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저장한 곡식이 바다 모래같이 심히 많아 세기를 그쳤으니 그 수가 한이 없음이었더라
Arcana Coelestia#5323
5323. 'And they cried out before him, Abrek!' means acknowledgement coming through faith, and homage. This is clear from the meaning of 'crying out' as acknowledgement coming through faith, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'Abrek!' as homage, because Abrek in the original language means 'bend your knees', and the bending of knees is homage. For every inward impulse of a person's will, thus of his love and affection, and consequently of his life, has corresponding outward actions and gestures. Those actions and gestures flow from the actual correspondence of exterior things with interior ones. Holy fear that leads to humility, and from this to homage, has corresponding actions or gestures, which are bending the knees, falling forward on the knees, and also prostration of the body flat on the ground. If in that state homage is a product of genuine humility, and if humility is the product of genuine holy fear, there is an absence of spirits, which leads to a falling downwards of the joints at the border or intermediate area where the spiritual is joined to the natural, and so where the knees are. For the parts below the knee correspond to natural things, while the parts above the knee correspond to spiritual ones. These are the reasons why bending the knees is a sign representative of homage. Among celestial people this action comes quite spontaneously, but in the case of spiritual people it is a deliberate act of their will.
[2] In former times people bent their knees before kings when they rode by in a chariot. They bent them because kings represented the Lord's Divine Truth, while 'a chariot' meant His Word. This customary act of homage came into being when people knew what was represented by it, at which time kings did not think that such homage was paid to themselves but to their kingly authority, which was distinct from yet invested in their own persons. That authority invested in them was the law, and because this law had its origin in Divine Truth, it was the law invested in the person of the king, inasmuch as he was the guardian of the law, to which homage had to be paid. Thus a king did not attribute any royal authority to himself other than guardianship of the law. Insofar as he relinquished that guardianship he relinquished his royal authority; for he knew that homage arising from any other source than the law, that is, any other homage than that paid to the law itself, was idolatry. By royal authority is meant Divine Truth - see 1672, 1728, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068 - and therefore that authority is the law, which essentially is truth reigning in that kingdom, in accordance with which its inhabitants conduct their lives. From all this it may be seen that 'Abrek!' or 'bend your knees' means homage.
[3] Since 'a cry' is in a similar way an action which corresponds to a living confession or an acknowledgement that is a product of faith, crying out was also the custom followed by the ancients when an outward sign of such confession or acknowledgement needed to be made. The expression 'crying out' is therefore used in various places in the Word when confession and acknowledgement that are the product of faith are referred to, as in the description involving John the Baptist in John,
He bore witness to Jesus and he cried out, saying, This was He of whom I spoke, He who, though coming after me, was before me, for He was before me. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord. John 1:15, 23.
In the same gospel,
They took branches of palm trees, and went to meet Jesus, and cried, Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel! John 12:13.
In Luke,
Jesus said to the Pharisees that if [the disciples] kept silent, the stones would cry out. Luke 19:40.
Because 'crying out' meant an acknowledgement that was the product of faith and consequently acceptance rising out of the acknowledgement, one therefore reads several times of the Lord's crying out, as in John 7:28, 37; 12:44-45. Also in Isaiah,
Jehovah will go forth as a Mighty Man, as a Man of Wars He will arouse zeal; He will shout aloud, and also will cry out. Isaiah 42:13.
In the contrary sense 'crying out' means lack of acknowledgement and so aversion, see 5016, 5018, 5027. This usage has reference to falsity, 2240.
John第12章
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Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
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So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
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Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
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Then Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
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"Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?"
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Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
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But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
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For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
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A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
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But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
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because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
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On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
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they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"
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Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,
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"Don't be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt."
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His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
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The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.
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For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
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The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
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Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
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These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."
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Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.
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Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
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Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
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He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
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If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
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"Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
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Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
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The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
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Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.
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Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
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And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."
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But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
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The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
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Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
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While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
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But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him,
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that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
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For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,
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"He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them."
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Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
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Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,
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for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.
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Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
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He who sees me sees him who sent me.
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I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
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If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
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He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
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For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
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I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
