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Explanation of Joel 1 - Revised
Napsal(a) J. E. Schreck
Joel Chapter 1, the Internal Sense.
(From Swedenborg's work, "The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms")
(Verse 1) The Word has been perverted by false worship,
(2) when instead the Word should have been obeyed by everyone in the Church,
(3) and communicated to everyone who holds false beliefs that arise from evil loves.
(4) Instead, the spiritual things of the Church have been destroyed by sensualism.
(5) Now, remorse should be awakened, because of this loss of faith,
(6) a faith which has been destroyed by the lust of worshipping false gods,
(7) depriving the Church of spiritual truth and good.
(8) The Church should return to the Lord
(9) with inward mourning and contrition
(10) over the loss of good and truth in the natural and spiritual man -
(11) especially people who seek the good of the Church and who desire its genuine doctrine: for the Church is about to perish.
(12) Spiritual truth, its good, its knowledge, and its delights, which constitute the Church, are perverted.
(13) Only by repentance can communion with the Lord be renewed.
(14) The Church can only remove the evil and falsity by acknowledging and worshipping the Lord,
(15) for the end of the Church is near, when it will be judged.
(16) Good works are not being done, nor are there any people who delight in spiritual things.
(17) Natural good has been subordinated to evil, and the truth and good of the Word are rejected.
(18) Wherefore there is no good in the Church,
(19) and our hearts must be turned again to the Lord: for the love of self has corrupted all things in the church.
(20) Although truth is desired, it has been misappropriated to ourselves.
The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings # 11
11. Goodness and Truth
All things in the universe that are in accord with the divine design 1 go back to goodness and truth. There are no exceptions to this in heaven or in the world, because everything good, like everything true, comes from the Divine, which is the source of everything.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. The phrase "the divine design" (the Latin term used here is Divinus ordo, literally, "divine order") refers to a divinely ordained arrangement of things in relation to each other both in physical space (or spiritual state) and in physical time (or spiritual sequence). On humans as images of the divine design, see note 4 in Last Judgment 9. On the similar phrase "the design of heaven," see note 1 in Other Planets 51. [JSR]
