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حزقيال 4

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1 وانت يا ابن آدم فخذ لنفسك لبنة وضعها امامك وارسم عليها مدينة اورشليم.

2 واجعل عليها حصار وابن عليها برجا واقم عليها مترسة واجعل عليها جيوشا واقم عليها مجانق حولها.

3 وخذ انت لنفسك صاجا من حديد وانصبه سورا من حديد بينك وبين المدينة وثبت وجهك عليها فتكون في حصار وتحاصرها. تلك آية لبيت اسرائيل

4 واتكئ انت على جنبك اليسار وضع عليه اثم بيت اسرائيل. على عدد الايام التي فيها تتكئ عليه تحمل اثمهم.

5 وانا قد جعلت لك سني اثمهم حسب عدد الايام ثلاث مئة يوم وتسعين يوما. فتحمل اثم بيت اسرائيل.

6 فاذا اتممتها فاتكئ على جنبك اليمين ايضا فتحمل اثم بيت يهوذا اربعين يوما. فقد جعلت لك كل يوم عوضا عن سنة.

7 فثبّت وجهك على حصار اورشليم وذراعك مكشوفة وتنبّا عليها.

8 وهأنذا اجعل عليك ربطا فلا تقلب من جنب الى جنب حتى تتمم ايام حصارك

9 وخذ انت لنفسك قمحا وشعيرا وفولا وعدسا ودخنا وكرسنة وضعها في وعاء واحد واصنعها لنفسك خبزا كعدد الايام التي تتكئ فيها على جنبك. ثلاث مئة يوم وتسعين يوما تاكله.

10 وطعامك الذي تأكله يكون بالوزن. كل يوم عشرين شاقلا. من وقت الى وقت تاكله.

11 وتشرب الماء بالكيل. سدس الهين. من وقت الى وقت تشربه.

12 وتأكل كعكا من الشعير. على الخرء الذي يخرج من الانسان تخبزه امام عيونهم.

13 وقال الرب. هكذا ياكل بنو اسرائيل خبزهم النجس بين الامم الذين اطردهم اليهم.

14 فقلت آه يا سيد الرب ها نفسي لم تتنجس ومن صباي الى الآن لم آكل ميتة او فريسة ولا دخل فمي لحم نجس.

15 فقال لي انظر. قد جعلت لك خثي البقر بدل خرء الانسان فتصنع خبزك عليه.

16 وقال لي يا ابن آدم هانذا اكسر قوام الخبز في اورشليم فياكلون الخبز بالوزن وبالغم ويشربون الماء بالكيل وبالحيرة

17 لكي يعوزهم الخبز والماء ويتحيروا الرجل واخوه ويفنوا باثمهم

   

From Swedenborg's Works

 

On the Athanasian Creed #166

  
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166. It had been permitted to say three persons, because indeed at the beginning it was only possible to think of Jehovah as God the Father, Creator of the Universe, and it could scarcely be thought on account of habit that the Lord was He. This seemed to them to be a thing that could not be received, that the Creator of the Universe descended and became man. Only the idea of Jehovah, filling all heaven and all the world from His presence and His providence, would impede that, wherefore in the sense of the letter of the Word, three are named for that reason, as if there were three persons into whose names they should baptize. Hence also it was permitted that similar things should be in the Athanasian Faith which was to be received for Christianity; and yet only so that the Trine of one Person, thus of the Lord, could be received by those who are in enlightenment, and also that in the end of the Church it should be received. The Athanasian Faith is such as to be incomprehensible and thence incredible and also contradictory. Let things therein be brought forward, showing that this truth is clear and that that faith does not stand in the way of anyone's receiving it, but also this may be seen by those who wish to understand what they believe, while those who do not wish to understand what they believe, may retain their own opinion. Let them know, however, that in the spiritual world no one receives anything which he does not see, that is, understand, for he says - perhaps it is not true.

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

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Hosea 1

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1 The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

2 When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh."

3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

4 Yahweh said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

5 It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."

6 She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen."

8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.

9 He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

10 Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

11 The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.

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