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Ezequiel第34章

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1 Y vino Palabra del SEÑOR a mí, diciendo:

2 Hijo de hombre, profetiza contra los pastores de Israel; profetiza, y diles a los pastores: Así dijo el Señor DIOS: ¡Ay de los pastores de Israel, que se apacientan a sí mismos! ¿Los pastores no apacientan las ovejas?

3 Coméis la leche, y os vestís de la lana; la gruesa degolláis, no apacentáis las ovejas.

4 No fortalecisteis las flacas, ni curasteis la enferma; no ligasteis la perniquebrada, ni tornasteis la amontada, ni buscasteis la perdida; sino que os habéis enseñoreado de ellas con dureza y con violencia;

5 y están derramadas por falta de pastor; y fueron para ser comidas de toda bestia del campo, y fueron esparcidas.

6 Y anduvieron perdidas mis ovejas por todos los montes, y en todo collado alto; y en toda la faz de la tierra fueron derramadas mis ovejas, y no hubo quien buscase, ni quien requiriese.

7 Por tanto, pastores, oíd Palabra del SEÑOR:

8 Vivo yo, dijo el Señor DIOS, que por cuanto mi rebaño fue para ser robado, y mis ovejas fueron para ser comidas de toda bestia del campo, sin pastor; ni mis pastores buscaron mis ovejas, sino que los pastores se apacentaron a sí mismos, y no apacentaron mis ovejas;

9 por tanto, oh pastores, oíd palabra del SEÑOR:

10 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: He aquí, yo a los pastores; y requeriré mis ovejas de su mano, y yo les haré dejar de apacentar las ovejas; ni los pastores se apacentarán más a sí mismos; pues yo libraré mis ovejas de sus bocas, y no les serán más por comida.

11 Porque así dijo el Señor DIOS: He aquí yo, yo requeriré mis ovejas, y las reconoceré.

12 Como reconoce su rebaño el pastor el día que está en medio de sus ovejas esparcidas, así reconoceré mis ovejas, y las libraré de todos los lugares en que fueron esparcidas el día del nublado y de la oscuridad.

13 Y yo las sacaré de los pueblos, y las juntaré de las tierras; y las meteré en su tierra, y las apacentaré en los montes de Israel por las riberas, y en todas las habitaciones del país.

14 En buenos pastos las apacentaré, y en los altos montes de Israel será su majada; allí dormirán en buena majada, y en pastos gruesos serán apacentadas sobre los montes de Israel.

15 Yo apacentaré mis ovejas, y yo les haré tener majada, dijo el Señor DIOS.

16 Yo buscaré la perdida, y tornaré la amontada, y ligaré la perniquebrada, y fortaleceré la enferma; mas a la gruesa y a la fuerte destruiré. Yo las apacentaré en juicio.

17 Mas vosotras, ovejas mías, así dijo el Señor DIOS: He aquí yo juzgo entre oveja y oveja, entre carneros y machos cabríos.

18 ¿Os es poco que comáis los buenos pastos, sino que también holláis con vuestros pies lo que de vuestros pastos queda; y que bebiendo las profundas aguas, también holláis con vuestros pies las que quedan?

19 Y mis ovejas comen lo hollado de vuestros pies, y beben lo que con vuestros pies habéis hollado.

20 Por tanto, así les dijo el Señor DIOS: He aquí, yo, yo juzgaré entre la oveja gruesa y la oveja flaca,

21 por cuanto empujasteis con el lado y con el hombro, y acorneasteis con vuestros cuernos a todas las flacas, hasta que las esparcisteis fuera.

22 Yo salvaré a mis ovejas, y nunca más serán en rapiña; y juzgaré entre oveja y oveja.

23 Y despertaré sobre ellas un pastor, y él las apacentará; a mi siervo David: él las apacentará, y él les será por pastor.

24 Yo, el SEÑOR, les seré por Dios, y mi siervo David, príncipe en medio de ellos. Yo, el SEÑOR, he hablado.

25 Y estableceré con ellos pacto de paz, y haré cesar de la tierra las malas bestias; y habitarán en el desierto seguramente, y dormirán en los bosques.

26 Y daré a ellas, y a los alrededores de mi collado, bendición; y haré descender la lluvia en su tiempo, lluvias de bendición serán.

27 Y el árbol del campo dará su fruto, y la tierra dará su fruto, y estarán sobre su tierra seguramente; y sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR, cuando yo quebrare las coyundas de su yugo, y las librare de mano de los que se sirven de ellas.

28 Y no serán más presa de los gentiles, y las bestias de la tierra nunca más las devorarán; sino que habitarán seguramente, y no habrá quien espante;

29 Y les despertaré una Planta por nombre, y no más serán consumidas de hambre en la tierra, ni serán más avergonzadas de los gentiles.

30 Y sabrán que yo el SEÑOR su Dios soy con ellas, y ellas son mi pueblo, la Casa de Israel, dijo el SEÑOR Dios.

31 Y vosotras, ovejas mías, ovejas de mi pasto, hombres sois, y yo vuestro Dios, dijo el Señor Dios.

   

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3. Which God gave Him to show His servants. This symbolically means, for people who have faith arising from charity, or truths of wisdom arising from the goodness of love.

To show means, symbolically, to make evident, and servants here symbolize people who have faith arising from charity. The following things are made evident to them because they understand and accept.

Servants mean, in the spiritual sense, people who are governed by truths; and because truths spring from goodness, servants mean people who are governed by truths arising from goodness, thus also people governed by wisdom arising from love, because wisdom has to do with truth, and love with goodness. They also are people who have faith arising from charity, because faith, too, has to do with truth, and charity with goodness. And because the spiritual sense in reality is abstracted from person, therefore servants in that sense symbolize truths.

Now because truths, by teaching goodness, serve it, therefore in general, and properly speaking, by a servant in the Word is meant something serving, or someone or something that serves. In this sense not only were prophets called servants of God, but so, too, was the Lord in respect to His humanity.

That prophets were called servants of God is evident from the following passages:

Jehovah has sent to you all His servants the prophets... (Jeremiah 25:4)

...He has revealed His secret to His servants the prophets. (Amos 3:7)

...He has set before us by the hand of His servants the prophets. (Daniel 9:10)

Moses, too, is called a servant of Jehovah (Malachi 4:4). That is because a prophet, in the spiritual sense, means doctrinal truth, as discussed below.

[2] Moreover, because the Lord was the very embodiment of Divine truth, which also is the Word, and for that reason was called the prophet, and because He served in the world and serves all people to eternity by teaching, therefore He, too, is here and there called the servant of Jehovah, as in the following passages:

Of the labor of His soul He shall see; He shall be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many... (Isaiah 53:11)

Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high. (Isaiah 52:13)

Behold! My Servant on whom I rest, My Elect. My soul has good pleasure! I have put My Spirit upon Him... (Isaiah 42:1, 19)

These things are said of the Lord. David is spoken of similarly, where by him is meant the Lord, as in the following:

I, Jehovah, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them... (Ezekiel 34:24)

David My servant shall be king over them, so that they all have one shepherd... (Ezekiel 37:24)

I will protect this city to save it, for My sake and for My servant David's sake. (Isaiah 37:35)

So, too, Psalms 78:70-72; 89:3-4, 20. (That by David in these places is meant the Lord, may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, nos. 43, 44.)

The Lord Himself speaks similarly of Himself:

...whoever desires to become great among you must be your attendant, and whoever desires to be first among you must be your servant, even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister... (Matthew 20:25-28. Cf. Mark 10:42-45, Luke 22:27. So, too, Luke 12:37)

The Lord says this, because by a servant and attendant are meant one who serves and ministers by teaching, and abstractly from person, Divine truth, which He embodied.

[3] Since a servant therefore means someone who teaches Divine truth, it is apparent that servants in this place in the book of Revelation mean people who possess truths arising from goodness, or faith arising from charity, because they are able to teach from the Lord, that is to say, because the Lord is able to teach and minister through them.

It is in this sense that they are called servants in Matthew:

(At the end of the age,) who... is the faithful and prudent servant, whom his lord set over his household, to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his lord, when he comes, will find so doing. (Matthew 24:45-46)

And in Luke:

Blessed are those servants whom the lord, when he comes, will find watching. Truly I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will (himself) come and attend to them. (Luke 12:37)

In heaven, all people in the Lord's spiritual kingdom are called His servants, while those in His celestial kingdom are called His ministers. That is because people in His spiritual kingdom are governed by wisdom derived from Divine truth, and those in the celestial kingdom by love derived from Divine good. And good ministers, while truth serves.

In an opposite sense, however, by servants are meant people who serve the devil. These are in a real state of servitude, whereas people who serve the Lord are in a state of freedom - as the Lord also teaches in John 8:31-36. 1

脚注:

1. Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, 'You will be made free'?" Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. (John 8:31-36)

  
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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.