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Jérémie 51:25

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25 Voici, j'en veux à toi, montagne qui détruis, dit l'Eternel, qui détruis toute la terre; et j'étendrai ma main sur toi, et je te roulerai en bas du haut des rochers, et je te réduirai en montagne d'embrasement.

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L’Apocalypse Révélée # 771

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771. Vers. 18:11. Et les marchands de la terre pleureront et seront dans le deuil à cause d'elle, de ce que leurs marchandises personne n'achète plus, signifie les inférieurs dans l'ordre hiérarchique, qui font le service et s'enrichissent au moyen des choses saintes ; ici, leurs douleurs de ce que, après la destruction de Babylone, leurs choses religieuses sont reconnues, non pas pour saintes, mais pour des vrais et des biens adultérés et profanés de la Parole et par conséquent de l'Église, et qu'ainsi ils ne peuvent plus, comme auparavant, tirer profit de ces choses. Par les marchands sont entendus les inférieurs dans Tordre hiérarchique ecclésiastique, parce que par les Rois de la terre, dont il a été parlé jusqu'ici, sont entendus les supérieurs dans cet ordre ; voir ci-dessus, No. 767 ; ainsi, par les marchands de la terre sont entendus ceux qui font le service et s'enrichissent au moyen des choses saintes ; ils pleureront et seront dans le deuil sont signifiées leurs douleurs, de même que ci-dessus, No. 767 ; par leurs marchandises sont signifiées les choses saintes ou les choses religieuses par lesquelles ils tirent du profil ou du gain ; par ne plus les acheter, il est signifié ne pas vouloir les avoir, parce qu'elles sont, non pas des choses saintes, mais des vrais et des biens adultérés et profanés de la Parole et par conséquent de l'Église ; qu'acheter, ce soit acquérir pour soi, on le voit, No. 606. Il est parlé ainsi de ce sujet, dans Jérémie :

— « Babel, toi qui habites sur des eaux abondantes, grande en trésors ; elle est venue, la fin, la mesure de ion lucre. » — Jérémie 51:13.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2709

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2709. 'And was an archer' means the member of the spiritual Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'darts, arrows, or shafts' as truth, and from the meaning of 'a bow' as doctrine, dealt with above in 2686. The member of the spiritual Church was in former times called 'an archer' because such a member uses truths to defend himself, and discusses truths, unlike the member of the celestial Church who is protected by good and does not discuss truths, see above in 2708. The truths which the member of the spiritual Church uses to defend himself and which he discusses are derived from the doctrine he acknowledges.

[2] The fact that the spiritual man was in former times called 'an archer' and 'a bowman', and that doctrine was called a bow and a quiver, and the truths of doctrine, or rather matters of doctrine, were called arrows, darts, and shafts, is further clear in David,

The children of Ephraim who were armed (they were archers) turned back on the day of battle. Psalms 78:9.

'Ephraim' stands for the intellectual side of the Church. In the Book of Judges,

You who ride white she-asses, you who sit on Middin, 1 and you who walk along the way, may you ponder. From the voice of the bowmen among those drawing water, there they will discuss the righteous acts of Jehovah, the righteous acts of His village in Israel. Judges 5:10-11.

In Isaiah.

Jehovah called me from the womb, from my mother's body 2 He made mention of my name and set my mouth like a sharp sword. In the shadow of His hand He hid me and turned me into a polished arrow; in His quiver He hid me, and He said to me, You are My servant Israel, for I will be glorified in you. Isaiah 49:1-3.

'Israel' stands for the spiritual Church.

[3] In David,

Like arrows in the hand of a powerful man so are the children of the days of one's youth. Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. Psalms 127:4-5.

'A quiver' stands for the doctrine of good and truth. In Habakkuk,

The sun, the moon, stood still in their place. At the light of Your arrows they will go, at the flash of Your glittering spear. Habakkuk 3:11.

In the reference to Joash king of Israel who at Elisha's command shot the arrow from the bow through the window, with Elisha saying as he shot it, Jehovah's arrow of salvation, Jehovah's arrow of salvation against the Syrian, 2 Kings 13:16-18, arcana to do with the doctrine of good and truth are meant.

[4] Since most things in the Word also possess a contrary sense, darts, arrows, shafts, bows, and archers accordingly possess such. In that contrary sense they mean falsities, doctrine that teaches what is false, and those who are under the influence of falsity, as in Moses,

The son of a fruitful one is Joseph, the son of a fruitful one beside a spring, O daughters, 3 he trails over the wall; and they bitterly grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him did the archers. Genesis 49:22-23.

In Jeremiah,

They shot with their tongue, their bow is a bow of lies and not used for truth. Their tongue is a shaft extended; it speaks deceit. Jeremiah 9:3, 8.

In David,

They sharpened their tongue like a sword, they aimed their shaft, a bitter word, to shoot in secret places at the upright; they will shoot suddenly and will not fear him. They will make strong for themselves an evil matter; they will tell of laying snares secretly. Psalms 64:3-5.

In the same author,

Behold, the evil bend the bow, they make ready their shaft upon the string, to shoot in thick darkness itself at the upright in heart. Psalms 11:2.

In the same author,

His truth is a shield and buckler; you will not be afraid of the terror of the night, of the shaft that flies by day. Psalms 91:4-5.

Notas de rodapé:

1. A Hebrew word, the meaning of which is uncertain.

2. literally, viscera

3. The Latin means beside the daughters' spring, but the Hebrew appears to mean beside a spring, O daughters, which Swedenborg has in the chapter explaining Genesis 49.

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