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Ezekiel第23章

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1 Kaj aperis al mi vorto de la Eternulo, dirante:

2 Ho filo de homo! estis du virinoj, filinoj de unu patrino.

3 Kaj ili malcxastis en Egiptujo, en sia juneco ili malcxastis; tie premigxis ilia brusto, kaj tie palpigxis iliaj virgaj mamoj.

4 Iliaj nomoj estas:la nomo de la pli agxa, Ohola; kaj la nomo de sxia fratino, Oholiba. Ili farigxis Miaj edzinoj, kaj ili naskis filojn kaj filinojn. Ohola estas Samario, kaj Oholiba estas Jerusalem.

5 Ohola, estante jam Mia, malcxastis, kaj volupte amis siajn amistojn, siajn najbarojn, la Asirianojn,

6 kiuj portas vestojn purpurajn, la estrojn kaj urboregantojn, kiuj cxiuj estas cxarmaj junuloj, lertaj rajdistoj.

7 Kaj sxi malcxastis kun ili, kun cxiuj plej cxarmaj filoj de Asirio; kaj sxi malpurigis sin per cxiuj idoloj de tiuj, kiujn sxi volupte amis.

8 Kaj sxi ne forlasis ankaux sian malcxastadon kun la Egiptoj, kiuj kusxadis kun sxi dum sxia juneco, palpadis sxiajn virgajn mamojn, kaj versxadis sur sxin sian malcxastajxon.

9 Tial Mi transdonis sxin en la manojn de sxiaj amistoj, en la manojn de la filoj de Asirio, al kiuj sxi havis voluptan pasion.

10 Ili malkovris sxian nudajxon, prenis sxiajn filojn kaj sxiajn filinojn, kaj sxin mem ili mortigis per glavo. Kaj sxi ricevis malhonoran nomon inter la virinoj, kiam pri sxi estis farita jugxo.

11 Tion vidis sxia fratino Oholiba, kaj en siaj voluptajxoj sxi agis ankoraux pli malbone ol sxi, kaj sxia malcxastado estis ankoraux pli granda, ol la malcxastado de sxia fratino.

12 SXi amis volupte la filojn de Asirio, estrojn kaj urboregantojn, siajn najbarojn, kiuj portis belajn vestojn, estis lertaj rajdistoj, kaj cxiuj estis cxarmaj junuloj.

13 Mi vidis, ke sxi malpurigxis, kaj ke ambaux havas la saman konduton.

14 Sed cxi tiu malcxastis ankoraux pli. Kiam sxi vidis pentritajn virojn sur la muro, bildojn de HXaldeoj, kolore pentritajn,

15 kun zonoj cxirkaux siaj lumboj, kun longaj kapkovroj sur siaj kapoj, aspektantajn kiel herooj, prezentantajn la bildon de Babelanoj el HXaldeujo, ilia naskigxlando,

16 tiam sxi volupte ekamis ilin, kiam sxi vidis ilian bildon, kaj sxi sendis al ili senditojn en HXaldeujon.

17 Kaj la Babelanoj venis al sxi, por ame kusxi kun sxi, kaj ili malpurigis sxin per sia malcxastajxo, kaj sxi malpurigxis per ili; kaj poste sxia animo trosatigxis de ili.

18 Kaj kiam sxia malcxastado kaj sxia hontindeco farigxis tro malkasxa, tiam Mia animo tedigxis de sxi, kiel Mia animo tedigxis de sxia fratino.

19 Sed sxi malcxastadis cxiam pli, rememorante la tagojn de sia juneco, kiam sxi malcxastadis en la lando Egipta.

20 Kaj sxi volupte ekamis pli ol iliaj kromvirinoj ilin, kies karno estas kiel karno de azenoj kaj kies elfluo estas kiel elfluo de cxevaloj.

21 Kaj vi ripetis la malcxastadon de via juneco, kiam la Egiptoj palpadis vian bruston pro viaj junaj mamoj.

22 Tial, ho Oholiba, tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi instigos kontraux vin viajn amistojn, de kiuj via animo tedigxis, kaj Mi venigos ilin sur vin de cxirkauxe:

23 la Babelanojn, kaj cxiujn HXaldeojn el Pekod, el SXoa, kaj el Koa, kune kun cxiuj filoj de Asirio, la cxarmajn junulojn, la estrojn kaj urboregantojn, la potenculojn kaj eminentulojn, cxiujn lertajn rajdistojn.

24 Kaj ili venos kontraux vin kun hakiloj, sur cxevaloj kaj sur cxaroj, kaj kun granda amaso da popolo; ili cxirkauxos vin de cxiuj flankoj en kirasoj, kun sxildoj kaj kaskoj; kaj Mi transdonos vin al ilia jugxo, kaj ili jugxos vin laux sia maniero.

25 Kaj Mi direktos kontraux vin Mian indignon, kaj ili agos kun vi kolere, ili detrancxos vian nazon kaj viajn orelojn, kaj via restajxo falos de glavo; ili forprenos viajn filojn kaj viajn filinojn, kaj via restajxo estos ekstermita per fajro.

26 Ili deprenos de vi viajn vestojn kaj forprenos viajn ornamajxojn.

27 Kaj Mi faros finon al via malcxastado kaj al viaj malvirtoj el la lando Egipta, kaj vi ne plu levos al ili viajn okulojn, kaj Egiptujon vi ne plu rememoros.

28 CXar tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi transdonos vin en la manojn de tiuj, kiujn vi ekmalamis, en la manojn de tiuj, de kiuj via animo tedigxis.

29 Kaj ili agos kun vi malame, kaj forprenos cxion, kion vi laborakiris, kaj ili lasos vin nuda kaj senkovra; kaj malkasxigxos la nudeco de via malcxastado, kaj viaj malvirtoj kaj viaj malcxastajxoj.

30 Tio estos farita al vi pro tio, ke vi malcxastis laux la ekzemplo de la nacioj kaj malpurigis vin per iliaj idoloj.

31 Vi iris laux la vojo de via fratino, tial Mi donos sxian kalikon en vian manon.

32 Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Vi trinkos la kalikon de via fratino, la profundan kaj largxan; vi estos mokata kaj insultata pli, ol oni povas elporti.

33 Vi farigxos plena de ebrieco kaj malgxojo, cxar kaliko de teruro kaj ruinigo estas la kaliko de via fratino Samario.

34 Kaj vi eltrinkos gxin gxisfunde, kaj vi cxirkauxlekos gxiajn rompopecetojn, kaj vi dissxiros vian bruston; cxar Mi tion parolis, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

35 Tial tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Pro tio, ke vi forgesis Min kaj forjxetis Min malantaux vian dorson, tial suferu nun pro viaj malvirtoj kaj pro viaj malcxastajxoj.

36 Kaj la Eternulo diris al mi:Ho filo de homo! cxu vi volas jugxi Oholan kaj Oholiban kaj montri al ili iliajn abomenindajxojn?

37 CXar ili adultis, kaj sango estas sur iliaj manoj; ili adultis kun siaj idoloj; kaj siajn infanojn, kiujn ili naskis al Mi, ili trairigis por ili tra fajro, kiel mangxajxon por ili.

38 Ankoraux cxi tion ili faris al Mi:ili malpurigis Mian sanktejon en tiu tempo, kaj malsanktigis Miajn sabatojn;

39 kaj, bucxinte siajn infanojn por siaj idoloj, ili en la sama tago venis en Mian sanktejon, por malsanktigi gxin; jen tiel ili agis en Mia domo.

40 Ili ankaux sendis, por inviti homojn el malproksime, al kiuj sendito estis sendita; kaj ili venis, tiuj, por kiuj vi vin lavis, kolerigis viajn okulojn, kaj ornamis vin per ornamajxoj,

41 kaj sidigxis sur luksa lito, antaux kiu estis arangxita tablo, kaj sur gxin vi metis Mian incenson kaj Mian oleon.

42 Kaj tie estis auxdata gxojkriado de homamaso, kaj al la granda amaso da homoj venis ankaux ebriuloj el la dezerto, kaj metis braceletojn sur iliajn manojn kaj belajn kronojn sur iliajn kapojn.

43 Mi diris pri la maljunigxinta en adultado:SXi alkutimigxis al la malcxastado kaj ne povas cxesi.

44 Oni venadis al sxi, kiel oni venas al malcxastistino; tiel oni venadis al Ohola kaj al Oholiba, la malcxastulinoj.

45 Sed la homoj virtaj jugxos ilin laux la jugxo kontraux adultulinoj kaj laux la jugxo kontraux sangoversxantinoj; cxar ili estas adultulinoj, kaj sango estas sur iliaj manoj.

46 CXar tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Venigu kontraux ilin homamason, kaj oni elmetu ilin al ruinigo kaj rabado.

47 Kaj la amaso mortigu ilin per sxtonoj kaj haku ilin per siaj glavoj; iliajn filojn kaj iliajn filinojn oni mortigu, kaj iliajn domojn oni forbruligu per fajro.

48 Kaj Mi faros finon al la malcxastado en la lando, kaj tio estos averto por cxiuj virinoj, ke ili ne agu simile al via malcxastado.

49 Kaj oni metos vian malcxastadon sur vin, kaj vi portos sur vi la pekojn pri viaj idoloj; kaj vi ekscios, ke Mi estas la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#7456

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7456. 'Will they not stone us?' means that they would thereby demolish the truths of faith that related to worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'stoning' as demolishing and wiping out falsities, but in the contrary sense, when done by the evil, as demolishing and wiping out the truths of faith. If the vile, foul, and hellish things referred to above in 7454 were to enter in among people whose worship is holy its holiness would be destroyed. The reason for this is that when a person's worship is holy he is withheld from such things, and people who are governed by good in faith and life are raised above the level of the senses on which such things reside. But when such objects do enter in the foul things present on the sensory level are stirred up - that is, the things which a person is withheld from when his worship is holy, as has been stated, and which people governed by good are raised above - and the holiness of the worship is destroyed. Experience too demonstrates this plainly, for if, when a person offers worship to God, some foul object appears and is not removed, worship ceases and is destroyed. This is what is meant when it is said that if those steeped in falsities arising from evils were nearby they would demolish the truths of faith that relate to worship.

[2] As for the meaning of 'stoning', it should be recognized that the Jews and Israelites, among whom a representative of the Church had been established, had two kinds of capital punishment, one being stoning, the other hanging on wood. Stoning was used if anyone sought to destroy the truths relating to worship which were commanded, while hanging was used if anyone sought to destroy goodness of life. The reason why those who sought to destroy truths relating to worship were stoned was that a stone was a sign of truth and in the contrary sense of falsity, 643, 1298, 3720, 6426. And the reason why those who sought to destroy goodness of life were hanged on wood was that wood was a sign of good and in the contrary sense of the evil belonging to evil desires, 643, 2784, 2812, 3720.

[3] The fact that punishment by stoning would be used if anyone should destroy truths relating to worship is evident from the following places: In Ezekiel,

Finally they will cause an assembly to come up upon you, and they will stone you with stones and cut you up with their swords. Ezekiel 16:40.

This refers to the perverse Jerusalem and the destruction of the truth of faith by means of falsities. This is why it says that 'they will stone with stones' and also 'cut up with swords', for 'a sword' means truth engaged in conflict with falsity and destroying it, and in the contrary sense falsity engaged in conflict with truth and destroying it, 2799, 4499, 6353, 7102.

[4] A similar statement occurs elsewhere in the same prophet,

Cause an assembly to come up against them, in order that the assembly may stone them with stones and tear them apart with their swords. Ezekiel 23:46-47.

This refers to Jerusalem and Samaria, by which the Church is meant. Jerusalem means the celestial-spiritual Church, Samaria the spiritual Church, and this chapter describes how forms of the good and truth of faith were destroyed in them.

[5] In Moses,

If an ox strikes a man or woman with its horn so that the person dies, the ox shall surely be stoned. Exodus 21:28.

'Striking a man or woman with the horn' means falsity engaged in conflict with truth and goodness and destroying them. For 'the horn' is falsity engaged in conflict, and also the power of falsity, 2832, while 'man and woman' in the Word means truth and goodness; and this makes plain what the internal sense of that command is and why it was that the ox had to be stoned.

[6] In the same author,

Anyone blaspheming the name of Jehovah shall surely be killed; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. Leviticus 24:16.

'Blaspheming the name of Jehovah' means using malevolent falsities to do violence to truths and forms of good that relate to worship. 'The name of Jehovah' means everything in one embrace that is used to worship Jehovah, see 2724, 3006, thus every aspect of faith and charity, 6674. This also explains why the Israelite woman s son who blasphemed the name of Jehovah was led outside the camp and stoned, Leviticus 24:11, 14, 23. Furthermore it had been commanded that those who served other gods should be stoned, Deuteronomy 17:3, 5, and also those who enticed anyone to serve other gods, Deuteronomy 13:6-10. 'Serving other gods' means profane worship by means of which true worship is destroyed.

[7] If no evidence of virginity were found with a young woman when she married she was to be stoned because she had played the fool in Israel by committing whoredom in her father's house, Deuteronomy 22:20-21. The reason for this was that 'whoredom' meant the falsification of truth, thus the destruction of it, 2466, 4865. If a man lay in the city with a young woman, a virgin, who was betrothed to a man, both were to be stoned, Deuteronomy 22:23-24, and for the same reason, namely whoredom; for spiritual whoredom is the falsification of truth. In Luke 20:5-6, [one reads about the chief priests, scribes, and elders] coming to the conclusion among themselves that if they said John's baptism was from heaven [the Lord] would say, 'Why did you not believe him?' But if they said 'From men', all the people would stone them. Here also 'stoning' is spoken of because of opposition to the truth.

The reason why the Jews sought to stone Jesus because He said, Before Abraham was, I am, John 8:58-59, was that that nation believed this to be false. In a similar way they sought to stone Jesus because He said He and His Father were one, John 10:30-33; for they thought, as these verses also state, that this was blasphemy.

From all this one may now see what stoning was and why it was commanded, and also that punishment by stoning, administered since ancient times as its use in Egypt proves, was derived from the representatives of the Ancient Church.

  
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2009. That 'no longer will your name be called Abram' means that He will cast off the human, and that 'your name will be Abraham' means that He will put on the Divine, is clear from the meaning of 'name', also from the meaning of 'Abram', and after that of 'Abraham'. When the phrase 'your name will be' is used in the Word it means the nature of, that is, what a person's nature is going to be like, as is clear from what has been brought forward in Volume One, in 144, 145, 1754. And since 'names means the nature of, a name includes everything in its entirety within that person, for in heaven no attention is paid to someone's name, but when anyone is referred to by name, or when a name is used, a mental picture of his nature comes up, that is, of all that is his, with him and in him. This is why 'name' in the Word means the nature of. To make this matter clearer to the understanding let further confirmatory quotations from the Word be introduced, such as in the Blessing in Moses,

Jehovah bless you and keep you; Jehovah make His face 1 shine upon you and be merciful to you; Jehovah lift up His face 1 upon you and give you peace.

So shall they put My name upon the sons of Israel. Numbers 6:24-27.

From this it is evident what 'name' and 'putting Jehovah's name upon the sons of Israel' means, namely that Jehovah blesses, keeps, enlightens, is merciful, and gives peace, and that such is Jehovah's or the Lord's nature.

[2] In the Ten Commandments,

You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless who has taken His name in vain. Exodus 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11.

Here taking God's name in vain does not mean His name but every single thing deriving from Him, and so every single thing belonging to the worship of Him, which must not be treated with disdain, still less be blasphemed and defiled by what is filthy. In the Lord's Prayer,

Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, as in heaven so on earth. Luke 11:2.

Nor in this instance is 'name' used to mean name but all things that belong to love and faith, for these are God's, or the Lord's, and derive from Him. Since the latter are holy, the Lord's kingdom comes, and His will is done on earth as it is in heaven, when they are upheld as being holy.

[3] That 'name' means such things is clear from all the places in the Old Testament Word and in the New where the word 'name' is used, as in Isaiah,

You will say on that day, Confess Jehovah, call on His name, make His deeds known among the peoples, make mention that His name is exalted. Isaiah 12:4.

Here 'calling on the name of Jehovah' and 'making mention that it is exalted' does not in any way mean making the name itself an object of worship, or believing that Jehovah is called on by the mere uttering of His name, but by knowing His nature, and so every single thing that derives from Him. In the same prophet,

Therefore in the Urim give honour to Jehovah, in the isles of the sea to the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel. Isaiah 24:15.

Here 'in the Urim give honour to Jehovah' means worship based on the holy things of love, 'in the isles of the sea to the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel' worship based on the holy things of faith.

[4] In the same prophet,

Jehovah our God, in You alone will we make mention of Your name. Isaiah 26:13.

And in the same prophet,

I will stir up one from the north, and he will come, from the rising of the sun he will call on My name. Isaiah 41:25.

Here 'making mention of' and 'calling on the name of Jehovah' is worshipping from the goods of love and the truths of faith. Those 'from the north' are people outside the Church who do not know the name of Jehovah but who do nevertheless call on His name when they are leading charitable lives one with another and venerate some deity as the Creator of the universe, for it is the worship and what constitutes it, not the name, that calling on Jehovah entails. That the Lord is also present with gentiles, see 932, 1032, 1059.

[5] In the same prophet,

The nations will see your righteousness and all the kings your glory; and you will be called by a new name which the mouth of Jehovah will announce. Isaiah 62:2.

Here 'you will be called by a new name' stands for becoming a different person, that is to say, as a result of being created anew or regenerated, and so stands for becoming such. In Micah,

All the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and eternally. Micah 4:5.

'Walking in the name of its god' clearly stands for worship that is profane, while 'walking in the name of Jehovah' stands for true worship. In Malachi,

From the rising of the sun and even to its setting, great is My name among the nations; and in every place incense is offered to My name, and a pure minchah, for great is My name among the nations. Malachi 1:11.

Here 'name' is not used to mean the name but the worship; and this worship is the essential nature of Jehovah or the Lord, from which He wills to be adored.

[6] In Moses,

The place which Jehovah your God chooses out of all the tribes to put His name there, and to make His name dwell there, to that place shall you bring all that I am commanding you. Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, 14; 16:2, 6, 11.

Here also 'putting His name' and 'making His name dwell there' do not mean the name but the worship, and so Jehovah's or the Lord's essential nature from which He is to be worshipped. His nature consists in the good of love and the truth of faith, it being with those who are governed by such good and truth that Jehovah's name dwells. In Jeremiah,

Go to My place which is in Shiloh where I made My name dwell at first. Jeremiah 7:12.

Here similarly 'name' stands for worship, and so for doctrine concerning true faith. It may become clear to anyone that Jehovah does not dwell with somebody who merely knows and utters His name, for without any conception and recognition of His essential nature, and without any belief in it, the name by itself is a mere verbal expression. From this it is evident that the word 'name' means the nature of, and the knowledge of that nature.

[7] In Moses,

At that time Jehovah set apart the tribe of Levi to serve Him and to bless in His name. Deuteronomy 10:8.

Here 'blessing in the name of Jehovah' is doing so not by means of the name but by means of those qualities associated with the name of Jehovah which have been referred to above. In Jeremiah,

This is His name which they will call Him, Jehovah our righteousness. Jeremiah 23:6.

Here 'name' stands for the righteousness which is the essential nature of the Lord, to whom these words refer. In Isaiah,

Jehovah called Me from the womb, from My mother's body 2 He made mention of My name. Isaiah 49:1.

These words too refer to the Lord. 'Making mention of His name' is informing about His essential nature.

[8] That 'name' means the nature of is plainer still in John's Revelation,

You have a few names in Sardis, who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. He who conquers will be clad in white garments and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; and I will confess his name before My father and before the angels. He who conquers I will write on him the name of God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name. Revelation 3:4-5, 12.

Here it is quite clear that name does not mean the name but the essential nature of him who conquers. 'The name in the book of life' is nothing else. Nor is 'confessing his name before My Father', and 'writing on him the name of God and of the city, and a new name'. The same applies elsewhere to the names which are said to have been written in the book of life and in heaven, Revelation 13:8; 17:8; Luke 10:20.

[9] In heaven one person is always recognized from another by his nature or character, which is expressed in the sense of the letter as 'the name', as may also become clear to anyone from the fact that on earth the mention of anybody's name presents to another a mental picture of his nature or character by which he is known and distinguished from anyone else. In the next life those mental pictures survive but names perish. More especially is this so with angels. This is why in the internal sense 'name' means the essential nature of, or the knowledge of that nature. In the same book,

On the head of Him who sat on the white horse were many jewels. He has a name written which no one knows but He Himself. He was clad in a garment dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. Revelation 19:12-13.

Here it is stated openly that His 'name' is The Word of God, thus the essential nature of Him who sat on the white horse.

[10] The fact that the name of Jehovah means the knowledge of His nature, that is to say, it means every good of love and every truth of faith, is quite clear from these words spoken by the Lord,

Righteous Father, I have known You, and these too have known that You have sent Me, for I made known to them Your name, and I will make it known that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:25-26.

[11] And that the name of God or of the Lord means the whole doctrine of faith concerning love and charity, which is meant by 'believing in His name', is clear from these words in the same gospel,

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His name. John 1:12.

If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. If you love Me, keep My commandments. John 14:13-15.

Whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give it to you. These things I command you, that you love one another. John 15:16-17.

In Matthew,

Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:20.

Here 'being gathered together in the Lord's name' means those who possess the doctrine of faith concerning love and charity, and so who are governed by love and charity.

[12] In the same gospel,

You will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. Matthew 10:22; 24:9-10; Mark 13:13.

Here 'for My name's sake' clearly stands for doctrine's sake. The fact that a name itself is of no avail, only that which the name embodies, that is to say, everything constituting charity and faith, is quite clear from the following in Matthew,

Did we not prophesy through Your name, and cast out demons through Your name, and do many mighty works in Your name? And then I will confess to them, I do not know you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. Matthew 7:22-23.

From this it is clear that people who make worship consist in a name, as Jews do in the name of Jehovah and Christians in the name of the Lord, are not on that account worthier than any others, for the name is of no avail. But they are worthier when their characters conform to what He has commanded; and this is the meaning of 'believing in His name'. And when they say that there is salvation in no other name than the Lord's they mean in no other doctrine, that is, in none other than mutual love, which is the true doctrine of faith, and so in none other than the Lord since all love comes from Him alone, and all faith from that love.

脚注:

1. literally, faces

2. literally, viscera

  
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