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但以理書 10

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1 波斯王古列第年,有事顯給稱為伯提沙撒的但以理。這事是真的,是指著爭戰;但以理通達這事,明白這異象。

2 當那時,我─但以理悲傷了個七日。

3 美味我沒有,酒沒有入我的,也沒有用油抹我的身,直到滿了個七日。

4 二十日,我在底格里斯邊,

5 舉目觀,見有身穿細麻衣,腰束烏法精金帶。

6 他身體如水蒼玉,面貌如閃電,眼目如把,手和腳如光明的銅,說的聲音如大眾的聲音。

7 這異象惟有我─但以理一人見,同著我的人沒有見。他們卻戰兢,逃跑隱藏,

8 只剩下我一人。我見了這異象便渾身無力,面貌失色,毫無氣力。

9 我卻見他說的聲音,一見就面伏在沉睡了。

10 忽然,有一按在我身上,使我用膝和掌支持微起。

11 他對我:大蒙眷愛的但以理啊,要明白我與你所,只管站起來,因為我現在奉差遣來到你這裡。他對我,我便戰戰兢兢地立起來。

12 他就:但以理啊,不要懼!因為從你第一日專求明白將的事,又在你面前刻苦己,你的言語已蒙應允;我是因你的言語而

13 但波斯國的魔君攔阻我二十日。忽然有大君(就是使長;二十節同)中的位米迦勒幫助我,我就停留在波斯諸那裡。

14 現在我,要使你明白本國之民日後必遭遇的事,因為這異象關乎後許多的日子。

15 他向我這樣,我就臉面朝,啞口無聲。

16 不料,有一位像人的,摸我的嘴唇,我便開向那站在我面前的:我啊,因見這異象,我大大愁苦,毫無氣力。

17 僕人怎能與我說話呢?我一見異象就渾身無力,毫無氣息。

18 有一位形狀像人的又摸我,使我有力量。

19 :大蒙眷愛的哪,不要懼,願你平安!你總要堅強。他一向我說話,我便覺得有力量,:我,因你使我有力量。

20 他就:你知道我為何見你麼?現在我要回去與波斯的魔君爭戰,我去後,希利尼(原文是雅完)的魔君必

21 但我要將那錄在真確書上的事告訴你。除了你們的大君米迦勒之外,沒有幫助我抵擋這兩魔君的。

   

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但以理書 8:4

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4 我見那公綿往西、往、往牴觸。獸在他面前都站立不住,也沒有能救護脫離他的;但他任意而行,自高自大。

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Arcana Coelestia #2268

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2268. 'Will You for five destroy the whole city?' means, Will mankind perish for the small amount that is lacking? This is clear from the meaning of 'five' as small, referred to immediately above, and from the meaning of 'a city' as truth, also dealt with already. The human mind as regards truths is in the Word compared to and also called 'a city', and as regards the goods that are present within truths is there compared to and also called 'the inhabitants'. For a similarity indeed exists, in that if the truths in a person's two memories 1 and in the thoughts of his mind are devoid of goods, they are like a city that has no residents and so is vacant and empty. Indeed it can also be said of angels that they dwell so to speak in a person's truths and implant affections for good from the Lord when that person leads a life abiding in love to the Lord and in charity towards the neighbour, for they are delighted so to dwell, that is, to live, with such persons. It is different in the case of those with whom some truths exist but no goods that flow from charity.

Footnotes:

1. i.e. the interior memory and the exterior memory, see 2469ff.

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