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Ezequiel 36

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1 Tu, ó filho do homem, profetiza aos montes de Israel, e dize: montes de Israel, ouvi a palavra do Senhor.

2 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Pois que disse o inimigo contra vós: Ah! ah! e: As alturas antigas são nossas para as possuirmos;

3 portanto, profetiza, e dize: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Porquanto, sim, porquanto vos assolaram e vos devoraram de todos os lados, para que ficásseis feitos herança do resto das nações, e tendes andado em lábios paroleiros, e chegastes a ser a infâmia do povo;

4 portanto, ouvi, ó montes de Israel, a palavra do Senhor Deus: Assim diz o Senhor Deus aos montes e aos outeiros, às correntes d'água e aos vales, aos desertos assolados e às cidades desamparadas, que se tornaram presa e escarnio para o resto das nações que estão ao redor delas;

5 portanto, assim diz o Senhor Deus: Certamente no fogo do meu zelo falei contra o resto das nações, e contra todo o Edom, que se apropriaram da minha terra, com toda a alegria de seu coração, e com menosprezo da alma, para a lançarem fora a rapina;

6 portanto, profetiza sobre a terra de Israel, e dize aos montes e aos outeiros, às correntes d'água e aos vales: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Eis que falei no meu zelo e no meu furor, porque levastes sobre vós o opróbrio das nações.

7 Portanto, assim diz o Senhor Deus: Eu levantei a minha mão, jurando: Certamente as nações que estão ao redor de vós levarão o seu opróbrio sobre si mesmas.

8 Mas vós, ó montes de Israel, vós produzireis os vossos ramos, e dareis o vosso fruto para o meu povo de Israel, pois já está prestes a vir.

9 pois eis que eu estou convosco, e eu me voltarei para vós, e sereis lavrados e semeados;

10 e multiplicarei homens sobre vós, a toda a casa de Israel, a toda ela; e as cidades serão habitadas, e os lugares devastados serão edificados.

11 Também sobre vós multiplicarei homens e animais, e eles se multiplicarão, e frutificarão. E farei que sejais habitados como dantes, e vos tratarei melhor do que nos vossos princípios. Então sabereis que eu sou o Senhor.

12 E sobre vós farei andar homens, o meu povo de Israel; eles te possuirão, e tu serás a sua herança, e nunca mais os desfilharás.

13 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Visto como vos dizem: Tu devoras os homens, e tens desfilhado a tua nação;

14 por isso tu não devorarás mais os homens, nem desfilharás mais a tua nação, diz o Senhor Deus.

15 Não te permitirei ouvir mais a afronta das nações; e não levaras mais sobre ti o opróbrio dos povos, nem farás tropeçar mais a tua nação, diz o Senhor Deus.

16 Veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

17 Filho do homem, quando a casa de Israel habitava na sua terra, então eles a contaminaram com os seus caminhos e com as suas ações. Como a imundícia de uma mulher em sua separação, tal era o seu caminho diante de mim.

18 Derramei, pois, o meu furor sobre eles, por causa do sangue que derramaram sobre a terra, e porque a contaminaram com os seus ídolos;

19 e os espalhei entre as nações, e foram dispersos pelas terras; conforme os seus caminhos, e conforme os seus feitos, eu os julguei.

20 E, chegando às nações para onde foram, profanaram o meu santo nome, pois se dizia deles: São estes o povo do Senhor, e tiveram de sair da sua terra.

21 Mas eu os poupei por amor do meu santo nome, que a casa de Israel profanou entre as nações para onde foi.

22 Dize portanto à casa de Israel: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Não é por amor de vós que eu faço isto, o casa de Israel; mas em atenção ao meu santo nome, que tendes profanado entre as nações para onde fostes;

23 e eu santificarei o meu grande nome, que foi profanado entre as nações, o qual profanastes no meio delas; e as nações saberão que eu sou o Senhor, diz o Senhor Deus, quando eu for santificado aos seus olhos.

24 Pois vos tirarei dentre as nações, e vos congregarei de todos os países, e vos trarei para a vossa terra.

25 Então aspergirei água pura sobre vós, e ficareis purificados; de todas as vossas imundícias, e de todos os vossos ídolos, vos purificarei.

26 Também vos darei um coração novo, e porei dentro de vós um espírito novo; e tirarei da vossa carne o coração de pedra, e vos darei um coração de carne.

27 Ainda porei dentro de vós o meu Espírito, e farei que andeis nos meus estatutos, e guardeis as minhas ordenanças, e as observeis.

28 E habitareis na terra que eu dei a vossos pais, e vós sereis o meu povo, e eu serei o vosso Deus.

29 Pois eu vos livrarei de todas as vossas imundícias; e chamarei o trigo, e o multiplicarei, e não trarei fome sobre vós;

30 mas multiplicarei o fruto das árvores, e a novidade do campo, para que não mais recebais o opróbrio da fome entre as nações.

31 Então vos lembrareis dos vossos maus caminhos, e dos vossos feitos que não foram bons; e tereis nojo em vós mesmos das vossas iniqüidades e das vossas abominações.

32 Não é por amor de vós que eu faço isto, diz o Senhor Deus, notório vos seja; envergonhai-vos, e confundi-vos por causa dos vossos caminhos, ó casa de Israel.

33 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: No dia em que eu vos purificar de todas as vossas iniqüidades, então farei com que sejam habitadas as cidades e sejam edificados os lugares devastados.

34 E a terra que estava assolada será lavrada, em lugar de ser uma desolação aos olhos de todos os que passavam.

35 E dirão: Esta terra que estava assolada tem-se tornado como jardim do Eden; e as cidades solitárias, e assoladas, e destruídas, estão fortalecidas e habitadas.

36 Então as nações que ficarem de resto em redor de vós saberão que eu, o Senhor, tenho reedificado as cidades destruídas, e plantado o que estava devastado. Eu, o Senhor, o disse, e o farei.

37 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Ainda por isso serei consultado da parte da casa de Israel, que lho faça; multiplicá-los-ei como a um rebanho.

38 Como o rebanho para os sacrifícios, como o rebanho de Jerusalém nas suas solenidades, assim as cidades desertas se encherão de famílias; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor.

   

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1082. And shall eat her flesh, signifies rejection of its evils, which are adulterated goods, and then the manifestation that they were without any good. This is evident from the signification of "flesh," as being the good of the Word and of the church, and in the contrary sense the evil thereof. Here "flesh" means evils, which are adulterated goods. Also from the signification of "to eat," as being to consume, but here to reject wholly, because this is said of the Reformed, who have rejected the works or goods of Babylon, which consist especially in gifts to the idols of their saints, to their sepulchers, also to monasteries, and to the monks themselves, given as offerings for various expiations. It follows that the same words mean also the manifestation that they were without any good, for when spurious and meritorious goods are rejected, which are signified by the "flesh that they should eat," it is then manifest that they are without any good.

[2] "Flesh" has various significations in the Word. It signifies what is man's own [proprium], thus either his good or evil, and from this it signifies the whole man. But in the highest sense it signifies the Lord's Divine Human, and particularly the Divine good of the Divine love that proceeds from Him. That "flesh" signifies the Divine Human as to the good of love is evident in John:

Jesus said, I am the living bread, which cometh down out of heaven; if anyone eat of this bread he shall live forever; and the bread which I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews, therefore, strove one with another, saying, How can this one give His flesh to eat? Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood ye shall not have life in yourselves. He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day; for My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink. He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood abideth in Me and I in him. This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven (John 6:51-58).

It is clearly evident that "flesh" here means the own [proprium] of the Lord's Divine Human, which is the Divine good of the Divine love, and is that which is called in the Holy Supper the body. (That the "body" there, that is, the "flesh," is the Divine good, and the "blood" is the Divine truth, may be seen above, n. 329.) And as "bread and wine" have the same signification as "flesh and blood," "bread" meaning the Divine good, and "wine" the Divine truth, therefore these were commanded in place of flesh and blood.

[3] Divine good from the Lord was signified also by the flesh of the sacrifices that Aaron, his sons, and those who sacrificed, and others who were clean, might eat:

And that this was holy (may be seen in Exodus 12:7-9, 29:31-34; Leviticus 7:15-21; 8:31; Deuteronomy 12:27; 16:4);

Consequently if an unclean person ate of that flesh he would be cut off from his people (Leviticus 7:21).

That those sacrifices were called bread (Leviticus 22:6-7).

That that flesh was called the flesh of holiness (Jeremiah 11:15; Haggai 2:12),

And the flesh of the offering, which was to be upon the table in the Lord's kingdom (Ezekiel 40:43).

The Lord's Divine Human is also called "flesh" in John:

The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father (John 1:14).

[4] That "flesh" signified also the good with man can be seen from the following passages. In Ezekiel:

I will give them one heart, and I will give a new spirit in the midst of you, and I will take away the heart of stone out of their flesh, and I will give them a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26).

"Heart of flesh" means the will and love of good. In David:

O God, Thou art my God, in the morning I seek Thee; my soul thirsteth for Thee; my flesh longeth for Thee in a land of drought and weariness without waters (Psalms 63:1).

In the same:

My soul longeth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God (Psalms 84:2).

The "flesh" that longeth for Jehovah, and that crieth out unto the living God, signifies man as to good of the will, for the "flesh" of man corresponds to the good or evil of his will, and the "blood" to the truth or falsity of his understanding; here "flesh" means the good of the will, because it longeth for Jehovah and crieth out unto God.

[5] In Job:

I have known my Redeemer, He liveth, and at the last He shall rise upon the dust; and afterwards these things shall be encompassed by my skin, and from my flesh I shall see God (Job 19:25-27).

To see God from one's flesh signifies from one's own voluntary made new by the Lord, and thus good. In Ezekiel:

Upon the bones seen in the midst of the valley, I will put sinews, and I will cause flesh to come up upon them, and I will cover them with skin, and I will give spirit unto them that they may live (Ezekiel 37:6, 8).

Here, too, "flesh" signifies what is one's own [proprium] of the will made new by the Lord, and thus good. What "bones" and the rest signify here may be seen above (n. 418, 419, 665). In Revelation:

Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of commanders of thousands, and the flesh of the mighty, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all, free and bond, small and great (Revelation 19:17-18; Ezekiel 39:17-19).

That "flesh" here does not mean flesh but goods of every kind, is clearly evident.

[6] But on the other hand, that "flesh" signifies man's own voluntary, which regarded in itself is evil, is evident from the following passages. In Isaiah:

They shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm (Isaiah 9:20).

In the same:

I will feed thine oppressors with their own flesh (Isaiah 49:26).

In Jeremiah:

I will feed you with the flesh of their sons and with the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every man the flesh of his companion (Jeremiah 19:9).

In Zechariah:

The rest shall eat everyone the flesh of another (Zechariah 11:9).

In Moses:

I will chastise you sevenfold for your sins, and ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters (Leviticus 26:28-29).

[7] In Jeremiah:

Cursed is the man who trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm (Jeremiah 17:5).

Here "flesh" signifies what is man's own [proprium] which in itself is evil; to appropriate this to oneself is signified by eating and feeding upon it. Again, "flesh" signifies what is man's own [proprium] in Matthew:

Jesus said, Blessed art thou, Simon, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee (Matthew 16:17).

In John:

As many as received, to them gave He power to become sons of God, who were born, not from bloods nor from the will of the flesh, but from God (John 1:12-13).

In Ezekiel:

Jerusalem committed whoredom with the sons of Egypt her neighbors, great in flesh (Ezekiel 16:26).

In Isaiah:

Egypt is man and not God, and his horses are flesh and not spirit (Isaiah 31:3).

In John:

It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing (John 6:63).

In the same:

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is begotten of the spirit is spirit (John 3:6).

In David:

God remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and returneth not (Psalms 78:39).

The evil of man's will, which is what is his own [proprium] from birth is what is signified in these passages by "flesh"; also by:

The flesh that the sons of Israel lusted after in the desert, and on account of which they were smitten with a great plague, and from which the place was called graves of lust (Numbers 11:4-34).

Moreover, in the Word the expression "all flesh" is frequently used as meaning every man (as in Genesis 6:12, 13, 17, 19; Isaiah 40:5, 6; 49:26; 66:16, 23, 24; Jeremiah 25:31; 32:27; 45:5; Ezekiel 20:48, 21:4, 5; and elsewhere).

(Continuation respecting the Word)

[8] The spiritual by influx presents what is correspondent to itself in the natural, in order that the end may become a cause, and the cause become an effect, and thus the end through the cause may present itself in the effect as visible and sensible. This trine, namely, end, cause, and effect, is given from creation in every heaven. The end is the good of love, the cause is truth from that good, and the effect is use. That which produces is love, and the product therefrom is of love from good by means of truth. The final products, which are in our world, are various, as numerous as the objects are in its three kingdoms of nature, animal, vegetable, and mineral. All products are correspondences.

[9] As this trine, namely, end, cause, and effect, exists in each heaven, there must be in each heaven products that are correspondences, and which in form and aspect are like the objects in the three kingdoms of our earth; from which it is clear that each heaven is like our earth in external appearance, differing only in excellence and beauty according to degrees. Now in order that the Word may be full, that is, may consist of effects in which are a cause and an end, or may consist of uses, in which truth is the cause and good is the end and love is that which produces, it must needs consist of correspondences; and from this it follows that the Word in each heaven is like the Word in our world, differing only in excellence and beauty according to degrees. What this difference is shall be told elsewhere.

  
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