Apocalypsis Revelata #241
241. (Vers. 7.) "Et Animal primum simile Leoni," significat Divinum Verum Verbi quoad potentiam. - Quod "Leo" significet Verum in sua potentia, hic Divinum Verum Verbi quoad potentiam, constare potest a potentia leonis prae omni animali terrae, tum ex leonibus in mundo spirituali, quod sint imagines repraesentivae potentiae Divini Veri; et quoque ex Verbo ubi significant Divinum Verum in sua potentia; qualis potentia Divini Veri in Verbo est, videatur in Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Scriptura Sacra 49, et in Opere de Caelo et Inferno 228-233; inde est, quod Jehovah seu Dominus comparetur "Leoni," et quoque dicatur "Leo," ut in sequentibus:
"Leo rugit, quis non timeat; Dominus Jehovih 1 locutus est, quis non prophetet," (Amos 3:8);
"Non revertar ad perdendum Ephraimum, post Jehovam ibunt, sicut Leo rugit," (Hoschea 11:9-10); 2
"Quemadmodum rugit Leo, et juvenis Leo, sic descendet Jehovah ad militandum super monte Zionis," (Esaias 31:4).
"Ecce vicit Leo, Qui est ex tribu Jehudae, Radix Davidis," (Apocalypsis 5:5);
"Catulus Leonis Jehudah, curvavit se, cubuit sicut Leo vetus, quis excitat eum," (Genesis 49:9);
in his locis describitur potentia Divini Veri, quod a Domino, per "leonem;" "significat ex potentia loqui et agere contra inferna, quae auferre volunt hominem, a quibus Dominus illum eripit, sicut leo praedam; "curvare se" est se mittere in potentiam; "Jehudah" in supremo Sensu significat Dominum, (96, 266).
"Angelus clamavit voce magna sicut Leo rugit," (Apocalypsis 10:3);
"Incurvat se, cubat sicut Leo vetus, quis excitat eum," (Numeri 24:9);
En populos sicut vetus Leo surgit, et sicut juvenis 3 Leo effert se," (Numeri 23:24); 4
haec de Israele, per quem significatur Ecclesia cujus potentia, quae in Divinis veris est, ita describitur; similiter,
"Reliquiae Jacobi in medio populorum erunt sicut Leo inter bestias sylvae, sicut Leo juvenis inter greges ovium," 5 (Micham 5:7 (B.A. 8)). 6
(Praeter in multis aliis locis, ut Esaias 11:6; 21:6-9; 35:9; Jeremias 2:15; 4:7; 5:6; 12:8; 50:17; 51:38; 7 Ezechiel 19:3, 5-6; Hoschea 13:7-8; Joel 1:6-7; Nahum 2:12; Psalm. 17:12; Psalm. 22:14 (B.A. 13) Psalm. 57:5 (B.A. 4); Psalm. 58:7 (B.A. 6); 8 Psalm. 91:13; Psalm. 104:21-22; Deuteronomius 33:20).
Fußnoten:
1. Jehovih pro "Jehovah"
2. 9, 10 pro "20"
3. juvenis pro "vetus"
4. 24 pro "23, 24"
5. ovium pro "populorum"
6. 7 pro "6, 7"
7. xii. pro "viii."
8. 7 pro "7, 8"
Bear (the animal)
![Bears attack boys while others and Elisha watch This print, from a medieval French manuscript, shows a relatively bald Elisha cursing the youths as the bears attack. Elijah rides a chariot overhead, having been taken up to heaven shortly before.](/bundles/ncbsw/media/Bears_savaging_the_youths_from_a_French_Manuscript.webp)
Bears represent the power of the literal external stories and ideas of Bible, separate from their deeper meanings. Since they are wild carnivores, this is usually used in a negative way, showing how people can read the Bible, misunderstand it and twist the ideas they find there to justify their evil desires. But it can also be used in a positive way, showing how people can read the Bible with open minds and draw power from it, even without understanding its true depth.
In 2 Kings 2:24, this signifies the literal sense of the Word separate from its internal sense.
In Daniel 7:5, this signifies the second state of the church when the Word is read, but not truly understood. (Apocalypse Revealed 574[2])
(Verweise: Apocalypse Explained 781; Apocalypse Revealed 47; The Apocalypse Explained 781 [10], [12])
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