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Ezékiel第31章

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1 És lõn a tizenegyedik esztendõben, a harmadik hónapban, a hónap elsején, lõn az Úr szava hozzám, mondván:

2 Embernek fia! szólj a Faraónak, Égyiptom királyának és az õ sokaságának: Kihez vagy hasonló a te nagyságodban?

3 Ímé, Assúr czédrus vala a Libánonon, szép ágakkal és sûrû galyaival árnyékot tartó s magas növésû, melynek felhõkig ért a teteje.

4 Víz nevelte nagygyá, a mélység [vizei] tették magassá, folyóikkal körüljárták ültetése földjét, s [csak] folyásaikat bocsáták a mezõ egyéb fáihoz.

5 Ennekokáért lõn magasb növése a mezõ minden fájánál: s megsokasulának ágai, s hosszúra nevekedének galyai a sok víztõl, midõn kiterjeszté azokat.

6 Az õ ágain csinál vala fészket minden égi madár, és galyai alatt fiadzott a mezõ minden vada, s árnyékában lakik vala sokmindenféle nép.

7 És széppé lõn magasságával, hosszan kiterjedt ágaival, mert gyökere sok víz felé [nyúlik] vala.

8 A czédrusok el nem takarák õt az Isten kertjében, a cziprusok nem valának hasonlók ágaihoz, s a platánoknak nem valának olyan galyai, mint néki; Isten kertjében egy fa sem vala hasonló hozzá az õ szépségében.

9 Széppé tõm õt az õ sok ágaival, úgy hogy irígykedett rá Éden minden fája az Isten kertjében.

10 Ennekokáért így szól az Úr Isten: Mivelhogy magasra nevekedtél, és fölemelé tetejét a felhõk közé, és szíve felfuvalkodott az õ magasságában:

11 Azért adom õt a nemzetek urának kezébe, bánjék el vele, gonoszságáért kiûztem õt.

12 És kivágták õt az idegenek, a nemzetek legkegyetlenebbjei, és leterítették. A hegyekre és minden völgyekbe hullottak ágai, és összetörtek galyai a föld minden mélységében, és leszállt árnyékából a föld minden népe, és ott hagyták õt.

13 Ledõlt törzsökén lakik vala minden égi madár, és ágaihoz [gyül ]vala a mezõ minden vada;

14 Azért, hogy magasra ne nevekedjék egy víz mellett való fa se, és föl ne emelje tetejét a felhõk közé; hogy ne bízzék önmagában kevélyen senki a vízivók közül; mert mindnyájan halálra adattak a mélység országába az emberek fiai közt azokhoz, a kik sírgödörbe szálltak.

15 Így szól az Úr Isten: Azon a napon, a melyen sírba aláméne, gyászba öltöztetém miatta a mélység vizeit, és megtartóztatám folyóikat, úgy hogy a sok víz elzáraték, s meggyászoltatám õt a Libánonnal, és a mezõ minden fája elepede miatta.

16 Zuhanásának hangja miatt megreszkettetém a nemzeteket, mikor leszállítám õt a sírba együtt velök, kik sírgödörbe szállnak; és vígasztalást võn a mélység országában Éden minden fája, a Libánon szépsége és java, minden vízivó.

17 Ezek is alászállottak vele a sírba azokhoz, a kik fegyverrel ölettek meg, s a kik mint segítõtársai árnyékában ülének a nemzetek között.

18 Kihez vagy hát hasonló dicsõségben és nagyságban Éden fái közt!? Hiszen le fogsz szállíttatni Éden fáival a mélység országába; körülmetéletlenek közt feküszöl együtt a fegyverrel megölettekkel. A Faraó ez és minden sokasága, ezt mondja az Úr Isten.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#6693

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6693. 'Saying, Every son who is born you are to throw into the river' means that all truths that appeared should be drowned in falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'son' as truth, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373; from the meaning of 'being born' as appearing; and from the meaning of 'the river' as those things that constitute intelligence, dealt with in 108, 109, 2702, 3051, here in the contrary sense as those things which are the opposite, namely falsities. The fact that 'throwing into' means drowning in is self-evident.

[2] The meaning of 'the river of Egypt' as the opposite of intelligence, which is falsity, is also clear in Isaiah,

The rivers will recede, the streams of Egypt will diminish and dry up. The papyrus plants next to the river, next to the mouth of the river, and everything sown in the river will wither, be driven away, and be no more. Therefore the fishermen will mourn, and all who cast a hook into the river will be sad, and those who spread nets over the face of the waters will anguish. Isaiah 19:6-8.

Here one should not understand a river by 'the river of Egypt' or fishermen by 'the fishermen' but other things which are not apparent unless one knows how 'Egypt', 'the river' there, and 'the fishermen' are to be understood. If one does know, then the meaning of these verses is apparent. The fact that 'the river of Egypt' means falsity is evident from every detail mentioned in them.

[3] In Jeremiah,

Who is this coming up like a river, whose waters are tossed about like the rivers? Egypt comes up like the river, and like the rivers his waters are tossed about. For he said, I will go up, I will cover the earth, I will destroy the city and those who dwell in it. Jeremiah 46:7-8.

Here also 'the river of Egypt' stands for falsities. 'Going up and covering the earth' stands for overwhelming the Church, 'destroying the city' stands for destroying the teachings of the Church, 'and those who dwell in it' for doing so to forms of good that come from those teachings. For the meaning of 'the earth' as the Church, see 6649; 'the city' as the teachings of the Church, 402, 2449, 3216, 4492, 4493; and 'those who dwell in it' as forms of good there, 2268, 2451, 2712.

[4] In Ezekiel,

Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies 1 in the midst of his rivers, who has said, The river is mine and I have made myself. Therefore I will put hooks in your jaws, and cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will cause you to come up out of the midst of your rivers, in order that 2 all the fish of your rivers may stick in your scales. I will leave in the wilderness you and all the fish of your rivers. Ezekiel 29:3-5, 9-10.

Without the internal sense no one can know what this passage means either. Thus, though it is evident that it is not the country Egypt which is meant, the meaning of the passage remains unknown unless one knows what 'Pharaoh', 'river', 'monster', 'fish', and 'scales', all mean. 'Pharaoh' is the natural where factual knowledge resides, see 5160, 5799, 6015; 'monsters' are general bodies of facts that reside in the natural, 42; 'fish' are the facts subordinate to a general body of them, 40, 991; 'scales' are ideas of a thoroughly external nature, thus sensory impressions, to which factual knowledge that is false clings. When one knows all these meanings one can see what 'the river of Egypt' is used to mean in this passage, namely, falsity.

[5] In the same prophet,

On the day on which Pharaoh goes down into hell I will make him mourn, I will cover the deep over him, and I will restrain its streams, and the great waters will be stayed. Ezekiel 31:15.

In Amos,

Is not the land to be shaken on account of this, and everyone to mourn that inhabits it? Yes, the whole of it comes up like a river, and is cast out, and is drowned as if in the river of Egypt. On that day I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the land in broad daylight. Amos 8:8-9; 9:5.

'The land which will be shaken' stands for the Church, 6649, while 'being drowned as if in the river of Egypt' stands for being destroyed by falsities. And since falsities are meant it says that the sun will go down at noon, and the earth will be darkened in broad daylight. 'The going down of the sun at noon' means that the good of heavenly love will depart, and 'the darkening of the land in broad daylight' that falsities will take possession of the Church. For the meaning of 'the sun' as the good of heavenly love, see 1529, 1530, 2441, 2495, 3636, 3643, 4060, 4696; for 'darkness' as falsities, 1839, 1860, 4418, 4531; and for 'the earth' as the Church, 82, 662, 1066, 1067, 1262, 1411, 1413, 1607, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 2928, 3355, 4447, 4535, 5577. Anyone can see that things other than those which appear in the literal sense here - such as that the land will be shaken and every inhabitant will mourn, or that the sun will go down at noon and the land will be darkened in broad daylight - are really meant. Unless one takes 'the land' to mean the Church, 'the river' to mean falsity, and 'the sun' to mean heavenly love, one does not find any other explicable meaning there.

[6] It is because 'the river of Egypt' means falsity that Moses was commanded to strike the waters of that river with his rod, after which they were turned into blood, all fish in the river died, and the river stank, Exodus 7:17-18, 20-21. For the same reason Aaron had to stretch out his hand and rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the pools, from which frogs rose up over the land of Egypt, Exodus 8:5-6. 3 For the meaning of 'the waters' in the contrary sense as falsities, see 790; and since the waters make up the river, 'the river' in relation to them means falsity in general.

脚注:

1. Reading cubat (he lies) for cubas (you lie)

2. Reading ut (in order that) for et (and)

3. Exodus 8:1-2, in this translation of the Arcana Caelestia

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

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Isaiah第42章

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1 "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights-- I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

2 He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

3 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law."

5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

6 "I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;

7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

8 "I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

9 Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up."

10 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.

11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

12 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.

13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

14 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

17 "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

18 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant?

20 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.

21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'

23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

24 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take it to heart."

   

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