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حزقيال第29章

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1 في السنة العاشرة في الثاني عشر من الشهر العاشر كان اليّ كلام الرب قائلا

2 يا ابن آدم اجعل وجهك نحو فرعون ملك مصر وتنبأ عليه وعلى مصر كلها.

3 تكلم وقل. هكذا قال السيد الرب. هانذا عليك يا فرعون ملك مصر التمساح الكبير الرابض في وسط انهاره الذي قال نهري لي وانا عملته لنفسي.

4 فاجعل خزائم في فكيك وألزق سمك انهارك بحرشفك واطلعك من وسط انهارك وكل سمك انهارك ملزق بحرشفك.

5 واتركك في البرية انت وجميع سمك انهارك. على وجه الحقل تسقط فلا تجمع ولا تلمّ. بذلتك طعاما لوحوش البر ولطيور السماء.

6 ويعلم كل سكان مصر اني انا الرب من اجل كونهم عكاز قصب لبيت اسرائيل.

7 عند مسكهم بك بالكف انكسرت ومزقت لهم كل كتف ولما توكأوا عليك انكسرت وقلقلت كل متونهم

8 لذلك هكذا قال السيد الرب. هانذا اجلب عليك سيفا واستأصل منك الانسان والحيوان.

9 وتكون ارض مصر مقفرة وخربة فيعلمون اني انا الرب لانه قال النهر لي وانا عملته.

10 لذلك هانذا عليك وعلى انهارك واجعل ارض مصر خربا خربة مقفرة من مجدل الى اسوان الى تخم كوش.

11 لا تمر فيها رجل انسان ولا تمر فيها رجل بهيمة ولا تسكن اربعين سنة.

12 واجعل ارض مصر مقفرة في وسط الاراضي المقفرة ومدنها في وسط المدن الخربة تكون مقفرة اربعين سنة واشتت المصريين بين الامم وابددهم في الاراضي.

13 لانه هكذا قال السيد الرب عند نهاية اربعين سنة اجمع المصريين من الشعوب الذين تشتتوا بينهم

14 وارد سبي مصر وارجعهم الى ارض فتروس الى ارض ميلادهم ويكونون هناك مملكة حقيرة.

15 تكون احقر الممالك فلا ترتفع بعد على الامم واقللهم لكيلا يتسلطوا على الامم.

16 فلا تكون بعد معتمدا لبيت اسرائيل مذكرة الاثم بانصرافهم وراءهم ويعلمون اني انا السيد الرب

17 وكان في السنة السابعة والعشرين في الشهر الاول في اول الشهر ان كلام الرب كان اليّ قائلا

18 يا ابن آدم ان نبوخذراصر ملك بابل استخدم جيشه خدمة شديدة على صور. كل راس قرع وكل كتف تجردت ولم تكن له ولا لجيشه اجرة من صور لاجل خدمته التي خدم بها عليها.

19 لذلك هكذا قال السيد الرب. هانذا ابذل ارض مصر لنبوخذراصر ملك بابل فياخذ ثروتها ويغنم غنيمتها وينهب نهبها فتكون اجرة لجيشه.

20 قد اعطيته ارض مصر لاجل شغله الذي خدم به لانهم عملوا لاجلي يقول السيد الرب.

21 في ذلك اليوم انبت قرنا لبيت اسرائيل. واجعل لك فتح الفم في وسطهم فيعلون اني انا الرب

   

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Apocalypse Revealed#759

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759. "And the merchants of the earth have become rich owing to the potencies of her delights." This symbolizes the greater and lower in rank in the Roman Catholic hierarchy who by their dominion over sacred things strive for Divine majesty and superregal glory, who continually seek to establish it by multiplying the number of monasteries and possessions under their control, and by collecting and accumulating the world's treasures without end, and who thus procure for themselves physical and natural delights and gratifications by claiming for themselves a celestial and spiritual dominion.

The merchants of Babylon can only mean the greater and lower in rank in their church hierarchy, because in verse 23 of this chapter we are told that they are the great men of the earth. And the potencies of her delights with which they have become rich can only mean the dogmas that are the means by which they acquire for themselves dominion over people's souls, and so also over their possessions and wealth. People know that they collect these without end and swell their treasuries with them, and also that they make merchandise of the sanctities of the church, by selling salvation, for example, or heaven, in exchange for offerings and gifts made to monasteries and their saints and images, or in exchange for masses, indulgences and various dispensations.

[2] Who cannot see that if the papal dominion had not been broken at the time of the Protestant Reformation, Roman Catholics would have scraped together the possessions and wealth of all the kingdoms in the whole of Europe? And that then they would have made themselves the sole lords, and everyone else their servants? Do they not have the greatest part of their wealth from preceding centuries when they had power over emperors and kings, whom they could excommunicate and depose if they did not obey? And do they not still have annual incomes that are immense, and treasuries full of gold, silver, and precious stones?

The same barbarous lust for dominion is still lodged in the hearts of many of them, and is restrained only by a fear of its loss if it should extend beyond accepted limits.

Of what use, however, are such great incomes, treasures and possessions to them, other than to be delighted by them, to pride themselves on having them, and to establish their dominion to eternity?

It can be seen from this what is here symbolized by merchants of the earth who have become rich owing to the potencies of Babylon's delights.

They are called merchants also in Isaiah:

(The inhabitants of Babylon) are as stubble. Fire has burned them; they do not deliver their soul from the power of the flame... Such are... your merchants from your youth. (Isaiah 47:14-15)

[3] In the Word, to be a merchant or trader means, symbolically, to be engaged in procuring for oneself spiritual riches, which are concepts of truth and goodness, and in an opposite sense, concepts of falsity and evil, and to use the first to gain heaven, and the second to gain the world. For that reason the Lord likened the kingdom of heaven to a merchant seeking beautiful pearls (Matthew 13:45-46), and the people in the church to servants who were given talents with which to trade and gain more (Matthew 25:14-30), or who were given ten minas with which to likewise trade and gain more (Luke 19:12-26).

Moreover, because Tyre symbolizes the church in respect to its concepts of truth and goodness, therefore the whole of chapter twenty-seven in Ezekiel has trading and gain as its subject, and we are told concerning Tyre:

In your wisdom and your understanding you have gained... for yourself... gold and silver into your treasuries; and by the great wisdom in your trading you have increased your riches... (Ezekiel 28:4-5)

And elsewhere:

...Tyre... has been laid waste..., whose merchants are princes, and its traders the honorable of the earth. (Isaiah 23:1, 8)

Also, the corrupt church among Jews in the land of Canaan is called the land of trade (Ezekiel 16:3, 29; 21:30; 29:14).

  
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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.