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1 ακουω-VA--AAD2P ο- A--ASM λογος-N2--ASM κυριος-N2--GSM ουτος- D--ASM ος- --ASM εγω- P--NS λαμβανω-V1--PAI1S επι-P συ- P--AP θρηνος-N2--ASM οικος-N2--NSM *ισραηλ-N---GSM

2 πιπτω-VBI-AAI3S ουκετι-D μη-D προςτιθημι-VE--AAS3S ο- A--GSN αναιστημι-VH--AAN παρθενος-N2--NSF ο- A--GSM *ισραηλ-N---GSM σφαλλω-VZI-AAI3S επι-P ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF αυτος- D--GSF ου-D ειμι-V9--PAI3S ο- A--NSM αναιστημι-VF--FAPNSM αυτος- D--ASF

3 διοτι-C οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSF πολις-N3I-NSF εκ-P ος- --GSF εκπορευομαι-V1I-IMI3P χιλιοι-A1A-NPM υπολειπω-VV--FPI3P εκατον-M και-C εκ-P ος- --GSF εκπορευομαι-V1I-IMI3P εκατον-M υπολειπω-VV--FPI3P δεκα-M ο- A--DSM οικος-N2--DSM *ισραηλ-N---GSM

4 διοτι-C οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM προς-P ο- A--ASM οικος-N2--ASM *ισραηλ-N---GSM εκζητεω-VA--AAD2P εγω- P--AS και-C ζαω-VF--FMI2P

5 και-C μη-D εκζητεω-V2--PAI2P *βαιθηλ-N---ASF και-C εις-P *γαλγαλα-N---ASF μη-D ειςπορευομαι-V1--PMD2P και-C επι-P ο- A--ASN φρεαρ-N3T-ASN ο- A--GSM ορκος-N2--GSM μη-D διαβαινω-V1--PAD2P οτι-C *γαλγαλα-N---NSF αιχμαλωτευω-V1--PPPNSF αιχμαλωτευω-VC--FPI3S και-C *βαιθηλ-N---NSF ειμι-V9--FMI3S ως-C ου-D υποαρχω-V1--PAPNSF

6 εκζητεω-VA--AAD2P ο- A--ASM κυριος-N2--ASM και-C ζαω-VA--AAD2P οπως-C μη-D αναλαμπω-VA--AAS3S ως-C πυρ-N3--NSN ο- A--NSM οικος-N2--NSM *ιωσηφ-N---GSM και-C καταεσθιω-VF--FMI3S αυτος- D--ASM και-C ου-D ειμι-V9--FMI3S ο- A--NSM σβεννυμι-VF--FAPNSM ο- A--DSM οικος-N2--DSM *ισραηλ-N---GSM

7 κυριος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM ποιεω-V2--PAPNSM εις-P υψος-N3E-ASN κριμα-N3M-ASN και-C δικαιοσυνη-N1--ASF εις-P γη-N1--ASF τιθημι-VAI-AAI3S

8 ποιεω-V2--PAPNSM πας-A3--APN και-C μετασκευαζω-V1--PAPNSM και-C εκτρεπω-V1--PAPNSM εις-P ο- A--ASN πρωι-D σκια-N1A-ASF θανατος-N2--GSM και-C ημερα-N1A-ASF εις-P νυξ-N3--ASF συνσκοταζω-V1--PAPNSM ο- A--NSM προςκαλεω-V2--PMPNSM ο- A--ASN υδωρ-N3--ASN ο- A--GSF θαλασσα-N1S-GSF και-C εκχεω-V2--PAPNSM αυτος- D--ASN επι-P προσωπον-N2N-GSN ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF κυριος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM θεος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM παντοκρατωρ-N3 -NSM ονομα-N3M-NSN αυτος- D--DSM

9 ο- A--NSM διααιρεω-V2--PAPNSM συντριμμος-N2--ASM επι-P ισχυς-N3--ASF και-C ταλαιπωρια-N1A-ASF επι-P οχυρωμα-N3M-ASN επιαγω-V1--PAPNSM

10 μισεω-VAI-AAI3P εν-P πυλη-N1--DPF ελεγχω-V1--PAPASM και-C λογος-N2--ASM οσιος-A1A-ASM βδελυσσω-VAI-AMI3P

11 δια-P ουτος- D--ASN αντι-P ος- --GPM κατακονδυλιζω-V1I-IAI2P πτωχος-N2--APM και-C δωρον-N2N-APN εκλεκτος-A1--APN δεχομαι-VAI-AMI2P παρα-P αυτος- D--GPM οικος-N2--APM ξυστος-A1B-APM οικοδομεω-VAI-AAI2P και-C ου-D μη-D καταοικεω-VA--AAS2P εν-P αυτος- D--DPM αμπελων-N3W-APM επιθυμητος-A1--APM φυτευω-VAI-AAI2P και-C ου-D μη-D πινω-VB--AAS2P ο- A--ASM οινος-N2--ASM εκ-P αυτος- D--GPM

12 οτι-C γιγνωσκω-VZI-AAI1S πολυς-A1--APF ασεβεια-N1A-APF συ- P--GP και-C ισχυρος-A1A-NPF ο- A--NPF αμαρτια-N1A-NPF συ- P--GP καταπατεω-V2--PAPNPM δικαιος-A1A-ASM λαμβανω-V1--PAPNPM αλλαγμα-N3M-APN και-C πενης-N3T-APM εν-P πυλη-N1--DPF εκκλινω-V1--PAPNPM

13 δια-P ουτος- D--ASN ο- A--NSM συνιημι-V7--PAPNSM εν-P ο- A--DSM καιρος-N2--DSM εκεινος- D--DSM σιωπαω-VF--FMI3S οτι-C καιρος-N2--NSM πονηρος-A1A-NSM ειμι-V9--PAI3S

14 εκζητεω-VA--AAD2P ο- A--ASN καλος-A1--ASN και-C μη-D ο- A--ASN πονηρος-A1A-ASN οπως-C ζαω-VA--AAS2P και-C ειμι-V9--FMI3S ουτως-D μετα-P συ- P--GP κυριος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM θεος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM παντοκρατωρ-N3 -NSM ος- --ASM τροπος-N2--ASM ειπον-VAI-AAI2P

15 μισεω-VX--XAI1P ο- A--APN πονηρος-A1A-APN και-C αγαπαω-VX--XAI1P ο- A--APN καλος-A1--APN και-C απο καταιστημι-VA--AAD2P εν-P πυλη-N1--DPF κριμα-N3M-ASN οπως-C ελεεω-VA--AAD3S κυριος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM θεος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM παντοκρατωρ-N3 -NSM ο- A--APM περιλοιπος-A1B-APM ο- A--GSM *ιωσηφ-N---GSM

16 δια-P ουτος- D--ASN οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM θεος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM παντοκρατωρ-N3 -NSM εν-P πας-A1S-DPF πλατυς-A3U-DPF κοπετος-N2--NSM και-C εν-P πας-A1S-DPF οδος-N2--DPF ειπον-VC--FPI3S ουαι-I ουαι-I καλεω-VC--FPI3S γεωργος-N2--NSM εις-P πενθος-N3E-ASN και-C κοπετος-N2--ASM και-C εις-P οραω-VX--XAPAPM θρηνος-N2--ASM

17 και-C εν-P πας-A1S-DPF οδος-N2--DPF κοπετος-N2--NSM διοτι-C διαερχομαι-VF--FMI1S δια-P μεσος-A1--GSN συ- P--GS ειπον-VBI-AAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM

18 ουαι-I ο- A--NPM επιθυμοω-V4--PAPNPM ο- A--ASF ημερα-N1A-ASF κυριος-N2--GSM ινα-C τις- I--ASN ουτος- D--NSF συ- P--DP ο- A--NSF ημερα-N1A-NSF ο- A--GSM κυριος-N2--GSM και-C αυτος- D--NSF ειμι-V9--PAI3S σκοτος-N3E-NSN και-C ου-D φως-N3T-NSN

19 ος- --ASM τροπος-N2--ASM οταν-D φευγω-VB--AAS3S ανθρωπος-N2--NSM εκ-P προσωπον-N2N-GSN ο- A--GSM λεων-N3--GSM και-C ενπιπτω-VF--FMI2S αυτος- D--DSM ο- A--NSF αρκος-N2--NSF και-C ειςπηδαω-VA--AAS3S εις-P ο- A--ASM οικος-N2--ASM αυτος- D--GSM και-C αποερειδω-VA--AMS3S ο- A--APF χειρ-N3--APF αυτος- D--GSM επι-P ο- A--ASM τοιχος-N2--ASM και-C δακνω-VB--AAS3S αυτος- D--ASM ο- A--NSM οφις-N3I-NSM

20 ου-D σκοτος-N3E-NSN ο- A--NSF ημερα-N1A-NSF ο- A--GSM κυριος-N2--GSM και-C ου-D φως-N3T-NSN και-C γνοφος-N2--NSM ου-D εχω-V1--PAPNSM φεγγος-N3E-ASN αυτος- D--DSF

21 μισεω-VX--XAI1S αποωθεω-VM--XMI1S εορτη-N1--APF συ- P--GP και-C ου-D μη-D οσφραινομαι-VC--APS1S εν-P ο- A--DPF πανηγυρις-N3I-DPF συ- P--GP

22 διοτι-C και-C εαν-C φερω-VAI-AAS2P εγω- P--DS ολοκαυτωμα-N3M-APN και-C θυσια-N1A-APF συ- P--GP ου-D προςδεχομαι-VF--FMI1S αυτος- D--APN και-C σωτηριον-N2N-GSN επιφανεια-N1A-APF συ- P--GP ου-D επιβλεπω-VF--FMI1S

23 μεταιστημι-VA--AAD2S απο-P εγω- P--GS ηχος-N2--ASM ωδη-N1--GPF συ- P--GS και-C ψαλμος-N2--ASM οργανον-N2N-GPN συ- P--GS ου-D ακουω-VF--FMI1S

24 και-C κυλιω-VS--FPI3S ως-C υδωρ-N3--NSN κριμα-N3M-NSN και-C δικαιοσυνη-N1--NSF ως-C χειμαρρους-A1C-NSM αβατος-A1B-NSM

25 μη-D σφαγιον-N2N-APN και-C θυσια-N1A-APF προςφερω-VAI-AAI2P εγω- P--DS εν-P ο- A--DSF ερημος-N2--DSF τεσσαρακοντα-M ετος-N3E-APN οικος-N2--NSM *ισραηλ-N---GSM

26 και-C αναλαμβανω-VBI-AAI2P ο- A--ASF σκηνη-N1--ASF ο- A--GSM *μολοχ-N---GS και-C ο- A--ASN αστρον-N2N-ASN ο- A--GSM θεος-N2--GSM συ- P--GP *ραιφαν-N---GS ο- A--APM τυπος-N2--APM αυτος- D--GPM ος- --APM ποιεω-VAI-AAI2P εαυτου- D--DPM

27 και-C μεταοικιζω-VF2-FAI1S συ- P--AP επεκεινα-D *δαμασκος-N2--GS λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM θεος-N2--NSM ο- A--NSM παντοκρατωρ-N3 -NSM ονομα-N3M-NSN αυτος- D--DSM

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #620

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620. 14:4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. This symbolically means that they did not adulterate the church's truths or defile them with the falsities of their faith, but loved the truths because they are true.

A woman symbolizes the church from an affection for truth, and so in an opposite sense the church from an affection for falsity, as may be seen in nos. 434, 533 above - here the church from an affection for truth, because we are told that they were not defiled with women. Being defiled with women has the same symbolic meaning as committing adultery and behaving licentiously. To commit adultery and behave licentiously means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word, as may be seen in no. 134 above.

For they are virgins means, symbolically, because they have loved truths because they are true, thus loving them from a spiritual affection. These are meant by virgins because a virgin symbolizes the church as a bride who desires to be conjoined with the Lord and to become a wife; and a church that desires to be conjoined with the Lord loves truths because they are true. For truths bring about conjunction when people live in accordance with them.

That is why Israel, Zion and Jerusalem are called in the Word virgins and daughters; for Israel, Zion and Jerusalem symbolize the church.

[2] People in the Lord's church who are of such a character are all meant by virgins, whether they are maidens or youths, wives or husbands, boys or old men, girls or old ladies, and this can be seen from places in the Word where virgins are mentioned, such as the virgin of Israel (Jeremiah 18:13; 31:4, 21, Amos 5:2, Joel 1:8); the virgin daughter of Judah (Lamentations 1:15); the virgin daughter of Zion (2 Kings 19:21, Isaiah 37:22, Lamentations 1:4; 2:13); the virgins of Jerusalem (Lamentations 2:10); the virgin of My people (Jeremiah 14:17).

For that reason the Lord likened the church to ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13), and we read in Jeremiah:

...I will build you, that you may be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again... go forth in the dances of those who rejoice. (Jeremiah 31:4, 13)

And in the book of Psalms:

They have seen Your goings, O God, the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary..., in the midst of maidens playing timbrels. (Psalms 68:24-25)

And elsewhere:

Kings' daughters are among Your precious ones; at Your right hand stands the queen in pure gold from Ophir.

Listen, O daughter, and see... The King will delight in your beauty... The daughter of Tyre also will bring a gift; the rich among the people will appease Your face.

The King's daughter is all precious within; her clothing is woven with gold. She shall be brought to the King in embroidered garments. The virgins after her, her companions, shall come... into the palace of the King. (Psalms 45:9-15)

The King there means the Lord; the queen the church as a wife; and the daughters and virgins affections for goodness and truth.

[3] Similar affections are symbolically meant by virgins elsewhere in the Word in places where young men are mentioned at the same time, because young men symbolize truths, and virgins affections for those truths. For instance, in the following places:

Behold, the days are coming... that I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah... In that day the fair virgins and young men shall faint from thirst. (Amos 8:11, 13)

Be ashamed, O Sidon; ...the sea has said..., "I have not travailed or given birth; neither have I reared young men or brought up virgins." (Isaiah 33:4)

The Lord trampled a winepress for the virgin daughter of Zion... Behold my sorrow; the virgins and the young men have gone into captivity. (Lamentations 1:4, 15, 18)

...how great is His goodness, and how great His beauty! Grain shall make the young men grow up, and new wine the young women. (Zechariah 9:17)

The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in My streets. (Zechariah 8:5)

They sit on the ground..., the virgins of Jerusalem... To what shall I liken you..., O virgin daughter of Zion... ...They lay... in the streets..., My virgins and My young men... (Lamentations 2:10, 13, 21)

And so on elsewhere, as in Jeremiah 51:20-23, Lamentations 5:11, 13, 14, Ezekiel 9:4, 6, Psalms 78:62-64, Deuteronomy 32:25.

  
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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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