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1 В двенадцатом году, в двенадцатом месяце, в первый день месяца, было ко мне слово Господне:

2 сын человеческий! подними плач о фараоне, царе Египетском, и скажи ему: ты как молодой лев между народами и как чудовище в морях, кидаешься в реках твоих, и мутишь ногами твоими воды, и попираешь потоки их.

3 Так говорит Господь Бог: Я закину на тебя сеть Мою в собрании многих народов, и они вытащат тебя Моею мрежею.

4 И выкину тебя на землю, на открытом поле брошу тебя, и будут садиться на тебя всякие небесные птицы, и насыщаться тобоюзвери всей земли.

5 И раскидаю мясо твое по горам, и долины наполню твоими трупами.

6 И землю плавания твоего напою кровью твоею до самых гор; и рытвины будут наполнены тобою.

7 И когда ты угаснешь, закрою небеса и звезды их помрачу, солнце закрою облаком, и луна не будет светить светом своим.

8 Все светила, светящиеся на небе, помрачу над тобою и на землю твою наведу тьму, говорит Господь Бог.

9 Приведу в смущение сердце многих народов, когдаразглашу о падении твоем между народами, по землям, которых ты не знал.

10 И приведу тобою в ужас многие народы, и цари ихсодрогнутся о тебе в страхе, когда мечом Моим потрясу перед лицем их, и поминутно будут трепетать каждый за душу свою в день падения твоего.

11 Ибо так говорит Господь Бог: меч царя Вавилонского придет на тебя.

12 От мечей сильных падет народ твой; все они - лютейшие из народов, и уничтожат гордость Египта, и погибнет все множество его.

13 И истреблю весь скот его при великих водах, и вперед не будет мутить их нога человеческая, и копыта скота не будут мутить их.

14 Тогда дам покой водам их, и сделаю, что реки их потекут, как масло, говорит Господь Бог.

15 Когда сделаю землю Египетскую пустынею, и когда лишится земля всего,наполняющего ее; когда поражу всех живущих на ней, тогда узнают, что Я Господь.

16 Вот плачевная песнь, которую будут петь; дочери народов будут петь ее; о Египте и обо всем множестве его будут петь ее, говорит Господь Бог.

17 В двенадцатом году, в пятнадцатый день того же месяца, было ко мне словоГосподне:

18 сын человеческий! оплачь народ Египетский, и низринь его, его идочерей знаменитых народов в преисподнюю, с отходящими в могилу.

19 Кого ты превосходишь? сойди, и лежи с необрезанными.

20 Те падут среди убитых мечом, и он отдан мечу; влеките его и все множество его.

21 Среди преисподней будут говорить о нем и о союзниках его первые из героев; они пали и лежат там между необрезанными, сраженные мечом.

22 Там Ассур и все полчище его, вокруг него гробы их, все пораженные, павшие от меча.

23 Гробы его поставлены в самой глубине преисподней, и полчище его вокруг гробницы его, все пораженные, павшие от меча, те, которые распространяли ужас на земле живых.

24 Так Елам со всем множеством своим вокруг гробницы его, все они пораженные, павшие отмеча, которые необрезанными сошли в преисподнюю, которые распространили собою ужас на земле живых и несут позор свой с отшедшими в могилу.

25 Среди пораженных дали ложе ему со всем множеством его; вокруг него гробы их, все необрезанные, пораженные мечом; и как они распространяли ужас на земле живых, то и несут на себе позор наравне с отшедшими в могилу и положены Среди пораженных.

26 Там Мешех и Фувал со всем множеством своим; вокруг него гробы их, все необрезанные, пораженные мечом, потому что они распространяли ужас на земле живых.

27 Не должны ли и они лежать с павшими героями необрезанными, которые с воинским оружием своим сошли в преисподнюю и мечи свои положили себе под головы, и осталосьбеззаконие их на костях их, потому что они, как сильные, были ужасом на земле живых.

28 И ты будешь сокрушен среди необрезанных и лежать с пораженными мечом.

29 Там Едом и цари его и все князья его, которые при всей своей храбрости положены среди пораженных мечом; они лежат с необрезанными и сошедшими в могилу.

30 Там властелины севера, все они и все Сидоняне, которые сошли туда с пораженными, быв посрамлены в могуществе своем, наводившем ужас, и лежат они с необрезанными, пораженными мечом, и несут позор свой с отшедшими в могилу.

31 Увидит их фараон и утешится о всем множестве своем, пораженном мечом, фараон и все войско его, говорит Господь Бог.

32 Ибо Я распространю страх Мой на земле живых, и положен будет фараон и все множество его среди необрезанных с пораженными мечом, говорит Господь Бог.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4728

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4728. 'And let us throw him into one of the pits' means among falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'pits' as falsities. The reason 'pits' means falsities is that people who are immersed in false assumptions are kept for a considerable time after death beneath the lower earth, until falsities have been removed from them and so to speak cast away to the sidelines. The places situated there are called pits. Those who go there are people who have to undergo vastation, dealt with in 1106-1113, 2699, 2701, 2704. 1 This is why by 'pits' in the abstract sense falsities are meant. The lower earth is directly below the feet, and is a region that does not extend to any great distance all around. There the majority stay after death before being raised up into heaven. Mention is also made of this lower earth in various places in the Word. Below it are places where vastation takes place, and they are called pits. Beneath these places and extending to quite a distance all around are the hells.

[2] From this one may have some idea of what is meant by hell, the lower earth, or the pit, when these are mentioned in the Word, as in Isaiah,

You have been sent down to hell, to the sides of the pit; you are cast out from your sepulchre like an abominable branch, a garment of the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit. Isaiah 14:15, 19.

This refers to the king of Babel, who represents the profanation of truth, for 'a king' represents truth, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 4581, and 'Babel' profanation, 1182, 1326. 'Hell' is the place where the condemned are, and their state of condemnation is compared to 'an abominable branch' and 'a garment of the slain and of those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit'. 'A garment of the slain' means truth that has been made profane; 'those pierced by the sword' means people among whom truth has been annihilated; 'the pit' means falsity that is to be laid waste, 'stones' the limits of that falsity, which are also therefore called 'the sides', for surrounding the pits there are the hells. 'A garment' means truth, 2576, and therefore 'a garment of the slain' means truth that has been made profane, for 'the blood' with which it has been stained means that which has been made profane, 1003. 'Those pierced by the sword' means those among whom truth has been annihilated, 4503. From all this it is also evident that without the internal sense one cannot by any means know what these things mean.

[3] In Ezekiel,

When I cause you to go down with those going down to the pit, to the people of old, and I cause you to dwell in the land of the lower ones, in the desolations from of old, so that you do not dwell with those going down to the pit, I will give beauty in the land of the living. Ezekiel 26:20.

'Those going down to the pit' stands for those who are made to undergo vastation. 'Not dwelling with those who go down to the pit' stands for being delivered from falsities.

[4] In the same prophet,

That none of all the trees by the waters may become arrogant because of their height nor send their trunk up among entangled boughs, and that none of all [the trees] that drink water may reach above them because of their height - all will be given over to death, to the lower earth in the midst of the sons of men, to those going down to the pit. At the sound of its crashing down I will make the nations tremble, when I cause him to go down into hell with those going down to the pit. And 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 Egypt, meaning knowledge, which enters by itself into the mysteries of faith, that is, people who enter into them, 1164, 1165, 1186. What has been stated above makes plain the meaning of hell, the pit, and the lower earth mentioned at this point in the prophet. Nor from anywhere else than the internal sense can anyone see what is meant by 'the trees by the waters', 'the trees of Eden', 'the trunk sent up among entangled boughs', 'the choicest and the most excellent of Lebanon', and 'those drinking water'.

[5] In the same prophet,

Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and cause it and the daughters of magnificent nations to go down to the lower earth. with those going down into the pit. Asshur is there to whom graves have been given in the sides of the pit, all of them slain with the sword. Ezekiel 32:18, 22-23.

What these words mean may be seen from the explanations given above. In David,

Jehovah, You have caused my soul to come up out of hell; You have caused me to live, out of those going down to the pit. Psalms 30:3.

In the same author,

I have been reckoned with them going down to the pit; I have become as a man with no strength. You have put me in the pit of the lower ones, in darkness, in the depths. Psalms 88:4, 6.

In Jonah,

I had gone down to the bottoms of the mountains; the bars of the land were upon me for ever. Nonetheless You brought up my life from the pit. Jonah 2:6.

This refers to the Lord's temptations, and to deliverance from them. 'The bottoms of the mountains' means where the most condemned are, for the gloomy dark clouds which seemingly surround them are mountains.

[6] As regards 'the pit' meaning falsity laid waste, and in the abstract sense falsity itself, this is clear in addition in Isaiah,

They will be gathered together, in a gathering as the bound for the pit, and they will be shut up in the dungeon; but after a multitude of days they will be visited. Isaiah 24:22.

In the same prophet,

Where is the anger of the oppressor? He that leads out will hasten to open, and he will not die at the pit; nor will bread fail. Isaiah 51:13-14.

In Ezekiel,

Behold, I am bringing strangers upon you, the violent of the nations, who will draw their swords against the loveliness of your wisdom, and they will profane your splendour. They will bring you down into the pit, and you will die the deaths of those slain in the heart of the seas. Ezekiel 28:7-8.

This refers to the prince of Tyre, who means people under the influence of false assumptions.

[7] In Zechariah,

Exult greatly, O daughter of Zion! Make a noise, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you, just, meek, and riding on an ass, and on a colt, the young of she-asses. Through the blood of the covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit in which there is no water. Zechariah 9:9, 11.

'The pit in which there is no water' stands for falsity that has no truth at all within it, as also in verse 24 below where it is said that they cast Joseph into the pit and the pit was empty, having no water in it. In David,

To You, O Jehovah, do I call; my rock, do not be silent to me, lest if You are silent to me I seem like those going down into the pit. Psalms 28:1.

In the same author,

Jehovah caused me to come up out of the pit of VASTATION, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock. Psalms 40:2.

[8] In the same author,

Do not let the flow of waters rush over me, nor the deep swallow me up, nor the pit close its mouth over me. Psalms 69:15.

In the same author,

He sent His word and healed them, and rescued them from their pits. Psalms 107:20.

'From pits' stands for from falsities. In the same author,

Make haste, answer me, O Jehovah. My spirit is consumed. Do not hide Your face from me, lest I become like those going down into the pit. Psalms 143:7.

Because 'a pit' means falsity, and 'the blind' those who are immersed in falsities, 2383, the Lord therefore says,

Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. For if the blind leads the blind both will fall into a pit. Matthew 15:13, 14; Luke 6:39.

Something similar to what was represented by Joseph was also represented by the prophet Jeremiah, who describes what happened to him as follows,

They took Jeremiah and cast him into the pit which was in the court of the guard, and let Jeremiah down by ropes into the pit where there was no water. Jeremiah 38:6.

That is, they cast Divine Truths away among falsities that had no truth at all within them.

Footnotes:

1. The Latin has 2711, 2714, but 2701, 2704 seem to be intended

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.