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Ezekiel 1

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1 και-C γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S εν-P ο- A--DSN τριακοστος-A1--DSN ετος-N3E-DSN εν-P ο- A--DSM τεταρτος-A1--DSM μην-N3--DSM πεμπτος-A1--DSF ο- A--GSM μην-N3--GSM και-C εγω- P--NS ειμι-V9I-IAI1S εν-P μεσος-A1--DSN ο- A--GSF αιχμαλωσια-N1A-GSF επι-P ο- A--GSM ποταμος-N2--GSM ο- A--GSM *χοβαρ-N---GS και-C αναοιγω-VQI-API3P ο- A--NPM ουρανος-N2--NPM και-C οραω-VBI-AAI1S ορασις-N3I-APF θεος-N2--GSM

2 πεμπτος-A1--DSF ο- A--GSM μην-N3--GSM ουτος- D--NSN ο- A--NSN ετος-N3E-NSN ο- A--NSN πεμπτος-A1--NSN ο- A--GSF αιχμαλωσια-N1A-GSF ο- A--GSM βασιλευς-N3V-GSM *ιωακιμ-N---GSM

3 και-C γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S λογος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--GSM προς-P *ιεζεκιηλ-N---ASM υιος-N2--ASM *βουζι-N---GSM ο- A--ASM ιερευς-N3V-ASM εν-P γη-N1--DSF *χαλδαιος-N2--GPM επι-P ο- A--GSM ποταμος-N2--GSM ο- A--GSM *χοβαρ-N---GS και-C γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S επι-P εγω- P--AS χειρ-N3--NSF κυριος-N2--GSM

4 και-C οραω-VBI-AAI1S και-C ιδου-I πνευμα-N3M-NSN εκαιρω-V1--PAPNSN αρχω-V1I-IMI3S απο-P βορεας-N1T-GSM και-C νεφελη-N1--NSF μεγας-A1--NSF εν-P αυτος- D--DSM και-C φεγγος-N3E-NSN κυκλος-N2--DSM αυτος- D--GSM και-C πυρ-N3--NSN εκαστραπτω-V1--PAPNSN και-C εν-P ο- A--DSM μεσος-A1--DSN αυτος- D--GSM ως-C ορασις-N3I-NSF ηλεκτρον-N2N-GSN εν-P μεσος-A1--DSN ο- A--GSN πυρ-N3--GSN και-C φεγγος-N3E-ASN εν-P αυτος- D--DSM

5 και-C εν-P ο- A--DSN μεσος-A1--DSN ως-C ομοιωμα-N3M-NSN τεσσαρες-A3--GPN ζωον-N2N-GPN και-C ουτος- D--NSF ο- A--NSF ορασις-N3I-NSF αυτος- D--GPN ομοιωμα-N3M-NSN ανθρωπος-N2--GSM επι-P αυτος- D--DPN

6 και-C τεσσαρες-A3--NPN προσωπον-N2N-NPN ο- A--DSN εις-A3--DSN και-C τεσσαρες-A3--NPF πτερυξ-N3G-NPF ο- A--DSN εις-A3--DSN

7 και-C ο- A--NPN σκελος-N3E-NPN αυτος- D--GPN ορθος-A1--NPN και-C πτερωτος-A1--NPM ο- A--NPM πους-N3D-NPM αυτος- D--GPN και-C σπινθηρ-N3--NPM ως-C εκαστραπτω-V1--PAPNSM χαλκος-N2--NSM και-C ελαφρος-A1A-NPF ο- A--NPF πτερυξ-N3G-NPF αυτος- D--GPN

8 και-C χειρ-N3--NSF ανθρωπος-N2--GSM υποκατωθεν-D ο- A--GPF πτερυξ-N3G-GPF αυτος- D--GPN επι-P ο- A--APN τεσσαρες-A3--APN μερος-N3E-APN αυτος- D--GPN και-C ο- A--NPN προσωπον-N2N-NPN αυτος- D--GPN ο- A--GPN τεσσαρες-A3--GPN

9 ου-D επιστρεφω-V1I-IMI3P εν-P ο- A--DSN βαδιζω-V1--PAN αυτος- D--APN εκαστος-A1--NSN κατεναντι-D ο- A--GSN προσωπον-N2N-GSN αυτος- D--GPN πορευομαι-V1I-IMI3P

10 και-C ομοιωσις-N3I-NSF ο- A--GPN προσωπον-N2N-GPN αυτος- D--GPN προσωπον-N2N-NSN ανθρωπος-N2--GSM και-C προσωπον-N2N-NSN λεων-N3--GSM εκ-P δεξιος-A1A-GPN ο- A--DPN τεσσαρες-A3--DPN και-C προσωπον-N2N-NSN μοσχος-N2--GSM εκ-P αριστερος-A1A-GPN ο- A--DPN τεσσαρες-A3--DPN και-C προσωπον-N2N-NSN αετος-N2--GSM ο- A--DPN τεσσαρες-A3--DPN

11 και-C ο- A--NPF πτερυξ-N3G-NPF αυτος- D--GPN εκτεινω-VM--XMPNPF ανωθεν-D ο- A--DPN τεσσαρες-A3--DPN εκατερος-A1A-DSN δυο-M συνζευγνυμι-VM--XPPNPF προς-P αλληλω- D--APF και-C δυο-M επικαλυπτω-V1I-IAI3P επανω-D ο- A--GSN σωμα-N3M-GSN αυτος- D--GPN

12 και-C εκατερος-A1A-NSN κατα-P προσωπον-N2N-ASN αυτος- D--GSN πορευομαι-V1I-IMI3S ος- --GSN αν-X ειμι-V9--IAI3S ο- A--NSN πνευμα-N3M-NSN πορευομαι-V1--PMPNSN πορευομαι-V1I-IMI3P και-C ου-D επιστρεφω-V1I-IAI3P

13 και-C εν-P μεσος-A1--DSN ο- A--GPN ζωον-N2N-GPN ορασις-N3I-NSF ως-C ανθραξ-N3K-GPM πυρ-N3--GSN καιω-V1--PMPGPM ως-C οψις-N3I-NSF λαμπας-N3D-GPF συνστρεφω-V1--PPPGPF ανα-P μεσος-A1--ASN ο- A--GPN ζωον-N2N-GPN και-C φεγγος-N3E-ASN ο- A--GSN πυρ-N3--GSN και-C εκ-P ο- A--GSN πυρ-N3--GSN εκπορευομαι-V1I-IMI3S αστραπη-N1--NSF

15 και-C οραω-VBI-AAI1S και-C ιδου-I τροχος-N2--NSM εις-A3--NSM επι-P ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF εχω-V1--PMPNSM ο- A--GPN ζωον-N2N-GPN ο- A--DPN τεσσαρες-A3--DPN

16 και-C ο- A--NSN ειδος-N3E-NSN ο- A--GPM τροχος-N2--GPM ως-C ειδος-N3E-NSN θαρσις-N---GS και-C ομοιωμα-N3M-NSN εις-A3--NSN ο- A--DPN τεσσαρες-A3--DPN και-C ο- A--NSN εργον-N2N-NSN αυτος- D--GPM ειμι-V9--IAI3S καθως-D αν-X ειμι-V9--PAO3S τροχος-N2--NSM εν-P τροχος-N2--DSM

17 επι-P ο- A--APN τεσσαρες-A3--APN μερος-N3E-APN αυτος- D--GPM πορευομαι-V1I-IMI3P ου-D επιστρεφω-V1I-IAI3P εν-P ο- A--DSN πορευομαι-V1--PMN αυτος- D--APN

18 ουδε-C ο- A--NPM νωτος-N2--NPM αυτος- D--GPM και-C υψος-N3E-NSN ειμι-V9--IAI3S αυτος- D--DPM και-C οραω-VBI-AAI1S αυτος- D--APN και-C ο- A--NPM νωτος-N2--NPM αυτος- D--GPM πληρης-A3H-NPM οφθαλμος-N2--GPM κυκλοθεν-D ο- A--DPM τεσσαρες-A3--DPM

19 και-C εν-P ο- A--DSN πορευομαι-V1--PMN ο- A--APN ζωον-N2N-APN πορευομαι-V1I-IMI3P ο- A--NPM τροχος-N2--NPM εχω-V1--PMPNPM αυτος- D--GPN και-C εν-P ο- A--DSN εκαιρω-V1--PAN ο- A--APN ζωον-N2N-APN απο-P ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF εκαιρω-V1I-IMI3P ο- A--NPM τροχος-N2--NPM

20 ος- --GSM αν-X ειμι-V9--IAI3S ο- A--NSF νεφελη-N1--NSF εκει-D ο- A--NSN πνευμα-N3M-NSN ο- A--GSN πορευομαι-V1--PMN πορευομαι-V1I-IMI3P ο- A--NPN ζωον-N2N-NPN και-C ο- A--NPM τροχος-N2--NPM και-C εκαιρω-V1I-IMI3P συν-P αυτος- D--DPM διοτι-C πνευμα-N3M-NSN ζωη-N1--GSF ειμι-V9--IAI3S εν-P ο- A--DPM τροχος-N2--DPM

21 εν-P ο- A--DSN πορευομαι-V1--PMN αυτος- D--APN πορευομαι-V1I-IMI3P και-C εν-P ο- A--DSN ιστημι-VXI-XAN αυτος- D--APN ιστημι-VXI-YAI3P και-C εν-P ο- A--DSN εκαιρω-V1--PAN αυτος- D--APN απο-P ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF εκαιρω-V1I-IMI3P συν-P αυτος- D--DPN οτι-C πνευμα-N3M-NSN ζωη-N1--GSF ειμι-V9--IAI3S εν-P ο- A--DPM τροχος-N2--DPM

22 και-C ομοιωμα-N3M-NSN υπερ-P κεφαλη-N1--GSF αυτος- D--DPM ο- A--GPN ζωον-N2N-GPN ωσει-C στερεωμα-N3M-NSN ως-C ορασις-N3I-NSF κρυσταλλος-N2--GSM εκτεινω-VM--XPPNSN επι-P ο- A--GPF πτερυξ-N3G-GPF αυτος- D--GPN επανωθεν-D

23 και-C υποκατω-P ο- A--GSN στερεωμα-N3M-GSN ο- A--NPF πτερυξ-N3G-NPF αυτος- D--GPN εκτεινω-VM--XMPNPF πτερυσσομαι-V1--PMPNPF ετερος-A1A-NSF ο- A--DSF ετερος-A1A-DSF εκαστος-A1--DSM δυο-M συνζευγνυμι-VM--XPPNPF επικαλυπτω-V1--PAPNPF ο- A--APN σωμα-N3M-APN αυτος- D--GPN

24 και-C ακουω-V1I-IAI1S ο- A--ASF φωνη-N1--ASF ο- A--GPF πτερυξ-N3G-GPF αυτος- D--GPN εν-P ο- A--DSN πορευομαι-V1--PMN αυτος- D--APN ως-C φωνη-N1--ASF υδωρ-N3T-GSN πολυς-A1--GSN και-C εν-P ο- A--DSN ιστημι-VXI-XAN αυτος- D--APN καταπαυω-V1I-IAI3P ο- A--NPF πτερυξ-N3G-NPF αυτος- D--GPN

25 και-C ιδου-I φωνη-N1--NSF υπερανωθεν-D ο- A--GSN στερεωμα-N3M-GSN ο- A--GSM ειμι-V9--PAPGSM υπερ-P κεφαλη-N1--GSF αυτος- D--GPN

26 ως-C ορασις-N3I-NSF λιθος-N2--GSM σαπφειρος-N2--GSF ομοιωμα-N3M-NSN θρονος-N2--GSM επι-P αυτος- D--GSM και-C επι-P ο- A--GSN ομοιωμα-N3M-GSN ο- A--GSM θρονος-N2--GSM ομοιωμα-N3M-NSN ως-C ειδος-N3E-NSN ανθρωπος-N2--GSM ανωθεν-D

27 και-C οραω-VBI-AAI1S ως-C οψις-N3I-ASF ηλεκτρον-N2N-GSN απο-P ορασις-N3I-GSF οσφυς-N3U-GSF και-C επανω-D και-C απο-P ορασις-N3I-GSF οσφυς-N3U-GSF και-C εως-D κατω-D οραω-VBI-AAI1S ως-C ορασις-N3I-ASF πυρ-N3--GSN και-C ο- A--ASN φεγγος-N3E-ASN αυτος- D--GSM κυκλος-N2--DSM

28 ως-C ορασις-N3I-NSF τοξον-N2N-GSN οταν-D ειμι-V9--PAS3S εν-P ο- A--DSF νεφελη-N1--DSF εν-P ημερα-N1A-DSF υετος-N2--GSM ουτως-D ο- A--NSF στασις-N3I-NSF ο- A--GSN φεγγος-N3E-GSN κυκλοθεν-D ουτος- D--NSF ο- A--NSF ορασις-N3I-NSF ομοιωμα-N3M-GSN δοξα-N1S-GSF κυριος-N2--GSM και-C οραω-VBI-AAI1S και-C πιπτω-V1--PAI1S επι-P προσωπον-N2N-ASN εγω- P--GS και-C ακουω-VAI-AAI1S φωνη-N1--ASF λαλεω-V2--PAPGSM

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Apocalypse Revealed #49

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49. His feet were like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace. (1:15) This symbolizes natural Divine good.

The Lord's feet symbolize His natural Divinity. Fire or being fired symbolizes goodness. And fine brass symbolizes the natural goodness of truth. Consequently the feet of the Son of Man like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace, symbolize natural Divine good.

His feet have this symbolic meaning because of their correspondence.

Present in the Lord, and so emanating from the Lord, are a celestial Divinity, a spiritual Divinity, and a natural Divinity. His celestial Divinity is meant by the head of the Son of Man; His spiritual Divinity by His eyes and by His breast girded with a golden girdle; and His natural Divinity by His feet.

[2] Because these three elements are present in the Lord, therefore the same three are also present in the angelic heaven. The third or highest heaven exists on the celestial Divine level, the second or middle heaven on the spiritual Divine level, and the first or lowest heaven on the natural Divine level. The like is the case with the church on earth. For the whole of heaven is, in the Lord's sight, like a single person, in which those who are governed by the Lord's celestial Divinity form the head, and those who are governed by His spiritual Divinity form the trunk, while those who are governed by His natural Divinity form the feet.

For this reason, too, every person, having been created in the image of God, has in him the same three degrees, and as they are opened he becomes an angel either of the third heaven, or of the second, or of the last.

It is owing to this also that the Word contains three levels of meaning - a celestial one, a spiritual one, and a natural one.

The reality of this may be seen in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom, particularly in Part Three, in which we discussed these three degrees.

To be shown that feet, the soles of the feet, and heels correspond to natural attributes in people, and that in the Word, therefore, they symbolize natural attributes, see in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), published in London, nos. 2162 and 4938-4952.

[3] Natural Divine good is also symbolically meant by feet in the following passages. In Daniel:

I lifted my eyes and looked; behold, a... man clothed in linen garments, whose loins were girded with the gold of Uphaz! And his body was like beryl, and... his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and his feet like the sheen of burnished bronze. (Daniel 10:5-6)

In the book of Revelation:

I saw... an angel coming down from heaven, ...his feet like pillars of fire. (Revelation 10:1)

And in Ezekiel:

(The feet of the cherubim) sparkled like the sheen of burnished bronze. (Ezekiel 1:7)

Angels and cherubim so appeared for the reason that the Lord's Divinity was represented in them.

[4] Since the Lord's church exists below the heavens, thus under the Lord's feet, it is therefore called His footstool in the following places:

The glory of Lebanon shall come to you..., to beautify the place of My sanctuary; ...I will make the place of My feet honorable. And... they shall bow themselves at the soles of your feet. (Isaiah 60:13-14)

Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. (Isaiah 66:1)

(God) does not remember His footstool in the day of His anger. (Lamentations 2:1)

...worship (Jehovah) in the direction of His footstool. (Psalms 99:5)

Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah (Bethlehem).... We will go into His dwelling places, we will bow ourselves at His footstool. (Psalms 132:6-7)

That is why worshipers fell at the Lord's feet (Matthew 28:9, Mark 5:22, Luke 8:41, John 11:32), and why they kissed His feet and wiped them with their hair (Luke 7:37-38, 44-46, John 11:2; 12:3).

[5] Because feet symbolize the natural self, therefore the Lord said to Peter, when He washed Peter's feet,

He who is washed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is completely clean. (John 13:10)

To wash the feet is to purify the natural self. When it has been purified, the whole self also is purified, as we showed many times in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), and in The Doctrines of the New Jerusalem. 1 The natural self, which is also the outer self, is purified when it refrains from the evils which the spiritual or inner self sees to be evils and ones to be shunned.

[6] Now because the feet mean the natural component of a person, and this perverts everything if it is not washed or purified, therefore the Lord says,

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than to have two feet and be cast into hell, into the unquenchable fire... (Mark 9:45)

The foot here does not mean the foot, but the natural self.

The like is meant by treading down the good pasture with the feet and troubling waters with the feet (Ezekiel 32:2; 34:18-19, Daniel 7:7, 19, and elsewhere).

[7] Since the Son of Man means the Lord in relation to the Word, it is apparent that His feet mean the Word in its natural sense as well, which we dealt with at length in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, and also that the Lord came into the world to fulfill everything in the Word and to become thereby an embodiment of the Word, even in its outmost expressions (The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 98-100). But this is a secret for people who will be in the New Jerusalem.

[8] The Lord's natural Divinity was also symbolized by the bronze serpent that Moses was commanded to set up in the wilderness, so that all who had been bitten by serpents were healed by looking at it (Numbers 21:6, 8-9). That this symbolized the Lord's natural Divinity, and that those people are saved who look to it, the Lord Himself teaches in John:

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:14-15)

The serpent was made of bronze because bronze, like fine brass, symbolizes the natural self in respect to good, as may be seen in no. 775 below.

Footnotes:

1. Perhaps The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem, and The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding Faith (Amsterdam, 1763). But perhaps The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (London, 1758).

  
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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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