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Nahum 3

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1 Guai alla città di sangue, che è tutta piena di menzogna e di violenza e che non cessa di far preda!

2 S’ode rumor di sferza, strepito di ruote, galoppo di cavalli, balzar di carri.

3 I cavalieri dànno la carica, fiammeggiano le spade, sfolgoran le lance, i feriti abbondano, s’ammontano i cadaveri, sono infiniti i morti, s’inciampa nei cadaveri.

4 E questo a cagione delle tante fornicazioni dell’avvenente prostituta, dell’abile incantatrice, che vendeva le nazioni con le sue fornicazioni, e i popoli con i suoi incantesimi.

5 Eccomi a te, dice l’Eterno degli eserciti; io t’alzerò i lembi della veste fin sulla faccia e mostrerò alle nazioni la tua nudità, e ai regni la tua vergogna;

6 E ti getterò a dosso delle immondizie, t’avvilirò e ti esporrò in spettacolo.

7 Tutti quelli che ti vedranno fuggiranno lungi da te, e diranno: "Ninive è devastata! Chi la compiangerà? Dove ti cercherei dei consolatori?

8 Vali tu meglio di No-Amon, ch’era assisa tra i fiumi, circondata dalle acque, che aveva il mare per baluardo, il mare per mura?

9 L’Etiopia e l’Egitto eran la sua forza, e non avea limiti; Put ed i Libi erano i suoi ausiliari.

10 Eppure, anch’essa è stata deportata, è andata in cattività; anche i bambini suoi sono stati sfracellati a ogni canto di strada; s’è tirata la sorte sopra i suoi uomini onorati, e tutti i suoi grandi sono stati messi in catene.

11 Tu pure sarai ubriacata, t’andrai a nascondere; tu pure cercherai un rifugio davanti al nemico.

12 Tutte le tue fortezze saranno come fichi dai frutti primaticci, che, quando li si scuote, cadono in bocca di chi li vuol mangiare.

13 Ecco, il tuo popolo, in mezzo a te, son tante donne; le porte del tuo paese sono spalancate davanti ai tuoi nemici, il fuoco ha divorato le tue sbarre.

14 Attingiti pure acqua per l’assedio! Rinforza le tue fortificazioni! Entra nella malta, pesta l’argilla! Restaura la fornace da mattoni!

15 Là il fuoco ti divorerà, la spada ti distruggerà; ti divorerà come la cavalletta, fossi tu pur numerosa come le cavallette, fossi tu pur numerosa come le locuste.

16 Tu hai moltiplicato i tuoi mercanti, più delle stelle del cielo; le cavallette spogliano ogni cosa e volano via.

17 I tuoi principi son come le locuste, i tuoi ufficiali come sciami di giovani locuste, che s’accampano lungo le siepi in giorno di freddo, e quando il sole si leva volano via, e non si conosce più il posto dov’erano.

18 O re d’Assiria, i tuoi pastori si sono addormentati; i tuoi valorosi ufficiali riposano; il tuo popolo è disperso su per i monti, e non v’è chi li raduni.

19 Non v’è rimedio per la tua ferita; la tua piaga è grave; tutti quelli che udranno parlare di te batteranno le mani alla tua sorte; poiché su chi non è passata del continuo la tua malvagità?

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6669

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6669. 'In clay and in bricks' means on account of the evils which they devised and the falsities which they fabricated. This is clear from the meaning of 'clay' as good, and in the contrary sense as evil, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'bricks' as falsities that people fabricate, dealt with in 1296. As regards the evils and falsities which those in hell devise and fabricate, see just above in 6666.

The fact that 'clay' means evil from which falsity is produced is evident from the following places in the Word: In Isaiah,

The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest; its waters throw out mud and clay. Isaiah 57:20.

'Mud' stands for falsity from which evil is derived, and 'clay' for evil from which falsity is produced.

[2] In Jeremiah,

Your feet have sunk into the clay, [your close friends] have turned away backwards. Jeremiah 38:22.

'Feet sunk into the clay' stands for the natural sunken in evil. In Nahum,

Draw yourself water for the siege, strengthen your fortifications; go into the mud and tread the clay; renew the brick-kiln. There the fire will devour you, and the sword cut you off. Nahum 3:14-15.

'Treading the clay' stands for being prompted by evil to think what is false. In Habakkuk,

He will say, Woe to him who multiplies what is not his - how long? And to him who loads clay onto himself, Will there not rise up suddenly those who will bite you? Habakkuk 2:6-7.

'Loading clay onto himself' stands for taking up evil.

[3] In David,

Jehovah caused me to come up out of the pit of devastation, out of the muddy clay, and He set my feet upon a rock. Psalms 49:2.

In the same author,

I sank in deep clay, and there was no standing; I came into the depths of the waters, and a wave overwhelmed me. Snatch me out of the clay lest I sink, and out of the depths of the waters; and do not let the depth swallow me up. Psalms 69:2, 14-15.

'Clay' stands for evil from which falsity is produced. In Isaiah,

He will come against prelates as though against clay, as a potter treads mud. 1 Isaiah 41:15.

[4] But in the following places 'clay' stands for good: In Isaiah,

Now, O Jehovah, You are our Father, we are the clay, and You are our potter; and we are all the work of Your hands. Isaiah 64:8.

'The clay' stands for the member of the Church who is being formed, thus for the good of faith by means of which that person is formed, that is, reformed.

[5] Similarly in Jeremiah,

Jehovah said to Jeremiah, Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear My words. I went down therefore to the potter's house, and behold, he made a work on the table. But the vessel that he was making was marred, like clay in the potter's hand. And he returned and made it into another vessel, as was right in the eyes of the potter to make it. Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Like this potter can I not do to you, O house of Israel? Said Jehovah. Behold, like the clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. Jeremiah 18:1-6.

'The house of Israel' stands for the Church that is to be formed. And it is because the good of charity and the truth of faith are used in the forming of it, and because such good and truth are meant by 'the clay' and 'the potter's vessel', that the prophet was commanded to go to the potter's house. This would not have happened if 'the clay' and 'the potter's vessel' had not had those meanings.

[6] There are other places too in which Jehovah or the Lord is called 'the potter' and the person who is being reformed 'the clay', namely Isaiah 29:15-16; 45:9; Job 10:9; 33:6. The incident in which the Lord made clay with His saliva and anointed the eyes of the man born blind and then commanded him to wash in the pool of Siloam, with the result that the blind man was made to see, John 9:6-7, 11, took place because it represented the reformation of man, who is born without any knowledge of truth. And that reformation is effected by means of the good of faith, meant by 'the clay'.

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1. The Latin seems to say Prelates will come as clay, and as a potter treads mud.

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