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hoc est somnium. Interpretationem quoque ejus dicemus coram te, rex.
Arcana Coelestia # 10050
10050. ‘Et crura ejus’: quod significet purificationem exteriorum quae naturalis hominis, constat ex significatione 'lavare crura quod sit purificatio naturalis hominis; quod ‘lavare’ sit purificare 1 , videatur mox supra n. 10049; et ex significatione ‘crurum’ quod sint exteriora quae naturalis hominis; quod ‘crura’ significent illa 2 , est quia simul intelliguntur pedes, nam crura bestiarum sunt quattuor, et cohaerent pedibus, et ‘pedes’ ex correspondentia significant naturale seu 3 externum hominis, videatur n. 2162, 3147, 4 3761, 4938-4952.
[2] Simile per ‘crura’ significatur apud Amos, Sicut eripuit pastor ex ore leonis duo crura, aut particulam auris, sic eripientur filii Israelis habitantes in Samaria, in angulo lecti, et in extremitate spondae, 3:12;
per ‘leonem’ hic significantur qui vastant Ecclesiam, per ‘crura’ externum ejus, quod etiam est naturalis hominis, per ‘ 5 particulam auris’ apperceptivum ejus, per ‘habitantes in Samaria’ illi qui in cultu externo sunt; ‘angulus lecti et extremitas spondae’ est infimum naturale, quod est sensuale externum, et ejus verum et bonum.
[3] Per ‘crura’, ubi agitur de statua Nebuchadnezaris apud Danielem,
quod caput ejus esset ex auro puro, pectus et bracchia ex argento, venter et latus ex aere, crura ex ferro, ac pedes partim ex ferro et partim ex argilla, 2:32, 33, significatur verum fidei in externo seu naturali homine, quod etiam est ‘ferrum’, videatur n. 10030; quod ‘crura’ hic distinguantur a pedibus, est causa quia crura se aliter habent apud hominem quam apud bestias.
Notas de rodapé:
1. purificatio
2. quod per crura significetur naturale is deleted, but nothing has been inserted in its place.
3. quod
4. The editors of the third Latin edition made a minor correction here. For details, see the end of the appropriate volume of that edition.
5. The editors of the third Latin edition made a minor correction here. For details, see the end of the appropriate volume of that edition.
Ezekiel 34:1-16
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The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?
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You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
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You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
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They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
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My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.
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Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
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As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;
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therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
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Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
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For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
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As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
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I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
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I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.
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I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.
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I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
