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Ezechiel 25

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1 I stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

2 Synu člověčí, obrať tvář svou proti synům Ammon, a prorokuj proti nim.

3 A rci synům Ammon: Slyšte slovo Panovníka Hospodina: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Proto že jsi nad svatyní mou, když poškvrněna byla, říkal: To dobře to, a nad zemí Izraelskou, když zpuštěna byla, a nad domem Judským, když šel v zajetí,

4 Protož aj, já dám tě národům východním za dědictví, i vzdělají sobě hrady v tobě, a vystavějí v tobě příbytky své. Tiť budou jísti ovoce tvé, a ti budou píti mléko tvé.

5 A dám Rabbu za obydlé velbloudům, a města synů Ammon za odpočivadlo stádům, i zvíte, že já jsem Hospodin.

6 Nebo takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Proto že jsi tleskal rukou, a dupal nohou, a veselil se srdečně, že jsi všelijak loupil zemi Izraelskou,

7 Protož aj, já vztáhnu ruku svou na tebe, a vydám tě v loupež národům, a vypléním tě z lidí, a vyhubím tě z zemí, i zahladím tě. Tu zvíš, že já jsem Hospodin.

8 Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Z té příčiny, že říkal Moáb a Seir: Hle, podobný jest všechněm jiným národům dům Judský,

9 Protož aj, já otevru bok Moábských, (hned od Arim, od měst jejich na pomezí jejich, rozkošnou zemi Betjesimotských, Balmeonských i Kariataimských),

10 Národům východním s zemí synů Ammon; nebo jsem ji dal v dědictví, tak aby nebylo zpomínáno na syny Ammon mezi národy.

11 A tak i nad Moábem soudy vykonám, i zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin.

12 Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Proto že Idumejští nenáležitě se vymstívajíce, ukrutně se měli k domu Judskému, a tak uvodili na se vinu velikou, vymstívajíce se na nich,

13 Protož takto dí Panovník Hospodin: I na Idumea vztáhnu ruku svou, a vypléním z něho lidi i hovada, a obrátím jej v pustinu. Hned od Teman až do Dedan mečem padati budou.

14 A tak uvedu pomstu svou na Idumejské skrze ruku lidu mého Izraelského, a naloží s Idumejskými podlé hněvu mého a podlé prchlivosti mé, i poznají pomstu mou, praví Panovník Hospodin.

15 Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Proto že se Filistinští ukrutně měli z příčiny pomsty, nenáležitě se vymstívajíce, loupíce zlostně, a zhoubu uvodíce z nenávisti starodávní,

16 Protož takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Aj, já vztáhnu ruku svou na Filistinské, a vypléním Ceretejské, a zkazím ostatek přístavu mořského.

17 A tak vykonám při nich pomsty veliké káraními zůřivými, a zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin, když uvedu pomstu svou na ně.

   

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #7523

Studere hoc loco

  
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7523. 'And there will be on man and on beast' means the products of interior and exterior evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'man' as the affection for good, and in the contrary sense as the desire for evil; and 'beast' is similar in meaning. But when 'man' and 'beast' are mentioned together, 'man means interior affection or desire and 'beast' exterior; regarding both, see 7424. Interior good or else interior evil, which is meant by 'man', is that connected with intentions or ends in view, for intentions or ends in view are at a person's core, whereas exterior good or else exterior evil, which is meant by 'beast', is that connected with thought and consequently, if nothing stands in the way, with action. Exterior good is meant by 'beast' because a person is in respect of his external or natural man no different from a beast; for he is endowed with similar desires and also cravings, as well as appetites and senses. And interior good is meant by 'man because it is in respect of his internal or spiritual man that a person is a human being, on which internal level he is endowed with affections for what is good and true such as exist with the angels in heaven, and because he controls his natural or animal man, which is 'a beast', by means of that internal man. Regarding the meaning of 'beast' as the affection for good and in the contrary sense the desire for evil, see 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 719, 776, 2179, 2180, 3218, 3519, 5198.

[2] These things are what are meant by 'man and beast' in the following places too: In Jeremiah,

My anger and My wrath have been poured out on this place, on man and on beast. Jeremiah 7:20

In the same prophet,

I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence. Jeremiah 21:6.

In the same prophet,

It will make her land a desolation, so that none may dwell in it; both man and beast have scattered themselves, they have gone away. Jeremiah 50:3.

In Ezekiel,

When a land has sinned against Me by committing great transgression, I will cut off from it man and beast. Ezekiel 14:13, 19, 21.

In the same prophet,

I will stretch out My hand over Edom, and cut off from it man and beast, and make it a waste. Ezekiel 25:13.

In Zephaniah,

I will consume man and beast, I will consume the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from the surface of the earth. Zephaniah 1:3.

[3] 'Man and beast' stands for interior and exterior good in the following places: In Jeremiah,

I have made the earth, man and beast, by My great strength. Jeremiah 27:5.

In the same prophet,

Behold, the days are coming, said Jehovah, in which I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. Jeremiah 31:17.

In the same prophet,

A desolation will the earth be, so that man and beast are not there. Jeremiah 32:43.

In the same prophet,

In the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that have been devastated, there is no man and inhabitant, and there is no beast. Jeremiah 33:10; 51:62.

In David,

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, Your judgements a great deep; You preserve man and beast, O Jehovah. Psalms 36:6.

It was because 'man and beast' meant such things that the firstborn of the Egyptians died, not only of men but also of beasts, Exodus 12:29, and that the firstborn were consecrated [to Jehovah], not only of men but also of beasts, Numbers 18:15, and also that the king of Nineveh, following sacred religious practice, commanded that not only man but also beast should fast and also be clothed in sackcloth, Jonah 3:7-8.

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

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Jeremiah 27

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1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

2 Thus says Yahweh to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;

3 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;

4 and give them a command to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, You shall tell your masters:

5 I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

6 Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.

7 All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.

8 It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

9 But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:

10 for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

11 But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

12 I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

13 Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

14 Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.

15 For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.

16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.

17 Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?

18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon.

19 For thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,

20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

21 yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:

22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.