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Esekiel第29章

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1 I det tiende år, i den tiende måned, på den tolvte dag i måneden, kom Herrens ord til mig, og det lød så:

2 Menneskesønn! Vend ditt åsyn mot Farao, Egyptens konge, og spå mot ham og mot hele Egypten!

3 Tal og si: Så sier Herren, Israels Gud: Se, jeg kommer over dig, Farao, Egyptens konge, du det store sjøuhyre, som ligger midt i dine strømmer, som sier: Mig tilhører min strøm, jeg har selv gjort den.

4 Jeg vil legge kroker i dine kjever og la fiskene i dine strømmer henge fast i dine skjell, og jeg vil dra dig op av dine strømmer, både dig og alle fiskene i dine strømmer, som henger fast i dine skjell.

5 Og jeg vil kaste dig ut i ørkenen, både dig og alle fiskene i dine strømmer; på marken skal du falle; du skal ikke samles og ikke sankes; jeg gir dig til føde for jordens dyr og himmelens fugler.

6 Og alle Egyptens innbyggere skal kjenne at jeg er Herren, fordi de har vært en rørstav for Israels hus;

7 når de* tar dig** ved ditt håndfang, så knekkes du og kløver skulderen på dem alle, og når de støtter sig på dig, brytes du i stykker og får lendene på dem alle til å vakle. / {* Israels folk.} / {** Egypten.}

8 Derfor sier Herren, Israels Gud, så: Se, jeg lar sverd komme over dig, og jeg vil utrydde både folk og fe hos dig.

9 Og Egyptens land skal bli til en ørken, et øde land, og de skal kjenne at jeg er Herren, fordi han sa: Strømmen hører mig til, jeg har gjort den.

10 Se, derfor kommer jeg over dig og dine strømmer, og jeg vil gjøre Egyptens land til en øde ørken, full av grusdynger, fra Migdol til Syene* og like til Etiopias grense. / {* Migdol var en by i det nordlige Egypten, og Syene en by ved Egyptens sydgrense; 30, 6.}

11 Ingen menneskefot skal fare frem der, og ingen fefot skal fare frem der, og det skal ikke reise sig igjen på firti år.

12 Og jeg vil gjøre Egyptens land til en ørken blandt ødelagte land, og dets byer skal ligge øde blandt ødelagte byer i firti år, og jeg vil sprede egypterne blandt folkene og strø dem ut i landene.

13 For så sier Herren, Israels Gud: Når firti år er gått, vil jeg samle egypterne fra de folk som de var spredt iblandt.

14 Jeg vil gjøre ende på Egyptens fangenskap og føre dem tilbake til landet Patros, det land som de stammer fra, og der skal de være et ringe kongerike.

15 Det skal være ringere enn andre kongeriker og ikke mere ophøie sig over folkene, og jeg vil gjøre dem fåtallige, så de ikke skal herske over folkene.

16 Og for Israels hus skal det ikke mere være en tilflukt, som minner mig om deres misgjerning, når de vender sig til dem, og de skal kjenne at jeg er Herren, Israels Gud.

17 I det syv og tyvende år, i den første måned, på den første dag i måneden, kom Herrens ord til mig, og det lød så:

18 Menneskesønn! Nebukadnesar, Babels konge, har latt sin hær utføre et svært arbeid mot Tyrus; hvert hode er skallet og hver skulder slitt. Men lønn har han og hans hær ikke fått av Tyrus for det arbeid han har utført imot det.

19 Derfor sier Herren, Israels Gud, så: Se, jeg gir Egyptens land til Nebukadnesar, Babels konge, og han skal føre bort dets rikdom og rane og røve alt hvad der er å rane og røve, og det skal hans hær ha til lønn.

20 Som lønn for det arbeid han har utført, gir jeg ham Egyptens land; for de har arbeidet for mig, sier Herren, Israels Gud.

21 Den samme dag vil jeg la et horn vokse op for Israels hus, og dig vil jeg gi en oplatt munn midt iblandt dem, og de skal kjenne at jeg er Herren.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#730

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730. 'Forty days and nights' means the duration of temptation. This is quite clear from the Word of the Lord. The reason 'forty' means the duration of temptation is the fact that the Lord allowed Himself to be tempted for forty days, as is clear in Matthew 4:1-2; Luke 4:2; Mark 1:13. And because every single requirement in the Jewish Church and in all other representative Churches before the Lord's Coming was merely a type and shadow of Him, so too were forty days and nights. In general they represented and meant all temptation, and in particular however long its duration. And since anyone undergoing temptation experiences vastation of all things that belong to the proprium and of things that are bodily - for things of the proprium and those that are bodily have to die, doing so indeed through conflict and temptation, before he is reborn a new man, that is, before he becomes spiritual and celestial - 'forty days and nights' therefore also means the duration of vastation. The same applies here where the subject is both the temptation of the member of the new Church called Noah and also the destruction of those who lived before the Flood.

[2] That 'forty' means not only the duration of temptation but also of vastation, whether long or short, is clear in Ezekiel,

You shall lie on your right side and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, a day for each year I assign you. Ezekiel 4:6.

This stands for the duration of the vastation of the Jewish Church and also for a representation of the Lord's temptation, for it is said that he was 'to bear the iniquity of the house of Judah'. In the same prophet,

I will make the land of Egypt waste places, an utter desolation. The foot of man will not pass through it, and the foot of beast will not pass through it, and it will be uninhabited for forty years. And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands, and her cities in the midst of devastated cities will be a lonely place for forty years. Ezekiel 29:10-11.

This too stands for the duration of vastation and desolation. Here the meaning in the internal sense is not forty years but solely the desolation of faith in general, whether within a short or a long period of time. In John,

The court outside the Temple, leave that out and do not measure it, for it has been given over to the nations 1 who will trample over the holy city for forty-two months. Revelation 11:2.

[3] And in the same author,

The beast was given a mouth uttering great things and blasphemies, and it was given power to act for forty-two months. Revelation 13:5.

This stands for the duration of vastation, for a period of forty-two months is not meant at all, as anyone may see. In these quotations the number is in fact forty-two, but this has the same meaning as forty. It is obtained from 'seven days' meaning the finish of vastation and a new beginning, and from 'six' meaning labour because of the six days of labour or conflict. Consequently seven multiplied by six, which produces the number 'forty-two', means the duration of vastation and the duration of temptation, that is, the labour and conflict of someone who is to be regenerated, which period of time involves holiness. The round number forty however has been adopted instead of the less round number forty-two, as is clear in these quotations from the Book of Revelation.

[4] The people of Israel's being led about in the wilderness for forty years before being brought into the land of Canaan in a similar way represented and meant the duration of temptation, and also the duration of vastation - the duration of temptation by the fact that they were subsequently brought into the Holy Land, and the duration of vastation by the fact that, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, all who were more than twenty years old when they left Egypt died in the wilderness. And temptations are also meant by the things they grumbled about so often, and vastations by the plagues and destruction they suffered so often. The fact that temptations and vastations are meant will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown in their proper places. They are referred to in Moses as follows,

You shall remember all the way that Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness to afflict you, to tempt you, to know what is in your heart, whether you will keep His commandments or not. Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 16.

Moses' forty days and forty nights on Mount Sinai similarly mean the duration of temptation - that is, the temptation of the Lord - as is clear in Moses,

He was on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights, eating no bread, drinking no water, pleading for the people not to be destroyed. Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 18, Deuteronomy 9:25-end; Deuteronomy 10:10.

[See also]Numbers 14:33-35; 32:8-14

[5] The reason 'forty days' means the duration of temptation is, as has been stated, that the Lord allowed Himself to be tempted by the devil for forty days. Consequently in the days when all things were representatives of the Lord, whenever the idea of temptation existed with angels, that idea was represented in the world of spirits by such things as exist in the world - as happens with all angelic ideas when they come down into the world of spirits and manifest themselves there in a representative fashion. The same accordingly applies to the number forty, for the Lord was to be tempted for forty days. With the Lord, and consequently in the angelic heaven, the future and the present are one and the same, for what is future is already present, or what is to take place has taken place. This is the origin of the representation of temptations and also of vastations by forty in the representative Church. But these matters cannot as yet be understood satisfactorily because people do not know about the influx of the angelic heaven into the world of spirits or the nature of it.

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

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Numbers第33章

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1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

2 Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

3 They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,

4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them: on their gods also Yahweh executed judgments.

5 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.

6 They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

7 They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.

8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

9 They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.

10 They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

11 They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

12 They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

13 They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

14 They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

15 They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

16 They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.

17 They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.

18 They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.

19 They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.

20 They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.

21 They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.

22 They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.

23 They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.

24 They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.

25 They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.

26 They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.

27 They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.

28 They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.

29 They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.

30 They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.

31 They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan.

32 They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.

33 They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.

34 They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.

35 They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.

36 They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).

37 They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

38 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

39 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor.

40 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

41 They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.

42 They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.

43 They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.

44 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.

45 They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.

46 They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.

47 They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

48 They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

49 They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.

50 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

51 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, "When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

53 and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given given the land to you to possess it.

54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

55 "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.

56 It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you."