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Jeremiah 41

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1 ὁ- A--NSM λόγος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSM γίγνομαι-VB--AMPNSM πρός-P *ἰερεμίας-N1T-ASM παρά-P κύριος-N2--GSM καί-C *ναβουχοδονοσορ-N---NSM βασιλεύς-N3V-NSM *βαβυλών-N3W-GSF καί-C πᾶς-A3--NSN ὁ- A--NSN στρατόπεδον-N2N-NSN αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C πᾶς-A1S-NSF ὁ- A--NSF γῆ-N1--NSF ἀρχή-N1--GSF αὐτός- D--GSM πολεμέω-V2I-IAI3P ἐπί-P *ἰερουσαλήμ-N---ASF καί-C ἐπί-P πᾶς-A1S-APF ὁ- A--APF πόλις-N3I-APF *ιουδα-N---GSM λέγω-V1--PAPNSM

2 οὕτως-D εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM βαδίζω-VA--AAD2S πρός-P *σεδεκιας-N1T-ASM βασιλεύς-N3V-ASM *ιουδα-N---GSM καί-C εἶπον-VF2-FAI2S αὐτός- D--DSM οὕτως-D εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM παράδοσις-N3I-DSF παραδίδωμι-VC--FPI3S ὁ- A--NSF πόλις-N3I-NSF οὗτος- D--NSF εἰς-P χείρ-N3--APF βασιλεύς-N3V-GSM *βαβυλών-N3W-GSF καί-C συνλαμβάνω-VF--FMI3S αὐτός- D--ASF καί-C καίω-VF--FAI3S αὐτός- D--ASF ἐν-P πῦρ-N3--DSN

3 καί-C σύ- P--NS οὐ-D μή-D σώζω-VC--APS2S ἐκ-P χείρ-N3--GSF αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C σύλλημψις-N3I-ASF συνλαμβάνω-VV--FPI2S καί-C εἰς-P χείρ-N3--APF αὐτός- D--GSM δίδωμι-VC--FPI2S καί-C ὁ- A--NPM ὀφθαλμός-N2--NPM σύ- P--GS ὁ- A--APM ὀφθαλμός-N2--APM αὐτός- D--GSM ὁράω-VF--FMI3P καί-C ὁ- A--NSN στόμα-N3M-NSN αὐτός- D--GSM μετά-P ὁ- A--GSN στόμα-N3M-GSN σύ- P--GS λαλέω-VF--FAI3S καί-C εἰς-P *βαβυλών-N3W-ASF εἰςἔρχομαι-VF--FMI2S

4 ἀλλά-C ἀκούω-VA--AAD2S ὁ- A--ASM λόγος-N2--ASM κύριος-N2--GSM *σεδεκιας-N1T-VSM βασιλεύς-N3V-VSM *ιουδα-N---GSM οὕτως-D λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM

5 ἐν-P εἰρήνη-N1--DSF ἀποθνήσκω-VF2-FMI2S καί-C ὡς-C κλαίω-VAI-AAI3P ὁ- A--APM πατήρ-N3--APM σύ- P--GS ὁ- A--APM βασιλεύω-VA--AAPAPM πρότερον-D σύ- P--GS κλαίω-VF--FMI3P καί-C σύ- P--AS καί-C ὦ-I αδων-N---NSM κόπτω-VF--FMI3P σύ- P--AS ὅτι-C λόγος-N2--ASM ἐγώ- P--NS λαλέω-VAI-AAI1S εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM

6 καί-C λαλέω-VAI-AAI3S *ἰερεμίας-N1T-NSM πρός-P ὁ- A--ASM βασιλεύς-N3V-ASM *σεδεκιας-N1T-ASM πᾶς-A3--APM ὁ- A--APM λόγος-N2--APM οὗτος- D--APM ἐν-P *ἰερουσαλήμ-N---DSF

7 καί-C ὁ- A--NSF δύναμις-N3I-NSF βασιλεύς-N3V-GSM *βαβυλών-N3W-GSF πολεμέω-V2I-IAI3S ἐπί-P *ἰερουσαλήμ-N---ASF καί-C ἐπί-P ὁ- A--APF πόλις-N3I-APF *ιουδα-N---GSM ἐπί-P *λαχις-N---ASF καί-C ἐπί-P *αζηκα-N---ASF ὅτι-C οὗτος- D--NPF καταλείπω-VVI-API3P ἐν-P πόλις-N3I-DPF *ιουδα-N---GSM πόλις-N3I-NPF ὀχυρός-A1A-NPF

8 ὁ- A--NSM λόγος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSM γίγνομαι-VB--AMPNSM πρός-P *ἰερεμίας-N1T-ASM παρά-P κύριος-N2--GSM μετά-P ὁ- A--ASN συντελέω-VA--AAN ὁ- A--ASM βασιλεύς-N3V-ASM *σεδεκιας-N1T-ASM διαθήκη-N1--ASF πρός-P ὁ- A--ASM λαός-N2--ASM ὁ- A--GSN καλέω-VA--AAN ἄφεσις-N3I-ASF

9 ὁ- A--GSN ἐκ ἀποστέλλω-VA--AAN ἕκαστος-A1--ASM ὁ- A--ASM παῖς-N3D-ASM αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C ἕκαστος-A1--ASM ὁ- A--ASF παιδίσκη-N1--ASF αὐτός- D--GSM ὁ- A--ASM *εβραῖος-N2--ASM καί-C ὁ- A--ASF *εβραῖα-N1A-ASF ἐλεύθερος-A1A-APM πρός-P ὁ- A--ASN μή-D δουλεύω-V1--PAN ἀνήρ-N3--ASM ἐκ-P *ιουδα-N---GSM

10 καί-C ἐπιστρέφω-VDI-API3P πᾶς-A3--NPM ὁ- A--NPM μεγιστάν-N3--NPM καί-C πᾶς-A3--NSM ὁ- A--NSM λαός-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NPM εἰςἔρχομαι-VB--AAPNPM ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF διαθήκη-N1--DSF ὁ- A--GSN ἀποστέλλω-VA--AAN ἕκαστος-A1--ASM ὁ- A--ASM παῖς-N3D-ASM αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C ἕκαστος-A1--ASM ὁ- A--ASF παιδίσκη-N1--ASF αὐτός- D--GSM

11 καί-C ἐάω-V3--PAPASF αὐτός- D--APM εἰς-P παῖς-N3D-APM καί-C παιδίσκη-N1--APF

12 καί-C γίγνομαι-VCI-API3S λόγος-N2--NSM κύριος-N2--GSM πρός-P *ἰερεμίας-N1T-ASM λέγω-V1--PAPNSM

13 οὕτως-D εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM *ἰσραήλ-N---GSM ἐγώ- P--NS τίθημι-VEI-AMI1S διαθήκη-N1--ASF πρός-P ὁ- A--APM πατήρ-N3--APM σύ- P--GP ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF ἡμέρα-N1A-DSF ὅς- --DSF ἐκαἱρέω-VBI-AMI1S αὐτός- D--APM ἐκ-P γῆ-N1--GSF *αἴγυπτος-N2--GSF ἐκ-P οἶκος-N2--GSM δουλεία-N1A-GSF λέγω-V1--PAPNSM

14 ὅταν-D πληρόω-VC--APS3S ἕξ-M ἔτος-N3E-APN ἀποστέλλω-VF2-FAI2S ὁ- A--ASM ἀδελφός-N2--ASM σύ- P--GS ὁ- A--ASM *εβραῖος-N2--ASM ὅς- --NSM πιπράσκω-VC--FPI3S σύ- P--DS καί-C ἐργάζομαι-V1--PMI3S σύ- P--DS ἕξ-M ἔτος-N3E-APN καί-C ἐκ ἀποστέλλω-VF2-FAI2S αὐτός- D--ASM ἐλεύθερος-A1A-ASM καί-C οὐ-D ἀκούω-VAI-AAI3P ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C οὐ-D κλίνω-VAI-AAI3P ὁ- A--ASN οὖς-N3--ASN αὐτός- D--GPM

15 καί-C ἐπιστρέφω-VAI-AAI3P σήμερον-D ποιέω-VA--AAN ὁ- A--ASN εὐθής-A3H-ASN πρό-P ὀφθαλμός-N2--GPM ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--GSN καλέω-VA--AAN ἄφεσις-N3I-ASF ἕκαστος-A1--ASM ὁ- A--GSM πλησίον-D αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C συντελέω-VAI-AAI3P διαθήκη-N1--ASF κατά-P πρόσωπον-N2N-ASN ἐγώ- P--GS ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSM οἶκος-N2--DSM ὅς- --GSM ἐπικαλέω-VCI-API3S ὁ- A--NSN ὄνομα-N3M-NSN ἐγώ- P--GS ἐπί-P αὐτός- D--DSM

16 καί-C ἐπιστρέφω-VAI-AAI2P καί-C βεβηλόω-VAI-AAI2P ὁ- A--ASN ὄνομα-N3M-ASN ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--GSN ἐπιστρέφω-VA--AAN ἕκαστος-A1--ASM ὁ- A--ASM παῖς-N3D-ASM αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C ἕκαστος-A1--ASM ὁ- A--ASF παιδίσκη-N1--ASF αὐτός- D--GSM ὅς- --APM ἐκ ἀποστέλλω-VAI-AAI2P ἐλεύθερος-A1A-APM ὁ- A--DSF ψυχή-N1--DSF αὐτός- D--GPM σύ- P--DP εἰς-P παῖς-N3D-APM καί-C παιδίσκη-N1--APF

17 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN οὕτως-D εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ὑμεῖς- P--NP οὐ-D ἀκούω-VAI-AAI2P ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--GSN καλέω-VA--AAN ἄφεσις-N3I-ASF ἕκαστος-A1--NSM πρός-P ὁ- A--ASM πλησίον-D αὐτός- D--GSM ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS καλέω-V2--PAI1S ἄφεσις-N3I-ASF σύ- P--DP εἰς-P μάχαιρα-N1A-ASF καί-C εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASM θάνατος-N2--ASM καί-C εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASM λιμός-N2--ASM καί-C δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S σύ- P--AP εἰς-P διασπορά-N1A-ASF πᾶς-A1S-DPF ὁ- A--DPF βασιλεία-N1A-DPF ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF

18 καί-C δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--APM ἀνήρ-N3--APM ὁ- A--APM παραἔρχομαι-VX--XAPAPM ὁ- A--ASF διαθήκη-N1--ASF ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--APM μή-D ἵστημι-VA--AAPAPM ὁ- A--ASF διαθήκη-N1--ASF ἐγώ- P--GS ὅς- --ASF ποιέω-VAI-AAI3P κατά-P πρόσωπον-N2N-ASN ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--ASM μόσχος-N2--ASM ὅς- --ASM ποιέω-VAI-AAI3P ἐργάζομαι-V1--PMN αὐτός- D--DSM

19 ὁ- A--APM ἄρχων-N3--APM *ιουδα-N---GSM καί-C ὁ- A--APM δυνάστης-N1M-APM καί-C ὁ- A--APM ἱερεύς-N3V-APM καί-C ὁ- A--ASM λαός-N2--ASM

20 καί-C δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--APM ὁ- A--DPM ἐχθρός-N2--DPM αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C εἰμί-VF--FMI3S ὁ- A--NPN θνησιμαῖος-A1A-NPN αὐτός- D--GPM βρῶσις-N3I-NSF ὁ- A--DPN πετεινός-A1--DPN ὁ- A--GSM οὐρανός-N2--GSM καί-C ὁ- A--DPN θηρίον-N2N-DPN ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF

21 καί-C ὁ- A--ASM *σεδεκιας-N1T-ASM βασιλεύς-N3V-ASM ὁ- A--GSF *ἰουδαία-N1A-GSF καί-C ὁ- A--APM ἄρχων-N3--APM αὐτός- D--GPM δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S εἰς-P χείρ-N3--APF ἐχθρός-N2--GPM αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C δύναμις-N3I-NSF βασιλεύς-N3V-GSM *βαβυλών-N3W-GSF ὁ- A--DPM ἀποτρέχω-V1--PAI3P ἀπό-P αὐτός- D--GPM

22 ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS συντάσσω-V1--PAI1S φημί-V6--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM καί-C ἐπιστρέφω-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--APM εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASF γῆ-N1--ASF οὗτος- D--ASF καί-C πολεμέω-VF--FAI3P ἐπί-P αὐτός- D--ASF καί-C λαμβάνω-VF--FMI3P αὐτός- D--ASF καί-C κατακαίω-VF--FAI3P αὐτός- D--ASF ἐν-P πῦρ-N3--DSN καί-C ὁ- A--APF πόλις-N3I-APF *ιουδα-N---GSM καί-C δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--APF ἔρημος-N2--APF ἀπό-P καταοἰκέω-V2--PAPGPM

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #757

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757. "A prison for every foul spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird!" This symbolically means that the evils willed and so done by the people in those hells, and the falsities entertained in thought and in consequent intention, are diabolical, because the people have turned away from the Lord to themselves.

A prison symbolizes a hell, because these Roman Catholics were imprisoned there. A spirit symbolizes everything pertaining to their affection or will and of the consequent action, and a bird symbolizes everything pertaining to the thought or intellect and consequent intention. A foul spirit and an unclean bird accordingly symbolize all the evils willed and so done, and all the falsities entertained in thought and consequent intention. Moreover, since the evils and falsities entertained by these people are found in the hells, therefore the symbolical meaning is that their evils and falsities are diabolical. In addition, because these people have turned away from the Lord to themselves, every unclean bird is also called loathsome.

Similar symbolism is used to describe Babylon in the Prophets, as in Isaiah:

Babylon... will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited..., so that Arabs will not tarry there... But ziyyim 1 will lie there, their houses will be full of 'ochim, 2 the offspring of owls will dwell there, and satyrs will caper there. 'Iyyim 3 also will reply in its palaces, and dragons in its pleasant palaces. (Isaiah 13:19-22)

I will... cut off from Babylon the name and remnant... I will make it a possession of the bittern... (Isaiah 14:22-23)

And in Jeremiah:

...in Babylon shall dwell ziyyim 1 and 'iyyim 3 and the offspring of owls... As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors..., no son of man shall dwell in it. (Jeremiah 50:39-40)

It is apparent from this that a prison for every foul spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird, means symbolically that the evils willed and so done by the people in those hells, and the falsities entertained in thought and consequent intention, are diabolical, because the people have turned away from the Lord to themselves.

[2] It is apparent from the Word that birds symbolize such things as have to do with the intellect and thought and consequent intention, and this in both senses, bad and good. They are found in a bad sense in the following passages there:

In the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice... (At length) on the bird of abominations shall be desolation. Even until the consummation... there shall rain down devastation. (Daniel 9:27)

The pelican and the bittern shall possess (the land). The screech owl and the raven shall dwell in it. (Isaiah 34:11)

Nothing else than hellish falsities are symbolized by 'ochim, 2 ziyyim, 1 the offspring of owls, and dragons in the passages cited above, as also by the birds that came down on the carcasses which Abram drove away (Genesis 15:11), by the birds which were given human corpses for food (Jeremiah 7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; Ezekiel 29:5; Psalms 79:1-2).

[3] Birds are found in a good sense in the following passages:

Creeping thing and bird... shall praise the name of Jehovah. (Psalms 148:10, 13)

In that day I will make a covenant for them... with the birds of the sky, and the creeping things of the ground. (Hosea 2:18)

...ask the beasts, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will tell you... Who among all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah does this? (Job 12:7-9)

I looked, when behold, there was no man; all the birds of the sky had flown away. (Jeremiah 4:24-26)

Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled away..., (because) I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of dragons. (Jeremiah 9:10-11)

There is no truth, no mercy, no knowledge of God... Therefore the land will mourn... as regards the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky. (Hosea 4:1, 3)

I am God... calling a bird from the east, a man of My counsel from a far country. (Isaiah 46:9, 11)

Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon... In its branches all the birds of the sky made their nests..., and in its shade all great nations dwelled. (Ezekiel 31:3, 6)

[4] Similar statements to that made of Assyria as a cedar here are found elsewhere, as in Ezekiel 17:23, Daniel 4:10-14, 20-21, Mark 4:32, Luke 13:19.

Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: ."..come... to... a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel...." (Thus) I will set My glory among the nations. (Ezekiel 39:17, 21, cf. Revelation 19:17)

And so on regarding birds elsewhere, as in Isaiah 18:1, 6; Ezekiel 38:20; Hosea 9:11; 11:10-11.

That birds symbolize such things as have to do with the intellect and its consequent thought and intention is clearly apparent from birds in the spiritual world. There, too, one sees birds of every kind and every species - in heaven very beautiful ones, birds of paradise, turtle doves, and doves - in hell dragons, screech owls, eagle owls, and others of that kind - all of which are objective representations of thoughts springing from good affections in heaven, and of thoughts springing from evil affections in hell.

Footnotes:

1. A Hebrew word (צִיִּים), appearing six times in the Old Testament (Psalms 72:9; 74:14). It seems to refer to desert dwellers, and in contexts suggesting animals, to desert creatures, but the actual identity is unknown. It may not be a precise term.

2. Another Hebrew word (אֹחִים), appearing only once in the Old Testament (Isaiah 13:21:4 identifies them as birds of the night.

3. Another Hebrew word (אִיִּים), appearing only three times in the Old Testament (Isaiah 13:22; 34:14

  
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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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