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1 И было ко мне слово Господне:

2 сын человеческий! изреки пророчество на пророковИзраилевых пророчествующих, и скажи пророкам от собственного сердца: слушайте слово Господне!

3 Так говорит Господь Бог: горе безумным пророкам, которые водятся своим духом и ничего не видели!

4 Пророки твои, Израиль, как лисицы в развалинах.

5 В проломы вы не входите и не ограждаете стеною дома Израилева,чтобы твердо стоять в сражении в день Господа.

6 Они видят пустое и предвещают ложь, говоря: „Господь сказал"; а Господь не посылал их; и обнадеживают, что слово сбудется.

7 Не пустое ли видение видели вы? и не лживое ли предвещание изрекаете, говоря: „Господь сказал", а Я не говорил?

8 Посему так говорит Господь Бог: так как вы говорите пустое и видите в видениях ложь, за то вот Я - на вас, говорит Господь Бог.

9 И будет рука Моя против этих пророков, видящих пустое и предвещающих ложь; в совете народа Моего они не будут, и в список дома Израилева не впишутся, и в землю Израилеву не войдут; и узнаете, что Я Господь Бог.

10 За то, что они вводят народ Мой в заблуждение, говоря: „мир", тогда как нет мира; и когда он строит стену, они обмазывают ее грязью,

11 скажи обмазывающим стену грязью, что она упадет. Пойдет проливной дождь, и вы, каменные градины, падете, и бурный ветер разорвет ее.

12 И вот, падет стена; тогда не скажут ли вам: „где та обмазка, которою вы обмазывали?"

13 Посему так говорит Господь Бог: Я пущу бурный ветер во гневе Моем, и пойдет проливной дождь в ярости Моей, и камни града в негодовании Моем, для истребления.

14 И разрушу стену, которую вы обмазывали грязью, и повергну ее наземлю, и откроется основание ее, и падет, и вы вместе с нею погибнете;и узнаете, что Я Господь.

15 И истощу ярость Мою на стене и на обмазывающих ее грязью, и скажу вам: нет стены, и нет обмазывавших ее,

16 пророков Израилевых, которые пророчествовали Иерусалиму и возвещали ему видения мира, тогда как нет мира, говорит Господь Бог.

17 Ты же, сын человеческий, обрати лице твое к дщерям народа твоего, пророчествующим от собственного своего сердца, и изреки на них пророчество,

18 и скажи: так говорит Господь Бог: горе сшивающимчародейные мешочки под мышки и делающим покрывала для головы всякого роста, чтобы уловлять души! Неужели, уловляя души народа Моего, вы спасете ваши души?

19 И бесславите Меня пред народом Моим за горсти ячменя и за куски хлеба, умерщвляя души, которые не должны умереть, и оставляя жизнь душам, которые не должны жить, обманывая народ, который слушает ложь.

20 Посему так говорит Господь Бог: вот, Я – на ваши чародейные мешочки,которыми вы там уловляете души, чтобы они прилетали, и вырву их из-под мышц ваших, и пущу на свободу души, которые вы уловляете, чтобы прилетали к вам.

21 И раздеру покрывала ваши, и избавлю народ Мой от рук ваших, и не будут уже в вашихруках добычею, и узнаете, что Я Господь.

22 За то, что вы ложью опечаливаете сердце праведника, которое Я не хотел опечаливать, и поддерживаете руки беззаконника, чтобы он не обратился отпорочного пути своего и не сохранил жизни своей, –

23 за это уже не будете иметь пустых видений и впредь не будете предугадывать; и Я избавлю народ Мой от рук ваших, и узнаете, что Я Господь.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4926

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4926. 'And she said, Why have you made a breach upon yourself?' means this truth's apparent separation from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'a breach' as an infringement upon and perversion of truth through its separation from good, dealt with below. Here 'making a breach' plainly means pulling away the twice-dyed thread from the hand and so separating good; for good is meant by 'twice-dyed', 4922. As regards this separation being an apparent one, this follows from the fact that it appeared to the midwife that a separation had taken place; but in reality it was not the twin with the twice-dyed thread who came out but his brother, who represents truth. On these matters, see what has been shown immediately above in 4925, where it is shown that good is in actual fact the firstborn but that truth appears to be such. This can be illustrated further still from the functions and members within the human body. The appearance is that the members and organs are first and that the functions these perform are subsequent; for the organs and members present themselves to the eye and are also known before their functions are seen or known. But in spite of this appearance the functions are prior to the members and organs since these derive their existence from the functions they serve and so receive their own forms to accord with these functions. Indeed the function itself gives them these forms and accommodates them to itself. If this were not so, all the individual parts of the human body could not possibly act together in so harmonious a way that they make a single whole. The same may be said about good and truth. The appearance is that truth is first, but in reality good is, in that good gives truths the forms they take and accommodates them to itself. Therefore regarded essentially truths are nothing else than goods which have been given form, that is, they are the forms good takes. In relation to good, truths are also like the internal organs and the fibres of the body in relation to the functions these perform. Also, regarded essentially good is nothing else than the function.

[2] The meaning of 'a breach' as an infringement upon truth and a perversion of it through its separation from good is also clear from other places in the Word, as in David,

Our storehouses are full, yielding food and still more food; our flocks are thousands, and ten thousands in our streets, our oxen are laden; there is no breach. Psalms 144:13-14.

This refers to the Ancient Church as it was in its youth. 'The food' with which 'the storehouses are full' stands for spiritual food, that is, for truth and good. 'Flocks' and 'oxen' stand for forms of good, internal and external. 'There is no breach' stands for the fact that truth has not suffered any infringement upon it or perversion of it through separation from good.

[3] In Amos,

I will raise up the tent of David that is fallen down, and I will close up their breaches, and I will restore its destroyed places; and I will build it as in the days of old. Amos 9:11.

This refers to a Church where good is present. 'The tent of David that is fallen down' means the good of love and charity received from the Lord. For 'a tent' meaning that good, see 414, 1102, 2145, 2152, 3312, 4128, 4391, 4599, and 'David' the Lord, 1888. 'Closing up the breaches' stands for correcting falsities which have entered in through the separation of truth from good. 'Building it as in the days of old' stands for as the state of the Church was in ancient times. In the Word that state at that time is called 'the days of eternity', 'the days of old', and also 'of generation upon generation'.

[4] In Isaiah,

He that is of you is building the waste places of old; raise up the foundations of generation upon generation, and may you be called the one repairing the breach, the one restoring paths to dwell in. Isaiah 58:12.

This refers to a Church where charity and life are the essential thing. 'Repairing the breach' again stands for correcting falsities which have crept in through the separation of good from truth, the origin of all falsity. 'Restoring paths to dwell in' stands for truths which are linked to good, for 'paths' or ways are truths, 627, 2333, and 'dwelling in' is used in reference to good, 2268, 2451, 2712, 3613.

[5] In the same prophet,

You saw that the breaches of the city of David were very many, and you collected the waters of the lower pool. Isaiah 22:9.

'The breaches of the city of David' stands for falsities of doctrine. 'The waters of the lower pool' stands for traditions by which they introduced blemishes into the truths contained in the Word, Matthew 15:1-6; Mark 7:1-13. In Ezekiel,

You have not gone up into the breaches and made a hedge for the house of Israel, so that you might stand in war on the day of Jehovah. Ezekiel 13:5.

In the same prophet,

I sought from among them a man making a hedge and standing in the breach before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none. Ezekiel 22:30.

'Standing in the breach' stands for defending and guarding against the intrusion of falsities. In David,

Jehovah said He would destroy the people, unless Moses His chosen had stood in the breach before Him. Psalms 106:23.

'Standing in the breach' again means guarding against the intrusion of falsities; 'Moses' here meaning the Word - see Preface to Chapter 18 of Genesis, and 4859 (end).

[6] In Amos,

They will drag out the last of you with fish-hooks; you will go out through the breaches, every one from her own region; and you will cast down the palace. Amos 4:2-3.

'Going out through the breaches' stands for doing so through falsities resulting from reasonings. 'The palace' means the Word and consequently the truth of doctrine that is grounded in good. And because 'breaches' means falsity which arises through the separation of good from truth, the same is also meant in the representative sense by 'strengthening and repairing the breaches of the house of Jehovah', 2 Kings 12:5, 7-8, 12; 22:5. In the second Book of Samuel,

It grieved David that Jehovah had made a breach into Uzzah; therefore he called that place Perez Uzzah. 2 Samuel 6:8.

This refers to Uzzah, who died because he touched the ark. 'The ark' represented heaven, or in the highest sense the Lord, and therefore Divine Good. But 'Uzzah' represented that which ministers, and so represents truth since truth ministers to good. This separation is meant by 'a breach into Uzzah'.

  
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