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Ezequiel 36

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1 Tu, ó filho do homem, profetiza aos montes de Israel, e dize: montes de Israel, ouvi a palavra do Senhor.

2 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Pois que disse o inimigo contra vós: Ah! ah! e: As alturas antigas são nossas para as possuirmos;

3 portanto, profetiza, e dize: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Porquanto, sim, porquanto vos assolaram e vos devoraram de todos os lados, para que ficásseis feitos herança do resto das nações, e tendes andado em lábios paroleiros, e chegastes a ser a infâmia do povo;

4 portanto, ouvi, ó montes de Israel, a palavra do Senhor Deus: Assim diz o Senhor Deus aos montes e aos outeiros, às correntes d'água e aos vales, aos desertos assolados e às cidades desamparadas, que se tornaram presa e escarnio para o resto das nações que estão ao redor delas;

5 portanto, assim diz o Senhor Deus: Certamente no fogo do meu zelo falei contra o resto das nações, e contra todo o Edom, que se apropriaram da minha terra, com toda a alegria de seu coração, e com menosprezo da alma, para a lançarem fora a rapina;

6 portanto, profetiza sobre a terra de Israel, e dize aos montes e aos outeiros, às correntes d'água e aos vales: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Eis que falei no meu zelo e no meu furor, porque levastes sobre vós o opróbrio das nações.

7 Portanto, assim diz o Senhor Deus: Eu levantei a minha mão, jurando: Certamente as nações que estão ao redor de vós levarão o seu opróbrio sobre si mesmas.

8 Mas vós, ó montes de Israel, vós produzireis os vossos ramos, e dareis o vosso fruto para o meu povo de Israel, pois já está prestes a vir.

9 pois eis que eu estou convosco, e eu me voltarei para vós, e sereis lavrados e semeados;

10 e multiplicarei homens sobre vós, a toda a casa de Israel, a toda ela; e as cidades serão habitadas, e os lugares devastados serão edificados.

11 Também sobre vós multiplicarei homens e animais, e eles se multiplicarão, e frutificarão. E farei que sejais habitados como dantes, e vos tratarei melhor do que nos vossos princípios. Então sabereis que eu sou o Senhor.

12 E sobre vós farei andar homens, o meu povo de Israel; eles te possuirão, e tu serás a sua herança, e nunca mais os desfilharás.

13 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Visto como vos dizem: Tu devoras os homens, e tens desfilhado a tua nação;

14 por isso tu não devorarás mais os homens, nem desfilharás mais a tua nação, diz o Senhor Deus.

15 Não te permitirei ouvir mais a afronta das nações; e não levaras mais sobre ti o opróbrio dos povos, nem farás tropeçar mais a tua nação, diz o Senhor Deus.

16 Veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

17 Filho do homem, quando a casa de Israel habitava na sua terra, então eles a contaminaram com os seus caminhos e com as suas ações. Como a imundícia de uma mulher em sua separação, tal era o seu caminho diante de mim.

18 Derramei, pois, o meu furor sobre eles, por causa do sangue que derramaram sobre a terra, e porque a contaminaram com os seus ídolos;

19 e os espalhei entre as nações, e foram dispersos pelas terras; conforme os seus caminhos, e conforme os seus feitos, eu os julguei.

20 E, chegando às nações para onde foram, profanaram o meu santo nome, pois se dizia deles: São estes o povo do Senhor, e tiveram de sair da sua terra.

21 Mas eu os poupei por amor do meu santo nome, que a casa de Israel profanou entre as nações para onde foi.

22 Dize portanto à casa de Israel: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Não é por amor de vós que eu faço isto, o casa de Israel; mas em atenção ao meu santo nome, que tendes profanado entre as nações para onde fostes;

23 e eu santificarei o meu grande nome, que foi profanado entre as nações, o qual profanastes no meio delas; e as nações saberão que eu sou o Senhor, diz o Senhor Deus, quando eu for santificado aos seus olhos.

24 Pois vos tirarei dentre as nações, e vos congregarei de todos os países, e vos trarei para a vossa terra.

25 Então aspergirei água pura sobre vós, e ficareis purificados; de todas as vossas imundícias, e de todos os vossos ídolos, vos purificarei.

26 Também vos darei um coração novo, e porei dentro de vós um espírito novo; e tirarei da vossa carne o coração de pedra, e vos darei um coração de carne.

27 Ainda porei dentro de vós o meu Espírito, e farei que andeis nos meus estatutos, e guardeis as minhas ordenanças, e as observeis.

28 E habitareis na terra que eu dei a vossos pais, e vós sereis o meu povo, e eu serei o vosso Deus.

29 Pois eu vos livrarei de todas as vossas imundícias; e chamarei o trigo, e o multiplicarei, e não trarei fome sobre vós;

30 mas multiplicarei o fruto das árvores, e a novidade do campo, para que não mais recebais o opróbrio da fome entre as nações.

31 Então vos lembrareis dos vossos maus caminhos, e dos vossos feitos que não foram bons; e tereis nojo em vós mesmos das vossas iniqüidades e das vossas abominações.

32 Não é por amor de vós que eu faço isto, diz o Senhor Deus, notório vos seja; envergonhai-vos, e confundi-vos por causa dos vossos caminhos, ó casa de Israel.

33 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: No dia em que eu vos purificar de todas as vossas iniqüidades, então farei com que sejam habitadas as cidades e sejam edificados os lugares devastados.

34 E a terra que estava assolada será lavrada, em lugar de ser uma desolação aos olhos de todos os que passavam.

35 E dirão: Esta terra que estava assolada tem-se tornado como jardim do Eden; e as cidades solitárias, e assoladas, e destruídas, estão fortalecidas e habitadas.

36 Então as nações que ficarem de resto em redor de vós saberão que eu, o Senhor, tenho reedificado as cidades destruídas, e plantado o que estava devastado. Eu, o Senhor, o disse, e o farei.

37 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Ainda por isso serei consultado da parte da casa de Israel, que lho faça; multiplicá-los-ei como a um rebanho.

38 Como o rebanho para os sacrifícios, como o rebanho de Jerusalém nas suas solenidades, assim as cidades desertas se encherão de famílias; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor.

   

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222. And I will write upon him the name of My God, signifies their quality in respect to Divine truth implanted in the life. This is evident from the signification of "writing upon one," when spoken of the Lord, as being to implant in the life (of which presently); also from the signification of "name," as being quality of state (See above, n. 148); and also from the signification of "God," as being Divine truth proceeding from the Lord in heaven, thus the Lord in heaven (concerning which see above, n. 220; for the Lord is above the heavens, appearing to those who are in heaven as a sun (See the work on Heaven and Hell 116-125). The Divine proceeding therefrom, which is called Divine truth, and which makes heaven in general and in particular, is what is meant in the Word by "God;" from this it is that angels are called "gods," and that "God," in the Hebrew is Elohim, in the plural. This makes clear why the Lord here says, "the name of My God;" and above, "I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God" n. 219; and below, "I will write upon him the name of the city of My God, of the New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from My God" n. 223.

[2] "To write upon one" means to implant in the life, because to write is to commit to paper anything from the memory, thought, or mind, that is to be preserved; in the spiritual sense, therefore, it signifies that which is to endure in man's life, inscribed on it and implanted in it. Thus the natural sense of this expression is turned into a spiritual sense; for it is natural to write upon paper and in a book, but it is spiritual to inscribe on the life, which is done when anything is implanted in the faith and love, since love and faith make man's spiritual life. Because "to write" signifies to implant in the life, it is said of Jehovah or the Lord that "He writes," and that "He has written in a book," meaning that which is inscribed by the Lord on man's spirit, that is, on his heart and soul, or what is the same, on his love and faith. Thus, in David:

My bone was not hidden from Thee when I was made in secret; upon Thy book were written all the days when they were fashioned, and not one of them is wanting (Psalms 139:15-16).

In the same :

Let them be blotted out of the book of lives, and not be written with the righteous (Psalms 69:28).

In Daniel:

The people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book (Daniel 12:1).

In Moses:

Blot me, I pray Thee, out of the book which Thou hast written. And Jehovah said, Whosoever hath sinned against Me will I blot out of My book (Exodus 32:32-33).

In Revelation:

A book written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals, which no one could open but the Lamb only (Revelation 5:1).

Again:

All shall worship the beast whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life (Revelation 13:8; 17:8).

Again:

I saw that the books were opened: and another book was opened which is that of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the book, 1 according to their works. And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:12-13, 20:15).

Again :

And there shall enter into the New Jerusalem only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life (Revelation 21:27).

In these passages it is not meant that they are written in a book, but that all things of faith and love are inscribed on man's spirit (as may be seen from the things shown in the work on Heaven and Hell 461-469).

[3] That "to write," in the Word, signifies to inscribe on and implant in the life, is clear from other passages where "writing" is mentioned. Thus in Jeremiah:

I will give My law in the midst of them, and will write it on their heart (Jeremiah 31:33).

"To give the law in the midst of them" means Divine truths in them; "in the midst" signifies inwardly with man (See Arcana Coelestia 1074, 2940, 2973); and "to write it on the heart" is to impress upon the love, for "heart" signifies love (See Arcana Coelestia 7542, 9050, 10336). In Ezekiel:

The prophet saw a roll of a book written front and back, and there were written thereon plaints, moaning, and woe (Ezekiel 2:9, 10; 3:1-3).

"The roll of a book written front and back" signifies the state of the church at that time, thus what the life was of those of the church; therefore "the roll of the book" means the same as "the book of life" mentioned above; and as their life was destitute of the goods of love and the truths of faith, it is said that "there were written thereon plaints, moaning, and woe":

That the law was inscribed on tables of stone, and written with the finger of God (Exodus 31:18; Deuteronomy 4:13; 9:10); signified that it must be impressed on the life (Arcana Coelestia 9416); for "the law," in a strict sense, means the ten commandments of the Decalogue, but in a broad sense, the whole Word (See Arcana Coelestia 6752, 7463); and "stone" signifies truth, here Divine truth (Arcana Coelestia 643[1-4], 1298, 3720, 6426, 8609, 10376). The like is signified by :

Their writing the words of the law upon the twelve stones taken out of the Jordan (Deuteronomy 27:2-4, 8; Joshua 4:3, seq .)

[4] In Ezekiel:

Son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his fellows; and take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and of all the house of Israel, his fellows; and then join them for thee one to another into one stick, that they both may be one in My 2 hand (Ezekiel 37:16, 17).

What these things signify no one can know unless he knows what was represented by "Judah," and what by "Joseph." "Judah" represented the Lord's celestial kingdom, and "Joseph" His spiritual kingdom; and "writing them upon two sticks" signifies each one's state of love and of life therefrom. Their conjunction into one heaven is signified by "joining them one to another into one stick, that they both may be one in My hand." The signification of these words is like that of the Lord's words:

Other sheep also I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring; and there shall be one flock and one shepherd (John 10:16).

The writing was to be upon a stick, because a "stick (wood)" signifies good, and it is good that conjoins. (But these things will be more evident from what is shown in the Arcana Coelestia, namely, that the spiritual kingdom before the Lord's coming was not as it was after His coming, n. 6372, 8054; that it was the spiritual especially that were saved by the Lord's coming into the world, and that they were then conjoined with those who were of His celestial kingdom into one heaven, n. 2661, 2716, 2833, 2834, 3969, 6854, 6914, 7035, 7091, 7828, 7932, 8018, 8159, 8321, 9684. That there are two kingdoms, the celestial and spiritual, and that there are three heavens, and that these are conjoined into one heaven, see the work on Heaven 20-28, 29-40. That "Judah" in the representative sense signifies the Lord's celestial kingdom, Arcana Coelestia 3654, 3881, 5583, 5603, 5782, 6363; that " Joseph" signifies the Lord's spiritual kingdom, n. 3969, 3971, 4669, 6417; that " Ephraim" signifies the intellectual of the spiritual church, n. 3969, 5354, 6222, 6234, 6238, 6267, 6296; that "wood" signifies the good of love, n. 643, 3720, 8354.)

[5] In Isaiah:

This one shall say, I am Jehovah's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah, and surname himself by the name of Israel (Isaiah 44:5).

These things are said of the Lord and of His Divine Human. "Jacob" and "Israel," where the Lord is treated of, signifies His Human, and that the Human is Jehovah is meant by "This one shall say, I am Jehovah's," and "he shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah." (That "Israel" and "Jacob" are, in the highest sense, the Lord, see Arcana Coelestia 4286, 4570, 6424)

[6] In Jeremiah :

O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake Me shall be ashamed, and they that depart from Me shall be written on the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters. Heal me, O Jehovah, that I may be healed (Jeremiah 17:13, 14). "To be written in the earth" is to be condemned on account of the state of life, since "earth" signifies what is condemned (See Arcana Coelestia n. 2327, 7418, 8306).

[7] This makes clear what is signified by the Lord's writing with His finger in the earth in John:

The Scribes and Pharisees brought to Jesus in the temple a woman taken in adultery; and they said, This woman was taken in the very act. They asked whether she should be stoned according to the law of Moses. Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote in the earth; and rising He said, He that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her; and again stooping down, He wrote in the earth. And when they heard these things, they went out one after another; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman; and He said to her, Woman, where are thine accusers; hath no man condemned thee? And He said, Go and sin no more (John 8:2-11).

The Lord's "writing in the earth" signifies the same as above in Jeremiah, "they that depart from Me shall be written in the earth," namely, that they also were condemned on account of adulteries; therefore He said, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." The Lord's "writing twice in the earth" in the temple, signified their condemnation for adulteries in the spiritual sense; for the Scribes and Pharisees were those who adulterated the goods and falsified the truths of the Word, thus of the church; and "adulteries" in the spiritual sense are adulterations of good and falsifications of truth (See above, n. 141, 161); therefore that nation was also called by the Lord:

An adulterous and sinful generation (Mark 8:38).

Фусноти:

1. The Greek has "books," as found in Apocalypse Explained 98, 250, 785.

2. The Hebrew has "my."

  
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Ezekiel 37:17

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17 and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.