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Ezekiel 15

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1 και-C γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S λογος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--GSM προς-P εγω- P--AS λεγω-V1--PAPNSM

2 και-C συ- P--NS υιος-N2--VSM ανθρωπος-N2--GSM τις- I--ASN αν-X γιγνομαι-VB--AMO3S ο- A--NSN ξυλον-N2N-NSN ο- A--GSF αμπελος-N2--GSF εκ-P πας-A3--GPN ο- A--GPN ξυλον-N2N-GPN ο- A--GPN κλημα-N3M-GPN ο- A--GPN ειμι-V9--PAPGPN εν-P ο- A--DPN ξυλον-N2N-DPN ο- A--GSM δρυμος-N2--GSM

3 ει-C λαμβανω-VF--FMI3P εκ-P αυτος- D--GSF ξυλον-N2N-ASN ο- A--GSN ποιεω-VA--AAN εις-P εργασια-N1A-ASF ει-C λαμβανω-VF--FMI3P εκ-P αυτος- D--GSF πασσαλος-N2--ASM ο- A--GSN κρεμαζω-VA--AAN επι-P αυτος- D--ASM πας-A3--ASN σκευος-N3E-ASN

4 παρεξ-P πυρ-N3--DSN διδωμι-VM--XMI3S εις-P αναλωσις-N3I-ASF ο- A--ASF κατα-P ενιαυτος-N2--ASM καθαρσις-N3I-ASF απο-P αυτος- D--GSF ανααλισκω-V1--PAI3S ο- A--NSN πυρ-N3--NSN και-C εκλειπω-V1--PAI3S εις-P τελος-N3E-ASN μη-D χρησιμος-A1--NSN ειμι-VF--FMI3S εις-P εργασια-N1A-ASF

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7 και-C διδωμι-VF--FAI1S ο- A--ASN προσωπον-N2N-ASN εγω- P--GS επι-P αυτος- D--APM εκ-P ο- A--GSN πυρ-N3--GSN εκερχομαι-VF--FMI3P και-C πυρ-N3--NSN αυτος- D--APM καταεσθιω-VF--FMI3S και-C επιγιγνωσκω-VF--FMI3P οτι-C εγω- P--NS κυριος-N2--NSM εν-P ο- A--DSN στηριζω-VA--AAN εγω- P--AS ο- A--ASN προσωπον-N2N-ASN εγω- P--GS επι-P αυτος- D--APM

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Apocalypse Revealed #351

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351. Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed. This symbolizes wisdom springing from celestial love in those people who will be in the New Heaven and in the Lord's New Church.

In the highest sense Reuben symbolizes omniscience; in the spiritual sense, wisdom, intelligence and knowledge, also faith; and in the natural sense, sight. Here, however, Reuben symbolizes wisdom, because he comes after Judah, who symbolizes celestial love, and celestial love produces wisdom. For there is no love without its partner, which is knowledge, intelligence, or wisdom. The partner of natural love is knowledge; that of spiritual love is intelligence; and that of celestial love is wisdom.

[2] Reuben symbolizes these three because his name was derived from a word meaning to look or see, and natural sight spiritually is knowledge, spiritual sight is intelligence, and celestial sight is wisdom.

Reuben was also Jacob's firstborn, and therefore Israel called him "my might, the beginning of my strength, excellent in eminence and excellent in valor" (Genesis 49:3). Of such a character also is wisdom springing from celestial love.

Moreover, because by virtue of his primogeniture Reuben represented and so symbolized the wisdom possessed by people of the church, therefore he urged his brothers not to kill Joseph, and he grieved when he found Joseph not in the pit (Genesis 37:21-22, 29-30).

For the same reason his tribe camped on the south side of the Tabernacle, and the tribes camped on that side were called the Camp of Reuben (Numbers 2:10-16). The south, too, symbolizes wisdom springing from love. Consequently people in heaven who have that wisdom dwell toward the south (see the book Heaven and Hell, 148-150nos. ).

This wisdom is symbolized by Reuben in the prophetic utterance of Deborah and Barak:

Among the divisions of Reuben were great resolves of heart... Why do you sit among the packs, (Issachar,) to hear the rustling of the flocks? To listen to the divisions of Reuben (where there are) great searchings of heart? (Judges 5:15-16)

The divisions of Reuben are concepts of every kind, which have to do with wisdom.

[3] Because the tribes all symbolize their opposites as well, so too does the tribe of Reuben; and in an opposite sense he symbolizes wisdom divorced from love, and thus also faith divorced from charity. Therefore his father Israel cursed him (Genesis 49:3-4). And therefore he was deprived of his primogeniture (1 Chronicles 5:1; see no. 17 above). For the same reason, too, the tribe was given an inheritance in the Trans-Jordan and not in the land of Canaan. And Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph's sons, were acknowledged in the place of Reuben and Simeon (Genesis 48:5).

Nevertheless, he still retained the representation and consequent symbolism of wisdom.

  
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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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Isaiah 5:25

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