Novokřesťanské studium Bible

Bible

 

Ô-sê 10

Studie

   

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.

   

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Arcana Coelestia # 1186

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 10837  
  

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.

Poznámky pod čarou:

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.

  
/ 10837  
  

Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

Bible

 

Isaiah 36

Studie

   

1 Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah, and captured them.

2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller's field highway.

3 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.

4 Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this in which you trust?

5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

7 But if you tell me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar?'"

8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it."'"

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don't speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

12 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"

13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

14 Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.

15 Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."'

16 Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "Yahweh will deliver us." Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"

21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."

22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

   

©2024 New Christian Bible Study Corporation. All rights reserved. Printed from newchristianbiblestudy.org