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1 αμπελος-N2--NSF ευκληματεω-V2--PAPNSF *ισραηλ-N---NSM ο- A--NSM καρπος-N2--NSM αυτος- D--GSF ευθηνεω-V2--PAPNSM κατα-P ο- A--ASN πληθος-N3E-ASN ο- A--GPM καρπος-N2--GPM αυτος- D--GSM πληθυνω-V1I-IAI3S ο- A--APN θυσιαστηριον-N2N-APN κατα-P ο- A--APN αγαθος-A1--APN ο- A--GSF γη-N1--GSF αυτος- D--GSM οικοδομεω-VAI-AAI3S στηλη-N1--APF

2 μεριζω-VAI-AAI3P καρδια-N1A-APF αυτος- D--GPM νυν-D απο αναιζω-VS--FPI3P αυτος- D--NSM κατασκαπτω-VF--FAI3S ο- A--APN θυσιαστηριον-N2N-APN αυτος- D--GPM ταλαιπωρεω-VF--FAI3P ο- A--NPF στηλη-N1--NPF αυτος- D--GPM

3 διοτι-C νυν-D ειπον-VF2-FAI3P ου-D ειμι-V9--PAI3S βασιλευς-N3V-NSM εγω- P--DP οτι-C ου-D φοβεω-VCI-API1P ο- A--ASM κυριος-N2--ASM ο- A--NSM δε-X βασιλευς-N3V-NSM τις- I--ASN ποιεω-VF--FAI3S εγω- P--DP

4 λαλεω-V2--PAPNSM ρημα-N3M-APN προφασις-N3I-APF ψευδης-A3H-APF διατιθημι-VF--FMI3S διαθηκη-N1--ASF ανατελλω-VF2-FAI3S ως-C αγρωστις-N3I-NSF κριμα-N3M-NSN επι-P χερσος-N2--ASF αγρος-N2--GSM

5 ο- A--DSM μοσχος-N2--DSM ο- A--GSM οικος-N2--GSM *ων-N---GS παραοικεω-VF--FAI3P ο- A--NPM καταοικεω-V2--PAPNPM *σαμαρια-N1A-ASF οτι-C πενθεω-VAI-AAI3S ο- A--NSM λαος-N2--NSM αυτος- D--GSM επι-P αυτος- D--ASM και-C καθως-D παραπικραινω-VAI-AAI3P αυτος- D--ASM επιχαιρω-VF2-FMI3P επι-P ο- A--ASF δοξα-N1S-ASF αυτος- D--GSM οτι-C μεταοικιζω-VSI-API3S απο-P αυτος- D--GSM

6 και-C αυτος- D--ASM εις-P *ασσυριος-N2--APM δεω-VA--AAPNPM αποφερω-VAI-AAI3P ξενια-N1A-NSF ο- A--DSM βασιλευς-N3V-DSM *ιαριμ-N---DSM εν-P δομα-N3M-DSN *εφραιμ-N---NSM δεχομαι-VF--FMI3S και-C αισχυνω-VC--FPI3S *ισραηλ-N---NSM εν-P ο- A--DSF βουλη-N1--DSF αυτος- D--GSM

7 αποριπτω-VAI-AAI3S *σαμαρια-N1A-NSF βασιλευς-N3V-ASM αυτος- D--GSF ως-C φρυγανον-N2N-ASN επι-P προσωπον-N2N-GSN υδωρ-N3T-GSN

8 και-C εκαιρω-VC--FPI3P βωμος-N2--NPM *ων-N---G αμαρτημα-N3M-NPN ο- A--GSM *ισραηλ-N---GSM ακανθα-N1A-NPF και-C τριβολος-N2--NPM αναβαινω-VF--FMI3P επι-P ο- A--APN θυσιαστηριον-N2N-APN αυτος- D--GPM και-C ειπον-VF2-FAI3P ο- A--DPN ορος-N3E-DPN καλυπτω-VA--AAD2P εγω- P--AP και-C ο- A--DPM βουνος-N2--DPM πιπτω-VB--AAD2P επι-P εγω- P--AP

9 απο-P ος- --GSM ο- A--NPM βουνος-N2--NPM αμαρτανω-VBI-AAI3S *ισραηλ-N---NSM εκει-D ιστημι-VAI-AAI3P ου-D μη-D καταλαμβανω-VB--AAS3S αυτος- D--APM εν-P ο- A--DSM βουνος-N2--DSM πολεμος-N2--NSM επι-P ο- A--APN τεκνον-N2N-APN αδικια-N1A-GSF

10 ερχομαι-VBI-AAI3S παιδευω-VA--AAN αυτος- D--APM και-C συναγω-VQ--FPI3P επι-P αυτος- D--APM λαος-N2--NPM εν-P ο- A--DSN παιδευω-V1--PMN αυτος- D--APM εν-P ο- A--DPF δυο-M---DPF αδικια-N1A-DPF αυτος- D--GPM

11 *εφραιμ-N---NSM δαμαλις-N3I-NSF διδασκω-VK--XPPNSF αγαπαω-V3--PAN νεικος-N3E-ASN εγω- P--NS δε-X επιερχομαι-VF--FMI1S επι-P ο- A--ASN καλος-A1--ASMS ο- A--GSM τραχηλος-N2--GSM αυτος- D--GSF επιβιβαζω-VF2-FAI1S *εφραιμ-N---ASM και-C παρασιωπαω-VF--FMI1S *ιουδας-N1T-ASM ενισχυω-VF--FAI3S αυτος- D--DSM *ιακωβ-N---NSM

12 σπειρω-VA--AAD2P εαυτου- D--DPM εις-P δικαιοσυνη-N1--ASF τρυγαω-VA--AAD2P εις-P καρπος-N2--ASM ζωη-N1--GSF φωτιζω-VA--AAD2P εαυτου- D--DPM φως-N3T-ASN γνωσις-N3I-GSF εκζητεω-VA--AAD2P ο- A--ASM κυριος-N2--ASM εως-P ο- A--GSN ερχομαι-VB--AAN γενημα-N3M-APN δικαιοσυνη-N1--GSF συ- P--DP

13 ινα-C τις- I--ASN παρασιωπαω-VAI-AAI2P ασεβεια-N1A-ASF και-C ο- A--APF αδικια-N1A-APF αυτος- D--GSF τρυγαω-VAI-AAI2P εσθιω-VBI-AAI2P καρπος-N2--ASM ψευδης-A3H-APN οτι-C ελπιζω-VAI-AAI2S εν-P ο- A--DPN αρμα-N3M-DPN συ- P--GS εν-P πληθος-N3E-DSN δυναμις-N3I-GSF συ- P--GS

14 και-C εκ αναιστημι-VF--FMI3S απωλεια-N1A-NSF εν-P ο- A--DSM λαος-N2--DSM συ- P--GS και-C πας-A3--NPN ο- A--NPN περιτειχιζω-VT--XMPNPN συ- P--GS οιχομαι-VF--FMI3S ως-C αρχων-N3--NSM *σαλαμαν-N---NSM εκ-P ο- A--GSM οικος-N2--GSM *ιεροβααλ-N---GS εν-P ημερα-N1A-DPF πολεμος-N2--GSM μητηρ-N3--ASF επι-P τεκνον-N2N-DPN εδαφιζω-VAI-AAI3P

15 ουτως-D ποιεω-VF--FAI1S συ- P--DP οικος-N2--NSM ο- A--GSM *ισραηλ-N---GSM απο-P προσωπον-N2N-GSN κακια-N1A-GPF συ- P--GP ορθρος-N2--GSM αποριπτω-VV--API3P αποριπτω-VV--API3S βασιλευς-N3V-NSM *ισραηλ-N---GSM

   

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Arcana Coelestia #6432

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6432. 'The blessings of the breasts' means with affections for goodness and truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the breasts' as affections for goodness and truth. 'The breasts' means those affections because the breasts communicate with the generative organs, and for that reason they too belong to the province of conjugial love (regarding that province see 5050-5062). Now conjugial love corresponds to the heavenly marriage, which is a marriage of goodness and truth (for conjugial love comes down from that marriage, see 2618, 2728, 2729, 2803, 3132, 4434, 4835, 6179), and therefore 'the breasts' means affections for goodness and truth. In addition they derive that meaning from the fact that the breasts are what feed infants and so mean, through the affection that goes with breast-feeding, conjugial love when joined to the love of offspring.

[2] The same affections are also meant by 'the breasts' in Isaiah,

You will suck the milk of nations, and the breasts of kings you will suck. Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver. Isaiah 60:16-17.

'Sucking the breasts of kings' stands for good obtained from truth, for by 'kings' truths are meant, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148. 'The milk of nations' and 'the breasts of kings' plainly mean some profoundly spiritual matter, for those words would otherwise be meaningless. The fact that goodness and truth are meant is clear from the words that follow, which are 'Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver'; for 'bronze' is natural good, 425, 1551, and 'gold' celestial good, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658; 'iron' is natural truth, 425, 426, and 'silver' spiritual truth, 1551, 2954, 5658, 6112.

[3] In Ezekiel,

As regards increase, I gave you to be like the seed of the field, out of which you grew up and matured and reached full beauty; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Ezekiel 16:7.

This refers to Jerusalem, which here means the Ancient spiritual Church. 'Breasts that were formed' stands for interior affections for goodness and truth, 'your hair had grown for exterior affections belonging to the natural - 'hair' being the natural as regards truth, see 3301, 5247, 5569-5573. These words plainly contain a spiritual sense which is not visible in the letter, for without that sense why would it say of Jerusalem that its breasts were formed and its hair had grown?

[4] In the same prophet,

Two women, the daughters of one mother, committed whoredom in Egypt. In their youth they committed whoredom; there their breasts were squeezed, and there they contemplated their virgin busts. Ezekiel 23:2-3, 8, 21.

This passage in Ezekiel states that the two women are Jerusalem and Samaria, by whom Churches are meant in the internal sense. The statement that in their youth they committed whoredom with Egypt means that they falsified the truths of the Church by their use of factual knowledge - 'committing whoredom' is falsifying truths, see 2466, 4865, and 'Egypt' is factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5700, 5702. Consequently 'their breasts were squeezed' stands for affections for goodness and truth that became perverted through falsifications. The fact that the women's whoredom and the squeezing of their breasts mean such things can be seen by those who are prepared to look into what is meant in the description of those women.

[5] In Hosea,

Contend with your mother, let her remove her whoredoms from her sight, 1 and her adulteries from between her breasts, lest perhaps I strip her naked, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Hosea 2:1, 3.

'Mother' here stands for the Church, 289, 2691, 2717, 3703, 4257, 5581, whoredoms' for falsifications of truth, 2466, 4865, 'adulteries' for adulterations of good, 2466, 2729, 3399. Consequently 'adulteries from between her breasts' stands for adulterated affections for goodness and truth, 'stripping naked' for depriving of all truth, 1073, 4958, 5437, 'making like a wilderness, setting like a dry land, and slaying with thirst' for the annihilation of all truth.

[6] In the same prophet,

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Hosea 9:14.

'Dry breasts' stands for affections for neither truth nor good. In Isaiah,

O women without anxiety, stand still, hear My voice; O confident daughters, perceive My speech with your ears. Strip and make yourself bare, and gird [sackcloth] around your waist 2 - people beating themselves on their breasts for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine. Isaiah 32:9, 11-12.

'Daughters' stands for affections, 2362, 3024, 3963, 'being stripped bare' for being deprived of truth, 1073, 4958, 5433, 'girding [sackcloth] around one's waist' for suffering grief over good that has been lost, 'beating on breasts' for suffering grief over the good of truth that has been lost. Since these things are meant, it also says 'for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine'; for 'the field' is the Church in respect of good, thus the Church's good, 2971, 3196, 3310, 3766, and 'vine' is the spiritual Church, and therefore the good of truth, 5113, 6375, 6376.

[7] In the Book of Revelation,

I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts. Revelation 1:12-13.

'Golden lampstands' are truths of good, 'the Son of Man' is Divine Truth, 'surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts' the good of love. Anyone may deduce from the holiness of the Word that the things John saw concealed within themselves realities such as belong to the Lord's kingdom and His Church; for what holiness would there be in making predictions about kingdoms in the world? From this one may recognize that they are heavenly things that are meant by 'lampstands' and by 'the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts'.

[8] In Luke,

A certain woman lifted up her voice out of the crowd; 3 she said about Jesus, Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts that You sucked. But Jesus said, Rather than that, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Luke 11:27-28.

The Lord's reply shows what 'blessed is the womb' and what 'the breasts' mean - 'those who hear the Word of God and keep it', thus affections for truth which exist with those who hear the Word or God, and affections for good which exist with those who keep it, that is, put it into practice.

Footnotes:

1. literally, faces

2. literally, upon your loins

3. literally, the people

  
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