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Jeremia 22

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1 So spricht der HERR: Gehe hinab in das Haus des Königs Judas und rede daselbst dies Wort

2 und sprich: Höre des HERRN Wort, du König Judas, der du auf dem Stuhl Davids sitzest, beide, du und deine Knechte und dein Volk, die zu diesen Toren eingehen.

3 So spricht der HERR: Haltet Recht und Gerechtigkeit und errettet den Beraubten von des Frevlers Hand und schindet nicht die Fremdlinge, Waisen und Witwen und tut niemand Gewalt und vergießet nicht unschuldig Blut an dieser Stätte.

4 Werdet ihr solches tun, so sollen durch die Tore dieses Hauses einziehen Könige, die auf Davids Stuhl sitzen, beide, zu Wagen und zu Roß, samt ihren Knechten und Volk.

5 Werdet ihr aber solchem nicht gehorchen, so habe ich bei mir selbst geschworen, spricht der HERR, dies Haus soll verstöret werden.

6 Denn so spricht der HERR von dem Hause des Königs Judas: Gilead, du bist mir das Haupt im Libanon; was gilt's, ich will dich zur Wüste und die Städte ohne Einwohner machen?

7 Denn ich habe Verderber über dich bestellet, einen jeglichen mit seinen Waffen; die sollen deine auserwählten Zedern umhauen und ins Feuer werfen.

8 So werden viel Heiden vor dieser Stadt vorübergehen und untereinander sagen: Warum hat der HERR mit dieser großen Stadt also gehandelt?

9 Und man wird antworten: Darum daß sie den Bund des HERRN, ihres Gottes, verlassen und andere Götter angebetet und denselbigen gedienet haben.

10 Weinet nicht über die Toten und grämet euch nicht darum; weinet aber über den, der dahinzieht; denn er wird nimmer wiederkommen, daß er sein Vaterland sehen möchte.

11 Denn so spricht der HERR von Sallum, dem Sohne Josias, des Königs Judas, welcher König ist anstatt seines Vaters Josia, der von dieser Stätte hinausgezogen ist: Er wird nicht wieder herkommen,

12 sondern muß sterben an dem Ort, dahin er gefangen geführet ist, und wird dies Land nicht mehr sehen.

13 Wehe dem, der sein Haus mit Sünden bauet und seine Gemächer mit Unrecht, der seinen Nächsten umsonst arbeiten läßt und gibt ihm seinen Lohn nicht

14 und denkt: Wohlan, ich will mir ein groß Haus bauen und weite Paläste; und läßt ihm Fenster drein bauen und mit Zedern täfeln und rot malen.

15 Meinest du, du wollest König sein, weil du mit Zedern prangest? Hat dein Vater nicht auch gegessen und getrunken und hielt dennoch über dem Recht und Gerechtigkeit, und ging ihm wohl?

16 Er half dem Elenden und Armen zum Recht, und ging ihm wohl. Ist's nicht also, daß solches heißt mich recht erkennen? spricht der HERR.

17 Aber deine Augen und dein Herz stehen nicht also, sondern auf deinem Geiz, auf unschuldig Blut zu vergießen, zu freveln und unterzustoßen.

18 Darum spricht der HERR von Jojakim, dem Sohn Josias, dem Könige Judas: Man wird ihn nicht klagen: Ach Bruder, ach Schwester! Man wird ihn nicht klagen: Ach HERR, ach Edler!

19 Er soll wie ein Esel begraben werden, zerschleift und hinausgeworfen vor die Tore Jerusalems.

20 Ja, dann gehe hinauf auf den Libanon und schreie und laß dich hören zu Basan und schreie von Abarim; denn alle deine Liebhaber sind jämmerlich umgebracht.

21 Ich habe dir's vorhergesagt, da es noch wohl um dich stund; aber du sprachest: Ich will nicht hören. Also hast du dein Lebetage getan, daß du meiner Stimme nicht gehorchtest.

22 Der Wind weidet alle deine Hirten, und deine Liebhaber ziehen gefangen dahin; da mußt du doch zu Spott und zuschanden werden um aller deiner Bosheit willen.

23 Die du jetzt im Libanon wohnest und in Zedern nistest, wie schön wirst du sehen, wenn dir Schmerzen und Wehe kommen werden wie einer in Kindesnöten!

24 So wahr ich lebe, spricht der HERR, wenn Chanja, der Sohn Jojakims, der König Judas, ein Siegelring wäre an meiner rechten Hand, so wollte ich dich doch abreißen

25 und in die Hände geben derer, die nach deinem Leben stehen, und vor welchen du dich fürchtest, nämlich in die Hände Nebukadnezars, des Königs zu Babel, und der Chaldäer.

26 Und will dich und deine Mutter, die dich geboren hat, in ein ander Land treiben, das nicht euer Vaterland ist; und sollst daselbst sterben.

27 Und in das Land, da sie von Herzen gerne wieder hin wären, sollen sie nicht wiederkommen.

28 Wie ein elender, verachteter, verstoßener Mann ist doch Chanja! ein unwert Gefäß! Ach, wie ist er doch samt seinem Samen so vertrieben und in ein unbekanntes Land geworfen!

29 O Land, Land, Land; höre des HERRN Wort!

30 So spricht der HERR: Schreibet an diesen Mann für einen Verdorbenen, einen Mann, dem es sein Lebetage nicht gelinget. Denn er wird das Glück nicht haben, daß jemand seines Samens auf dem Stuhl Davids sitze und fürder in Juda herrsche.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #769

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769. Who keep the commandments of God, signifies with those who live the life of faith, which is charity. This is evident from the signification of "keeping the commandments of God," as being to live according to the commandments in the Word; and as that life is a life of faith, and a life of faith is charity, therefore "keeping the commandments of God" signifies to live the life of faith, which is charity. The life of faith is charity towards the neighbor, because faith means faith in the Word, thus faith in the truth that is in the Word and from the Word, and charity means the love of good and truth, spiritual, moral, and civil; and as that which man loves he also wills, and what he wills he does, therefore "keeping the commandments of God" signifies to live the life of faith, which is charity.

[2] From this it can be seen that all those who separate faith from charity know not what faith is or what charity is, for they have no other idea of faith than as being everything of the memory that is believed because they have heard it from learned men; and yet such faith is historical faith, for they do not see whether a thing is so, except because someone else has said it; and what is seen from another can be confirmed both by the sense of the letter of the Word misunderstood and by reasonings from appearances and knowledges [scientifica], although it may be a falsity directly opposed to the truth.

When this is confirmed it becomes a persuasive faith; but neither this faith nor historical faith is a spiritual faith, thus not a saving faith, for such faith has as yet no life from the Lord in it. That a man may receive that life he must live according to the Lord's commandments in the Word, for living according to these commandments is the same as living from the Lord, because the Lord is the Word and is in the Word. Such a life is the life of faith, which is charity; and then its affection becomes charity, and thought from that affection becomes faith; for all man's thought derives its life wholly from affection, since no one can think without affection; therefore when a man's affection becomes spiritual his thought also becomes spiritual; consequently such as a man's charity is such is his faith. From this it can be seen that charity and faith, like affection and thought, or what is the same, like will and understanding, act as one, for affection is of the will and thought is of the understanding, consequently they act as one as goods and truths do. Thence it is clear that to live according to the commandments of the Lord from the Word, or "to keep the commandments of God," means to live the life of faith, which is charity.

  
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Apocalypse Explained #148

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148. And upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth except he that receiveth, signifies a state of interior life unknown to all except those who are in it. This is evident from the signification of "name," as being the quality of state (of which see Arcana Coelestia (1754, 1896, 2009, 3237, 3421); here the quality of the state of the interior life, because it is said "a new name, which no one knoweth except he that receiveth," for the quality of the state of the interior life is wholly unknown to those who are not in the interior life. Those are in the interior life who are in love to the Lord, and none are in love to the Lord except those who acknowledge the Divine in His Human (that to love the Lord is to live according to His precepts, see Arcana Coelestia 10143, 10153, 10578, 10645, 10829). Interior life is the spiritual life, in which the angels of heaven are; but the exterior life is the natural life, in which are all who are not in heaven. With those, moreover, who live according to the precepts of the Lord and acknowledge the Divine in His Human, the interior mind is opened, and man then becomes spiritual; but those who do not so live, and do not acknowledge the Lord, remain natural. (That to all who are not in heavenly love the state of the interior or spiritual life is unknown, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 395-414; and in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 105, 238.)

[2] That "name" in the Word signifies quality of state is evident from many passages there, some of which I will here cite in confirmation. Thus in Isaiah:

Lift up your eyes on high and see; who hath created these? He that leadeth out the host in number; that calleth them all by name (Isaiah 40:26).

"His calling them all by name" is knowing the quality of all, and giving to them according to the state of love and faith with them. In John the meaning is similar:

He that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out (John 10:2-3).

In Isaiah:

Thus saith Jehovah thy Creator, O Jacob, and thy Former, O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed thee, and have called thee by name; thou art Mine (Isaiah 43:1).

In the same:

That thou mayest know that I am Jehovah, who had called thee by thy name. For Jacob My servant's sake, and Israel My chosen, I have called thee by thy name, when thou didst not know Me (Isaiah 45:3-4).

"I have called thee by thy name" means that He knew the quality of the state of the church; for "Jacob" and "Israel" are the church, "Jacob" the external church, and "Israel" the internal.

[3] In the same:

Israel, if thou hadst hearkened to My commandments, his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me (Isaiah 48:18-19).

"The name being cut off and destroyed from before Jehovah" denotes the quality of the state by which conjunction is effected, which state is the spiritual state of him who is of the church signified by "Israel." Again in the same prophet:

Jehovah hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother doth He make mention of my name (Isaiah 49:1).

here "making mention of the name" is knowing the quality. In the same:

For Zion's sake I will not be still, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet. And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory; and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall utter (Isaiah 62:1, 2).

In the same:

He shall call His servants by another name (Isaiah 65:15).

"To call by a new name," and "by another name," is to bestow another state of life, namely, a state of spiritual life. In Ezekiel:

The city of bloods, polluted by name (Ezekiel 22:2, 5).

"The city of bloods" is the doctrine that offers violence to the good of charity; this is said to be "polluted by name" when it abounds with falsities and evils therefrom, which constitute its quality.

[4] In Moses:

Moses said unto Jehovah, Thou hast said, I know thee by thy name. And Jehovah said unto Moses, This word also that thou hast spoken I will do, for I know thee by name (Exodus 33:12, 17).

"His knowing Moses by name" is knowing his quality. In Revelation:

Thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white garments, and I will confess his name before My Father. He that overcometh, I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, and My new name (Revelation 3:4, 5, 12).

It can be seen that "name" here signifies the quality of state in respect to the good of love and the truth of faith. In another place:

Whose names have not been written in the book of life (Revelation 13:8; 17:8).

"Names written in the book of life" are the quality of all things of man's love and faith, the all things of his spiritual life. In another place:

They shall see the face of God and the Lamb, and His name shall be in their forehead (Revelation 22:4).

"His name in their forehead" is a state of love, for "forehead" corresponds to love, and therefore signifies love.

[5] "Name" in the Word signifies the quality of man's state, because in the spiritual world each one is named according to the state of life in which he is, thus variously; for spiritual speech is not like human speech; all things there are expressed according to ideas of things and of persons; and these ideas fall into words. (This can be seen more clearly from what is shown on The Speech of the Angels in Heaven, in the work on Heaven and Hell 234-245; also see above, n. 102, 135, where it is shown what "the name of Jehovah," "of the Lord," and "of Jesus Christ" signify in the Word.)

  
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