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1 제 십년 시월 십 이일에 여호와의 말씀이 내게 임하여 가라사대

2 인자야 너는 애굽 왕 바로와 온 애굽으로 낯을 향하고 쳐서 예언하라

3 너는 말하여 이르기를 주 여호와의 말씀에 애굽왕 바로야 내가 너를 대적하노라 너는 자기의 강들 중에 누운 큰 악어라 스스로 이르기를 내 이 강은 내 것이라 내가 나를 위하여 만들었다 하는도다

4 내가 갈고리로 네 아가미를 꿰고 네 강의 고기로 네 비늘에 붙게하고 네 비늘에 붙은 강의 모든 고기와 함께 너를 네 강들 중에서 끌어내고

5 너와 네 강의 모든 고기를 들에 던지리니 네가 지면에 떨어지고 다시는 거두거나 모음을 입지 못할 것은 내가 너를 들짐승과 공중의 새의 식물로 주었음이라

6 애굽의 모든 거민이 나를 여호와인 줄 알리라 애굽은 본래 이스라엘 족속에게 갈대 지팡이라

7 그들이 너를 손으로 잡은즉 네가 부러져서 그들의 모든 어깨를 찢었고 그들이 너를 의지한즉 네가 부러져서 그들의 모든 허리로 흔들리게 하였느니라

8 그러므로 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 내가 칼로 네게 임하게 하여 네게서 사람과 짐승을 끊은즉

9 애굽 땅이 사막과 황무지가 되리니 그들이 나를 여호와인 줄 알리라 네가 스스로 이르기를 이 강은 내 것이라 내가 만들었다 하도다

10 그러므로 내가 너와 네 강들을 쳐서 애굽 땅 믹돌에서부터 수에네 곧 구스 지경까지 황무한 황무지 곧 사막이 되게 하리니

11 그 가운데로 사람의 발도 지나가지 아니하며 짐승의 발도 지나가지 아니하고 거접하는 사람이 없이 사십년이 지날지라

12 내가 애굽땅으로 황무한 열국 같이 황무하게 하며 애굽 성읍도 사막이 된 열국의 성읍 같이 사십년 동안 황무하게 하고 애굽 사람들은 각국 가운데로 흩으며 열방 가운데로 헤치리라

13 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 사십년 끝에 내가 만민 중에 흩은 애굽사람을 다시 모아 내되

14 애굽의 사로잡힌 자들을 돌이켜 바드로스 땅 곧 그 고토로 돌아가게 할 것이라 그들이 거기서 미약한 나라가 되되

15 나라 중에 지극히 미약한 나라가 되어 다시는 열국 위에 스스로 높이지 못하리니 내가 그들을 감하여 다시는 열국을 다스리지 못하게 할 것임이라

16 그들이 다시는 이스라엘 족속의 의뢰가 되지 못할 것이요 이스라엘 족속은 돌이켜 그들을 바라보지 아니하므로 그 죄악이 기억나게 되지 아니하리니 그들이 나를 주 여호와인 줄 알리라 하셨다 하라

17 제 이십 칠년 정월 초 일일에 여호와의 말씀이 내게 임하여 가라사대

18 인자야 바벨론 왕 느부갓네살이 그 군대로 두로를 치게 할 때에 크게 수고하여 각 머리털이 무지러졌고 각 어깨가 벗어졌으나 그와 군대가 그 수고한 보수를 두로에서 얻지 못하였느니라

19 그러므로 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 내가 애굽 땅을 바벨론 왕 느부갓네살에게 붙이리니 그가 그 무리를 옮겨가며 물건을 노략하며 빼앗아 갈 것이라 이것이 그 군대의 보수가 되리라

20 그들의 수고는 나를 위하여 함인즉 그 보수로 내가 애굽 땅을 그에게 주었느니라 나 주 여호와의 말이니라

21 그 날에 내가 이스라엘 족속에게 한 뿔이 솟아나게 하고 내가 또 너로 그들 중에서 입을 열게 하리니 그들이 나를 여호와인줄 알리라

   

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De Verbo (The Word) #10

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10. X. The ultimate sense of the Word, 1 which is the literal sense alone, corresponds to the beard and hair of the head of an angelic person.

It may seem surprising the first time it is said or we hear it said that the hair of the head and the beard correspond to the Word at its ultimate level. But this correspondence is due to the fact that everything in the Word corresponds to everything in heaven, and heaven corresponds to everything in a person. For heaven taken as a whole is like a single person in the Lord's sight; on this correspondence see Heaven and Hell [87-102, 307].

[2] I was allowed to perceive that everything in the Word corresponds to everything in heaven from the fact that each chapter in the books of the prophets corresponds to one particular community in heaven. For on reading through the prophetic parts of the word from Isaiah to Malachi, I was allowed to see that the communities of heaven were aroused one after the other, and they perceived the spiritual sense which corresponded to them. So from this and other proofs it was plain to me that the whole of heaven has, part by part, a correspondence to the Word. Now since there is such a correspondence of the Word to heaven, and heaven as a whole and in its parts corresponds to a person, this is why the ultimate level of the Word corresponds to the ultimate in a person. The ultimate level in the Word is the literal sense, and the ultimate level in a person is the hair of his head and his beard.

[3] This is why when people who have loved the Word even at its ultimate level after death become spirits, they are to be seen with a fair head of hair; and so are the angels. When these same people become angels, they also let their beards grow. On the other hand, all who have despised the literal sense of the Word, on becoming spirits after death, turn bald. This is also a sign that they are devoid of truths. So to avoid embarrassing others, they cover their heads with a head-dress.

[4] Since the hair and the beard mean the ultimate level of heaven, and so also the ultimate level of Divine Truth or the Word, the Ancient of Days is described as having the hair of his head like clean wool (Daniel 7:9). Likewise the Son of Man or the Lord as regards the Word (Revelation 1:14). For the same reason the strength of Samson lay in his hair, and he was weakened by having it cut off. The condition of a Nazarite also lay in his hair; for the Nazarite represented the Lord at His ultimate level, and so also heaven at its ultimate level. This was the reason why the forty-two children were torn in pieces by bears for calling Elisha bald (2 Kings 2:23-24).

[5] Elisha, like Elijah and the other prophets, represented the Lord as regards the Word; and the Word without its ultimate, that is, its literal sense, is no longer the Word. For the literal sense of the Word is like a bottle filled with fine wine; so if the bottle is broken, all the wine is lost. The literal sense of the Word is like the bones and skin of the human body; take them away and the whole person falls to pieces. That is why what holds the Word together and in fact gives it its power is its ultimate sense, the literal sense; for this sustains and holds together all the Divine truth it contains.

[6] Since baldness means the absence of truth, when the Jewish church, since it lacks the ultimate level, abandoned Jehovah and despised the Word, it was called bald, as in Jeremiah:

Every head is bald and every beard is shorn. Jeremiah 48:37.

In Isaiah:

Baldness on their heads, and a shorn beard. Isaiah 15:2.

In Ezekiel:

To shave his head and beard with a razor. Ezekiel 5:1.

Shame on all their faces, and baldness on all heads. Ezekiel 7:18.

Every head has been made bald. Ezekiel 29:18.

And in other places, such as Amos 8:10, Micah 1:16.

[7] But the sense of the Word known as the literal sense corresponds at its ultimate level to the hair of the head, but in other respects to various parts of the human body, as its head, chest, loins and feet. But where those correspondences occur in that sense, the Word is so to speak clothed, and so corresponds to the clothing of those parts. For in general clothes mean truths, and really correspond to them. But there are still many things in the literal sense of the Word which are bare and so to speak unclothed; and they correspond to a person's face and his hands, which are the parts left uncovered. Those parts of the Word serve for the teaching of the church, because they are in themselves spiritual-natural truths. From this it can be established that there is no obstacle to prevent a person being able to find and see bare truths there too.

Footnotes:

1. Added in the margin: 'As the result of the correspondence between natural and spiritual things the ultimate sense of the Word is to be understood by the twelve precious stones composing the foundations of the wall of the New Jerusalem'.

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