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Jeremiáše 48

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1 Proti Moábovi. Takto praví Hospodin zástupů, Bůh Izraelský: Běda městu Nébo, neboť popléněno bude; zahanbeno a vzato bude Kariataim, zahanbeno bude Misgab a děsiti se bude.

2 Nebudeť míti více žádné pochvaly Moáb z Ezebon, obmýšlejí proti němu zlé: Poďte, a vyhlaďme je z národu. I ty, ó Madmen, vypléněno budeš, půjde za tebou meč.

3 Hlas žalostný z Choronaim: Ó poplénění a potření veliké.

4 Potřín bude Moáb, slyšán bude křik maličkých jeho.

5 Proto že na cestě Luchitské ustavičný bude pláč, a že kudyž se chodí k Choronaim, nepřátelé křik hrozný slyšeti budou:

6 Utecte, vysvoboďte život svůj, a buďte jako vřes na poušti.

7 Nebo proto, že doufáš v statku svém a v pokladích svých, také ty jat budeš; i půjde Chámos do zajetí, kněží jeho, též i knížata jeho.

8 Přitáhne zajisté zhoubce na každé město, aniž ho které město znikne; zahyne i údolí, a zahlazena bude rovina, jakž praví Hospodin.

9 Dejte brky Moábovi, ať rychle uletí; nebo města jeho v poušť obrácena budou, tak že nebude žádného obyvatele v nich.

10 Zlořečený ten, kdož dělá dílo Hospodinovo lstivě, a zlořečený ten, kdož zdržuje meč svůj od krve.

11 Mělť jest pokoj Moáb od dětinství svého, a usadil se na kvasnicích svých, aniž býval přelíván z nádoby do nádoby, totiž do zajetí nechodíval; pročež zůstala v něm chuť jeho, a vůně jeho není proměněna.

12 Protož aj, dnové jdou, dí Hospodin, že pošli na něj ty, kteříž vpády činí, a zajmou jej, sudy pak jeho vyprázdní, a nádoby jeho roztříští.

13 I zahanben bude Moáb od Chámos, jako zahanbeni jsou dům Izraelský od Bethel naděje své.

14 Kterakž říkáte: Silní jsme a muži stateční k boji?

15 Pohuben bude Moáb a z měst svých vyjde, a nejvýbornější mládenci jeho půjdou k zabití, dí král, jehož jméno Hospodin zástupů.

16 Blízkoť jest bída Moábova, aby přišla, a trápení jeho pospíchá velice.

17 Litujte ho všickni okolní jeho, a všickni, kteříž víte o jménu jeho, rcete: Jak polámána jest hůl nejpevnější, prut nejozdobnější?

18 Sejdi z slávy své, a seď v žíni, ó ty, kterážs se usadila, dcero Dibonská; neboť zhoubce Moábův přitáhne proti tobě, zkazí ohrady tvé.

19 Postav se na cestě, a ohlédni se pilně, obyvatelkyně Aroer; vyptej se toho, kdož utíká, a té, kteráž uchází, rci: Co se děje?

20 Stydí se Moáb, že jest potřín. Kvělte a křičte, oznamte u Arnon, že hubí Moába.

21 Nebo soud přišel na zemi té roviny, na Holon a na Jasa a na Mefat,

22 I na Dibon a Nébo, a na Betdiblataim,

23 I na Kariataim a na Betgamul, a na Betmeon,

24 A na Kariot, a na Bozru i na všecka města země Moábské, daleká i blízká.

25 Odťat bude roh Moábův, a rámě jeho zlámáno bude, dí Hospodin.

26 Opojte jej, poněvadž se proti Hospodinu zpínal, až by se válel Moáb v vývratku svém, a byl za smích i on také.

27 Nebo zdali v posměchu nebyl u tebe Izrael? Zdali mezi zloději zastižen jest, že jakž jen promluvíš o něm, poskakuješ?

28 Zanechte měst, a přebývejte v skále, ó obyvatelé Moábští, a buďte podobni holubici hnízdící se daleko v rozsedlinách.

29 Slýchaliť jsme o pýše Moábově, že velmi pyšný jest, o vysokomyslnosti jeho a pýše jeho, i o nadutosti jeho, a povyšování se srdce jeho.

30 Známť já, dí Hospodin, vzteklost jeho, ale špatnáť jest ona k tomu; lži jeho nedovedouť toho.

31 Protož nad Moábskými kvílím, a nade vším Moábem křičím, pro obyvatele Kircheres úpí srdce.

32 Více než plakáno bylo Jazerských, plači tebe, ó vinný kmene Sibma. Rozvodové tvoji dostanouť se za moře, až k moři Jazerskému dosáhnou; na letní ovoce tvé a na vinobraní tvé zhoubce připadne.

33 I přestane veselé a plésání nad polem úrodným v zemi Moábské, a vínu z presu přítrž učiním; nebudou ho tlačívati s prokřikováním. Prokřikování nebudeť prokřikováním.

34 Více křičeti budou než Ezebonští, až do Eleale, až do Jasa vydávati budou hlas svůj, od Ségor až do Choronaim jako jalovice tříletá; nebo také i vody Nimrim vymizejí.

35 A tak učiním, dí Hospodin, přítrž Moábovi, obětujícímu na výsosti a kadícímu bohům jeho.

36 Protož srdce mé nad Moábem jako píšťalky zníti bude, srdce mé i nad obyvateli Kircheres jako píšťalky zníti bude, proto že i zboží nashromážděná se v nic obrátí.

37 Nebo na každé hlavě bude lysina, a každá brada oholena, na všech rukou řezání, a na bedrách žíně.

38 Na všech střechách Moábových i po ulicích jeho všudy jen kvílení; nebo rozrazím Moába jako nádobu neužitečnou, dí Hospodin.

39 Kvíliti budou: Jakť jest potřín, jak se obrátil zpět Moáb s hanbou! A jest Moáb v posměchu a k předěšení všechněm, kteříž jsou vůkol něho.

40 Nebo takto praví Hospodin: Aj, jako orlice přiletí a roztáhne křídla svá na Moába.

41 Vzato bude Kariot, i pevnosti pobrány budou, a bude srdce silných Moábských v ten den podobné srdci ženy svírající se.

42 I vyhlazen bude Moáb z lidu, proto že se proti Hospodinu zpínal.

43 Strach a jáma a osídlo nad tebou, ó obyvateli Moábský, praví Hospodin.

44 Kdo uteče před strachem, vpadne do jámy, a kdo vyleze z jámy, osídlem lapen bude; nebo uvedu na něj, totiž na Moába, rok navštívení jejich, dí Hospodin.

45 Stávaliť jsou v stínu Ezebon ti, kteříž utíkávali před násilím, ale oheň vyjde z Ezebon, a plamen z prostřed Seon, a zžíře kout Moábův a vrch hlavy těch, kteříž jen bouří.

46 Běda tobě, Moábe, zahyneť lid Chámosův; nebo pobráni budou synové tvoji do zajetí, i dcery tvé do zajetí.

47 A však zase přivedu zajaté Moábské v posledních dnech, dí Hospodin. Až potud soud o Moábovi.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #235

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235. I will spue thee out of my mouth. That this signifies separation from knowledges derived from the Word is evident from the signification of spuing, when by the Lord, as being separation; not that the Lord separates them from Himself, but that they separate themselves from the Lord. The expression to spue is used, because the subject treated of is the lukewarm; and in the world what is lukewarm causes vomiting. This is also from correspondence; for the food which man takes corresponds to knowledges, and consequently, in the Word, signifies knowledges; therefore separation from them signifies non-admission; but because those who are here treated of do admit something from the Word, it signifies casting out, or vomiting (that food, from correspondence, signifies knowledges and intelligence therefrom, may be seen in Arcana Coelestia 3114, 4459, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5340, 5342, 5410, 5426, 5576, 5582, 5588, 5655, 8562; for knowledges nourish the internal man, or spirit, as food nourishes the external man, or body, n. 4459, 5293, 5576, 6277, 8418); and from the signification of out of the mouth, when said of the Lord, as being out of the Word. The reason why out of the mouth, when said of the Lord, signifies the Word is, that the Word is Divine truth, and this proceeds from the Lord, and what proceeds from Him and flows into man is said to be out of the mouth, although it is not out of the mouth, but is as light from the sun. For the Lord above the heavens, where the angels are, appears as a Sun; and the light therefrom is Divine truth, from which angels and men have all their intelligence and wisdom (as may be seen in the work, Heaven and Hell 116-125, and 126-140). It is therefore evident that by I will spue thee out of my mouth, is signified to separate from Divine truth, or, what amounts to the same, from knowledges derived from the Word.

[2] That those who are lukewarm, that is, neither cold nor hot, as those are who live from the doctrine of faith alone and justification thereby, of which we have spoken just above, are separated from knowledges derived from the Word, is not known to themselves, for they believe that they possess knowledges more than all others; but still they do not, indeed, they have scarcely any knowledge. The reason of this is, that the principles of their doctrine and religion are false; and from false principles nothing but falsities follow; therefore, when reading the Word, they keep the mind fixed in their falsities; consequently they either do not see truths, or if they do, they pass by or falsify them. The false principles referred to are, that salvation is by faith alone, and that man is justified by that faith. Such persons might know, if they would, that they are separated from knowledges derived from the Word, and that they do not see truths. For what is more frequently said by the Lord than that they ought to keep His words, His commandments, and do His will; and that every one shall be rewarded according to his deeds; as also that the whole Word is founded upon two commandments, which are, to love God, and to love the neighbour, and that to love God is to do His precept (John 14:21, 23, 24)? That these must be done in order to salvation, is said a thousand times in both Testaments; also that to hear and to know them is to no purpose unless they are done. But do those who have confirmed themselves in faith alone, and justification thereby, see those things? and if they do see them, do they not falsify them? This is why such persons have no doctrine of life, but a doctrine of faith alone; when nevertheless it is the life that forms the man of the church, and those things become his faith which enter into his life.

[3] That such persons are separated from knowledges derived from the Word is evident also from this, that they do not know that they will live as men after the death of the body; that it is the spirit in them which lives; that heaven and also hell are from the human race; that they know nothing at all of heaven and heavenly joy; neither of hell and infernal fire; thus nothing about the spiritual world; nothing about the internal or spiritual sense of the Word; about the glorification of the Lord's Human; about regeneration; about temptation, and about Baptism and what it involves; nothing about the Holy Supper, and about what flesh and blood, or bread and wine, therein signify; nothing about free-will; nothing about the internal man; nothing about charity, the neighbour, good, and love; neither do they know what remission of sins is; besides many other things contained in the Word. I have also heard the angels say that, when they are permitted to look into the church and see those who believe themselves to be intelligent from doctrine, they see mere thick darkness, and such intelligent ones, as it were, deep under waves.

[4] There are two reasons why they are separated from knowledges derived from the Word. The first is that they cannot be enlightened from the Lord; for the Lord flows into the good of man, and from that good enlightens him in truths, that is, He flows into man's love, and thence into his faith. The other reason is that they profane truths by falsifications; and those who do this are separated from truths themselves while they live in the world, so that they do not know them; but in the other life they reject all the things which, during their abode in the world, they had known from the Word. Both these separations are meant by being vomited out of the mouth. Similar things are meant by vomiting elsewhere in the Word; as in the following passages; in Isaiah:

"Jehovah hath mingled in the midst of Egypt a spirit of perversities; whence they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, even as a drunkard goeth astray in his vomit " (19:14).

Egypt signifies the knowledge (scientia) of things, both spiritual and natural; by mingling in the midst thereof a spirit of perversities is signified to pervert and falsify those things; by a drunkard are signified those who are insane in spiritual things; and, inasmuch as truths mingled with falsities are cast out, it is therefore said, "as a drunkard goeth astray in his vomit." (That Egypt signifies knowledge (scientia), may be seen, Arcana Coelestia 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5700, 5702, 6015, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, 7296, and also the scientifics of the church, n. 7296, 9340, 9391; that the drunken signify those who are insane in spiritual things, n. 1072.)

[5] In Jeremiah:

"Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword" (25:27).

To drink and be drunken is to imbibe falsities and mingle them with truths, and hence to be insane; to spew and fall, is altogether to cast out things falsified; the sword because of which they shall rise no more, signifies falsity destroying and vastating truth (see Arcana Coelestia 2799, 4499, 7102). It is therefore evident what is meant by spewing and falling.

Again:

"Make Moab drunken, because he hath lifted himself up against Jehovah, that he may wallow in his vomit" (48:26).

Moab signifies those who adulterate the goods of the church wherefore vomiting is said of them.

[6] Also in Habakkuk:

"Woe unto him that maketh a companion to drink even in being drunken, that thou mayest look upon their nakednesses. Thou shalt be satiated with shame more than glory; drink thou, also, and let thy foreskin be discovered; the cup of Jehovah shall go about unto thee, so that shameful spewing shall be upon glory " (2:15, 16).

To drink in being drunken, also signifies to imbibe truths and mingle them with falsities; the nakednesses upon which they look signifies the deprivation of truth and of intelligence therefrom (see Arcana Coelestia 1073, 5433, 9960); the foreskin which shall be discovered, signifies the defilement of good (see Arcana Coelestia 2056, 3412, 3413, 4462, 7225, 7245); glory signifies Divine truth, consequently the Word (see Arcana Coelestia 4809, 5922, 8267, 8427, 9429). It is therefore evident what is signified by shameful spewing upon glory.

[7] In Isaiah:

"These err through wine; through strong drink they wander out of the way; the priest and the prophet err through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they err among the seeing, they stumble in judgment. Nay! all tables are full of the vomit of filthiness; there is no place. Whom shall he teach knowledge?" (28:7-9).

Here wine and strong drink, through which they are said to err, signify truths mingled with falsities; the priest and the prophet signify those who teach goods and truths, and, in the abstract, the goods and truths of the church; those who err among the seeing signify those who were about to see truths; to stumble in judgment signifies insanity; tables signify all those things which should nourish the spiritual life, for by tables are meant the food which is upon them, and food signifies all truths and goods, because these nourish spiritual life. Here, therefore, by tables being full of vomit and filthiness are signified the same things falsified and adulterated.

[8] In Moses:

"Defile not yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. And the land is defiled; therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants; that the land spew not you out also when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you" (Leviticus 18:24, 25, 28).

By the subject here treated of is meant all kinds of adulteries, by which, in the spiritual sense, are meant all kinds of adulterations of good and falsifications of truth, or profanations; and because evils and goods, as also falsities of evil and truths of good, cannot be together, but are cast out, therefore it is said that the land, that is the church, has vomited them out. From these things it is now evident what is signified by vomiting, I will vomit thee out of my mouth.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.