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Yechezchial第44章

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1 וישב אתי דרך שער המקדש החיצון הפנה קדים והוא סגור׃

2 ויאמר אלי יהוה השער הזה סגור יהיה לא יפתח ואיש לא־יבא בו כי יהוה אלהי־ישראל בא בו והיה סגור׃

3 את־הנשיא נשיא הוא ישב־בו [כ= לאכול] [ק= לאכל]־לחם לפני יהוה מדרך אלם השער יבוא ומדרכו יצא׃

4 ויביאני דרך־שער הצפון אל־פני הבית וארא והנה מלא כבוד־יהוה את־בית יהוה ואפל אל־פני׃

5 ויאמר אלי יהוה בן־אדם שים לבך וראה בעיניך ובאזניך שמע את כל־אשר אני מדבר אתך לכל־חקות בית־יהוה ולכל־[כ= תורתו] [ק= תורתיו] ושמת לבך למבוא הבית בכל מוצאי המקדש׃

6 ואמרת אל־מרי אל־בית ישראל כה אמר אדני יהוה רב־לכם מכל־תועבותיכם בית ישראל׃

7 בהביאכם בני־נכר ערלי־לב וערלי בשר להיות במקדשי לחללו את־ביתי בהקריבכם את־לחמי חלב ודם ויפרו את־בריתי אל כל־תועבותיכם׃

8 ולא שמרתם משמרת קדשי ותשימון לשמרי משמרתי במקדשי לכם׃

9 כה־אמר אדני יהוה כל־בן־נכר ערל לב וערל בשר לא יבוא אל־מקדשי לכל־בן־נכר אשר בתוך בני ישראל׃

10 כי אם־הלוים אשר רחקו מעלי בתעות ישראל אשר תעו מעלי אחרי גלוליהם ונשאו עונם׃

11 והיו במקדשי משרתים פקדות אל־שערי הבית ומשרתים את־הבית המה ישחטו את־העלה ואת־הזבח לעם והמה יעמדו לפניהם לשרתם׃

12 יען אשר ישרתו אותם לפני גלוליהם והיו לבית־ישראל למכשול עון על־כן נשאתי ידי עליהם נאם אדני יהוה ונשאו עונם׃

13 ולא־יגשו אלי לכהן לי ולגשת על־כל־קדשי אל־קדשי הקדשים ונשאו כלמתם ותועבותם אשר עשו׃

14 ונתתי אותם שמרי משמרת הבית לכל עבדתו ולכל אשר יעשה בו׃ ף

15 והכהנים הלוים בני צדוק אשר שמרו את־משמרת מקדשי בתעות בני־ישראל מעלי המה יקרבו אלי לשרתני ועמדו לפני להקריב לי חלב ודם נאם אדני יהוה׃

16 המה יבאו אל־מקדשי והמה יקרבו אל־שלחני לשרתני ושמרו את־משמרתי׃

17 והיה בבואם אל־שערי החצר הפנימית בגדי פשתים ילבשו ולא־יעלה עליהם צמר בשרתם בשערי החצר הפנימית וביתה׃

18 פארי פשתים יהיו על־ראשם ומכנסי פשתים יהיו על־מתניהם לא יחגרו ביזע׃

19 ובצאתם אל־החצר החיצונה אל־החצר החיצונה אל־העם יפשטו את־בגדיהם אשר־המה משרתם בם והניחו אותם בלשכת הקדש ולבשו בגדים אחרים ולא־יקדשו את־העם בבגדיהם׃

20 וראשם לא יגלחו ופרע לא ישלחו כסום יכסמו את־ראשיהם׃

21 ויין לא־ישתו כל־כהן בבואם אל־החצר הפנימית׃

22 ואלמנה וגרושה לא־יקחו להם לנשים כי אם־בתולת מזרע בית ישראל והאלמנה אשר תהיה אלמנה מכהן יקחו׃

23 ואת־עמי יורו בין קדש לחל ובין־טמא לטהור יודעם׃

24 ועל־ריב המה יעמדו [כ= לשפט] [ק= למשפט] במשפטי [כ= ושפטהו] [ק= ישפטוהו*] ואת־תורתי ואת־חקתי בכל־מועדי ישמרו ואת־שבתותי יקדשו׃

25 ואל־מת אדם לא יבוא לטמאה כי אם־לאב ולאם ולבן ולבת לאח ולאחות אשר־לא־היתה לאיש יטמאו׃

26 ואחרי טהרתו שבעת ימים יספרו־לו׃

27 וביום באו אל־הקדש אל־החצר הפנימית לשרת בקדש יקריב חטאתו נאם אדני יהוה׃

28 והיתה להם לנחלה אני נחלתם ואחזה לא־תתנו להם בישראל אני אחזתם׃

29 המנחה והחטאת והאשם המה יאכלום וכל־חרם בישראל להם יהיה׃

30 וראשית כל־בכורי כל וכל־תרומת כל מכל תרומותיכם לכהנים יהיה וראשית ערסותיכם תתנו לכהן להניח ברכה אל־ביתך׃

31 כל־נבלה וטרפה מן־העוף ומן־הבהמה לא יאכלו הכהנים׃ ף

   

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The Lord#52

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52. 6. Jehovah himself - that is, the Lord - spoke the Word through prophets.

We read of the prophets that they had visions and that Jehovah talked with them. When they had visions, they were not focused on their bodies but on the spirit, in which state they saw things of a heavenly nature. When Jehovah talked with them, though, they were conscious of their bodies and heard Jehovah speaking.

We need to draw a clear distinction between these two states. In a visionary state, the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body were closed; and at such times they seemed to themselves to be taken from place to place while their bodies stayed where they were. Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel were in this state at times, and so was John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. They were then said to be in a vision or in the spirit. In fact, Ezekiel says,

The spirit lifted me up and brought me back into Chaldea, to the captivity, in a vision from God, in the spirit of God. In this way the vision that I saw came over me. (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

He says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard an earthquake and other things behind him (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). He also said that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven and took him off into Jerusalem in visions from God, and he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3 and following).

That is why (again in a vision of God or in the spirit) Ezekiel saw the four beasts that were angel guardians (chapters 1; 10), and he saw a new earth and a new temple with the angel measuring them, as we are told in chapters 40-48. He says in chapter 40:2, that he was then in visions from God; and in chapter 43:5, he says that the spirit lifted him up at that time.

The same thing happened with Zechariah. There was an angel inwardly present with him when he saw a man riding among myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8 and following); when he saw four horns and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1 and following); when he saw a lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1 and following); when he saw a flying scroll and a measuring basket (Zechariah 5:1, 6); and when he saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, along with horses (Zechariah 6:1 and following).

Daniel was in the same kind of state when he saw four beasts come up from the sea (Daniel 7:3) and when he saw battles between a ram and a goat (Daniel 8:1 and following).

We read in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8 that he saw these things in visions. We read in Daniel 9:21 that he saw the angel Gabriel in a vision and talked with him.

Much the same happened with John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. He says that he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day (Revelation 1:10), that he was carried away in the spirit into the wilderness (17:3), to a high mountain in the spirit (21:10), that he saw horses in a vision (9:17), and elsewhere that he saw what he described, being therefore in the spirit or in a vision (1:2; 4:1; 5:1; 6:1; and in the particular chapters that follow).

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

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Ezekiel第10章

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1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.

3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh's glory.

5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

7 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

8 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.

9 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.

10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.

12 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, [even] the wheels that the four of them had.

13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

14 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

15 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.

17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

18 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

21 Every one had four faces, and Every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.