeremiah 50:29; 51:5; Ezekiel 39:7; Psalms 71:22; 78:41; 89:18. This is why the Lord in heaven, and consequently heaven itself, is called the dwelling-place of holiness, Jeremiah 25:30; 31:23; 1 Isaiah 63:15; the sanctuary, 2 Ezekiel 11:16; 24:21; and also the mountain of holiness, Psalms 3:4. It is also why the middle of the tent [of meeting], where the ark containing the law was, was called The Holy of Holies, Exodus 26:33-34; for the law in the ark in the middle of the tent [of meeting], represented the Lord in respect of the Word. For the law is the Word, 6752, 7463.

[6] All this shows why it is that the angels are called holy in Matthew 25:31; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; Psalms 149:1; Daniel 8:13; also the prophets, Luke 1:70; and the apostles too, Revelation 18:20. Not that they are holy by their own virtue but that the Lord, who alone is holy and the only source of holiness, makes them so. For truths are meant by 'the angels', because they are those who receive truth from the Lord, 1925, 4085, 4295, 4402, 7268, 7873, 8192, 8301; teachings which present the truth that comes through the Word from the Lord are meant by 'the prophets', 2534, 7269; and all the truths and forms of the good of faith in their entirety which come from the Lord are meant by 'the apostles', 3488, 3858 (end), 6397.

[7] Consecrations 3 among the Israelite and Jewish people took place in order that the Lord who alone was holy might be represented, and in order that holiness, which He alone is the source of, might be represented. This is the reason for the consecration of Aaron and his sons, Exodus 29:1ff; Leviticus 8:10-11, 13, 30; the consecration of their garments, Exodus 29:21ff; the consecration of the altar in order that it might be most holy, 4 Exodus 29:37ff; the consecration of the tent of meeting, the ark of the Testimony, the table, all the vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering and its vessels, and the laver and its base, Exodus 30:26ff.

[8] The truth that the Lord is the real Holiness that was represented is evident also from the Lord's words in Matthew when they are seen in the internal sense,

Fools and blind! Which of the two is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold holy? And which of the two is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? Matthew 23:17-19.

'The temple' represented the Lord Himself, and so did 'the altar', while 'the gold' was a sign of the good that comes from the Lord, and 'the gift' or a sacrifice was a sign of things constituting faith and charity that come from the Lord.

The Lord was represented by 'the temple', see 2777, 3720, and by 'the altar', 2777, 2811, 4489, 8935, 8940. 'Gold' was a sign of good that comes from the Lord, 1551, 1552, 5658, and 'a sacrifice' a sign of worship springing from faith and charity that come from the Lord, 922, 923, 2805, 2807, 2830, 6905, 8680, 8682, 8936.

[9] From all this it is now evident why it is that the children of Israel were called a holy people in Deuteronomy 26:19 and elsewhere, or as in the present verse men of holiness. That is to say, they were so called because every single aspect of their worship represented Divine realities that are the Lord's, and celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom and Church. On this account they were called holy in a representative sense; they themselves were not holy on that account, because representatives had regard to the holy things that were represented, not to the person who represented them, see 665, 1097 (end), 1361, 3147, 3881 (end), 4208, 4281, 4288, 4293, 4307, 4444, 4500, 6304, 7048, 7439, 8588, 8788, 8806.

[10] On that account also was Jerusalem called holy, and Zion the mountain of holiness in Zechariah 8:3 and elsewhere, as well as in Matthew,

And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of dead holy ones were raised; and coming out of their tombs after the Lord's resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. Matthew 27:52-53.

Here Jerusalem is called 'the holy city', when in fact, quite to the contrary, it was unholy because the Lord was crucified there at that time, for which reason it is called 'Sodom and Egypt' in John,

Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Revelation 11:8.

Yet it is called holy, because it means the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 402, 2117, 3654. The appearance of 'dead holy ones' there, an event witnessed by some in vision, was a sign of the salvation of people who belonged to the spiritual Church, and of the raising of those people to the Holy Jerusalem, which is heaven - the people who had been kept up to that time on the lower earth, spoken of in 6854, 6914, 7091, 7828, 7932, 8049, 8054, 8159, 8321.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1Jeremiah 31:23 refers to a dwelling-place of righteousness [and] mountain of holiness, to be exact

2. i.e. an especially holy place

3. i.e. dedicating persons or things to holy functions or purposes

4. literally, the holiness of holinesses

  
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