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Ezequiel第13章

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1 E veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

2 Filho do homem, profetiza contra os profetas de Israel e dize a esses videntes que só profetizam o que vê o seu coração: Ouvi a palavra do Senhor.

3 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Ai dos profetas insensatos, que seguem o seu próprio

4 Os teus profetas, ó Israel, têm sido como raposas nos desertos.

5 Não subistes às brechas, nem fizestes uma cerca para a casa de Israel, para que permaneça firme na peleja no dia do Senhor.

6 Viram vaidade e adivinhação mentirosa os que dizem: O Senhor diz; quando o Senhor não os enviou; e esperam que seja cumprida a palavra.

7 Acaso não tivestes visão de vaidade, e não falastes adivinhação mentirosa, quando dissestes: O Senhor diz; sendo que eu tal não falei?

8 Portanto assim diz o Senhor Deus: Porque tendes falado vaidade, e visto mentiras, por isso eis que eu sou contra vós, diz o Senhor Deus.

9 E a minha mão será contra os profetas que vêem vaidade e que adivinham mentira; não estarão no concílio do meu povo, nem nos registros da casa de Israel se escreverão, nem entrarão na terra de Israel; e sabereis que eu sou o Senhor Deus.

10 Portanto, sim, porquanto desviaram o meu povo, dizendo: Paz; e não há paz; e quando se edifica uma parede, eis que a rebocam de argamassa fraca;

11 dize aos que a rebocam de argamassa fraca que ela cairá. Sobrevirá forte chuva, grandes pedras de saraiva cairão, e um vento tempestuoso a fenderá.

12 Ora, eis que, caindo a parede, não vos dirão: Onde está o reboco de que a rebocastes?

13 Portanto assim diz o Senhor Deus: fendê-la-ei no meu furor com vento tempestuoso e, na minha ira, farei cair forte chuva, e grandes pedras de saraiva, na minha indignação, para a consumir.

14 E derribarei a parede que rebocastes com argamassa fraca, e darei com ela por terra, de modo que seja descoberto o seu fundamento; quando ela cair, vós perecereis no meio dela; e sabereis que eu sou o Senhor.

15 Assim cumprirei o meu furor contra a parede, e contra os que a rebocam de argamassa fraca; e vos direi: A parede já não existe, nem aqueles que a rebocaram, a saber,

16 os profetas de Israel, que profetizam acerca de Jerusalém, e vêem para ela visão de paz, não havendo paz, diz o Senhor Deus.

17 E tu, ó filho do homem, dirige o teu rosto contra as filhas do teu povo, que profetizam de seu próprio coração; e profetiza contra elas.

18 e dize: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Ai das que cosem pulseiras mágicas para todos os braços, e que fazem véus para as cabeças de pessoas de toda estatura para caçarem as almas! Porventura caçareis as almas do meu povo? e conservareis em vida almas para vosso proveito?

19 Vós me profanastes entre o meu povo por punhados de cevada, e por pedaços de pão, matando aqueles que não haviam de morrer, e guardando vivos aqueles que não haviam de viver, mentindo ao meu povo que escuta a mentira.

20 Portanto assim diz o Senhor Deus: Eis aqui eu sou contra as vossas pulseiras mágicas com que vós ali caçais as almas como aves, e as arrancarei de vossos braços; e soltarei as almas, sim as almas que vós caçais como aves.

21 Também rasgarei os vossos véus, e livrarei o meu povo das vossas mãos, e eles não estarão mais em vossas mãos para serem caçados; e sabereis que eu sou e Senhor.

22 Visto que entristecestes o coração do justo com falsidade, não o havendo eu entristecido, e fortalecestes as mãos do ímpio, para que não se desviasse do seu mau caminho, e vivesse;

23 portanto não tereis mais visões vãs, nem mais fareis adivinhações; mas livrarei o meu povo das vossas mãos, e sabereis que eu sou o Senhor.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed#500

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500. The beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. This symbolically means that those people who are caught up in the interior tenets of the doctrine regarding faith alone will oppose these two essential elements of the New Church, attack them, and reject them, in themselves and, as far as they are able, in others.

The beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit means the people who ascended out of the bottomless pit having the appearance of locusts in Revelation 9:1-12. That they were people caught up in the interior tenets of the doctrine regarding faith alone may be seen in the exposition there. To make war means, symbolically, to oppose and attack these two essential elements of the church, as we shall see next. To overcome them and kill them means, symbolically, to reject them and root them out, in themselves and, as far as they are able, in others.

[2] People caught up in the interior tenets of the doctrine regarding faith alone will attack and reject these two essential elements because they have established in themselves two ideas contrary to them, first, that it is not the Lord but God the Father to whom they should turn; and secondly, that a life in accordance with the Ten Commandments is not a spiritual life, but simply a moral and civic life, and they maintain this to keep anyone from believing that he is saved by works rather than by their faith alone.

All those people who in schools and universities have deeply impressed these dogmas on their minds do not afterward turn away from them. There are three reasons for this, hitherto unknown. First, they have introduced themselves as to their spirit into association with people in the spiritual world like themselves, where there are many satanic spirits who find delight only in falsities, and from these spirits they cannot possibly be set free unless they reject those falsities. Nor can they do that unless they turn to God the Savior directly and begin to live a Christian life in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

[3] The second reason is their belief that they are granted instant forgiveness for their sins and thus salvation in the act of faith, and afterward in the state or progression of it through the same act continued, preserved and retained by the Holy Spirit, apart from any exercises of charity. After that, then, once people have imbibed these ideas, they regard their sins as of no account in the sight of God, and so continue in their impure lives.

Moreover, because they know how to cleverly defend such ideas with falsifications of the Word in the presence of uneducated listeners, and with fallacious arguments in the presence of learned ones, we are told here that the beast from the bottomless pit overcame and killed the two witnesses. But this is the case only with people who love to live self-indulgently and are carried away by the delights of their appetites. Whenever these people think about salvation, they harbor at heart their lusts, and with both hands embrace that faith of theirs, because then they can be saved by uttering certain words in a confident tone and do not have to attend to anything having to do with their life for God's sake, but only for the sake of the world.

[4] The third reason is that people who in their youth have imbibed the interior tenets of that faith, called the mysteries of justification, when afterward promoted to a respectable ministry, do not think to themselves about God and heaven, but about themselves and the world, retaining the mysteries of their faith only for the sake of their reputation so as to be respected as wise, and because of their wisdom, accounted worthy to be rewarded with riches.

Such is the case as a result of that faith because it has nothing of religion in it. The reality of this may be seen in the third narrative account above, in no. 484.

[5] That wars in the Word symbolize spiritual wars, which are attacks on truth and are waged by reasonings based on falsities, is clear from the following passages:

...spirits of demons... go out... to gather them for war on the great day of God Almighty. (Revelation 16:14)

...the dragon was angry with the woman, and it went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelation 12:17)

It was granted to (the dragon's beast) to make war with the saints... (Revelation 13:7)

Prepare holy war against (the daughter of Zion)..., and let us go up at noon. (Jeremiah 6:4)

You have not gone up into the breaches... to stand in battle on the day of Jehovah. (Ezekiel 13:5)

In Salem is (God's) tabernacle, and His dwelling place in Zion, where He broke the flaming arrows, the bow... and... war. (Psalms 76:2-3)

Jehovah shall go forth like a mighty man; He shall stir up zeal like a man of war. (Isaiah 42:13, cf. Psalms 24:8)

In that day Jehovah... will be... for a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, ...to those who turn back the battle at the gate. (Isaiah 28:5-6)

Deliver me... from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man... All day they gather for war. They sharpen their tongues like serpents. (Psalms 140:1-3)

...many will come in My name, saying, "I am the Christ," and will lead many astray. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled. (Matthew 24:5-7, cf. Mark 13:6-8, Luke 21:8-10)

The wars of the kings of the north and south and other wars in Daniel 10, 11, and 12 symbolize no other than spiritual wars. And so, too, the wars in other places, as in Isaiah 2:3-5, 13:4, 21:14-15, 31:4; Jeremiah 49:25-26; Hosea 2:18; Zechariah 10:5, 14:3; Psalm 18:35 1 , 46:8-9.

[6] As wars in the Word symbolize spiritual wars, therefore the ministry of the Levites was called military service, as is apparent from the following, that the command was given for the Levites to be numbered, to "perform military service, to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting" (Numbers 4:23, 35, 39, 43, 47).

This is the service of the Levites: ...to perform military service in the ministry of the tabernacle of meeting; but at the age of fifty years he must cease the military service, and shall minister no more. (Numbers 8:24-25)

See also no. 447 above, where we established from the Word that armies symbolize the church's goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, its evils and falsities.

脚注:

1. The citation in the first edition is in error. Either this or Psalms 27:3 was perhaps intended.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.