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Ezechiele第41章

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1 Poi mi condusse nel tempio, e misurò i pilastri: sei cubiti di larghezza da un lato e sei cubiti di larghezza dall’altro, larghezza della tenda.

2 La larghezza dell’ingresso era di dieci cubiti; le pareti laterali dell’ingresso avevano cinque cubiti da un lato e cinque cubiti dall’altro. Egli misurò la lunghezza del tempio: quaranta cubiti, e venti cubiti di larghezza.

3 Poi entrò dentro, e misurò i pilastri dell’ingresso: due cubiti; e l’ingresso: sei cubiti; e la larghezza dell’ingresso: sette cubiti.

4 E misurò una lunghezza di venti cubiti e una larghezza di venti cubiti in fondo al tempio; e mi disse: "Questo è il luogo santissimo".

5 Poi misurò il muro della casa: sei cubiti; e la larghezza delle camere laterali tutt’attorno alla casa: quattro cubiti.

6 Le camere laterali erano una accanto all’altra, in numero di trenta, e c’erano tre piani; stavano in un muro, costruito per queste camere tutt’attorno alla casa, perché fossero appoggiate senz’appoggiarsi al muro della casa.

7 E le camere occupavano maggiore spazio man mano che si salì di piano in piano, poiché la casa aveva una scala circolare a ogni piano tutt’attorno alla casa; perciò questa parte della casa si allargava a ogni piano, e si saliva dal piano inferiore al superiore per quello di mezzo.

8 E io vidi pure che la casa tutta intorno stava sopra un piano elevato; così le camere laterali avevano un fondamento: una buona canna, e sei cubiti fino all’angolo.

9 La larghezza del muro esterno delle camere laterali era di cinque cubiti;

10 e lo spazio libero intorno alle camere laterali della casa e fino alle stanze attorno alla casa aveva una larghezza di venti cubiti tutt’attorno.

11 Le porte delle camere laterali davano sullo spazio libero: una porta a settentrione, una porta a mezzogiorno; e la larghezza dello spazio libero era di cinque cubiti tutt’all’intorno.

12 L’edifizio ch’era davanti allo spazio vuoto dal lato d’occidente aveva settanta cubiti di larghezza, il muro dell’edifizio aveva cinque cubiti di spessore tutt’attorno, e una lunghezza di novanta cubiti.

13 Poi misurò la casa, che aveva cento cubiti di lunghezza. Lo spazio vuoto, l’edifizio e i suoi muri avevano una lunghezza di cento cubiti.

14 La larghezza della facciata della casa e dello spazio vuoto dal lato d’oriente era di cento cubiti.

15 Egli misurò la lunghezza dell’edifizio davanti allo spazio vuoto, sul di dietro, e le sue gallerie da ogni lato: cento cubiti. L’interno del tempio, i vestiboli che davano sul cortile,

16 gli stipiti, le finestre a grata, le gallerie tutt’attorno ai tre piani erano ricoperti, all’altezza degli stipiti, di legno tutt’attorno. Dall’impiantito fino alle finestre (le finestre erano sbarrate),

17 fino al di sopra della porta, l’interno della casa, l’esterno, e tutte le pareti tutt’attorno, all’interno e all’esterno, tutto era fatto secondo precise misure.

18 E v’erano degli ornamenti di cherubini e di palme, una palma fra cherubino e cherubino,

19 e ogni cherubino aveva due facce: una faccia d’uomo, vòlta verso la palma da un lato, e una faccia di leone vòlta verso l’altra palma, dall’altro lato. E ve n’era per tutta la casa, tutt’attorno.

20 Dall’impiantito fino al di sopra della porta c’erano dei cherubini e delle palme; così pure sul muro del tempio.

21 Gli stipiti del tempio erano quadrati, e la facciata del santuario aveva lo stesso aspetto.

22 L’altare era di legno, alto tre cubiti, lungo due cubiti; aveva degli angoli; e le sue pareti, per tutta la lunghezza, erano di legno. L’uomo mi disse: "Questa è la tavola che sta davanti all’Eterno".

23 Il tempio e il santuario avevano due porte;

24 E ogni porta aveva due battenti; due battenti che si piegano in due pezzi: due pezzi per ogni battente.

25 E su d’esse, sulle porte del tempio, erano scolpiti dei cherubini e delle palme, come quelli sulle pareti. E sulla facciata del vestibolo, all’esterno c’era una tettoia di legno.

26 E c’erano delle finestre a grata e delle palme, da ogni lato, alle pareti laterali del vestibolo, alle camere laterali della casa e alle tettoie.

   

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Divine Providence#134

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134a. 2. No one is reformed by visions or by conversations with the dead, because they compel. There are two kinds of visions, divine and demonic. Divine visions are given by means of portrayals in heaven, while demonic visions are effected though magical events in hell. There are imaginary visions as well, visions that are the illusions of a mind that has lost its bearings.

Divine visions (which as just noted are given by means of portrayals in heaven) are the kind that happened to the prophets. When they were having these visions they were not in the body but in the spirit, because visions cannot happen to us while we are physically awake. So when the prophets saw visions, it says that they were in the spirit, as the following passages show.

Ezekiel said, "The spirit lifted me up and took me back to Chaldea to the captivity in a vision of God, in the spirit of God; so the vision that I saw came over me" (Ezekiel 11:1, 24). Then too, spirits held him up between earth and heaven and brought him to Jerusalem in visions of God (Ezekiel 8:3 and following). The same thing happened in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw the four animals that were cherubim (Ezekiel chapters 1 and 10) and when he saw the new temple, the new earth, and the angel measuring them (Ezekiel chapters 40-48). It says in chapter Ezekiel 40:2, 26 that he was in visions of God at the time, and in chapter Ezekiel 43:5 that he was in the spirit.

[2] Zechariah was in the same kind of state when he saw the man on horseback among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8 and following), when he saw the four horns and the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18, 20, 21; Zechariah 2:1 and following), when he saw the lampstand and the two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1 and following), when he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6), and when he saw the four chariots coming out from the four mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1 and following).

Daniel was in the same kind of state when he saw the four beasts rising from the sea (Daniel 6:1 [7:1] and following), and when he saw the battles of the ram and the goat (Daniel 8:1 and following). It says in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, and 13; in Daniel 8:2; and in Daniel 10:1, 7, and 8 that he saw these things in the vision of his spirit, and it says in Daniel 9:21 that he saw the angel Gabriel in a vision.

[3] John was in the vision of the spirit when he saw the things he describes in the Book of Revelation--for example, when he saw the seven lampstands with the Human-born One in their midst (Revelation 1:12-16), when he saw the throne in heaven with someone sitting on it, surrounded by the four animals that were cherubim (Revelation 4), when he saw the book of life taken by the Lamb (Revelation 5), when he saw the horses come out of the book (Revelation 6), when he saw the seven angels with their trumpets (Revelation 8), when he saw the pit of the abyss opened with the locusts coming out of it (Revelation 9), when he saw the dragon and its battle with Michael (Revelation 12), when he saw the two beasts rise up, one from the sea and one from the land (Revelation 13), when he saw the woman sitting on the scarlet beast (Revelation 17) and the destruction of Babylon (Revelation 18), when he saw the white horse with someone riding it (Revelation 18 [19]), when he saw the new heaven and the new earth and the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven (Revelation 21), and when he saw the river of water of life (Revelation 22). It says that he saw these things in the vision of his spirit in Revelation 1:11 [1:10]; Revelation 4:2; Revelation 5:1; Revelation 6:1; and Revelation 21:12 [21:10].

These were the kinds of visions that were visible from heaven to the sight of their spirits and not to their physical sight.

Things like this do not happen nowadays, because if they did they would not be understood, since they happen by means of images whose details are pointing to inner features of the church and secrets of heaven. It was foretold in Daniel 9:24 that they would stop when the Lord came into the world.

However, demonic visions have sometimes occurred. They are brought about by spirits who inspire deceptive passions and visions and who call themselves the Holy Spirit because of a mental confusion that engulfs them. Now, however, these spirits have been gathered in by the Lord and consigned to a hell separate from the other hells.

We can see from all this that no one can be reformed by any visions except the ones that are in the Word. There are imaginary visions as well, but these are nothing but the illusions of a mind that has lost its bearings.

134b. The story that the Lord told about the rich man in hell and Lazarus in Abraham's lap shows that no one is reformed by conversations with the dead. The rich man said, "Father Abraham, I beg you to send Lazarus to my father's house where I have five brothers, to bear witness to them so that they do not come to this place of torment." Abraham said to him, "They have Moses and the prophets: let them heed them." But he said, "No, father Abraham, but if someone came to them from the dead, they would repent." He answered him, "If they do not heed Moses and the prophets, they would not be convinced if someone rose from the dead" (Luke 16:27-31).

Conversations with the dead may lead to the same results as miracles that I have just described. That is, we may be convinced and be constrained to worship for a short while. However, since this deprives us of rational functioning at the same time that it hems in our evils, as already noted [130-131, 133], this spell or inner restraint is released and the pent-up evils erupt in blasphemy and profanation. Still, this happens only when spirits have imposed some religious dogma. No good spirit--let alone any angel of heaven--would ever do this.

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

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Revelation第18章

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1 After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.

2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."

4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,

5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

6 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'

8 Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

9 The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, Woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'

11 The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more;

12 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;

13 and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's bodies and souls.

14 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.

15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;

16 saying, 'Woe, Woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!

17 For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like the great city?'

19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, Woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.

20 "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."

21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.

22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

23 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth."