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Hesekiel 29

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1 Im zehnten Jahr, am zehnten Tage des zwölften Monden, geschah des HERRN Wort zu mir und sprach:

2 Du Menschenkind, richte dein Angesicht wider Pharao, den König in Ägypten, und weissage wider ihn und wider ganz Ägyptenland.

3 Predige und sprich: So spricht der HERR HERR: Siehe, ich will an dich, Pharao, du König in Ägypten, du großer Drache, der du in deinem Wasser liegst und sprichst: Der Strom ist mein, und ich habe ihn mir gemacht.

4 Aber ich will dir ein Gebiß ins Maul legen und die Fische in deinen Wassern an deine Schuppen hängen und will dich aus deinem Strom herausziehen samt allen Fischen in deinen Wassern, die an deinen Schuppen hangen.

5 Ich will dich mit den Fischen aus deinen Wassern in die Wüste wegwerfen: du wirst aufs Land fallen und nicht wieder aufgelesen noch gesammelt werden, sondern den Tieren auf dem Lande und den Vögeln des Himmels zum Aas werden.

6 Und alle, die in Ägypten wohnen, sollen erfahren, daß ich der HERR bin, darum daß sie dem Hause Israel ein Rohrstab gewesen sind,

7 welcher, wenn sie ihn in die Hand faßeten, so brach er und stach sie durch die Seiten, wenn sie sich aber darauf lehneten, so zerbrach er und stach sie in die Lenden.

8 Darum spricht der HERR HERR also: Siehe, ich will das Schwert über dich kommen lassen und beide, Leute und Vieh, in dir ausrotten.

9 Und Ägyptenland soll zur Wüste und öde werden, und sollen erfahren, daß ich der HERR sei, darum daß er spricht: Der Wasserstrom ist mein, und ich bin's, der es tut.

10 Darum siehe, ich will an dich und an deine Wasserströme und will Ägyptenland wüst und öde machen von dem Turm zu Syene an bis an die Grenze des Mohrenlandes,

11 daß weder Vieh noch Leute darin gehen oder da wohnen sollen vierzig Jahre lang.

12 Denn ich will Ägyptenland wüst machen, will ihre wüste Grenze und ihre Städte wüst liegen lassen, wie andere wüste Städte, vierzig Jahre lang; und will die Ägypter zerstreuen unter die Heiden und in die Länder will ich sie verjagen.

13 Doch, so spricht der HERR HERR: Wenn die vierzig Jahre aus sein werden, will ich die Ägypter wieder sammeln aus den Völkern, darunter sie zerstreuet sollen werden,

14 und will das Gefängnis Ägyptens wenden und sie wiederum ins Land Pathros bringen, welches ihr Vaterland ist, und sollen daselbst ein klein Königreich sein.

15 Denn sie sollen klein sein gegen andere Königreiche und nicht mehr herrschen über die Heiden; und ich will sie gering machen, daß sie nicht mehr über die Heiden herrschen sollen,

16 daß sich das Haus Israel nicht mehr auf sie verlasse und sich damit versündige, wenn sie sich an sie hängen; und sollen erfahren, daß ich der HERR HERR hin.

17 Und es begab sich im siebenundzwanzigsten Jahr, am ersten Tage des ersten Monden, geschah des HERRN Wort zu mir und sprach:

18 Du Menschenkind, Nebukadnezar, der König zu Babel, hat sein Heer mit großer Mühe vor Tyrus geführet, daß alle Häupter kahl und alle Seiten wund gerieben waren, und ist doch weder ihm noch seinem Heer seine Arbeit vor Tyrus belohnet worden.

19 Darum spricht der HERR HERR also: Siehe, ich will Nebukadnezar, dem Könige zu Babel, Ägyptenland geben, daß er all ihr Gut wegnehmen und sie berauben und plündern soll, daß er seinem Heer den Sold gebe.

20 Aber das Land Ägypten will ich ihm geben für seine Arbeit, die er daran getan hat; denn sie haben mir gedienet, spricht der HERR HERR.

21 Zur selbigen Zeit will ich das Horn des Hauses Israel wachsen lassen und will deinen Mund unter ihnen auftun, daß sie erfahren, daß ich der HERR bin.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #7293

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7293. 'It will then be a water-serpent' means by the prospect that sheer illusions and resulting falsities will reign among them. This is clear from the meaning of 'a serpent' as the sensory and bodily level of mind, dealt with in 6949, and therefore illusions since that level of mind when separated from the rational level, that is, when not subordinate to it, is filled with illusions, to such an extent that it consists of scarcely anything else than illusions, see 6948, 6949. 'A water-serpent' is what is meant here; for in the original language the same word is used for this kind of serpent as that which is used to refer to a monster that is a very large fish of the sea; and 'a (sea-)monster' means factual knowledge in general.

When therefore falsities resulting from illusions are meant by 'the Egyptians', that word used in the original language denotes a serpent - a water-serpent since it can also be used to refer to the monster living in water and 'the water of Egypt' means falsities.

[2] The fact that Pharaoh or Egypt is called 'a monster' is clear in Ezekiel,

Speak and say, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers. Ezekiel 29:3.

In the same prophet,

Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You have become like a young lion of the nations, you are like monsters in the seas, and you have come forth with your rivers; you have stirred up your rivers Ezekiel 32:2.

Here 'monster' means known facts in general which, being the product of what a person's senses tell him, are used to pervert matters of faith. The reason why 'monster' means factual knowledge in general is that 'a fish' means that knowledge in particular, 40, 991. And since known facts perverting the truths of faith are meant by 'monsters', reasonings based on illusions, which give rise to falsities, are also meant by the same word.

[3] The same things are meant by 'monsters' in David,

You broke up the sea by your strength; you broke the heads of the monsters upon the waters. Psalms 74:13.

Much the same is also meant by 'leviathan' in Isaiah,

On that day Jehovah will make a visitation with His hard and great and strong sword upon Leviathan the full-length serpent, 1 and upon Leviathan the twisting serpent, and He will slay the monsters that are in the sea. Isaiah 27:1.

And in David,

You broke in pieces the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food to the people, the Ziim. Psalms 74:14.

In the good sense 'Leviathan' stands for reason based on truths, in Job 41:1-34; reason based on truths is the opposite of reasonings based on falsities.

[4] Since 'monsters' means reasonings that are based on illusions and pervert truths, 'water-serpents' - the word for which in the original language is the same as that used for 'monsters' - means the actual falsities resulting from illusions which give rise to reasonings and lead to perversions of the truth. Falsities are meant by such 'serpents' in the following places: In Isaiah,

The iim will reply in its palaces, and serpents in the delightful palaces. Isaiah 13:22.

In the same prophet,

Thorns will come up into its palaces, thistle and brier in its fortifications, so that it may be a dwelling-place of serpents, a courtyard for daughters of the owl. Isaiah 34:13.

In the same prophet,

In the dwelling-place of serpents will his bed be, grass instead of reed and rush. Isaiah 35:7.

In Jeremiah,

I will make Jerusalem heaps of rubble, the dwelling-place of serpents. Jeremiah 9:11.

In Malachi,

I have turned the mountains of Esau into a waste, and his inheritance into [a place] for the serpents of the wilderness. Malachi 1:3.

In all these places 'serpents' stands for falsities on which reasonings are based.

[5] The same things are also meant by 'dragons', but 'dragons' are reasonings that spring from self-love and love of the world, thus from desires for what is evil, which pervert not only truths but forms of good as well. These reasonings are produced by people who in their hearts repudiate the truths and forms of the good of faith, but affirm them with their lips because of their intense desire to obtain dominance and gain. Thus such reasonings are also produced by those who render truths and forms of good profane. Both of these kinds of people are meant by 'the dragon, the serpent of old, who is called the devil and satan, who leads the whole world astray', Revelation 12:9, and also by this same dragon which persecuted the woman who had given birth to a son who was caught up to God and to His throne, Revelation 11:5, and which emitted water from its mouth like a river, to swallow up the woman, Revelation 12:13, 15.

[6] The son to whom the woman had given birth is Divine Truth now revealed at the present day, 'the woman' being the Church. 'The dragon, the serpent' is those who are going to persecute it, and 'the water like a river which the dragon emitted' is falsities arising out of evil and the resulting reasonings which they are going to use in their endeavour to destroy the woman, that is, the Church. But the fact that they will not at all accomplish this is described by the statement that 'the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon emitted', Revelation 12:16.

Bilješke:

1. i.e. a serpent that is on the move and not coiled up

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

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Exodus 7

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1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

3 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

5 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."

6 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.

7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

8 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

9 "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"

10 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.

12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

13 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.

15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.

16 You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:" and behold, until now you haven't listened.

17 Thus says Yahweh, "In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

18 The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"

19 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"

20 Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

21 The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

22 The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.

24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.

25 Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.