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حزقيال 47

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1 ثم ارجعني الى مدخل البيت واذا بمياه تخرج من تحت عتبة البيت نحو المشرق لان وجه البيت نحو المشرق. والمياه نازلة من تحت جانب البيت الايمن عن جنوب المذبح.

2 ثم اخرجني من طريق باب الشمال ودار بي في الطريق من خارج الباب الخارجي من الطريق الذي يتجه نحو المشرق واذا بمياه جارية من الجانب الايمن.

3 وعند خروج الرجل نحو المشرق والخيط بيده قاس الف ذراع وعبّرني في المياه والمياه الى الكعبين.

4 ثم قاس الفا وعبّرني في المياه والمياه الى الركبتين. ثم قاس الفا وعبّرني والمياه الى الحقوين.

5 ثم قاس الفا واذا بنهر لم استطع عبوره لان المياه طمت مياه سباحة نهر لا يعبر.

6 وقال لي أرأيت يا ابن آدم. ثم ذهب بي وارجعني الى شاطئ النهر.

7 وعند رجوعي اذا على شاطئ النهر اشجار كثيرة جدا من هنا ومن هناك.

8 وقال لي هذه المياه خارجة الى الدائرة الشرقية وتنزل الى العربة وتذهب الى البحر. الى البحر هي خارجة فتشفى المياه.

9 ويكون ان كل نفس حية تدب حيثما يأتي النهران تحيا ويكون السمك كثيرا جدا لان هذه المياه تأتي الى هناك فتشفى ويحيا كل ما يأتي النهر اليه.

10 ويكون الصيادون واقفين عليه من عين جدي الى عين عجلايم يكون لبسط الشباك ويكون سمكهم على انواعه كسمك البحر العظيم كثيرا جدا.

11 اما غمقاته وبركه فلا تشفى. تجعل للملح.

12 وعلى النهر ينبت على شاطئه من هنا ومن هناك كل شجر للأكل لا يذبل ورقه ولا ينقطع ثمره. كل شهر يبكر لان مياهه خارجة من المقدس ويكون ثمره للاكل وورقه للدواء

13 هكذا قال السيد الرب. هذا هو التخم الذي به تمتلكون الارض بحسب اسباط اسرائيل الاثني عشر. يوسف قسمان.

14 وتمتلكونها احدكم كصاحبه التي رفعت يدي لاعطي آباءكم اياها وهذه الارض تقع لكم نصيبا.

15 وهذا تخم الارض. نحو الشمال من البحر الكبير طريق حثلون الى المجيء الى صدد

16 حماة وبيروثة وسبرائم التي بين تخم دمشق وتخم حماة وحصر الوسطى التي على تخم حوران.

17 ويكون التخم من البحر حصر عينان تخم دمشق والشمال شمالا وتخم حماة وهذا جانب الشمال.

18 وجانب الشرق بين حوران ودمشق وجلعاد وارض اسرائيل الاردن. من التخم الى البحر الشرقي تقيسون. وهذا جانب المشرق.

19 وجانب الجنوب يمينا من ثامار الى مياه مريبوث قادش النهر الى البحر الكبير وهذا جانب اليمين جنوبا.

20 وجانب الغرب البحر الكبير من التخم الى مقابل مدخل حماة. وهذا جانب الغرب.

21 فتقتسمون هذه الارض لكم لاسباط اسرائيل.

22 ويكون انكم تقسمونها بالقرعة لكم وللغرباء المتغربين في وسطكم الذين يلدون بنين في وسطكم فيكونون لكم كالوطنيين من بني اسرائيل. يقاسمونكم الميراث في وسط اسباط اسرائيل.

23 ويكون انه في السبط الذي فيه يتغرب غريب هناك تعطونه ميراثه يقول السيد الرب

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #406

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406. And a third of the ships were destroyed. This symbolically means that concepts of goodness and truth from the Word that are serviceable for application to life, in them had all been destroyed.

A third means, symbolically, all, as in nos. 400, 404, 405 above. Ships symbolize concepts of goodness and truth from the Word that are serviceable for application to life. Ships have this symbolism because ships travel the sea and bring back the necessities that the natural self needs for its every endeavor, and concepts of goodness and truth are the necessities that the spiritual self needs for its every endeavor. For out of them is formed the doctrine of the church, and in accordance with that a person's life.

Ships symbolize these concepts because they are vessels, and in many places in the Word a vessel is used to express what it contains, as a cup for wine, a dish for food, the Tabernacle or Temple for the sacred objects in it, the Ark for the Law, altars for worship, and so on.

[2] Ships symbolize concepts of goodness and truth in the following places:

Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore, and serve as a haven for ships... (Genesis 49:13)

Zebulun means the conjunction of goodness and truth.

Your builders (O Tyre) have perfected your beauty. They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make you a mast. Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; they made your beam of ivory, your deck of pines from the isles of Kittim... Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; your wise men were... your shipmasters... All the ships of the sea and their sailors were in you to market your merchandise... Ships of Tarshish were your companies in your commerce, by which you were filled and honored greatly in the midst of the seas. (Ezekiel 27:4-9, 25)

This is said of Tyre, because Tyre in the Word symbolizes the church in respect to its concepts of truth and goodness, as can be seen from the particulars about it in this chapter, and in the following one, chapter 28, understood in its spiritual sense. Moreover, because the church's concepts of truth and goodness are symbolically meant by Tyre, therefore the ship is described in its various parts, and each part symbolizes some aspect of those concepts leading to intelligence. What does the Word have in common with ships of Tyre and its commerce?

[3] The devastation of that same church is afterward described in the following way:

The common-land will shake at the sound of the cry of your shipmasters, and all who handle the oar will come down from your ships; all the sailors and shipmasters of the sea... because of you will cry bitterly... (Ezekiel 27:28-30; see also Isaiah 23:14-15)

The devastation of Babylon is similarly described in respect to all its concepts of truth in the following verses in the book of Revelation:

...in one hour such great riches were devastated. Every shipmaster, and everyone traveling on ships, and sailors... cried out... saying, "Alas, alas, the great city (Babylon), in which all became rich who had ships on the sea...." (Revelation 18:17, 19)

See below for the exposition.

[4] Ships symbolize concepts of truth and goodness also in the following places:

My days have been swift...; they fled away, they saw no good. They passed by with ships of longing... (Job 9:25-26)

Those who go down to the sea in ships, doing work on many waters, they see the works of Jehovah, and His wonders in the deep. (Psalms 107:23-24)

...the coastlands shall trust in Me, and ships of Tarshish will be first to bring your sons from afar... (Isaiah 60:9)

...the kings assembled...; fear took hold of them... With an east wind You will break the ships of Tarshish. (Psalms 18:4, 6-7)

Wail, you ships of Tarshish! (Isaiah 23:1, 14)

And so on elsewhere, as in Numbers 24:24, Judges 5:17, Psalms 104:26, Isaiah 33:21.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Revelation 8

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1 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

2 I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

3 Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.

4 The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.

5 The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it on the earth. There followed thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake.

6 The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

7 The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burnt up, and one third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

8 The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood,

9 and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.

10 The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.

11 The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

12 The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.

13 I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!"