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Hesekiel第15章

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1 Und das Wort Jehovas geschah zu mir also:

2 Menschensohn, was ist das Holz des Weinstocks mehr als alles andere Holz, die Rebe, welche unter den Bäumen des Waldes war?

3 Wird Holz davon genommen, um es zu einer Arbeit zu verwenden? Oder nimmt man davon einen Pflock, um irgend ein Gerät daran zu hängen?

4 Siehe, es wird dem Feuer zur Speise gegeben. Hat das Feuer seine beiden Enden verzehrt und ist seine Mitte versengt, wird es zu einer Arbeit taugen?

5 Siehe, wenn es unversehrt ist, wird es zu keiner Arbeit verwendet; wieviel weniger, wenn das Feuer es verzehrt hat und es versengt ist, kann es noch zu einer Arbeit verwendet werden! -

6 Darum, so spricht der Herr, Jehova: Wie das Holz des Weinstocks unter den Bäumen des Waldes, welches ich dem Feuer zur Speise gebe, also gebe ich die Bewohner von Jerusalem dahin;

7 und ich werde mein Angesicht wider sie richten: Aus dem Feuer kommen sie heraus, und Feuer wird sie verzehren. Und ihr werdet wissen, daß ich Jehova bin, wenn ich mein Angesicht wider sie richte.

8 Und ich werde das Land zur Wüste machen, weil sie Treulosigkeit begangen haben, spricht der Herr, Jehova.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#9776

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9776. 'And as for all the vessels of the dwelling-place, in all [its] service' means the truths and the forms of good on the level of factual knowledge which the external man possesses. This is clear from the meaning of 'the vessels' as factual knowledge, dealt with in 3068, 3079, 9394, 9544; from the meaning of 'the dwelling-place' as heaven, dealt with in 9594, 9596, 9632; and from the meaning of 'service' as the external or natural level in a person, dealt with in 3019, 3020, 5305, 7998. The external or natural level in a person is a servant because it ought to serve the internal or spiritual level in a person. For the human being has been created to conform to an image of heaven and to an image of the world, the internal or spiritual man to an image of heaven and the external or natural man to an image of the world, 9279. Just as the world ought to serve heaven, so the external or natural level in a person ought to serve his internal or spiritual. The external has also been created to be a servant; for it has no life of its own and so cannot do anything by itself. It is dependent on the internal or spiritual, that is, through this on the Lord. From this it is also evident that the external or natural level in a person is not anything unless it is a servant to the internal or spiritual, and that so far as it does serve the internal it is something. To be a servant is to be obedient, and the external is obedient when it does not take ideas stored in the understanding and use them as reasons to justify the evils of self-love and love of the world, but complies with reason and the teachings of the Church which dictate that what is good and true should be done not for selfish and worldly reasons but for goodness and truth's own sake. When all this is so, the Lord - acting through the person's heaven, that is, through the person's internal man - is the doer of those things. For all goodness and truth spring from the Lord, so much so that what is good and true in anyone is the Lord Himself. From all this it becomes clear why it is that the external man must be a servant to the internal.

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