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1 Dies ist das Wort, welches der HERR durch den Propheten Jeremia geredet hat wider Babel und das Land der Chaldäer:

2 Verkündiget unter den Heiden und lasset erschallen; werfet ein Panier auf! Lasset erschallen und verberget es nicht und sprechet: Babel ist gewonnen, Bel stehet mit Schanden, Merodach ist zerschmettert, ihre Götzen stehen mit Schanden, und ihre Götter sind zerschmettert.

3 Denn es zeucht von Mitternacht ein Volk herauf wider sie, welches wird ihr Land zur Wüste machen, daß niemand drinnen wohnen wird, sondern beide, Leute und Vieh, davonfliehen werden.

4 In denselbigen Tagen und zur selbigen Zeit, spricht der HERR, werden kommen die Kinder Israel samt den Kindern Juda und weinend daherziehen und den HERRN, ihren Gott, suchen.

5 Sie werden forschen nach dem Wege gen Zion, daselbst hin sich kehren: Kommt und lasset uns zum HERRN fügen mit einem ewigen Bunde, des nimmermehr vergessen werden soll.

6 Denn mein Volk ist wie eine verlorne Herde; ihre Hirten haben sie verführet und auf den Bergen in der Irre gehen lassen, daß sie von Bergen auf die Hügel gegangen sind und ihrer Hürden vergessen.

7 Alles, was sie antraf, das fraß sie; und ihre Feinde sprachen: Wir tun nicht unrecht, darum daß sie sich haben versündiget an dem HERRN in der Wohnung der Gerechtigkeit und an dem HERRN, der ihrer Väter Hoffnung ist.

8 Fliehet aus Babel und ziehet aus der Chaldäer Lande und stellet euch als Böcke vor der Herde her!

9 Denn siehe, ich will große Völker mit Haufen aus dem Lande gegen Mitternacht erwecken und wider Babel heraufbringen, die sich wider sie sollen rüsten, welche sie auch sollen gewinnen; seine Pfeile sind wie eines guten Kriegers, der nicht fehlet.

10 Und das Chaldäerland soll ein Raub werden, daß alle, die sie berauben, sollen genug davon haben, spricht der HERR,

11 darum daß ihr euch des freuet und rühmet, daß ihr mein Erbteil geplündert habt, und lecket wie die geilen Kälber und wiehert wie die starken Gäule.

12 Eure Mutter stehet mit großen Schanden, und die euch geboren hat, ist zum Spott worden; siehe, unter den Heiden ist sie die geringste, wüst, dürr und öde.

13 Denn vor dem Zorn des HERRN muß sie unbewohnet und ganz wüst bleiben, daß alle, so vor Babel übergehen, werden sich verwundern und pfeifen über alle ihre Plage.

14 Rüstet euch wider Babel umher, alle Schützen; schießet in sie, sparet der Pfeile nicht; denn sie hat wider den HERRN gesündiget.

15 Jauchzet über sie um und um, sie muß sich geben; ihre Grundfesten sind gefallen, ihre Mauern sind abgebrochen; denn das ist des HERRN Rache. Rächet euch an ihr; tut ihr, wie sie getan hat!

16 Rottet aus von Babel beide den Säemann und den Schnitter in der Ernte, daß ein jeglicher vor dem Schwert des Tyrannen sich kehre zu seinem Volk und ein jeglicher fliehe in sein Land.

17 Israel hat müssen sein eine zerstreuete Herde, die die Löwen verscheucht haben. Am ersten fraß sie der König zu Assyrien; danach überwältigte sie Nebukadnezar, der König zu Babel.

18 Darum spricht der HERR Zebaoth, der Gott Israels, also: Siehe, ich will den König zu Babel heimsuchen und sein Land, gleichwie ich den König zu Assyrien heimgesucht habe.

19 Israel aber will ich wieder heim zu seiner Wohnung bringen, daß sie auf Karmel und Basan weiden, und ihre Seele auf dem Gebirge Ephraim und Gilead gesättiget werden soll.

20 Zur selbigen Zeit und in denselbigen Tagen wird man die Missetat Israels suchen, spricht der HERR, aber es wird keine da sein, und die Sünde Judas, aber es wird keine funden werden; denn ich will sie vergeben denen, so ich überbleiben lasse.

21 Zeuch hinauf wider das Land, das alles verbittert hat; zeuch hinauf wider die Einwohner der Heimsuchung; verheere und verbanne ihre Nachkommen, spricht der HERR, und tue alles, was ich dir befohlen habe!

22 Es ist ein Kriegsgeschrei im Lande und großer Jammer.

23 Wie geht es zu, daß der Hammer der ganzen Welt zerbrochen und zerschlagen ist? Wie geht es zu, daß Babel eine Wüste worden ist unter allen Heiden?

24 Ich habe dir gestellet, Babel; darum bist du auch gefangen, ehe du dich's versahest; du bist getroffen und ergriffen, denn du hast dem HERRN getrotzet.

25 Der HERR hat seinen Schatz aufgetan und die Waffen seines Zorns hervorgebracht; denn solches hat der HERR HERR Zebaoth in der Chaldäer Lande ausgerichtet.

26 Kommt her wider sie, ihr vom Ende, öffnet ihre Kornhäuser, werfet sie in einen Haufen und verbannet sie, daß ihr nichts übrig bleibe!

27 Erwürget alle ihre Rinder, führet sie hinab zur Schlachtbank! Wehe ihnen! Denn der Tag ist kommen, die Zeit ihrer Heimsuchung.

28 Man höret ein Geschrei der Flüchtigen und derer, so entronnen sind aus dem Lande Babel, auf daß sie verkündigen zu Zion die Rache des HERRN, unsers Gottes, und die Rache seines Tempels.

29 Rufet vielen wider Babel, belagert sie um und um, alle Bogenschützen, und laßt keinen davonkommen. Vergeltet ihr, wie sie verdienet hat; wie sie getan, hat, so tut ihr wieder! Denn sie hat stolz gehandelt wider den HERRN, den Heiligen in Israel.

30 Darum sollen ihre junge Mannschaft fallen auf ihren Gassen und alle ihre Kriegsleute untergehen zur selbigen Zeit, spricht der HERR.

31 Siehe, du Stolzer, ich will an dich, spricht der HERR HERR Zebaoth; denn dein Tag ist kommen, die Zeit deiner Heimsuchung.

32 Da soll der Stolze stürzen und fallen, daß ihn niemand aufrichte; ich will seine Städte mit Feuer anstecken, das soll alles, was um ihn her ist, verzehren.

33 So spricht der HERR Zebaoth: Siehe, die Kinder Israel samt den Kindern Juda müssen Gewalt und Unrecht leiden; alle, die sie gefangen weggeführet haben, halten sie und wollen sie nicht loslassen.

34 Aber ihr Erlöser ist stark, der heißt HERR Zebaoth; der wird ihre Sache so ausführen, daß er das Land bebend und die Einwohner zu Babel zitternd mache.

35 Schwert soll kommen, spricht der HERR, über die Chaldäer und über die Einwohner zu Babel und über ihre Fürsten und über ihre Weisen.

36 Schwert soll kommen über ihre Weissager, daß sie zu Narren werden. Schwert soll kommen über ihre Starken, daß sie verzagen.

37 Schwert soll kommen über ihre Rosse und Wagen und allen Pöbel, so drinnen ist, daß sie zu Weibern werden. Schwert soll kommen über ihre Schätze, daß sie geplündert werden.

38 Trockenheit soll kommen über ihre Wasser, daß sie versiegen; denn es ist ein Götzenland und trotzen auf ihre schrecklichen Götzen.

39 Darum sollen ungeheure Tiere und Vögel drinnen wohnen und die jungen Straußen; und soll nimmermehr bewohnet werden, und niemand drinnen hausen für und für,

40 gleichwie Gott Sodom und Gomorrha samt ihren Nachbarn umgekehret hat, spricht der HERR, daß niemand drinnen wohne, noch kein Mensch drinnen hause.

41 Siehe, es kommt ein Volk von Mitternacht her; viel Heiden und viel Könige werden von der Seite des Landes sich aufmachen.

42 Die haben Bogen und Schild, sie sind grausam und unbarmherzig; ihr Geschrei ist wie das Brausen des Meers; sie reiten auf Rossen, gerüstet wie Kriegsmänner wider dich, du Tochter Babel.

43 Wenn der König zu Babel ihr Gerücht hören wird, so werden ihm die Fäuste entsinken; ihm wird so angst und bange werden wie einer Frau in Kindesnöten.

44 Siehe, er kommt herauf wie ein Löwe vom stolzen Jordan wider die festen Hütten; denn ich will ihn daselbst her eilends laufen lassen. Und wer weiß, wer der Jüngling ist, den ich wider sie rüsten werde? Denn wer. ist mir gleich? Wer will mich meistern, und wer ist der Hirte, der mir widerstehen kann?

45 So höret nun den Ratschlag des HERRN, den er über Babel hat, und seine Gedanken, die er hat über die Einwohner im Lande der Chaldäer! Was gilt's, ob nicht die Hirtenknaben sie schleifen werden und ihre Wohnung zerstören?

46 Und die Erde wird beben von dem Geschrei, und wird unter den Heiden erschallen, wenn Babel gewonnen wird.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3024

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3024.'That you do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites' means that the Divine Rational should not be joined to any affection incompatible with truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'taking a woman' as being joined by means of the marriage covenant; from the meaning of 'my son', namely Isaac, as the Lord's Divine Rational, dealt with in 1893, 2066, 2083, 2630; from the meaning of 'daughters' as affections, dealt with in 489-491, 568, 2362; and from the meaning of 'the Canaanites' as evil, dealt with in 1444, 1573, 1574. Consequently 'the daughters of the Canaanites' are affections incompatible with truth. The subject here is Divine truth which was to be allied to the Divine good of the Lord's Rational, as may be seen in 3013 under 'Contents'. 'A woman' who was to be associated by means of a marriage covenant is used to mean that truth itself which is summoned from the natural man in the normal manner. 'My son' is used to mean the Lord's Rational as regards the good with which it was to be allied or associated. From this one may recognize that the command not to take a wife for his son from the daughters of the Canaanites means that the Divine Rational should not be joined to any affection incompatible with truth. All joining of truth to good is effected by means of affection, for no truth ever enters the rational part of a person's mind or is joined to it except by means of affection, for affection has within it the good that flows from love, which good alone effects the joining together, 1895, as also anyone may know who stops to reflect on it.

[2] As regards 'the daughters of the Canaanites' meaning affections incompatible with truth, that is, affections for what is false, this becomes clear from the meaning of 'daughters'. For the noun 'daughters' occurs in many places in the Word, and in these anyone may see that it is not used to mean daughters. By such expressions as 'the daughter of Zion', 'the daughter of Jerusalem', 'the daughter of Tarshish', 'the daughter of My people', affections for good and truth are meant, as shown in the paragraphs referred to above. And since affections for good and truth are meant so also are Churches, for Churches are Churches by virtue of these affections. Consequently 'the daughter of Zion' means the celestial Church, and means this by virtue of the affection for good, whereas 'the daughter of Jerusalem' means the spiritual Church from the affection for truth, 2362. And it is the same with 'the daughter of My people' in Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 6:14, 26; 8:19, 21-22; 9:1; 14:17; Lamentations 2:11; 4:6; Ezekiel 13:17.

[3] This shows what is meant by the daughters of the nations, such as by the daughters of the Philistines, the daughters of Egypt, the daughters of Tyre and Sidon, the daughters of Edom, the daughters of Moab, the daughters of the Chaldeans and Babel, and the daughters of Sodom. They mean affections for evil and falsity, from which their varieties of religion sprang, and so mean those varieties themselves. That this is the meaning of 'daughters' becomes clear from the following places: In Ezekiel,

The daughters of the nations will lament over Egypt. Wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send her down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the lower earth, together with those who go down to the pit. Ezekiel 32:16, 18.

'The daughters of majestic nations' stands for affections for evil. In Samuel,

Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult. 2 Samuel 1:20.

In Ezekiel,

You committed whoredom with the sons of Egypt. I delivered you to those who hated you, the daughters of the Philistines. Before your badness was revealed, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all round about her, the daughters of the Philistines who despise you from round about. Ezekiel 16:26-27, 57.

Anyone may see that not daughters were meant here but the varieties of religion among such people as are meant by the Philistines - those who speak repeatedly of faith yet do not at all pursue the life taught by faith, see 1197, 1198. This also explains why they are called 'the uncircumcised', that is, devoid of charity.

[4] In Jeremiah,

Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! Make for yourself vessels of migration, O inhabitant daughter of Egypt. The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame; she has been delivered into the hand of the people from the north. Jeremiah 46:11, 19, 24.

'The daughter of Egypt' stands for the affection for reasoning from facts about whether truths of faith really are true, and so stands for the variety of religion which springs from this, the nature of which is to believe nothing except that grasped by the senses, and so to believe nothing of the truth of faith, see 215, 232, 233, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1385, 2196, 2203, 2209, 2568, 2588. In Isaiah,

He said, You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Isaiah 23:12.

In David,

The daughter of Tyre with an offering, the rich of the people will entreat your face. Psalms 45:12.

What 'the daughter of Sidon' and 'the daughter of Tyre' mean is evident from the meaning of Sidon and Tyre, dealt with in 1201. In Jeremiah,

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom. Your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is at an end. He will no more cause you to migrate; your iniquity will be punished, O daughter of Edom. Lamentations 4:21-22.

In Isaiah,

Like a wandering bird, a scattered nest, will the daughters of Moab be. Isaiah 16:2.

In the same prophet,

Come down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babel; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. Sit quietly and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for no more will they call you the mistress of kingdoms. Isaiah 47:1, 5.

In Jeremiah,

A people coming from the north, arrayed as a man for war against you, O daughter of Babel. Jeremiah 50:41-42.

In the same prophet,

The daughter of Babel is like the threshing-floor; it is time to thresh her. Jeremiah 51:33

In Zechariah,

Ho, Zion! escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babel. Zechariah 2:7.

In David,

The daughter of Babel has been laid waste. Psalms 137:8.

In Ezekiel,

Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will return to their condition as of old, and Samaria and her daughters will return to their condition as of old. Ezekiel 16:55.

[5] Anyone may see that in these places 'daughters' is not used to mean daughters but affections incompatible with truth, and so the varieties of religion that spring from them. But which particular varieties they are is evident from the meaning of those peoples - from the meaning of Edom, Moab, the Chaldeans, Babel, Sodom, Samaria, all of which have been dealt with in various places in the explanations to previous chapters of Genesis. From this what is meant in the present chapter by 'the daughters of the Canaanites' becomes clear.

[6] This command not to contract marriages with the daughters of the Canaanites also had regard to the spiritual requirements that good should not be joined to falsity, nor evil to truth, for the result of any such joining together is profanation. The prohibition was also a representative of the matter referred to in Deuteronomy 7:3, and in Malachi,

Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah, in that he loved and married the daughter of a foreign god. Malachi 2:11.

  
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1573. 'And the Canaanite and the Perizzite were then dwelling in the land' means evils and falsities in the external man. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'the Canaanite' as hereditary evil from the mother in the external man, dealt with already in 1444, and from the meaning of 'the Perizzite' as derivative falsity, dealt with in what follows below. That hereditary evil from the mother resided with the Lord in His external Man, see what has been stated already in 1414, 1444. The fact that falsity resulted from that hereditary evil follows, for where there is hereditary evil falsity is present also. The one is born from the other, but falsity from evil cannot be born until a person has been endowed with facts and cognitions. Evil has nothing to work on or flow into except facts and cognitions. In this way evil belonging to the will part of the mind is turned into falsity in the understanding part, and therefore this falsity also was hereditary because it was born from what was hereditary, though not the falsity that is based on false principles. But it existed in the external man as that which the internal man could see was falsity.

[2] Because hereditary evil from the mother was present before the Lord had been endowed with facts and cognitions, that is, before 'Abram sojourned in Egypt' it is said in verse 6 of the previous chapter that 'the Canaanite was in the land' but not that the Perizzite was there, whereas in the present verse, now that He had been endowed with facts and cognitions, it is said that 'the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt in the land'. From these considerations it is clear that 'the Canaanite' means evil and 'the Perizzite' falsity. It is also clear from the consideration that the mention of the Canaanite and the Perizzite does not bear any relation to the historical events among which it occurs, for nothing is said about either of them in what has gone before or in what follows. The same is also true with the mention of the Canaanite in verse 6 of the previous chapter. From this it is evident that some arcanum lies concealed here which one cannot know except from the internal sense.

[3] To some it may come as a surprise to say that hereditary evil from the mother was present with the Lord, but as such evil is spoken of so plainly here, and as in the internal sense the Lord is the subject, there can be no doubt that it was present. For no human being can possibly be born from another human being without deriving evil from him or her. But the hereditary evil that is derived from the father is one thing, that from the mother is another. Hereditary evil from the father is more internal and remains for ever, since it can never be rooted out. Such evil did not exist with the Lord because He was born of Jehovah as His Father, and thus was Divine, or Jehovah, as regards internals. But hereditary evil from the mother belongs to the external man, as it did with the Lord, and it is called 'the Canaanite in the land', and derivative falsity 'the Perizzite'. The Lord was in this sense born as any other, and had weaknesses as any other has them.

[4] That the Lord derived hereditary evil from the mother is quite clear from the fact that He underwent temptations. Nobody can ever be tempted who has no evil, for it is the evil present with man that tempts and by means of which he is tempted. That the Lord was tempted, undergoing temptations so serious that no other could ever endure one ten thousandth part of them, that He suffered all alone, and by His own power overcame evil, or the devil and the whole of hell, is also clear. Those temptations are spoken of in Luke as follows,

Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. He was tempted for forty days by the devil, so that He ate nothing in those days. But after the devil had ended every temptation he departed from Him for a time. From there He returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee. Luke 4:1-2, 13-14.

[5] And in Mark,

The Spirit, driving Jesus, made Him go away into the wilderness; and He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted; and He was with the wild beasts. Mark 1:12-13.

Here 'beasts' means hell. In addition to this He is spoken of as being tempted to the point of death, so that His sweat was [like] drops of blood,

And when He was in agony He prayed more earnestly; and His sweat became as great drops of blood falling down upon the ground. Luke 22:44.

[6] No angel can possibly be tempted by the devil, the reason being that as an angel abides in the Lord, evil spirits cannot approach him, even when they are a long way off, but are instantly seized with horror and fright. Much less could hell have approached the Lord if He had been born Divine, that is, without evil from the mother clinging to Him.

[7] That the Lord bore the iniquities and evils of the human race is also a statement commonly made by preachers, yet the diversion of iniquities and evils to Himself can never come about except through a hereditary channel. The Divine cannot take evil upon Itself, and therefore in order that He might overcome evil by His own powers - which no human being has ever been able to do or ever can do - and in so doing might make Himself alone Righteousness, He was willing to be born like any other. Otherwise there would have been no need for Him to be born at all, for the Lord could have assumed Human Essence without going through the process of birth, as He had indeed sometimes done when seen by members of the Most Ancient Church, and also by prophets. Therefore in order that He might be furnished with evil against which He was to fight and over which He was to conquer, and in so doing might join together in Himself the Divine Essence to the Human Essence, He came into the world.

[8] In the Lord however there was no evil of His own, that is, He committed no actual evil, as He Himself also says in John,

Who of you is going to convict Me of sin? John 8:46.

From these considerations it may now be quite evident what is meant by the statement immediately preceding - 'there was strife between Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsman'. The reason was that 'the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling in the land'.

  
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