ბიბლია

 

Jeremia 41

Სწავლა

   

1 Men i sjunde månaden kom Ismael, son till Netanja, son till Elisama, av konungslig börd och en av konungens väldige, med tio män till Gedalja, Ahikams son, i Mispa, och de höllo måltid tillsammans i Mispa.

2 Och Ismael, Netanjas son, jämte de tio män som voro med honom, överföll då Gedalja, son till Ahikam, son till Safan, och slog honom till döds med svärd, honom som konungen i Babel hade satt över landet.

3 Därjämte dräpte Ismael alla de judar som voro hos Gedalja i Mispa, så ock alla de kaldéer som funnos där, och som tillhörde krigsfolket.

4 Dagen efter den då han hade dödat Gedalja, och innan ännu någon visste av detta,

5 kom en skara av åttio män från Sikem, Silo och Samaria; de hade rakat av sig skägget och rivit sönder sina kläder och ristat märken på sig, och hade med sig spisoffer och rökelse till att frambära i HERRENS hus.

6 Och Ismael, Netanjas son, gick ut emot dem från Mispa, gråtande utan uppehåll. Och när han mötte dem, sade han till dem: »Kommen in till Gedalja, Ahikams son

7 Men när de hade kommit in i staden, blevo de nedstuckna av Ismael, Netanjas son, och de män som voro med honom, och kastade i brunnen.

8 Men bland dem funnos tio män som sade till Ismael: »Döda oss icke; ty vi hava förråd av vete, korn, olja och honung gömda på landsbygden.» Då lät han dem vara och dödade dem icke med de andra.

9 Och brunnen i vilken Ismael kastade kropparna av alla de män som han hade dräpt, när han dräpte Gedalja, var densamma som konung Asa hade låtit göra, när Baesa, Israels konung, anföll honom; denna fylldes nu av Ismael, Netanjas son, med ihjälslagna män.

10 Därefter bortförde Ismael såsom fångar allt det folk som var kvar i Mispa, konungadöttrarna och allt annat folk som hade lämnats kvar i Mispa, och som Nebusaradan, översten för drabanterna, hade anförtrott åt Gedalja, Ahikams son; dem bortförde Ismael, Netanjas son; såsom fångar och drog åstad bort till Ammons barn.

11 Men när Johanan, Kareas son, och alla de krigshövitsmän som voro med honom fingo höra om allt det onda som Ismael, Netanjas son, hade gjort,

12 togo de alla sina män och gingo åstad för att strida mot Ismael, Netanjas son; och de träffade på honom vid det stora vattnet i Gibeon.

13 Då nu hela skaran av dem som Ismael förde med sig fick se Johanan, Kareas son, och alla de krigshövitsmän som voro med honom, blevo de glada;

14 och de vände om, hela skaran av dem som Ismael hade bortfört såsom fångar ifrån Mispa, och gåvo sig åstad tillbaka till Johanan, Kareas son.

15 Men Ismael, Netanjas son, räddade sig med åtta män undan Johanan och begav sig till Ammons barn.

16 Och Johanan, Kareas son, och alla de krigshövitsmän som voro med honom togo med sig allt som var kvar av folket, dem av Mispas invånare, som han hade vunnit tillbaka från Ismael, Netanjas son, sedan denne hade dräpt Gedalja, Ahikams son: både krigsmän och kvinnor och barn och hovmän, som han hade hämtat tillbaka från Gibeon.

17 Och de drogo åstad; men i Kimhams härbärge invid Bet-Lehem stannade de, för att sedan draga vidare och komma till Egypten,

18 undan kaldéerna; ty de fruktade för dessa, eftersom Ismael, Netanjas son, hade dräpt Gedalja, Ahikams son, vilken konungen i Babel hade satt över landet

   

კომენტარი

 

King

  
Meeting of three kings in Potsdam and Charlottenburg, 1709, by Samuel Theodor Gericke

In Genesis 14:1, kings signify apparent goods and truths having the upper hand. In the next verse, they stand for the dominant evils and falsities against which the Lord fought as he passed He grew up on Earth.

In Genesis 14:3, we see that these evils and falsities were unclean; and in Genesis 14:4, that they burst forth later. (Arcana Coelestia 1661-1664).

In Genesis 14:14-15, this signifies that the Lord gained victory over them the evils represented earlier in the chapter. (Arcana Coelestia 1711-1715)

In Isaiah 33:17, a king signifies seeing genuine truth. (Apocalypse Explained 304[31])

In Revelation 9:11, a king signifies one who is in truth from an affection for what is good, and abstractly that truth itself -- here, in the opposite sense. (Apocalypse Revealed 440)

სვედენბორგის ნაშრომებიდან

 

Arcana Coelestia # 1661

შეისწავლეთ ეს პასაჟი.

  
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1661. 'And so it was in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim' means just so many kinds of apparent goods and truths which are not in themselves goods and truths, and which were present with the Lord's external Man. This becomes clear from the meaning of all these in the internal sense, and also from what follows. For the subject is the Lord's conflict against evils and falsities, here His first conflict which came during His childhood and earliest adolescence. That conflict He first entered into and endured after He had been endowed with knowledge and cognitions, hence the expression 'in the days of' these kings.

[2] Nobody can possibly fight against evils and falsities until he knows what evil and falsity are, not therefore until he has received instruction. A person does not know what evil is, still less what falsity is, before he is capable of understanding and of forming judgements for himself, which is the reason why a person does not enter into temptations until he has reached the age of maturity. Thus everyone is tempted in adult life, but the Lord was tempted even in childhood.

[3] Everyone fights first of all from the goods and truths he has received by means of cognitions, and it is from them and by means of them that he forms judgements concerning evils and falsities. Everyone furthermore when he first starts to fight imagines that these goods and truths from which he fights are his own, that is, he ascribes them to himself, and at the same time ascribes to himself the power by which he resists. This is allowed because a person cannot at the time know anything different. Before anyone has been regenerated he cannot possibly know, so as to be able to say that he knows, acknowledges, and believes, that no good or truth at all comes from self, but that everything good and true comes from the Lord; nor can he possibly know that he is unable by his own power to resist any evil or falsity. Indeed he does not know that evil spirits are activating and implanting the evils and falsities, still less that he is in communication with hell by means of evil spirits, and that hell presses on him like the sea against every part of a dike, which he can by no means resist by his own strength. Yet because he cannot do otherwise, until he has been regenerated, than imagine that he resists by his own strength, this too is permitted; and in this condition he is admitted into conflicts, or temptations. Subsequently however he becomes more and more enlightened.

[4] When a person's state is such that he imagines that good and truth originate in himself and that the power to resist is his own, the goods and truths from which he fights against evils and falsities are not really goods and truths, however much they appear to be so, for they have that which is his own within them, and he places self-merit in victory, boasting as though it were he that had overcome evil and falsity, when in fact it is the Lord alone who fights and overcomes. That this is indeed so none can know except those who are being regenerated by means of temptations.

[5] Because the Lord in earliest childhood was led into very serious conflicts against evils and falsities it was inevitable that at that time even He should think that way. This happened both because it was according to Divine order that His Human Essence should through continuous conflicts and victories be brought to the Divine Essence and united to it, and because the goods and truths from which He fought against evils and falsities belonged to the External Man. And because those goods and truths were not completely Divine they are for that reason called appearances of good and truth. His Divine Essence brought the Human Essence to itself in this way in order that it might overcome by its own power. The arcana here however are more than can possibly be described. In short, in those first conflicts the goods and truths residing with the Lord from which He fought were permeated by things inherited from the mother, and insofar as they were permeated by things inherited from the mother they were not Divine. Gradually however, as He overcame evil and falsity they were purified and made Divine.

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