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Ezekiel 28

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1 καί-C γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S λόγος-N2--NSM κύριος-N2--GSM πρός-P ἐγώ- P--AS λέγω-V1--PAPNSM

2 καί-C σύ- P--NS υἱός-N2--VSM ἄνθρωπος-N2--GSM εἶπον-VB--AAD2S ὁ- A--DSM ἄρχων-N3--DSM *τύρος-N2--GSF ὅδε- D--APN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ἀντί-P ὅς- --GPM ὑψόω-VCI-API3S σύ- P--GS ὁ- A--NSF καρδία-N1A-NSF καί-C εἶπον-VAI-AAI2S θεός-N2--NSM εἰμί-V9--PAI1S ἐγώ- P--NS κατοικία-N1A-ASF θεός-N2--GSM καταοἰκέω-VX--XAI1S ἐν-P καρδία-N1A-DSF θάλασσα-N1S-GSF σύ- P--NS δέ-X εἰμί-V9--PAI2S ἄνθρωπος-N2--NSM καί-C οὐ-D θεός-N2--NSM καί-C δίδωμι-VAI-AAI2S ὁ- A--ASF καρδία-N1A-ASF σύ- P--GS ὡς-C καρδία-N1A-ASF θεός-N2--GSM

3 μή-D σοφός-A1--NSMC εἰμί-V9--PAI2S σύ- P--NS ὁ- A--GSM *δανιηλ-N---GSM σοφός-A1--NPM οὐ-D παιδεύω-VAI-AAI3P σύ- P--AS ὁ- A--DSF ἐπιστήμη-N1--DSF αὐτός- D--GPM

4 μή-D ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF ἐπιστήμη-N1--DSF σύ- P--GS ἤ-C ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF φρόνησις-N3I-DSF σύ- P--GS ποιέω-VAI-AAI2S σεαυτοῦ- D--DSM δύναμις-N3I-ASF καί-C χρυσίον-N2N-ASN καί-C ἀργύριον-N2N-ASN ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPM θησαυρός-N2--DPM σύ- P--GS

5 ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF πολύς-A1--DSF ἐπιστήμη-N1--DSF σύ- P--GS καί-C ἐμπορία-N1A-DSF σύ- P--GS πληθύνω-VAI-AAI2S δύναμις-N3I-ASF σύ- P--GS ὑψόω-VCI-API3S ὁ- A--NSF καρδία-N1A-NSF σύ- P--GS ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF δύναμις-N3I-DSF σύ- P--GS

6 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ὅδε- D--APN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ἐπειδή-C δίδωμι-VX--XAI2S ὁ- A--ASF καρδία-N1A-ASF σύ- P--GS ὡς-C καρδία-N1A-ASF θεός-N2--GSM

7 ἀντί-P οὗτος- D--GSM ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS ἐπιἄγω-V1--PAI1S ἐπί-P σύ- P--AS ἀλλότριος-A1A-APM λοιμός-N2--APM ἀπό-P ἔθνος-N3E-GPN καί-C ἐκκενόω-VF--FAI3P ὁ- A--APF μάχαιρα-N1--APF αὐτός- D--GPM ἐπί-P σύ- P--AS καί-C ἐπί-P ὁ- A--ASN κάλλος-N3E-ASN ὁ- A--GSF ἐπιστήμη-N1--GSF σύ- P--GS καί-C ὑποστρωννύω-VF--FAI3P ὁ- A--ASN κάλλος-N3E-ASN σύ- P--GS εἰς-P ἀπώλεια-N1A-ASF

8 καί-C καταβιβάζω-VF--FAI3P σύ- P--AS καί-C ἀποθνήσκω-VF2-FMI2S θάνατος-N2--DSM τραυματίας-N1T-GPM ἐν-P καρδία-N1A-DSF θάλασσα-N1S-GSF

9 μή-D λέγω-V1--PAPNSM εἶπον-VF2-FAI2S θεός-N2--NSM εἰμί-V9--PAI1S ἐγώ- P--NS ἐνώπιον-P ὁ- A--GPM ἀνααἱρέω-V2--PAPGPM σύ- P--AS σύ- P--NS δέ-X εἰμί-V9--PAI2S ἄνθρωπος-N2--NSM καί-C οὐ-D θεός-N2--NSM ἐν-P πλῆθος-N3E-DSN

10 ἀπερίτμητος-A1B-GPM ἀποὀλλύω-VF2-FMI2S ἐν-P χείρ-N3--DPF ἀλλότριος-A1A-GPM ὅτι-C ἐγώ- P--NS λαλέω-VAI-AAI1S λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM

11 καί-C γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S λόγος-N2--NSM κύριος-N2--GSM πρός-P ἐγώ- P--AS λέγω-V1--PAPNSM

12 υἱός-N2--VSM ἄνθρωπος-N2--GSM λαμβάνω-VB--AAD2S θρῆνος-N2--ASM ἐπί-P ὁ- A--ASM ἄρχων-N3--ASM *τύρος-N2--GSF καί-C εἶπον-VB--AAD2S αὐτός- D--DSM ὅδε- D--APN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM κύριος-N2--NSM σύ- P--NS ἀποσφράγισμα-N3M-NSN ὁμοίωσις-N3I-GSF καί-C στέφανος-N2--NSM κάλλος-N3E-GSN

13 ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF τρυφή-N1--DSF ὁ- A--GSM παράδεισος-N2--GSM ὁ- A--GSM θεός-N2--GSM γίγνομαι-VCI-API2S πᾶς-A3--NSN λίθος-N2--ASM χρηστός-A1--ASM ἐνδέω-VM--XMI2S σάρδιον-N2N-ASN καί-C τοπάζιον-N2N-ASN καί-C σμάραγδος-N2--ASM καί-C ἄνθραξ-N3K-ASM καί-C σάπφειρος-N2--ASF καί-C ἴασπις-N3D-ASF καί-C ἀργύριον-N2N-ASN καί-C χρυσίον-N2N-ASN καί-C λιγύριον-N2N-ASN καί-C ἀχάτης-N1M-ASM καί-C ἀμέθυστος-N2--ASN καί-C χρυσόλιθος-N2--ASF καί-C βηρύλλιον-N2N-ASN καί-C ὀνύχιον-N2N-ASN καί-C χρυσίον-N2N-GSN ἐνπίμπλημι-VAI-AAI2S ὁ- A--APM θησαυρός-N2--APM σύ- P--GS καί-C ὁ- A--APF ἀποθήκη-N1--APF σύ- P--GS ἐν-P σύ- P--DS ἀπό-P ὅς- --GSF ἡμέρα-N1A-GSF κτίζω-VSI-API2S σύ- P--NS

14 μετά-P ὁ- A--GSN χερουβ-N---GSN τίθημι-VAI-AAI1S σύ- P--AS ἐν-P ὄρος-N3E-DSN ἅγιος-A1A-DSN θεός-N2--GSM γίγνομαι-VCI-API2S ἐν-P μέσος-A1--DSM λίθος-N2--GPM πύρινος-A1--GPM

15 γίγνομαι-VCI-API2S ἄμωμος-A1B-NSM σύ- P--NS ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPF ἡμέρα-N1A-DPF σύ- P--GS ἀπό-P ὅς- --GSF ἡμέρα-N1A-GSF σύ- P--NS κτίζω-VSI-API2S ἕως-D εὑρίσκω-VC--API3S ὁ- A--NPN ἀδίκημα-N3M-NPN ἐν-P σύ- P--DS

16 ἀπό-P πλῆθος-N3E-GSN ὁ- A--GSF ἐμπορία-N1A-GSF σύ- P--GS πίμπλημι-VAI-AAI2S ὁ- A--APN ταμιεῖον-N2N-APN σύ- P--GS ἀνομία-N1A-GSF καί-C ἁμαρτάνω-VBI-AAI2S καί-C τραυματίζω-VSI-API2S ἀπό-P ὄρος-N3E-GSN ὁ- A--GSM θεός-N2--GSM καί-C ἄγω-VBI-AAI3S σύ- P--AS ὁ- A--NSN χερουβ-N---NSN ἐκ-P μέσος-A1--GSM λίθος-N2--GPM πύρινος-A1--GPM

17 ὑψόω-VCI-API3S ὁ- A--NSF καρδία-N1A-NSF σύ- P--GS ἐπί-P ὁ- A--DSN κάλλος-N3E-DSN σύ- P--GS διαφθείρω-VDI-API3S ὁ- A--NSF ἐπιστήμη-N1--NSF σύ- P--GS μετά-P ὁ- A--GSN κάλλος-N3E-GSN σύ- P--GS διά-P πλῆθος-N3E-ASN ἁμαρτία-N1A-GPF σύ- P--GS ἐπί-P ὁ- A--ASF γῆ-N1--ASF ῥίπτω-VAI-AAI1S σύ- P--AS ἐναντίον-P βασιλεύς-N3V-GPM δίδωμι-VAI-AAI1S σύ- P--AS παραδειγματίζω-VS--APN

18 διά-P ὁ- A--ASN πλῆθος-N3E-ASN ὁ- A--GPF ἁμαρτία-N1A-GPF σύ- P--GS καί-C ὁ- A--GPF ἀδικία-N1A-GPF ὁ- A--GSF ἐμπορία-N1A-GSF σύ- P--GS βεβηλόω-VAI-AAI2S ὁ- A--APN ἱερόν-N2N-APN σύ- P--GS καί-C ἐκἄγω-VF--FAI1S πῦρ-N3--ASN ἐκ-P μέσος-A1--GSM σύ- P--GS οὗτος- D--ASN καταἐσθίω-VF--FMI3S σύ- P--AS καί-C δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S σύ- P--AS εἰς-P σποδός-N2--ASF ἐπί-P ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF σύ- P--GS ἐναντίον-P πᾶς-A3--GPM ὁ- A--GPM ὁράω-V3--PAPGPM σύ- P--AS

19 καί-C πᾶς-A3--NPM ὁ- A--NPM ἐπιἵστημι-V6--PMPNPM σύ- P--AS ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPN ἔθνος-N3E-DPN στυγνάζω-VF--FAI3P ἐπί-P σύ- P--AS ἀπώλεια-N1A-NSF γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI2S καί-C οὐ-D ὑποἄρχω-VF--FAI2S ἔτι-D εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASM αἰών-N3W-ASM

20 καί-C γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S λόγος-N2--NSM κύριος-N2--GSM πρός-P ἐγώ- P--AS λέγω-V1--PAPNSM

21 υἱός-N2--VSM ἄνθρωπος-N2--GSM στηρίζω-VA--AAD2S ὁ- A--ASN πρόσωπον-N2N-ASN σύ- P--GS ἐπί-P *σιδών-N---ASF καί-C προφητεύω-VA--AAD2S ἐπί-P αὐτός- D--ASF

22 καί-C εἶπον-VB--AAD2S ὅδε- D--APN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS ἐπί-P σύ- P--AS *σιδών-N---VSF καί-C ἐνδοξάζομαι-VS--FPI1S ἐν-P σύ- P--DS καί-C γιγνώσκω-VF--FMI2S ὅτι-C ἐγώ- P--NS εἰμί-V9--PAI1S κύριος-N2--NSM ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN ποιέω-VA--AAN ἐγώ- P--AS ἐν-P σύ- P--DS κρίμα-N3M-APN καί-C ἁγιάζω-VS--FPI1S ἐν-P σύ- P--DS

23 αἷμα-N3M-ASN καί-C θάνατος-N2--NSM ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPF πλατύς-A3U-DPF σύ- P--GS καί-C πίπτω-VF2-FMI3P τραυματίζω-VT--XPPNPM ἐν-P μάχαιρα-N1--DPF ἐν-P σύ- P--DS περικύκλῳ-D σύ- P--GS καί-C γιγνώσκω-VF--FMI3P διότι-C ἐγώ- P--NS εἰμί-V9--PAI1S κύριος-N2--NSM

24 καί-C οὐ-D εἰμί-VF--FMI3P οὐκέτι-D ὁ- A--DSM οἶκος-N2--DSM ὁ- A--GSM *ἰσραήλ-N---GSM σκόλοψ-N3P-NSM πικρία-N1A-GSF καί-C ἄκανθα-N1A-NSF ὀδύνη-N1--GSF ἀπό-P πᾶς-A3--GPM ὁ- A--GPM περικύκλῳ-D αὐτός- D--GPM ὁ- A--GPM ἀτιμάζω-VA--AAPGPM αὐτός- D--APM καί-C γιγνώσκω-VF--FMI3P ὅτι-C ἐγώ- P--NS εἰμί-V9--PAI1S κύριος-N2--NSM

25 ὅδε- D--APN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM κύριος-N2--NSM καί-C συνἄγω-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--ASM *ἰσραήλ-N---ASM ἐκ-P ὁ- A--GPN ἔθνος-N3E-GPN ὅς- --GSM διασκορπίζω-VCI-API3P ἐκεῖ-D καί-C ἁγιάζω-VS--FPI1S ἐν-P αὐτός- D--DPM ἐνώπιον-P ὁ- A--GPM λαός-N2--GPM καί-C ὁ- A--GPN ἔθνος-N3E-GPN καί-C καταοἰκέω-VF--FAI3P ἐπί-P ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF αὐτός- D--GPM ὅς- --ASF δίδωμι-VX--XAI1S ὁ- A--DSM δοῦλος-N2--DSM ἐγώ- P--GS *ἰακώβ-N---DSM

26 καί-C καταοἰκέω-VF--FAI3P ἐπί-P αὐτός- D--GSF ἐν-P ἐλπίς-N3D-DSF καί-C οἰκοδομέω-VF--FAI3P οἰκία-N1A-APF καί-C φυτεύω-VF--FAI3P ἀμπελών-N3W-APM καί-C καταοἰκέω-VF--FAI3P ἐν-P ἐλπίς-N3D-DSF ὅταν-D ποιέω-VF--FAI1S κρίμα-N3M-ASN ἐν-P πᾶς-A3--DPM ὁ- A--DPM ἀτιμάζω-VA--AAPDPM αὐτός- D--APM ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPM κύκλος-N2--DSM αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C γιγνώσκω-VF--FMI3P ὅτι-C ἐγώ- P--NS εἰμί-V9--PAI1S κύριος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ὁ- A--GPM πατήρ-N3--GPM αὐτός- D--GPM

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #897

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897. 21:11 Having the glory of God, and its light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, bright as crystal. This symbolically means that in that church the Word will be understood, because its spiritual sense will come shining through.

The glory of God symbolizes the Word in its Divine light, as will be seen next. Its light symbolizes the Divine truth in it, for this is the meaning of light in the Word (no. 796). "Like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, bright as crystal," symbolizes the Word shining and translucent because of its spiritual sense, as will also be seen next.

These words describe the understanding of the Word among people who possess the doctrine of the New Jerusalem and live in accordance with it. In their case the Word seems to shine when they read it. It shines because of the Lord's presence in the midst of the spiritual sense, because the Lord embodies the Word, and the spiritual sense exists in the light of heaven that emanates from the Lord as its sun. Moreover, the light that emanates from the Lord as a sun is in its essence the Divine truth of His Divine wisdom.

Every single thing in the Word contains a spiritual meaning, which angels see and from which they have their wisdom, and the light of that spiritual sense comes shining through with people who possess genuine truths from the Lord, as we showed in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture.

[2] That the glory of God means the Word in its Divine light can be seen from the following passage:

The Word became flesh..., and we beheld His glory, the glory as though of the only begotten of the Father... (John 1:14)

That the glory is the glory of the Word, or the Divine truth in the Lord, is plain, since it says, "The Word became flesh."

Glory has the same meaning in verse 23 below, where it says, "the glory of God illuminated it, and the Lamb is its lamp" (Revelation 21:23).

The same is meant by the glory in which people will see the Son of Man when He comes in the clouds of heaven (Matthew 24:30, Mark 13:26). See nos. 22, 642, 820 above.

Nor is anything else meant by the throne of glory on which the Lord will sit when He comes to execute the Last Judgment (Matthew 25:31), because He will judge everyone in accordance with the Word's truths. Therefore we are told as well that He will come in His glory.

We are, moreover, told that after the Lord was transfigured, Moses and Elijah appeared in glory (Luke 9:30-31). Moses and Elijah there symbolize the Word. The Lord Himself also then caused Himself to appear to the disciples as the Word in its glory.

To be shown that glory symbolizes Divine truth, more citations from the Word may be seen in no. 629 above.

[3] The Word is likened to a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, bright as crystal, because a precious stone symbolizes the Divine truth in the Word (nos. 231, 540, 726, 823), and a jasper stone symbolizes the Divine truth in the spiritual sense shining through the Divine truth in the literal sense. This is the symbolic meaning of jasper stone in Exodus 28:20, Ezekiel 28:13, and in the following verses in the present chapter, where we are told that the construction of the wall of the holy Jerusalem was of jasper (verse 18). Moreover, because the Word's spiritual sense shines through in its literal sense, we are told that the jasper stone was as bright as crystal. All enlightenment that people have who possess Divine truths from the Lord comes from that.

  
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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.

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Apocalypse Revealed #820

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820. 19:11 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. This symbolizes the spiritual sense of the Word revealed by the Lord and the deeper meaning of the Word thereby disclosed, which is the coming of the Lord.

Seeing heaven opened symbolizes a revelation by the Lord and a disclosure then, which we will take up below. A horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word, and a white horse a deeper understanding (no. 298). And because this is the symbolic meaning of a white horse, and a deeper understanding of the Word is an understanding of the spiritual sense, therefore that sense is here symbolized by the white horse.

This is the coming of the Lord, because that sense makes it clearly apparent that the Lord embodies the Word, that the Word deals with Him alone, that He is God of heaven and earth, and that the New Church originates from Him alone.

The Lord told His disciples that they would see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with glory and power (Matthew 17:5; 24:30; 26:64; Mark 14:61-62; Revelation 1:7; Acts of the Apostles 1:9, 11). And the Lord said this also when He spoke with His disciples about the culmination of the age, which is the final period of the church when a judgment takes place.

Everyone who does not think beyond the literal sense believes that when the Last Judgment arrives, the Lord will appear in clouds of the sky, accompanied by angels and the blowing of trumpets. But this is not the meaning. Rather it means that the Lord will appear in the Word, as can be seen from the exposition above in nos. 24 and 642, and He appears clearly in the Word's spiritual sense. He appears not only as being an embodiment of the Word, that is, of Divine truth itself, or as being inmostly present in the Word and in everything springing from it, but also as being a single God, having the Trinity in Him, thus as being the only God of heaven and earth. Moreover, it appears also that He came into the world to glorify His humanity, that is, to make it Divine.

[2] The humanity that the Lord glorified, that is, the humanity that He made Divine, was the natural humanity, which He could not glorify or make Divine except by taking on a humanity in a virgin in the natural world, to which He then united His Divinity which He had from eternity. This union was achieved by temptations suffered by the humanity He had taken on, the last of which was His suffering of the cross and at the same time His fulfilling all of the Word, not only by His fulfilling all of the Word in its natural sense, but also by His fulfilling all of the Word in its spiritual sense, and also in its celestial sense, which, as we said before, deals with Him alone.

But on this subject see what we disclosed in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, and in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture.

Now because the Lord embodies the Word, and the Word became flesh (John 1:1-2, 14), and the Word became flesh in order that He might fulfill it, it is apparent that the Lord's appearing on the clouds of heaven means His coming in the Word. That the clouds of heaven symbolize the Word in its literal sense may be seen in nos. 24 and 642 above.

It is apparent that it is the Lord's appearing in the Word that is meant, because the white horse symbolizes a deeper understanding of the Word, and we are told that the name of Him who sat on the horse is "The Word of God," and that His name is "King of kings and Lord of lords" (verses 13, 16).

[3] It is apparent from this now that John's seeing heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, symbolizes the spiritual sense of the Word revealed by the Lord and the deeper meaning of the Word thereby disclosed, which is the coming of the Lord.

That the Word's spiritual sense has at this day been revealed, which no one in the Christian world has previously known anything about, may be see in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), in which we expounded two of the books of Moses - Genesis and Exodus - in accordance with that sense. It may be seen also in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 5-26; in the short treatise, The White Horse, from beginning to end, and from the numbers collected there from Arcana Coelestia regarding the sacred scripture; and furthermore in this exposition of the book of Revelation, in which not even one little verse can be understood apart from its spiritual meaning.

  
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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.

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