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Ezekiel 21

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1 At ang salita ng Panginoon ay dumating sa akin, na nagsasabi,

2 Anak ng tao, itingin mo ang iyong mukha sa dakong Jerusalem, at magbadya ka ng iyong salita sa dako ng mga santuario, at manghula ka laban sa lupain ng Israel;

3 At sabihin mo sa lupain ng Israel, Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon: Narito, ako'y laban sa iyo, at aking bubunutin ang aking tabak sa kaloban, at ihihiwalay ko sa iyo ang matuwid at ang masama.

4 Yaman nga na aking ihihiwalay sa iyo ang matuwid at ang masama, kaya't aking bubunutin ang aking tabak sa kaloban na laban sa lahat na tao na mula sa timugan hanggang sa hilagaan:

5 At malalaman ng lahat na tao na akong Panginoon ay bumunot ng aking tabak sa kaloban; hindi na isusuksok pa.

6 Magbuntong-hininga ka nga, ikaw na anak ng tao; na may pagkasira ng iyong mga balakang at may kapanglawang magbubuntong-hininga ka sa harap ng kanilang mga mata.

7 At mangyayari, pagka kanilang sinasabi sa iyo, Bakit ka nagbubuntong-hininga? na iyong sasabihin, Dahil sa mga balita, sapagka't dumarating; at ang bawa't puso ay manglulumo, at ang lahat na kamay ay manghihina, at ang bawa't espiritu ay manglulupaypay, at ang lahat na tuhod ay manglalambot na parang tubig: narito, dumarating, at mangyayari, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

8 At ang salita ng Panginoon ay dumating sa akin, na nagsasabi,

9 Anak ng tao, manghula ka, at sabihin mo, Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon: Sabihin mo, Isang tabak, isang tabak ay nahasa, at kuminang din naman;

10 Nahasa upang manglipol; kuminang upang maging parang kidlat: gagawa nga baga tayo ng mga kasayahan? ang tungkod ng aking anak ay humahamak sa bawa't punong kahoy.

11 At pinakikinang, upang hawakan: ang tabak, ito'y nahasa, oo, pinakinang, upang ibigay sa kamay ng manglilipol.

12 Humiyaw ka at manambitan ka, anak ng tao; sapagka't nauumang sa aking bayan, nauumang sa lahat ng mga prinsipe sa Israel: sila'y nangabigay sa tabak na kasama ng aking bayan; tampalin mo nga ang iyong hita.

13 Sapagka't may paglilitis; at paano kung pati ng tungkod na humahamak ay mawala? sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

14 Ikaw nga, anak ng tao, manghula ka, at ipakpak mo kapuwa ang iyong mga kamay; at ang tabak ay malupi sa ikatlo, ang tabak ng nasugatan sa ikamamatay: siyang tabak ng dakilang nasugatan sa ikamamatay na pumasok sa kanilang mga silid.

15 Aking iniumang ang kumikinang na tabak laban sa lahat nilang pintuang-bayan, upang ang kanilang puso ay manglumo, at ang kanilang mga pagkatisod ay dumami: ah! ang pagkayari ay parang kidlat, na inihasa upang ipangpatay.

16 Humayo ka sa isang dako, lumagay ka sa kanan, o lumagay ka sa kaliwa, saan man mapaharap ang iyong mukha.

17 Akin din namang ipapakpak kapuwa ang aking mga kamay, at aking lulubusin ang aking kapusukan: ako ang Panginoon, ang nagsalita.

18 Ang salita ng Panginoon ay dumating uli sa akin, na nagsasabi,

19 Gayon din, ikaw na anak ng tao, magtakda ka sa iyo ng dalawang daan, na mapanggagalingan ng tabak ng hari sa Babilonia; silang dalawa ay kapuwa lalabas sa isang lupain: at landasan mo ng dako, landasan mo sa bukana ng daang patungo sa bayan.

20 Ikaw ay magtatakda ng daan para sa tabak na paroon sa Raba ng mga anak ni Ammon, at sa Juda sa Jerusalem na nakukutaan.

21 Sapagka't ang hari sa Babilonia ay tumayo sa pinagkakahiwalayan ng daan, sa bukana ng dalawang daan, upang magbadya ng panghuhula: kaniyang iniwasiwas ang mga pana na paroo't parito, siya'y sumangguni sa mga diosdiosan, siya'y nagsiyasat sa atay.

22 Nasa kanang kamay niya ang panghuhula sa Jerusalem, upang mag-umang ng mga pangsaksak, upang bukahin ang bibig sa pagpatay, upang itaas ang tinig sa paghiyaw, upang mag-umang ng mga pangsaksak laban sa mga pintuang-bayan, upang maglagay ng mga bunton upang magtayo ng mga katibayan.

23 At sa kanila ay magiging parang panghuhulang walang kabuluhan sa kanilang paningin, na nanumpa sa kanila; nguni't ipinaa-alaala niya sa kanilang kasamaan, upang sila'y mangahuli.

24 Kaya't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios, Sapagka't inyong ipinaalaala ang inyong kasamaan, palibhasa'y ang inyong mga pagsalangsang ay nalitaw, na anopa't sa lahat ninyong gawa ay nagsilitaw ang inyong mga kasalanan; sapagka't dumating ang pagkaalaala sa inyo, kayo'y huhulihin ng kamay.

25 At ikaw, Oh masama na nasugatan ng ikamamatay, na prinsipe sa Israel, na ang kaarawan ay dumating, sa panahon ng parusang pinaka wakas;

26 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios, Ilapag mo ang tiara, at alisin mo ang putong; ito'y hindi na mangyayari pa uli; itaas mo ang mababa at ibaba mo ang mataas.

27 Aking ititiwarik, ititiwarik, ititiwarik: ito rin nama'y hindi na mangyayari uli, hanggang sa dumating yaong may matuwid na kaniya; at aking ibibigay sa kaniya.

28 At ikaw, anak ng tao, manghula ka, at iyong sabihin, Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios tungkol sa mga anak ni Ammon, at tungkol sa kanilang kapulaan; at sabihin mo, Isang tabak, isang tabak ay binunot, na ukol sa pagpatay ay kuminang upang papanglipulin, upang maging parang kidlat;

29 Samantalang sila'y nangakakakita sa iyo ng walang kabuluhan, samantalang sila'y nanganghuhula sa iyo ng mga kabulaanan, upang ipasan ka sa mga leeg ng masama na sinugatan ng ikamamatay, na ang kaarawan ay dumating, sa panahon ng parusang pinaka wakas.

30 Isuksok mo iyan sa kaniyang kaloban. Sa dakong pinaglalangan sa iyo, sa lupain ng kapanganakan mo, hahatulan kita.

31 At aking ibubuhos ang aking galit sa iyo; aking hihipan ka sa pamamagitan ng apoy ng aking poot: at aking ibibigay ka sa kamay ng mga tampalasang tao na bihasang pumatay.

32 Ikaw ay magiging pinakapanggatong sa apoy; ang iyong dugo ay mabububo sa gitna ng lupain; ikaw ay hindi na maaalaala: sapagka't akong Panginoon ang nagsalita.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9011

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9011. 'I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee' means a state of blamelessness and so of freedom from punishment. This is clear from the meaning of 'a place' as a state, dealt with in 2625, 2837, 3356, 3387, 3404, 4321, 4882, 5605, 7381; and from the meaning of refuge, or a place to which one who killed another without premeditation or by chance might flee, as a state of blamelessness and so of freedom from punishment. For those who struck another by chance, that is, not from set purpose, thus not because of any previous contemplation of the deed or of an evil desire in the will, were not at all culpable. Therefore when they came to the place of refuge they were freed from punishment. By them were represented those who injure, but not from set purpose, someone's truths and forms of the good of faith and as a result wipe out his spiritual life; for their state is one of blamelessness and freedom from punishment. This is true of those who have thorough trust in their religion, which however is full of falsity, and who use what it teaches to reason against the truth and good of faith, and to do this convincingly, as conscientious and consequently zealous heretics are sometimes accustomed to do.

[2] The fact that they were represented [by those] who fled to places of refuge is clear in Moses,

You shall select suitable cities, which are to be cities of refuge for yourselves, so that one who strikes and kills a soul accidentally may flee there. If without premeditation, without enmity, he pushes him; or throws at him some implement without forethought; or [strikes him] with any stone from which he may die, while not seeing him, so that he causes it to fall onto him and he dies, though he was not his enemy and did not seek to harm him ... Numbers 35:11-12, 22-23.

And in the same author,

This is the case 1 with one who kills, who shall flee there so that he may live, when he has struck his companion unwittingly, when he did not hate him previously 2 - as when he goes with his companion into a forest to cut down timber, but when his hand with the axe in it is swung to cut down wood, the iron flies off the handle and hits his companion so that he dies, 3 he shall flee to one of these cities so that he may live. Deuteronomy 19:4-5.

[3] This describes the state of one blameless and freed from punishment, who through the falsities of faith which he had believed to be truths, or through factual knowledge based on the illusions of the senses, has injured someone, and so has done harm to his internal or spiritual life. To convey this meaning such an accident or chance is described by an implement of some kind, and by a stone which he causes to fall onto his companion so that he dies, and also by the axe or iron coming off its handle, while both were cutting down timber in the forest. The reason why such details are used to describe the matter is that 'an implement' means some known fact, and 'a stone' a truth of faith or in the contrary sense a falsity; and in like manner 'the iron of an axe' and 'cutting down timber' means to argue about what is good, using what one's religion teaches.

[4] Anyone may see that but for some hidden reason a killing that occurred accidentally would not have been described by the iron of an axe coming off its handle in a forest, for such an accident happens rarely, scarcely once in many years. But that accident has been described in such a way for the sake of the internal sense, which describes the harm done to a soul by another through the falsities of faith which, because his religion teaches them, he has believed to be truths. For anyone who causes harm through falsities which he believes to be truths does not do harm from set purpose or in spite of knowing better, because he acts in accord with his religious faith and therefore out of zeal. So that these things might be meant in the internal sense they are described, as has been stated, by those who kill companions accidentally, and by 'a stone', by 'cutting down wood in a forest', and by 'the iron of the axe coming off its handle onto a companion during the process'. For 'a stone' is a truth of faith in the natural man, and in the contrary sense a falsity, see 643, 1298, 3720, 6426, 8609, 8941, and so is 'iron', 425, 426. 'The iron of the axe coming away from its handle' is truth separated from good, good being meant by 'handle' or 'wood', 643, 2812, 3720, 8354; 'cutting down wood' means placing merit in works, 1110, 4943, 8740; but 'cutting down timber in a forest' means discussing these and like matters, and also calling them into question; for 'a forest' means a religious system.

[5] Like matters are meant by 'cutting down timber in a forest with axes' in Jeremiah,

The mercenaries will go with strength, and they will come to her with axes, like those who cut down timber. They will cut down her forest, said Jehovah. Jeremiah 46:22-23.

Here 'cutting down timber in a forest' stands for acting in accord with false religious practices and destroying such things as constitute the Church. For the Church is called 'a forest', 'a garden', and 'a paradise'; it is called 'a forest' by virtue of its knowledge, 'a garden' by virtue of its intelligence, and 'a paradise' by virtue of its wisdom, 3220, 'trees' being perceptions of goodness and truth, and also cognitions or knowledge of them, 103, 2163, 2722, 2972, 4552, 7690, 7692. And since 'a forest' means the Church in respect of its knowledge, thus of its external aspects, it also means religious practices.

[6] The Church in respect of its knowledge or external aspects is also meant by 'a forest', or 'a wood', in David,

The field will be exultant and everything in it; then all the trees of the wood will sing. Psalms 96:12.

In the same author,

Behold, we heard of Him in Ephrathah; we found Him in the fields of the wood. Psalms 132:6.

These words refer to the Lord. In Isaiah,

The light of Israel will be a fire, and his Holy (One a flame. It will burn the glory of his forest, and his Carmel; it will consume from the soul even to the flesh. As a consequence the remaining trees of the wood will be [so small] a number that a child may write them down. He will cut down the entangled boughs of the forest with an axe, 4 and Lebanon will fall by a majestic one. Isaiah 10:17-20, 34.

'The forest' stands for the Church in respect of its cognitions of truth, and 'Carmel' for the Church in respect of its cognitions of good, in the same way as 'Lebanon' and 'Hermon' do. 'The trees of the wood' stands, as above, for cognitions, and 'being a number that a child may write down' stands for the fewness of them, 'entangled boughs of the forest' standing for factual knowledge, 2831.

[7] In the same prophet,

You said, By the multitude of my chariots I will go up [to] the height of the mountains, the sides of Lebanon, where I will cut down the tallness of its cedars, the choice of its fir trees, After that I will come to its remotest height, 5 the forest of its Carmel. Isaiah 37:24.

In Jeremiah,

I will visit on you according to the fruit of your works, and I will kindle a fire in its forest. Jeremiah 21:14.

In Ezekiel,

Prophesy against the forest of the field towards the south, and say to the forest of the south, Behold, I will kindle in you a fire, and it will devour every tree. Ezekiel 20:46-47.

In Micah,

Guide 6 Your people with Your staff, the flock of Your inheritance inhabiting alone a forest in the midst of Carmel. Micah 7:14.

Does anyone fail to see that in these places a forest is not meant by 'a forest', nor Lebanon and Carmel, which were forests, by 'Lebanon' and 'Carmel', but that some aspect of the Church is meant? What aspect of the Church it is however has lain hidden up to now because the internal sense has lain hidden. But how astonishing that in a world so learned as Europe - more learned than all the other continents - where the Word exists, in every detail of which the internal sense is present, there is no awareness of that sense! Yet it was known to the ancients in Chaldea, Assyria, Egypt, and Arabia, and from them in Greece, in whose books, symbols, and hieroglyphics such matters are still met with. The reason why awareness of that matter has perished is lack of belief that what is spiritual has any real existence.

Fusnotat:

1. literally, word or matter

2. literally, when he was not a hater of him yesterday and three days ago

3. literally, the iron is struck off the wood and finds his companion so that he dies

4. literally, iron

5. literally, the height of its end

6. literally, Feed or Pasture

  
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5605. 'And we will rise up and go, and we will live and not die' means spiritual life entered into by degrees. This is clear from the meaning of 'rising up' as a raising up to higher or more internal things, and therefore to those that constitute spiritual life, dealt with in 2401, 2785, 2912, 2927, 3171, 4103, 4881; from the meaning of 'going' as living, dealt with in 3335, 3690, 4882, 5493 (and since 'and we will live' follows, 'going' means the earliest stage of spiritual life); from the meaning of 'living' as spiritual life, for no other kind of life is meant in the internal sense of the Word; and from the meaning of 'not dying' as standing condemned no longer, that is, standing outside a state of condemnation, for no other kind of death is meant in the internal sense of the Word than spiritual death, which is condemnation. From all this it is evident that 'we will rise up and go, and we will live and not die' means life entered into by degrees. That is to say, an introductory phase leading into life is meant by 'rising up', the earliest stage of that life by 'going', that life fully under way by 'living', and guidance away from everything alien to that life by 'not dying'.

[2] The idea that living is meant in the internal sense by 'going' will seem strange to one who does not know anything about spiritual life. But much the same is involved here as with the expression 'travelling on', namely an ordered life and a further stage of life, 1293, 4375, 4554, 4585; receiving instruction and leading a life in keeping with it, 1463, 2025, 3672. The reason why 'going', 'travelling on', and 'sojourning' have these meanings can, it is true, be stated; yet it is the kind of reason that makes little sense to those who have no knowledge of the exact nature of people's movements in the next life. Moving about and advancements made by people there are nothing else, since they have no other origin, than changes in their states of life. Such changes present themselves in outward actions as nothing other than advances from one place to another. The truth of this has been proved to me from many an experience I have had in the next life. In my spirit I have walked with and among those there, and have moved through their many dwelling-places; and I have done so even though my body remained all the time in the same place. I have talked to them about how this could be so and have learned that changes in their states of life are what constitute the advances people make in the spiritual world.

[3] The same has also been proved to me by the fact that spirits are able, through changes of state that are effected, to be somewhere high up and then in an instant somewhere deep down, or to be far away in the west and then in an instant in the east, and so on. But, as stated, this is bound to seem strange to someone who does not know anything about life in the spiritual world. For in that world no intervals of space or of time exist, but states of life instead of these. Such states produce externally a visible scene with all the appearance of life involving advances and movement. The scene that appears is so vivid and real that it is an appearance of life itself; that is to say, the appearance is that life exists inherently within us, and so is essentially our own, when in actual fact life flows into us from the Lord, the source from which all life involves much the same, namely and the expression 'sojourning springs, see 2021, 2658, 2706, 2886-2888, 3001, 3318, 3337, 3338, 3484, 3619, 3741-3743, 4151, 4249, 4318-4320, 4417, 4523, 4524, 4882. Because 'going' and 'moving' mean living, the ancients had the saying, In God we move, and live, and have our being. By 'moving' they meant the external degree of life, by 'living' the internal degree, and by 'having one's being' the inmost degree.

  
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