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Ezequiel第27章

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1 De novo veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

2 Tu pois, ó filho do homem, levanta uma lamentação sobre Tiro;

3 e dize a Tiro, que habita na entrada do mar, e negocia com os povos em muitas ilhas: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: ç Tiro, tu dizes: Eu sou perfeita em formosura.

4 No coração dos mares estão os teus termos; os que te edificaram aperfeiçoaram a tua formosura.

5 De ciprestes de Senir fizeram todas as tuas tábuas; trouxeram cedros do Líbano para fazerem um mastro para ti.

6 Fizeram os teus remos de carvalhos de Basã; os teus bancos fizeram-nos de marfim engastado em buxo das ilhas de Quitim.

7 Linho fino bordado do Egito era a tua vela, para te servir de estandarte; de azul, e púrpura das ilhas de Elisá era a tua cobertura.

8 Os habitantes de Sidom e de Arvade eram os teus remadores; os teus peritos, ó Tiro, que em ti se achavam, esses eram os teus pilotos.

9 Os anciãos de Gebal e seus peritos eram em ti os teus calafates; todos os navios do mar e os seus marinheiros se achavam em ti, para tratarem dos teus negócios.

10 Os persas, e os lídios, e os de Pute eram no teu exército os teus soldados; penduravam em ti o escudo e o capacete; aumentavam o teu esplendor.

11 Os filhos de Arvade e o teu exército estavam sobre os teus muros em redor, e os gamaditas nas tuas torres; penduravam os seus escudos nos teus muros em redor; aperfeiçoavam a tua formosura.

12 Társis negociava contigo, por causa da abundância de toda a casta de riquezas; seus negociantes trocavam pelas tuas mercadorias prata, ferro, estanho, e chumbo.

13 Javã, Tubál e Meseque eram teus mercadores; pelas tuas mercadorias trocavam as pessoas de homens e vasos de bronze.

14 Os da casa de Togarma trocavam pelas tuas mercadorias cavalos e ginetes e machos;

15 os homens de Dedã eram teus mercadores; muitas ilhas eram o mercado da tua mão; tornavam a trazer-te em troca de dentes de marfim e pau de ébano.

16 A Síria negociava contigo por causa da multidão das tuas manufaturas; pelas tuas mercadorias trocavam granadas, púrpura, obras bordadas, linho fino, corais e rubis.

17 Judá e a terra de Israel eram teus mercadores; pelas tuas mercadorias trocavam o trigo de Minite, cera, mel, azeite e bálsamo.

18 Por causa da multidão das tuas manufaturas, por causa da multidão de toda a sorte de riquezas, Damasco negociava contigo em vinho de Helbom e lã branca.

19 Vedã e Javã de Uzal trocavam lã fiada pelas tuas manufaturas; ferro polido, cássia e cálamo aromático achavam-se entre as tuas mercadorias.

20 Dedã negociava contigo em suadouros para cavalgar.

21 Arábia e todos os príncipes de Quedar também eram os mercadores ao teu serviço; em cordeiros, carneiros e bodes, nestas coisas negociavam contigo.

22 Os mercadores de Sabá e Raamá igualmente negociavam contigo; pelas tuas mercadorias trocavam as melhores de todas as especiarias e toda a pedra preciosa e ouro.

23 Harã, e Cané e Edem os mercadores de Sabá, Assur e Quilmade eram teus mercadores.

24 Estes negociavam contigo em roupas escolhidas, em agasalho de azul e de obra bordada, e em cofres de roupas preciosas, amarrados com cordas e feitos de cedro.

25 Os navios de Társis eram as tuas caravanas para a tua mercadoria; e te encheste, e te glorificaste muito no meio dos mares.

26 Os teus remadores te conduziram sobre grandes águas; o vento oriental te quebrantou no meio dos mares.

27 As tuas riquezas, os teus bens, as tuas mercadorias, os teus marinheiros e os teus pilotos, os teus calafates, e os que faziam os teus negócios, e todos os teus soldados, que estão em ti, juntamente com toda a tua companhia, que está no meio de ti, se submergirão no meio dos mares no dia da tua queda.

28 Ao estrondo da gritaria dos teus pilotos tremerão os arrabaldes.

29 E todos os que pegam no remo, os marinheiros, e todos os pilotos do mar descerão de seus navios, e pararão em terra,

30 e farão ouvir a sua voz sobre ti, e gritarão amargamente; lançarão pó sobre as cabeças, e na cinza se revolverão;

31 e se farão calvos por tua causa, e se cingirão de sacos, e chorarão sobre ti com amargura de alma, com amarga lamentação.

32 No seu pranto farão uma lamentação sobre ti, na qual dirão: Quem foi como Tiro, como a que está reduzida ao silêncio no meio do mar?

33 Quando as tuas mercadorias eram exportadas pelos mares, fartaste a muitos povos; com a multidão das tuas riquezas e das tuas mercadorias, enriqueceste os reis da terra.

34 No tempo em que foste quebrantada pelos mares, nas profundezas das águas, caíram no meio de ti todas as tuas mercadorias e toda a tua companhia.

35 Todos os moradores das ilhas estão a teu respeito cheios de espanto; e os seus reis temem em grande maneira, e estão de semblante perturbado.

36 Os mercadores dentre os povos te dão vaias; tu te tornaste em grande espanto, e nao mais existiras.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed#405

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405. And a third of the living creatures in the sea died. (8:9) This symbolically means that those who had lived that faith and continued to live it could not be reformed and receive life.

A third symbolizes all such, as said above. Creatures mean people who can be reformed (no. 290). The reason is that to create means, symbolically, to reform (no. 254). Their living means, symbolically, to be able by reformation to receive life. That they died means, symbolically, that people who live that faith alone cannot receive life. They cannot, because people are all reformed by a faith united to charity, thus by a faith accompanying charity, and none by faith alone; for charity is the life of faith.

[2] Since in the spiritual world the affections and consequent perceptions and thoughts of spirits and angels appear at a distance in the forms of animals or creatures on the earth called beasts, of creatures in the air called birds, and of creatures in the sea called fish, therefore the Word so often mentions beasts, birds, and fish, which nevertheless have precisely the meaning stated. So for example in the following places:

...Jehovah has a quarrel with the inhabitants of the land, for there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God... And everyone who dwells in it will waste away along with the beast of the field and the bird of the air; even the fish of the sea will be gathered up. (Hosea 4:1, 3)

I will consume man and beast..., the bird of the heavens, the fish of the sea, ...the stumbling blocks along with the impious... (Zephaniah 1:3)

There shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, and the fish of the sea, the bird of the heavens, and the beast of the field... shall tremble before Me. (Ezekiel 38:18-20)

You have made Him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet... the beasts of the fields, the bird of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the path of the seas. (Psalms 8:6-8)

The latter is said of the Lord.

Pray ask the beasts, and they will teach you; or the birds of the air, and they will inform you...; and the fish of the sea will tell you. Who of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this? (Job 12:7-9)

And in many other places as well.

[3] Fish, moreover, and creatures of the sea, as they are called here, mean the affections and consequent thoughts of such people as are concerned with general truths, and so who take more from a natural source than from a spiritual one. These people are meant by fish in the preceding passages, and also in the following ones:

By My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink... and die of thirst. (Isaiah 50:2)

...the king of Egypt, a great whale, you who lie in the midst of your rivers, you said, "The river is mine; I made myself..".. (Therefore) I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales..., and I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. (Ezekiel 29:3-5)

This was addressed to the king of Egypt, because Egypt symbolizes the natural level divorced from the spiritual one, and so the fish of his rivers mean people governed by doctrines, who because of them are caught up in faith separated from charity, a faith that is simply knowledge.

Because of that separation, moreover, one of the miracles in Egypt was the turning of their waters into blood, so that the fish died (Exodus 7:17-25, Psalms 105:29).

[4] Furthermore:

Why do You make mankind like fish of the sea...? Everyone draws them up with a hook, and gathers them in a net... (Habakkuk 1:14-16)

Fish here stand for people concerned with general truths and caught up in faith divorced from charity. In contrast, fish stand for people concerned with general truths and governed by a faith conjoined with charity in Ezekiel:

He said to me: "These waters flowing to the eastern boundary... enter the sea, (from which comes) every living soul that creeps... and very much fish... ...fishermen will stand by it... with a spreading of their nets. Its fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. (Ezekiel 47:1, 8-10)

In Matthew:

(Jesus said,) the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea, and they gathered (fish).... And they put the good ones into vessels and threw the bad away. (Matthew 13:47-49)

And in Jeremiah:

I will bring (the children of Israel) back into their land... And I will send for many fishermen...(who) shall fish them. (Jeremiah 16:15-16)

[5] Consequently, anyone who knows that fish symbolize people and things of the kind stated, can see the following: Why the Lord chose fishermen to be His disciples, and said,

Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men. (Matthew 4:18-19)

Why the disciples, with the Lord's blessing, caught a huge multitude of fish, and the Lord said to Peter,

Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men. (Luke 5:2-10)

Why, when they wished to exact tribute from the Lord, He told Peter to go to the sea and draw out a fish, and to give them the coin found in it for Him and for himself (Matthew 16:24-27).

Why, after His resurrection, the Lord gave His disciples fish and bread to eat (John 21:2-13).

And why He told them to "go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). For the nations they were converting possessed only general truths, and were concerned more with natural things than spiritual ones.

  
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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.