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Jérémie 51:47

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47 C'est pourquoi voici, les jours viennent que je punirai les images taillées de Babylone, et tout son pays sera rendu honteux, et tous ses blessés à mort tomberont au milieu d'elle.

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Scriptural Confirmations #98

  
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98. 5. I will deliver thee out of the hand of the evil, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the violent (Jeremiah 15:21).

Jehovah will gather Israel, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, and freed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he (Jeremiah 31:10-11). Throughout the whole of this chapter, and also Chapter 33, the redemption and liberation of men of the church is treated of. But in the former chapters from the first up to this one the vastation of the church is treated of.

Behold the days come in which I will make a new covenant; not according to the covenant that I have made, for they have made void this covenant. But this shall be the covenant that I will make after those days, I will put My law in their midst, and I will write it upon their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Nor shall they teach, a man his companion, nor a man his brother; Know Jehovah: for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them (Jeremiah 31:31-34, 38). This is said of the New Church after redemption.

N. B. That is the day of the Lord Jehovih of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may take vengeance on His adversaries (Jeremiah 46:10).

Because the day of calamity shall come upon Egypt, the time of their visitation (Jeremiah 46:21).

Their Redeemer is strong, Jehovah of Hosts is His name (Jeremiah 50:34).

Concerning the day of the visitation upon Babylon, in which vengeance must be taken upon it (Jeremiah 50:18, 27-28, 31).

The time of the vengeance of Jehovah, and of retribution (Jeremiah 51:6).

Jehovah of Hosts is the Former of all things, and of the rod of His inheritance by which He will do judgment (Jeremiah 51:19-23).

It is also called the time of the harvest of Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel (Jeremiah 51:33).

The day of the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of His temple (Jeremiah 51:11).

The days in which He will visit upon Babylon (Jeremiah 51:44, 47, 52).

It is called the day of evil (Jeremiah 51:2).

  
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Arcana Coelestia #10635

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10635. 'And all the people in whose midst you are will see the work of Jehovah' means that all who accept the Word will acknowledge the Divine within it. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as the Word, dealt with in the places referred to in 9372, so that 'the people in whose midst he is' means the Church where the Word exists, thus all who accept the Word, for others do not acknowledge the Divine within it; and from the meaning of 'seeing the work of Jehovah' as acknowledging the Divine within it. It is self-evident that such things are meant, for all within the Church who lead a good life acknowledge the Divine within the Word. The reason why they do so is that a holy influence from heaven enters them when they read the Word, although they do not know that correspondences are the means through which it comes to them. Furthermore this influence which depends on correspondences is not detected except as a general feeling of holiness occupying the mind. The situation is different in the case of those who do not lead a good life; in their case the internal through which influences from heaven come is closed.

  
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