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1 第十一年十一初一日,耶和華的臨到我說:

2 人子啊,因推羅向耶路撒冷:阿哈,那作眾民之的已經壞,向我開放;他既變為荒場,我必豐盛。

3 所以,耶和華如此:推羅啊,我必與你為敵,使許多國民上來攻擊你,如同使波浪湧上來一樣。

4 他們必破壞推羅的牆垣,拆毀他的城樓。我也要刮淨塵土,使他成為淨光的磐石。

5 他必在中作曬網的地方,也必成為列國的擄物。這是耶和華的。

6 屬推羅城邑的居民(原文是田間的眾女;八節同)必被刀殺滅,他們就知道我是耶和華

7 耶和華如此:我必使諸的巴比倫尼布甲尼撒率領馬匹車輛、兵、軍隊,和許多人民從北方來攻擊你推羅。

8 他必用刀殺滅屬你城邑的居民,也必造臺築壘舉盾牌攻擊你。

9 他必安設撞城錘攻破你的牆垣,用鐵器拆毀你的城樓。

10 因他的馬匹眾多,塵土揚起遮蔽你。他進入你的城,好像人進入已有破口之城。那時,你的牆垣必因騎的和戰車、輜重車的響聲震動。

11 他的必踐踏你一切的街道,他必用刀殺戮你的居民;你堅固的柱子(或譯:柱像)必倒在上。

12 人必以你的財寶為擄物,以你的貨財為掠物,破壞你的牆垣,拆毀你華美的房屋,將你的石頭頭、塵土都拋在中。

13 我必使你唱歌的聲音止息,人也不再見你彈琴的聲音。

14 我必使你成為淨光的磐石,作曬網的地方;你不得再被建造,因為這是耶和華的。

15 耶和華對推羅如此:在你中間行殺戮,受傷之人唉哼的時候,因你傾倒的響聲,海豈不都震動麼﹖

16 那時靠的君王必都位,除去朝服,脫花衣,披上戰兢,上,時刻發抖,為你驚駭。

17 他們必為你作起哀歌:你這有名之城,素為航之人居住,在上為最堅固的;平日你和居民使一切在那裡的人無不驚恐;現在何竟毀滅了﹖

18 如今在你這傾覆的日子,都必戰兢;中的群見你歸於無有就都驚惶。

19 耶和華如此:推羅啊,我使你變為荒涼,如無人居住的城邑;又使深水漫過你,大水淹沒你。

20 那時,我要叫你入陰府,與古時的人一同在的深處、久已荒涼之居住,使你不再有居民。我也要在活人之顯榮耀(我也……榮耀:或譯在活人之不再有榮耀)。

21 我必叫你令人驚恐,不再存留於世;人雖尋你,卻永尋不見。這是耶和華的。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #787

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787. 18:18 "Stood at a distance and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What other city may be compared to this great city?'" This symbolizes their mourning in a state apart over the damnation of the Roman Catholic religion, which they believed to be preeminent over every other religion in the world.

The merchants' standing at a distance symbolizes a time when they were as yet in a state apart from a state of damnation, and yet were afraid of being punished (nos. 769, 783). Their crying out symbolizes their mourning. The smoke of the city's burning symbolizes a state of damnation because of its adulteration and profanation of the Word (nos. 766, 767). Their saying, "What other city may be compared to this great city," means symbolically that they believed that religion to be preeminent over every other religion in the world. That great city symbolizes the Roman Catholic religion, here as a number of times above.

Everyone knows that Roman Catholics believe their religion to be preeminent over every other religion, and that their church is the mother, queen and mistress of them all. Everyone knows, too, that their believing so is continually instilled in them by canons and monks, and people attentive to it know also that the canons and monks are moved to do this by a fire to achieve dominion and material gain. And yet because of the power of their domination Roman Catholics cannot separate themselves from all the external practices of that religion; but they can nevertheless separate themselves from its internal constituents, since everyone's will and intellect, and so affection and thought, have been left, and continue to be left, in complete freedom.

  
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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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Apocalypse Revealed #416

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416. Saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!" This symbolizes the utmost lamentation over the state of damnation of people in the church who in doctrine and life have confirmed themselves in a faith divorced from charity.

"Woe" symbolizes a lamentation over the evil in someone, and so over his unhappy state. Here it means over the state of damnation of those people who are the subject of the next chapter and later. "Woe, woe, woe," moreover, symbolizes the utmost lamentation; for tripling it forms a superlative, since three symbolizes all and complete (no. 505).

Inhabitants of the earth mean people who are in a church which has the Word and where by it the Lord is known. To be shown that the earth symbolizes the church, see no. 285 above.

The blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound symbolize the examination and exposure of the state of the church and life in people who in doctrine and life have confirmed themselves in a faith divorced from charity, over whose state the lamentation takes place.

"Woe" symbolizes a lamentation over the present or future calamity, unhappiness, or damnation of various other people in the following:

Woe to you, ...Pharisees (and) hypocrites... (Matthew 23:13-16, 23, 25, 27, 29)

...woe to (the) man by whom (the Son of man) is betrayed! (Luke 22:22)

...woe to him through whom (offenses) do come! (Luke 17:1)

Woe to those who join house to house... Woe to those who rise early in the morning; they pursue intoxicating drink... Woe to those who draw to themselves iniquity... Woe to those who speak... good of evil... Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes... Woe to men mighty at drinking wine... (Isaiah 5:8, 11, 18, 20, 21, 22)

And so also in many other places.

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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.