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Иезекииль 22

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1 И было ко мне слово Господне:

2 и ты, сын человеческий, хочешь ли судить, судить город кровей?выскажи ему все мерзости его.

3 И скажи: так говорит Господь Бог: о, город, проливающий кровь среди себя, чтобы наступило время твое, и делающий у себя идолов, чтобы осквернять себя!

4 Кровью, которую ты пролил, ты сделал себя виновным, иидолами, каких ты наделал, ты осквернил себя, и приблизил дни твои и достиг годины твоей. За это отдам тебя на посмеяние народам, на поругание всем землям.

5 Близкие и далекие от тебя будут ругаться над тобою, осквернившим имя твое, прославившимся буйством.

6 Вот, начальствующие у Израиля, каждый по мере сил своих, были у тебя, чтобы проливать кровь.

7 У тебя отца и мать злословят, пришельцу делают обиду среди тебя, сироту и вдову притесняют у тебя.

8 Святынь Моих ты не уважаешь и субботы Мои нарушаешь.

9 Клеветники находятся в тебе, чтобы проливать кровь, и на горах едяту тебя идоложертвенное , среди тебя производят гнусность.

10 Наготу отца открывают у тебя, жену во время очищения нечистот ее насилуют у тебя.

11 Иной делает мерзость с женою ближнего своего, иной оскверняет сноху свою, иной насилует сестру свою, дочь отца своего.

12 Взятки берут у тебя, чтобы проливать кровь; ты берешь рост и лихву и насилием вымогаешь корысть у ближнего твоего, а Менязабыл, говорит Господь Бог.

13 И вот, Я всплеснул руками Моими о корыстолюбии твоем, какое обнаруживается у тебя, и о кровопролитии, которое совершается среди тебя.

14 Устоит ли сердце твое, будут ли тверды руки твои в те дни, в которые буду действовать против тебя? Я, Господь, сказал и сделаю.

15 И рассею тебя по народам, и развею тебя по землям, и положу конец мерзостям твоим среди тебя.

16 И сделаешь сам себя презренным перед глазами народов, и узнаешь, что Я Господь.

17 И было ко мне слово Господне:

18 сын человеческий! дом Израилев сделался у Меня изгарью; все они – олово, медь и железо и свинец в горниле, сделались, как изгарь серебра.

19 Посему так говорит Господь Бог: так как все вы сделались изгарью, за то вот, Я соберувас в Иерусалим.

20 Как в горнило кладут вместе серебро, и медь, и железо, и свинец, и олово, чтобы раздуть на них огонь и расплавить; так Я во гневе Моем и в ярости Моей соберу, и положу, и расплавлю вас.

21 Соберу вас и дохну на вас огнем негодования Моего, и расплавитесьсреди него.

22 Как серебро расплавляется в горниле, так расплавитесь и вы среди него, и узнаете, что Я, Господь, излил ярость Мою на вас.

23 И было ко мне слово Господне:

24 сын человеческий! скажи ему: ты – земля неочищенная, не орошаемая дождем в день гнева!

25 Заговор пророков ее среди нее – как лев рыкающий, терзающий добычу; съедают души, обирают имущество и драгоценности, и умножают число вдов.

26 Священники ее нарушают закон Мой и оскверняют святыни Мои, не отделяют святаго от несвятаго и не указывают различия между чистым и нечистым, и от суббот Моихони закрыли глаза свои, и Я уничижен у них.

27 Князья у нее как волки, похищающие добычу; проливают кровь, губят души, чтобы приобрести корысть.

28 А пророки ее все замазывают грязью, видят пустое и предсказываютим ложное, говоря: „так говорит Господь Бог", тогда как не говорил Господь.

29 А в народе угнетают друг друга, грабят и притесняют бедного и нищего, и пришельца угнетают несправедливо.

30 Искал Я у них человека, который поставил бы стену и стал бы предо Мною в проломе за сию землю, чтобы Я не погубил ее, но не нашел.

31 Итак изолью на них негодование Мое, огнем ярости Моей истреблю их, поведение их обращу им на голову, говорит Господь Бог.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #643

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643. And if any one shall desire to hurt them, he must thus be killed.- That this signifies that they perish, according to their attempt to inflict evil, is evident from the signification of desiring to hurt, as denoting the attempt to inflict evil, for to desire is to attempt; and from the signification of being killed, as denoting to perish, in the present case, as to spiritual life, which perishes solely from evils and the falsities of evil, for thence comes spiritual death, as may be seen above (n. 315, 589). The reason why "if any shall desire to hurt them" is here repeated, is, that it means that every one perishes according to the will, or according to the attempt to inflict evil, for the will makes the life of every one. The reason why every one perishes according to the desire to hurt the two witnesses, who are the two olives and the two lampstands, that is, the good of love and of charity, and the truth of doctrine and of faith, is, that they are in an opposite will, and the will that is in opposition to the good of love and the truth of doctrine is hell in proportion to the amount of such opposition, and it is therefore said that he must in this manner be killed, that is to say, perish as far as he desires to hurt them.

[2] Moreover, every man and every spirit is under the Lord's protection, the evil equally as the good; and no evil can happen to him who is under the Lord's protection, for it is the Lord's will that no one should perish or be punished. Every one is under the protection of the Lord, so far as he abstains from doing evil, but in the measure that he does not abstain, so far does he remove himself from the protection of the Lord; and in the measure that he thus removes himself, so far he is hurt by evil spirits from hell. For [infernal] spirits have a constant desire to do evil to others, and so far as any are beyond (extra) the Divine protection of the Lord, that is, so far as they do evil, they come into the power of those who injure them by punishing and depriving them of such things as pertain to spiritual life. In a word, so far as any one desires to injure the goods of love and the truths of doctrine, so far "he is devoured by fire and is killed," that is to say, he is so far possessed by evils and the falsities of evil, and so far spiritually dies, and this takes place not from the Divine but from the very evil which he does.

  
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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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Jeremiah 5

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1 "Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

2 Though they say, 'As Yahweh lives;' surely they swear falsely."

3 O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

5 I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God." But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.

7 "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

8 They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.

9 Shouldn't I punish them for these things?" says Yahweh; "and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 "Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.

11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me," says Yahweh.

12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, "It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine.

13 The prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them."

14 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, "Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel," says Yahweh. "It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.

16 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

17 They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees. They shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

18 "But even in those days," says Yahweh, "I will not make a full end with you.

19 It will happen, when you say, 'Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?' Then you shall say to them, 'Just like you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'

20 "Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't Hear:

22 Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

23 "But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.

24 Neither do they say in their heart, 'Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'

25 "Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

29 "Shall I not punish for these things?" says Yahweh. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

30 "An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.

31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?