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Jeremias 17

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1 Ang kasalanan ng Juda ay nasulat ng panulat na bakal, at ng dulo ng diamante: nakintal sa kanilang puso, at sa mga sungay ng inyong mga dambana;

2 Habang naaalaala ng kanilang mga anak ang kanilang mga dambana at ang kanilang mga Asera sa tabi ng mga sariwang puno ng kahoy sa mga mataas na burol.

3 Oh aking bundok sa parang, aking ibibigay sa pagkasamsam ang iyong mga tinatangkilik sa lahat ng iyong lupa at ang lahat ng iyong mga kayamanan, at ang iyong mga mataas na dako, dahil sa kasalanan, sa lahat ng iyong hangganan.

4 At ikaw, sa makatuwid baga'y ang iyong sarili, mawawalaan ka ng iyong mana na ibinigay ko sa iyo; at paglilingkurin kita sa iyong mga kaaway sa lupain na hindi mo nakikilala: sapagka't pinapagningas ninyo ang aking galit na magniningas magpakailan man.

5 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon: Sumpain ang tao na tumitiwala sa tao, at ginagawang laman ang kaniyang bisig, at ang puso ay humihiwalay sa Panginoon.

6 Sapagka't siya'y magiging gaya ng kugon sa ilang, at hindi makakakita pagka ang mabuti ay dumarating, kundi tatahan sa mga tuyong dako sa ilang, lupaing maalat at hindi tinatahanan.

7 Mapalad ang tao na tumitiwala sa Panginoon, at ang pagasa ay ang Panginoon.

8 Sapagka't siya'y magiging parang punong kahoy na itinanim sa tabi ng tubig, at naguugat sa tabi ng ilog, at hindi matatakot pagka ang init ay dumarating, kundi ang kaniyang dahon ay magiging sariwa; at hindi mababalisa sa taon ng pagkatuyu, o maglilikat man ng pagbubunga.

9 Ang puso ay magdaraya ng higit kay sa lahat na bagay, at totoong masama: sinong makaaalam?

10 Akong Panginoon, ay sumisiyasat ng pagiisip, aking tinatarok ang mga puso, upang magbigay sa bawa't tao ng ayon sa kanikaniyang lakad, ayon sa bunga ng kanikaniyang mga gawain.

11 Kung paanong lumilimlim ang pugo sa mga itlog na hindi kaniya, gayon siya nagtatangkilik ng mga kayamanan, at hindi sa pamamagitan ng matuwid; sa kaniyang mga kaarawan ay iiwan niya yaon, at sa kaniyang wakas ay nagiging mangmang siya.

12 Ang maluwalhating luklukan, na naitaas mula nang pasimula, ay siyang dako ng aming santuario.

13 Oh Panginoon, na pagasa ng Israel, lahat na nagpapabaya sa iyo ay mapapahiya. Silang nagsisihiwalay sa akin ay masusulat sa lupa, sapagka't kanilang pinabayaan ang Panginoon, na bukal ng buhay na tubig.

14 Iyong pagalingin ako, Oh Panginoon, at gagaling ako; iyong iligtas ako, at maliligtas ako: sapagka't ikaw ang aking kapurihan.

15 Narito, kanilang sinasabi sa akin, Saan nandoon ang salita ng Panginoon? paratingin ngayon.

16 Sa ganang akin, ay hindi ako nagmadali sa pagpapakapastor sa pagsunod sa iyo; o ninasa ko man ang kaabaabang kaarawan: iyong nalalaman: ang lumabas sa aking mga labi ay nasa harap ng iyong mukha.

17 Huwag maging kakilabutan sa akin: ikaw ang aking kanlungan sa araw ng kasakunaan.

18 Mangapahiya sila sa nagsisiusig sa akin, nguni't huwag akong mapahiya; manganglupaypay sila, nguni't huwag akong manglupaypay; datnan sila ng araw ng kasakunaan, at ipahamak sila ng ibayong pagkapahamak.

19 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon sa akin, Ikaw ay yumaon, at tumayo ka sa pintuang-bayan ng mga anak ng bayan, na pinapasukan, at nilalabasan ng mga hari sa Juda, at sa lahat ng pintuang-bayan ng Jerusalem;

20 At iyong sabihin sa kanila, Inyong dinggin ang salita ng Panginoon, ninyong mga hari sa Juda, at ng buong Juda, at ng lahat na nananahan sa Jerusalem, na nagsisipasok sa pintuang-bayang ito:

21 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Mangagingat kayo sa inyong sarili, at huwag kayong mangagdala ng pasan sa araw ng sabbath, o mangagpasok man sa mga pintuang-bayan ng Jerusalem;

22 Huwag din kayong maglabas ng pasan sa inyong mga bahay sa araw ng sabbath, o magsigawa man kayo ng anomang gawain: kundi inyong ipangilin ang araw ng sabbath, gaya ng iniutos ko sa inyong mga magulang.

23 Nguni't hindi nila dininig, o ikiniling man ang kanilang pakinig, kundi pinapagmatigas ang kanilang leeg, upang huwag nilang marinig, at huwag makatanggap ng turo.

24 At mangyayari, kung kayo'y mangakinig na maingat sa akin, sabi ng Panginoon, na huwag magpasok ng pasan sa mga pintuan ng bayang ito sa araw ng sabbath, kundi ipangilin ang araw ng sabbath, upang huwag gawan ng anomang gawain;

25 Kung magkagayo'y magsisipasok sa mga pintuan ng bayang ito ang mga hari at mga prinsipe na nangauupo sa luklukan ni David, na nangakakaro at nangakakabayo, sila at ang kanilang mga pangulo, ang mga lalake ng Juda, at ang mga taga Jerusalem; at ang bayang ito ay mananatili magpakailan man.

26 At sila'y manganggagaling sa mga bayan ng Juda, at sa mga palibot ng Jerusalem, at sa lupain ng Benjamin, at sa mababang lupain, at sa mga bundok, at sa Timugan, na magdadala ng mga handog na susunugin, at ng mga hain, at ng mga alay, at ng kamangyan, at mangagdadala ng mga hain na pasalamat sa bahay ng Panginoon.

27 Nguni't kung hindi ninyo didinggin ako upang ipangilin ang araw ng sabbath, at huwag mangagdala ng pasan at pumasok sa mga pintuang-bayan ng Jerusalem sa araw ng sabbath; kung magkagayo'y magsusulsol ako ng apoy sa mga pintuang-bayan niyaon, at pupugnawin niyaon ang mga palacio sa Jerusalem, at hindi mapapatay.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2701

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2701. 'God opened her eyes' means intelligence. This is clear from the meaning of 'opening' - and that it is God who did so - and also from [the meaning] of 'the eyes', as conferring intelligence; for 'the eyes' means the understanding, see 212, as also does 'sight' or 'seeing', 2150, 2325. The expression 'God opens the eyes' is used when He opens interior sight or the understanding, which opening is accomplished by means of an influx into the rational part of the person's mind, or rather into the spiritual part of his rational. The route taken by this influx is the soul, that is, the internal route, of which the person himself is not aware. This influx is his state of enlightenment in which the truths he hears or reads about are confirmed for him by a kind of perception existing within, in the understanding part of his mind. The person himself believes that this enlightenment is innate within himself and that it springs from his own power of understanding; but in this he is very much mistaken. This enlightenment consists in an influx from the Lord by way of heaven into that person's dim, mistaken, and specious sight of things, and by means of the good there causes the things which he believes to become imitations of truth. Only those who are spiritual however are blessed with enlightenment in spiritual matters of faith; and this is the meaning of the expression 'God opens the eyes'.

[2] The reason why 'the eye' means the understanding is that the sight belonging to the body corresponds to that belonging to its spirit, which is the understanding. And because it has this correspondence 'the eye' in the Word, in almost every place where it is mentioned, means the understanding, even where people believe something other is meant, as where the Lord says in Matthew,

The lamp of the body is the eye. If the eye is sound, the whole body is full of light. If the eye has been evil the whole body has been made full of darkness. If therefore the light is darkness, how great is the darkness! Matthew 6:22-23; Luke 11:34.

Here 'the eye' is the understanding, the spiritual constituent of which is faith, as also is shown by the explanation added here - 'if therefore the light is darkness, how great is the darkness!' Similarly in the same gospel,

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. Matthew 5:29; 18:9.

'The left eye' is the understanding part of the mind, whereas 'the right eye' is its affection. The command to pluck out the right eye means that if it causes one to stumble one's affection must be disciplined.

[3] In the same gospel,

Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Matthew 13:16.

And in Luke, Jesus said to the disciples, Blessed are the eyes which see what you see. Luke 10:23.

Here 'the eyes which see' means intelligence and faith, for it was not the mere fact that they saw the Lord and also His miracles and works that caused any one of the disciples to be blessed but the fact that they could grasp things with their understandings and had faith, meant by 'seeing with the eyes', and that they were obedient, meant by 'hearing with the ears'. As regards 'seeing with the eyes' meaning to see with the understanding and also to have faith, see 897, 2325. For the understanding is the spiritual complement of sight, and faith the spiritual complement of the understanding. The sight of the eye is received from the light of the world, the sight of the understanding from the light of heaven flowing into things which belong to the light of the world; but the sight of faith is received from the light of heaven. This is the origin of such phrases as seeing with the understanding and seeing with faith. 'Hearing with the ear' means being obedient, see 2542.

[4] In Mark,

Jesus said to the disciples, Do you not yet know nor understand? Do you still have your heart hardened? Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? Mark 8:17-18.

Here it is evident that 'having eyes but not seeing' means not wishing to understand and not believing. In Luke,

Jesus said of the city, Would that you knew the things that make for your peace! But such is hidden from your eyes. Luke 19:41-42.

And in Mark,

By the Lord has this been done, and it is marvellous in our eyes. Mark 12:11.

Here 'hidden from the eyes' and 'marvellous in the eyes' mean to be so to the understanding, as is well known to everyone from the meaning of 'the eyes' even in everyday speech.

  
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Numbers 19:2-19

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2 "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke.

3 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face:

4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.

5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

6 and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.

8 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

9 "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.

10 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

11 "He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

12 the same shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

14 "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

15 Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

16 "Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

17 "For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:

19 and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.