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Ezekiel 31

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1 Năm thứ mười một, ngày mồng một tháng ba, có lời Ðức Giê-hô-va phán cùng ta như vầy:

2 Hỡi con người, hãy nói cùng Pha-ra-ôn, vua Ê-díp-tô, và cùng cả đoàn dân người rằng: Sự tôn đại của ngươi so sánh cùng ai?

3 Hãy xem A-si-ri: ngày trước nó giống như cây hương bách của Li-ban, nhánh đẹp đẽ, bóng diềm dà, cây cao, và ngọn nó lên đến mây.

4 Các dòng nước nuôi nó, có vực sâu chảy nước chung quanh chỗ nó trồng mà làm cho nó lớn lên, và tưới các suối mình cho mọi cây cối ở trong đồng.

5 Vậy nên cây hương bách ấy cao hơn hết thảy các cây trong đồng; nhánh nó lớn lên, và tược nó nứt thêm ra, là nhờ có nhiều nước làm cho nó nay nở.

6 Mọi giống chim trời làm ở trong những nhánh nó; mọi giống thú đồng đẻ con dưới những tược nó, và hết thảy các dân tộc lớn đều ở dưới bóng nó.

7 Nó là xinh tốt bởi thân nó cao, bởi tược nó dài; vì rễ nó đâm trong chỗ nhiều nước.

8 Chẳng có cây hương bách nào trong vườn Ðức Chúa Trời che khuất nó được; cây tùng không bằng cái nhánh nó, cây bàng không bằng cái tược nó. Chẳng có cây nào của vườn Ðức Chúa Trời xinh tốt bằng nó cả.

9 Ta đã làm cho nó xinh tốt bởi muôn vàn nhánh nó, và hết thảy những cây của Ê-đen, là những cây trong vườn Ðức Chúa Trời đều ganh gỗ nó.

10 Vậy nên, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán như vầy: Vì ngươi cao lớn, và nó đã vượt ngọn nó đến tận mây, và lòng nó đã kiêu ngạo vì mình cao lớn;

11 nên ta sẽ phó nó trong tay một đấng mạnh của các nước, người chắc sẽ xử với nó; ta đã đuổi nó ra vì những tội ác nó.

12 Một dân hung bạo trong hết thảy các dân ngoại đã chặt nó và bỏ lại. Những nhánh nó rốt xuống trên các núi và trong mọi nơi trũng; những tược nó bị gãy nơi bờ khe, và mọi dân trên đất tránh xa bóng nó và lìa bỏ nó.

13 Mọi loài chim trời sẽ đậu trên sự đổ nát của nó, và mọi loài thú đồng sẽ đến nghỉ trên những tược nó,

14 hầu cho chẳng có cây nào trồng gần nước dám kiêu ngạo về sự cao mình, hay là vượt ngọn lên đến tận mây, và cho không có những cây nào được các dòng nước tưới rộng cho mà khoe mình cao lớn; vì chúng nó hết thảy bị phó cho sự chết, cho vực sâu của đất, ở giữa con cái loài người, với những kẻ xuống trong hầm hố!

15 Chúa Giê-hô-va phán như vầy: Ngày mà nó xuống nơi âm phủ, ta đã khiến kẻ thương khóc vì cớ nó, ta lấp vực sâu; ngăn cấm các sông chảy mạnh, và những dòng nước lớn bị tắt lại. Ta khiến Li-ban buồn rầu vì cớ nó, và mọi cây ngoài đồng vì nó bị suy tàn.

16 Ta làm cho các dân tộc nghe tiếng nó đổ xuống mà rúng động, khi ta quăng nó xuống đến âm phủ, với hết thảy những kẻ xuống trong hầm hố! Bấy giờ mọi cây của Ê-đen, những cây rất xinh, những cây rất tốt của Li-ban, hết thảy những cây ngày trước được nhiều nước tưới, đều được yên ủi trong nơi vực sâu của đất.

17 Chúng nó cũng đã xuống với nó trong nơi âm phủ, kề những kẻ đã bị gươm giết, những kẻ ngày trước vốn là cánh tay của nó và ở dưới bóng nó giữa các dân.

18 Trong những cây của vườn Ê-đen, thì ngươi là giống ai về sự vinh hiển tôn trọng? Ngươi cũng sẽ bị xô xuống cùng với các cây của Ê-đen trong nơi vực sâu của đất; ngươi sẽ nằm chính giữa những kẻ không chịu cắt bì, với những kẻ đã bị gươm giết. Pha-ra-ôn và hết thảy dân chúng người sẽ như vầy, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6693

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6693. 'Saying, Every son who is born you are to throw into the river' means that all truths that appeared should be drowned in falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'son' as truth, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373; from the meaning of 'being born' as appearing; and from the meaning of 'the river' as those things that constitute intelligence, dealt with in 108, 109, 2702, 3051, here in the contrary sense as those things which are the opposite, namely falsities. The fact that 'throwing into' means drowning in is self-evident.

[2] The meaning of 'the river of Egypt' as the opposite of intelligence, which is falsity, is also clear in Isaiah,

The rivers will recede, the streams of Egypt will diminish and dry up. The papyrus plants next to the river, next to the mouth of the river, and everything sown in the river will wither, be driven away, and be no more. Therefore the fishermen will mourn, and all who cast a hook into the river will be sad, and those who spread nets over the face of the waters will anguish. Isaiah 19:6-8.

Here one should not understand a river by 'the river of Egypt' or fishermen by 'the fishermen' but other things which are not apparent unless one knows how 'Egypt', 'the river' there, and 'the fishermen' are to be understood. If one does know, then the meaning of these verses is apparent. The fact that 'the river of Egypt' means falsity is evident from every detail mentioned in them.

[3] In Jeremiah,

Who is this coming up like a river, whose waters are tossed about like the rivers? Egypt comes up like the river, and like the rivers his waters are tossed about. For he said, I will go up, I will cover the earth, I will destroy the city and those who dwell in it. Jeremiah 46:7-8.

Here also 'the river of Egypt' stands for falsities. 'Going up and covering the earth' stands for overwhelming the Church, 'destroying the city' stands for destroying the teachings of the Church, 'and those who dwell in it' for doing so to forms of good that come from those teachings. For the meaning of 'the earth' as the Church, see 6649; 'the city' as the teachings of the Church, 402, 2449, 3216, 4492, 4493; and 'those who dwell in it' as forms of good there, 2268, 2451, 2712.

[4] In Ezekiel,

Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies 1 in the midst of his rivers, who has said, The river is mine and I have made myself. Therefore I will put hooks in your jaws, and cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will cause you to come up out of the midst of your rivers, in order that 2 all the fish of your rivers may stick in your scales. I will leave in the wilderness you and all the fish of your rivers. Ezekiel 29:3-5, 9-10.

Without the internal sense no one can know what this passage means either. Thus, though it is evident that it is not the country Egypt which is meant, the meaning of the passage remains unknown unless one knows what 'Pharaoh', 'river', 'monster', 'fish', and 'scales', all mean. 'Pharaoh' is the natural where factual knowledge resides, see 5160, 5799, 6015; 'monsters' are general bodies of facts that reside in the natural, 42; 'fish' are the facts subordinate to a general body of them, 40, 991; 'scales' are ideas of a thoroughly external nature, thus sensory impressions, to which factual knowledge that is false clings. When one knows all these meanings one can see what 'the river of Egypt' is used to mean in this passage, namely, falsity.

[5] In the same prophet,

On the day on which Pharaoh goes down into hell I will make him mourn, I will cover the deep over him, and I will restrain its streams, and the great waters will be stayed. Ezekiel 31:15.

In Amos,

Is not the land to be shaken on account of this, and everyone to mourn that inhabits it? Yes, the whole of it comes up like a river, and is cast out, and is drowned as if in the river of Egypt. On that day I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the land in broad daylight. Amos 8:8-9; 9:5.

'The land which will be shaken' stands for the Church, 6649, while 'being drowned as if in the river of Egypt' stands for being destroyed by falsities. And since falsities are meant it says that the sun will go down at noon, and the earth will be darkened in broad daylight. 'The going down of the sun at noon' means that the good of heavenly love will depart, and 'the darkening of the land in broad daylight' that falsities will take possession of the Church. For the meaning of 'the sun' as the good of heavenly love, see 1529, 1530, 2441, 2495, 3636, 3643, 4060, 4696; for 'darkness' as falsities, 1839, 1860, 4418, 4531; and for 'the earth' as the Church, 82, 662, 1066, 1067, 1262, 1411, 1413, 1607, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 2928, 3355, 4447, 4535, 5577. Anyone can see that things other than those which appear in the literal sense here - such as that the land will be shaken and every inhabitant will mourn, or that the sun will go down at noon and the land will be darkened in broad daylight - are really meant. Unless one takes 'the land' to mean the Church, 'the river' to mean falsity, and 'the sun' to mean heavenly love, one does not find any other explicable meaning there.

[6] It is because 'the river of Egypt' means falsity that Moses was commanded to strike the waters of that river with his rod, after which they were turned into blood, all fish in the river died, and the river stank, Exodus 7:17-18, 20-21. For the same reason Aaron had to stretch out his hand and rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the pools, from which frogs rose up over the land of Egypt, Exodus 8:5-6. 3 For the meaning of 'the waters' in the contrary sense as falsities, see 790; and since the waters make up the river, 'the river' in relation to them means falsity in general.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Reading cubat (he lies) for cubas (you lie)

2. Reading ut (in order that) for et (and)

3. Exodus 8:1-2, in this translation of the Arcana Caelestia

  
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Ezekiel 31

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1 It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness?

3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.

6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.

7 Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

10 Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

12 Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

13 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;

14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

17 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

18 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.

   

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