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Ezequiel 47

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1 Me hizo tornar luego a la entrada de la Casa; y he aquí aguas que salían de debajo del umbral de la Casa hacia el oriente; porque la fachada de la Casa estaba al oriente; y las aguas descendían de debajo, hacia el lado derecho de la Casa, al mediodía del altar.

2 Y me sacó por el camino de la puerta del norte, y me hizo rodear por el camino fuera de la puerta, por fuera al camino de la que mira al oriente; y he aquí las aguas que salían al lado derecho.

3 Y saliendo el varón hacia el oriente, tenía un cordel en su mano; y midió mil codos, y me hizo pasar por las aguas hasta los tobillos.

4 Y midió otros mil, y me hizo pasar por las aguas hasta las rodillas. Midió luego otros mil, y me hizo pasar por las aguas hasta los lomos.

5 Y midió otros mil, e iba ya el río que yo no podía pasar, porque las aguas se habían alzado, y el río no se podía pasar sino a nado.

6 Y me dijo: ¿Has visto, hijo de hombre? Después me llevó, y me hizo tornar por la ribera del río.

7 Y tornando yo, he aquí en la ribera del río había muchísimos árboles por un lado y el otro.

8 Y me dijo: Estas aguas salen a la región del oriente, y descenderán al desierto, y entrarán en el mar; y entradas en el mar, recibirán sanidad las aguas.

9 Y será que toda alma viviente que nadare por dondequiera que entraren estos dos rios, vivirá; y habrá muchos peces en gran manera por haber entrado allá estas aguas, y recibirán sanidad; y vivirá todo lo que entrare en este arroyo.

10 Y será que junto a él estarán pescadores; y desde En-gadi hasta En-eglaim será tendedero de redes, en su clase será su pescado como el pescado del gran mar, mucho en gran manera.

11 Sus charcos y sus lagunas no se sanarán; quedarán para salinas.

12 Y junto al arroyo, en su ribera de una parte y de otra, crecerá todo árbol de fruto de comer; su hoja nunca caerá, ni faltará su fruto; a sus meses madurará, porque sus aguas salen del Santuario; y su fruto será para comer, y su hoja para medicina.

13 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Este es el término en que partiréis la tierra en heredad entre las doce tribus de Israel: José dos partes.

14 Y la heredaréis así los unos como los otros; por ella alcé mi mano que la había de dar a vuestros padres; por tanto, esta tierra os caerá en heredad.

15 Y éste será el término de la tierra hacia la parte del norte; desde el gran mar, camino de Hetlón viniendo a Zedad;

16 Hamat, Berota, Sibraim, que está entre el término de Damasco y el término de Hamat; Hazar-haticón, que es el término de Haurán.

17 Y será el término del norte desde el mar de Hazar-enán al término de Damasco al norte, y al término de Hamat al lado del norte.

18 Al lado del oriente, por medio de Haurán y de Damasco, y de Galaad, y de la tierra de Israel, al Jordán; esto mediréis de término hasta el mar del oriente.

19 Y al lado del mediodía, hacia el mediodía, desde Tamar hasta las aguas de las rencillas; desde Cades y el arroyo hasta el gran mar; y esto será el lado austral, al mediodía.

20 Y al lado del occidente el Gran Mar será el término hasta en derecho para venir a Hamat; éste será el lado del occidente.

21 Partiréis, pues, esta tierra entre vosotros por las tribus de Israel.

22 Y será que echaréis sobre ella suertes por herencia para vosotros, y para los extranjeros que peregrinan entre vosotros, que entre vosotros han engendrado hijos; y los tendréis como naturales entre los hijos de Israel; echarán suertes con vosotros para heredarse entre las tribus de Israel.

23 Y será que en la tribu en que peregrinare el extranjero, allí le daréis su heredad, dijo el Señor DIOS.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #6502

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6502. 'And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians' means preservation from evils which would hinder it, that is to say, the joining together. This is clear from the meaning of 'commanding' as flowing into, dealt with in 5732; from the representation of 'Joseph' as the internal, dealt with just above in 6499; and from the meaning of 'the physicians' as preservation from evils (for it is apparent from the train of thought here that the preservation is from evils which would hinder the joining together referred to immediately above in 6501). From all this it is evident that 'Joseph commanded his servants the physicians' means an influx from the internal regarding preservation from evils which would hinder the joining together. The reason why 'the physicians' means preservation from evils is that in the spiritual world 'sicknesses' are evils and falsities. Spiritual diseases are nothing else, for evils and falsities rob the internal man of good health; they introduce mental disorders and at length states of depression. Nothing else is meant in the Word by 'sicknesses'.

[2] In the Word 'physicians', 'medicine', and 'medicaments' mean forms of preservation from evils and falsities. This is clear from places where they are mentioned, as in Moses,

If you obediently hear the voice of your God, and do what is good in His eyes, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will not put on you any sickness that I put on the Egyptians; for I, Jehovah, am your Physician. Exodus 15:26.

'Jehovah the Physician' stands for the preserver from evils; for these evils are meant by 'sicknesses on the Egyptians'. The fact that 'sicknesses on the Egyptians' means evils and falsities that arise when people reason about the arcana of faith on the basis of factual knowledge and false notions will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown where those sicknesses are dealt with. But spiritual ones are meant, as is evident from its being said that if they heard the voice of God, did what was good, gave ear to His precepts, and kept His statutes, none of those sicknesses would be put on them.

[3] In addition the Lord calls Himself 'a Physician' in the same sense in Luke,

Those who are healthy have no need of a physician but those who are ill. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Luke 5:31, 32

Here also 'a physician' stands for a preserver from evils; for 'those who are healthy' is used to mean the righteous, and 'those who are ill' sinners. In Jeremiah,

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery for the health of the daughter of My people? 1 Jeremiah 8:22.

'A physician' stands for preservation from falsities in the Church, for 'the health of the daughter of My people' is the truth of doctrine there.

[4] In the Word healing, cures, remedies, and medicaments are spoken of not in a natural but in a spiritual sense, as is evident in Jeremiah,

Why have You stricken us so that there is no remedy for us? Await peace, but no good comes; a time of healing, but behold, terror. Jeremiah 14:19; 8:15.

In the same prophet,

I will bring health and curing to it, 2 and I will heal them, and reveal to them the crown of peace, and truth. Jeremiah 33:6.

In the same prophet,

There is none judging your judgement for healthiness; you have no restorative medicaments. Jeremiah 30:13.

In the same prophet,

Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied medicaments; there is no healing for you. Jeremiah 46:11.

[5] In Ezekiel,

Beside the river there is rising up upon its bank, on this side and on that, every tree for food, whose leaf does not fall and whose fruit does not fail; it is reborn monthly, for its waters are flowing out from the sanctuary, wherefore its fruit is for food, and its leaf for a medicament. Ezekiel 47:12.

Here the prophet is describing a new house of God or a new temple, by which a new Church is meant, and in a more internal sense the Lord's spiritual kingdom. Therefore by 'the river upon whose bank there is rising up every tree for food' is meant things that belong to intelligence and wisdom, 108, 109, 2702, 3051 - 'trees' are perceptions and recognition of what is good and true, 103, 2163, 2682, 2722, 2972, 4552; 'food' is forms of good and truths themselves, 680, 4459, 5147, 5293, 5576, 5915; 'waters going out from the sanctuary' are truths that compose intelligence, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 5668; 'the sanctuary' is celestial love, and in the highest sense the Lord's Divine Human, which is the source of that love; 'fruits which are for food' means forms of the good of love, 917, 983, 2846, 2847, 3146; and 'leaf which is for a medicament' means the truth of faith, 885. From this it is evident what 'a medicament' means, namely that which preserves from falsities and from evils; for the truth of faith, when it leads to goodness of life because it leads away from evil, acts as a preserver.

Footnotes:

1. literally, Why then has there not gone up the health of the daughter of My people?

2. literally, I will cause health and curing to go up to it.

  
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