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1 ထာဝရဘုရား၏ဗျာဒိတ် နှုတ်ကပတ်တော်သည် ဟာဒရက်ပြည်နှင့် ဒမာသက်မြို့၌ သင့်ရောက်ပေ၏။ ထာဝရဘုရားသည် လူမျိုးကို၎င်း၊ ဣသရေလအမျိုး အနွှယ်အပေါင်းတို့ကို၎င်း ကြည့်ရှုလျက် ရှိတော်မူ၏။

2 ထိုပြည်နှင့် နီးစပ်သော ဟာမတ်ပြည်၌၎င်း၊ တုရုမြို့သည် လိမ္မာသောကြောင့် ထိုမြို့နှင့် ဇိဒုန်မြို့၌၎င်း သင့်ရောက်ပေ၏။

3 တုရုမြို့သည် မိမိအဘို့ ရဲတိုက်ကို တည်ဆောက် ၍၊ ငွေကို မြေမှုန့်ကဲ့သို့၎င်း၊ ရွှေစင်ကိုလမ်း၌ရှိသော ရွံ့ ကဲ့သို့၎င်း စုပုံသော်လည်း၊

4 ထာဝရဘုရားသည် သူတပါးလက်သို့ သူ့ကိုအပ် ၍၊ သူ့ခွန်အားကို ပင်လယ်ထဲသို့ ချတော်မူသဖြင့်၊ မြို့ သည် မီးဖြင့် ကျွမ်းလောင်လိမ့်မည်

5 ထိုအမှုကို အာရှကေလုန်မြို့သည် မြင်၍ ကြောက်လိမ့်မည်။ ဂါဇမြို့သည် မြင်၍ အလွန်တုန်လှုပ် လိမ့်မည်။ ဧကြုန်မြို့လည်း မြော်လင့်၍ အရှက်ကွဲသော ကြောင့် ထိုအတူဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်။ ဂါဇမင်းကြီးသည် ဆုံးလိမ့် မည်။ အာရှကေလုန်မြို့သည်လည်း အစိုးမရ။

6 အာဇုတ်မြို့၌ တကျွန်းတနိုင်ငံသားတို့သည် နေကြလိမ့်မည်။ ဖိလိတ္တိအမျိုး၏ မာနကိုလည်း ငါချိုးဖဲ့ မည်။

7 သူစားသော အသွေးကို သူ၏ပစပ်ထဲမှ၎င်း၊ သူကိုက်သော ရွံ့ရှာဘွယ်တို့ကို သူ၏သွားကြားမှ၎င်း ငါနှုတ်ပယ်မည်။ ကျန်ကြွင်းသောသူသည်လည်း ငါတို့ ဘုရားသခင်အဘို့ ကျန်ကြွင်း၍၊ ယုဒပြည်၌ မင်းကဲ့သို့ နေလိမ့်မည်။ ဧကြုန်မြို့သားလည်း ယေဗုသိလူကဲ့သို့ ဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်။

8 အဘယ်ရန်သူမျှ မထွက်မဝင်စေခြင်းငှါ၊ ငါ့အိမ် တော်ပတ်လည်၌ တပ်ချမည်။ ညှဉ်းဆဲသောသူသည် ငါ့ လူတို့ကို နောက်တဖန် မနှိပ်နင်းရ။ အကြောင်းမူကား၊ ငါသည် ယခု ကိုယ်တိုင်ကြည့်၍ မြင်ပြီ။

9 အိုဇိအုန်သတို့သမီး၊ အလွန်ဝမ်းမြောက်လော့။ အိုယေရုရှလင်မြို့သတို့သမီး၊ ကြွေးကြော်ကြလော့။ တရားသဖြင့် စီရင်၍ ကယ်တင်ခြင်းသို့ ရောက်သော သခင်၊ သင်၏အရှင်မင်းကြီးသည် မြည်းမနှင့် မြည်း ကလေးကို စီး၍ နူးညံ့သိမ်မွေ့သော စိတ်နှင့် သင်ရှိရာသို့ ကြွလာတော်မူသည်ကို ကြည့်ရှုလော့။

10 ငါသည် ဧဖရိမ်ပြည်၌ ရထားကို၎င်း၊ ယေရု ရှလင်မြို့၌ မြင်းကို၎င်း ပယ်ဖြတ်မည်။ စစ်လေးကိုလည်း ပယ်ဖြတ်မည်။ တပါးအမျိုးသားတို့သည် စစ်ငြိမ်းမည် အကြောင်းကို ထိုအရှင်သည် မိန့်တော်မူမည်။ အာဏာ တော်လည်း ပင်လယ်တပါးမှသည် ပင်လယ်တပါးတိုင် အောင်၎င်း၊ မြစ်မှသည် မြေကြီးစွန်းတိုင်အောင်၎င်း တည်လိမ့်မည်။

11 သင်၏အမှုမူကား၊ ချုပ်ထားလျက်ရှိသော သင် ၏လူတို့ကို၊ ရေမရှိသော မြေတွင်းထဲက၊ သင်နှင့် ဖွဲ့သော ပဋိညာဉ်အသွေးကြောင့် ငါကယ်လွှတ်မည်။

12 အချုပ်ခံ၍ မြော်လင့်သော သူတို့၊ ရဲတိုက်သို့ ပြန်လာကြလော့။ ငါသည် နှစ်ဆသော ကျေးဇူးကို ပြုဦး မည်ဟု ယနေ့ပင် ပြောထား၏။

13 ယုဒလေးကို ငါတင်၍၊ ဧဖရိမ်လေးကို ဆွဲငင် လျက်၊ ဇိအုန်သားတို့ကို ဟေလသသားတို့တဘက်၌ နှိုး ဆော်၍၊ သင့်ကို သူရဲ၏ထားကဲ့သို့ ဖြစ်စေမည်။

14 ထာဝရဘုရားသည် သူတို့အပေါ်မှာ ထင်ရှား တော်မူ၍၊ မြှားတော်သည် လျှပ်စစ်ပြက်သကဲ့သို့ ပြေး လိမ့်မည်။ အရှင်ထာဝရဘုရားသခင်သည် တံပိုးမှုတ်၍၊ တောင်လေဘွေတို့နှင့် ကြွသွားတော်မူလိမ့်မည်။

15 ကောင်းကင်ဗိုလ်ခြေအရှင် ထာဝရဘုရားသည် သူတို့ကို ကွယ်ကာတော်မူသဖြင့်၊ သူတို့သည် ကိုက်စား၍ လက်လွှဲကျောက်တို့ကို ကျော်နင်းကြလိမ့်မည်။ သောက်ပြီး လျှင်၊ စပျစ်ရည်နှင့် ဝသကဲ့သို့ ကြွေးကြော်ကြလိမ့်မည်။ အင်တုံကဲ့သို့၎င်း၊ ယဇ်ပလ္လင်ထောင့်ကဲ့သို့၎င်း ပြည့်ဝကြ လိမ့်မည်။

16 ထိုနေ့၌ သူတို့၏ဘုရားသခင် ထာဝရဘုရား သည် မိမိလူတို့ကို သိုးစုကဲ့သို့ ကယ်တင်တော်မူလိမ့်မည်။ သူတို့သည် မြေတော်၌ ထင်ရှားသော သရဖူမျက်မွန်ကဲ့သို့ ဖြစ်ကြလိမ့်မည်။

17 ကျေးဇူးတော်သည် အလွန်ကြီးစွတကား။ ဂုဏ် အသရေတော်လည်း အလွန်ကြီးစွတကား။ ဆန်စပါးသည် လုလင်တို့ကို၎င်း၊ စပျစ်ရည်သစ်သည် အပျိုမတို့ကို၎င်း တိုးပွားများပြားစေလိမ့်မည်။

   

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298. And I looked, and behold, a white horse. (6:2) This symbolizes an understanding of truth and goodness from the Word among those people.

A horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word, and a white horse an understanding of truth from the Word. For the color white is predicated of truths (no. 167).

That a horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word is something we showed in a separate short work titled The White Horse. But because we cited only some passages there, we will present more here by way of confirmation. The reality of it is clearly apparent from the fact that horses were seen to go forth from the book which the Lamb opened, and that the living creatures said, "Come and see." For the living creatures symbolize the Word (nos. 239, 275, 286). So, too, does the book (no. 256). And the Son of Man, who here is the Lamb, is the Lord in relation to the Word (no. 44).

It is apparent from this, first, that nothing else is meant here by the horse than an understanding of the Word. This can be still more clearly seen from this later description in the book of Revelation:

I saw heaven opened, when behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called... The Word of God... And He has on His garment and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS... And His armies in heaven... followed Him on white horses. (Revelation 19:11, 13-14, 16)

[2] That a horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word can be further seen from the following passages:

O Jehovah..., is Your wrath against the sea, that You ride on Your horses, Your chariots of salvation? ...You trampled the sea with your horses, the mud of many waters. (Habakkuk 3:8, 15)

The hooves of Jehovah's horses are regarded as rocks... (Isaiah 5:28)

On that day... I will strike every horse with stupor, and its rider with madness...; and I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. (Zechariah 12:4)

On that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, "Holiness to Jehovah." (Zechariah 14:20)

Because God has made her forget wisdom, and did not impart to her understanding. When she lifts herself on high, she scorns the horse and its rider. (Job 39:17-18, and following verses)

I will cut off... the horse from Jerusalem... Rather He shall speak peace to the nations. (Zechariah 9:10)

At Your rebuke, (O Jehovah,) both the chariot and horse fell asleep. (Psalms 76:6)

I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms... and I will overthrow the chariots and those who ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down... (Haggai 2:22)

With you I will disperse... kingdoms; with you I will disperse the horse and its rider. (Jeremiah 51:20-21)

Assemble yourselves... from round about to My sacrifice... You will be satisfied at My table with horses and riders... (Thus) I will set My glory among the nations. (Ezekiel 39:17, 20-21)

...gather together for the great supper of God, (and) you (will) eat... the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them... (Revelation 19:17-18)

Dan shall be... a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that its rider falls backward. I have waited for your salvation, O Jehovah! (Genesis 49:17-18)

Gird Your sword..., O Mighty One... Mount up..., ride upon the Word of truth... (Psalms 45:3-4)

Sing to God...; extol Him who rides on the clouds... (Psalms 68:4)

Behold, Jehovah is riding on a... cloud... (Isaiah 19:1)

Sing praises to the Lord..., to Him who rides on the heaven of the heaven of old...! (Psalms 68:32-33)

(God) rode upon a cherub... (Psalms 18:10)

Then you shall delight yourself in Jehovah; and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the earth... (Isaiah 58:14)

Jehovah alone led him... (And) He made him ride in the heights of the earth... (Deuteronomy 32:12-13)

I will make Ephraim ride. (Hosea 10:11)

Ephraim also symbolizes an understanding of the Word.

[3] Since Elijah and Elisha represented the Lord in relation to the Word, therefore they were called the chariot of Israel and his horsemen. Elisha said to Elijah,

"My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" (2 Kings 2:12)

And Joash said to Elisha,

"O my father..., the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" (2 Kings 13:14)

Jehovah opened the eyes of (Elisha's) servant, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. (2 Kings 6:17)

A chariot symbolizes doctrine from the Word, and a horseman one who is wise as a result of it.

The following have similar symbolic meanings: The four chariots coming from between the bronze mountains in Zechariah, and the four horses harnessed to them, which were red, black, white, and dappled, called also four spirits, and said to go out from their station before the Lord of all the earth (Zechariah 6:1-8, 15). Horses in these places symbolize an understanding of the Word, or an understanding of truth from the Word. So, too, in other places.

[4] This can be further seen from horses mentioned in an opposite sense, in which they symbolize an understanding of the Word or of truth falsified by reasonings, and also extinguished, and likewise a person's own intelligence, as in the following passages:

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses..., and do not look to the Holy One of Israel... Egypt is man and not God, and its horses are flesh and not spirit. (Isaiah 31:1, 3)

You shall... set a king over (Israel) whom Jehovah... chooses... Only let him not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses. (Deuteronomy 17:15-16)

These statements are made because Egypt symbolizes knowledge and reasoning springing from a person's own intelligence, the result of which is a falsification of the Word's truth, which is the meaning of horses here.

Assyria shall not save us. We will not ride on a horse... (Hosea 14:3)

Some glory in chariots, and some in horses; but we will glory in the name of... our God. (Psalms 20:7)

A horse is a false means for safety. (Psalms 33:17)

(Jehovah) does not delight in the strength of the horse. (Psalms 147:10)

...thus says... the Holy One of Israel: ."..In... confidence shall be your strength." But... you said, "No..., ...we will flee on a horse...." And, "We will ride on a swift horse." (Isaiah 30:15-16)

...Jehovah... will make (Judah) as a glorious horse... ...the riders on horses shall be put to shame. (Zechariah 10:3, 5)

Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies... ...and the neighing horse, and the jolting chariot... The horseman causing to ascend... (Nahum 3:1-4)

...I will bring against Tyre... the king of Babylon..., with horses, with chariots, and with horsemen... Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen... and the chariots... With the hooves of his horses he will trample all your streets. (Ezekiel 26:7-11)

Tyre symbolizes the church in respect to its concepts of truth, in this case these concepts falsified in it, which are the horses of Babylon. And so on in other places, as in Isaiah 5:28; Ezekiel 17:15; 23:6, 20; Habakkuk 1:6, 8-10; Psalms 66:12.

An understanding of the Word extinguished is symbolized also by the horses, fiery red, black and pale, in the verses that now follow.

To be shown that a horse symbolizes an understanding of truth from the Word owing to appearances in the spiritual world, see my small book titled The White Horse.

  
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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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1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.

2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.

3 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

4 The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.

5 Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

6 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.

7 Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

10 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

11 He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

13 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door.

14 He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts, around the gate.

15 [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

16 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.

17 Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were rooms and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty rooms were on the pavement.

18 The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.

20 The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured its length and its breadth.

21 The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

22 The windows of it, and its arches, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before them.

23 There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits.

24 He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures.

25 There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

26 There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.

27 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.

28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

29 and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.

30 There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad.

31 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

32 He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;

33 and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.

34 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

35 He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;

36 its lodges, its posts, and its arches: and there were windows therein all around; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

37 The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

38 A room with its door was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.

39 In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

40 On the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.

41 Four tables were on this side, and Four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed [the sacrifices].

42 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

43 The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within all around: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

44 Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.

45 He said to me, This room, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house;

46 and the room whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.

47 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.

48 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.