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1 Слово, которое было от Господа к Иеремии в десятый год Седекии, царя Иудейского; этот год был восемнадцатым годом Навуходоносора.

2 Тогда войско царя Вавилонского осаждало Иерусалим, и Иеремия пророк был заключен во дворе стражи, который был при доме царя Иудейского.

3 Седекия, царь Иудейский, заключил его туда, сказав: „зачем ты пророчествуешь и говоришь: так говорит Господь: вот, Я отдаю город сей вруки царя Вавилонского, и он возьмет его;

4 и Седекия, царь Иудейский, не избегнет от рук Халдеев, но непременно предан будет в руки царя Вавилонского, и будет говорить с ним устами к устам, и глаза его увидят глаза его;

5 и он отведет Седекию в Вавилон, где он и будет, доколе не посещу его, говорит Господь. Если вы будете воевать с Халдеями, то не будете иметь успеха?"

6 И сказал Иеремия: таково было ко мне слово Господне:

7 вот Анамеил, сын Саллума, дяди твоего, идет к тебе сказать: „купи себе поле мое, которое в Анафофе, потому что по праву родства тебе надлежит купить его".

8 И Анамеил, сын дяди моего, пришел ко мне, по слову Господню, во двор стражи и сказал мне: „купи поле мое, которое в Анафофе, в земле Вениаминовой, ибо право наследства твое и право выкупа твое; купи себе". Тогда я узнал, что это было слово Господне.

9 И купил я поле у Анамеила, сына дяди моего, которое в Анафофе, и отвесил ему семь сиклей серебра и десять сребренников;

10 и записал в книгу и запечатал ее, и пригласил к тому свидетелей иотвесил серебро на весах.

11 И взял я купчую запись, как запечатанную по закону и уставу, таки открытую;

12 и отдал эту купчую запись Варуху, сыну Нирии, сына Маасеи, в глазах Анамеила, сына дяди моего, и в глазах свидетелей, подписавших эту купчую запись, в глазах всех Иудеев, сидевших на дворе стражи;

13 и заповедал Варуху в присутствии их:

14 так говорит Господь Саваоф, Бог Израилев: возьми сии записи, эту купчую запись, которая запечатана, и эту запись открытую, и положи их в глиняный сосуд, чтобы они оставались там многие дни.

15 Ибо так говорит Господь Саваоф, Бог Израилев: домы и поля ивиноградники будут снова покупаемы в земле сей.

16 И, передав купчую запись Варуху, сыну Нирии, я помолился Господу:

17 „о, Господи Боже! Ты сотворил небо и землю великою силою Твоею и простертою мышцею; для Тебя ничего нет невозможного;

18 Ты являешь милость тысячам и за беззаконие отцов воздаешь в недро детям их после них: Боже великий, сильный, Которому имя Господь Саваоф!

19 Великий в совете и сильный в делах, Которого очи отверсты на все пути сынов человеческих, чтобы воздавать каждому по путям его и по плодам дел его,

20 Который совершил чудеса и знамения в земле Египетской, и совершаешь до сего дня и в Израиле и между всеми людьми, и соделал Себе имя, как в сей день,

21 и вывел народ Твой Израиля из земли Египетской знамениями и чудесами, и рукою сильною и мышцею простертою, при великом ужасе,

22 и дал им землю сию, которую дать им клятвенно обещал отцам их, землю, текущую молоком и медом.

23 Они вошли и завладели ею, но не стали слушать гласа Твоего и поступать по закону Твоему, не стали делать того, что Ты заповедал им делать, и за то Ты навел на них все это бедствие.

24 Вот, насыпи достигают до города, чтобы взять его; и город от мечаи голода и моровой язвы отдается в руки Халдеев, воюющих против него; что Ты говорил, то и исполняется, и вот, Ты видишь это.

25 А Ты, Господи Боже, сказал мне: „купи себе поле за серебро и пригласи свидетелей, тогда как город отдается в руки Халдеев".

26 И было слово Господне к Иеремии:

27 вот, Я Господь, Бог всякой плоти; есть ли что невозможное для Меня?

28 Посему так говорит Господь: вот, Я отдаю город сей в руки Халдееви в руки Навуходоносора, царя Вавилонского, и он возьмет его,

29 и войдут Халдеи, осаждающие сей город, зажгут город огнем и сожгут его и домы, на кровлях которых возносились курения Ваалу и возливаемы были возлияния чужим богам, чтобы прогневлять Меня.

30 Ибо сыновья Израилевы и сыновья Иудины только зло делали пред очами Моими от юности своей; сыновья Израилевы только прогневляли Меня делами рук своих, говорит Господь.

31 И как бы для гнева Моего и ярости Моей существовал город сей с самого дня построения его до сего дня, чтобы Я отверг его от лица Моего

32 за все зло сыновей Израиля и сыновей Иуды, какое они к прогневлению Меня делали, они, цари их, князья их, священники их и пророки их, и мужи Иуды и жители Иерусалима.

33 Они оборотились ко Мне спиною, а не лицем; и когда Я учил их, с раннего утра учил, они не хотели принять наставления,

34 и в доме, над которым наречено имя Мое, поставили мерзости свои, оскверняя его.

35 Устроили капища Ваалу в долине сыновей Енномовых, чтобы проводить через огонь сыновей своих и дочерей своих в честь Молоху, чего Я не повелевал им, и Мне на ум не приходило, чтобы они делали эту мерзость, вводя в грех Иуду.

36 И однако же ныне так говорит Господь, Бог Израилев, об этом городе, о котором вы говорите: „он предается в руки царя Вавилонского мечом и голодом и моровою язвою", –

37 вот, Я соберу их из всех стран, в которые изгнал их во гневе Моем и в ярости Моей и ввеликом негодовании, и возвращу их на место сие и дам им безопасное житие.

38 Они будут Моим народом, а Я буду им Богом.

39 И дам им одно сердце и один путь, чтобы боялись Меня во все дни жизни , ко благу своему и благу детей своих после них.

40 И заключу с ними вечный завет, по которому Я не отвращусь от них, чтобы благотворить им, и страх Мой вложу в сердца их, чтобы они не отступали от Меня.

41 И буду радоваться о них, благотворя им, и насажду их на земле сей твердо, от всего сердца Моего и от всей души Моей.

42 Ибо так говорит Господь: как Я навел на народ сей все это великое зло, так наведу на них все благо, какое Я изрек о них.

43 И будут покупать поля в земле сей, о которой вы говорите: „это пустыня, без людей и без скота; она отдана в руки Халдеям";

44 будут покупать поля за серебро и вносить в записи, и запечатывать и приглашать свидетелей – в земле Вениаминовой и вокрестностях Иерусалима, и в городах Иуды и в городах нагорных, и в городах низменныхи в городах южных; ибо возвращу плен их, говорит Господь.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9229

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9229. 'And men of holiness shall you be to Me' means a state of life then composed of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'men of holiness' as those who are led by the Lord, for the Divine which emanates from the Lord is holiness itself, 6788, 7499, 8127 (end), 8302, 8806. Consequently those who receive that emanation in faith and also in love are called holy ones. Anyone who imagines that a person is holy from any other source, or that anything present with a person is holy apart from that which comes and is received from the Lord is very much mistaken; for that which is the person's own, and is called his proprium, is evil.

The human proprium is nothing but evil, see 210, 215, 694, 874-876, 987, 1047, 4328, 5660, 5786, 8480, 8944.

To the extent that a person can be withheld from his proprium, the Lord can be present with him, and therefore to the same extent holiness resides with him, 1023, 1044, 1581, 2256, 2388, 2406, 2411, 8206, 8393, 8988 (end), 9014.

[2] The truth that the Lord is the Only Holy One, and that nothing is holy except that which emanates from the Lord, and so that which a person receives from the Lord, is evident from everywhere in the Word, as in John,

I make Myself holy, that they also may be made holy in the truth. John 17:19.

'Making Himself holy' means making Himself Divine by His own power. Consequently those who receive Divine Truth emanating from the Lord in faith and life are said to be 'made holy in the truth'.

[3] This also explains why after the Resurrection, when the Lord spoke to the disciples, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit, John 20:22. 'Breathing on (or into)' was a sign that represented the imparting of life through faith and love, as also in Genesis,

Jehovah breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man (homo) became a living soul. Genesis 2:7.

Other examples like this may be seen elsewhere, such as Psalms 33:6; 104:29-30; Job 32:8; 33:4; John 3:8. Therefore also the Word is said to be inspired because it comes from the Lord, and those who wrote the Word have been called 'inspired'. Breathing, and so breathing on or inspiring, corresponds to the life of faith, see 97, 1119, 1120, 3883-3896. This explains why the term spirit in the Word is derived from the word for wind, and holiness from the Lord is called Jehovah's wind, 8286, and why the Holy Spirit is the holiness emanating from the Lord, 3704, 4673 (end), 5307, 6788, 6982, 6993, 8127 (end), 8302, 9199.

[4] So also it says in John 1:33 that the Lord baptizes with the Holy Spirit, and in Luke 3:16 that He baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 'Baptizing' in the internal sense means regenerating, 4255, 5120 (end), 9088; 'baptizing with the Holy Spirit' means regenerating by means of the good of faith; and 'baptizing with fire' means regenerating by means of the good of love, 'fire' being the good of love, see 934, 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324. In John,

Who is not going to fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. Revelation 15:4.

In Luke the angel telling Mary about the Lord said,

That which is holy will be born from you. Luke 1:35.

And in Daniel,

I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and behold, a vigilant and holy one came down from heaven. Daniel 4:13.

In these places 'that which is holy' and 'a holy one' stand for the Lord.

[5] Because the Lord alone is holy He is called in the Old Testament the Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer, the Saviour, and the Regenerator, as in Isaiah 1:4; 5:19, 24; 10:20; 12:6; 17:7; 29:19; 30:11-12, 15; 31:1; 37:23; 41:14, 16, 20; 43:3, 14; 45:11; 47:4; 48:17; 49:7; 54:5; 55:5; 60:9, 14; Jeremiah 50:29; 51:5; Ezekiel 39:7; Psalms 71:22; 78:41; 89:18. This is why the Lord in heaven, and consequently heaven itself, is called the dwelling-place of holiness, Jeremiah 25:30; 31:23; 1 Isaiah 63:15; the sanctuary, 2 Ezekiel 11:16; 24:21; and also the mountain of holiness, Psalms 3:4. It is also why the middle of the tent [of meeting], where the ark containing the law was, was called The Holy of Holies, Exodus 26:33-34; for the law in the ark in the middle of the tent [of meeting], represented the Lord in respect of the Word. For the law is the Word, 6752, 7463.

[6] All this shows why it is that the angels are called holy in Matthew 25:31; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; Psalms 149:1; Daniel 8:13; also the prophets, Luke 1:70; and the apostles too, Revelation 18:20. Not that they are holy by their own virtue but that the Lord, who alone is holy and the only source of holiness, makes them so. For truths are meant by 'the angels', because they are those who receive truth from the Lord, 1925, 4085, 4295, 4402, 7268, 7873, 8192, 8301; teachings which present the truth that comes through the Word from the Lord are meant by 'the prophets', 2534, 7269; and all the truths and forms of the good of faith in their entirety which come from the Lord are meant by 'the apostles', 3488, 3858 (end), 6397.

[7] Consecrations 3 among the Israelite and Jewish people took place in order that the Lord who alone was holy might be represented, and in order that holiness, which He alone is the source of, might be represented. This is the reason for the consecration of Aaron and his sons, Exodus 29:1ff; Leviticus 8:10-11, 13, 30; the consecration of their garments, Exodus 29:21ff; the consecration of the altar in order that it might be most holy, 4 Exodus 29:37ff; the consecration of the tent of meeting, the ark of the Testimony, the table, all the vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering and its vessels, and the laver and its base, Exodus 30:26ff.

[8] The truth that the Lord is the real Holiness that was represented is evident also from the Lord's words in Matthew when they are seen in the internal sense,

Fools and blind! Which of the two is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold holy? And which of the two is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? Matthew 23:17-19.

'The temple' represented the Lord Himself, and so did 'the altar', while 'the gold' was a sign of the good that comes from the Lord, and 'the gift' or a sacrifice was a sign of things constituting faith and charity that come from the Lord.

The Lord was represented by 'the temple', see 2777, 3720, and by 'the altar', 2777, 2811, 4489, 8935, 8940. 'Gold' was a sign of good that comes from the Lord, 1551, 1552, 5658, and 'a sacrifice' a sign of worship springing from faith and charity that come from the Lord, 922, 923, 2805, 2807, 2830, 6905, 8680, 8682, 8936.

[9] From all this it is now evident why it is that the children of Israel were called a holy people in Deuteronomy 26:19 and elsewhere, or as in the present verse men of holiness. That is to say, they were so called because every single aspect of their worship represented Divine realities that are the Lord's, and celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom and Church. On this account they were called holy in a representative sense; they themselves were not holy on that account, because representatives had regard to the holy things that were represented, not to the person who represented them, see 665, 1097 (end), 1361, 3147, 3881 (end), 4208, 4281, 4288, 4293, 4307, 4444, 4500, 6304, 7048, 7439, 8588, 8788, 8806.

[10] On that account also was Jerusalem called holy, and Zion the mountain of holiness in Zechariah 8:3 and elsewhere, as well as in Matthew,

And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of dead holy ones were raised; and coming out of their tombs after the Lord's resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. Matthew 27:52-53.

Here Jerusalem is called 'the holy city', when in fact, quite to the contrary, it was unholy because the Lord was crucified there at that time, for which reason it is called 'Sodom and Egypt' in John,

Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Revelation 11:8.

Yet it is called holy, because it means the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 402, 2117, 3654. The appearance of 'dead holy ones' there, an event witnessed by some in vision, was a sign of the salvation of people who belonged to the spiritual Church, and of the raising of those people to the Holy Jerusalem, which is heaven - the people who had been kept up to that time on the lower earth, spoken of in 6854, 6914, 7091, 7828, 7932, 8049, 8054, 8159, 8321.

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1Jeremiah 31:23 refers to a dwelling-place of righteousness [and] mountain of holiness, to be exact

2. i.e. an especially holy place

3. i.e. dedicating persons or things to holy functions or purposes

4. literally, the holiness of holinesses

  
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Arcana Coelestia #6397

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6397. 'Will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that it is one of the truths in general which the tribes of Israel represent. This is clear from the meaning of 'judging' as truth exercising its proper function, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'people' as those governed by truth, dealt with in 1259, 1260, 2928, 3295, 3581, 4619, at this point those guided by truth but not as yet by good, since they are Dan, that is, the people of Dan, 6396; and from the representation of 'the tribes of Israel' as all truths and forms of good in general, dealt with in 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335. Consequently 'will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that the truth which 'Dan' represents is one of the general truths that 'the tribes of Israel' represent. The reason why 'judging his people' means truth exercising its proper function is that all truths in general are represented by 'the tribes of Israel', as may become clear from the paragraphs referred to above; and since truths are what act as judges, 'judging his people' means truth exercising its proper function.

[2] In the Word one reads the description that the twenty-four elders will sit on thrones and judge nations and peoples, and that the twelve apostles will similarly sit on thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. A person with no knowledge of the internal sense of the Word will think that precisely that is going to happen. But how those descriptions should be understood becomes clear when one knows from the internal sense what 'the twenty-four elders', 'the twelve apostles', and also 'thrones' mean, namely all truths in their entirety, in accordance with which judgement is effected. The same goes for one's understanding here of 'judging his people as one of the tribes of Israel'. The meaning is not that these or any other elders among them will act as judges, but that the actual truths meant by them, therefore the Lord alone since every truth comes forth from Him, will do so. The reference to the twenty-four elders who will sit on thrones and act as judges occurs in John as follows,

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders seated, clad in white garments, who had crowns of gold on their heads. Revelation 4:4; 11:16.

In the same book,

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgement was given to them. Revelation 20:4.

The reference to the twelve apostles occurs in Matthew,

Jesus said, You who have followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew 19:28.

And in Luke,

I bestow on you, just as My father bestowed on Me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Luke 21:29-30.

Here neither the twenty-four elders nor the twelve apostles are what are really meant but all truths and forms of good in general, as may be recognized from the consideration that nobody, not even any angel, can judge anyone; for no one except the Lord alone can know what a person is or ever will be like interiorly. With regard to the twelve apostles, that they had a similar meaning to the twelve tribes, which was all truths and forms of good in their entirety, see 2129, 2553, 3488, 3858 (end). From all this it is now evident that 'Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that the truth represented by 'Dan' is one of the general truths by means of which judgement is effected.

  
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