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Ezechiel 13

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1 I stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

2 Synu člověčí, prorokuj proti prorokům Izraelským, kteříž prorokují, a rci prorokujícím z srdce svého: Slyšte slovo Hospodinovo:

3 Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Běda prorokům bláznivým, kteříž následují ducha svého, ješto však nic neviděli.

4 Podobni jsou liškám na pustinách proroci tvoji, Izraeli.

5 Nevstupujete k mezerám, aniž děláte hradby okolo domu Izraelského, aby ostáti mohl v boji v den Hospodinův.

6 Vídají marnost a hádání lživé. Říkají: Praví Hospodin, ješto jich neposlal Hospodin, a troštují lidi, aby jen utvrdili slovo své.

7 Zdaliž vidění marného nevídáte, a hádání lživého nevypravujete? A říkáte: Praví Hospodin, ješto jsem já nemluvil.

8 Pročež takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Proto že mluvíte marnost, a vídáte lež, protož aj, já jsem proti vám, praví Panovník Hospodin.

9 Nebo bude ruka má proti prorokům, kteříž vídají marnost a hádají lež. V losu lidu mého nebudou, a v popisu domu Izraelského nebudou zapsáni, aniž do země Izraelské vejdou. I zvíte, že já jsem Panovník Hospodin,

10 Proto, proto že v blud uvedli lid můj, říkajíce: Pokoj, ješto nebylo žádného pokoje. Jeden zajisté ustavěl stěnu hliněnou, a jiní obmítali ji vápnem ničemným.

11 Rciž těm, kteříž obmítají vápnem ničemným: I však to padne. Přijde příval rozvodnilý, a vy, kamenové krupobití velikého, spadnete, a vítr bouřlivý roztrhne ji.

12 A aj, když padne ta stěna, zdaliž vám nebude řečeno: Kdež jest to obmítání, jímž jste obmítali?

13 Protož takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Roztrhnu ji, pravím, větrem bouřlivým v prchlivosti své, a příval rozvodnilý v hněvě mém přijde, a kamení krupobití velikého v prchlivosti mé k vyhlazení jí.

14 Nebo rozbořím stěnu tu, kterouž jste obmetali vápnem ničemným, a porazím ji na zem, tak že odkryt bude grunt její. I padne, a zkaženi budete u prostřed ní, a zvíte, že já jsem Hospodin.

15 A tak vykonaje prchlivost svou na té stěně, a na těch, kteříž ji obmítají vápnem ničemným, dím vám: Není více té stěny, není ani těch, kteříž ji obmítali,

16 Totiž proroků Izraelských, kteříž prorokují Jeruzalému, a ohlašují jemu vidění pokoje, ješto není žádného pokoje, praví Panovník Hospodin.

17 Ty pak, synu člověčí, obrať tvář svou k dcerám lidu svého, kteréž prorokují z srdce svého, a prorokuj i proti nim.

18 A rci: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Běda těm, kteréž šijí polštáříky pod všeliké lokty rukou lidu mého, a dělají kukly na hlavu všeliké postavy, aby lovily duše. Zdaliž loviti máte duše lidu mého, abyste se živiti mohly?

19 Nebo zlehčujete mne u lidu mého pro hrst ječmene a pro kus chleba, umrtvujíce duše, kteréž neumrou, a obživujíce duše, kteréž živy nebudou, lhouce lidu mému, kteříž poslouchají lži.

20 Protož takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Aj, já dám se v polštáříky vaše, jimiž vy lovíte tam duše, abyste je oklamaly. Nebo strhnu je s ramenou vašich, a propustím duše, duše, kteréž vy lovíte, abyste je oklamaly.

21 I strhnu kukly vaše, a vytrhnu lid svůj z ruky vaší, tak abyste jich nemohly více loviti, i zvíte, že já jsem Hospodin;

22 Proto že kormoutíte srdce spravedlivého lžmi, ješto jsem já ho nekormoutil, a posilujete rukou bezbožného, aby se neodvrátil od zlé cesty své, obživujíce jej.

23 Protož nebudete vídati marnosti, a s hádáním nebudete se obírati více; nebo vytrhnu lid svůj z ruky vaší, i zvíte, že já jsem Hospodin.

   

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Coronis (An Appendix to True Christian Religion) # 58

  
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58. The state of consummation of the Israelitish Church is described in both the historical parts of the Word, and its prophetic parts: in the prophetic, by the atrocious deeds of the kings, first of those of the Israelites, and afterwards of those of the Jews, by whom and under whom the land is said to have been profaned. But it is needless to recite them, because they are well known; only those passages from the prophetic parts shall be adduced in which the consummation and devastation of that Church are treated of. In these passages by "earth" and "land," "Zion," "Jerusalem," "cities," "mountains," "hills," "valleys," and "rivers," similar things are signified as above (n. 55). The following are from the prophetic parts of the Word:

[2] I saw the earth, and behold it was empty and void; and towards the heavens, and their light was not.... I saw, when, behold, Carmel 1 was a desert, and all the cities were desolated at the presence of Jehovah.... For thus hath Jehovah said, The whole land shall be wasteness, yet will I not make a consummation. For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be blackened.

Thou, therefore, that art vastated, what wilt thou do? (Jer. 4:23-31; 5:10, 18).

The lion hath come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of nations... hath gone forth from his place, to reduce the land to a waste.... In that day... the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished (Jer. 4:7, 9).

In that day, every place where there were a thousand vines shall be... for thorns and briars,... because all the land shall be thorns and briars (Isa. 7:23-24).

A voice of the cry of the shepherds and... of the powerful ones of the flock, for Jehovah layeth waste their pastures: whence the sheepfolds of peace were devastated. Jehovah hath forsaken His tabernacle, for their land was reduced to a desolation (Jer. 25:36-38).

This house shall be like Shiloh, and Jerusalem shall be a devastation (Jer. 26:9; 27:17).

Jerusalem, and all the cities of Judah, shall be a desolation and a devastation in this day, because of the wickedness of your works; . . . your land is become a desolation, an astonishment and a curse (Jer. 44:2, 6, 22).

I will give the land to devastation, because they have committed transgression (Ezek. 15:8).

They shall be devastated in the midst of the devastated lands, and her cities in the midst of the desolated cities.... Then I will make the rivers drought,... the land into the hand of the evil, and I will vastate the land and the fulness thereof (Ezek. 30:7, 12).

When I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and will make the stars thereof black. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine;... and I will set darkness upon the land... when I shall bring on thy breaking up (Ezek. 32:7-9);

in like manner as the Lord foretold concerning the consummation of the present Christian Church (Matt. 24:29).

[3] I will give Mount Seir to wasteness and to devastation.... I will make thee the wastes of eternity... (Ezek. 35:3-4, 7, 9, 12, 14-15).

In that day they shall bring up a proverb against you... and say, In vastating we are vastated (Micah 2:4).

Fear and the pit have taken hold of us, devastation and breaking up (Lam. 3:47).

The mountain of Zion is vastated (Lam. 5:18).

Thine iniquity is consummated, O daughter of Zion (Lam. 4:22).

Woe to the sinful nation, heavy with iniquity;... they have provoked the Holy One of Israel.... From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness;... your land is a solitude.... The daughter of Zion is left as a tent in a vineyard, as a besieged city (Isa. 1:4-8, and following verses).

What will ye do in the day of visitation and devastation? Consummation is finished, justice is overwhelmed; for the Lord Jehovih is making a consummation and decision in the whole land (Isa. 10:3, etc., Isa. 10:22-23).

I have heard a consummation and decision from the Lord Jehovih of hosts in the whole land (Isa. 28:22).

The prophet fell upon his face, and said, Lord Jehovih! Thou art making a consummation with the remnants of Israel (Ezek. 11:13).

My sanctuary was profaned, and the land of Israel was devastated (Ezek. 25:3).

Were even Noah, Daniel and Job in the midst of it,... they only shall be delivered, but the land shall become a desolation (Ezek. 14:14, 16).

[4] The completion of the consummation of the Israelitish and Jewish Church was accomplished when the Lord our Saviour, after receiving the sponge of vinegar, cried out upon the cross,

It is consummated (John 19:29-30);

for it is said in David:

They gave gall for My meat, and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink:... let their habitation be devastated (Psalm 69:21, 25).

And in another place:

Without cause have they hid for Me the pit of the net; without cause have they digged for My soul. Let devastation come upon him before he is aware;... let him fall into devastation. Rescue My soul from their devastators, and My only one,-that is, the Church-from the lions' whelps (Psalm 35:7-8, 17).

I will make Jerusalem heaps, a habitation of dragons; I will reduce the cities of Judah to a waste;... behold, I am feeding them, even this people, with wormwood, and I will give them waters of gall to drink (Jer. 9:11-15).

Full consummation, after this, is described in Hosea thus:

The sons of Israel shall sit many days: no king, no prince, no sacrifice, no image, no ephod, and no teraphim (Hosea 3:4).

Such is their state at the present day. There is no need to adduce more passages. The passages in which the vastation, desolation and consummation of this Church are further mentioned, shall be only named: as, for example, Isa. 9:13-21; 22:4-14: Jer. 7:31-34; 25:33; 47:4: Ezek. 13:14-15; 14:8, 15; 19:7; 25:12-13; 26:2; 29:9-10, 12; 32:12, 15: Joel 1:15-20; 2:3; 3:19: Nahum 1:8-9: Zeph. 1:15; 2:9: Lam. 1:16: Psalm 73:17-19; 74:3.

The devastated are also called "thrust through" 2 (Ezek. 11:6-7; 21:30, 34; 26:6; 28:8, 23; 31:17-18; 32:20-24, 28-32; 35:8: Zeph. 2:12: Lam. 4:9: Psalm 69:27: and in other places). They are said to be "thrust through" because a "sword," by which this is done, signifies falsity destroying truth.

Notas de rodapé:

1. See R.V. margin.

2. In most of these passages our ordinary Bibles have "slain"; but Young's Literal Translation of the Bible has "pierced," which, of course, is the same as "thrust through."

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