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Ézéchiel 17

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1 Et la parole de l'Eternel me fut [adressée], en disant :

2 Fils d'homme, propose une énigme, et mets en avant une similitude à la maison d'Israël.

3 Et dis : ainsi a dit le Seigneur l'Eternel : une grand aigle à grandes ailes, et d'un long plumage, pleine de plumes comme en façon de broderie, est venue au Liban, et a enlevé la cime d'un cèdre;

4 Elle a rompu le bout de ses jets, et l'a transporté en un pays marchand, et l'a mis dans une ville de négociants.

5 Et elle a pris de la semence du pays, et l'a mise en un champ propre à semer, [et] la portant près des grosses eaux, l'a plantée [comme] un saule.

6 Cette [semence] poussa, et devint un cep vigoureux, [mais] bas, ayant ses rameaux tournés vers cette [aigle], et ses racines étant sous elle; cette [semence] devint donc un cep, et produisit des sarments et poussa des rejetons.

7 Mais il y avait une [autre] grande aigle à grandes ailes, et de beaucoup de plumes; et voici ce cep serra vers elle ses racines, et étendit ses branches vers elle, afin qu'elle l'arrosât [des eaux qui coulaient dans les] carreaux de son parterre.

8 Il était donc planté en une bonne terre, près des grosses eaux, en sorte qu'il jetait des sarments et portait du fruit, et il était devenu un cep excellent.

9 Dis : ainsi a dit le Seigneur l'Eternel, viendra-t-il à bien? n'arrachera-t-elle pas ses racines, et ne coupera-t-elle pas ses fruits, et ils deviendront secs? tous les sarments qu'il a jetés sécheront, et il ne faudra pas même un grand effort, et beaucoup de monde, pour l'enlever de dessus ses racines.

10 Mais voici, [quoique] planté, viendra-t-il pourtant à bien? Quand le vent d'Orient l'aura touché, ne séchera-t-il pas entièrement? il séchera sur le terrain où il était planté.

11 Puis la parole de l'Eternel me fut [adressée], en disant :

12 Dis maintenant à la maison rebelle : ne savez-vous pas ce que veulent dire ces choses? Dis : voici, le Roi de Babylone est venu à Jérusalem, et en a pris le Roi, et les Princes, et les a emmenés avec lui à Babylone.

13 Et il en a pris un de la race Royale, il a traité alliance avec lui, il lui a fait prêter serment avec exécration, et il a retenu les puissants du pays.

14 Afin que le Royaume fût tenu bas, et qu'il ne s'élevât point, [mais] qu'en gardant son alliance, il subsistât.

15 Mais celui-ci s'est rebellé contre lui, envoyant ses messagers en Egypte, afin qu'on lui donnât des chevaux, et un grand peuple. Celui qui fait de telles choses prospérera-t-il? échappera-t-il? et ayant enfreint l'alliance, échappera-t-il?

16 Je suis vivant, dit le Seigneur l'Eternel, si celui-ci ne meurt au pays du Roi qui l'a établi pour Roi, parce qu'il a méprisé le serment d'exécration qu'il lui avait fait, et parce qu'il a enfreint l'alliance qu'il avait faite avec lui, si, [dis-je, il ne meurt dans] Babylone.

17 Et Pharaon ne fera rien pour lui dans la guerre, avec une grande armée et beaucoup de troupes, lorsque [l'ennemi] aura dressé des terrasses, et bâti des bastions pour exterminer beaucoup de gens.

18 Parce qu'il a méprisé le serment d'exécration en violant l'alliance; car voici, après avoir donné sa main, il a fait néanmoins toutes ces choses-là; il n'échappera point.

19 C'est pourquoi ainsi a dit le Seigneur l'Eternel : je suis vivant, si je ne fais tomber sur sa tête mon serment d'exécration qu'il a méprisé, et mon alliance qu'il a enfreinte.

20 Et j'étendrai mon rets sur lui, et il sera pris dans mes filets, et je le ferai entrer dans Babylone, et là j'entrerai en jugement contre lui pour le crime qu'il a commis contre moi.

21 Et tous ses fugitifs avec toutes ses troupes tomberont par l'épée, et ceux qui demeureront de reste seront dispersés à tout vent; et vous saurez que moi l'Eternel j'ai parlé.

22 Ainsi a dit le Seigneur l'Eternel : je prendrai aussi [un rameau] de la cime de ce haut cèdre, et je le planterai; je couperai, dis-je, du bout de ses jeunes branches un tendre rameau, et je le planterai sur une montagne haute et éminente.

23 Je le planterai sur la haute montagne d'Israël, et là il produira des branches, et fera du fruit, et il deviendra un excellent cèdre; et des oiseaux de tout plumage demeureront sous lui, [et] habiteront sous l'ombre de ses branches.

24 Et tous les bois des champs connaîtront que moi l'Eternel j'aurai abaissé le grand arbre, et élevé le petit arbre, fait sécher le bois vert, et fait reverdir le bois sec; moi l'Eternel, j'ai parlé, et je le ferai.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #244

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244. And the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. This symbolizes the Divine truth of the Word in respect to its concepts and the understanding they afford.

Eagles have various symbolic meanings, but flying eagles symbolize concepts which lead to understanding, since when they fly, they recognize and see. They also have sharp eyes so as to see keenly, and eyes symbolize the intellect (nos. 48, 214).

To fly means, symbolically, to perceive and teach, and in the highest sense, which has the Lord as its subject, it means to foresee and provide.

That this is the symbolic meaning of eagles in the Word is apparent from the following passages:

Those who wait on Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up on wings like eagles. (Isaiah 40:31)

To mount up on wings like eagles means to be raised into concepts of truth and goodness and so into intelligence.

Does the hawk fly by your wisdom...? Does the eagle mount up at your command...(and) spy out its food? Its eyes observe from afar. (Job 39:26-27, 29)

The eagle here describes a faculty for recognizing, understanding, and foreseeing, and the fact that this does not result from one's own intelligence.

(Jehovah,) who satisfies your mouth with good, so that you are renewed in your youth like an eagle. (Psalms 103:5)

To satisfy the mouth with good means to give understanding by means of concepts. Thus an analogy is made with an eagle.

A great eagle with large wings and long pinions... came upon Lebanon and took from the cedar a little branch... Then it took some of the seed of the land and planted it in the field of a growing crop..., and it grew and became a vine... But there was another great eagle..., to which the vine bent its roots... (Ezekiel 17:1-8)

The two eagles here describe the Jewish and Israelite churches, each in respect to its concepts of truth and consequent intelligence.

In an opposite sense, however, eagles symbolize false concepts, by which the intellect is corrupted, as in Matthew 24:28, Jeremiah 4:13, Habakkuk 1:8-9, and elsewhere.

  
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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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Isaiah 40

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1 "Comfort, Comfort my people," says your God.

2 "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins."

3 The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

5 The glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."

6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."

9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don't be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!"

10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?

14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

21 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

23 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.

24 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

25 "To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" says the Holy One.

26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.

27 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"

28 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

29 He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

31 But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.