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Ezekiel 34

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1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?

3 You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.

4 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.

5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

8 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;

9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

14 I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.

15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.

16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

17 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.

18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?

19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

21 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;

22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.

23 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

24 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

25 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

26 I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

27 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

28 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.

29 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.

30 They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

31 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.

   

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White House at Night by Vincent van Gogh

A "house" is essentially a container -- for a person, a family, several families or even a large group with shared interests (think of the term "houses of worship.") In the Bible, a "house" is also a container, but for spiritual things rather than natural things. In various uses a "house" can represent part of the mind, the whole mind, a whole person or even a church. The other nuance to the word "house" is that it is generally used in regards to our affections and desires rather than our thoughts and principles. This makes sense; we tend to engage our thoughts and rationality when we are out in the world doing our work, but when we are inside our houses we are driven most by love for our families and the desire to be good to those we love. So "house" tends to represent the things we want and care about -- which are ultimately the things that define us.

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571. And on its heads a blasphemous name. This symbolizes their denial of the Lord's Divine humanity and affirmation of their church's doctrine, drawn not from the Word but from their own intelligence.

The seven heads symbolize irrationality resulting from absolute falsities, as said in no. 568 above. And this irrationality utters blasphemy when it denies the Lord's Divinity present in His humanity. It also does this when it does not draw the doctrine of the church from the Word, but hatches it from its own intelligence.

As regards the first, that it is blasphemy to deny the Lord's Divinity present in His humanity, the reason is that someone who denies it goes against the creed accepted throughout the Christian world called the Athanasian Creed, which plainly says that in Jesus Christ, God and man - which is to say, the Divine and the human - are not two but one, and that they constitute one person, being united as soul and body. Consequently people who deny the Divinity in the Lord's humanity are close to being Socinians 1 and Arians, 2 especially when they think of the Lord's humanity by itself as being like that of any other man, and do not think at all then of His Divinity from eternity.

[2] As regards the second, that it is blasphemy not to draw the doctrine of the church from the Word, but to hatch it from one's own intelligence, the reason is that the church is founded on the Word and its character is such as its understanding of the Word (see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 76-79), and the doctrine that faith alone - that is, faith apart from works of the law - justifies and saves, comes not from the Word, but from a single saying of Paul (Romans 3:28), 3 falsely interpreted (see no. 417).

Moreover, every doctrinal falsity takes it origin from no other source than people's own intelligence. For what is more universally taught in the Word than to refrain from evil and do good? And what is more evident there than the precept that God is to be loved, and the neighbor also? Who does not see, too, that no one is capable of loving the neighbor unless he lives in conformity with the works of the law? Also, anyone who does not love his neighbor does not love God either, for it is in love for the neighbor that the Lord conjoins Himself with a person and that a person conjoins himself with the Lord; that is to say, that it is in that love that God and man join together. What, then, is it to love the neighbor except to refrain from doing evil to him, in accordance with the commandments of the Decalogue (Romans 13:8-11)? And to the extent a person wills not to do evil to the neighbor, to the same extent he wills to do good to him.

It is apparent from this that it is blasphemy to eliminate works of the law from salvation, as those people do who make faith alone the only saving faith, namely, faith divorced from good works.

The blasphemy referred to in Matthew 12:31-32 means to deny the Lord's Divinity, as Socinians do, and to reject the Word. For people who so deny the Lord's Divinity cannot enter heaven, as the Lord's Divinity is everything in everything connected with heaven, and anyone who rejects the Word rejects everything connected with religion.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Disciples of Laelius Socinus (born Lelio Francesco Maria Sozini), 1525-1562, and his nephew Faustus Socinus (Fausto Paolo Sozzini), 1539-1604, who rejected a number of traditional Christian doctrines, such as the Trinity, the Divinity of Christ, and original sin, and who held that Christ was miraculously begotten and that salvation is granted to those who adopt Christ's virtues as a model for their lives.

2. Adherents of Arianism, a theological view based on the teachings of Arius (c. 250-336), who taught that Christ the Son was a created being, not consubstantial with God the Father, and thus not fully Divine.

3. "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law." But by deeds of the law, Paul meant the ritual observances of the Jewish Church.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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