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Ezekiel 26

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1 και-C γιγνομαι-VCI-API3S εν-P ο- A--DSN ενδεκατος-A1--DSN ετος-N3E-DSN εις-A1A-DSF ο- A--GSM μην-N3--GSM γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S λογος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--GSM προς-P εγω- P--AS λεγω-V1--PAPNSM

2 υιος-N2--VSM ανθρωπος-N2--GSM αντι-P ος- --GPM ειπον-VBI-AAI3S *σορ-N---NSF επι-P *ιερουσαλημ-N---ASF ευγε-D συντριβω-VDI-API3S αποολλυω-VX--XAI3S ο- A--NPN εθνος-N3E-NPN επιστρεφω-VDI-API3S προς-P εγω- P--AS ο- A--NSF πληρης-A3H-NSF ερημοω-VM--XPI3S

3 δια-P ουτος- D--ASN οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM ιδου-I εγω- P--NS επι-P συ- P--AS *σορ-N---VSF και-C ανααγω-VF--FAI1S επι-P συ- P--AS εθνος-N3E-APN πολυς-A1--APN ως-C αναβαινω-V1--PAI3S ο- A--NSF θαλασσα-N1S-NSF ο- A--DPN κυμα-N3M-DPN αυτος- D--GSF

4 και-C καταβαλλω-VF2-FAI3P ο- A--APN τειχος-N3E-APN *σορ-N---GSF και-C καταβαλλω-VF2-FAI3P ο- A--APM πυργος-N2--APM συ- P--GS και-C λικμαω-VF--FAI1S ο- A--ASM χους-N3--ASM αυτος- D--GSF απο-P αυτος- D--GSF και-C διδωμι-VF--FAI1S αυτος- D--ASF εις-P λεωπετρια-N1A-ASF

5 ψυγμος-N2--NSM σαγηνη-N1--GPF ειμι-VF--FMI3S εν-P μεσος-A1--DSM θαλασσα-N1S-GSF οτι-C εγω- P--NS λαλεω-VX--XAI1S λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM και-C ειμι-VF--FMI3S εις-P προνομη-N1--ASF ο- A--DPN εθνος-N3E-DPN

6 και-C ο- A--NPF θυγατηρ-N3--NPF αυτος- D--GSF ο- A--NPF εν-P ο- A--DSN πεδιον-N2N-DSN μαχαιρα-N1A-DSF ανααιρεω-VC--FPI3P και-C γιγνωσκω-VF--FMI3P οτι-C εγω- P--NS κυριος-N2--NSM

7 οτι-C οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM ιδου-I εγω- P--NS επιαγω-V1--PAI1S επι-P συ- P--AS *σορ-N---VSF ο- A--ASM *ναβουχοδονοσορ-N---ASM βασιλευς-N3V-ASM *βαβυλων-N3W-GSF απο-P ο- A--GSM βορεας-N1T-GSM βασιλευς-N3V-NSM βασιλευς-N3V-GPM ειμι-V9--PAI3S μετα-P ιππος-N2--GPM και-C αρμα-N3M-GPN και-C ιππευς-N3V-GPM και-C συναγωγη-N1--GSF εθνος-N3E-GPN πολυς-A1--GPM σφοδρα-D

8 ουτος- D--NSM ο- A--APF θυγατηρ-N3--APF συ- P--GS ο- A--APF εν-P ο- A--DSN πεδιον-N2N-DSN μαχαιρα-N1A-DSF ανααιρεω-VF2-FAI3S και-C διδωμι-VF--FAI3S επι-P συ- P--AS προφυλακη-N1--ASF και-C περιοικοδομεω-VF--FAI3S και-C ποιεω-VF--FAI3S επι-P συ- P--AS κυκλος-N2--DSM χαραξ-N3K-ASM και-C περιστασις-N3I-ASF οπλον-N2N-GPN και-C ο- A--APF λογχη-N1--APF αυτος- D--GSM απεναντι-D συ- P--GS διδωμι-VF--FAI3S

9 ο- A--APN τειχος-N3E-APN συ- P--GS και-C ο- A--APM πυργος-N2--APM συ- P--GS καταβαλλω-VF2-FAI3S εν-P ο- A--DPF μαχαιρα-N1--DPF αυτος- D--GSM

10 απο-P ο- A--GSN πληθος-N3E-GSN ο- A--GPM ιππος-N2--GPM αυτος- D--GSM κατακαλυπτω-VF--FAI3S συ- P--AS ο- A--NSM κονιορτος-N2--NSM αυτος- D--GPM και-C απο-P ο- A--GSF φωνη-N1--GSF ο- A--GPM ιππευς-N3V-GPM αυτος- D--GSM και-C ο- A--GPM τροχος-N2--GPM ο- A--GPN αρμα-N3M-GPN αυτος- D--GSM σειω-VC--FPI3S ο- A--NPN τειχος-N3E-NPN συ- P--GS ειςπορευομαι-V1--PMPGSM αυτος- D--GSM ο- A--APF πυλη-N1--APF συ- P--GS ως-C ειςπορευομαι-V1--PMPNSM εις-P πολις-N3I-ASF εκ-P πεδιον-N2N-GSN

11 εν-P ο- A--DPF οπλη-N1--DPF ο- A--GPM ιππος-N2--GPM αυτος- D--GSM κατααπαταω-VF--FAI3P συ- P--GS πας-A1S-APF ο- A--APF πλατυς-A3U-APF ο- A--ASM λαος-N2--ASM συ- P--GS μαχαιρα-N1A-DSF ανααιρεω-VF2-FAI3S και-C ο- A--ASF υποστασις-N3I-ASF συ- P--GS ο- A--GSF ισχυς-N3U-GSF επι-P ο- A--ASF γη-N1--ASF κατααγω-VF--FAI3S

12 και-C προνομευω-VF--FAI3S ο- A--ASF δυναμις-N3I-ASF συ- P--GS και-C σκυλευω-VF--FAI3S ο- A--APN υποαρχω-V1--PAPAPN συ- P--GS και-C καταβαλλω-VF2-FAI3S συ- P--GS ο- A--APN τειχος-N3E-APN και-C ο- A--APM οικος-N2--APM συ- P--GS ο- A--APM επιθυμητης-N1M-APM κατααιρεω-VF2-FAI3S και-C ο- A--APM λιθος-N2--APM συ- P--GS και-C ο- A--APN ξυλον-N2N-APN συ- P--GS και-C ο- A--ASM χους-N3--ASM συ- P--GS εις-P μεσος-A1--ASM ο- A--GSF θαλασσα-N1S-GSF ενβαλλω-VF2-FAI3S

13 και-C καταλυω-VF--FAI3S ο- A--ASN πληθος-N3E-ASN ο- A--GPM μουσικος-A1--GPM συ- P--GS και-C ο- A--NSF φωνη-N1--NSF ο- A--GPN ψαλτηριον-N2N-GPN συ- P--GS ου-D μη-D ακουω-VC--APS3S ετι-D

14 και-C διδωμι-VF--FAI1S συ- P--AS εις-P λεωπετρια-N1A-ASF ψυγμος-N2--NSM σαγηνη-N1--GPF ειμι-VF--FMI2S ου-D μη-D οικοδομεω-VC--APS2S ετι-D οτι-C εγω- P--NS λαλεω-VAI-AAI1S λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM

15 διοτι-C οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM ο- A--DSF *σορ-N---DSF ου-D απο-P φωνη-N1--GSF ο- A--GSF πτωσις-N3I-GSF συ- P--GS εν-P ο- A--DSN στεναζω-VA--AAN τραυματιας-N1T-APM εν-P ο- A--DSN σπαω-VA--AAN μαχαιρα-N1A-ASF εν-P μεσος-A1--DSM συ- P--GS σειω-VC--FPI3P ο- A--NPF νησος-N2--NPF

16 και-C καταβαινω-VF--FMI3P απο-P ο- A--GPM θρονος-N2--GPM αυτος- D--GPM πας-A3--NPM ο- A--NPM αρχων-N3--NPM εκ-P ο- A--GPN εθνος-N3E-GPN ο- A--GSF θαλασσα-N1S-GSF και-C αποαιρεω-VF2-FMI3P ο- A--APF μιτρα-N1A-APF απο-P ο- A--GPF κεφαλη-N1--GPF αυτος- D--GPM και-C ο- A--ASM ιματισμος-N2--ASM ο- A--ASM ποικιλος-A1--ASM αυτος- D--GPM εκδυω-VF--FMI3P εκστασις-N3I-DSF εκιστημι-VF--FMI3P επι-P γη-N1--ASF καταεζομαι-VF2-FMI3P και-C φοβεω-VC--FPI3P ο- A--ASF απωλεια-N1A-ASF αυτος- D--GPM και-C στεναζω-VF--FAI3P επι-P συ- P--AS

17 και-C λαμβανω-VF--FMI3P επι-P συ- P--AS θρηνος-N2--ASM και-C ειπον-VF2-FAI3P συ- P--DS πως-D καταλυω-VCI-API2S εκ-P θαλασσα-N1S-GSF ο- A--NSF πολις-N3I-NSF ο- A--NSF επαινεστος-A1--NSF ο- A--NSF διδωμι-VO--AAPNSF ο- A--ASM φοβος-N2--ASM αυτος- D--GSF πας-A3--DPM ο- A--DPM καταοικεω-V2--PAPDPM αυτος- D--ASF

18 και-C φοβεω-VC--FPI3P ο- A--NPF νησος-N2--NPF απο-P ημερα-N1A-GSF πτωσις-N3I-GSF συ- P--GS

19 οτι-C οδε- D--APN λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM οταν-D διδωμι-VO--AAS1S συ- P--AS πολις-N3I-ASF ερημοω-VM--XPPASF ως-C ο- A--APF πολις-N3I-APF ο- A--APF μη-D καταοικεω-VC--FPPAPF εν-P ο- A--DSN ανααγω-VB--AAN εγω- P--AS επι-P συ- P--AS ο- A--ASF αβυσσος-N2--ASF και-C κατακαλυπτω-VA--AAS3S συ- P--AS υδωρ-N3--NSN πολυς-A1P-NSN

20 και-C καταβιβαζω-VF--FAI1S συ- P--AS προς-P ο- A--APM καταβαινω-V1--PAPAPM εις-P βοθρος-N2--ASM προς-P λαος-N2--ASM αιων-N3W-GSM και-C καταοικιζω-VF2-FAI1S συ- P--AS εις-P βαθος-N3E-APN ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF ως-C ερημος-N2--ASF αιωνιος-A1B-ASF μετα-P καταβαινω-V1--PAPGPM εις-P βοθρος-N2--ASM οπως-C μη-D καταοικεω-VC--APS2S μηδε-C αναιστημι-VC--APS2S επι-P γη-N1--GSF ζωη-N1--GSF

21 απωλεια-N1A-ASF συ- P--AS διδωμι-VF--FAI1S και-C ου-D υποαρχω-VF--FAI2S ετι-D εις-P ο- A--ASM αιων-N3W-ASM λεγω-V1--PAI3S κυριος-N2--NSM κυριος-N2--NSM

   

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Arcana Coelestia #7090

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7090. 'And said to Pharaoh' means an admonition [from them] to those who are opposed to the Church's truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' - since it came by Divine command from Moses and Aaron - as an admonition, as also in 7033; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as factual knowledge that is opposed to the Church's truths, dealt with in 6651, 6673, 6683, thus people who are opposed to them. Here and in what follows the subject is those belonging to the spiritual Church who were saved through the Lord's Coming into the world but who before His Coming had been held back on the lower earth, where they were harassed by falsities, that is, by those from hell steeped in falsities stemming from evil. That lower earth is situated below the soles of the feet and is surrounded by hells - in front of it those who have falsified truths and adulterated forms of good; to the right those who pervert Divine order and thereby strive to obtain power; to the rear the evil genii who, motivated by self-love, have secretly devised evil against their neighbour; and deep down underneath those who have rejected the Divine with utter contempt and worshipped nature, and in so doing have banished from themselves everything spiritual. Such are the hells surrounding those on the lower earth, where before the Lord's Coming people belonging to the spiritual Church were held in safe keeping. Though they were molested there the Lord protected them, and they were brought into heaven with the Lord when He rose again. See what has been stated and shown already regarding these people in 6854, 6865, 6914, 6945, 7035.

[2] The lower earth where those who belonged to the spiritual Church were held in safe keeping up to the Lord's Coming is mentioned a number of times in the Word, as in Isaiah,

Sing, O heavens, for Jehovah has done [it]! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Be filled, O mountains, with singing, O forest and every tree in it! For Jehovah has redeemed Jacob, and made Himself glorious in Israel. Isaiah 44:23.

This refers to those on the lower earth, to the fact that they were saved by the Lord. 'Jacob' and 'Israel' are the spiritual Church, 'Jacob' being the external Church, 'Israel' the internal Church, 3305, 4286, 6426. In Ezekiel,

I will cause you to go down with those going down to the pit, to the people of old, 1 and I will cause you to dwell in the land of the lower ones in desolations. Ezekiel 16:20.

In the same prophet,

. . . to the lower earth in the midst of the sons of men, to those going down to the pit. Consequently all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the most excellent of Lebanon, all those drinking water, will comfort themselves on the lower earth. Ezekiel 31:14, 16.

This refers to the lower earth where those who belonged to the spiritual Church were.

[3] At the present day too those belonging to the Church who have filled their minds with worldly and also earthly ideas and have acted in such a way that the truths of faith have become tied up with them are sent down to the lower earth, where they likewise have battles to fight. These battles continue until their worldly and earthly ideas have been separated from the truths of faith and other notions have been introduced, of such a nature that they cannot be linked together any longer. Once this has been accomplished those people are raised from there into heaven; for until such ideas of theirs have been removed they cannot possibly be in the company of angels, since those ideas are full of darkness and defilement that do not accord with the light and purity of heaven. Those worldly and earthly ideas cannot be separated and removed except by means of battles against falsities, battles which take place in the following manner: Those on that lower earth are molested by illusions and by falsities based on them which emanate from inhabitants of the surrounding hells; but the Lord employs heaven to rebut those illusions and falsities and at the same time to introduce truths. These truths seem to reside with those undergoing the conflicts.

[4] All this being so, the spiritual Church ought to be spoken of as a militant Church. But at the present day it is rarely militant with anyone in the world; for while a member of the Church is living in the world he does not experience conflict, because of the wicked crowded around him and because of the weakness of the flesh in which he lives. In the next life a person may be held firmly by the bonds of conscience, but not so in the world, for if in the world he is subjected to any degree of despair, as normally happens to those undergoing conflicts, he instantly breaks those bonds. And if he breaks them he gives in; and if he gives in he is done for so far as his salvation is concerned. This explains why the Lord allows few within the Church at the present day to enter into battles against falsities on behalf of truths; those battles are spiritual temptations. See also what has been shown already regarding the lower earth and vastations that take place there, in 4728, 4940-4951, 6854.

Footnotes:

1. literally, eternity

  
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