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Daniel 10

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1 ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSM ἐνιαυτός-N2--DSM ὁ- A--DSM πρῶτος-A1--DSMS *κῦρος-N2--GSM ὁ- A--GSM βασιλεύς-N3V-GSM *πέρσης-N1M-GPM πρόσταγμα-N3M-NSN δεικνύω-VCI-API3S ὁ- A--DSM *δανιηλ-N---DSM ὅς- --NSM ἐπικαλέω-VCI-API3S ὁ- A--NSN ὄνομα-N3M-NSN *βαλτασαρ-N---NSM καί-C ἀληθής-A3H-NSN ὁ- A--NSN ὅραμα-N3M-NSN καί-C ὁ- A--NSN πρόσταγμα-N3M-NSN καί-C ὁ- A--NSN πλῆθος-N3E-NSN ὁ- A--NSN ἰσχυρός-A1A-NSN διανοέομαι-VC--FPI3S ὁ- A--ASN πρόσταγμα-N3M-ASN καί-C διανοέομαι-VCI-API1S αὐτός- D--ASN ἐν-P ὅραμα-N3M-DSN

2 ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPF ἡμέρα-N1A-DPF ἐκεῖνος- D--DPF ἐγώ- P--NS *δανιηλ-N---NSM εἰμί-V9I-IMI1S πενθέω-V2--PAPNSM τρεῖς-A3--APF ἑβδομάς-N3D-APF

3 ἄρτος-N2--ASM ἐπιθυμία-N1A-GPF οὐ-D ἐσθίω-VBI-AAI1S καί-C κρέας-N3--NSN καί-C οἶνος-N2--NSM οὐ-D εἰςἔρχομαι-VBI-AAI3S εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASN στόμα-N3M-ASN ἐγώ- P--GS ἔλαιον-N2N-ASN οὐ-D ἀλείφω-VAI-AMI1S ἕως-P ὁ- A--GSN συντελέω-VA--AAN ἐγώ- P--AS ὁ- A--APF τρεῖς-A3--APF ἑβδομάς-N3D-APF ὁ- A--GPF ἡμέρα-N1A-GPF

4 καί-C γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S ὁ- A--DSF ἡμέρα-N1A-DSF ὁ- A--DSF τέταρτος-A1--DSF καί-C εἰκάς-N3D-DSF ὁ- A--GSM μήν-N3--GSM ὁ- A--GSM πρῶτος-A1--GSMS καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS εἰμί-V9I-IMI1S ἐπί-P ὁ- A--GSN χεῖλος-N3E-GSN ὁ- A--GSM ποταμός-N2--GSM ὁ- A--GSM μέγας-A1--GSM ὅς- --NSM εἰμί-V9--PAI3S *τίγρης-N---NS

5 καί-C αἴρω-VAI-AAI1S ὁ- A--APM ὀφθαλμός-N2--APM ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C ὁράω-VBI-AAI1S καί-C ἰδού-I ἄνθρωπος-N2--NSM εἷς-A3--NSM ἐνδύω-VM--XPPNSM βύσσινος-A1--APN καί-C ὁ- A--ASF ὀσφύς-N3U-ASF περιζώννυμι-VS--PPPNSM βύσσινος-A1--DSM καί-C ἐκ-P μέσος-A1--GSM αὐτός- D--GSM φῶς-N3T-ASN

6 καί-C ὁ- A--NSN σῶμα-N3M-NSN αὐτός- D--GSM ὡσεί-D θαρσις-N---NS καί-C ὁ- A--NSN πρόσωπον-N2N-NSN αὐτός- D--GSM ὡσεί-D ὅρασις-N3I-NSF ἀστραπή-N1--GSF καί-C ὁ- A--NPM ὀφθαλμός-N2--NPM αὐτός- D--GSM ὡσεί-D λαμπάς-N3D-NPF πῦρ-N3--GSN καί-C ὁ- A--NPM βραχίων-N3N-NPM αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C ὁ- A--NPM πούς-N3D-NPM ὡσεί-D χαλκός-N2--NSM ἐκἀστράπτω-V1--PAPNSM καί-C φωνή-N1--NSF λαλιά-N1A-GSF αὐτός- D--GSM ὡσεί-D φωνή-N1--NSF θόρυβος-N2--GSM

7 καί-C ὁράω-VBI-AAI1S ἐγώ- P--NS *δανιηλ-N---NSM ὁ- A--ASF ὅρασις-N3I-ASF ὁ- A--ASF μέγας-A1--ASF οὗτος- D--ASF καί-C ὁ- A--NPM ἄνθρωπος-N2--NPM ὁ- A--NPM εἰμί-V9--PAPNPM μετά-P ἐγώ- P--GS οὐ-D ὁράω-VBI-AAI3P ὁ- A--ASF ὅρασις-N3I-ASF οὗτος- D--ASF καί-C φόβος-N2--NSM ἰσχυρός-A1A-NSM ἐπιπίπτω-VAI-AAI3S ἐπί-P αὐτός- D--APM καί-C ἀποδιδράσκω-VBI-AAI3P ἐν-P σπουδή-N1--DSF

8 καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS καταλείπω-VVI-API1S μόνος-A1--NSM καί-C ὁράω-VBI-AAI1S ὁ- A--ASF ὅρασις-N3I-ASF ὁ- A--ASF μέγας-A1--ASF οὗτος- D--ASF καί-C οὐ-D ἐν καταλείπω-VVI-API3S ἐν-P ἐγώ- P--DS ἰσχύς-N3--NSF καί-C ἰδού-I πνεῦμα-N3M-ASN ἐπιστρέφω-VDI-API3S ἐπί-P ἐγώ- P--AS εἰς-P φθορά-N1A-ASF καί-C οὐ-D καταἰσχύω-VAI-AAI1S

9 καί-C οὐ-D ἀκούω-VAI-AAI1S ὁ- A--ASF φωνή-N1--ASF λαλιά-N1A-GSF αὐτός- D--GSM ἐγώ- P--NS εἰμί-V9I-IMI1S πίπτω-VX--XAPNSM ἐπί-P πρόσωπον-N2N-ASN ἐγώ- P--GS ἐπί-P ὁ- A--ASF γῆ-N1--ASF

10 καί-C ἰδού-I χείρ-N3--ASF προςἄγω-VBI-AAI3S ἐγώ- P--DS καί-C ἀγείρω-V1I-IAI3S ἐγώ- P--AS ἐπί-P ὁ- A--GPN γόνυ-N3--GPN ἐπί-P ὁ- A--APN ἴχνος-N3E-APN ὁ- A--GPM πούς-N3D-GPM ἐγώ- P--GS

11 καί-C εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S ἐγώ- P--DS *δανιηλ-N---NSM ἄνθρωπος-N2--NSM ἐλεεινός-A1--NSM εἰμί-V9--PAI2S διανοέομαι-VC--APD2S ὁ- A--DPN πρόσταγμα-N3M-DPN ὅς- --DPN ἐγώ- P--NS λαλέω-V2--PAI1S ἐπί-P σύ- P--AS καί-C ἵστημι-VH--AAD2S ἐπί-P ὁ- A--GSM τόπος-N2--GSM σύ- P--GS ἄρτι-D γάρ-X ἀποστέλλω-VDI-API1S ἐπί-P σύ- P--AS καί-C ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN λαλέω-VA--AAN αὐτός- D--ASM μετά-P ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--ASN πρόσταγμα-N3M-ASN οὗτος- D--ASN ἵστημι-VHI-AAI1S τρέμω-V1--PAPNSM

12 καί-C εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S πρός-P ἐγώ- P--AS μή-D φοβέω-V2--PMD2S *δανιηλ-N---VSM ὅτι-C ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GSF ἡμέρα-N1A-GSF ὁ- A--GSF πρῶτος-A1--GSFS ὅς- --GSF δίδωμι-VAI-AAI2S ὁ- A--ASN πρόσωπον-N2N-ASN σύ- P--GS διανοέομαι-VC--APN καί-C ταπεινόω-VC--APN ἐναντίον-P κύριος-N2--GSM ὁ- A--GSM θεός-N2--GSM σύ- P--GS εἰςἀκούω-VSI-API3S ὁ- A--NSN ῥῆμα-N3M-NSN σύ- P--GS καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS εἰςἔρχομαι-VBI-AAI1S ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN ῥῆμα-N3M-DSN σύ- P--GS

13 καί-C ὁ- A--NSM στρατηγός-N2--NSM βασιλεύς-N3V-GSM *πέρσης-N1M-GPM ἀντιἵστημι-VXI-XAI3S ἐναντίον-P ἐγώ- P--GS εἴκοσι-M καί-C εἷς-A1A-ASF ἡμέρα-N1A-ASF καί-C ἰδού-I *μιχαηλ-N---NSM εἷς-A3--NSM ὁ- A--GPM ἄρχων-N3--GPM ὁ- A--GPM πρῶτος-A1--GPMS ἐπιἔρχομαι-VBI-AAI3S βοηθέω-VA--AAN ἐγώ- P--DS καί-C αὐτός- D--ASM ἐκεῖ-D καταλείπω-VBI-AAI3P μετά-P ὁ- A--GSM στρατηγός-N2--GSM ὁ- A--GSM βασιλεύς-N3V-GSM *πέρσης-N1M-GPM

14 καί-C εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S ἐγώ- P--DS ἔρχομαι-VBI-AAI1S ὑποδεικνύω-VA--AAN σύ- P--DS τίς- I--NSN ὑποἀντάω-VF--FMI3S ὁ- A--DSM λαός-N2--DSM σύ- P--GS ἐπί-P ἔσχατος-A1--GSM ὁ- A--GPF ἡμέρα-N1A-GPF ἔτι-D γάρ-X ὅρασις-N3I-NSF εἰς-P ἡμέρα-N1A-APF

15 καί-C ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN αὐτός- D--ASM λαλέω-VA--AAN μετά-P ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--APN πρόσταγμα-N3M-APN οὗτος- D--APN δίδωμι-VAI-AAI1S ὁ- A--ASN πρόσωπον-N2N-ASN ἐγώ- P--GS ἐπί-P ὁ- A--ASF γῆ-N1--ASF καί-C σιωπάω-VAI-AAI1S

16 καί-C ἰδού-I ὡς-C ὁμοίωσις-N3I-NSF χείρ-N3--GSF ἄνθρωπος-N2--GSM ἅπτομαι-VAI-AMI3S ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--GPN χεῖλος-N3E-GPN καί-C ἀναοἴγω-VAI-AAI1S ὁ- A--ASN στόμα-N3M-ASN ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C λαλέω-VAI-AAI1S καί-C εἶπον-VAI-AAI1S ὁ- A--DSM ἵστημι-VXI-XAPDSM ἀπέναντι-P ἐγώ- P--GS κύριος-N2--VSM καί-C ὡς-C ὅρασις-N3I-NSF ἀποστρέφω-VDI-API3S ἐπί-P ὁ- A--ASN πλευρόν-N2N-ASN ἐγώ- P--GS ἐπί-P ἐγώ- P--AS καί-C οὐ-D εἰμί-V9I-IAI3S ἐν-P ἐγώ- P--DS ἰσχύς-N3--NSF

17 καί-C πῶς-D δύναμαι-VF--FMI3S ὁ- A--NSM παῖς-N3D-NSM λαλέω-VA--AAN μετά-P ὁ- A--GSM κύριος-N2--GSM αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS ἀσθενέω-VAI-AAI1S καί-C οὐ-D εἰμί-V9--PAI3S ἐν-P ἐγώ- P--DS ἰσχύς-N3--NSF καί-C πνεῦμα-N3M-NSN οὐ-D καταλείπω-VVI-API3S ἐν-P ἐγώ- P--DS

18 καί-C προςτίθημι-VAI-AAI3S καί-C ἅπτομαι-VAI-AMI3S ἐγώ- P--GS ὡς-C ὅρασις-N3I-NSF ἄνθρωπος-N2--GSM καί-C καταἰσχύω-VAI-AAI3S ἐγώ- P--AS

19 καί-C εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S ἐγώ- P--DS ἄνθρωπος-N2--NSM ἐλεεινός-A1--NSM εἰμί-V9--PAI2S μή-D φοβέω-V2--PMD2S ὑγιαίνω-V1--PAD2S ἀνδρίζομαι-V1--PMD2S καί-C ἰσχύω-V1--PAD2S καί-C ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN λαλέω-VA--AAN αὐτός- D--ASM μετά-P ἐγώ- P--GS ἰσχύω-VAI-AAI1S καί-C εἶπον-VAI-AAI1S λαλέω-VA--AAD3S ὁ- A--NSM κύριος-N2--NSM ἐγώ- P--GS ὅτι-C ἐνἰσχύω-VAI-AAI3S ἐγώ- P--AS

20 καί-C εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S πρός-P ἐγώ- P--AS γιγνώσκω-V1--PAI2S τίς- I--ASN ἔρχομαι-VBI-AAI1S πρός-P σύ- P--AS καί-C νῦν-D ἐπιστρέφω-VF--FAI1S διαμάχομαι-V1--PMN μετά-P ὁ- A--GSM στρατηγός-N2--GSM βασιλεύς-N3V-GSM ὁ- A--GPM *πέρσης-N1M-GPM καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS ἐκπορεύομαι-V1I-IMI1S καί-C ἰδού-I στρατηγός-N2--NSM *ἕλλην-N---GPM εἰςπορεύομαι-V1I-IMI3S

21 καί-C μάλα-D ὑποδεικνύω-VF--FAI1S σύ- P--DS ὁ- A--APN πρῶτος-A1--APNS ἐν-P ἀπογραφή-N1--DSF ἀλήθεια-N1A-GSF καί-C οὐδείς-A3--NSM εἰμί-V9--IAI3S ὁ- A--NSM βοηθέω-V2--PAPNSM μετά-P ἐγώ- P--GS ὑπέρ-P οὗτος- D--GPN ἀλλά-C ἤ-C *μιχαηλ-N---NSM ὁ- A--NSM ἄγγελος-N2--NSM

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #500

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500. The beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. This symbolically means that those people who are caught up in the interior tenets of the doctrine regarding faith alone will oppose these two essential elements of the New Church, attack them, and reject them, in themselves and, as far as they are able, in others.

The beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit means the people who ascended out of the bottomless pit having the appearance of locusts in Revelation 9:1-12. That they were people caught up in the interior tenets of the doctrine regarding faith alone may be seen in the exposition there. To make war means, symbolically, to oppose and attack these two essential elements of the church, as we shall see next. To overcome them and kill them means, symbolically, to reject them and root them out, in themselves and, as far as they are able, in others.

[2] People caught up in the interior tenets of the doctrine regarding faith alone will attack and reject these two essential elements because they have established in themselves two ideas contrary to them, first, that it is not the Lord but God the Father to whom they should turn; and secondly, that a life in accordance with the Ten Commandments is not a spiritual life, but simply a moral and civic life, and they maintain this to keep anyone from believing that he is saved by works rather than by their faith alone.

All those people who in schools and universities have deeply impressed these dogmas on their minds do not afterward turn away from them. There are three reasons for this, hitherto unknown. First, they have introduced themselves as to their spirit into association with people in the spiritual world like themselves, where there are many satanic spirits who find delight only in falsities, and from these spirits they cannot possibly be set free unless they reject those falsities. Nor can they do that unless they turn to God the Savior directly and begin to live a Christian life in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

[3] The second reason is their belief that they are granted instant forgiveness for their sins and thus salvation in the act of faith, and afterward in the state or progression of it through the same act continued, preserved and retained by the Holy Spirit, apart from any exercises of charity. After that, then, once people have imbibed these ideas, they regard their sins as of no account in the sight of God, and so continue in their impure lives.

Moreover, because they know how to cleverly defend such ideas with falsifications of the Word in the presence of uneducated listeners, and with fallacious arguments in the presence of learned ones, we are told here that the beast from the bottomless pit overcame and killed the two witnesses. But this is the case only with people who love to live self-indulgently and are carried away by the delights of their appetites. Whenever these people think about salvation, they harbor at heart their lusts, and with both hands embrace that faith of theirs, because then they can be saved by uttering certain words in a confident tone and do not have to attend to anything having to do with their life for God's sake, but only for the sake of the world.

[4] The third reason is that people who in their youth have imbibed the interior tenets of that faith, called the mysteries of justification, when afterward promoted to a respectable ministry, do not think to themselves about God and heaven, but about themselves and the world, retaining the mysteries of their faith only for the sake of their reputation so as to be respected as wise, and because of their wisdom, accounted worthy to be rewarded with riches.

Such is the case as a result of that faith because it has nothing of religion in it. The reality of this may be seen in the third narrative account above, in no. 484.

[5] That wars in the Word symbolize spiritual wars, which are attacks on truth and are waged by reasonings based on falsities, is clear from the following passages:

...spirits of demons... go out... to gather them for war on the great day of God Almighty. (Revelation 16:14)

...the dragon was angry with the woman, and it went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelation 12:17)

It was granted to (the dragon's beast) to make war with the saints... (Revelation 13:7)

Prepare holy war against (the daughter of Zion)..., and let us go up at noon. (Jeremiah 6:4)

You have not gone up into the breaches... to stand in battle on the day of Jehovah. (Ezekiel 13:5)

In Salem is (God's) tabernacle, and His dwelling place in Zion, where He broke the flaming arrows, the bow... and... war. (Psalms 76:2-3)

Jehovah shall go forth like a mighty man; He shall stir up zeal like a man of war. (Isaiah 42:13, cf. Psalms 24:8)

In that day Jehovah... will be... for a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, ...to those who turn back the battle at the gate. (Isaiah 28:5-6)

Deliver me... from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man... All day they gather for war. They sharpen their tongues like serpents. (Psalms 140:1-3)

...many will come in My name, saying, "I am the Christ," and will lead many astray. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled. (Matthew 24:5-7, cf. Mark 13:6-8, Luke 21:8-10)

The wars of the kings of the north and south and other wars in Daniel 10, 11, and 12 symbolize no other than spiritual wars. And so, too, the wars in other places, as in Isaiah 2:3-5, 13:4, 21:14-15, 31:4; Jeremiah 49:25-26; Hosea 2:18; Zechariah 10:5, 14:3; Psalm 18:35 1 , 46:8-9.

[6] As wars in the Word symbolize spiritual wars, therefore the ministry of the Levites was called military service, as is apparent from the following, that the command was given for the Levites to be numbered, to "perform military service, to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting" (Numbers 4:23, 35, 39, 43, 47).

This is the service of the Levites: ...to perform military service in the ministry of the tabernacle of meeting; but at the age of fifty years he must cease the military service, and shall minister no more. (Numbers 8:24-25)

See also no. 447 above, where we established from the Word that armies symbolize the church's goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, its evils and falsities.

Footnotes:

1. The citation in the first edition is in error. Either this or Psalms 27:3 was perhaps intended.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.