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Yechezchial第38章

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1 ויהי דבר־יהוה אלי לאמר׃

2 בן־אדם שים פניך אל־גוג ארץ המגוג נשיא ראש משך ותבל והנבא עליו׃

3 ואמרת כה אמר אדני יהוה הנני אליך גוג נשיא ראש משך ותבל׃

4 ושובבתיך ונתתי חחים בלחייך והוצאתי אותך ואת־כל־חילך סוסים ופרשים לבשי מכלול כלם קהל רב צנה ומגן תפשי חרבות כלם׃

5 פרס כוש ופוט אתם כלם מגן וכובע׃

6 גמר וכל־אגפיה בית תוגרמה ירכתי צפון ואת־כל־אגפיו עמים רבים אתך׃

7 הכן והכן לך אתה וכל־קהלך הנקהלים עליך והיית להם למשמר׃

8 מימים רבים תפקד באחרית השנים תבוא אל־ארץ משובבת מחרב מקבצת מעמים רבים על הרי ישראל אשר־היו לחרבה תמיד והיא מעמים הוצאה וישבו לבטח כלם׃

9 ועלית כשאה תבוא כעןן לכסות הארץ תהיה אתה וכל־אגפיך ועמים רבים אותך׃ ס

10 כה אמר אדני יהוה והיה ביום ההוא יעלו דברים על־לבבך וחשבת מחשבת רעה׃

11 ואמרת אעלה על־ארץ פרזות אבוא השקטים ישבי לבטח כלם ישבים באין חומה ובריח ודלתים אין להם׃

12 לשלל שלל ולבז בז להשיב ידך על־חרבות נושבת ואל־עם מאסף מגוים עשה מקנה וקנין ישבי על־טבור הארץ׃

13 שבא ודדן וסחרי תרשיש וכל־כפריה יאמרו לך הלשלל שלל אתה בא הלבז בז הקהלת קהלך לשאת כסף וזהב לקחת מקנה וקנין לשלל שלל גדול׃ ס

14 לכן הנבא בן־אדם ואמרת לגוג כה אמר אדני יהוה הלוא ביום ההוא בשבת עמי ישראל לבטח תדע׃

15 ובאת ממקומך מירכתי צפון אתה ועמים רבים אתך רכבי סוסים כלם קהל גדול וחיל רב׃

16 ועלית על־עמי ישראל כעןן לכסות הארץ באחרית הימים תהיה והבאותיך על־ארצי למען דעת הגוים אתי בהקדשי בך לעיניהם גוג׃ ס

17 כה־אמר אדני יהוה האתה־הוא אשר־דברתי בימים קדמונים ביד עבדי נביאי ישראל הנבאים בימים ההם שנים להביא אתך עליהם׃ ס

18 והיה ביום ההוא ביום בוא גוג על־אדמת ישראל נאם אדני יהוה תעלה חמתי באפי׃

19 ובקנאתי באש־עברתי דברתי אם־לא ביום ההוא יהיה רעש גדול על אדמת ישראל׃

20 ורעשו מפני דגי הים ועוף השמים וחית השדה וכל־הרמש הרמש על־האדמה וכל האדם אשר על־פני האדמה ונהרסו ההרים ונפלו המדרגות וכל־חומה לארץ תפול׃

21 וקראתי עליו לכל־הרי חרב נאם אדני יהוה חרב איש באחיו תהיה׃

22 ונשפטתי אתו בדבר ובדם וגשם שוטף ואבני אלגביש אש וגפרית אמטיר עליו ועל־אגפיו ועל־עמים רבים אשר אתו׃

23 והתגדלתי והתקדשתי ונודעתי לעיני גוים רבים וידעו כי־אני יהוה׃ ס

   

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Arcana Coelestia#1151

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1151. 'Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras' were just so many nations with whom such worship existed, and who in the internal sense mean just so many differing types of doctrine which were one and the same as the forms of ritual which they observed devoutly. This is quite clear from the Word where these nations are mentioned in various places, for those nations everywhere mean external worship, sometimes external worship corresponding to internal, sometimes the contrary The reason the latter is sometimes meant is that all Churches everywhere altered in the course of time, and altered indeed into something contrary. The fact that the nations named here mean nothing other than external worship, and therefore their doctrinal teachings, which were forms of ritual, becomes clear, as has been stated, from other parts of the Word, chiefly in the Prophets.

[2] Magog, Meshech, Tubal, and Gomer are referred to in Ezekiel as follows,

Son of man, set your face 1 towards Gog, the land of Magog, the prince, the head of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, and say, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince, the head of Meshech and Tubal; and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you back, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company, with shield and buckler, all of them wielding swords: Persia, Cush, and Put with them; Gomer and all on his flanks; Bethtogarmah, the uttermost parts of the north, and all on his Ranks. In the latter years you will come upon the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been made a waste. Ezekiel 38:2-6, 8.

The subject in the whole of this chapter is a Church that became corrupted and which at length focused the whole of worship in external things or religious observances once charity, meant by 'the mountains of Israel', had been destroyed. Here 'Gog and the land of Magog, the prince and head of Meshech and Tubal' is worship confined to external things. Anyone may see that Gog and Magog are not the subject, for the Word of the Lord does not deal with worldly things, but embodies Divine matters.

[3] In the same prophet,

Prophesy against Gog and say, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince, the head of Meshech and Tubal; and I will bring you back, and will split you into six, and make you come up from the uttermost parts of the north and bring you on to the mountains of Israel. On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all on your flanks, and the peoples that are with you. Ezekiel 39:1-2, 4.

The subject in the whole of this chapter is likewise external worship separated from internal and made idolatrous. Such worship is meant here by 'Gog, Meshech and Tubal' who are also used to mean the matters of doctrine which people adopt and then confirm from the literal sense of the Word, and in so doing falsify truths and destroy internal worship. For, as has been stated, those same nations also mean contrary things.

[4] In John,

When the thousand years have come to an end, Satan will be loosed from his prison, and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth. Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle. They went up over the breadth 2 of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, [and] the beloved city. Revelation 20:7-9.

Here also 'Gog and Magog' has a similar meaning. External worship separated from internal, that is, separated from love to the Lord and from love towards the neighbour, is nothing but idolatrous worship which 'surrounds the camp of the saints and the beloved city'.

[5] Meshech and Tubal are referred to in Ezekiel as follows,

Meshech and Tubal are there, and all their crowd; round about it are its graves; all of them are uncircumcised, pierced by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living. Ezekiel 32:26.

This refers to Egypt, that is, to factual knowledge by means of which people wish to inquire into spiritual things. 'Meshech and Tubal' stands for doctrinal teachings, which were forms of ritual, which are called 'uncircumcised' when love does not exist. Consequently they are 'pierced by the sword, and a terror in the land of the living'.

[6] Javan is referred to in Joel,

You have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Javanites, 3 to remove them far away from their border. Joel 3:6.

'The sons of Judah' stands for things on the celestial side of faith, 'the sons of Jerusalem' for those on the spiritual side, and so for things that are internal. 'The sons of the Javanites' stands for worship in external things that is separated from internal worship; and because this worship is so far removed from that which is internal it is said that they 'removed them far away from their border'.

[7] 'Javan and Tubal' in Isaiah stands for true external worship itself,

One is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they will come and see My glory, and I will set a sign among them And I will send survivors from them to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands far off that have not heard My fame and have not seen My glory; and they will declare My glory among the nations. Isaiah 66:18-19.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom and His Coming. 'Tubal and Javan' stands for those whose worship is external corresponding to internal and who are to be informed about internal things.

脚注:

1. literally, faces

2. literally, the plain

3. i.e. the Greeks

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