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1 καί-C γίγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S λόγος-N2--NSM κύριος-N2--GSM πρός-P *ιωνας-N1T-ASM ἐκ-P δεύτερος-A1A-GSM λέγω-V1--PAPNSM

2 ἀναἵστημι-VH--AAD2S καί-C πορεύομαι-VC--APD2S εἰς-P *νινευη-N1--ASF ὁ- A--ASF πόλις-N3I-ASF ὁ- A--ASF μέγας-A1--ASF καί-C κηρύσσω-VA--AAD2S ἐν-P αὐτός- D--DSF κατά-P ὁ- A--ASN κήρυγμα-N3M-ASN ὁ- A--ASN ἔμπροσθεν-D ὅς- --ASN ἐγώ- P--NS λαλέω-VAI-AAI1S πρός-P σύ- P--AS

3 καί-C ἀναἵστημι-VHI-AAI3S *ιωνας-N1T-NSM καί-C πορεύομαι-VCI-API3S εἰς-P *νινευη-N1--ASF καθώς-D λαλέω-VAI-AAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSF δέ-X *νινευη-N1--NSF εἰμί-V9--IAI3S πόλις-N3I-NSF μέγας-A1--NSF ὁ- A--DSM θεός-N2--DSM ὡσεί-D πορεία-N1A-APF ὁδός-N2--GSF ἡμέρα-N1A-GPF τρεῖς-A3--GPF

4 καί-C ἄρχω-VAI-AMI3S *ιωνας-N1T-NSM ὁ- A--GSN εἰςἔρχομαι-VB--AAN εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASF πόλις-N3I-ASF ὡσεί-D πορεία-N1A-ASF ἡμέρα-N1A-GSF εἷς-A1A-GSF καί-C κηρύσσω-VAI-AAI3S καί-C εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S ἔτι-D τρεῖς-A3--NPF ἡμέρα-N1A-NPF καί-C *νινευη-N1--NSF καταστρέφω-VD--FPI3S

5 καί-C ἐνπιστεύω-VAI-AAI3P ὁ- A--NPM ἀνήρ-N3--NPM *νινευη-N1--GSF ὁ- A--DSM θεός-N2--DSM καί-C κηρύσσω-VAI-AAI3P νηστεία-N1A-ASF καί-C ἐνδύω-VAI-AMI3P σάκκος-N2--APM ἀπό-P μέγας-A1--GSM αὐτός- D--GPM ἕως-P μικρός-A1A-GSM αὐτός- D--GPM

6 καί-C ἐγγίζω-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--NSM λόγος-N2--NSM πρός-P ὁ- A--ASM βασιλεύς-N3V-ASM ὁ- A--GSF *νινευη-N1--GSF καί-C ἐκ ἀναἵστημι-VHI-AAI3S ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GSM θρόνος-N2--GSM αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C περιαἱρέω-VBI-AMI3S ὁ- A--ASF στολή-N1--ASF αὐτός- D--GSM ἀπό-P ἑαυτοῦ- D--GSM καί-C περιβάλλω-VBI-AMI3S σάκκος-N2--ASM καί-C καταἵζω-VAI-AAI3S ἐπί-P σποδός-N2--GSF

7 καί-C κηρύσσω-VQI-API3S καί-C εἶπον-VCI-API3S ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSF *νινευη-N1--DSF παρά-P ὁ- A--GSM βασιλεύς-N3V-GSM καί-C παρά-P ὁ- A--GPM μεγιστάν-N3--GPM αὐτός- D--GSM λέγω-V1--PAPNSM ὁ- A--NPM ἄνθρωπος-N2--NPM καί-C ὁ- A--NPN κτῆνος-N3E-NPN καί-C ὁ- A--NPM βοῦς-N3--NPM καί-C ὁ- A--NPN πρόβατον-N2N-NPN μή-D γεύω-VA--AMD3P μηδείς-A3--ASN μηδέ-C νέμω-V1--PMD3P μηδέ-C ὕδωρ-N3--ASN πίνω-VB--AAD3P

8 καί-C περιβάλλω-VBI-AMI3P σάκκος-N2--APM ὁ- A--NPM ἄνθρωπος-N2--NPM καί-C ὁ- A--NPN κτῆνος-N3E-NPN καί-C ἀναβοάω-VAI-AAI3P πρός-P ὁ- A--ASM θεός-N2--ASM ἐκτενῶς-D καί-C ἀποστρέφω-VAI-AAI3P ἕκαστος-A1--NSM ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GSF ὁδός-N2--GSF αὐτός- D--GSM ὁ- A--GSF πονηρός-A1A-GSF καί-C ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GSF ἀδικία-N1A-GSF ὁ- A--GSF ἐν-P χείρ-N3--DPF αὐτός- D--GPM λέγω-V1--PAPNPM

9 τίς- I--NSM οἶδα-VX--XAI3S εἰ-C μετανοέω-VF--FAI3S ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM καί-C ἀποστρέφω-VF--FAI3S ἐκ-P ὀργή-N1--GSF θυμός-N2--GSM αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C οὐ-D μή-D ἀποὀλλύω-V5--PMS1P

10 καί-C ὁράω-VBI-AAI3S ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ὁ- A--APN ἔργον-N2N-APN αὐτός- D--GPM ὅτι-C ἀποστρέφω-VAI-AAI3P ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GPF ὁδός-N2--GPF αὐτός- D--GPM ὁ- A--GPF πονηρός-A1A-GPF καί-C μετανοέω-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ἐπί-P ὁ- A--DSF κακία-N1A-DSF ὅς- --DSF λαλέω-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--GSN ποιέω-VA--AAN αὐτός- D--DPM καί-C οὐ-D ποιέω-VAI-AAI3S

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #492

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492. "Clothed in sackcloth." This symbolizes the grief experienced meanwhile over the truth's not being accepted.

Being clothed in sackcloth symbolizes grief over the destruction of truth in the church, for garments symbolize truths (nos. 166, 212, 328, 378, 379). Consequently to be clothed in sackcloth, which is not a garment, symbolizes grief over the lack of truth, and where there is no truth, there is no church.

The children of Israel represented grief in various ways, which, because of their correspondence, were symbolic. For example, they would put ash on their heads, roll around in the dust, sit on the ground for a long time in silence, shave themselves, beat their breasts and wail, rend their garments, and also clothe themselves in sackcloth, and so on. Each action symbolized some evil in the church among them for which they were being punished. Then, when they were being punished, they put on a representation of repentance in these ways, and because of their representation of repentance, and at the same time then of their humbling themselves, they were heard.

[2] That putting on sackcloth represented grief over the destruction of truth in the church may be seen from the following passages:

The lion has come up from his thicket... He has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate... For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament, wail. (Jeremiah 4:7-8)

O daughter of my people, gird yourself in sackcloth and roll about in ashes! ...For the destroyer will suddenly come upon us. (Jeremiah 6:26)

Woe to you, Chorazin (and) Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented... in sackcloth and ashes. (Matthew 11:21, Luke 10:13)

After the king of Nineveh heard the words of Jonah, he "laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes." Moreover, he proclaimed a fast and ordered that "man and beast be covered with sackcloth." (Jonah 3:5-8)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 3:24; 15:2-3; 22:12; 37:1-2; 50:3; Jeremiah 48:37-38; 49:3; Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 7:17-18; 27:31; Daniel 9:3; Joel 1:8, 13; Amos 8:10; Job 16:15-16; Psalms 30:11; Psalms 35:13; 69:10-11; 2 Samuel 3:31; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Kings 6:30; 19:1-2.

  
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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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