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以西結書第37章

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1 耶和華的靈(原文是)降在我身上。耶和華藉他的靈帶我出去,將我放在平原中;這平原遍滿骸

2 他使我從骸骨的四圍經過,誰知在平原的骸骨甚多,而且極其枯乾。

3 他對我:人子啊,這些骸能復活麼?我耶和華啊,你是知道的。

4 他又對我:你向這些骸發預言:枯乾的骸啊,要耶和華的

5 耶和華對這些骸如此:我必使氣息進入你們裡面,你們就要活了。

6 我必你們加上,使你們長,又將遮蔽你們,使氣息進入你們裡面,你們就要活了;你們便知道我是耶和華

7 於是,我遵命說預言。正說預言的時候,不料,有響聲,有地震;互相聯絡。

8 我觀,見骸骨上有,也長了,又有遮蔽其上,只是還沒有氣息。

9 對我:人子啊,你要發預言,向發預言,耶和華如此:氣息啊,要從方(原文是)而,吹在這些被殺的人身上,使他們活了。

10 於是我遵命說預言,氣息就進入骸骨,骸骨便活了,並且站起,成為極軍隊

11 主對我:人子啊,這些骸就是以色列全家。他們:我們的骨頭枯乾了,我們的指望失去了,我們滅絕淨盡了。

12 所以你要發預言對他們耶和華如此:我的民哪,我必開你們的墳墓,使你們從墳墓中出,領你們進入以色列地。

13 我的民哪,我開你們的墳墓,使你們從墳墓中出來,你們就知道我是耶和華

14 我必將我的靈放在你們裡面,你們就要活了。我將你們安置在本地,你們就知道我─耶和華如此,也如此成就了。這是耶和華的。

15 耶和華的又臨到我說:

16 人子啊,你要取杖,在其上猶大和他的同伴以色列人;又取杖,在其上為約瑟,就是為以法蓮,又為他的同伴以色列全家。

17 你要使這兩根杖接連為,在你中成為根。

18 你本國的子民問你:這是甚麼意思?你不指示我們麼?

19 你就對他們耶和華如此:我要將約瑟和他同伴以色列支派的杖,就是那在以法蓮中的,與猶大的杖同接連為,在我中成為根。

20 你所的那兩根杖要在他們眼前拿在中,

21 要對他們耶和華如此:我要將以色列人從他們所到的各國收取,又從四圍聚集他們,引導他們歸回本地。

22 我要使他們在那,在以色列上成為國,有王作他們眾民的王。他們不再為國,決不再分為國;

23 也不再因偶像和可憎的物,並一切的罪過玷污自己。我卻要他們出離一切的處,就是他們犯罪的地方;我要潔淨他們,如此,他們要作我的子民,我要作他們的

24 我的僕人大衛必作他們的王;眾民必歸個牧人。他們必順從我的典章,謹守遵行我的律例。

25 他們必在我賜僕人雅各上,就是你們列祖所。他們和他們的子孫,並子孫的子孫,都永遠在那裡。我的僕人大衛必作他們的王,直到永遠

26 並且我要與他們立平安的約,作為永約。我也要將他們安置在本地,使他們的人數增多,又在他們中間設立我的聖所,直到永遠

27 我的居所必在他們中間;我要作他們的,他們要作我的子民。

28 我的所在以色列人中間直到永遠外邦人就必知道我是叫以色列成為耶和華

   

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Apocalypse Explained#19

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19. (Verse 4) John. That this signifies the Lord as to doctrine, is evident from the representation of John, as being the good of love, of which above, n. 8. Because he represents the good of love, he also, in the highest sense, represents the Lord, since all the good of love is from the Lord, men, spirits and angels being only recipients; and those who are recipients, are said to signify that which is from the Lord. The case is similar with many other persons in the Word, as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Elijah, Elisha, John the Baptist, Peter, and the rest of the apostles, each of whom signifies some good or truth of heaven and of the church, but still all of them, in the highest sense, signify the Lord. As, for instance, David, in the internal sense signifies Divine truth in the spiritual kingdom, which is called the Lord's royalty; therefore, in the highest sense, he signifies the Lord as to that truth and as to His royalty; for this reason it is said of David in the Word, that he is to come and reign over the sons of Israel (Ezekiel 37:24, 25; Hosea 3:5). Similarly, Elijah and Elisha, who, because in the internal sense they signify the Word, therefore, in the highest sense, they signify the Lord from whom is the Word. (That Elijah and Elisha signify the Word, and thus the Lord as to the Word, may be seen, Arcana Coelestia 2762, 5247; the case is the same with John the Baptist, who is therefore called Elijah, n. 7643, 9372. That Peter signifies faith, and thence the Lord as to faith, because faith is from the Lord, may be seen above, n. 9.) It is therefore evident why John signifies the Lord. The reason he signifies the Lord as to doctrine is, because it is said, "John to the seven churches," and by the seven churches, in the internal sense, are meant all who are in truths from good, or in faith from charity; for these are they who constitute the church; and it is doctrine that teaches those things. For this reason the Lord, as He is the Word, is also the doctrine of the church, for all doctrine is from the Word. (That the Lord is the doctrine of the church, because all the truth which pertains to doctrine is from the Word, thus from the Lord, may be seen, Arcana Coelestia 2531, 2859, 3712.)

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Arcana Coelestia#1999

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1999. That 'Abram fell on his face' 1 means adoration is clear without explanation. Falling on one's face' was the reverent way in which the Most Ancient Church, and as a consequence the ancients, expressed adoration. The reason they expressed it in this way was that 'the face' meant the inward parts, and 'falling on one's face' 1 represented a state of humiliation of those inward parts; and from this it became in the Jewish representative Church an act of reverence. True adoration or humility of heart entails prostration before the Lord face-downwards on the ground as the natural action resulting from it. Indeed humiliation of heart entails the acknowledgement of oneself as being nothing but uncleanness, and at the same time the acknowledgement of the Lord's infinite mercy towards such. When these acknowledgements are fixed in the mind, the mind itself casts itself down towards hell and prostrates the body. Nor does it raise itself until raised up by the Lord, as happens in all true humiliation, accompanied by a perception that such raising up is of the Lord's mercy. Such was the humiliation of members of the Most Ancient Church. It is different however with adoration which does not flow from humiliation of heart, see 1153.

[2] It is well known from the Word, in the Gospels, that the Lord adored and prayed to Jehovah, His Father, and that He did so as though to Someone other than Himself, even though Jehovah was within Him. But the state that the Lord experienced at such times was the state of His humiliation, the nature of which has been discussed in Volume One, namely this, that at such times as these He was in the infirm human derived from the mother. But to the extent He cast this off and took on the Divine His state was different, which state is called the state of His glorification. In the first state He adored Jehovah as Someone other than Himself, even though He was within Him, for, as has been stated, His Internal was Jehovah. In the latter state however, that is to say, the state of glorification, He spoke to Jehovah as to Himself, since He was Jehovah Himself.

[3] The truth of all this however cannot be grasped unless one knows what the internal is and how the internal operates into the external, and furthermore how the internal and external are distinct and separate and yet joined together. The matter may be illustrated however by means of something similar, namely by means of the internal with man and of its influx and operation into the external with him. For the fact that man has an internal, an interior or rational, and an external, see what has appeared already in 1889, 1940. Man's internal is that which makes him human and distinguishes him from animals. It is by means of this internal that man lives on after death and for ever, and by means of it the Lord can raise him up among angels. It is the prior or primary form from which anyone becomes and is a human being, and it is by means of this internal that the Lord is united to man. The heaven itself that is nearest to the Lord consists of these human internals, but being above even the inmost angelic heaven these internals therefore belong to the Lord Himself. In this way the entire human race is directly present beneath the eyes of the Lord. Distance, a visible feature of this sublunary world, does not exist in heaven, still less above heaven - see what has been mentioned from experience in 1275, 1277.

[4] These inward aspects of men possess no life in themselves but are recipient forms of the Lord's life. To the extent then that anyone is under the influence of evil, both that of his own doing and that which is hereditary, he has been so to speak separated from this internal which is the Lord's and resides with the Lord, and so has been separated from the Lord. For although that human internal is joined to the person and cannot be separated from him, yet to the extent he moves away from the Lord he does in a way separate himself from it, see 1594. But such separation is not a complete severance from that human internal - for if it were, man would no longer be able to live after death; but it is a lack of harmony and agreement with it on the part of his capacities which are beneath it, that is, of his rational and external man. Insofar as disharmony and disagreement are present there is no conjunction, but insofar as they are absent man is joined to the Lord by means of the internal, which is achieved in the measure that he is moved by love and charity, for love and charity effect conjunction. Such is the situation with man.

[5] But the Lord's Internal was Jehovah Himself, since He was conceived from Jehovah, who cannot be divided or become the relative of another, like a son who has been conceived from a human father. For unlike the human, the Divine is not capable of being divided but is and remains one and the same. To this Internal the Lord united the Human Essence. Moreover because the Lord's Internal was Jehovah it was not, like man's internal, a recipient form of life, but life itself. Through that union His Human Essence as well became life itself. Hence the Lord's frequent declaration that He is Life, as in John,

As the Father has Life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have Life in Himself. John 5:26.

And elsewhere besides this in the same gospel, 1:4; 5:21; 6:33, 35, 48; 11:25. 'The Son' is used to mean the Lord's Human Essence. To the extent therefore that the Lord was in the human which He received by heredity from the mother, He appeared to be distinct and separate from Jehovah, and worshipped Jehovah as Someone other than Himself. But to the extent He cast off this human, the Lord was not distinct and separate from Jehovah but one with Him. The first state, as has been mentioned, was the state of the Lord's humiliation, but the second the state of His glorification.

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1. lit faces

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