属天的奥秘 #8427
8427. “早晨, 你们要看见耶和华的荣耀” 表一个新的状态开始时会有主的降临. 这从 “早晨” 和 “耶和华的荣耀” 的含义清楚可知: “早晨” 是指一个新状态的开始, 如刚才所述 (8426节); “耶和华的荣耀” 是指祂的出现和降临. “荣耀” 之所以表示主的出现和降临, 是因为就至高意义而言, “荣耀” 是指从主发出的神性真理, 神性真理在天使眼前显为光来自太阳, 也就是主的光和光辉. “荣耀” 表示从主发出的神性真理 (5922, 8267节); 因为它表示属于神性真理的聪明和智慧 (4809节); 由此表示圣言的内义, 因为内义是在荣耀中的神性真理 (5922节).
经上之所以说 “早晨, 他们要看见耶和华的荣耀”, 是因为太阳的升起和它所发出的光 (在天堂, 这光光照天使的眼睛, 既光照他们的外在视觉, 也光照他们的内在视觉), 因而作为天堂里的太阳的主之出现和降临对应于地上的早晨这段时间, 在此由 “早晨” 来表示. 这时太阳发出的光 (这光是从主发出的神性真理, 因而是主) 就是 “荣耀”. 由此明显可知, “荣耀” 表示主的出现和降临. 这些就是 “荣耀”, 这一点从圣言中的许多经文也明显看出来, 如摩西五经:
有云彩把山遮盖. 耶和华的荣耀停于西乃山, 云彩遮盖山六天; 耶和华荣耀的形状在山顶上, 在以色列人眼前, 就像吞噬的火. (出埃及记 24:15-17)
显然, 形状如山上的云彩和火的耶和华, 也就是主的出现在此被称为 “耶和华的荣耀”. 又:
云彩遮盖会幕, 耶和华的荣耀就充满了帐幕. 摩西不能进会幕, 因为云彩停在其上, 并且耶和华的荣耀充满了帐幕. (出埃及记 40:34-35)
此处形状如云彩的主之出现也被称为 “荣耀”.
还有以下经文:
摩西, 亚伦进入会幕, 又出来为百姓祝福, 耶和华的荣耀就向全体百姓显现. (利未记 9:23)
民数记:
耶和华的荣耀在会幕中向以色列众人显现. (民数记 14:10; 16:19, 42)
列王纪:
有云充满耶和华的殿, 因为云彩的缘故, 祭司不能站立服事, 因为耶和华的荣耀充满了耶和华的殿. (列王纪上 8:10, 11)
启示录:
因神的荣耀和能力, 殿中充满了烟. 于是没有人能进殿. (启示录 15:8)
又:
他将那大城, 就是由神那里从天而降的圣耶路撒冷指示我. 城中有神的荣耀, 那城不需要日月照耀它, 因有神的荣耀光照它, 又有羔羊为城的灯. (启示录 21:10, 11, 23)
此处 “神的荣耀” 明显表示来自主的光, 也就是从祂发出的神性真理, 因而是主的出现, 因为主出现在来自祂的真理中.
“耶和华的荣耀” 表示祂的出现, 这一点从摩西五经进一步清楚看出来:
摩西对耶和华说, 求你显出你的荣耀给我看. 耶和华对摩西说, 我要让我的一切美善在你面前经过; 我的荣耀经过的时候, 我必将你放在磐石穴中, 用我的手遮掩你, 等我过去; 当我要将我的手收回时, 你就得见我的背, 却不得见我的面. (出埃及记 33:18至末尾)
此处 “耶和华的荣耀” 也明显表示祂的出现. 马太福音:
门徒对耶稣说, 请告诉我们, 你降临有什么预兆呢? 耶稣说, 那时, 人子的兆头要显现, 他们要看见人子, 有能力, 有荣耀, 驾着天上的云降临. (马太福音 24:3, 30)
此处所论述的主题是前一个教会的末期和新教会的初期; “人子” 是指从主发出的神之真理; “天上的云” 是指字义上的圣言; “能力” 和 “荣耀” 是指内义, 因而是指那时要显现的神性真理; “主的降临” 表示那些属于新教会的人对神之真理的承认, 以及那些属于旧教会的人对真理的否认 ((4060结尾).
神性真理方面的主是 “荣耀”, 这一事实清楚可见于以赛亚书:
有人声呼喊着, 要在旷野预备耶和华的路; 耶和华的荣耀必然显现, 凡有血肉的必一同看见. (以赛亚书 40:3, 5)
这论及主, 祂是 “荣耀”. 约翰福音:
圣言成了肉身, 住在我们中间, 充充满满地有恩典, 有真理. 我们也见过祂的荣耀, 正是父独生子的荣耀. (约翰福音 1:14)
又:
当以赛亚因为看见祂的荣耀, 论到祂时, 就说了这些话. (约翰福音 12:41)
此处 “荣耀” 表示主. 在摩西五经也一样:
我是活着的那一位, 全地必充满耶和华的荣耀. (民数记 14:21)
此处 “耶和华的荣耀” 表示主的降临和从祂发出的神性真理的光照或启示.
在以下经文中, “荣耀” 表示主的神性:
我是耶和华, 这是我的名. 我必不将我的荣耀归给别神. (以赛亚书 42:8)
马可福音:
人子在祂父的荣耀里, 同圣天使降临的时候. (马可福音 8:38)
又:
路加福音:
基督这样受害, 又进入祂的荣耀. (路加福音 24:26)
由于 “耶和华的荣耀” 表示神性真理方面的主, 所以 “荣耀” 也表示属于从主发出的神性真理的神性智慧和聪明. 来自神的智慧和聪明由以西结书 (1:28; 8:4; 9:3; 10:4, 18, 19; 11:22, 23) 中的 “荣耀” 来表示; 在那里它表现为诸如云中所见到的一道彩虹.
The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings #278
278. The inflow of life into human beings in particular. There is only one source of life; from it comes the life found in everyone in heaven and everyone in the world: 1954, 2021, 2536, 2658, 2886-2889, 3001, 3484, 3742, 5847, 6467. That life comes from the Lord alone: 2886-2889, 3344, 3484, 4319, 4320, 4524, 4882, 5986, 6325, 6468, 6469, 6470, 9276, 10196 (which include various illustrations). The Lord is life itself: see John 1:1, 4; 5:26; 14:6. Life flows from the Lord into angels, spirits, and people in this world in a wondrous way: 2886-2889, 3337, 3338, 3484, 3742. The Lord flows in because of his divine love, the nature of which is to want what belongs to it to belong to others: 3742, 4320. All love is like that, so divine love is infinitely that way: 1820, 1865, 2253, 6872. As a result, our life seems to be within us and does not seem to be flowing in: 3742, 4320. Another reason our life seems to be within us is that the principal cause, which is life from the Lord, and the instrumental cause, which is we ourselves as a recipient form, act as a single cause and therefore we as the instrument perceive life as our own 1 : 6325. The pinnacle of angels' wisdom and intelligence is to perceive and know that every bit of life comes from the Lord: 4318. I perceived a joy that angels were experiencing as a result of leading a life that comes from the Lord and not from themselves; things they said to me confirmed my perception: 6469. Evil people are unwilling to be persuaded that their life is flowing in: 3743. Doubts that our life flows in from the Lord cannot be removed as long as we are controlled by illusions, ignorance, and negativity: 6479. As all people in the church should know, everything good and true comes from heaven (that is, through heaven from the Lord) and everything evil and false comes from hell; in fact, every bit of life goes back to either goodness and truth or evil and falsity, and apart from these there can be no life at all: 2893, 4151. This is the clear message of the teachings of the church that have been drawn from the Word: 4249. Yet in spite of all this, people do not believe that life flows in: 4249. In reality, if our communication and connection with spirits and angels were taken away, we would die instantly: 2887. This also shows us that all life flows in from the primary reality underlying life. Nothing arises from itself; things arise only from other things that are prior (which means that absolutely everything arises from the primary underlying reality), and in all cases things maintain their existence in the same way that they arose, because continuing existence is constant coming into being: 4523, 4524. Angels, spirits, and people in this world have been created to receive life, so we are all simply forms that are receptive to life: 2021, 3001, 3318, 3344, 3484, 3742, 4151, 5114, 5986. The kind of forms we are depends on our receptivity: 2888, 3001, 3484, 5847, 5986, 6467, 6472. So the basic nature of people in this world, spirits, and angels depends on the basic nature of their forms for receiving life from the Lord: 2888, 5847, 5986, 6467, 6472. We have been created in such a way that in the inmost parts of ourselves, and therefore in other parts as well, we are capable of receiving what is divine and being raised up and joined to the Divine through the good things we love to do and the truths we believe; and therefore we, unlike animals, live forever: 5114.
[2] Life from the Lord also flows into evil people, so it flows into people in hell as well: 2706, 3743, 4417. However, they turn what is good into evil and what is true into falsity; so they turn life into spiritual death, since our nature is what determines how we accept the life that is flowing in: 4319, 4320, 4417. Goodness and truth are still constantly flowing into them from the Lord, but they reject or stifle or pervert them: 3743. The life that is in people who are devoted to evil and falsity is not genuine life; what the life they have is like: 726, 4623, 10284, 10286.
Bilješke:
1. In the usage of Scholastic philosophers, a principal cause is “a cause which works by the power of its own form and makes the effect in some way like itself”; an instrumental cause is “an instrument or tool serving as a subordinate cause; a cause without initiative in the start of action, but applied and directed as a help to its efforts and purpose by a principal agent, and influencing the product chiefly according to the form and intention of the principal” (Wuellner 1956, 19; compare the discussion by the Catholic theologian Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae 3:62:1 [= Aquinas 2012, 20:22]). Swedenborg’s point is that human beings, though merely instruments of life, experience divine life (the principal cause) as inhering in themselves. He uses this terminology of principal and instrumental cause in other contexts; for example, in Secrets of Heaven 10738[4] he refers to the body as the instrumental cause and to the will as the principal. He emphasizes the apparent but misleading unity of principal and instrumental in other passages as well; see, for example, Secrets of Heaven 2021; Soul-Body Interaction 11[2]; True Christianity 473. [SS]
