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Jeremias 31

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1 Sa panahong yaon, sabi ng Panginoon, magiging Dios ako ng lahat na angkan ni Israel, at sila'y magiging aking bayan.

2 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Ang bayan na naiwan ng tabak ay nakasumpong ng biyaya sa ilang; oo, ang Israel, nang aking papagpahingahin.

3 Ang Panginoon ay napakita nang una sa akin, na nagsasabi, Oo, inibig kita ng walang hanggang pagibig: kaya't ako'y lumapit sa iyo na may kagandahang-loob.

4 Muling itatayo kita, at ikaw ay matatayo, Oh dalaga ng Israel: muli na ikaw ay magagayakan ng iyong mga pandereta, at lalabas ka sa mga sayawan nila na nasasayahan.

5 Muli kang magtatanim ng mga ubasan sa mga bundok ng Samaria: ang mga manananim ay mangagtatanim, at mangagagalak sa bunga niyaon.

6 Sapagka't magkakaroon ng araw, na ang mga bantay sa mga burol ng Ephraim ay magsisihiyaw. Kayo'y magsibangon, at tayo'y magsisampa sa Sion na pumaroon sa Panginoon nating Dios.

7 Sapagka't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Kayo'y magsiawit ng kasayahan dahil sa Jacob, at magsihiyaw kayo dahil sa puno ng mga bansa: mangagtanyag kayo, magsipuri kayo, at mangagsabi, Oh Panginoon, iligtas mo ang iyong bayan, ang nalabi sa Israel.

8 Narito, aking dadalhin sila mula sa lupaing hilagaan, at pipisanin ko sila mula sa mga kahulihulihang bahagi ng lupa, at kasama nila ang bulag at ang pilay, at ang buntis at ang nagdadamdam na magkakasama: malaking pulutong na magsisibalik sila rito.

9 Sila'y magsisiparitong may iyakan, at may mga pamanhik na aking papatnubayan sila; akin silang palalakarin sa tabi ng mga ilog ng tubig, sa matuwid na daan na hindi nila katitisuran; sapagka't ako'y pinakaama sa Israel, at ang Ephraim ang aking panganay.

10 Inyong dinggin ang salita ng Panginoon, Oh ninyong mga bansa, at inyong ipahayag sa mga pulo sa malayo; at inyong sabihin, Ang nagpangalat sa Israel, siyang magpipisan sa kaniya, at magiingat sa kaniya, gaya ng ginagawa ng pastor sa kaniyang kawan.

11 Sapagka't tinubos ng Panginoon ang Jacob, at tinubos niya siya sa kamay ng lalong malakas kay sa kaniya.

12 At sila'y magsisiparito at magsisiawit sa kaitaasan ng Sion, at magsisihugos na magkakasama sa kabutihan ng Panginoon, sa trigo, at sa alak, at sa langis, at sa guya ng kawan at ng bakahan: at ang kanilang kaluluwa ay magiging parang dinilig na halamanan; at hindi na sila mangamamanglaw pa sa anoman.

13 Kung magkagayo'y magagalak ang dalaga sa sayawan, at ang mga binata, at ang matanda na magkakasama: sapagka't aking gagawing kagalakan ang kanilang pagluluksa, at aking aaliwin sila at aking pagagalakin sila sa kanilang kapanglawan.

14 At aking sisiyahin ang loob ng mga saserdote sa kaginhawahan, at ang aking bayan ay masisiyahan sa aking kabutihan, sabi ng Panginoon.

15 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Isang tinig ay narinig sa Rama, panaghoy, at kalagimlagim na iyak, iniiyakan ni Raquel ang kaniyang mga anak; siya'y tumatangging maaliw dahil sa kaniyang mga anak, sapagka't sila'y wala na.

16 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Iyong pigilin ang iyong tinig sa pagiyak, at ang iyong mga mata sa mga luha: sapagka't gagantihin ang iyong mga gawa, sabi ng Panginoon; at sila'y magsisibalik na mula sa lupain ng kaaway.

17 At may pagasa sa iyong huling wakas, sabi ng Panginoon; at ang iyong mga anak ay magsisiparoon uli sa kanilang sariling hangganan.

18 Tunay na aking narinig ang Ephraim na nananaghoy sa kaniyang sarili ng ganito, Inyong pinarusahan ako, at ako'y naparusahan na parang guya na hindi hirati sa pamatok: papanumbalikin mo ako, at ako'y manunumbalik sa iyo; sapagka't ikaw ang Panginoon kong Dios.

19 Tunay na pagkapanumbalik ko sa iyo ay nagsisi ako; at pagkatapos na ako'y maturuan ay nagsugat ako ng hita: ako'y napahiya, oo, lito, sapagka't aking dinala ang kakutyaan ng aking kabataan.

20 Ang Ephraim baga'y aking minamahal na anak? siya baga'y iniibig na anak? sapagka't kung gaano kadalas nagsasalita ako laban sa kaniya, ay gayon ko inaalaala siya ng di kawasa: kaya't nananabik ang aking puso sa kaniya; ako'y tunay na maaawa sa kaniya, sabi ng Panginoon.

21 Maglagay ka ng mga patotoo, gumawa ka ng mga haliging tanda: ilagak mo ang iyong puso sa dakong lansangan, sa daan na iyong pinaroonan: ikaw ay magbalik uli, Oh dalaga ng Israel, ikaw ay bumalik uli rito sa mga bayang ito.

22 Hanggang kailan magpaparoo't parito ka, Oh ikaw na tumatalikod na anak na babae? sapagka't ang Panginoon ay lumikha ng bagong bagay sa lupa, Ang babae ay siyang mananaig sa lalake.

23 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon ng mga hukbo, ng Dios ng Israel, Kanilang gagamitin uli ang pananalitang ito sa lupain ng Juda at sa mga bayan niyaon, pagka aking dadalhin uli mula sa kanilang pagkabihag: Pagpalain ka ng Panginoon. Oh tahanan ng kaganapan, Oh bundok ng kabanalan.

24 At ang Juda at ang lahat na bayan niya ay tatahan doon na magkakasama; ang mga mangbubukid at ang mga lumilibot na may mga kawan.

25 Sapagka't aking bibigyang kasiyahan ang pagod na tao, at lahat na mapanglaw na tao ay aking pinasasaya.

26 Dito'y nagising ako, at ako'y lumingap; at ang aking pagkakatulog ay masarap.

27 Narito, ang mga araw ay dumarating, sabi ng Panginoon, na aking hahasikan ang sangbahayan ni Israel at ang sangbahayan ni Juda ng binhi ng tao at ng binhi ng hayop.

28 At mangyayari, na kung paanong binantayan ko sila upang alisin, at upang ibuwal, at upang madaig at upang ipahamak, at upang pagdalamhatiin, gayon babantayan ko sila upang itayo at upang itatag sabi ng Panginoon.

29 Sa mga araw na yaon ay hindi na sila mangagsasabi. Ang mga magulang ay nagsikain ng mga maasim na ubas, at ang mga ngipin ng mga bata ay nagsisipangilo.

30 Nguni't bawa't isa ay mamamatay ng dahil sa kaniyang sariling kasamaan: lahat na nagsisikain ng mga maasim na ubas ay magsisipangilo ang mga ngipin.

31 Narito, ang mga araw ay dumarating, sabi ng Panginoon, na ako'y makikipagtipan ng panibago sa sangbahayan ni Israel, at sa sangbahayan ni Juda:

32 Hindi ayon sa tipan na ipinakipagtipan ko sa kanilang mga magulang sa araw na aking kinuha sila sa pamamagitan ng kamay upang ilabas sila sa lupain ng Egipto; na ang aking tipan ay kanilang sinira, bagaman ako'y asawa nila, sabi ng Panginoon.

33 Kundi ito ang tipan na aking ipakikipagtipan sa sangbahayan ni Israel pagkatapos ng mga araw na yaon, sabi ng Panginoon, Aking itatala ang aking kautusan sa kanilang kalooban, at aking isusulat sa kanilang puso; at ako'y magiging kanilang Dios, at sila'y magiging aking bayan;

34 At hindi na magtuturo bawa't isa sa kanila sa kaniyang kapuwa, at bawa't tao sa kaniyang kapatid, na magsasabi, Iyong kilalanin ang Panginoon; sapagka't makikilala nilang lahat ako, mula sa kaliitliitan sa kanila hanggang sa kadakidakilaan sa kanila, sabi ng Panginoon: sapagka't aking ipatatawad ang kanilang kasamaan, at ang kanilang kasalanan ay hindi ko na aalalahanin.

35 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, na nagbibigay ng araw na sumisikat na pinakaliwanag sa araw, at ng mga ayos ng buwan at ng mga bituin na pinakaliwanag sa gabi, na nagpapakilos sa dagat, na humugong ang mga alon niyaon; ang Panginoon ng mga hukbo ay siyang kaniyang pangalan:

36 Kung ang mga ayos na ito ay humiwalay sa harap ko, sabi ng Panginoon, ang binhi nga ng Israel ay maglilikat sa pagkabansa sa harap ko magpakailan man.

37 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Kung ang langit sa itaas ay masusukat, at ang mga patibayan ng lupa ay masisiyasat sa ilalim, akin ngang ihahagis ang buong lahi ng Israel dahil sa lahat nilang nagawa, sabi ng Panginoon.

38 Narito, ang mga araw ay dumarating, sabi ng Panginoon, na ang bayan ay matatayo sa Panginoon mula sa moog ni Hananeel hanggang sa pintuang-bayan sa sulok.

39 At ang panukat na pisi ay magpapatuloy na matuwid sa burol ng Gareb, at pipihit hanggang sa Goa.

40 At ang buong libis ng mga katawang patay, at ng mga abo, at ang lahat na parang hanggang sa batis ng Cedron, hanggang sa sulok ng pintuang-bayan ng kabayo sa dakong silanganan, magiging banal sa Panginoon; hindi mabubunot o mahahagis ang sinoman magpakailan pa man.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2025

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2025. That 'I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings' means that the Lord acquired to Himself by His own powers all things meant by 'the land of sojournings' is clear from the meaning of 'sojourning' as receiving instruction, dealt with in 1463. And because man acquires life to himself chiefly through instruction in facts, matters of doctrine, and cognitions of faith, sojourning is consequently the life so acquired. When applied to the Lord it is the life which He obtained for Himself through cognitions, through the conflicts that constituted temptations, and through victories in temptations; and because He obtained it by His own powers, this is what 'the land of your sojournings' means here.

[2] That the Lord obtained all things for Himself by His own powers, and by His own powers united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence and Divine Essence to Human Essence, and that He alone in this way became righteousness, is quite clear in the Prophets, as in Isaiah,

Who is this coming from Edom, marching in the vast numbers of His strength? I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. I looked around and there was no one helping; and I was astonished that there was no one upholding; therefore My own arm brought Me salvation. Isaiah 63:1, 3, 5.

'Edom' stands for the Lord's Human Essence, 'strength' and 'arm' for power. Plain statements to the effect that He acted from His own power are contained in the phrases 'no one helping' and 'no one upholding', and in that about His own arm bringing Him salvation.

[3] In the same prophet,

He saw that there was no one, and wondered that there was nobody to intercede; and His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness upheld Him. And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head. Isaiah 59:16-17.

This similarly means that He acted by His own power, and in so doing became righteousness. That the Lord is righteousness is stated in Daniel,

Seventy weeks have been decreed to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Daniel 9:24.

And in Jeremiah,

I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and He will reign as king and act with understanding, and He will execute judgement and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell in confidence. And this is His name which they will call Him, Jehovah our Righteousness. Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16.

For this reason He is also called 'the Habitation of Righteousness' in Jeremiah 31:23; 50:7, and 'wonderful' and 'Hero' in Isaiah 9:6.

[4] The reason why the Lord so many times attributes to the Father that which is His own has been explained above in 1999, 2004; for Jehovah was within Him, and so within every single part of Him. Something similar in man may be used for illustration, although there can be no comparison. Within man is his soul, and because it is within him, the soul is within every individual part of him, that is to say, within every individual part of his thinking and every individual part of his activity. Anything that does not have his soul within it is not part of him. The Lord's soul was Life itself or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, for He was conceived from Jehovah; thus Life itself was present within every individual part of Him. And because Life itself, or Being (Esse) itself, which is Jehovah, belonged to Him in the way that the soul does to man, so that which was Jehovah's was His, which is what the Lord says in His statements about His being in the bosom of the Father, John 1:18, and about all things that the Father has being His, John 16:15; 17:10-11.

[5] From good which is Jehovah's He united the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, and from truth united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, and so achieved every single thing all from Himself. Indeed His Human was left to Itself in order that of Himself He might fight against all the hells and overcome them; and because He had life within Himself, as stated, which was His own, He overcame them by His own power and strength, as is also clearly stated in the places quoted from the Prophets. So then, because He acquired all things to Himself by His own powers, He became Righteousness, cleared the world of spirits of hellish genii and spirits, and in so doing rescued the human race from destruction - for the human race is governed by means of spirits - and thus redeemed it. This is why the Old Testament Word speaks so often of Him as Rescuer and Redeemer, and also Saviour, as His name Jesus describes.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2004

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2004. 'And you will be the father of a multitude of nations' means union of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence. This cannot be shown so easily from an explanation of individual expressions in the internal sense unless they are seen within a general overall picture by which this sense is presented. This is frequently the case with the internal sense, and when it is it may be called more universal because it is more remote. From an explanation of individual expressions this proximate sense is the result - that everything true and everything good comes from the Lord, for as will be discussed belong 'father' means that which comes from Him, that is, from the Lord, 'multitude' means truth, and 'of nations' resulting good. But because the latter, that is to say, truths and goods, are the means by which the Lord united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence, that more universal and more remote sense emerges from such an explanation. This is the way in which angels perceive these words; and at one and the same time they perceive a reciprocal union, namely that of the Lord's Divine Essence with the Human Essence, and of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence. For as has been stated, 'As for Me, My covenant is with you' means union of the Divine Essence with the Human Essence, the words that follow consequently meaning that of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence.

[2] It is an arcanum not yet disclosed that union was accomplished reciprocally, an arcanum that can hardly be explained intelligibly, for as yet the nature of influx has not been known to anyone, and without a knowledge of influx no idea can possibly be gained of what reciprocal union is. It is possible to shed light to some extent on the matter however from influx as it takes place with man, for with man too reciprocal conjunction exists. From the Lord by way of man's internal, which is dealt with just above in 1999, life is flowing in constantly into man's rational, and by way of the rational into the external and even into the facts and cognitions he has. These it not only adapts to receive life but also sets them in order and so enables man to think and ultimately to be rational. Such is the conjunction of the Lord with man, and without it man would never be able to think, let alone be rational. This may become clear to anyone from the fact that present within a person's thought there are countless arcana belonging to the science and art of analysis, so countless that even to all eternity it is not possible to explore them thoroughly. Such arcana do not flow in through the senses or the external man, but through the internal man. Man for his part however, through facts and cognitions, goes to meet this life flowing from the Lord, and in so doing joins himself reciprocally.

[3] But as for the union of the Lord's Divine Essence with His Human Essence, and of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence, this was infinitely superior, for the Lord's Internal was Jehovah Himself, and so Life itself, whereas man's internal is not the Lord, and so not life but a recipient of life. The Lord's relationship with Jehovah was union, whereas that of man with the Lord is not union but conjunction. The Lord united Himself to Jehovah by His own power and on that account became righteousness as well, whereas man in no way joins himself to Him by his own power but by the Lord's. This being so, it is the Lord who joins man to Himself. Such reciprocal union is what the Lord means where He attributes what is His own to the Father, and what is the Father's to Himself, as in John,

Jesus said, He who believes in Me believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me. He who sees Me sees Him who sent Me I have come as light into the world in order that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in darkness. John 12:44-46.

These words conceal very deep arcana - arcana in fact regarding the union of good with truth, and of truth with good, or what amounts to the same, regarding the union of the Divine Essence with the Human Essence, and of Human Essence with Divine Essence. Hence His declaration, 'He who believes in Me believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me', and shortly after, 'He who believes in Me', in between which two statements comes another concerning that union in which He says, 'He who sees Me sees Him who sent Me'.

[4] In the same gospel,

The words that I speak to you I do not speak from Myself; the Father who dwells within Me He does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me. Truly I say to you, He who believes in Me [will also do] the works that I do. John 14:10-12.

These words hold the same arcana within them, that is to say, those relating to the union of good with truth, and of truth with good; or what amounts to the same, of the Lord's Divine Essence with the Human Essence, and of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence. Hence His declaration, 'The words that I speak to you I do not speak from Myself; the Father who is within Me, He does the works', and shortly afterwards, 'The works that I do', in between which two statements likewise comes another concerning the union, in which He says, 'I am in the Father and the Father in Me'. This is the mystical union that many people speak about.

[5] From this it is clear that He was not someone other than the Father even though He spoke of the Father as though He were someone other. The reason for His doing so was the reciprocal union that was going to be accomplished and was accomplished, for He openly states so many times that He is one with the Father, as He does in the places just quoted -

He who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. John 12:45.

Also,

The Father who dwells within Me; believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me. John 14:10-11.

And in the same gospel,

If you knew Me you would know my Father also. John 8:19.

In the same gospel,

If you know Me you know My Father also. And from now on you know Him and have seen Him. Philip said to Him, Show us the Father. Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long and yet you do not know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. So why do you say, Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? John 14:7-10.

And in the same gospel,

I and the Father are one. John 10:30.

This is why in heaven they know no other Father than the Lord since the Father is within Him, and He is one with the Father; and when they see Him they see the Father, as He Himself has said; see 15.

  
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