Arcana Coelestia#5215
5215. 'And scorched by an east wind' means full of evil desires. This is clear from the meaning of 'being scorched by an east wind' as being consumed by the fire of evil desires. For an east wind' and the east' in the genuine sense mean love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour, lot, 1250, 3249, 3708, 3762, and therefore in the contrary sense self-love and love of the world, and so cravings and evil desires since these spring from those loves. The word 'fire' is used to refer to such desires for the reason dealt with in 5071, and therefore 'being scorched' is used also.
[2] There are two sources of heat, as there are also two sources of light, the one source of heat being the sun of this world, the other source of heat being the sun of heaven, which is the Lord. It is a well known fact that the sun of this world pours out heat into its own world and onto everything there, but it is a less well known fact that the sun of heaven pours out heat into the whole of heaven. Yet this too may become an equally well known fact if one reflects merely on the heat which exists intrinsically in the human being but which has nothing in common with the heat of the world, that is, if one reflects on what is called vital heat. From this one could know that this heat is of a different nature from the world's heat. That is to say, the former is a living heat but the latter is not at all a living one; also the former, being a living one, fires a person interiorly, namely his will and understanding, imparting to him desires and loves, and affections too. This also explains why desires, loves and affections are spiritual forms of heat, and are also called such. The fact that they are forms of heat is quite evident, for heat is radiated from all parts of the bodies of live persons, even where it is intensely cold. More than that, when desires and affections, that is, when loves, increase, the body grows correspondingly warmer. This kind of heat is what is meant in the Word by 'heat', 'fire', and 'flame'; in the genuine sense celestial and spiritual love is meant, in the contrary sense bodily and earthly love. From this it becomes clear that here 'being scorched by an east wind' means being consumed by the fire of evil desires, and that when used in reference to known facts meant by 'heads' that are 'thin', facts full of evil desires are meant.
[3] 'The east wind' means the blasts of evil desires and of derivative false notions, as is clear from places in the Word where that wind is mentioned, for example, in David,
He caused an east wind to blow 1 in the heavens, and by His power He brought forth the south wind; and He caused flesh to rain onto them like the dust, winged birds like the sand of the sea. Psalms 78:26-27.
'The flesh' which that wind brought meant cravings, and 'winged birds' resulting false notions, as is evident in Numbers 11:31-35, where it is said that the name of the place where the people were struck down for eating flesh was called 'the graves of craving, for there they buried the people who had the craving'.
[4] In Ezekiel,
Behold, the vine that was planted, will it thrive? When the east wind strikes it, will it not wither completely? It will wither on the small spaces where it began to grow. Ezekiel 17:10.
And in the same prophet,
The vine has been plucked up in anger, it has been cast down onto the ground, and the east wind has dried its fruit. They have been plucked out and have withered, each rod of its strength; fire has consumed each one. For fire has gone out from a rod of its branches and has consumed its fruit, so that there is no rod of strength in it, a sceptre for dominion. Ezekiel 19:12, 14.
Here 'the east wind' stands for the blasts of evil desires. In Isaiah,
He gave thought to His rough wind, on the day of the east wind. Isaiah 17:8.
[5] In Hosea,
An east wind will come, Jehovah's wind rising up from the desert, and his spring will become dry, and his fountain dried up. It will strip his treasury of every precious vessel. Hosea 13:15.
Here also 'an east wind' stands for blasts of evil desires. Similarly in Jeremiah,
Like an east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. Jeremiah 18:17.
[6] In David,
By means of an east wind You will shatter the ships of Tarshish. Psalms 48:7.
In Isaiah,
You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, because they have been filled from the east wind, and they are diviners like the Philistines. Isaiah 2:6.
In Hosea,
Ephraim feeds the wind, and pursues the east wind. All the day long he multiplies lies and devastation. Hosea 11:1.
'The wind' here stands for false notions, and 'the east wind' for evil desires. Something similar is also meant in the internal sense by 'an east wind' by means of which 'locusts were brought forth' and by means of which 'the locusts were cast into the sea', 2 Exodus 10:13, 19, and also by means of which 'the waters of the sea Suph' were divided, Exodus 14:21.
脚注:
1. literally, set out
2. According to Exodus 10:19 a west wind cast the locusts into the sea.
Psalms第78章
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Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
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I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
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Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
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We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
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For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
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that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
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that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,
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and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
9
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
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They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
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They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.
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He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
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In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
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He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
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He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
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Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
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They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
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Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
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Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"
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Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
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because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.
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Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
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He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
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Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
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He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
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He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
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He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.
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So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
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They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
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when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.
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For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.
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Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
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When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
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They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
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But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
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For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
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But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.
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He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
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They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
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how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
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he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
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He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
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He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
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He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
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He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
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He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
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and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
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He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
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He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;
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but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
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When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
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So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
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and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.
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He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
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Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
64
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
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Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
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He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
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Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,
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But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
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He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
70
He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
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from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
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So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. A Psalm by Asaph.
