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Иезекииль 18

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1 И было ко мне слово Господне:

2 зачем вы употребляете в земле Израилевой эту пословицу, говоря: „отцыели кислый виноград, а у детей на зубах оскомина"?

3 Живу Я! говорит Господь Бог, – не будут вперед говорить пословицу эту в Израиле.

4 Ибо вот, все души – Мои: как душа отца, так и душа сына – Мои: душа согрешающая, та умрет.

5 Если кто праведен и творит суд и правду,

6 на горах жертвенного не ест и к идолам дома Израилева не обращаетглаз своих, жены ближнего своего не оскверняет и к своей жене во время очищения нечистот ее не приближается,

7 никого не притесняет, должнику возвращает залог его, хищения непроизводит, хлеб свой дает голодному и нагого покрывает одеждою,

8 в рост не отдает и лихвы не берет, от неправды удерживает руку свою, суд человеку с человеком производит правильный,

9 поступает по заповедям Моим и соблюдает постановления Мои искренно: то он праведник, он непременно будет жив, говорит Господь Бог.

10 Но если у него родился сын разбойник, проливающий кровь, и делает что-нибудь из всего того,

11 чего он сам не делал совсем, и на горах ест жертвенное, и жену ближнего своего оскверняет,

12 бедного и нищего притесняет, насильно отнимает, залога не возвращает, и к идолам обращает глаза свои, делает мерзость,

13 в рост дает, и берет лихву; то будет ли он жив? Нет , он не будет жив. Кто делает все такие мерзости, тот непременно умрет, кровь его будет на нем.

14 Но если у кого родился сын, который, видя все грехи отца своего, какие он делает, видит и не делает подобного им:

15 на горах жертвенного не ест, к идолам дома Израилева не обращаетглаз своих, жены ближнего своего не оскверняет,

16 и человека не притесняет, залога не берет, и насильно не отнимает, хлеб свой дает голодному, и нагого покрывает одеждою,

17 от обиды бедному удерживает руку свою, роста и лихвы не берет, исполняет Мои повеления и поступает по заповедям Моим, – то сей не умрет за беззаконие отца своего; он будет жив.

18 А отец его, так как он жестоко притеснял, грабил брата и недоброе делал среди народа своего, вот, он умрет за свое беззаконие.

19 Вы говорите: „почему же сын не несет вины отца своего?" Потому что сын поступает законно и праведно, все уставы Мои соблюдает и исполняетих; он будет жив.

20 Душа согрешающая, она умрет; сын не понесет вины отца, и отец не понесет вины сына, правда праведного при нем и остается, и беззаконие беззаконного при нем и остается.

21 И беззаконник, если обратится от всех грехов своих, какие делал, и будет соблюдать все уставы Мои и поступать законно и праведно, жив будет, не умрет.

22 Все преступления его, какие делал он, не припомнятся ему: в правде своей, которую будет делать, он жив будет.

23 Разве Я хочу смерти беззаконника? говорит Господь Бог. Не того ли,чтобы он обратился от путей своих и был жив?

24 И праведник, если отступит от правды своей и будет поступать неправедно, будет делать все те мерзости, какие делает беззаконник, будет ли он жив? все добрые дела его, какие он делал, не припомнятся; за беззаконие свое, какое делает, иза грехи свои, в каких грешен, он умрет.

25 Но вы говорите: „неправ путь Господа!" Послушайте, дом Израилев! Мой ли путь неправ? не ваши ли пути неправы?

26 Если праведник отступает от правды своей и делает беззаконие и за то умирает, то он умирает за беззаконие свое, которое сделал.

27 И беззаконник, если обращается от беззакония своего, какое делал, и творит суд и правду, - к жизни возвратит душу свою.

28 Ибо он увидел и обратился от всех преступлений своих, какие делал; он будет жив, не умрет.

29 А дом Израилев говорит: „неправ путь Господа!" Мои ли пути неправы, дом Израилев? не ваши ли пути неправы?

30 Посему Я буду судить вас, дом Израилев, каждого попутям его, говорит Господь Бог; покайтесь и обратитесь от всех преступлений ваших, чтобы нечестие не было вам преткновением.

31 Отвергните от себя все грехи ваши, которыми согрешали вы, и сотворите себе новое сердце и новый дух; и зачем вам умирать, дом Израилев?

32 Ибо Я не хочу смерти умирающего, говорит Господь Бог; но обратитесь, и живите!

   

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Apocalypse Explained #268

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268. (Verse 3) And he that sat was in aspect like a jasper and a sardius. That this signifies the appearance of the Lord as to Divine truth translucent from the Divine good of the Divine love is evident from the signification of one sitting upon the throne, as being the Lord as to the Last Judgment, which was treated of just above (n. 267); and from the signification of in aspect like, as being appearance; also from the signification of a jasper stone, as being the spiritual love of truth, of which we shall treat in what follows; and from the signification of a sardine stone, as being the celestial love of good, thus by a jasper and a sardius, to which the Lord appeared like, is signified Divine truth translucent from the Divine good of the Divine love.

[2] That a jasper signifies the Divine love of truth, or Divine truth proceeding is evident from those passages in the Word where it is mentioned, as in Exodus 28:20, and in Ezekiel 28:13; also in the Apocalypse:

"The light" of the holy Jerusalem "was like unto a stone most precious, like to a jasper stone, clear as crystal" (21:11.).

By the light of the holy Jerusalem is signified the Divine truth of the church shining, and by the light truth itself shining, by Jerusalem the church as to doctrine; this is likened to a jasper stone, because jasper has a similar signification. And in another place:

"The building of the wall" of the holy Jerusalem "was of jasper, and the city was pure gold like unto pure glass" (21:18).

The wall of the holy Jerusalem is said to be of jasper, because by wall is signified Divine truth defending; and on account of this signification of wall, the first stone of its foundation is said to be jasper (verse 19), foundation signifying the truth upon which the church is founded.

[3] The sardius is also mentioned, because by that stone is signified good, here Divine good, because it is said of the Lord. It is this stone which is called pyropus; and since it shines as it were from fire, by both is signified the translucence of truth from good. (That all precious stones signify the truths of heaven and of the church derived from good, may be seen, Arcana Coelestia 114, 9863, 9865, 9868, 9873. This is why in the breast-plate of Aaron, which is called the Urim and Thummim, were set twelve precious stones, and by them responses were given, and this by their shining forth, and at the same time by perception of the thing inquired about, or by a living voice.)

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Exodus 28

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1 "Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.

2 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

3 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.

4 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.

5 They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

6 "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.

7 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.

8 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel:

10 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.

11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.

12 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.

13 You shall make settings of gold,

14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.

15 "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.

16 It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.

17 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

20 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

21 The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

22 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

23 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

24 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

25 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.

26 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.

27 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.

29 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.

30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.

31 "You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

32 It shall have a hole for the head in its midst: it shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.

33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between and around them:

34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.

35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.

36 "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.'

37 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.

38 It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.

39 You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.

40 "You shall make coats for Aaron's sons, and you shall make sashes for them and you shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.

41 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.

42 You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach:

43 They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.