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Ezekielis 23

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1 Viešpats kalbėjo man:

2 “Žmogaus sūnau, buvo dvi moterys, vienos motinos dukterys.

3 Jos paleistuvavo jau savo jaunystėje Egipte.

4 Vyresnioji buvo vardu Ohola ir jos sesuo Oholiba. Jos buvo mano ir pagimdė sūnų bei dukterų. Ohola­tai Samarija, o Oholiba­tai Jeruzalė.

5 Ohola buvo man neištikima. Ji geidė savo meilužių, kaimynystėje gyvenančių asirų.

6 Jie buvo apsirengę mėlynai, vadai ir kunigaikščiai, jauni, gražūs vyrai, raiteliai, jojantys ant savo žirgų.

7 Ji paleistuvavo su jais, su rinktiniais asirais ir visais, kurių ji geidė. Jų stabais ji suteršė save.

8 Ji nesiliovė paleistuvavusi ir su egiptiečiais, savo jaunystės meilužiais.

9 Todėl Aš atidaviau ją jos meilužiams asirams, kurių ji geidė.

10 Jie atidengė jos nuogumą, paėmė jos sūnus bei dukteris, o ją pačią nužudė kardu. Ji tapo priežodis tarp moterų, kai jie įvykdė jai teismą.

11 Jos sesuo Oholiba visa tai matė, tačiau gašlumu ir paleistuvystėmis pralenkė net savo seserį.

12 Ji geidė savo kaimynų asirų, vadų ir kunigaikščių, išsipusčiusių raitelių, gražių, jaunų vyrų.

13 Aš mačiau, kad ji suteršė save; jos abi ėjo vienu keliu.

14 Ji daugino savo paleistuvystes, nes kai pamatė sienoje nupieštus vyrų paveikslus, raudona spalva nupieštus atvaizdus chaldėjų,

15 susijuosusių strėnas diržais, ant galvų užsidėjusių margus turbanus, atrodančių kaip Babilono kunigaikščiai, kilę iš Chaldėjos,

16 ji ėmė geisti jų ir siuntė pasiuntinių į Chaldėją.

17 Babiloniečiai atėjo į jos meilės guolį ir suteršė ją savo paleistuvystėmis. Suteršta ji pasitraukė nuo jų.

18 Ji neslėpė savo paleistuvysčių ir atidengė savo nuogumą. Tada Aš pasitraukiau nuo jos, kaip buvau pasitraukęs nuo jos sesers.

19 Bet ji daugino savo paleistuvystes, prisimindama jaunystės dienas, kai ji buvo paleistuvė Egipto žemėje.

20 Ji geidė savo meilužių, kurių kūnai kaip asilų kūnai ir sėklos plūdimas kaip arklių.

21 Tu prisiminei savo jaunystės ištvirkimą, kai egiptiečiai glamonėjo tavo jaunas krūtis.

22 Todėl, Oholiba, taip sako Viešpats Dievas: ‘Aš pakelsiu prieš tave tavo meilužius, nuo kurių tu nusisukai, ir atvesiu juos prieš tave iš visų pusių:

23 babiloniečius, chaldėjus, Pekodą, Šoją, Koją ir asirus­gražius, jaunus vyrus, vadus ir kunigaikščius, valdytojus ir žymius žmones, visus raitus ant žirgų.

24 Daugybė ginkluotų pulkų ateis su kovos vežimais ir žirgais, apstatys tave iš visų pusių didžiaisiais ir mažaisiais skydais bei šalmais. Aš atiduosiu tave jų teismui. Jie teis tave pagal savo nuostatus.

25 Aš nukreipsiu prieš tave savo pavydą, ir jie žiauriai pasielgs su tavimi: nupjaus tau nosį bei ausis, likusius išžudys kardu, išplėš tavo sūnus bei dukteris ir sudegins, kas liks.

26 Jie nuplėš tau drabužius ir atims brangenybes.

27 Taip aš padarysiu galą tavo ištvirkavimui su egiptiečiais. Tu nebenorėsi daugiau egiptiečių nei matyti, nei jų prisiminti.

28 Aš atiduosiu tave į rankas tų, kurių tu nekenti, nuo kurių tu pasitraukei.

29 Jie pasielgs su tavimi labai žiauriai, išplėš visą turtą ir paliks tave pliką bei nuogą. Taip bus apnuogintas tavo pasileidimas ir ištvirkavimas.

30 Tai padarysiu tau dėl tavo paleistuvavimo su tautomis, kurių stabais tu susitepei.

31 Tu ėjai savo sesers keliu, todėl jos taurę įduosiu į tavo rankas.

32 Tu gersi savo sesers taurę, gilią ir didelę, iš tavęs tyčiosis ir niekins tave, nes joje daug telpa.

33 Tu pasigersi ir būsi pilna skausmų. Taurė skausmo ir naikinimo, tavo sesers Samarijos taurė.

34 Išgersi ją iki dugno, šukes nulaižysi ir draskysi savo krūtis, nes Aš tai pasakiau,­sako Viešpats Dievas.­

35 Kadangi mane užmiršai ir atgręžei man nugarą, tai kentėk už savo ištvirkavimą ir paleistuvystę’ ”.

36 Viešpats sakė man: “Žmogaus sūnau, ar tu neteisi Oholos ir Oholibos? Primink joms jų bjaurystes!

37 Jos svetimavo ir savo rankas sutepė nekaltu krauju. Jos svetimavo su stabais ir aukojo jiems vaikus, kuriuos man pagimdė!

38 Tą pačią dieną jos sutepė mano šventyklą ir nesilaikė sabatų.

39 Tą pačią dieną, kai jos aukojo vaikus stabams, jos ėjo į mano šventyklą ir tuo sutepė ją.

40 Be to, tu siuntei pasiuntinius ir kvietei vyrus iš toli. Dėl jų prauseisi, dažeisi akis ir puošeisi brangenybėmis.

41 Atsisėdai ant brangaus gulto; padengei stalus, ant jų padėjai mano smilkalų ir aliejaus.

42 Nerūpestingos minios balsai buvo girdimi joje, ir kartu su žmonėmis iš minios buvo atvesti sebiečiai iš dykumos, kurie dėjo apyrankes ant jų rankų ir puošnias karūnas ant jų galvų.

43 Tada tariau apie tą seną svetimautoją: ‘Ar jie ir dabar paleistuvaus su ja?’

44 Bet jie eidavo pas ją, kaip įeinama pas paleistuvę. Taip jie įeidavo pas Oholą ir Oholibą, gašlias moteris.

45 Bet teisūs vyrai teis jas kaip svetimautojas ir žudikes, nes jos svetimavo ir kraujas yra ant jų rankų.

46 Nes taip sako Viešpats: ‘Ar atvesiu prieš jas minią ir atiduosiu jas sunaikinti ir apiplėšti.

47 Minia užmuš jas akmenimis ir sukapos kardu, jų sūnus ir dukteris nužudys ir jų namus sudegins.

48 Taip Aš padarysiu galą paleistuvystei krašte, kad visos moterys pasimokytų ir neištvirkautų kaip jūs.

49 Jūsų paleistuvystė kris ant jūsų galvų, jūs kentėsite už nuodėmes su savo stabais. Tada žinosite, kad Aš esu Viešpats Dievas’ ”.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #503

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503. We will now say what Egypt symbolizes in the Word: Egypt symbolizes the natural self joined to the spiritual self, and its affection for truth then and consequent knowledge and intelligence. And in an opposite sense it symbolizes the natural self divorced from the spiritual self, and its conceit in its own intelligence then and consequent irrationality in spiritual matters.

Egypt symbolizes the natural self joined to the spiritual self, and its affection for truth then and consequent knowledge and intelligence, in the following passages:

In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt... swearing an oath to Jehovah of Hosts... In that day there will be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt... Then Jehovah will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day... (Isaiah 19:18-21)

In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, so that the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria - a blessing in the midst of the land, whom Jehovah of Hosts shall bless, saying, "Blessed is My people Egypt, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance." (Isaiah 19:23-25)

Egypt there is the natural component, Assyria the rational one, and Israel the spiritual one. These three form a person of the church.

That is why the king of Egypt is called "the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings," and Egypt is called "the cornerstone of (the) tribes." (Isaiah 19:11, 13) And regarding Solomon we are told that his wisdom excelled the wisdom of the Egyptians (1 Kings 4:30). We are also told that he "took Pharaoh's daughter as a wife, and brought her into the city of David" (1 Kings 3:1), and that he "built a house for Pharaoh's daughter next to the porch" (1 Kings 7:8).

[2] For this reason Joseph was carried down into Egypt and there became the ruler of the whole land (Genesis 41).

Since Egypt symbolized the natural self in respect to its affection for truth and consequent knowledge and intelligence, therefore Joseph, the husband of Mary, having been warned by an angel, went with the infant Lord into Egypt (Matthew 2:14-15), in fulfillment of the prophecy,

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son. (Hosea 11:1)

You caused a vine to come out of Egypt; You... planted it... and caused it to send forth its roots... (Psalms 80:8-9)

For a person is born natural, becomes rational, and later spiritual. Thus is a vine from Egypt planted and caused to take root.

For the sake of this representation, moreover, Abraham sojourned in Egypt (Genesis 12:10ff.). And Jacob was commanded to go with his sons into Egypt, and they also abode there (Genesis 46ff.).

So, too, the land of Canaan, which symbolizes the church, is described to extend "even to the river of Egypt" (Genesis 15:18, 1 Kings 4:21, Micah 7:12). And Egypt is compared to the Garden of Eden, the garden of God (Ezekiel 31:2, 8, Genesis 13:10).

The knowledge of the natural self is also called "the precious things of Egypt" (Daniel 11:43), and "fine embroidered linen from Egypt" (Ezekiel 27:7).

And so on elsewhere where Egypt is spoken of affirmatively, as in Isaiah 27:12-13.

[3] On the other hand, in an opposite sense Egypt symbolizes the natural self divorced from the spiritual self, and its conceit in its own intelligence then and consequent irrationality in spiritual matters, in the following places:

Because...(Pharaoh's) heart was lifted up in its height, and it set its top among the thick boughs..., aliens... will cut him off and cast him down... In the day when he went down to hell..., I covered the deep over him...(and) you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised... (Ezekiel 31:10-18)

...the foundations (of Egypt) shall be overthrown... ...the pride of her power shall come down... ...and shall be laid waste... her cities... in the midst of the desolate cities... I will set fire to Egypt..., and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and scatter them throughout the lands. (Ezekiel 30:1ff.)

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help..., and do not look to the Holy One of Israel... For the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. (Isaiah 31:1, 3)

Egypt rises up like a flood... He says, "I will go up, I will cover the earth, (and) I will destroy... Come up, O horses, and rage, O chariots! ...The sword shall devour (you), and be... made drunk with blood...; there is no healing for you. (Jeremiah 46:2, 8-11)

How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, and the son of ancient kings?" Where are your wise men now? ...let them know... The princes of Zoan have become fools...; they have led Egypt astray..., the cornerstone of (the) tribes... Neither will there be any work for Egypt, which may form the head or the tail... (Isaiah 19:1-17)

...prophesy against... Egypt..., O great whale who lie in the midst of your rivers. Because he said, "My river, and I have made myself," (therefore) I will put hooks in your jaws, and cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales... And I will leave you in the wilderness... Therefore... the land of Egypt shall become desolate and waste. (Ezekiel 29:1-12)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 30:1, 2, 7; 2 Kings 18:21.

[4] Since the Egyptians became of such a character, therefore they were rendered desolate as regards all the goods and truths of the church. Their desolations are described by the miracles done there, which were plagues, and these symbolized the many lusts of the natural self divorced from the spiritual self, a natural self which acts only in accordance with its own intelligence and its conceit. The plagues symbolic of its lusts were these:

That the water in the river turned to blood so that the fish died and the river stank. (Exodus 7)

That the streams and ponds brought forth frogs upon the land of Egypt. That the dust of the ground turned into lice. That a swarm of noxious flying insects was sent. (Exodus 8)

[That a pestilence occurred so that the livestock of Egypt died.] That sores were caused to break out with pustules on man and beast. That a downpour of hail mixed with fire rained down. (Exodus 9)

That locusts were sent. That darkness occurred through all the land of Egypt. (Exodus 10).

That all the firstborn in the land of Egypt died. (Exodus 11,12)

And finally, that the Egyptians were drowned in the Red Sea (Exodus 14), which symbolizes hell.

To find what all these things symbolize specifically, see Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), published in London, where they are explained.

It is apparent from this what is symbolically meant by the plagues and diseases of Egypt in Deuteronomy 7:15; 28:60; what is symbolically meant by drowning in the river of Egypt in Amos 8:8; 9:5; and why it is that Egypt is called a land of bondage in Micah 6:4, the land of Ham in Psalms 106:22, and an iron furnace in Deuteronomy 4:20, 1 Kings 8:51.

[5] The reason Egypt symbolizes both intelligence and irrationality in spiritual matters was that the Ancient Church, which extended through many kingdoms in Asia, existed also in Egypt, and at that time the Egyptians, more than any others, cultivated a study of the correspondences between spiritual and natural things, as is apparent from the hieroglyphs there. But when that study among them was turned into magic and became idolatrous, then their intelligence in spiritual matters became irrational. Egypt symbolizes this, therefore, in an opposite sense.

It can be seen from this what the great city means, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Genesis 46

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1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."

3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."

5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,

7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.

8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

23 The son of Dan: Hushim.

24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?'

34 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

   

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