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Ezekiel 26

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1 At nangyari, nang ikalabing isang taon, nang unang araw ng buwan, na ang salita ng Panginoon ay dumating sa akin, na nagsasabi,

2 Anak ng tao, sapagka't ang Tiro ay nagsabi laban sa Jerusalem, Aha, siya na naging pintuan ng mga bayan ay sira; siya'y nabalik sa akin: ako'y mapupuno ngayong siya'y sira:

3 Kaya't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios, Narito, ako'y laban sa iyo, Oh Tiro, at aking pasasampahin ang maraming bansa laban sa iyo, gaya ng pagpapasampa ng dagat ng kaniyang mga alon.

4 At kanilang gigibain ang mga kuta ng Tiro, at ibabagsak ang kaniyang mga moog: akin din namang papalisin sa kaniya ang kaniyang alabok, at gagawin ko siyang hubad na bato.

5 Siya'y magiging dakong ladlaran ng mga lambat sa gitna ng dagat: sapagka't ako ang nagsalita sabi ng Panginoong Dios; at siya'y magiging samsam sa mga bansa.

6 At ang kaniyang mga anak na babae na nangasa parang ay papatayin ng tabak: at kanilang malalaman na ako ang Panginoon.

7 Sapagka't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios, Narito, aking dadalhin sa Tiro si Nabucodonosor na hari sa Babilonia, na hari ng mga hari, mula sa hilagaan, na may mga kabayo, at may mga karo, at may mga nangangabayo, at isang pulutong, at maraming tao.

8 Kaniyang papatayin ng tabak ang iyong mga anak na babae sa parang; at siya'y gagawa ng mga katibayan laban sa iyo, at magtitindig ng isang bunton laban sa iyo, at magtataas ng longki laban sa iyo.

9 At kaniyang ilalagay ang kaniyang mga pangsaksak laban sa iyong mga kuta, at sa pamamagitan ng kaniyang mga palakol ay kaniyang ibabagsak ang iyong mga moog.

10 Dahil sa kasaganaan ng kaniyang mga kabayo, tatakpan ka ng kaniyang alabok: ang iyong mga kuta ay uuga sa hugong ng mga mangangabayo, at ng mga kariton, at ng mga karo, pagka siya'y papasok sa iyong mga pintuang-bayan, na gaya ng pagpasok ng tao sa isang bayan na pinamutasan.

11 Tutungtungan ng mga paa ng kaniyang mga kabayo ang lahat mong mga lansangan; papatayin niya ng tabak ang iyong bayan; at ang mga haligi ng iyong lakas ay mabubuwal sa lupa.

12 At sila'y magsisisamsam ng iyong mga kayamanan, at lolooban ang iyong kalakal; at kanilang ibabagsak ang iyong mga kuta, at gigibain ang iyong mga masayang bahay; at ilalagay ang iyong mga bato, at ang iyong kahoy at ang iyong alabok sa gitna ng tubig.

13 At aking patitigilin ang tinig ng iyong mga awit; at ang tunog ng iyong mga alpa ay hindi na maririnig.

14 At gagawin kitang hubad na bato: ikaw ay magiging dakong ladlaran ng mga lambat; ikaw ay hindi na matatayo; sapagka't akong Panginoon ang nagsalita, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

15 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios sa Tiro; Hindi baga mayayanig ang mga pulo sa tunog ng iyong pagbagsak, pagka ang nasugatan ay dumadaing, pagka may patayan sa gitna mo?

16 Kung magkagayo'y lahat na prinsipe sa dagat ay magsisibaba mula sa kanilang mga luklukan, at aalisin ang kanilang mga balabal, at huhubuin ang kanilang mga damit na may burda: sila'y dadatnan ng panginginig; sila'y magsisiupo sa lupa, at manginginig sa tuwituwina, at mangatitigilan sa iyo.

17 At pananaghuyan ka nila, at magsasabi sa iyo, Ano't nagiba ka, na tinatahanan ng mga taong dagat, na bantog na bayan na malakas sa dagat, siya at ang mga mananahan sa kaniya, na nagpapangilabot sa lahat na nagsisitahan sa kaniya!

18 Ang mga pulo nga ay mayayanig sa kaarawan ng iyong pagbagsak; oo, ang mga pulo na nangasa dagat ay manganglulupaypay sa iyong pagyaon.

19 Sapagka't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Pagka ikaw ay aking gagawing sirang bayan, na parang mga bayan na hindi tinatahanan, pagka tatabunan kita ng kalaliman, at tatakpan ka ng maraming tubig;

20 Ibababa nga kita na kasama nila na bumababa sa hukay, sa mga tao nang una, at patatahanin kita sa mga malalim na bahagi ng lupa, sa mga dakong sira nang una, na kasama ng nagsibaba sa hukay, upang ikaw ay huwag tahanan; at ako'y maglalagay ng kaluwalhatian sa lupain ng buhay.

21 Gagawin kitang kakilakilabot, at hindi ka na mabubuhay: bagaman ikaw ay hanapin ay hindi ka na masusumpungan pa uli, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9688

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9688. 'The work of an embroiderer' means things that belong to factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'the work of an embroiderer', or embroidery, as factual knowledge. A large number of places in the Word speak of that which has been embroidered and of embroidery, and in every case factual knowledge is meant by it. The reason for this goes back to representatives in the next life; there garments embroidered in various ways are seen, and by these garments truths on the level of factual knowledge are meant.

[2] Truths on the level of factual knowledge differ from those on the level of the understanding in the same way as outward things differ from inward ones, or as the natural level with a person differs from the spiritual. Facts serve the understanding as objects from which it may deduce truths; for the power of understanding is the internal or spiritual man's power of sight, and known facts are its objects in the external or natural man. These facts are meant by 'the work of an embroiderer' whereas that power of understanding is meant by 'the work of a designer', 9598, for designing is a function of the understanding, and embroidering a function of the knowledge and skill employed by the understanding. This explains why the objects within the dwelling-place, which were signs meaning inner realities, were the work of a designer, such as the curtains that formed it, verse 1, and the veil between the holy place and the holy of holies, verse 31. But the objects which were signs meaning outer realities were the work of an embroiderer, such as the screen in place of a tent door, and the screen in place of a gate of the court, Exodus 38:18, and also the girdle, Exodus 39:29, 'the girdle' being what is external linking everything internal, 'the court' being the lowest part of heaven, and 'the tent door' the place where there is an exit from the middle heaven into the lowest.

[3] The fact that 'embroidery' and that which has been 'embroidered' mean factual knowledge belonging to the external or natural man is clear from the following places in the Word: In Ezekiel,

Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail; violet and purple from the islands of Elishah was your covering. Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks; [they exchanged for your wares] chrysoprase and purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen. The merchants of Sheba [came] with balls of violet and with embroidered work. Ezekiel 27:7, 16, 24.

This refers to Tyre, by which those in possession of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good are meant, and in the abstract sense those cognitions themselves, 1201. 'Fine linen with embroidery' means truth on the level of factual knowledge, for 'fine linen' means truth from a celestial origin, 5319, 9469, and 'embroidery' is factual knowledge. This also is the reason why it says that it came from Egypt - for 'Egypt' means factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 2588, 4749, 4964, 4966, 5700, 5702, 6004, 6015, 6125, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, 6750, 7779 (end), 9391 - and also from Syria and from Sheba, since cognitions of truth and good are meant by 'Syria', 1232, 1234, 3051, 3249, 3664, 3680, 4112, and in like manner by 'Sheba', 1171, 3240. Cognitions of truth and good constitute the Church's factual knowledge. Anybody endowed with the ability to think intelligently and weigh things up can see that in these verses from Ezekiel one should not understand embroidery, fine linen, violet, or purple, but that these commodities mean things such as are worthy of mention in the Word, namely spiritual realities that belong to heaven and the Church.

[4] In the same prophet,

All the princes of the sea will step down from upon their thrones, and will cast away their robes and will strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with tremblings. Ezekiel 26:16.

This too refers to Tyre. 'The princes of the sea' are the first and foremost known facts, which are called dogmas, 'princes' meaning things which are first and foremost, see 1482, 2089, 5044, and 'the sea' factual knowledge in general 28, 2850. 'Robes' are external truths, 'embroidered' are truths on the level of factual knowledge, which too are external ones. For the meaning of 'garments' as truths, 2576, 4545, 4763, 5248, 5319, 5954, 6914, 6917, 6918, 9093, 9158, 9212, 9216.

[5] In the same prophet,

I clothed you with embroidered cloth, and shod you with badger; I swathed you in fine linen and covered you with silk. Thus were you adorned with gold and silver; and your garments were fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. But you took your embroidered garments and covered the images, with which you committed whoredom. 1 Ezekiel 16:10, 13, 18.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which the Church is meant. 'Embroidered garments' stands for truths on the level of factual knowledge. 'Covering the images, with which she committed whoredom' stands for giving strength to falsities, for 'committing whoredom' means perverting truths by bringing them into contact with falsities or with evils. Is there anyone who cannot see that since these verses describe Jerusalem 'fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth' are not used to mean fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth? Yet what they really mean the Christian world does not seek to know, because it supposes that heavenly and spiritual matters in the Word reside in its literal sense; the more internal contents of the Word it calls mystical, but has no interest in them.

[6] In the same prophet,

A great eagle with great wings, with long pinions, full of feathers, 2 which had embroidery ... Ezekiel 17:3.

This refers to the house of Israel, which means the spiritual Church; and this Church is called 'an eagle' by virtue of its perception of truth, 3901, 8764, 'which had embroidery' standing for its possession of factual knowledge. In David,

All glorious is the king's daughter within, in her clothing with gold interweavings; in an embroidered [robe] she will be led to the king. Psalms 45:13-14.

'The king's daughter' stands for an affection for truth, 'an embroidered [robe]' for factual knowledge of truth. In the Book of Judges,

Will they not divide the spoil, ... the spoil of colours for Sisera, the spoil of colours of embroidered work, embroiderers' colour - on the necks of the spoil? 3 Judges 5:30.

In this verse, which is part of the Song of Deborah and Barak, 'embroidered [work]' stands for factual knowledge belonging to the natural man.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Here verse 18 of Ezekiel 16 has become confused with the preceding verse 17.

2. literally, A great eagle, great with wings, long with pinions, and full with feathers,

3. The meaning in the Hebrew of this verse is very obscure. The Latin rendering by Sebastian Schmidt, which Swedenborg relies on here, is literal and equally difficult to make sense of.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.