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Ezekiel 4

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1 Hỡi con người, hãy lấy một tấm ngói, đặt nó trước mặt ngươi, và vẽ thành Giê-ru-sa-lem ở trên.

2 Ngươi khá vây hãm nó; dựng đồn, đắp lũy nghịch cùng nó; đóng quân vây bọc lấy, và đặt máy phá thành xung quanh nghịch cùng nó.

3 Lại hãy lấy một chảo sắt, đặt nó làm cái tường sắt giữa ngươi và thành; rồi ngươi xây mặt lại cùng nó; nó sẽ bị vây, và ngươi sẽ vây nó. Ðó sẽ là một điềm cho nhà Y-sơ-ra-ên.

4 Kế đó, ngươi khá nằm nghiêng mình bên tả, và để tội lỗi nhà Y-sơ-ra-ên tại đó. Ngươi nằm như vậy bao nhiêu ngày, thì mang lấy tội lỗi chúng nó cũng bấy nhiêu.

5 Vì ta đã định cho ngươi một số ngày bằng với số năm của tội lỗi chúng nó, là ba trăm chín mươi ngày, ngươi sẽ mang lấy tội lỗi nhà Y-sơ-ra-ên như vậy.

6 Vả lại, khi những ngày ấy đã mãn, ngươi khá nằm nghiêng mình bên hữu, và mang lấy tội lỗi của nhà Giu-đa, trải bốn mươi ngày, ta định cho ngươi mỗi một ngày thay vì một năm.

7 Ngươi khá xây mặt và quay cánh tay trần về sự vây hãm thành Giê-ru-sa-lem; ngươi khá nói tiên tri nghịch cùng nó.

8 Nầy, ta dùng dây trói ngươi, và ngươi sẽ chẳng quay bên nầy bên kia, cho đến những ngày ngươi vây thành đã trọn.

9 Cũng hãy lấy lúa mì, mạch nha, đậu, biển đậu, kê và đại mạch, để vào một bình, dùng làm bánh cho mình; ngươi nằm nghiêng bao nhiêu ngày, thì ngươi sẽ ăn bánh ấy trong bấy nhiêu ngày, tức là ba trăm chín mươi ngày.

10 Ðồ ăn ngươi sẽ ăn, cứ mỗi ngày nặng hai mươi siếc-lơ; ngươi sẽ ăn theo thì giờ.

11 Nước ngươi uống cũng sẽ lường, là một phần sáu hin; theo thì giờ mà uống.

12 Ngươi sẽ ăn bánh ấy như bánh mạch nha, mà phải dùng phân ngươi nấu chín trước mắt chúng nó.

13 Ðức Giê-hô-va lại phán: Ấy con cái Y-sơ-ra-ên sẽ ăn bánh dơ bẩn của chúng nó như vậy, trong các nước mà ta sẽ đuổi chúng nó đến.

14 Ta bèn nói: Ôi! hỡi Chúa Giê-hô-va, nầy, linh hồn tôi chẳng hề bị ô uế. Từ lúc còn nhỏ đến bây giờ, tôi chẳng hề ăn con vậy đã chết tự nhiên, hoặc bị thú vật xé; và chẳng có thịt gớm ghiếc nào đã vào trong miệng tôi.

15 Ngài đáp rằng: Ta cho phép ngươi lấy phân bò thay phân người; ngươi khá dùng nó mà hấp bánh.

16 Ðoạn, Ngài lại phán: Hỡi con người, nầy, ta sẽ bẻ gậy bánh trong Giê-ru-sa-lem đi; chúng nó sẽ cân bánh mà ăn, và sợ hãi, lường nước mà uống, và sững sờ.

17 Thế thì chúng nó thiếu bánh và nước, cùng nhau thất kinh, và hao mòn trong tội lỗi mình.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 610

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610. And its number is 666. This symbolically means, their character being this, that by them all the Word's truth has been falsified.

The number of the beast symbolizes the character of the arguments the clergy use from the Word to defend their doctrine and faith (nos. 608, 609). Six hundred and sixty-six symbolizes every truth having to do with goodness, and because the statement is made in application to the Word, it symbolizes every truth in the Word having to do with goodness, in this case that truth falsified, because the number is the number of the beast.

This is the symbolic meaning because six has the same symbolism as three multiplied by two, and three symbolizes completeness and all and is predicated of truths (no. 505), while two symbolizes the marriage of truth and good. So, because six is composed of these two numbers multiplied together, therefore it symbolizes every truth in the Word having to do with goodness, in this case that truth falsified. That it also was falsified by the clergy may be seen in no. 566 above.

The number is said to be 666, because it contains the number six repeated three times, and tripling it makes it complete. Multiplying six by one hundred to make six hundred, and by ten to make sixty, does not change the number's symbolic meaning, as may be seen in no. 348 above.

[2] That the number six symbolizes completeness and all, and is used when the subject is truths having to do with goodness, may be seen from passages in the Word where that number is mentioned. However, the symbolism of the number appears clearly only to people who see the things contained in the spiritual sense. As for instance, the Lord's saying that the seeds that fell on good ground yielded fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred (Mark 4:8, 20, Matthew 13:8, 23); and that a landowner went out and hired laborers for his vineyard at the third hour and at the sixth hour (Matthew 20:3, 5). Also that the table in the Tabernacle had on it cakes of showbread arranged in two rows, each containing six cakes (Leviticus 24:6). That there were set six waterpots for the purification of the Jews (John 2:6). That there were six cities of refuge or of asylum (Numbers 35:6-7, Deuteronomy 19:1-9). That the measuring reed with which the angel measured all parts of the new temple and new city was six cubits long (Ezekiel 40:5). That the prophet drank water by measure, a sixth of a hin (Ezekiel 4:11). That they took as an offering a sixth of an ephah of a homer of wheat (Ezekiel 45:13).

Since the number six symbolizes completeness, therefore words for separating a sixth part came into use, which in the spiritual sense symbolizes something that is complete and entire, as that they gave a sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley (Ezekiel 45:13). And regarding Gog, "I will turn you around and leave but a sixth part of you" (Ezekiel 39:2). This last symbolically means that in Gog all truth in the Word having to do with goodness is destroyed. Just who are meant by Gog may be seen in no. 859.

  
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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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Matthew 20

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1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.

5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.

6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.

11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,

12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,

18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,

19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.

20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.

21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.

22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

24 And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.

25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.

26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

29 And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

30 And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.

31 And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.

32 And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you?

33 They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

   

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