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以西结书第47章

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1 他带我回到殿,见殿的往东流出(原来殿面朝东)。这从槛,由殿的右边,在祭坛边往流。

2 他带我出,又领我从外边转到朝东的外,见从右边流出。

3 拿准绳往东出去的时候,量了一肘,使我趟过到踝子骨;

4 他又量了一肘,使我趟过就到膝;再量了一肘,使我趟过便到腰;

5 又量了一肘,便成了,使我不能趟过,因为势涨起,成为可洑的

6 他对我:人子啊,你见了甚麽?他就带我回到边。

7 我回到边的时候,见在这边与那边的岸上有极多的树木

8 他对我:这水往东方流去,必到亚拉巴,直到。所发出的水必流入盐,使水变甜(原文是得医治;同)。

9 水所到之处,凡滋生的动物都必生活,并且因这的水必有极多的鱼,海水也变甜了。这水所到之处,百物都必生活。

10 必有渔夫站在河边,从隐基底直到隐以革莲,都作晒(或译:张)网之处。那鱼各从其类,好像的鱼甚多。

11 只是泥泞之地与洼湿之处不得治好,必为地。

12 这边与那边的岸上必生长各类的树木;其果可作食物,子不枯乾,果子不断绝。每必结新果子,因为这水是从圣所出来的。上的果子必作食物,子乃为治病。

13 耶和华如此:你们要照的境界,按以色列支派分为业。约瑟必得两分。

14 你们承受这为业,要彼此均分;因为我曾起誓应许将这赐与你们的列祖;这必归你们为业。

15 的四界乃是如此:界从往希特伦,直到西达达口。

16 又往哈马、比罗他、西伯莲(西伯莲在大马色与哈马两界中间),到浩兰边界的哈撒哈提干。

17 这样,境界从边往大马色地界上的哈萨以难,边以哈马地为界。这是界。

18 东界在浩兰、大马色、基列,和以色列的中间,就是约但河。你们要从北界量到东。这是东界。

19 界是从他玛到米利巴加低斯的水,延到埃及小,直到。这是界。

20 西界就是,从南界直到哈马口对面之地。这是西界。

21 你们要按着以色列的支派彼此分这

22 要拈阄分这地为业,归与自己和你们中间寄居的外人,就是在你们中间生养儿女的外人。你们要看他们如同以色列人中所生的一样;他们在以色列支派中要与你们同得地业

23 外人寄居在哪支派中,你们就在那里分他地业。这是耶和华的。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#2455

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2455. That 'she became a pillar of salt' means that all good accompanying truth was vastated becomes clear from the meaning of 'a pillar' and from the meaning of 'salt'. In the original language the word used for a pillar means something standing still, not however that used for a pillar which was erected either for worship, or as a sign or for a witness. Consequently 'the pillar of salt' mentioned here means that it - the truth meant by Lot's wife - stood as something vastated, 2454. Truth is said to be vastated when it no longer has any good within it - vastation itself being meant by 'salt'.

[2] As most things in the Word have two meanings, namely the genuine and the contrary to this, so also does 'salt'. In the genuine sense it means the affection for truth, in the contrary sense the vastation of the affection for truth, that is, of the good within truth. That 'salt' means the affection for truth, see Exodus 30:35; Leviticus 2:13; Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:49-50; Luke 14:34-35. That it also means the vastation of the affection for truth, that is, of the good within truth, is clear from the following places: In Moses,

The whole land will be brimstone and salt, a burning; it will not be sown, it will not sprout, nor will any plant come up on it, as at the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim. Deuteronomy 29:23.

Here 'brimstone' is the vastation of good, and 'salt' the vastation of truth. That vastation is the meaning is evident from each detail.

[3] In Zephaniah,

Moab will be like Sodom, and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, a place abandoned to the nettle, and a saltpit, and a desolation for ever. Zephaniah 2:9.

Here 'a place abandoned to the nettle' stands for vastated good, 'a salt pit' for vastated truth; for 'a place abandoned to the nettle' refers to Sodom, which has been shown to mean evil or vastated good, and 'a salt pit' to Gomorrah, which has been shown to mean falsity or vastated truth. That vastation is the meaning is evident from its being called 'a desolation for ever'. In Jeremiah,

He who makes flesh his arm will be like a bare shrub in the solitary place and will not see when good comes; and he will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. Jeremiah 17:5-6.

Here 'a parched land' stands for vastated goods, 'a salt land' for vastated truths.

[4] In David,

Jehovah turns rivers into a wilderness, and outgoings of waters into a dryness, a fruitful land into a salty waste because of the wickedness of those inhabiting it. Psalms 107:33-34.

'A fruitful land into a salty waste' stands for the vastation of the good within truth. In Ezekiel,

Its swamps and its marshes are not healed, they will be given up to salt. Ezekiel 47:11.

'Given up to salt' stands for being utterly vastated as regards truth. Because 'salt' meant vastation and 'cities' matters of doctrine concerning truth, as shown in 402, 2268, 2428, 2451, cities that had been destroyed were in former times sown with salt to prevent their being rebuilt, Judges 9:45. The description at this point is of the fourth state of the Church represented by 'Lot', a state in which all truth has been vastated as regards good.

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