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1 犹大约雅敬在位第年,巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒耶路撒冷,将城围困。

2 主将犹大约雅敬,并殿中器皿的几分交付他。他就把这器皿到示拿,收入他的庙里,放在他中。

3 王吩咐太监长亚施毗拿,从以色列人的宗室和贵胄中进几个人来,

4 就是年少没有残疾、相貌俊美、通达各样学问、知识聪明俱备、足能侍立在王宫里的,要教他们迦勒底的文字言语。

5 王派定将自己所用的膳和所饮的酒,每日赐他们一分,养他们年。满了年,好叫他们在王面前侍立。

6 他们中间有犹大族的人:但以理、哈拿尼雅、米沙利、亚撒利雅。

7 太监长给他们起名:称但以理为伯提沙撒,称哈拿尼雅为沙得拉,称米沙利为米煞,称亚撒利雅为亚伯尼歌。

8 但以理却立志不以王的膳和王所饮的酒玷污自己,所以求太监长容他不玷污自己。

9 使但以理在太监长眼前蒙恩惠,受怜悯

10 太监长对但以理:我惧怕我我王,他已经派定你们的饮食;倘若他见你们的面貌比你们同岁的少年人肌瘦,怎麽好呢?这样,你们就使我的在王那里难保。

11 但以理对太监长所派管理但以理、哈拿尼雅、米沙利、亚撒利雅的委办

12 求你试试仆人我们素菜,白

13 然後我们的面貌和用王膳那少年人的面貌,就照你所的待仆人罢!

14 委办便允准他们这件事,试看他们

15 过了,见他们的面貌比用王膳的一切少年人更加俊美肥胖。

16 於是委办撤去派他们用的膳,饮的酒,他们素菜吃。

17 个少年人,在各样文字学问(学问:原文是智慧)上赐他们聪明知识;但以理又明白各样的异象和梦兆。

18 尼布甲尼撒王预定进少年人来的日期满了,太监长就把他们到王面前。

19 王与他们谈论,见少年人中无一人能比但以理、哈拿尼雅、米沙利、亚撒利雅,所以他们在王面前侍立。

20 王考问他们一切事,就见他们的智慧聪明比通国的术士和用法术的胜过倍。

21 到古列王元年,但以理还在。

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #173

  
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173. Internal Meaning of Daniel, Chapter 2

1-2 The future character of Babylon foretold. (2)

3-11 This was not known to those who made common cause with Babylon. (2)

12-13 They were blinded, (2)

14-30 but it was disclosed by revelation from the Lord to those who were of the church. (2)

31-35 The progress of the Babylonish religion follows: first the rulers would learn and teach the goods and truths of heaven and the church; and afterwards they would backslide, until nothing remained except what was adulterated, thus what was merely false and evil, and then the Lord would come. (2)

36-38 First the Word will be taught there according to truths of doctrine drawn from it. (2)

39 Afterwards the church will prevail, not from spiritual good, but from natural good. (2)

40-43 Finally all good and truth will be changed by adulterations into evil and falsity, prevailing only through civil diabolic power. (3)

44-45 Then the Lord will come, and destroy that religion, and will institute a church that will be in Divine truth from Him. (1, 3)

46-49 This was the beginning of Babylon, when it worshipped the God of heaven, and magnified doctrine from the Word. (2, 11)

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.

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Chaldea

  

Chaldea was a land lying along the Euphrates river near its mouth, south of Babylon, part of what is now southern Iraq. It was a land of the Lord's second great church, the Ancient Church, which at its height had a wealth of knoweldge through its own sacred scriptures and the correspondences of nature. But as this church declined Chaldea came to represent people who use truths for evil purposes and thus profane and falsify them. Abram was born in Chaldea because of the greatness it had represented, but had to leave because of what it had become.