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Jeremija 39

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1 Ja kui Jeruusalemm oli vallutatud - Juuda kuninga Sidkija üheksandal aastal kümnendas kuus oli Paabeli kuningas Nebukadnetsar ja kogu tema sõjavägi tulnud Jeruusalemma vastu ja oli asunud seda piirama,

2 ja oli Sidkija üheteistkümnendal aastal neljanda kuu üheksandal päeval tunginud linna sisse -,

3 siis tulid kõik Paabeli kuninga vürstid ja asusid keskmisse väravasse: Neergal Sar-Eser, Samgar-Nebo, Sar-Sekim, ülemkammerhärra, Neergal Sar-Eser, ülemmaag, ja kõik muud Paabeli kuninga vürstid.

4 Aga kui Juuda kuningas Sidkija ja kõik sõjamehed nägid neid, siis nad põgenesid ja läksid öösel linnast välja mööda kuninga rohuaia teed läbi müüridevahelise värava; ta läks välja lagendiku suunas.

5 Ent kaldealaste sõjavägi ajas neid taga ja nad said Sidkija kätte Jeeriko lagendikel; nad võtsid ta kinni ja viisid Riblasse, Hamatimaale, Paabeli kuninga Nebukadnetsari juurde, kes mõistis tema üle kohut.

6 Ja Paabeli kuningas laskis tappa Sidkija pojad Riblas tema silme ees; Paabeli kuningas tappis ka kõik Juuda suurnikud.

7 Ja ta tegi Sidkija silmad pimedaks ning aheldas ta vaskahelaisse, et viia ta Paabelisse.

8 Ja kaldealased põletasid tulega kuningakoja ja rahva kojad ning kiskusid maha Jeruusalemma müürid.

9 Ja rahva säilinud osa, kes oli linna alles jäänud, ja ülejooksikud, kes olid tema poole üle jooksnud, ja muud rahva riismed viis ihukaitsepealik Nebusaradan vangi Paabelisse.

10 Aga osa vaesemast rahvast, kellel midagi ei olnud, jättis ihukaitsepealik Nebusaradan Juudamaale ja andis neile samal ajal viinamägesid ning põlde.

11 Ja Paabeli kuningas Nebukadnetsar oli andnud ihukaitsepealikule Nebusaradanile Jeremija kohta käsu, öeldes:

12 'Võta tema ja kanna hoolt tema eest, ära tee talle midagi kurja, vaid talita temaga nõnda, nagu ta ise sulle ütleb!'

13 Siis ihukaitsepealik Nebusaradan, ülemkammerhärra Nebusasban, ülemmaag Neergal Sar-Eser ja kõik Paabeli kuninga pealikud läkitasid talle järele -

14 nad läkitasid talle järele ja lasksid tuua Jeremija vahtkonnaõuest ning andsid tema Gedalja, Saafani poja Ahikami poja hoolde, et ta viiks tema oma kotta; nõnda jäi ta rahva keskele.

15 Ja Issanda sõna oli tulnud Jeremijale, kui teda vahtkonnaõues kinni peeti; ta oli öelnud:

16 'Mine ja räägi etiooplase Ebed-Melekiga ning ütle: Nõnda ütleb vägede Issand, Iisraeli Jumal: Vaata, ma teen tõeks oma sõnad selle linna kohta, õnnetuseks, aga mitte õnneks, ja sel päeval sünnib see sinu nähes.

17 Aga sinu ma päästan sel päeval, ütleb Issand, ja sind ei anta nende meeste kätte, keda sa kardad.

18 Sest ma päästan su tõesti, nõnda et sa ei lange mõõga läbi, vaid saad enesele osaks oma hinge, sellepärast et sa oled lootnud minu peale, ütleb Issand.'

   

From Swedenborg's Works

 

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #105

  
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105. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 39

1-3 By reasonings from falsities the remnants of doctrine will perish. (2)

4-8 They have been wholly falsified, even until there is no truth in them. (2)

9-10 The simple understanding of the Word had not yet been devastated, (2, 3)

11-14 because they were not in reasonings from falsities, but only in externals of doctrine. (2, 11)

15-18 The remnant of doctrine will be falsified, but not yet. (2)

  
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From Swedenborg's Works

 

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #0

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Table of Subjects 1

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1. The Lord's advent.

2. The successive vastation of the church.

3. The church totally devastated, and its rejection.

4. The rejection of the Lord by the church.

5. Temptations of the Lord in general.

6. Temptation even to despair.

7. The combats of the Lord with the hells.

8. Victory over them, or their subjugation.

9. The passion of the cross.

10. The glorification of the Human of the Lord, or its union with the Divine.

11. A new church in place of the former.

12. A new church together with a new heaven.

13. The state of humiliation before the Father.

14. 2

15. A last judgment by the Lord.

16. Celebration and worship of the Lord.

17. Redemption and salvation by the Lord.

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Editor's Introduction: In this work, Emanuel Swedenborg outlined the internal meaning of all the Prophetical Books, from Isaiah to Malachi, and the Psalms, and then the first 16 chapters of Genesis. It provides a survey of the inner meaning of a substantial portion of the Old Testament, in one place.

This work was written by Swedenborg in Latin, in 1761. It was translated from Latin into English by Rev. J. E. Schreck, and this translation was published by the Swedenborg Foundation, in New York, in 1900. This modified version of Schreck's 1900 translation does not update the text; instead just modifying numbering and formatting for clarity of use online.

Each chapter of each book of the Prophets has one corresponding numbered section in Swedenborg's explanation of its inner meaning, or internal sense. Swedenborg listed the verses that relate to each outlined point. We have added hyperlinks to the verse references, shown to the left of each outlined point. The Psalms and initial chapters of Genesis are treated in a similar fashion.

This work was not published by Swedenborg, but it is consistent with other more detailed treatments made in his published works. For example, Swedenborg refers to this work in Doctrine of the Lord 37.

Readers may also find these comparisons useful:

- No. 124 of this work, explaining Ezekiel 1, with The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture 97,

- Nos. 161, 162, explaining Ezekiel 38, and 39, with Apocalypse Revealed 859,

- No. 236, explaining Zechariah 4, with Apocalypse Revealed 43, and

- Nos. 244-246 of this work, explaining Zechariah 12, 13, 14, with Apocalypse Revealed 707.

In the manuscript, at the beginning, Swedenborg wrote out a list of works that he intended to write and publish. While it's clearly related to the project of outlining the internal meaning of the Prophets, Psalms, and historical parts of the Word, it seems to be an independent list. We reproduce Rev. Schreck's translation of that list here:

"To Be Published:

1. Concerning the Lord.

2. Concerning the Sacred Scripture or concerning the Word of the Lord.

3. All things of religion and of the worship of God in one complex in the Decalogue.

4. Concerning Faith.

5. Angelic wisdom concerning the Divine Providence.

6. Angelic wisdom concerning the Divine omnipotence and omniscience, and concerning infinity and eternity.

7. Angelic wisdom concerning life.

8. Angelic wisdom concerning the Divine love and Divine wisdom."

Footnotes:

1. In the original Latin manuscript, Swedenborg cross-referred the outlined internal sense to a more general Table of Subjects, shown above. In the following passages, those references are shown in parentheses, e.g. (3) would refer to subject number 3 above. We received the Latin text for this "front matter" from the Heavenly Doctrines Publishing Foundation.

2. Editor's Note (Schreck): No. 14 is crossed out by Swedenborg in his MS., and is never referred to in the text. It reads, "The state of unition with His Divine," which is the same as No. 10.

Doctrine of the Lord 3 for an outline of a similar set of themes that form the internal sense of the prophetical books.

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