Giê-rê-mi 45
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Nầy là lời của tiên tri Giê-rê-mi nói cùng Ba-rúc, con trai Nê-ri-gia, khi người chép trong một quyển sách những lời bởi miệng Giê-rê-mi nói ra, về năm thứ tư đời Giê-hô-gia-kim, con trai Giô-si-a, vua Giu-đa:
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Hỡi Ba-rúc! Giê-hô-va, Ðức Chúa Trời của Y-sơ-ra-ên, phán cho ngươi như vầy:
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Ngươi đã nói: Khốn nạn cho ta, vì Ðức Giê-hô-va thêm sự buồn rầu cho sự đau đớn ta; ta mệt nhọc vì than thở, chẳng được nghỉ ngơi!
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Ngươi khá nói cùng nó rằng: Ðức Giê-hô-va phán như vầy: Nầy, vật ta đã dụng thì ta phá đi, vật ta đã trồng thì ta nhổ đi, sự đó khắp trong cả đất.
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Còn ngươi, ngươi còn tìm việc lớn cho mình hay sao? Chớ có tìm kiếm, vì nầy, ta sẽ giáng tai vạ cho mọi loài xác thịt; nhưng ngươi, hễ đi đến đâu, ta cũng sẽ ban mạng sống cho ngươi làm của cướp, Ðức Giê-hô-va phán vậy.
Arcana Coelestia # 4198
4198. 'And Mizpah, for he said, Let Jehovah watch between me and you' means the presence of the Lord's Divine Natural, that is to say, within the good that 'Laban' represents now. This is clear from the meaning of 'watching' or keeping watch as presence, for one who keeps watch on another, or sees him from high up in a watchtower, is present with his sense of sight with him below. What is more, when used in reference to the Lord, 'seeing' means Foresight and Providence, 2837, 2839, 3686, 3854, 3863, and so presence too, but through Foresight and Providence.
[2] As regards the Lord's presence, the Lord is present with everyone, yet only to the extent He is received; for all receive their life from the Lord alone. The life in people who receive His presence within good and truth is the life of intelligence and wisdom, whereas the life of those who do not receive His presence within good and truth but within evil and falsity is the life of insanity and foolishness. All the same, the latter have the capacity to be intelligent and wise. The fact that they do have that capacity is shown by their knowing how to counterfeit and imitate the outward appearance of what is good and true and to win people over by means of that outward appearance. This would not be possible if they did not have that capacity. The nature of the presence is meant by 'Mizpah', at this point the nature of it with those whose works are inherently good, that is, with the gentiles, who are represented here by 'Laban'. Indeed the name Mizpah in the original language is derived from the verb 'to watch'.
