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Hesekiel第13章

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1 Und des HERRN Wort geschah zu mir und sprach:

2 Du Menschenkind, weissage wider die Propheten Israels und sprich zu denen, so aus ihrem eigenen Herzen weissagen: Höret des HERRN Wort!

3 So spricht der HERR HERR: Wehe den tollen Propheten, die ihrem eigenen Geist folgen und haben doch nicht Gesichte!

4 O Israel, deine Propheten sind wie die Füchse in den Wüsten!

5 Sie treten nicht vor die Lücken und machen sich nicht zur Hürde um das Haus Israel und stehen nicht im Streit am Tage des HERRN.

6 Ihr Gesicht ist nichts, und ihr Weissagen ist eitel Lügen. Sie sprechen: Der HERR hat's gesagt, so sie doch der HERR nicht gesandt hat, und mühen sich, daß sie ihre Dinge erhalten.

7 Ist's nicht also, daß euer Gesicht ist nichts, und euer Weissagen ist eitel Lügen? Und sprechet doch: Der HERR hat's geredet, so ich's doch nicht geredet habe.

8 Darum spricht der HERR HERR also: Weil ihr das prediget, da nichts aus wird, und Lügen weissaget, so will ich an euch, spricht der HERR HERR.

9 Und meine Hand soll kommen über die Propheten, so das predigen, da nichts aus wird, und Lügen weissagen. Sie sollen in der Versammlung meines Volks nicht sein und in die Zahl des Hauses Israel nicht geschrieben werden noch ins Land Israel kommen; und ihr sollt erfahren, daß ich der HERR HERR bin,

10 darum daß sie mein Volk verführen und sagen: Friede! so doch kein Friede ist. Das Volk bauet die Wand, so tünchen sie dieselbe mit losem Kalk.

11 Sprich zu den Tünchern, die mit losem Kalk tünchen, daß es abfallen wird; denn es wird ein Platzregen kommen, und werden große Hagel fallen, die es fällen, und ein Windwirbel wird es zerreißen.

12 Siehe, so wird die Wand einfallen. Was gilt's, dann wird man zu euch sagen: Wo ist nun, das Getünchte, das ihr getüncht habt?

13 So spricht der HERR HERR: Ich will einen Windwirbel reißen lassen in meinem Grimm und einen Platzregen in meinem Zorn und große Hagelsteine im Grimm, die sollen es alles umstoßen.

14 Also will ich die Wand umwerfen, die ihr mit losem Kalk getüncht habt, und will sie zu Boden stoßen, daß man ihren Grund sehen soll, daß sie da liege; und ihr sollt drinnen auch umkommen und erfahren, daß ich der HERR sei.

15 Also will ich meinen Grimm vollenden an der Wand und an denen, die sie mit losem Kalk tünchen und zu euch sagen: Hie ist weder Wand noch Tüncher.

16 Das sind die Propheten Israels, die Jerusalem weissagen und predigen von Friede, so doch kein Friede ist, spricht der HERR HERR.

17 Und, du Menschenkind, richte dein Angesicht wider die Töchter in deinem Volk, welche weissagen aus ihrem Herzen, und weissage wider sie

18 und sprich: So spricht der HERR HERR: Wehe euch, die ihr Kissen machet den Leuten unter die Arme und Pfühle zu den Häupten, beide, Jungen und Alten, die Seelen zu fahen! Wenn ihr nun die Seelen gefangen habt unter meinem Volk, verheißet ihr denselbigen das Leben

19 und entheiliget mich in meinem Volk um einer Hand voll Gerste und Bissen Brots willen, damit daß ihr die Seelen zum Tode verurteilet, die doch nicht sollten sterben, und urteilet die zum Leben; die doch nicht leben sollten, durch eure Lügen unter meinem Volk, welches gerne Lügen höret.

20 Darum spricht der HERR HERR: Siehe, ich will an eure Kissen, damit ihr die Seelen fahet und vertröstet, und will sie von euren Armen wegreißen und die Seelen, so ihr fahet und vertröstet, losmachen.

21 Und will eure Pfühle zerreißen und mein Volk aus eurer Hand erretten, daß ihr sie nicht mehr fahen sollt; und sollt erfahren, daß ich der HERR sei,

22 darum daß ihr das Herz der Gerechten fälschlich betrübet, die ich nicht betrübet habe, und habt gestärket die Hände der Gottlosen, daß sie sich von ihrem bösen Wesen nicht bekehren, damit sie lebendig möchten bleiben.

23 Darum sollt ihr nicht mehr unnütze Lehre predigen noch weissagen, sondern ich will mein Volk aus euren Händen erretten, und ihr sollt erfahren, daß ich der HERR bin.

   

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3024.'That you do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites' means that the Divine Rational should not be joined to any affection incompatible with truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'taking a woman' as being joined by means of the marriage covenant; from the meaning of 'my son', namely Isaac, as the Lord's Divine Rational, dealt with in 1893, 2066, 2083, 2630; from the meaning of 'daughters' as affections, dealt with in 489-491, 568, 2362; and from the meaning of 'the Canaanites' as evil, dealt with in 1444, 1573, 1574. Consequently 'the daughters of the Canaanites' are affections incompatible with truth. The subject here is Divine truth which was to be allied to the Divine good of the Lord's Rational, as may be seen in 3013 under 'Contents'. 'A woman' who was to be associated by means of a marriage covenant is used to mean that truth itself which is summoned from the natural man in the normal manner. 'My son' is used to mean the Lord's Rational as regards the good with which it was to be allied or associated. From this one may recognize that the command not to take a wife for his son from the daughters of the Canaanites means that the Divine Rational should not be joined to any affection incompatible with truth. All joining of truth to good is effected by means of affection, for no truth ever enters the rational part of a person's mind or is joined to it except by means of affection, for affection has within it the good that flows from love, which good alone effects the joining together, 1895, as also anyone may know who stops to reflect on it.

[2] As regards 'the daughters of the Canaanites' meaning affections incompatible with truth, that is, affections for what is false, this becomes clear from the meaning of 'daughters'. For the noun 'daughters' occurs in many places in the Word, and in these anyone may see that it is not used to mean daughters. By such expressions as 'the daughter of Zion', 'the daughter of Jerusalem', 'the daughter of Tarshish', 'the daughter of My people', affections for good and truth are meant, as shown in the paragraphs referred to above. And since affections for good and truth are meant so also are Churches, for Churches are Churches by virtue of these affections. Consequently 'the daughter of Zion' means the celestial Church, and means this by virtue of the affection for good, whereas 'the daughter of Jerusalem' means the spiritual Church from the affection for truth, 2362. And it is the same with 'the daughter of My people' in Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 6:14, 26; 8:19, 21-22; 9:1; 14:17; Lamentations 2:11; 4:6; Ezekiel 13:17.

[3] This shows what is meant by the daughters of the nations, such as by the daughters of the Philistines, the daughters of Egypt, the daughters of Tyre and Sidon, the daughters of Edom, the daughters of Moab, the daughters of the Chaldeans and Babel, and the daughters of Sodom. They mean affections for evil and falsity, from which their varieties of religion sprang, and so mean those varieties themselves. That this is the meaning of 'daughters' becomes clear from the following places: In Ezekiel,

The daughters of the nations will lament over Egypt. Wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send her down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the lower earth, together with those who go down to the pit. Ezekiel 32:16, 18.

'The daughters of majestic nations' stands for affections for evil. In Samuel,

Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult. 2 Samuel 1:20.

In Ezekiel,

You committed whoredom with the sons of Egypt. I delivered you to those who hated you, the daughters of the Philistines. Before your badness was revealed, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all round about her, the daughters of the Philistines who despise you from round about. Ezekiel 16:26-27, 57.

Anyone may see that not daughters were meant here but the varieties of religion among such people as are meant by the Philistines - those who speak repeatedly of faith yet do not at all pursue the life taught by faith, see 1197, 1198. This also explains why they are called 'the uncircumcised', that is, devoid of charity.

[4] In Jeremiah,

Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! Make for yourself vessels of migration, O inhabitant daughter of Egypt. The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame; she has been delivered into the hand of the people from the north. Jeremiah 46:11, 19, 24.

'The daughter of Egypt' stands for the affection for reasoning from facts about whether truths of faith really are true, and so stands for the variety of religion which springs from this, the nature of which is to believe nothing except that grasped by the senses, and so to believe nothing of the truth of faith, see 215, 232, 233, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1385, 2196, 2203, 2209, 2568, 2588. In Isaiah,

He said, You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Isaiah 23:12.

In David,

The daughter of Tyre with an offering, the rich of the people will entreat your face. Psalms 45:12.

What 'the daughter of Sidon' and 'the daughter of Tyre' mean is evident from the meaning of Sidon and Tyre, dealt with in 1201. In Jeremiah,

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom. Your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is at an end. He will no more cause you to migrate; your iniquity will be punished, O daughter of Edom. Lamentations 4:21-22.

In Isaiah,

Like a wandering bird, a scattered nest, will the daughters of Moab be. Isaiah 16:2.

In the same prophet,

Come down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babel; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. Sit quietly and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for no more will they call you the mistress of kingdoms. Isaiah 47:1, 5.

In Jeremiah,

A people coming from the north, arrayed as a man for war against you, O daughter of Babel. Jeremiah 50:41-42.

In the same prophet,

The daughter of Babel is like the threshing-floor; it is time to thresh her. Jeremiah 51:33

In Zechariah,

Ho, Zion! escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babel. Zechariah 2:7.

In David,

The daughter of Babel has been laid waste. Psalms 137:8.

In Ezekiel,

Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will return to their condition as of old, and Samaria and her daughters will return to their condition as of old. Ezekiel 16:55.

[5] Anyone may see that in these places 'daughters' is not used to mean daughters but affections incompatible with truth, and so the varieties of religion that spring from them. But which particular varieties they are is evident from the meaning of those peoples - from the meaning of Edom, Moab, the Chaldeans, Babel, Sodom, Samaria, all of which have been dealt with in various places in the explanations to previous chapters of Genesis. From this what is meant in the present chapter by 'the daughters of the Canaanites' becomes clear.

[6] This command not to contract marriages with the daughters of the Canaanites also had regard to the spiritual requirements that good should not be joined to falsity, nor evil to truth, for the result of any such joining together is profanation. The prohibition was also a representative of the matter referred to in Deuteronomy 7:3, and in Malachi,

Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah, in that he loved and married the daughter of a foreign god. Malachi 2:11.

  
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