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Иезекииль 27

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1 И было ко мне слово Господне:

2 и ты, сын человеческий, подними плач о Тире

3 и скажи Тиру, поселившемуся на выступах в море, торгующему с народами на многих островах: так говорит Господь Бог: Тир! ты говоришь: „я совершенство красоты!"

4 Пределы твои в сердце морей; строители твои усовершили красотутвою:

5 из Сенирских кипарисов устроили все помосты твои; брали с Ливанакедр, чтобы сделать на тебе мачты;

6 из дубов Васанских делали весла твои; скамьи твои делали из букового дерева, с оправою из слоновой кости с островов Киттимских;

7 узорчатые полотна из Египта употреблялись на паруса твои и служили флагом; голубого и пурпурового цвета ткани с островов Елисы были покрывалом твоим.

8 Жители Сидона и Арвада были у тебя гребцами; свои знатоки были у тебя, Тир; они были у тебя кормчими.

9 Старшие из Гевала и знатоки его были у тебя, чтобы заделывать пробоины твои. Всякие морские корабли и корабельщики их находились у тебя для производства торговли твоей.

10 Перс и Лидиянин и Ливиец находились в войске твоем и были у тебя ратниками, вешали на тебе щит и шлем; они придавали тебе величие.

11 Сыны Арвада с собственным твоим войском стояли кругом на стенах твоих, и Гамадимы были на башнях твоих; кругом по стенам твоим они вешали колчаны свои; они довершали красутвою.

12 Фарсис, торговец твой, по множеству всякого богатства, платил за товары твои серебром, железом, свинцом и оловом.

13 Иаван, Фувал и Мешех торговали с тобою, выменивая товары твои надуши человеческие и медную посуду.

14 Из дома Фогарма за товары твои доставляли тебе лошадей и строевыхконей и лошаков.

15 Сыны Дедана торговали с тобою; многие острова производили с тобою мену, в уплату тебе доставляли слоновую кость и черное дерево.

16 По причине большого торгового производства твоего торговали с тобою Арамеяне; за товары твои они платили карбункулами, тканями пурпуровыми, узорчатыми, и виссонами, и кораллами, и рубинами.

17 Иудея и земля Израилева торговали с тобою; за товар твой платилипшеницею Миннифскою и сластями, и медом, и деревянным маслом, и бальзамом.

18 Дамаск, по причине большого торгового производства твоего, по изобилию всякого богатства, торговал с тобою вином Хелбонским и белою шерстью.

19 Дан и Иаван из Узала платили тебе за товары твоивыделанным железом; кассия и благовонная трость шли на обмен тебе.

20 Дедан торговал с тобою драгоценными попонами для верховой езды.

21 Аравия и все князья Кидарские производили мену с тобою: ягнят и баранов и козлов променивали тебе.

22 Купцы из Савы и Раемы торговали с тобою всякими лучшими благовониями и всякими дорогими камнями, и золотом платили за товары твои.

23 Харан и Хане и Еден, купцы Савейские, Ассур и Хилмад торговали с тобою.

24 Они торговали с тобою драгоценными одеждами, шелковыми и узорчатыми материями, которые они привозили на твои рынки в дорогих ящиках, сделанных из кедра и хорошо упакованных.

25 Фарсисские корабли были твоими караванами в твоей торговле, и ты сделался богатым и весьма славным среди морей.

26 Гребцы твои завели тебя в большие воды; восточный ветер разбил тебя среди морей.

27 Богатство твое и товары твои, все склады твои, корабельщики твои и кормчие твои, заделывавшие пробоины твои и распоряжавшиеся торговлею твоею, и все ратники твои, какие у тебя были, и всемножество народа в тебе, в день падения твоего упадет в сердце морей.

28 От вопля кормчих твоих содрогнутся окрестности.

29 И с кораблей своих сойдут все гребцы, корабельщики, все кормчиеморя, и станут на землю;

30 и зарыдают о тебе громким голосом, и горько застенают, посыпавпеплом головы свои и валяясь во прахе;

31 и остригут по тебе волосы догола, и опояшутся вретищами, и заплачут о тебе от душевной скорби горьким плачем;

32 и в сетовании своем поднимут плачевную песнь о тебе, и так зарыдают о тебе: „кто как Тир, так разрушенный посреди моря!

33 Когда приходили с морей товары твои, ты насыщал многие народы;множеством богатства твоего и торговлею твоею обогащал царей земли.

34 А когда ты разбит морями в пучине вод, товары твои и все толпившееся в тебе упало.

35 Все обитатели островов ужаснулись о тебе, и цари их содрогнулись, изменились в лицах.

36 Торговцы других народов свистнули о тебе; ты сделался ужасом, – и не будет тебя вовеки".

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9688

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9688. 'The work of an embroiderer' means things that belong to factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'the work of an embroiderer', or embroidery, as factual knowledge. A large number of places in the Word speak of that which has been embroidered and of embroidery, and in every case factual knowledge is meant by it. The reason for this goes back to representatives in the next life; there garments embroidered in various ways are seen, and by these garments truths on the level of factual knowledge are meant.

[2] Truths on the level of factual knowledge differ from those on the level of the understanding in the same way as outward things differ from inward ones, or as the natural level with a person differs from the spiritual. Facts serve the understanding as objects from which it may deduce truths; for the power of understanding is the internal or spiritual man's power of sight, and known facts are its objects in the external or natural man. These facts are meant by 'the work of an embroiderer' whereas that power of understanding is meant by 'the work of a designer', 9598, for designing is a function of the understanding, and embroidering a function of the knowledge and skill employed by the understanding. This explains why the objects within the dwelling-place, which were signs meaning inner realities, were the work of a designer, such as the curtains that formed it, verse 1, and the veil between the holy place and the holy of holies, verse 31. But the objects which were signs meaning outer realities were the work of an embroiderer, such as the screen in place of a tent door, and the screen in place of a gate of the court, Exodus 38:18, and also the girdle, Exodus 39:29, 'the girdle' being what is external linking everything internal, 'the court' being the lowest part of heaven, and 'the tent door' the place where there is an exit from the middle heaven into the lowest.

[3] The fact that 'embroidery' and that which has been 'embroidered' mean factual knowledge belonging to the external or natural man is clear from the following places in the Word: In Ezekiel,

Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail; violet and purple from the islands of Elishah was your covering. Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks; [they exchanged for your wares] chrysoprase and purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen. The merchants of Sheba [came] with balls of violet and with embroidered work. Ezekiel 27:7, 16, 24.

This refers to Tyre, by which those in possession of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good are meant, and in the abstract sense those cognitions themselves, 1201. 'Fine linen with embroidery' means truth on the level of factual knowledge, for 'fine linen' means truth from a celestial origin, 5319, 9469, and 'embroidery' is factual knowledge. This also is the reason why it says that it came from Egypt - for 'Egypt' means factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 2588, 4749, 4964, 4966, 5700, 5702, 6004, 6015, 6125, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, 6750, 7779 (end), 9391 - and also from Syria and from Sheba, since cognitions of truth and good are meant by 'Syria', 1232, 1234, 3051, 3249, 3664, 3680, 4112, and in like manner by 'Sheba', 1171, 3240. Cognitions of truth and good constitute the Church's factual knowledge. Anybody endowed with the ability to think intelligently and weigh things up can see that in these verses from Ezekiel one should not understand embroidery, fine linen, violet, or purple, but that these commodities mean things such as are worthy of mention in the Word, namely spiritual realities that belong to heaven and the Church.

[4] In the same prophet,

All the princes of the sea will step down from upon their thrones, and will cast away their robes and will strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with tremblings. Ezekiel 26:16.

This too refers to Tyre. 'The princes of the sea' are the first and foremost known facts, which are called dogmas, 'princes' meaning things which are first and foremost, see 1482, 2089, 5044, and 'the sea' factual knowledge in general 28, 2850. 'Robes' are external truths, 'embroidered' are truths on the level of factual knowledge, which too are external ones. For the meaning of 'garments' as truths, 2576, 4545, 4763, 5248, 5319, 5954, 6914, 6917, 6918, 9093, 9158, 9212, 9216.

[5] In the same prophet,

I clothed you with embroidered cloth, and shod you with badger; I swathed you in fine linen and covered you with silk. Thus were you adorned with gold and silver; and your garments were fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. But you took your embroidered garments and covered the images, with which you committed whoredom. 1 Ezekiel 16:10, 13, 18.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which the Church is meant. 'Embroidered garments' stands for truths on the level of factual knowledge. 'Covering the images, with which she committed whoredom' stands for giving strength to falsities, for 'committing whoredom' means perverting truths by bringing them into contact with falsities or with evils. Is there anyone who cannot see that since these verses describe Jerusalem 'fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth' are not used to mean fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth? Yet what they really mean the Christian world does not seek to know, because it supposes that heavenly and spiritual matters in the Word reside in its literal sense; the more internal contents of the Word it calls mystical, but has no interest in them.

[6] In the same prophet,

A great eagle with great wings, with long pinions, full of feathers, 2 which had embroidery ... Ezekiel 17:3.

This refers to the house of Israel, which means the spiritual Church; and this Church is called 'an eagle' by virtue of its perception of truth, 3901, 8764, 'which had embroidery' standing for its possession of factual knowledge. In David,

All glorious is the king's daughter within, in her clothing with gold interweavings; in an embroidered [robe] she will be led to the king. Psalms 45:13-14.

'The king's daughter' stands for an affection for truth, 'an embroidered [robe]' for factual knowledge of truth. In the Book of Judges,

Will they not divide the spoil, ... the spoil of colours for Sisera, the spoil of colours of embroidered work, embroiderers' colour - on the necks of the spoil? 3 Judges 5:30.

In this verse, which is part of the Song of Deborah and Barak, 'embroidered [work]' stands for factual knowledge belonging to the natural man.

Notes de bas de page:

1. Here verse 18 of Ezekiel 16 has become confused with the preceding verse 17.

2. literally, A great eagle, great with wings, long with pinions, and full with feathers,

3. The meaning in the Hebrew of this verse is very obscure. The Latin rendering by Sebastian Schmidt, which Swedenborg relies on here, is literal and equally difficult to make sense of.

  
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Genesis 30

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1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."

2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."

4 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

5 Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

6 Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.

7 Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

8 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.

9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

10 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a son.

11 Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.

12 Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.

13 Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me Happy." She named him Asher.

14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

15 She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."

16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.

17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

18 Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.

19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

20 Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.

21 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach."

24 She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."

25 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."

27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

28 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

31 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."

34 Laban said, "Behold, let it be according to your word."

35 That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

36 He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

37 Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

38 He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.

39 The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

40 Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.

41 It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

   

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