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Ezequiel 4

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1 Tu pois, ó filho do homem, toma um tijolo, e pô-lo-ás diante de ti, e grava nele uma cidade, a cidade de Jerusalém;

2 e põe contra ela um cerco, e edifica contra ela uma fortificação, e levanta contra ela uma tranqueira; e coloca contra ela arraiais, e põe-lhe aríetes em redor.

3 Toma também uma sertã de ferro, e põe-na por muro de ferro entre ti e a cidade; e olha para a cidade, e ela será cercada, e tu a cercarás; isso servirá de sinal para a casa de Israel.

4 Tu também deita-te sobre o teu lado esquerdo, e põe sobre ele a iniqüidade da casa de Israel; conforme o número dos dias em que te deitares sobre ele, levarás a sua iniqüidade.

5 Pois eu fixei os anos da sua iniqüidade, para que eles te sejam contados em dias, trezentos e noventa dias; assim levarás a iniqüidade da casa de Israel.

6 E quando tiveres cumprido estes dias, deitar-te-ás sobre o teu lado direito, e levarás a iniqüidade da casa de Judá; quarenta dias te dei, cada dia por um ano.

7 Dirigirás, pois, o teu rosto para o cerco de Jerusalém, com o teu braço descoberto; e profetizarás contra ela.

8 E eis que porei sobre ti cordas; assim tu não te voltarás dum lado para o outro, até que tenhas cumprido os dias de teu cerco:

9 E tu toma trigo, e cevada, e favas, e lentilhas, e milho miúdo, e espelta, e mete-os numa só vasilha, e deles faze pão. Conforme o número dos dias que te deitares sobre o teu lado, trezentos e noventa dias, comerás disso.

10 E a tua comida, que hás de comer, será por peso, vinte siclos cada dia; de tempo em tempo a comerás.

11 Também beberás a água por medida, a sexta parte dum him; de tempo em tempo beberás.

12 Tu a comerás como bolos de cevada, e à vista deles a assarás sobre o excremento humano.

13 E disse o Senhor: Assim comerão os filhos de Israel o seu pão imundo, entre as nações, para onde eu os lançarei.

14 Então disse eu: Ah Senhor Deus! eis que a minha alma não foi contaminada: pois desde a minha mocidade até agora jamais comi do animal que morre de si mesmo, ou que é dilacerado por feras; nem carne abominável entrou na minha boca.

15 Então me disse: Vê, eu te dou esterco de bois em lugar de excremento de homem; e sobre ele prepararás o teu pão,

16 Disse-me mais: Filho do homem, eis que quebrarei o báculo de pão em Jerusalém; e comerão o pão por peso, e com ansiedade; e beberão a água por medida, e com espanto;

17 até que lhes falte o pão e a água, e se espantem uns com os outros, e se definhem na sua iniqüidade.

   

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True Christian Religion #296

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296. Everyone sins against this first commandment if he acknowledges and worships any God other than the Lord, the Saviour, Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah God Himself in human form. In much the same way do those too who convince themselves of the actual existence from eternity of three Divine persons. The more these people convince themselves of that erroneous belief, the more do they become natural and immersed in the body, until they are unable to grasp inwardly any Divine truth, and even if they do hear one and accept it, they besmirch it and smother it in fallacies. They can, therefore, be compared to those who live on the bottom floor or in the basement of a building, and so cannot hear anything of the conversation of those who live on the second or third floors, since the ceilings overhead prevent the sound penetrating.

[2] The human mind resembles a building with three floors; the lowest is occupied by those who have convinced themselves of three Gods from eternity, the second and third floors by those who acknowledge and believe in one God in visible human form, and in Him as the Lord God the Saviour. The person who relies on the senses and is immersed in the body, being purely natural, is, regarded in himself, a mere animal, differing from other animals only in being able to talk and reason. So he is like someone living in a zoo containing wild animals of every sort, and there he sometimes acts the part of a lion, sometimes a bear, sometimes a tiger, leopard or wolf; indeed, he can even act the part of a sheep, but if he does so, he is at heart laughing.

[3] A purely natural person cannot form any concept of Divine truths except from worldly ideas, which are subject to the fallacies of the senses, since he cannot lift his mind above that level. His doctrine of faith then may be compared to a porridge made of bran, which he eats as if it were a delicacy. It is also like the command given to the prophet Ezekiel, to mix together wheat, barley, beans, lentils, and spelt with human or cow-dung, and to make himself bread and cakes, so as to represent the church as it was in the case of the Israelite nation (Ezekiel 4:9ff). So it is with the doctrine of a church which is founded and built upon a belief in three Divine persons from eternity, each of whom is separately God.

[4] Could anyone fail to see how monstrous this faith is, if it were presented to the eye in its true colours in a picture? If, for instance, the three persons stood in a row, the first dignified with a crown and sceptre, the second holding in his right hand a book (the Word), and in his left a blood-stained cross made of gold; and the third equipped with wings, and standing on one foot as if about to take off and go into action; and a label written over the picture 'These three persons or three gods are one God.' Any wise person seeing this picture would say to himself 'Oh dear, what a delusion!' But he would say something very different, if he saw a picture of one Divine person with rays of heavenly light around his head, with the label: 'This is our God, at once Creator, Redeemer and Regenerator, and so Saviour.' Would not a wise man kiss such a picture and take it home in his pocket, so that his own mind, and those of his wife, children and household, might take pleasure in looking at it?

  
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Ezekiel 4

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1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

   

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