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1 Y-sơ-ra-ên là một cây nho tươi tốt, sanh ra trái nó. Trái nó càng sai tríu chừng nào, nó càng thêm nhiều bàn thờ ra chừng nấy; đất nó càng tốt bao nhiêu, những trụ tượng nó lập lên càng đẹp bấy nhiêu.

2 Lòng chúng nó phân hai; bây giờ chúng nó sẽ bị định tội. Ðức Chúa Trời sẽ đánh bàn thờ chúng nó; sẽ phá trụ tượng chúng nó.

3 Chắc bây giờ chúng nó sẽ nói rằng: Chúng ta không có vua, vì Chúng ta không kính sợ Ðức Giê-hô-va; và vua, vua có thể làm gì cho Chúng ta?

4 Chúng nó nói những lời hư không và thề dối khi lập giao ước; cho nên sự đoán phạt sẽ nứt mầm, nhạy như có độc mọc lên trong luống cày nơi ruộng.

5 Dân cư Sa-ma-ri sẽ kinh hãi vì những bò con của Bết-a-ven; dân sự sẽ vì nó than khóc, các thầy tế lễ nó vốn ưa thích nó cũng vậy, vì sự vinh hiển nó đã biến mất khỏi nó.

6 Nó cũng được bị dời qua A-si-ri lảm lễ vật dâng cho vua Gia-rép. Bấy giờ Ép-ra-im sẽ mang xấu hổ, Y-sơ-ra-ên sẽ hổ thẹn về mưu kế mình.

7 Về phần Sa-ma-ri, vua nó bị trừ đi giống như bọt trên mặt nước.

8 Các nơi cao của A-ven, tức là tội lỗi của Y-sơ-ra-ên, sẽ bị phá hủy; gai gốc và chà chuôm sẽ mọc trên các bàn thờ chúng nó. Bấy giờ người ta sẽ nói cùng các núi rằng: Hãy bao bọc lấy chúng ta! và nói với các đồi rằng: Hãy đổ xuống trên chúng ta!

9 Hỡi Y-sơ-ra-ên, từ ngày Ghi-bê-a, ngươi đã phạm tội rồi! Chúng nó đều đứng đó; sự tranh chiến nghịch cùng con cái sự gian ác chẳng theo kịp chúng nó trong Ghi-bê-a.

10 Ta sẽ sửa phạt chúng nó khi ta muốn, và các dân sẽ nhóm lại nghịch cùng chúng nó, khi chúng nó bị buộc vào hai tội mình.

11 Ép-ra-im như bò cái tơ khéo dạy, ưa thích đạp lúa; nhưng ta đã qua trên cổ béo tốt nó. Ta sẽ đặt người cỡi trên Ép-ra-im; Giu-đa sẽ cày, và Gia-cốp sẽ đập vỡ cục đất.

12 Hãy gieo cho mình trong sự công bình, hãy gặt theo sự nhơn từ; hãy vỡ đất mới! Vì là kỳ tìm kiếm Ðức Giê-hô-va, cho đến chừng nào Ngài đến và sa mưa công bình trên các ngươi.

13 Các ngươi đã cày sự gian ác, gặt sự gian ác, ăn trái của sự nói dối; vì ngươi đã nhờ cậy trong đường lối ngươi, trong muôn vàn người mạnh bạo của ngươi.

14 Vậy nên sự rối loạn sẽ sanh ra trong dân ngươi: người ta sẽ hủy phá mọi đồn lũy của ngươi, như San-man đã hủy phá Bết-Aït-bên, trong ngày có trận đánh mà mẹ bị nghiền nát với các con cái.

15 Bê-tên cũng sẽ làm cho các ngươi như vậy, vì sự gian ác lớn lắm của các ngươi. Vua Y-sơ-ra-ên sẽ bị diệt cả trong khi hừng sáng.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1186

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1186. That 'Asshur' is reasoning is clear from the meaning of 'Asshur' or Assyria in the Word, where in every case it stands for those things that belong to reason. It stands for them in both senses, namely for rational things and for reasonings - reason and rational things being used strictly speaking to mean things that are true, and reasoning and reasonings to mean those that are false. Because 'Asshur' means reason and reasoning it is very frequently linked with Egypt, which means facts, for reason and reasoning are based on facts. That Asshur means reasoning is clear in Isaiah,

Woe to Asshur, the rod of My anger, he does not think what is right and his heart does not consider what is right He has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have intelligence. Isaiah 10:5, 7, 13.

Here 'Asshur' stands for reasoning, and therefore he is referred to as 'not thinking and not considering what is right', and it is said that 'he acts by his own wisdom, for he has intelligence'.

[2] In Ezekiel,

Two women, the daughters of one mother, committed whoredom in Egypt. In their youth they committed whoredom. One committed whoredom and doted on her lovers, on Asshur (the Assyrians), her neighbours, clothed in violet, leaders and governors, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses The sons of Babel came to her and they defiled her with their whoredom. Ezekiel 23:2-3, 5-6, 17.

Here 'Egypt' stands for facts, 'Asshur' for reasoning, 'the sons of Babel' for falsities springing from evil desires.

[3] In the same prophet,

Jerusalem, you committed whoredom with the sons of Egypt, you committed whoredom with the sons of Asshur, you multiplied your whoredom even into the land of Canaan towards Chaldaea. Ezekiel 16:26, 28-29.

Here likewise 'Egypt' stands for facts, 'Asshur' for reasoning. Reasoning, based on facts, concerning spiritual and celestial things is called 'whoredom' both here and elsewhere in the Word. Anyone may see that committing whoredom with Egyptians and with Assyrians is not the meaning.

[4] In Jeremiah,

Israel, what have you to do with the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? And what have you to do with the way to Asshur, to drink the waters of the River (the Euphrates)? Jeremiah 2:18, 36.

Here likewise 'Egypt' stands for facts, 'Asshur' for reasoning. In the same prophet,

Israel is a scattered flock; the lions have driven him away. First the king of Asshur has devoured him, and last this king of Babel has removed his bones. Jeremiah 50:17-18

'Asshur' stands for reasoning concerning spiritual things.

[5] In Micah,

And this will be peace, when Asshur comes into our land and when he treads our palaces, and we will set up over him seven shepherds and eight princes of men and they will rule the land of Asshur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates; and he will deliver [us] from Asshur when he comes into our land and when he treads our border. Micah 5:5-6.

This refers to Israel, or the spiritual Church, concerning which it is said that 'Asshur will not enter in', that is, reasoning will not do so. 'The land of Nimrod' stands for the kind of worship meant by Nimrod, which has interior evils and falsities within it.

[6] The fact that in the Word 'Asshur' also means reason present with the member of the Church, by means of which reason he sees clearly what is true and what is good, is clear in Hosea,

They will tremble like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove from the land of Asshur. Hosea 11:11.

Here 'Egypt' stands for the knowledge a member of the Church possesses, 'Asshur' for his reason. That 'a bird' means facts that are known and understood, and 'a dove' rational good, has been shown already.

[7] In Isaiah,

On that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Asshur, and Asshur will come into Egypt and Egypt into Asshur, and the Egyptians will serve Asshur. 1 On that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Asshur, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom Jehovah Zebaoth will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt My people, and Asshur the work of My hands, and Israel My heritage. Isaiah 19:23-25.

This refers to the spiritual Church, meant by Israel, 'Asshur' being its reason, and 'Egypt' its knowledge. These three constitute the intellectual powers of the member of the spiritual Church which come in that order one after another. In other places where Asshur is mentioned it means the rational, true or false, as in Isaiah 20:1-6; 23:13; 27:13; 30:31; 31:8; 36, 37; 52:4; Ezekiel 27:23-24; Ezekiel 31:3-18; 32:22; Micah 7:12; Zephaniah 2:13; Zechariah 10:11; Psalms 83:8. 'Asshur' stands for reasoning in Hosea 5:13; 7:11; 10:6; 11:5; 12:1; 14:3; and in Zechariah 10:10, where the reference is to Ephraim who means the intellectual part of the mind, though in this instance when perverted.

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1. The Hebrew of this text in Isaiah may be read in two different ways - serve Asshur or serve with Asshur. Most English versions of Isaiah prefer the second of these.

  
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Ezekiel 31:3-18

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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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