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Zephaniah第3章

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1 Voi uppiniskaista ja saastutettua, voi väkivaltaista kaupunkia!

2 Se ei ole totellut ääntä, ei huolinut kurituksesta, ei luottanut Herraan, ei lähestynyt Jumalaansa.

3 Sen päämiehet sen keskellä ovat ärjyviä leijonia. Sen tuomarit ovat kuin sudet illalla, jotka eivät säästä mitään aamuksi.

4 Sen profeetat ovat huikentelijoita, uskottomia miehiä. Sen papit saastuttavat pyhän ja tekevät väkivaltaa laille.

5 Herra on vanhurskas sen keskellä, hän ei tee väärin. Joka aamu hän tuo valoon oikeutensa, ei se tulematta jää. Mutta väärintekijä ei tunne häpeätä.

6 Minä olen hävittänyt pakanakansat, niiden muurinkulmat ovat autioina. Minä olen tehnyt niiden kadut raunioiksi, kulkijattomiksi; niiden kaupungit ovat hävitetyt ihmisettömiksi, asujattomiksi.

7 Minä olen sanonut: Ainoastaan pelkää minua ja ota varteen kuritus, niin ei hävitetä tytär Siionin asumusta, ei mitään siitä, mitä minä olen hänelle säätänyt. Kuitenkin he varhaisesta alkaen ovat aina pahemmin tehneet.

8 Sentähden odottakaa minua, sanoo Herra, odottakaa sitä päivää, jona minä nousen saaliille. Sillä minun tuomioni on, että minä kokoan pakanakansat, saatan kokoon valtakunnat vuodattaakseni heidän päällensä tuimuuteni, vihani kaiken hehkun; sillä minun kiivauteni tuli kuluttaa koko maan.

9 Silloin minä muutan puhtaiksi kansain huulet, niin että ne kaikki rukoilevat Herran nimeä, palvelevat häntä yksimielisesti.

10 Tuolta puolen Etiopian virtain tuovat minun rukoilijani-tytär, minun hajoitettu joukkoni-minulle ruokauhreja.

11 Sinä päivänä ei sinun tarvitse hävetä yhtäkään niistä teoistasi, joilla olet rikkonut minua vastaan, sillä silloin minä poistan sinun keskuudestasi sinun ylvääsi, riemuitsevaisesi, etkä sinä sitten enää ylpeile minun pyhällä vuorellani.

12 Mutta minä jätän jäljelle sinun keskuuteesi kurjan ja vaivaisen kansan, ja he luottavat Herran nimeen.

13 Israelin jäännökset eivät tee väärin, eivät puhu valhetta, eikä heidän suussaan tavata vilpillistä kieltä. Sillä he kaitsevat kaittaviansa ja makaavat kenenkään peloittelematta.

14 Iloitse, tytär Siion, puhkea huutoon, Israel; ihastu ja ratkea riemuun kaikesta sydämestäsi, tytär Jerusalem.

15 Herra on poistanut sinun tuomiosi, kääntänyt pois sinun vihollisesi. Israelin kuningas, Herra, on sinun keskelläsi. Ei tarvitse sinun enää onnettomuutta nähdä.

16 Sinä päivänä sanotaan Jerusalemille: "Älä pelkää, Siion, älkööt kätesi hervotko.

17 Herra, sinun Jumalasi, on sinun keskelläsi, sankari, joka auttaa. Hän ilolla iloitsee sinusta, hän on ääneti, sillä hän rakastaa sinua, hän sinusta riemulla riemuitsee."

18 Jotka murehtivat, kaukana juhlakokouksista, ne minä kokoan: nehän ovat sinusta, niitä häväistys kuormana painaa.

19 Katso, siihen aikaan minä teen tekoni kaikille sinun nöyryyttäjillesi. Minä pelastan ontuvat ja kokoan karkoitetut ja teen heidät ylistetyiksi ja mainehikkaiksi jokaisessa maassa, jossa he olivat häpeänalaisina.

20 Siihen aikaan minä tuon teidät takaisin-siihen aikaan, jona minä teidät kokoan. Sillä minä teen teidät mainehikkaiksi ja ylistetyiksi kaikissa maan kansoissa, kun minä käännän teidän kohtalonne teidän silmäinne nähden; sanoo Herra.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#9552

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9552. 'Its pomegranates' means factual knowledge of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'pomegranates' as factual knowledge of good. There is factual knowledge of good and factual knowledge of truth; the former is meant by 'pomegranates' and the latter by 'flowers' which embellished the lampstand all around. The fact that factual knowledge of good is meant by 'pomegranates' is clear from other places where they are mentioned, as in Moses,

A land of wheat and barley, and of the vine and of the fig and of the pomegranate. Deuteronomy 8:8.

And in Haggai,

Is seed not as yet in the barn? And [has nothing whatever borne fruit,] even to the vine, or the fig tree, or the pomegranate? Haggai 2:19.

'Wheat and barley' and 'seed in the barn' mean things that are celestial, both internal and external, 'the vine, the fig tree, and the pomegranate' those that are spiritual and natural, in their proper order. The lowest of these is factual knowledge, which exists on the natural and sensory level of the human mind; and this is why 'the pomegranate' is mentioned last.

[2] In Zephaniah,

Jehovah will destroy Asshur. Flocks will repose in the midst of her, every wild animal of [that] nation. The spoonbill also and the duck will lodge in its pomegranates. 1 Zephaniah 2:13-14.

'The spoonbill and the duck in its pomegranates' stands for falsities arising from evil that are present in factual knowledge of good. In Amos,

I saw the Lord standing over the altar, and He said, Strike the pomegranate, 2 that the posts may shake; that is, split them all on the head. The last of them I will kill with the sword. Amos 9:1.

'Striking the pomegranate' stands for destroying factual knowledge of good by means of falsities arising from evil. 'The posts' are said 'to shake' then because 'the posts' are the truths of the natural, 7847. 'Killing the last with the sword' stands for destroying in that way the lowest of these; for 'the sword' is truth battling against falsity and destroying it, or falsity battling against truth and destroying it, 2799, 4499, 6353, 7102, 8294.

脚注:

1. The original Hebrew word is thought to describe capitals shaped like pomegranates.

2. What this refers to exactly, whether to capitals or to people of high rank, is not clear.

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

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Exodus第25章

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,

4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,

5 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

10 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and Two rings on the other side of it.

13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.

22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

23 "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

25 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.

30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

31 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;

33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;

34 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.

39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.

40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.