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Ezequiel第30章

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1 Y vino Palabra del SEÑOR a mí, diciendo:

2 Hijo de hombre, profetiza, y di: Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Aullad: ¡Ay del día!

3 Porque cerca está el día, cerca está el día del Señor; día de nublado, tiempo de los gentiles será.

4 Y vendrá espada a Egipto, y habrá miedo en Etiopía, cuando caigan heridos en Egipto; y tomarán su multitud, y serán destruidos sus fundamentos.

5 Etiopía, y Libia, y Lidia, y toda la mezcla de gente , y Chub, y los hijos de la tierra de la liga, caerán con ellos a cuchillo.

6 Así dijo el SEÑOR: También caerán los que sostienen a Egipto, y la altivez de su fortaleza caerá; desde la torre de Sevene caerán en él a cuchillo, dijo el SEÑOR DIOS.

7 Y serán asolados entre las tierras asoladas, y sus ciudades serán entre las ciudades desiertas.

8 Y sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR, cuando pusiere fuego a Egipto, y fueren quebrantados todos sus ayudadores.

9 En aquel tiempo saldrán mensajeros de delante de mí en navíos, a espantar a Etiopía la confiada, y tendrán espanto como en el día de Egipto, porque he aquí viene.

10 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Haré cesar la multitud de Egipto por mano de Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia.

11 El, y con él su pueblo, los más fuertes de los gentiles, serán traídos a destruir la tierra; y desenvainarán sus espadas sobre Egipto, y llenarán la tierra de muertos.

12 Y secaré los ríos, y entregaré la tierra en manos de malos, y destruiré la tierra y su plenitud por mano de extranjeros; yo, el SEÑOR, he hablado.

13 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Destruiré también las imágenes, y haré cesar los ídolos de Menfis; y no habrá más príncipe de la tierra de Egipto, y en la tierra de Egipto pondré temor.

14 Y asolaré a Patros, y pondré fuego a Tafnes, y haré juicios en No (Alejandría ).

15 Y derramaré mi ira sobre Pelusio, fortaleza de Egipto, y talaré la multitud de No.

16 Y pondré fuego a Egipto; Pelusio tendrá gran dolor, y No será destrozada, y Menfis tendrá continuas angustias.

17 Los jóvenes de Heliópolis y de Pubásti caerán a cuchillo; y ellas irán en cautiverio.

18 Y en Tafnes se oscurecerá el día, cuando quebrantaré yo allí los yugos de Egipto, y cesará en ella la soberbia de su fortaleza; nublado la cubrirá, y los moradores de sus aldeas irán en cautiverio.

19 Haré, pues, juicios en Egipto y sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR.

20 Y aconteció en el año undécimo, en el mes primero, a los siete del mes, que vino Palabra del SEÑOR a mí, diciendo:

21 Hijo de hombre, he quebrantado el brazo de Faraón rey de Egipto; y he aquí que no ha sido vendado poniéndole medicinas, poniéndole faja para ligarlo, a fin de vigorizarle para que pueda tener espada.

22 Por tanto, así dijo el Señor DIOS: Heme aquí contra Faraón rey de Egipto, y quebraré sus brazos, el fuerte y el fracturado, y haré que la espada se le caiga de la mano.

23 Y esparciré los egipcios entre los gentiles, y los aventaré por las tierras.

24 Y fortificaré los brazos del rey de Babilonia, y pondré mi espada en su mano; mas quebraré los brazos de Faraón, y delante de aquél gemirá con gemidos de herido de muerte.

25 Fortificaré, pues, los brazos del rey de Babilonia, y los brazos de Faraón caerán; y sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR, cuando yo pusiere mi espada en la mano del rey de Babilonia, y él la extendiere sobre la tierra de Egipto.

26 Y esparciré los egipcios entre los gentiles, y los aventaré por las tierras; y sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#7293

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7293. 'It will then be a water-serpent' means by the prospect that sheer illusions and resulting falsities will reign among them. This is clear from the meaning of 'a serpent' as the sensory and bodily level of mind, dealt with in 6949, and therefore illusions since that level of mind when separated from the rational level, that is, when not subordinate to it, is filled with illusions, to such an extent that it consists of scarcely anything else than illusions, see 6948, 6949. 'A water-serpent' is what is meant here; for in the original language the same word is used for this kind of serpent as that which is used to refer to a monster that is a very large fish of the sea; and 'a (sea-)monster' means factual knowledge in general.

When therefore falsities resulting from illusions are meant by 'the Egyptians', that word used in the original language denotes a serpent - a water-serpent since it can also be used to refer to the monster living in water and 'the water of Egypt' means falsities.

[2] The fact that Pharaoh or Egypt is called 'a monster' is clear in Ezekiel,

Speak and say, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers. Ezekiel 29:3.

In the same prophet,

Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You have become like a young lion of the nations, you are like monsters in the seas, and you have come forth with your rivers; you have stirred up your rivers Ezekiel 32:2.

Here 'monster' means known facts in general which, being the product of what a person's senses tell him, are used to pervert matters of faith. The reason why 'monster' means factual knowledge in general is that 'a fish' means that knowledge in particular, 40, 991. And since known facts perverting the truths of faith are meant by 'monsters', reasonings based on illusions, which give rise to falsities, are also meant by the same word.

[3] The same things are meant by 'monsters' in David,

You broke up the sea by your strength; you broke the heads of the monsters upon the waters. Psalms 74:13.

Much the same is also meant by 'leviathan' in Isaiah,

On that day Jehovah will make a visitation with His hard and great and strong sword upon Leviathan the full-length serpent, 1 and upon Leviathan the twisting serpent, and He will slay the monsters that are in the sea. Isaiah 27:1.

And in David,

You broke in pieces the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food to the people, the Ziim. Psalms 74:14.

In the good sense 'Leviathan' stands for reason based on truths, in Job 41:1-34; reason based on truths is the opposite of reasonings based on falsities.

[4] Since 'monsters' means reasonings that are based on illusions and pervert truths, 'water-serpents' - the word for which in the original language is the same as that used for 'monsters' - means the actual falsities resulting from illusions which give rise to reasonings and lead to perversions of the truth. Falsities are meant by such 'serpents' in the following places: In Isaiah,

The iim will reply in its palaces, and serpents in the delightful palaces. Isaiah 13:22.

In the same prophet,

Thorns will come up into its palaces, thistle and brier in its fortifications, so that it may be a dwelling-place of serpents, a courtyard for daughters of the owl. Isaiah 34:13.

In the same prophet,

In the dwelling-place of serpents will his bed be, grass instead of reed and rush. Isaiah 35:7.

In Jeremiah,

I will make Jerusalem heaps of rubble, the dwelling-place of serpents. Jeremiah 9:11.

In Malachi,

I have turned the mountains of Esau into a waste, and his inheritance into [a place] for the serpents of the wilderness. Malachi 1:3.

In all these places 'serpents' stands for falsities on which reasonings are based.

[5] The same things are also meant by 'dragons', but 'dragons' are reasonings that spring from self-love and love of the world, thus from desires for what is evil, which pervert not only truths but forms of good as well. These reasonings are produced by people who in their hearts repudiate the truths and forms of the good of faith, but affirm them with their lips because of their intense desire to obtain dominance and gain. Thus such reasonings are also produced by those who render truths and forms of good profane. Both of these kinds of people are meant by 'the dragon, the serpent of old, who is called the devil and satan, who leads the whole world astray', Revelation 12:9, and also by this same dragon which persecuted the woman who had given birth to a son who was caught up to God and to His throne, Revelation 11:5, and which emitted water from its mouth like a river, to swallow up the woman, Revelation 12:13, 15.

[6] The son to whom the woman had given birth is Divine Truth now revealed at the present day, 'the woman' being the Church. 'The dragon, the serpent' is those who are going to persecute it, and 'the water like a river which the dragon emitted' is falsities arising out of evil and the resulting reasonings which they are going to use in their endeavour to destroy the woman, that is, the Church. But the fact that they will not at all accomplish this is described by the statement that 'the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon emitted', Revelation 12:16.

脚注:

1. i.e. a serpent that is on the move and not coiled up

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

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Ezekiel第32章:2

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2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.