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Jeremiah 44

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1 Sana, joka tuli Jeremialle kaikkia niitä juutalaisia vastaan, jotka asuivat Egyptin maassa, asuivat Migdolissa, Tahpanheessa, Noofissa ja Patroksen maakunnassa; se kuului:

2 "Näin sanoo Herra Sebaot, Israelin Jumala: Te olette nähneet kaiken sen onnettomuuden, jonka minä olen antanut tulla Jerusalemille ja kaikille Juudan kaupungeille. Katso, ne ovat nyt raunioina, eikä niissä asukasta ole,

3 heidän pahuutensa tähden, jota he tekivät, vihoittaen minut, kun menivät ja polttivat uhreja muille jumalille, palvelivat niitä, joita he eivät tunteneet, eivät he ettekä te eivätkä teidän isänne.

4 Ja varhaisesta alkaen minä lähetin teidän tykönne kaikki palvelijani, profeetat, sanomaan: 'Älkää tehkö näitä kauhistuksia, joita minä vihaan'.

5 Mutta he eivät kuulleet, eivät korvaansa kallistaneet, niin että olisivat kääntyneet pois pahuudestansa ja lakanneet polttamasta uhreja muille jumalille.

6 Ja niin vuoti minun kiivastukseni ja vihani alas ja paloi Juudan kaupungeissa ja Jerusalemin kaduilla, ja ne tulivat raunioiksi, autioiksi, niinkuin ne tänä päivänä ovat.

7 Ja nyt sanoo Herra, Jumala Sebaot, Israelin Jumala, näin: Miksi tuotatte itsellenne suuren onnettomuuden, hävitätte miehet ja vaimot, lapset ja imeväiset Juudasta, niin ettette jätä itsestänne jäännöstäkään?

8 Te vihoitatte minut kättenne töillä, kun poltatte uhreja muille jumalille Egyptin maassa, johon te olette tulleet, täällä muukalaisina asumaan. Niin te tuotatte itsellenne häviön ja tulette kiroussanaksi ja häväistykseksi kaikissa maan kansoissa.

9 Oletteko unhottaneet isäinne pahat teot ja Juudan kuningasten pahat teot ja heidän vaimojensa pahat teot, omat pahat tekonne ja vaimojenne pahat teot, mitä he ovat tehneet Juudan maassa ja Jerusalemin kaduilla?

10 He eivät ole murtuneet tähän päivään asti, eivät pelkää, eivät vaella minun lakini ja minun käskyjeni mukaan, jotka minä olen antanut teille ja teidän isillenne.

11 Sentähden, näin sanoo Herra Sebaot, Israelin Jumala: Katso, minä käännän kasvoni teitä vastaan onnettomuudeksi, hävittääkseni koko Juudan.

12 Ja minä tempaan pois Juudan jäännöksen, ne jotka käänsivät kasvonsa Egyptin maata kohti mennäkseen siellä muukalaisina asumaan, ja he hukkuvat kaikki. Egyptin maassa he kaatuvat miekkaan, hukkuvat nälkään, pienimmästä suurimpaan asti he kuolevat miekkaan ja nälkään; ja he tulevat kiroukseksi ja kauhistukseksi, kiroussanaksi ja häväistykseksi.

13 Ja minä rankaisen niitä, jotka asuvat Egyptin maassa, niinkuin minä rankaisin Jerusalemia, miekalla, nälällä ja rutolla.

14 Ei jää pakoonpäässeitä, ei pelastuneita Juudan jäännöksestä, niistä, jotka ovat tulleet asumaan muukalaisina täällä Egyptin maassa, eivätkä he palaa Juudan maahan, jonne heidän sielunsa halajaa jälleen, heidän siellä asuaksensa; sillä sinne on palaava vain muutamia pakolaisia."

15 Mutta kaikki miehet, jotka tiesivät vaimojensa polttavan uhreja muille jumalille, ja kaikki naiset, jotka seisoivat siellä suurena joukkona, ja kaikki kansa, joka asui Egyptin maassa, Patroksessa, vastasivat Jeremialle sanoen:

16 "Mitä sinä olet Herran nimessä meille puhunut, siinä me emme sinua tottele;

17 vaan me täytämme joka lupauksen, mikä suustamme on lähtenyt, poltamme uhreja taivaan kuningattarelle ja vuodatamme hänelle juomauhreja, niinkuin teimme me ja meidän isämme, meidän kuninkaamme ja ruhtinaamme Juudan kaupungeissa ja Jerusalemin kaduilla; ja silloin meillä oli leipää yltäkyllin, ja meidän oli hyvä olla emmekä nähneet onnettomuutta.

18 Mutta siitä asti, kun me lakkasimme polttamasta uhreja taivaan kuningattarelle ja vuodattamasta hänelle juomauhreja, on osanamme ollut kaiken puute ja hukkuminen miekkaan ja nälkään.

19 Ja kun me poltamme uhreja taivaan kuningattarelle ja vuodatamme hänelle juomauhreja, niin miestemme luvattako teemme hänelle uhrikakkuja, hänen kuvansa muotoisia, ja vuodatamme hänelle juomauhreja?"

20 Silloin Jeremia sanoi kaikelle kansalle, miehille ja naisille, kaikelle kansalle, joka oli hänelle näin vastannut:

21 "Eikö sitä uhrisavua, jota te olette suitsuttaneet Juudan kaupungeissa ja Jerusalemin kaduilla, te ja teidän isänne, teidän kuninkaanne ja ruhtinaanne ja maan kansa, Herra muista ja pidä mielessänsä?

22 Eikä Herra voinut sitä enää kärsiä teidän tekojenne pahuuden tähden, kauhistusten tähden, joita te teitte, ja niin teidän maanne tuli raunioiksi ja autioksi ja kiroussanaksi, tuli asujattomaksi, niinkuin se tänä päivänä on.

23 Sentähden että te poltitte uhreja ja teitte syntiä Herraa vastaan, ette totelleet Herran ääntä ettekä vaeltaneet hänen lakinsa, käskyjensä ja säädöksiensä mukaan, sentähden tämä onnettomuus on kohdannut teitä, niinkuin nyt on tapahtunut."

24 Jeremia sanoi vielä kaikelle kansalle ja kaikille naisille: "Kuulkaa Herran sana, kaikki Juuda, joka olet Egyptin maassa.

25 Näin sanoo Herra Sebaot, Israelin Jumala: Mitä te ja teidän vaimonne olette suullanne puhuneet, sen te panette käsillänne täytäntöön, sanoen: 'Me täytämme lupauksemme, joilla olemme luvanneet polttaa uhreja taivaan kuningattarelle ja vuodattaa hänelle juomauhreja'. Niinpä pitäkää lupauksenne, pankaa lupauksenne täytäntöön!

26 Sentähden kuulkaa Herran sana, kaikki Juuda, te jotka asutte Egyptin maassa: Katso, minä vannon suuren nimeni kautta, sanoo Herra: Totisesti, ei ole ainoakaan Juudan mies enää mainitseva suullaan minun nimeäni, niin että sanoisi: 'Niin totta kuin Herra, Herra elää' -ei koko Egyptin maassa.

27 Katso, minä valvon, mutta heille onnettomuudeksi, ei onneksi; ja jokainen Juudan mies, joka on Egyptin maassa, on hukkuva miekkaan ja nälkään, kunnes heistä on tullut loppu.

28 Vain vähäinen joukko miekasta pelastuneita on palajava Egyptin maasta Juudan maahan; ja Juudan koko jäännös, ne jotka tulivat Egyptin maahan, siellä muukalaisina asumaan, tulevat tietämään, kumpaisenko sana toteutuu, minun vai heidän.

29 Ja tämä on oleva sen merkkinä, sanoo Herra, että minä rankaisen teitä tässä paikassa, tietääksenne, että minun sanani teitä vastaan toteutuvat, teille onnettomuudeksi:

30 Näin sanoo Herra: Katso, minä annan farao Hofran, Egyptin kuninkaan, hänen vihollistensa käsiin, niiden käsiin, jotka etsivät hänen henkeänsä, niinkuin minä olen antanut Sidkian, Juudan kuninkaan, Nebukadressarin, Baabelin kuninkaan, käsiin, joka oli hänen vihollisensa ja etsi hänen henkeänsä."

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4580

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4580. 'Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked to him, a stone pillar' means the holiness of truth within that Divine state. This is clear from the meaning of 'a pillar' as the holiness of truth, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'in the place where He talked to him' as within that state, dealt with just above in 4578.

First, let something be said about the origin of erecting pillars in those times, of pouring out drink-offerings onto them, and of pouring wine onto them.

[2] The pillars which were erected in ancient times were set up to serve either as a sign, or as a witness, or for worship. Those set up for worship used to be anointed with oil and were thereby made holy; and in these places, people also held their worship - in temples, in groves, under trees in forests, and in other places. This practice of erecting pillars owed its representative nature to the fact that in most ancient times stones were set up on the boundaries between families of nations, to stop them crossing those boundaries to do one another any harm, as with the pillar set up by Laban and Jacob, Genesis 31:51. Not crossing them to do harm was the law of nations among those people. And because those stones were on the boundaries, whenever the most ancient people saw them as boundary stones they thought of the truths which exist in the ultimate degree of order; for those people saw in every object on earth the spiritual or celestial reality to which it corresponded. Their descendants however, who saw less of what was spiritual and celestial within the same objects and more of what was worldly, began to regard these in a holy way merely because they were objects venerated from of old. At length those descendants of the most ancient people who lived immediately before the Flood, and who no longer saw anything spiritual or celestial in earthly and worldly things as objects, began to make the actual stones holy, pouring out drink-offerings onto them and anointing them with oil. These were now called pillars and were used for worship. The position remained the same after the Flood - in the Ancient Church which was a representative Church - though with this difference, that pillars served these people as a means enabling them to offer internal worship. For infants and children were taught by parents what those pillars represented, and in this way they were led to know holy objects and to have an affection for the things which these represented. This explains why the ancients had pillars for worship in their temples, groves, and forests, also on hills and mountains.

[3] But once the internal existence of worship had perished completely in the Ancient Church and people began to regard external objects as being holy and Divine and in so doing began to worship those objects in an idolatrous manner, they erected pillars to particular deities. And because the descendants of Jacob were very inclined towards idolatrous practices, they were forbidden to erect pillars or have groves. They were not even allowed to offer any worship on mountains or hillsides, but were required to meet in one particular place - where the Ark was, and later on where the Temple stood, thus in Jerusalem. Otherwise each family would have had its own external objects and idols which it would have worshipped, and so no representative of the Church could have been established among that nation. See what has been shown already about pillars in 3727.

From all this one may see how the erecting of pillars originated, and what they were signs of, and that when they were used for worship, holy truth was represented by them, for which reason the expression 'a stone pillar' is also used, 'stone' meaning truth in the ultimate degree of order, 1298, 3720, 3769, 3771, 3773, 3789, 3798. It should be recognized in addition that holiness is a particular attribute of Divine Truth, for Divine Good exists within the Lord, while Divine Truth proceeds from that Good, 3704, 4577, and is called holiness.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #2187

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2187. 'And they ate' means communication in this manner. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being communicated, and also being joined together, as is also evident from the Word. The injunction that Aaron, and his sons the Levites, and also the people were to eat the consecrated elements of the sacrifices in a holy place meant nothing other than the communication, conjunction, and making one's own, as stated above in 2177, at the point where Leviticus 6:16-17, is referred to. For it was celestial and spiritual food that was meant by the consecrated elements, and thus making that food their own by eating those elements. These consecrated elements were those parts of the sacrifices which were not burned on the altar but were eaten either by the priests or by the people who brought the offering, as becomes clear from very many places where the sacrifices are the subject. The consecrated elements that were to be eaten by the priests are referred to in Exodus 29:32-33; Leviticus 6:16, 26; 7:6, 15-16, 18; 8:31; 10:12-13; Numbers 18:9-11; and those to be eaten by the people, in Leviticus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 12:27; 27:7; and elsewhere. And that those who were unclean were not to eat of them is referred to in Leviticus 7:19-21; 22:4-7. These ritual feasts took place in a holy place near the altar, either at the gate or in the court outside the tent. And they meant nothing else than the communication, conjunction, and making of celestial goods one's own, for those feasts represented celestial food. For what celestial food is, see 56-58, 680, 681, 1480, 1695. And all those consecrated elements were called 'bread', for the meaning of which see above in 2165. Something similar was represented by Aaron and his sons eating the loaves of the presence, or the shewbread, in a holy place, Leviticus 24:9.

[2] The reason for the law given to the Nazirite that during the days of his Naziriteship he was forbidden to eat anything that is produced from the grape - from which wine is made - from pips even to skin, Numbers 6:4, is that the Nazirite represented the celestial man, and the celestial man is such as is not willing even to mention spiritual things, see Volume One, in 202, 337, 880 (end), 1647. And because 'wine' and 'the grape', and also whatever came from the grape, meant that which is spiritual, the Nazirite was therefore forbidden to eat of them, that is, to have any communication with spiritual things, to join himself to them, or to make them his own.

[3] Something similar is meant by 'eating' in Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on that which is not bread, and your labour on that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:1-2.

And also what is said in John,

To him who conquers I will grant to eat from the tree of life which is in the middle of the Paradise of God. Revelation 2:7.

'The tree of life' is the celestial itself, and in the highest sense it is the Lord Himself since He is the source of everything celestial, that is, of all love and charity. Thus 'eating from the tree of life' is the same as feeding on the Lord; and 'feeding on the Lord' is being endowed with love and charity, thus with those things that belong to heavenly life, as the Lord Himself declares in John,

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live for ever. He who feeds on Me will live through Me. John 6:51, 57. But they said, This is a hard saying. Jesus said however, The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:60, 63.

From this it is evident what is meant by 'eating' in the Holy Supper, Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20 - having communication, being joined together, and making one's own.

[4] From this it is also plain what is meant by the Lord's statement that

Many will come from the east and from the west and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Matthew 8:11.

The Lord did not mean that they were going to feast with these three in the kingdom of God but that they were to enjoy the celestial goods meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That is to say, they were to enjoy the inmost celestial goods of love, meant by -Abraham'; also a lower type of goods, which are intermediate, as those are which belong to the rational, meant by 'Isaac'; and a still lower type of goods which are celestial-natural, such as occur in the first heaven, meant by 'Jacob'. These are the things which constitute the internal sense of these words. That such things are meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, see 1893, and wherever else they are the subject. For whether one speaks of enjoying those celestial things, or whether one speaks of enjoying the Lord, whom they represent, it amounts to the same since the Lord is the source of all those things, and the Lord is their All in all.

  
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