圣经文本

 

以西结书第11章

学习

   

1 灵将我举起耶和华殿向东的东。谁知,在门口二十五个,我见其中有民间的首领押朔的儿子雅撒尼亚和比拿雅的儿子毗拉提。

2 耶和华对我:人子啊,这就是图谋罪孽的人,在这城中给人设恶谋。

3 他们:盖房屋的时候尚未临近;这城是我们

4 人子啊,因此你当说预言,说预言攻击他们。

5 耶和华的灵降在我身上,对我:你当耶和华如此以色列家啊,你们口中所的,心里所想的,我都知道

6 你们在这城中杀人增多,使被杀的人充满街道

7 所以耶和华如此:你们杀在城中的人就是,这城就是;你们却要从其中被带出去。

8 你们,我必使刀临到你们。这是耶和华的。

9 我必从这城中带出你们去,交在外邦人的中,且要在你们中间施行审判。

10 你们必倒在刀下;我必在以色列的境界审判你们,你们就知道我是耶和华

11 这城必不作你们的,你们也不作其中的。我必在以色列的境界审判你们,

12 你们就知道我是耶和华;因为你们没有遵行我的律例,也没有顺从我的典章,却随从你们四围列国的恶规。

13 我正预言的时候,比拿雅的儿子毗拉提死了。於是我俯伏在地,声呼叫:哎!耶和华啊,你要将以色列剩下的人灭绝净尽麽?

14 耶和华的临到我说:

15 人子啊,耶路撒冷居民对你的弟兄、你的本族、你的亲属、以色列,就是对大众:你们远离耶和华罢!这是赐我们为业的。

16 所以你当耶和华如此:我虽将以色列全家远远迁移到列国中,将他们分散在列邦内,我还要在他们所到的列邦,暂作他们的圣所。

17 你当耶和华如此:我必从万民中招聚你们,从分散的列国内聚集你们,又要将以色列你们。

18 他们必到那里,也必从其中除掉一切可憎可厌的物。

19 我要使他们有合,也要将新灵放在他们里面,又从他们体中除掉,赐他们

20 使他们顺从我的律例,谨守遵行我的典章。他们要作我的子民,我要作他们的

21 至於那些中随从可憎可厌之物的,我必照他们所行的报应在他们上。这是耶和华的。

22 於是,基路伯展开翅膀子都在他们旁边;在他们以上有以色列的荣耀。

23 耶和华的荣耀从城中上升,停在城东的那座上。

24 灵将我举起,在异象中藉着的灵将我迦勒底地,到被掳的人那里;我所见的异象就离我上升去了。

25 我便将耶和华所指示我的一切事都给被掳的人听。

   

来自斯威登堡的著作

 

Apocalypse Revealed#36

学习本章节

  
/962  
  

36. I became in the spirit on the Lord's day. (1:10) This symbolizes a spiritual state then owing to Divine influx.

"I became in the spirit" means, symbolically, a spiritual state, the state in which John was while he was experiencing the visions, and which we will take up in the following exposition. "On the Lord's day" symbolizes influx from the Lord then, for that day brings the Lord's presence, as it is a holy day.

Concerning the prophets we read that they were in the spirit or in vision, and that the Word came to them from Jehovah.

When they were in the spirit or in vision, they were not in the body, but in their spirit, a state in which they saw phenomena such as are found in heaven. But when the Word came to them, they were then in the body and heard Jehovah speaking.

These two states of the prophets must be properly distinguished. In the state of vision the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body closed; and they heard then what angels said, and what Jehovah said through angels, and also saw representations produced for them in heaven. Moreover, they sometimes seemed to themselves to be taken then from place to place, their body remaining where it was.

[2] This was the state in which John was when he wrote the book of Revelation, and the state sometimes experienced by Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel. They also said that they were then in vision or in the spirit. For Ezekiel says,

The Spirit lifted me up... and brought me back into Chaldea, to those in captivity, in a vision (of God), in the spirit of God. (Thus) went up from me the vision that I had seen. (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

He also says that the Spirit lifted him up, and he heard behind him an earthquake, and more (Ezekiel 3:12, 24). So, too, that the Spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, that it brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, and that he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3f.). He was likewise in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw the four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1; 10), as also when he saw a new earth and a new temple, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). That he was then in the visions of God, he himself says (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] The same was the case with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time, when he saw a man riding a horse among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.); when he saw the four horns, and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.); when he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.); when he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6); when he saw the four chariots coming from between two mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in a like state when he saw the four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat between the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). He himself says that he saw these things in visions (Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8), and that the angel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

[4] The same was the case with John, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands (Revelation 1), and finally, the new heaven and the new earth, and then the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven (Revelation 21, 22. John himself says that he saw these things in the spirit and in vision (1:10; 4:2; 9:17; 21:10). This, too, is meant by the statement, "I saw," everywhere it occurs in this book.

[5] It is clearly apparent from this that to be in the spirit is to be in a state of vision, which is brought about by an opening of the sight of a person's spirit; and when this is opened, phenomena found in the spiritual world are as clearly visible as those in the natural world are to the sight of the body.

The reality of this is something I can attest to from many years' experience.

The disciples were in this state when they saw the Lord after His resurrection, which is why are told that their eyes were opened (Luke 24:30-31).

Abraham was in a like state when he saw the three angels and spoke with them. 1

So, too, Hagar, Gideon, Joshua and others, when they saw angels of Jehovah. Likewise when Elisha's lad saw the mountain full of fiery chariots and horses all around Elisha, for Elisha prayed and said,

"Jehovah, open, I pray, his eyes that he may see." And Jehovah opened the eyes of the lad, and he saw. (2 Kings 6:17)

As regards the Word, however, it was not revealed in a state of the spirit or of vision, but the Lord dictated it to the prophets in an audible voice. Consequently we are nowhere told that the prophets spoke it from the Holy Spirit, but from Jehovah. See The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, no. 53.

脚注:

  
/962  
  

Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.