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ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ τοῦ δικαίου οὐκ ἐπορεύθη ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων ἔφαγεν καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ ἐμίανεν
Ezekiel 18:11
Doctrine of the Lord #49
49. Spirit means the life of a regenerate person, the life called spiritual life:
Jesus (said), “...unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. (John 3:5)
I will give you a new heart and...a new spirit.... I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes.... (Ezekiel 36:26-27)
(On giving a new) heart and...a new spirit.... (Ezekiel 11:19)
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.... Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and let a willing spirit uphold me. (Psalms 51:10-12)
...make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel? (Ezekel 18:31)
You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth. (Psalms 104:30)
...the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. (John 4:23)
(Jehovah God) gives breath to the people..., and spirit to those who walk on [the earth]. (Isaiah 42:5)
(Jehovah) forms the spirit of man within him. (Zechariah 12:1)
With my soul I have awaited You in the night..., with my spirit within me I have awaited You in the morning. (Isaiah 26:9)
In that day Jehovah...will be for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment.... (Isaiah 28:5-6)
My spirit has rejoiced over God my Savior. (Luke 1:47)
...they have given my spirit rest in the north country. (Zechariah 6:8)
Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me.... (Psalms 31:5)
Did He not make them one, and the rest who had spirit [i.e., breath ]? (Malachi 2:15)
After three and a half days the spirit of life [i.e., the breath of life ] from God entered (the two witnesses slain by the beast). (Revelation 11:11)
(I, Jehovah,) the former of mountains, and the creator of spirit [i.e., the wind ].... (Amos 4:13)
O God, the God of the spirits as regards all flesh.... (Numbers 16:22, cf. 27:16)
I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitant of Jerusalem a spirit (from on high).... (Zechariah 12:10)
...until He has poured out upon us a spirit from on high.... (Isaiah 32:15)
...I will pour out water on the thirsty, and streams on dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your posterity.... (Isaiah 44:3)
...I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh.... Also on My menservants and maidservants in those days I will pour out My Spirit. (Joel 2:28-29)
To pour out the spirit means to regenerate. The same is meant by giving a new heart and a new spirit.
[2] Spirit means the spiritual life in people who are in a state of humility:
I dwell in...a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. (Isaiah 57:15)
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart God does not spurn. (Psalms 51:17)
(He will) give them...the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a cloak of praise instead of a shrunken spirit. (Isaiah 61:3)
...a woman forsaken and afflicted in spirit.... (Isaiah 54:6)
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3)
Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.
Zechariah 12
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An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
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"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
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It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
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In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
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The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.'
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In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
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Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
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In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.
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It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
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I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
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In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
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The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
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the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
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all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
