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Ezequiel 28

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1 De novo veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

2 Filho do homem, dize ao príncipe de Tiro: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Visto como se elevou o teu coração, e disseste: Eu sou um Deus, na cadeira dos deuses me assento, no meio dos mares; todavia tu és homem, e não Deus, embora consideres o teu coração como se fora o coração de um Deus.

3 com efeito és mais sábio que Daniel; não há segredo algum que se possa esconder de ti.

4 Pela tua sabedoria e pelo teu entendimento alcançaste para ti riquezas, e adquiriste ouro e prata nos teus tesouros.

5 Pela tua grande sabedoria no comércio aumentaste as tuas riquezas, e por causa das tuas riquezas eleva-se o teu coração;

6 portanto, assim diz o Senhor Deus: Pois que consideras o teu coração como se fora o coração de um Deus,

7 por isso eis que eu trarei sobre ti estrangeiros, os mais terríveis dentre as nações, os quais desembainharão as suas espadas contra a formosura da tua sabedoria, e mancharão o teu resplendor.

8 Eles te farão descer à cova; e morrerás da morte dos traspassados, no meio dos mares.

9 Acaso dirás ainda diante daquele que te matar: Eu sou um deus? mas tu és um homem, e não um deus, na mão do que te traspassa.

10 Da morte dos incircuncisos morrerás, por mão de estrangeiros; pois eu o falei, diz o Senhor Deus.

11 Veio mais a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

12 Filho do homem, levanta uma lamentação sobre o rei de Tiro, e dize-te: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Tu eras o selo da perfeição, cheio de sabedoria e perfeito em formosura.

13 Estiveste no Éden, jardim de Deus; cobrias-te de toda pedra preciosa: a cornalina, o topázio, o ônix, a crisólita, o berilo, o jaspe, a safira, a granada, a esmeralda e o ouro. Em ti se faziam os teus tambores e os teus pífaros; no dia em que foste criado foram preparados.

14 Eu te coloquei com o querubim da guarda; estiveste sobre o monte santo de Deus; andaste no meio das pedras afogueadas.

15 Perfeito eras nos teus caminhos, desde o dia em que foste criado, até que em ti se achou iniqüidade.

16 Pela abundância do teu comércio o teu coração se encheu de violência, e pecaste; pelo que te lancei, profanado, fora do monte de Deus, e o querubim da guarda te expulsou do meio das pedras afogueadas.

17 Elevou-se o teu coração por causa da tua formosura, corrompeste a tua sabedoria por causa do teu resplendor; por terra te lancei; diante dos reis te pus, para que te contemplem.

18 Pela multidão das tuas iniqüidades, na injustiça do teu comércio, profanaste os teus santuários; eu, pois, fiz sair do meio de ti um fogo, que te consumiu a ti, e te tornei em cinza sobre a terra, à vista de todos os que te contemplavam.

19 Todos os que te conhecem entre os povos estão espantados de ti; chegaste a um fim horrível, e não mais existirás, por todo o sempre.

20 Novamente veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

21 Filho do homem, dirige o teu rosto para Sidom, e profetiza contra ela,

22 e dize: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Eis-me contra ti, ó Sidom, e serei glorificado no meio de ti; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor, quando nela executar juizos e nela me santificar.

23 Pois lhe enviarei peste e sangue nas suas ruas; e os traspassados cairão no meio dela, estando a espada contra ela por todos os lados; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor.

24 E a casa de Israel nunca mais terá espinho que a fira, nem abrolho que lhe cause dor, entre os que se acham ao redor deles e que os desprezam; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor Deus.

25 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Quando eu congregar a casa de Israel dentre os povos entre os quais estão espalhados, e eu me santificar entre eles, à vista das nações, então habitarão na sua terra que dei a meu servo, a Jacó.

26 E habitarão nela seguros; sim, edificarão casas, e plantarão vinhas, e habitarão seguros, quando eu executar juízos contra todos os que estão ao seu redor e que os desprezam; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor seu Deus.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 406

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406. And a third of the ships were destroyed. This symbolically means that concepts of goodness and truth from the Word that are serviceable for application to life, in them had all been destroyed.

A third means, symbolically, all, as in nos. 400, 404, 405 above. Ships symbolize concepts of goodness and truth from the Word that are serviceable for application to life. Ships have this symbolism because ships travel the sea and bring back the necessities that the natural self needs for its every endeavor, and concepts of goodness and truth are the necessities that the spiritual self needs for its every endeavor. For out of them is formed the doctrine of the church, and in accordance with that a person's life.

Ships symbolize these concepts because they are vessels, and in many places in the Word a vessel is used to express what it contains, as a cup for wine, a dish for food, the Tabernacle or Temple for the sacred objects in it, the Ark for the Law, altars for worship, and so on.

[2] Ships symbolize concepts of goodness and truth in the following places:

Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore, and serve as a haven for ships... (Genesis 49:13)

Zebulun means the conjunction of goodness and truth.

Your builders (O Tyre) have perfected your beauty. They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make you a mast. Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; they made your beam of ivory, your deck of pines from the isles of Kittim... Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; your wise men were... your shipmasters... All the ships of the sea and their sailors were in you to market your merchandise... Ships of Tarshish were your companies in your commerce, by which you were filled and honored greatly in the midst of the seas. (Ezekiel 27:4-9, 25)

This is said of Tyre, because Tyre in the Word symbolizes the church in respect to its concepts of truth and goodness, as can be seen from the particulars about it in this chapter, and in the following one, chapter 28, understood in its spiritual sense. Moreover, because the church's concepts of truth and goodness are symbolically meant by Tyre, therefore the ship is described in its various parts, and each part symbolizes some aspect of those concepts leading to intelligence. What does the Word have in common with ships of Tyre and its commerce?

[3] The devastation of that same church is afterward described in the following way:

The common-land will shake at the sound of the cry of your shipmasters, and all who handle the oar will come down from your ships; all the sailors and shipmasters of the sea... because of you will cry bitterly... (Ezekiel 27:28-30; see also Isaiah 23:14-15)

The devastation of Babylon is similarly described in respect to all its concepts of truth in the following verses in the book of Revelation:

...in one hour such great riches were devastated. Every shipmaster, and everyone traveling on ships, and sailors... cried out... saying, "Alas, alas, the great city (Babylon), in which all became rich who had ships on the sea...." (Revelation 18:17, 19)

See below for the exposition.

[4] Ships symbolize concepts of truth and goodness also in the following places:

My days have been swift...; they fled away, they saw no good. They passed by with ships of longing... (Job 9:25-26)

Those who go down to the sea in ships, doing work on many waters, they see the works of Jehovah, and His wonders in the deep. (Psalms 107:23-24)

...the coastlands shall trust in Me, and ships of Tarshish will be first to bring your sons from afar... (Isaiah 60:9)

...the kings assembled...; fear took hold of them... With an east wind You will break the ships of Tarshish. (Psalms 18:4, 6-7)

Wail, you ships of Tarshish! (Isaiah 23:1, 14)

And so on elsewhere, as in Numbers 24:24, Judges 5:17, Psalms 104:26, Isaiah 33:21.

  
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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 # 405

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405. And a third of the living creatures in the sea died. (8:9) This symbolically means that those who had lived that faith and continued to live it could not be reformed and receive life.

A third symbolizes all such, as said above. Creatures mean people who can be reformed (no. 290). The reason is that to create means, symbolically, to reform (no. 254). Their living means, symbolically, to be able by reformation to receive life. That they died means, symbolically, that people who live that faith alone cannot receive life. They cannot, because people are all reformed by a faith united to charity, thus by a faith accompanying charity, and none by faith alone; for charity is the life of faith.

[2] Since in the spiritual world the affections and consequent perceptions and thoughts of spirits and angels appear at a distance in the forms of animals or creatures on the earth called beasts, of creatures in the air called birds, and of creatures in the sea called fish, therefore the Word so often mentions beasts, birds, and fish, which nevertheless have precisely the meaning stated. So for example in the following places:

...Jehovah has a quarrel with the inhabitants of the land, for there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God... And everyone who dwells in it will waste away along with the beast of the field and the bird of the air; even the fish of the sea will be gathered up. (Hosea 4:1, 3)

I will consume man and beast..., the bird of the heavens, the fish of the sea, ...the stumbling blocks along with the impious... (Zephaniah 1:3)

There shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, and the fish of the sea, the bird of the heavens, and the beast of the field... shall tremble before Me. (Ezekiel 38:18-20)

You have made Him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet... the beasts of the fields, the bird of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the path of the seas. (Psalms 8:6-8)

The latter is said of the Lord.

Pray ask the beasts, and they will teach you; or the birds of the air, and they will inform you...; and the fish of the sea will tell you. Who of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this? (Job 12:7-9)

And in many other places as well.

[3] Fish, moreover, and creatures of the sea, as they are called here, mean the affections and consequent thoughts of such people as are concerned with general truths, and so who take more from a natural source than from a spiritual one. These people are meant by fish in the preceding passages, and also in the following ones:

By My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink... and die of thirst. (Isaiah 50:2)

...the king of Egypt, a great whale, you who lie in the midst of your rivers, you said, "The river is mine; I made myself..".. (Therefore) I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales..., and I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. (Ezekiel 29:3-5)

This was addressed to the king of Egypt, because Egypt symbolizes the natural level divorced from the spiritual one, and so the fish of his rivers mean people governed by doctrines, who because of them are caught up in faith separated from charity, a faith that is simply knowledge.

Because of that separation, moreover, one of the miracles in Egypt was the turning of their waters into blood, so that the fish died (Exodus 7:17-25, Psalms 105:29).

[4] Furthermore:

Why do You make mankind like fish of the sea...? Everyone draws them up with a hook, and gathers them in a net... (Habakkuk 1:14-16)

Fish here stand for people concerned with general truths and caught up in faith divorced from charity. In contrast, fish stand for people concerned with general truths and governed by a faith conjoined with charity in Ezekiel:

He said to me: "These waters flowing to the eastern boundary... enter the sea, (from which comes) every living soul that creeps... and very much fish... ...fishermen will stand by it... with a spreading of their nets. Its fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. (Ezekiel 47:1, 8-10)

In Matthew:

(Jesus said,) the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea, and they gathered (fish).... And they put the good ones into vessels and threw the bad away. (Matthew 13:47-49)

And in Jeremiah:

I will bring (the children of Israel) back into their land... And I will send for many fishermen...(who) shall fish them. (Jeremiah 16:15-16)

[5] Consequently, anyone who knows that fish symbolize people and things of the kind stated, can see the following: Why the Lord chose fishermen to be His disciples, and said,

Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men. (Matthew 4:18-19)

Why the disciples, with the Lord's blessing, caught a huge multitude of fish, and the Lord said to Peter,

Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men. (Luke 5:2-10)

Why, when they wished to exact tribute from the Lord, He told Peter to go to the sea and draw out a fish, and to give them the coin found in it for Him and for himself (Matthew 16:24-27).

Why, after His resurrection, the Lord gave His disciples fish and bread to eat (John 21:2-13).

And why He told them to "go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). For the nations they were converting possessed only general truths, and were concerned more with natural things than spiritual ones.

  
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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.