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Ezechiël 27

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1 Wijders geschiedde des HEEREN woord tot mij, zeggende:

2 Gij dan, mensenkind! hef een klaaglied op over Tyrus;

3 En zeg tot Tyrus, die daar woont aan de ingangen der zee, handelende met de volken in vele eilanden: Zo zegt de Heere Heere: O Tyrus! gij zegt: Ik ben volmaakt in schoonheid.

4 Uw landpalen zijn in het hart der zeeen; uw bouwers hebben uw schoonheid volkomen gemaakt.

5 Zij hebben al uw denningen uit dennebomen van Senir gebouwd; zij hebben cederen van den Libanon gehaald, om masten voor u te maken.

6 Zij hebben uw riemen uit eiken van Basan gemaakt; uw berderen hebben zij gemaakt uw welbetreden elpenbeen, uit de eilanden der Chittieten.

7 Fijn linnen met stiksel uit Egypte was uw uitbreidsel, dat het u tot een zeil ware; hemelsblauw en purper, uit de eilanden van Elisa, was uw deksel.

8 De inwoners van Sidon en Arvad waren uw roeiers; uw wijzen, o Tyrus! die in u waren, die waren uw schippers.

9 De oudsten van Gebal en haar wijzen waren in u, verbeterende uw breuken; alle schepen der zee en haar zeelieden waren in u, om onderlingen handel met u te drijven.

10 Perzen, en Lydiers, en Puteers waren in uw heir, uw krijgslieden; schild en helm hingen zij in u op, die maakten uw sieraad.

11 De kinderen van Arvad en uw heir waren rondom op uw muren, en de Gammadieten waren op uw torens; hun schilden hingen zij rondom aan uw muren; die maakten uw schoonheid volkomen.

12 Tarsis dreef koophandel met u vanwege de veelheid van allerlei goed; met zilver, ijzer, tin, en lood handelden zij op uw markten.

13 Javan, Tubal en Mesech waren uw kooplieden; met mensenzielen en koperen vaten dreven zij onderlingen handel met u.

14 Uit het huis van Togarma leverden zij paarden, en ruiteren, en muilezels op uw markten.

15 De kinderen van Dedan waren uw kooplieden; vele eilanden waren de koophandel uwer hand; hoornen van elpenbeen en ebbenhout gaven zij u weder tot een verering.

16 Syrie dreef koophandel met u, vanwege de veelheid uwer werken; met smaragden, purper, en gestikt werk, en zijde, en Ramoth, en Cadkod, handelden zij op uw markten.

17 Juda en het land Israels waren uw kooplieden; met tarwe van Minnit en Pannag, en honig, en olie, en balsem, dreven zij onderlingen handel met u.

18 Damaskus dreef koophandel met u, om de veelheid uwer werken, vanwege de veelheid van allerlei goed; met wijn van Chelbon en witte wol.

19 Ook leverden Dan en Javan, de omreizer, op uw markten; glad ijzer, kassie en kalmus was in uw onderlingen koophandel.

20 Dedan handelde met u met kostelijk gewand tot wagens.

21 Arabie en alle vorsten van Kedar waren de kooplieden uwer hand; met lammeren, en rammen, en bokken, daarmede handelden zij met u.

22 De kooplieden van Scheba en Raema waren uw kooplieden; met alle hoofdspecerij, en met alle kostelijk gesteente en goud, handelden zij op uw markten.

23 Haran, en Kanne, en Eden, de kooplieden van Scheba, Assur en Kilmad, handelden met u.

24 Die waren uw kooplieden met volkomen sieradien, met pakken van hemelsblauw en gestikt werk, en met schatkisten van schone klederen; gebonden met koorden, en in ceder gepakt, onder uw koopmanschap.

25 De schepen van Tarsis zongen van u, vanwege den onderlingen koophandel met u; en gij waart vervuld, en zeer verheerlijkt in het hart der zeeen.

26 Die u roeien, hebben u in grote wateren gevoerd; de oostenwind heeft u verbroken in het hart der zeeen.

27 Uw goed, en uw marktwaren, uw onderlinge koophandel, uw zeelieden, en uw schippers; die uw breuken verbeteren, en die onderlingen handel met u drijven, en al uw krijgslieden, die in u zijn, zelfs met uw ganse gemeente, die in het midden van u is, zullen vallen in het hart der zeeen, ten dage van uw val.

28 Van het geluid des geschreeuws uwer schippers zullen de voorsteden beven.

29 En allen, die den riem handelen, zeelieden, en alle schippers van de zee, zullen uit hun schepen nederklimmen; op het land zullen zij staan blijven.

30 En zij zullen hun stem over u laten horen, en bitterlijk schreeuwen; en zij zullen stof op hun hoofden werpen, zij zullen zich wentelen in de as.

31 En zij zullen zich over u gans kaal maken, en zakken aangorden; en zullen over u wenen met bitterheid der ziel, en bittere rouwklage.

32 En zij zullen in hun gekerm een klaaglied over u opheffen, en over u weeklagen, zeggende: Wie is geweest als Tyrus, als de uitgeroeide in het midden der zee?

33 Als uw marktwaren uit de zeeen voortkwamen, hebt gij vele volken verzadigd; met de veelheid uwer goederen en uw onderlingen koophandel, hebt gij de koningen der aarde rijk gemaakt.

34 Ten tijde, dat gij uit de zeeen verbroken zijt in de diepte der wateren, zijn uw onderlinge koophandel en uw ganse gemeente in het midden van u gevallen.

35 Alle inwoners der eilanden zijn over u ontzet, en hun koningen staan de haren te berge, zij zijn verbaasd van aangezicht.

36 De handelaars onder de volken fluiten u aan; gij zijt een grote schrik geworden, en zult er niet meer zijn tot in eeuwigheid.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #166

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166. "'Who have not defiled their garments.'" This symbolically means, who possess truths, and have not soiled their worship by evil practices and the falsities attendant on these.

Garments in the Word symbolize truths that clothe good, and in an opposite sense, falsities that clothe evil. For a person embodies either his goodness or his evilness. Truths or falsities are therefore his garments.

Angels and spirits all appear dressed in clothing that reflects the truths of their goodness or the falsities of their evilness - on which subject, see the book Heaven and Hell, published in London, nos. 177-182. It is apparent from this that not defiling their garments symbolizes their possessing truths and not soiling their worship by evil practices and the falsities attendant on these.

[2] It is apparent from the following passages that garments in the Word symbolize truths, and in an opposite sense, falsities:

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem... (Isaiah 52:1)

(Jerusalem), I clothed you in embroidered cloth, gave you sandals of badger skin, clothed you with fine linen..., and adorned you with ornaments... You were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth..., (so that) you became exceedingly beautiful... But you took some of your garments and made for yourself multicolored high places, so as to play the harlot on them... You took your embroidered garments... and made for yourself male images with which you played the harlot. 1 (Ezekiel 16:10-18)

The Jewish Church is described here, as having been given truths, because they had the Word, but that they falsified them. To play the harlot means to falsify (no. 134).

[3] The king's daughter is all glorious within, (and) her clothing is woven with gold. She shall be brought to the King in embroidered garments. (Psalms 45:13-14)

The king's daughter is the church in relation to its affection for truth.

O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet elegantly, and put ornamentation of gold on your apparel. (2 Samuel 1:24)

This is said of Saul because as a king he symbolized Divine truth (no. 20).

...I will visit judgment on the princes and the king's children, and on all clothed with foreign apparel. (Zephaniah 1:8)

(Your enemies) shall also strip you of your garments, and take away your adornments. (Ezekiel 23:26)

Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing (thus) before the Angel, (who said) "Take away the filthy garments from him (and clothe him with other garments). (Zechariah 3:3-5)

...the king came in and saw the guests, and he saw a man... who did not have on a wedding garment. So he said to him, "Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?" (Matthew 22:11-13)

A wedding garment is Divine truth from the Word.

[4] Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing... (Matthew 7:15)

No one puts a piece of cloth from a new garment on an old garment; otherwise the new one tears (the old), and the piece from the new one does not match the old. (Luke 5:36-37)

Because a garment symbolizes truth, therefore the Lord compares the truths of the previous church, which were external and representative of spiritual ones, to a piece of cloth belonging to an old garment, while comparing the truths of the new church, which were internal and spiritual, to a piece of cloth from a new garment.

...on the thrones... twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments. (Revelation 4:4)

(Those who stood) before the throne... in the presence of the Lamb (were) clothed with white robes..., and they washed their robes and made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:9, 13-14)

...white robes were given to each (of those who were under the altar). (Revelation 6:11)

...the armies (of Him who sat on the white horse) followed Him..., clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:14)

[5] Because angels symbolize Divine truths, therefore angels seen in the Lord's sepulchre appeared in white and shining garments (Matthew 28:3, Luke 24:4).

Because the Lord is Divine good and Divine truth, and truths are meant by garments, therefore when He was transfigured "His face shone like the sun, and His garments became [as white] as the light" (Matthew 17:2), or "blazing white (Luke 9:29), or "shining white, like snow, such that no launderer on earth can whiten them" (Mark 9:3).

Of the Ancient of Days, which also is the Lord, it is said that "His garment was as white as snow" (Daniel 7:9).

Moreover we find the following, too, said of the Lord:

He has anointed... all your garments with myrrh, aloes and cassia. (Psalms 45:7-8)

...He washed his clothing in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes. (Genesis 49:11)

Who is this who comes from Edom, having sprinkled his garments from Bozrah? This One honorable in His apparel...? ...Why are You red in Your apparel? Your garments as though of one who treads in the winepress...? Their victory is sprinkled upon My garments, and I have polluted all My vesture. (Isaiah 63:1-3)

This also is said of the Lord. His garments there are the Word's truths.

...He who sat on (the white horse)...was clothed with a garment dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. (Revelation 19:11, 13)

[6] From the symbolic meaning of garments it can be seen why the Lord's disciples put their garments upon the donkey and its colt when the Lord was ready to enter Jerusalem, and why the people spread their garments on the road (Matthew 21:7-9, Mark 11:7-8), thus what is symbolically meant by this verse in the Psalms,

They divided My garments..., and over My vesture they cast lots. (Psalms 22:18)

[7] The symbolism of garments makes it apparent moreover why the people rent their garments whenever someone spoke against the Divine truth of the Word (Isaiah 37:1 and elsewhere). Also why they washed their garments in order to purify themselves (Exodus 19:14, Leviticus 11:25, 40; 14:8-9).

Someone who knows what garments symbolize in general and in particular can know what the vestments of Aaron and his sons symbolized - the ephod, the robe, the lace tunic, the girdle, the breeches, and the turban.

Since light symbolizes Divine truth, and a garment likewise, therefore we find it said in the Psalms that Jehovah covers Himself "with light as a with garment" (Psalms 104:2).

फुटनोट:

1. The last two clauses are reversed from the order in which they appear in the original Hebrew.

  
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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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Daniel 11

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1 "As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.

2 Now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

3 A mighty king shall stand up, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

4 When he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others besides these.

5 The king of the south shall be strong, and [one] of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.

6 At the end of years they shall join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; but she shall be given up, and those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.

7 But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in his place, who shall come to the army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail.

8 Also their gods, with their molten images, [and] with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, shall he carry captive into Egypt; and he shall refrain some years from the king of the north.

9 He shall come into the realm of the king of the south, but he shall return into his own land.

10 His sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they shall return and war, even to his fortress.

11 The king of the south shall be moved with anger, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north; and he shall set forth a great multitude, and the multitude shall be given into his hand.

12 The multitude shall be lifted up, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.

13 The king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former; and he shall come on at the end of the times, [even of] years, with a great army and with much substance.

14 In those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the children of the violent among your people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they shall fall.

15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand.

16 But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the glorious land, and in his hand shall be destruction.

17 He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions; and he shall perform them: and he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither be for him.

18 After this shall he turn his face to the islands, and shall take many: but a prince shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; yes, moreover, he shall cause his reproach to turn on him.

19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.

20 Then shall stand up in his place one who shall cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory; but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

21 In his place shall stand up a contemptible person, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

22 The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.

23 After the treaty made with him he shall work deceitfully; for he shall come up, and shall become strong, with a small people.

24 In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.

25 He shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall war in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army; but he shall not stand; for they shall devise devices against him.

26 Yes, they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.

27 As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

28 Then shall he return into his land with great substance; and his heart [shall be] against the holy covenant; and he shall do [his pleasure], and return to his own land.

29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the former.

30 For ships of Kittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and shall return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and shall do [his pleasure]: he shall even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.

31 Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual [burnt offering], and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.

32 Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and do [exploits].

33 Those who are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, [many] days.

34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.

35 Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

36 The king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done.

37 Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.

38 But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a god whom his fathers didn't know shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

39 He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god: whoever acknowledges [him] he will increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for a price.

40 At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.

41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many [countries] shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

42 He shall stretch forth his hand also on the countries; and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

44 But news out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; and he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.

45 He shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.