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1 人子啊,你要对以色列发预言以色列哪,要耶和华的

2 耶和华如此:因仇敌:阿哈!这永久的山冈都归我们为业了!

3 所以要发预言耶和华如此:因为敌人使你荒凉,四围吞吃,好叫你归与其馀的外邦人为业,并且多嘴多的人提起你来,百姓也你有臭名。

4 故此,以色列耶和华的。大小冈、水沟谷、荒废之地、被弃之城,为四围其馀的外邦人所占据、所讥刺的,

5 耶和华对你们如此:我真发愤恨如,责备那其馀的外邦人以东的众人。他们快乐满怀,心存恨恶,将我的归自己为业,又看为被弃的掠物。

6 所以,你要指着以色列预言,对大小冈、水沟耶和华如此:我发愤恨和忿怒,因你们曾受外邦人羞辱

7 所以我起誓:你们四围的外邦人总要担当自己的羞辱。这是耶和华的。

8 以色列哪,你必发枝条,为我的民以色列结果子,因为他们快要到。

9 看哪,我是帮助你的,也必向你意,使你得以耕种。

10 我必使以色列的人数在你上面增多,城邑有人居住,荒场再被建造

11 我必使人和牲畜在你上面加增;他们必生养众多。我要使你照旧有人居住,并要赐福与你比先前更多,你就知道我是耶和华

12 我必使人,就是我的民以色列,行在你上面。他们必得你为业;你也不再使他们丧子。

13 耶和华如此:因为人对你:你是吞吃人的,又使国民丧子,

14 所以耶和华:你必不再吞人,也不再使国民丧子。

15 我使你不再见各国的羞辱,不再受万民的辱骂,也不再使国民绊跌。这是耶和华的。

16 耶和华的又临到我说:

17 人子啊,以色列在本地的时候,在行动作为上玷污那地。他们的行为在我面前,好像正在经期的妇人那样污秽

18 所以我因他们在那上流人的血,又因他们以偶像玷污那,就把我的忿怒倾在他们身上。

19 我将他们分散在列国,四散在列邦,按他们的行动作为惩罚他们。

20 他们到了所去的列国,就使我的名被亵渎;因为人谈论他们,这是耶和华的民,是从耶和华的的。

21 我却顾惜我的名,就是以色列家在所到的列国中所亵渎的。

22 所以,你要对以色列耶和华如此以色列家啊,我行这事不是为你们,乃是为我的名,就是在你们到的列国中所亵渎的。

23 我要使我的名显为;这名在列国中已被亵渎,就是你们在他们中间所亵渎的。我在他们眼前,在你们身上显为的时候,他们就知道我是耶和华。这是耶和华的。

24 我必从各国收取你们,从列邦聚集你们,引导你们归回本

25 我必用清洒在你们身上,你们就洁净了。我要洁净你们,使你们脱离一切的污秽

26 我也要赐你们一个新,将新灵放在你们里面,又从你们的体中除掉,赐你们

27 我必将我的灵放在你们里面,使你们顺从我的律例,谨守遵行我的典章。

28 你们必在我所赐你们列祖之。你们要作我的子民,我要作你们的

29 我必你们脱离一切的污秽,也必命五谷丰登,不使你们遭遇饥荒。

30 我必使树木多结果子,田地多出土产,好叫你们不再因饥荒受外邦人的讥诮。

31 那时,你们必追想你们的恶行和你们不善的作为,就因你们的罪孽和可憎的事厌恶自己。

32 耶和华:你们要知道,我这样行不是为你们。以色列家啊,当为自己的行为抱愧蒙羞。

33 耶和华如此:我洁净你们,使你们脱离一切罪孽的日子,必使城邑有人居住,荒场再被建造

34 过路的人虽看为荒废之,现今这荒废之仍得耕种。

35 他们必:这先前为荒废之,现在成如伊甸园;这荒废凄凉、毁坏的城邑现在坚固有人居住

36 那时,在你们四围其馀的外邦人知道我─耶和华修造那毁坏之处,培植那荒废之地。我─耶和华说过,也必成就。

37 耶和华如此:我要加增以色列家的人数,多如羊群。他们必为这事向我求问,我要给他们成就。

38 耶路撒冷在守节作祭物所献的羊群怎样多,照样,荒凉的城邑必被人充满。他们就知道我是耶和华

   

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Arcana Coelestia#55

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55. Verse 28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, 1 and over every living thing that creeps upon the earth.

Because the most ancient people applied the term Marriage to understanding and will, or faith and love, when joined together, they gave the name Fruitfulness to any good resulting from that marriage, and Multiplication to any truth. For this reason similar expressions occur in the Prophets, as in Ezekiel,

I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they will multiply and be fruitful, and I will resettle you 2 to be as in your ancient times, and I will bless you more than in your former times, and you will know that I am Jehovah, and I will cause man to walk upon you, even My people Israel. Ezekiel 36:8-11.

Here 'man' is used to mean the spiritual man, who is also called Israel, 'ancient times' the Most Ancient Church, 'former times' the Ancient Church which came after the Flood. The reason why 'multiplying', which relates to truth, comes first and why 'being fruitful', which relates to good, follows is that the subject is the person who is to be regenerated, not one who has been regenerated.

[2] When the understanding is coupled to the will, or faith to love, the individual is called by the Lord in Isaiah 'a married land',

Your land will no more be called Desolate, but you will be named My-good-pleasure-is-in-her, and your land, Married; for Jehovah will take His pleasure in you, and your land will be married. Isaiah 62:4.

The resulting fruits which are matters of truth are called 'sons', and the fruits which are matters of good are called 'daughters'. This recurs very frequently in the Word.

[3] The earth is 'being filled' when there are many goods and truths, for when the Lord is 'blessing' and 'saying' - that is, when He is at work - the increase of good and truth is limitless, as the Lord says,

The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field; it is indeed the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of all plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air 3 come and nest in its branches. Matthew 13:31-32.

'A grain of mustard seed' is the good a person has before he becomes spiritual. It is 'the smallest of all seeds' because he imagines that he himself is the source of the good he does. In reality what he does of himself is nothing but evil, yet because he is in a state of being regenerated there is some element of good, though it is quite 'the smallest of all'. Later on when faith is being joined to love it grows larger and becomes 'a plant'. Once it has finally been joined to love it develops into a tree, and at that point 'the birds of the air, 3 which here are truths or intellectual concepts, 'nest in its branches', which are facts.

[4] A person is involved in conflict not only when becoming spiritual, but also when he is spiritual. Hence the statement, 'Subdue the earth, and have dominion over it'.

脚注:

1. literally, bird of the heavens (of the skies)

2. literally, I will cause you to inhabit

3. literally, birds of heaven (or the sky)

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.