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属天的奥秘 #4229

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4229. 第32

最后的审判 (续)

我们从第三卷 (系指拉丁文的第3卷) 开始解释主在马太福音 24章关于最后审判的预言. 这些解释被放在了那一卷最后几章的开头部分, 目前已解释到31节 (参看3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3897-3901, 4056-4060节).

概括地说, 主的这些预言的内义从所给出的解释很清楚看出来, 即祂预言了教会的逐渐毁灭和最终一个新教会的建立, 其次序如下:

⑴教会成员不再知道何为良善与真理, 反而开始彼此争论它们.

⑵他们蔑视它们.

⑶他们从心里不承认它们.

⑷他们亵渎它们.

⑸由于信之真理和爱之良善仍存留在某些被称为 “选民” 的人当中, 故经上描述了那时信之真理所具有的状态.

⑹然后描述了仁的状态.

⑺最后论述了一个新教会的开始, 由最后所解释的那些话来表示, 即:

祂要差遣祂的使者, 用号筒的大声, 将祂的选民从四风, 从天这边到天那边, 都招聚了来. (马太福音 24:31)

这些话表示一个新教会的开始 (参看4060末尾节).

  
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马太福音 24

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1 耶稣出了圣殿,正走的时候,门徒进前来,把殿宇指给他看。

2 耶稣对他们:你们不是看见这殿宇麽?我实在告诉你们,将来在这里没有一块石头留在石头上,不被拆毁了。

3 耶稣在橄榄山上坐着,门徒暗暗的来:请告诉我们,甚麽时候有这些事?你降临和世界的末了有甚麽豫兆呢?

4 耶稣回答:你们要谨慎,免得有人迷惑你们。

5 因为将有好些人冒我的名,说:我是基督,并且要迷惑许多人。

6 你们也要见打仗和打仗的风声,总不要惊慌;因为这些事是必须有的,只是末期还没有到。

7 民要攻打民,国要攻打国;多处必有饥荒、地震。

8 这都是灾难(灾难:原文是生产之难)的起头。

9 那时,人要把你们陷在患难里,也要害你们;你们又要为我的名被万民恨恶。

10 那时,必有许多人跌倒,也要彼此陷害,彼此恨恶;

11 且有好些假先知起来,迷惑多人。

12 只因不法的事增多,许多人的爱心才渐渐冷淡了。

13 惟有忍耐到底的,必然得

14 这天国的福音要传遍天下,对万民作见证,然後末期才来到。

15 你们看见先知但以理所的那行毁坏可憎的站在圣地(读这经的人须要会意)。

16 那时,在犹太的,应当逃到山上;

17 在房上的,不要下来拿家里的东西;

18 在田里的,也不要回去取衣裳。

19 当那些日子,怀孕的和奶孩子的有了。

20 你们应当祈求,叫你们逃走的时候,不遇见冬天或是安息日。

21 因为那时必有大灾难,从世界的起头直到如今,没有这样的灾难,後来也必没有。

22 若不减少那日子,凡有血气的总没有一个得的;只是为选民,那日子必减少了。

23 那时,若有人对你们基督在这里,或基督在那里,你们不要信!

24 因为假基督、假先知将要起来,显大神迹、大奇事,倘若能行,连选民也就迷惑了。

25 看哪,我预先告诉你们了。

26 若有人对你们:看哪,基督在旷野里,你们不要出去!或:看哪,基督在内屋中,你们不要信!

27 闪电从东边发出,直照到西边。人子降临,也要这样。

28 尸首在那里,鹰也必聚在那里。

29 那些日子的灾难一过去,日头就变黑了,月亮也不放光,众要从上坠落,势都要震动。

30 那时,人子的兆头要显在上,地上的万族都要哀哭。他们要看见人子,有能力,有大荣耀.,驾着上的云降临。

31 他要差遣使者,用号筒的大声,将他的选民,从四方(方:原文是风),从这边到那边,都招聚了来。

32 你们可以从无花果树学个比方:当树枝发嫩长的时候,你们就知道夏天近了。

33 这样,你们看见这一切的事,也该知道人子近了,正在口了。

34 我实在告诉你们,这世代还没有过去,这些事都要成就。

35 地要废去,我的话却不能废去。

36 那日子,那时辰,没有人知道,连上的使者也不知道,子也不知道,惟独父知道。

37 挪亚的日子怎样,人子降临也要怎样。

38 当洪水以前的日子,人照常吃喝嫁娶,直到挪亚进方舟的那日;

39 不知不觉洪水了,把他们全都冲去。人子降临也要这样。

40 那时,两个人在田里,取去一个,撇下一个。

41 两个女人推磨,取去一个,撇下一个。

42 所以,你们要儆醒,因为不知道你们的主是那一天到。

43 家主若知道几更天有,就必儆醒,不容人挖透房屋;这是你们所知道的。

44 所以,你们也要预备,因为你们想不到的时候,人子就了。

45 谁是忠心有见识的仆人,为主人所派,管理家里的人,按时分粮给他们呢?

46 主人到,看见他这样行,那仆人就有福了。

47 我实在告诉你们,主人要派他管理一切所有的。

48 倘若那恶仆心里:我的主人必得迟,

49 就动手打他的同伴,又和酒醉的人一同吃喝。

50 在想不到的日子,不知道的时辰,那仆人的主人要来,

51 重重的处治他(或作:把他腰斩了),定他和假冒为善的人同罪;在那里必要哀哭切齿了。

   

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Apocalypse Explained #228

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228. These things saith the Amen, the faithful and the Witness, signifies from whom is every truth and everything of faith. This is evident from the signification of "amen," as being verity or truth (of which presently); also from the signification of "the faithful and true Witness," as being, in reference to the Lord, everything of faith from Him; "for witness," in reference to the Lord signifies Divine truth which is from Him, and therefore everything of faith, for faith is of truth and truth is of faith. Divine truth proceeding from the Lord is called "a witness," because it is His Divine in heaven and in the church in which He is, and which is Himself there; for this proceeds from His Divine Human and fills the whole heaven and forms and makes it; and from this it is that heaven in the whole complex resembles one man. Because Divine truth is from that source and is such, it is called "a witness;" for it bears witness respecting the Lord's Divine Human, and makes it clear with all who receive the Divine truth from Him. From this it is that the angels of the higher heavens do not and cannot perceive any other Divine than the Lord's Divine Human, and this from the influx of the whole heaven into their minds. From this it can be seen why, in reference to the Lord, "witness" signifies the Lord in respect to Divine truth in heaven and in the church; and why "to bear witness," in reference to those who receive Divine truth from the Lord, signifies to acknowledge in heart the Lord's Divine in His Human (See above, n. 27). That heaven as a whole and in every part resembles one man, and that this is from the Lord's Divine Human, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 59-86, seq., 101; and that the Divine that proceeds from the Lord, which forms heaven, and forms angels into the image of heaven, is Divine truth, n. 13, 133, 139-140).

[2] This Divine truth is called by the Lord "the Comforter, the Spirit of truth," about which it is said that it should "bear Witness of Him," and that it is "from Him;" that it bears witness of Him, in John :

When the Comforter is come, the Spirit of truth, He shall bear witness of Me (John 15:26).

And that it is from Him, in the same:

The Comforter, the Spirit of truth, shall guide you into all the truth; for He shall not speak from Himself, but whatsoever things He shall hear, He shall speak. He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall declare it unto you. All things whatsoever the Father hath are Mine; therefore said I, He shall take of Mine and shall declare it unto you (John 16:13-15).

That Divine truth is from the Lord, is meant by "He shall not speak from Himself, but He shall take of Mine, and shall declare it unto you;" and that Divine truth is from the Lord's Divine Human is meant by "All things whatsoever the Father hath are Mine, therefore said I that He shall take of Mine, and shall declare it unto you;" and that Divine truth manifests the Lord's Divine Human is meant by "He shall glorify Me;" "to glorify" is to make known the Lord's Divine Human. (That "to glorify," in reference to the Lord means this, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 294.)

[3] The like is signified by these words of the Lord:

I tell you the truth; it is expedient that I go away; if I go, I will send the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, unto you (John 16:7, 8).

From this it is clear that Divine truth is from the Lord's Divine Human. The Lord calls Himself the "Amen," because "amen" signifies verity, thus the Lord Himself, because when He was in the world He was Divine verity itself, or Divine truth itself. It was for this reason that He so often said "Amen," and "amen, amen [verily, verily]" (as in Matthew 5:18, 26; 6:16; 10:23, 42; 17:20; 18:3, 13, 18; 24:2, 28:20; John 1:51; 3:11; 5:19, 24, 25; 6:26, 32, 47, 53; 8:34, 51, 58; 10:1, 7; 12:24; 13:16, 20, 21; 21:18, 25).

[4] That the Lord was Divine truth itself when He was in the world, He teaches in John:

I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6).

In the same:

For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth (John 17:19).

That "holy" in the Word is predicated of Divine truth, and "to be sanctified [made holy]" is predicated of those who receive Divine truth, see above n. 204; therefore the Lord's sanctifying Himself [making Himself holy], is making His Human to be Divine. (But on these things more may be seen shown in the Arcana Coelestia, in the quotations therefrom inThe Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 303-306.) Moreover, that "Amen" signifies Divine confirmation, see above (n. 34); as also in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 27:15-26; 1 Kings 1:36; Isaiah 65:16; Jeremiah 11:5; 28:6; Psalms 41:13; 72:19; 89:52; 106:48).

  
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