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Ezekiel 23

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1 Kaj aperis al mi vorto de la Eternulo, dirante:

2 Ho filo de homo! estis du virinoj, filinoj de unu patrino.

3 Kaj ili malcxastis en Egiptujo, en sia juneco ili malcxastis; tie premigxis ilia brusto, kaj tie palpigxis iliaj virgaj mamoj.

4 Iliaj nomoj estas:la nomo de la pli agxa, Ohola; kaj la nomo de sxia fratino, Oholiba. Ili farigxis Miaj edzinoj, kaj ili naskis filojn kaj filinojn. Ohola estas Samario, kaj Oholiba estas Jerusalem.

5 Ohola, estante jam Mia, malcxastis, kaj volupte amis siajn amistojn, siajn najbarojn, la Asirianojn,

6 kiuj portas vestojn purpurajn, la estrojn kaj urboregantojn, kiuj cxiuj estas cxarmaj junuloj, lertaj rajdistoj.

7 Kaj sxi malcxastis kun ili, kun cxiuj plej cxarmaj filoj de Asirio; kaj sxi malpurigis sin per cxiuj idoloj de tiuj, kiujn sxi volupte amis.

8 Kaj sxi ne forlasis ankaux sian malcxastadon kun la Egiptoj, kiuj kusxadis kun sxi dum sxia juneco, palpadis sxiajn virgajn mamojn, kaj versxadis sur sxin sian malcxastajxon.

9 Tial Mi transdonis sxin en la manojn de sxiaj amistoj, en la manojn de la filoj de Asirio, al kiuj sxi havis voluptan pasion.

10 Ili malkovris sxian nudajxon, prenis sxiajn filojn kaj sxiajn filinojn, kaj sxin mem ili mortigis per glavo. Kaj sxi ricevis malhonoran nomon inter la virinoj, kiam pri sxi estis farita jugxo.

11 Tion vidis sxia fratino Oholiba, kaj en siaj voluptajxoj sxi agis ankoraux pli malbone ol sxi, kaj sxia malcxastado estis ankoraux pli granda, ol la malcxastado de sxia fratino.

12 SXi amis volupte la filojn de Asirio, estrojn kaj urboregantojn, siajn najbarojn, kiuj portis belajn vestojn, estis lertaj rajdistoj, kaj cxiuj estis cxarmaj junuloj.

13 Mi vidis, ke sxi malpurigxis, kaj ke ambaux havas la saman konduton.

14 Sed cxi tiu malcxastis ankoraux pli. Kiam sxi vidis pentritajn virojn sur la muro, bildojn de HXaldeoj, kolore pentritajn,

15 kun zonoj cxirkaux siaj lumboj, kun longaj kapkovroj sur siaj kapoj, aspektantajn kiel herooj, prezentantajn la bildon de Babelanoj el HXaldeujo, ilia naskigxlando,

16 tiam sxi volupte ekamis ilin, kiam sxi vidis ilian bildon, kaj sxi sendis al ili senditojn en HXaldeujon.

17 Kaj la Babelanoj venis al sxi, por ame kusxi kun sxi, kaj ili malpurigis sxin per sia malcxastajxo, kaj sxi malpurigxis per ili; kaj poste sxia animo trosatigxis de ili.

18 Kaj kiam sxia malcxastado kaj sxia hontindeco farigxis tro malkasxa, tiam Mia animo tedigxis de sxi, kiel Mia animo tedigxis de sxia fratino.

19 Sed sxi malcxastadis cxiam pli, rememorante la tagojn de sia juneco, kiam sxi malcxastadis en la lando Egipta.

20 Kaj sxi volupte ekamis pli ol iliaj kromvirinoj ilin, kies karno estas kiel karno de azenoj kaj kies elfluo estas kiel elfluo de cxevaloj.

21 Kaj vi ripetis la malcxastadon de via juneco, kiam la Egiptoj palpadis vian bruston pro viaj junaj mamoj.

22 Tial, ho Oholiba, tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi instigos kontraux vin viajn amistojn, de kiuj via animo tedigxis, kaj Mi venigos ilin sur vin de cxirkauxe:

23 la Babelanojn, kaj cxiujn HXaldeojn el Pekod, el SXoa, kaj el Koa, kune kun cxiuj filoj de Asirio, la cxarmajn junulojn, la estrojn kaj urboregantojn, la potenculojn kaj eminentulojn, cxiujn lertajn rajdistojn.

24 Kaj ili venos kontraux vin kun hakiloj, sur cxevaloj kaj sur cxaroj, kaj kun granda amaso da popolo; ili cxirkauxos vin de cxiuj flankoj en kirasoj, kun sxildoj kaj kaskoj; kaj Mi transdonos vin al ilia jugxo, kaj ili jugxos vin laux sia maniero.

25 Kaj Mi direktos kontraux vin Mian indignon, kaj ili agos kun vi kolere, ili detrancxos vian nazon kaj viajn orelojn, kaj via restajxo falos de glavo; ili forprenos viajn filojn kaj viajn filinojn, kaj via restajxo estos ekstermita per fajro.

26 Ili deprenos de vi viajn vestojn kaj forprenos viajn ornamajxojn.

27 Kaj Mi faros finon al via malcxastado kaj al viaj malvirtoj el la lando Egipta, kaj vi ne plu levos al ili viajn okulojn, kaj Egiptujon vi ne plu rememoros.

28 CXar tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi transdonos vin en la manojn de tiuj, kiujn vi ekmalamis, en la manojn de tiuj, de kiuj via animo tedigxis.

29 Kaj ili agos kun vi malame, kaj forprenos cxion, kion vi laborakiris, kaj ili lasos vin nuda kaj senkovra; kaj malkasxigxos la nudeco de via malcxastado, kaj viaj malvirtoj kaj viaj malcxastajxoj.

30 Tio estos farita al vi pro tio, ke vi malcxastis laux la ekzemplo de la nacioj kaj malpurigis vin per iliaj idoloj.

31 Vi iris laux la vojo de via fratino, tial Mi donos sxian kalikon en vian manon.

32 Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Vi trinkos la kalikon de via fratino, la profundan kaj largxan; vi estos mokata kaj insultata pli, ol oni povas elporti.

33 Vi farigxos plena de ebrieco kaj malgxojo, cxar kaliko de teruro kaj ruinigo estas la kaliko de via fratino Samario.

34 Kaj vi eltrinkos gxin gxisfunde, kaj vi cxirkauxlekos gxiajn rompopecetojn, kaj vi dissxiros vian bruston; cxar Mi tion parolis, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

35 Tial tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Pro tio, ke vi forgesis Min kaj forjxetis Min malantaux vian dorson, tial suferu nun pro viaj malvirtoj kaj pro viaj malcxastajxoj.

36 Kaj la Eternulo diris al mi:Ho filo de homo! cxu vi volas jugxi Oholan kaj Oholiban kaj montri al ili iliajn abomenindajxojn?

37 CXar ili adultis, kaj sango estas sur iliaj manoj; ili adultis kun siaj idoloj; kaj siajn infanojn, kiujn ili naskis al Mi, ili trairigis por ili tra fajro, kiel mangxajxon por ili.

38 Ankoraux cxi tion ili faris al Mi:ili malpurigis Mian sanktejon en tiu tempo, kaj malsanktigis Miajn sabatojn;

39 kaj, bucxinte siajn infanojn por siaj idoloj, ili en la sama tago venis en Mian sanktejon, por malsanktigi gxin; jen tiel ili agis en Mia domo.

40 Ili ankaux sendis, por inviti homojn el malproksime, al kiuj sendito estis sendita; kaj ili venis, tiuj, por kiuj vi vin lavis, kolerigis viajn okulojn, kaj ornamis vin per ornamajxoj,

41 kaj sidigxis sur luksa lito, antaux kiu estis arangxita tablo, kaj sur gxin vi metis Mian incenson kaj Mian oleon.

42 Kaj tie estis auxdata gxojkriado de homamaso, kaj al la granda amaso da homoj venis ankaux ebriuloj el la dezerto, kaj metis braceletojn sur iliajn manojn kaj belajn kronojn sur iliajn kapojn.

43 Mi diris pri la maljunigxinta en adultado:SXi alkutimigxis al la malcxastado kaj ne povas cxesi.

44 Oni venadis al sxi, kiel oni venas al malcxastistino; tiel oni venadis al Ohola kaj al Oholiba, la malcxastulinoj.

45 Sed la homoj virtaj jugxos ilin laux la jugxo kontraux adultulinoj kaj laux la jugxo kontraux sangoversxantinoj; cxar ili estas adultulinoj, kaj sango estas sur iliaj manoj.

46 CXar tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Venigu kontraux ilin homamason, kaj oni elmetu ilin al ruinigo kaj rabado.

47 Kaj la amaso mortigu ilin per sxtonoj kaj haku ilin per siaj glavoj; iliajn filojn kaj iliajn filinojn oni mortigu, kaj iliajn domojn oni forbruligu per fajro.

48 Kaj Mi faros finon al la malcxastado en la lando, kaj tio estos averto por cxiuj virinoj, ke ili ne agu simile al via malcxastado.

49 Kaj oni metos vian malcxastadon sur vin, kaj vi portos sur vi la pekojn pri viaj idoloj; kaj vi ekscios, ke Mi estas la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

   

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7456. 'Will they not stone us?' means that they would thereby demolish the truths of faith that related to worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'stoning' as demolishing and wiping out falsities, but in the contrary sense, when done by the evil, as demolishing and wiping out the truths of faith. If the vile, foul, and hellish things referred to above in 7454 were to enter in among people whose worship is holy its holiness would be destroyed. The reason for this is that when a person's worship is holy he is withheld from such things, and people who are governed by good in faith and life are raised above the level of the senses on which such things reside. But when such objects do enter in the foul things present on the sensory level are stirred up - that is, the things which a person is withheld from when his worship is holy, as has been stated, and which people governed by good are raised above - and the holiness of the worship is destroyed. Experience too demonstrates this plainly, for if, when a person offers worship to God, some foul object appears and is not removed, worship ceases and is destroyed. This is what is meant when it is said that if those steeped in falsities arising from evils were nearby they would demolish the truths of faith that relate to worship.

[2] As for the meaning of 'stoning', it should be recognized that the Jews and Israelites, among whom a representative of the Church had been established, had two kinds of capital punishment, one being stoning, the other hanging on wood. Stoning was used if anyone sought to destroy the truths relating to worship which were commanded, while hanging was used if anyone sought to destroy goodness of life. The reason why those who sought to destroy truths relating to worship were stoned was that a stone was a sign of truth and in the contrary sense of falsity, 643, 1298, 3720, 6426. And the reason why those who sought to destroy goodness of life were hanged on wood was that wood was a sign of good and in the contrary sense of the evil belonging to evil desires, 643, 2784, 2812, 3720.

[3] The fact that punishment by stoning would be used if anyone should destroy truths relating to worship is evident from the following places: In Ezekiel,

Finally they will cause an assembly to come up upon you, and they will stone you with stones and cut you up with their swords. Ezekiel 16:40.

This refers to the perverse Jerusalem and the destruction of the truth of faith by means of falsities. This is why it says that 'they will stone with stones' and also 'cut up with swords', for 'a sword' means truth engaged in conflict with falsity and destroying it, and in the contrary sense falsity engaged in conflict with truth and destroying it, 2799, 4499, 6353, 7102.

[4] A similar statement occurs elsewhere in the same prophet,

Cause an assembly to come up against them, in order that the assembly may stone them with stones and tear them apart with their swords. Ezekiel 23:46-47.

This refers to Jerusalem and Samaria, by which the Church is meant. Jerusalem means the celestial-spiritual Church, Samaria the spiritual Church, and this chapter describes how forms of the good and truth of faith were destroyed in them.

[5] In Moses,

If an ox strikes a man or woman with its horn so that the person dies, the ox shall surely be stoned. Exodus 21:28.

'Striking a man or woman with the horn' means falsity engaged in conflict with truth and goodness and destroying them. For 'the horn' is falsity engaged in conflict, and also the power of falsity, 2832, while 'man and woman' in the Word means truth and goodness; and this makes plain what the internal sense of that command is and why it was that the ox had to be stoned.

[6] In the same author,

Anyone blaspheming the name of Jehovah shall surely be killed; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. Leviticus 24:16.

'Blaspheming the name of Jehovah' means using malevolent falsities to do violence to truths and forms of good that relate to worship. 'The name of Jehovah' means everything in one embrace that is used to worship Jehovah, see 2724, 3006, thus every aspect of faith and charity, 6674. This also explains why the Israelite woman s son who blasphemed the name of Jehovah was led outside the camp and stoned, Leviticus 24:11, 14, 23. Furthermore it had been commanded that those who served other gods should be stoned, Deuteronomy 17:3, 5, and also those who enticed anyone to serve other gods, Deuteronomy 13:6-10. 'Serving other gods' means profane worship by means of which true worship is destroyed.

[7] If no evidence of virginity were found with a young woman when she married she was to be stoned because she had played the fool in Israel by committing whoredom in her father's house, Deuteronomy 22:20-21. The reason for this was that 'whoredom' meant the falsification of truth, thus the destruction of it, 2466, 4865. If a man lay in the city with a young woman, a virgin, who was betrothed to a man, both were to be stoned, Deuteronomy 22:23-24, and for the same reason, namely whoredom; for spiritual whoredom is the falsification of truth. In Luke 20:5-6, [one reads about the chief priests, scribes, and elders] coming to the conclusion among themselves that if they said John's baptism was from heaven [the Lord] would say, 'Why did you not believe him?' But if they said 'From men', all the people would stone them. Here also 'stoning' is spoken of because of opposition to the truth.

The reason why the Jews sought to stone Jesus because He said, Before Abraham was, I am, John 8:58-59, was that that nation believed this to be false. In a similar way they sought to stone Jesus because He said He and His Father were one, John 10:30-33; for they thought, as these verses also state, that this was blasphemy.

From all this one may now see what stoning was and why it was commanded, and also that punishment by stoning, administered since ancient times as its use in Egypt proves, was derived from the representatives of the Ancient Church.

  
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7102. 'Lest perhaps He fall on us with pestilence and sword' means to avoid the damnation of evil and falsity. This is clear from the meaning of 'lest perhaps He fall on' as lest they run into - into damnation; from the meaning of 'pestilence' as the damnation of evil, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'sword' as the vastation of truth, and also the punishment of falsity, dealt with in 2799, and so also as damnation, since the punishment of falsity, when truth has been devasted, is damnation.

[2] The Word mentions four kinds of vastation and punishment - sword, famine, evil wild animal, and pestilence. 'Sword' means the vastation of truth and the punishment of falsity; 'famine' the vastation of good and the punishment of evil; 'evil wild animal' the punishment of evil that arises out of falsity; and 'pestilence' the punishment of evil that does not arise out of falsity but out of evil. And since punishment is meant, damnation is meant also, since damnation is the punishment suffered by those who persist in evil. Those four kinds of punishment are referred to as follows in Ezekiel,

. . . when I shall send My four severe 1 judgements - sword, and famine, and evil wild animal, and pestilence - onto Jerusalem, to cut off man and beast from it. Ezekiel 14:21.

In the same prophet,

I will send famine and evil wild animals upon you, and I will make you bereft. And pestilence and blood will pass through you; in particular I will bring the sword upon you. Ezekiel 5:17.

[3] The meaning of 'pestilence' as the punishment of evil and its damnation is evident from the following places: In Ezekiel,

Those in waste places will die by the sword, and the one who is in the open field 2 I will give to the wild animals to devour him, and those who are in fortifications and caverns will die from pestilence. Ezekiel 33:27.

'In waste places dying by the sword' stands for suffering the vastation of truth and consequently the damnation of falsity. 'The one who is in the open field being given to the wild animals to devour him' stands for the damnation of those ruled by evil arising out of falsity. 'Those who are in fortifications and caverns, dying from pestilence' stands for the damnation of evil which uses falsity to fortify itself.

[4] In the same prophet,

The sword is without, and pestilence and famine within; he that is in the field will die by the sword, but him that is in the city famine and pestilence will devour. Ezekiel 7:15.

'The sword' stands for the vastation of truth and the damnation of falsity; 'famine' and 'pestilence' stand for the vastation of good and the damnation of evil. The sword is said to be 'without' and famine and pestilence 'within' because the vastation of truth takes place externally but the vastation of good internally. When however a person leads a life that rests on falsity, damnation is meant by the words 'he that is in the field will die by the sword'; and when a person leads a life ruled by evil which he defends by the use of falsity, damnation is meant by the words 'him that is in the city famine and pestilence will devour'.

[5] In Leviticus,

I will bring upon you a sword executing the vengeance of the covenant; wherever you are gathered into your cities, I will send pestilence into the midst of you, and you will be delivered 3 into the hand of the enemy. When I have cut off your supply of bread 4 ... Leviticus 26:25-26.

Here in a similar way 'a sword' stands for the vastation of truth and the damnation of falsity, 'pestilence' for the damnation of evil. The vastation of good, meant by 'famine', is described when [the Lord] speaks of cutting off their supply of bread. 'Cities' into which they would be gathered has the same meaning as 'the city' just above - falsities that are used to defend evils. For the meaning of 'cities' as truths, and so in the contrary sense as falsities, see 402, 2268, 2712, 2943, 3216, 4492, 4493.

[6] In Ezekiel,

Therefore because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your abominations, a third part of you will die from pestilence, and be annihilated [by famine] in your midst; then a third will fall by the sword around you; finally I will scatter a third to every wind, so that I will draw out a sword after them. Ezekiel 5:11-12.

'Famine' stands for the damnation of evil, 'sword' for the damnation of falsity. 'Scattering to every wind' and 'drawing out a sword after them' stand for getting rid of truths and seizing on falsities.

[7] In Jeremiah,

If they offer burnt offering or minchah, I am not accepting those things, but I will consume those people by sword, famine, and pestilence. Jeremiah 14:12.

In the same prophet,

I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die from a great pestilence. Afterwards I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those in this city left from the pestilence, and from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. He who remains in this city will die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and defects to the Chaldeans besieging you will live, and his soul will become spoil to him. Jeremiah 21:6-7, 9.

In the same prophet,

I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, till they are consumed from upon the earth. Jeremiah 24:10.

Here also 'sword' means the vastation of truth, 'famine' the vastation of good, and 'pestilence' damnation; and 'sword', 'famine', and 'pestilence' have the same meanings in the following places as well: Jeremiah 27:8; 29:17-18; 32:24, 36; 34:17; 38:2; 42:17, 22; 44:13; Ezekiel 12:16.

[8] Since those three scourges follow in their own particular order [of severity], David was presented by the prophet Gad with the three. He had to choose between the coming of seven years of famine, fleeing three months before his enemies, or three days of pestilence in the land, 2 Samuel 24:13. ('Fleeing before his enemies' implies 'the sword'.) In Amos,

I have sent the pestilence upon you in the way of Egypt, I have killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. 5 Amos 4:10.

'The pestilence in the way of Egypt' stands for the vastation of good by means of falsities, which are 'the way of Egypt'. 'Killing young men with the sword, along with captured horses' stands for the vastation of truth, truths being meant by 'young men' and intellectual concepts by 'horses', 5 2761, 2762, 3217, 5321, 6534.

[9] In Ezekiel,

Pestilence and blood will pass through you. Ezekiel 5:17.

In the same prophet,

I will send upon her pestilence and blood in her streets. Ezekiel 28:23.

Here 'pestilence' stands for good that has been adulterated, and 'blood' for truth that has been falsified. For the meaning of 'blood' as falsified truth, see 4735, 6978.

[10] In David,

You will not be afraid of the terror of the night, of the arrow that flies by day, of the pestilence that creeps in thick darkness, of death that lays waste at noonday. Psalms 91:5-6.

'The terror of the night' stands for falsity which lies concealed; 'the arrow that flies by day' for falsity which is out in the open; 'the pestilence that creeps in thick darkness' for evil which lies concealed; 'death which lays waste at noonday' for evil which is out in the open. The fact that 'pestilence' means evil and the damnation of evil is evident from the use of the word 'death', which is distinguished here from pestilence solely by its being said of death that it 'lays waste at noonday' but of pestilence that it 'creeps in thick darkness'. In the same author,

He opened a way for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, and He subjected their life to pestilence. Psalms 78:50.

This refers to the Egyptians, 'pestilence' standing for every kind of evil and its damnation.

Фусноти:

1. literally, evil

2. literally, upon the face of the field

3. The Latin means I will deliver you but the Hebrew means you will be delivered.

4. literally, While I am about to break the staff of bread for you

5. literally, the captivity of your horses

  
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