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Exodus第21章:25

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25 κατακαυμα-N3M-ASN αντι-P κατακαυμα-N3M-GSN τραυμα-N3M-ASN αντι-P τραυμα-N3M-GSN μωλωψ-N3P-ASM αντι-P μωλωψ-N3P-GSM

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Apocalypse Explained#1021

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1021. And great Babylon came into remembrance before God. That this signifies that hitherto the church with the Reformed, and its devastation, was treated of; but that what follows is concerning the church with the Papists, and concerning its devastation, is evident from the signification of Babylon, as denoting the church with the Papists, because as by Babylon is signified the love of ruling over heaven and earth by means of the holy things of the church, and this is a dominating love with the Papists, principally. That by those words is also meant, that hitherto the church with the Reformed, and its devastation, was treated of, is evident from the things that precede and follow. In those which precede, the subject treated of is the dragon and the two beasts, by which the church with the Reformed was described; and by the seven angels pouring out the seven vials its devastation was described, as is also clear from the thirteenth verse of this chapter. In those which follow, the church with the Papists is described, in chapter 17, by the woman sitting upon the scarlet beast, and in chapter 18, its devastation.

It is therefore evident, that by great Babylon coming into remembrance before God, is signified that hitherto the church with the Reformed, and its devastation, was treated of, and that what follows is concerning the church with the Papists and its devastation.

The Ninth Precept, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house," is here to be treated of:

[2] There are two loves from which all lusts, like streams from their fountain, spring and perpetually flow. Those loves are called the love of the world and the love of self. Lust is a love continually willing; for what a man loves, this he continually covets. But lusts pertain to the love of evil, whereas desires and affections pertain to the love of good.

Now because the love of the world and the love of self are the fountains of all lusts, and all evil lusts are forbidden in these two last precepts, it follows that the ninth precept forbids the lusts flowing from the love of the world, and the tenth precept, the lusts from the love of self.

By not coveting a neighbour's house is meant not to covet his goods, which, in general, are possessions and wealth, and not to appropriate them to oneself by evil arts. This lust is of the love of the world.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Revelation第17章

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1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."

3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

5 And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

7 The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

9 Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.

10 They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.

11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.

12 The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.

13 These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.

14 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."

15 He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

17 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."