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Mattheüs 16

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1 En de Farizeen en Sadduceen tot Hem gekomen zijnde, en Hem verzoekende, begeerden van Hem, dat Hij hun een teken uit den hemel zou tonen.

2 Maar Hij antwoordde, en zeide tot hen: Als het avond geworden is, zegt gij: Schoon weder; want de hemel is rood;

3 En des morgens: Heden onweder; want de hemel is droevig rood. Gij geveinsden! het aanschijn des hemels weet gij wel te onderscheiden, en kunt gij de tekenen der tijden niet onderscheiden?

4 Het boos en overspelig geslacht verzoekt een teken; en hun zal geen teken gegeven worden, dan het teken van Jona, den profeet. En hen verlatende, ging Hij weg.

5 En als Zijn discipelen op de andere zijde gekomen waren, hadden zij vergeten broden mede te nemen.

6 En Jezus zeide tot hen: Ziet toe, en wacht u van den zuurdesem der Farizeen en Sadduceen.

7 En zij overlegden bij zichzelven, zeggende: Het is omdat wij geen broden mede genomen hebben.

8 En Jezus, dat wetende, zeide tot hen: Wat overlegt gij bij uzelven, gij kleingelovigen! dat gij geen broden mede genomen hebt?

9 Verstaat gij nog niet? en gedenkt gij niet aan de vijf broden der vijf duizend mannen; en hoevele korven gij opnaamt?

10 Noch aan de zeven broden der vier duizend mannen, en hoevele manden gij opnaamt?

11 Hoe verstaat gij niet, dat Ik u van geen brood gesproken heb, als Ik zeide, dat gij u wachten zoudt van den zuurdesem der Farizeen en Sadduceen.

12 Toen verstonden zij, dat Hij niet gezegd had, dat zij zich wachten zouden van den zuurdesem des broods, maar van de leer der Farizeen en Sadduceen?

13 Als nu Jezus gekomen was in de delen van Cesarea Filippi, vraagde Hij Zijn discipelen, zeggende: Wie zeggen de mensen, dat Ik, de Zoon des mensen, ben?

14 En zij zeiden: Sommigen: Johannes de Doper; en anderen: Elias; en anderen: Jeremia of een van de profeten.

15 Hij zeide tot hen: Maar gij, wie zegt gij, dat Ik ben?

16 En Simon Petrus, antwoordende, zeide: Gij zijt de Christus, de Zoon des levenden Gods.

17 En Jezus, antwoordende, zeide tot hem: Zalig zijt gij, Simon, Bar-Jona! want vlees en bloed heeft u dat niet geopenbaard, maar Mijn Vader, Die in de hemelen is.

18 En Ik zeg u ook, dat gij zijt Petrus, en op deze petra zal Ik Mijn gemeente bouwen, en de poorten der hel zullen dezelve niet overweldigen.

19 En Ik zal u geven de sleutelen van het Koninkrijk der hemelen; en zo wat gij zult binden op de aarde, zal in de hemelen gebonden zijn; en zo wat gij ontbinden zult op de aarde, zal in de hemelen ontbonden zijn.

20 Toen verbood Hij Zijn discipelen, dat zij iemand zeggen zouden, dat Hij was Jezus, de Christus.

21 Van toen aan begon Jezus Zijn discipelen te vertonen, dat Hij moest heengaan naar Jeruzalem, en veel lijden van de ouderlingen, en overpriesters, en Schriftgeleerden, en gedood worden, en ten derden dage opgewekt worden.

22 En Petrus, Hem tot zich genomen hebbende, begon Hem te bestraffen, zeggende: Heere, wees U genadig! dit zal U geenszins geschieden.

23 Maar Hij, Zich omkerende, zeide tot Petrus: Ga weg achter Mij, satanas! gij zijt Mij een aanstoot, want gij verzint niet de dingen, die Gods zijn, maar die der mensen zijn.

24 Toen zeide Jezus tot Zijn discipelen: Zo iemand achter Mij wil komen, die verloochene zichzelven, en neme zijn kruis op, en volge Mij.

25 Want zo wie zijn leven zal willen behouden, die zal hetzelve verliezen; maar zo wie zijn leven verliezen zal, om Mijnentwil, die zal hetzelve vinden.

26 Want wat baat het een mens, zo hij de gehele wereld gewint, en lijdt schade zijner ziel? Of wat zal een mens geven, tot lossing van zijn ziel?

27 Want de Zoon des mensen zal komen in de heerlijkheid Zijns Vaders, met Zijn engelen, en alsdan zal Hij een iegelijk vergelden naar zijn doen.

28 Voorwaar zeg Ik u: Er zijn sommigen van die hier staan, dewelke den dood niet smaken zullen, totdat zij den Zoon des mensen zullen hebben zien komen in Zijn Koninkrijk.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #1057

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Yiya esigabeni / 1232  
  

1057. Whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, signifies that there are those who do not acknowledge the Divine authority of the Lord over heaven and earth, but regard it as transferred to a certain vicar, and from him to his vicars. This is evident from the signification of "names not written in the book of life," as being those who are not received in heaven (See n. 199, 222, 299); and as those are not received into heaven who do not acknowledge the Lord's Divine authority over heaven and earth, such are here meant. Also from the signification of "from the foundation of the world," as being from the establishment of the church. In the sense of the letter or the natural sense "the foundation of the world" means the creation of the world; but in the internal spiritual sense it means the establishment of the church; for the spiritual sense treats of spiritual things, while the natural sense treats of natural things which pertain to the world. For this reason the creation of the heaven and the earth in the first chapter of Genesis describes in the spiritual sense the new creation or establishment of the first and Most Ancient Church on this earth. (That this is described by the creation of heaven and earth in the first chapter of Genesis may be seen in the Arcana Coelestia, where the contents of that chapter are explained.) Moreover, "to create" signifies in the Word to reform; and "the Creator" means the Lord as Reformer and Savior. (That "to create" signifies to reform, and that the creation of heaven and earth in the first chapter of Genesis in the spiritual sense describes the establishment of the Most Ancient Church can be seen above, n. 294, 739.)

[2] The establishment of the church is meant by "the foundation of the world" in these passages in the Word:

The king shall say to them on the right hand, Come and possess as an inheritance the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world (Matthew 15:34).

Jesus praying said, Father, for Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world (John 17:24).

Jesus said, The blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world shall be required of this generation (Luke 11:50).

That the establishment of the church is meant by "the foundation of the world" is evident from passages in the Word where mention is made of "founding the earth," "the founding of the earth," and "the foundation of the earth," which do not mean the founding or creating of the earth, but the establishment or creation of the church upon the earth. As in Zechariah:

Jehovah spreadeth abroad the heavens, and foundeth the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in the midst of him (Zechariah 12:1).

Here "spreading abroad the heaven and founding the earth," does not mean the spreading abroad of the visible heaven and the founding of the habitable earth, but the church as to its internals, which are called spiritual, and as to its externals, which are called natural. "To found" this and "to spread abroad" that means to establish; and therefore it is added, "and formeth the spirit of man in the midst of him," which signifies his reformation and regeneration.

[3] In Isaiah:

Hearken unto Me, O Jacob and Israel, My hand hath founded the earth, and My right hand hath spanned the heavens (Isaiah 48:12-13).

"Founding the earth with the hand, and spanning the heavens with the right hand," has a similar signification here as above, as can be seen from what precedes and what follows in this chapter where the establishment of a New Church by the Lord is treated of. In the same:

Thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretcheth forth the heavens and foundeth the earth (Isaiah 51:13).

Here again, "the heavens and the earth" signify the church as to its internal or spiritual things and its external or natural things; and "to stretch forth and found" signifies to establish.

[4] In the same:

I will put My words in thy mouth, and will cover thee with the shadow of My hand, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, and to say unto Zion, Thou art My people. Awake, awake, arise, O Jerusalem (Isaiah 51:16-17).

Here "to plant the heavens and to found the earth" evidently stands for the establishment of the church; for this is said to the prophet, that "the word should be put in his mouth, and that he should be covered with the shadow of the hand, to plant the heavens and to found the earth;" and a prophet cannot found the earth, but he can found a church; therefore it is also added, "to say unto Zion, Thou art my people. Awake, awake, arise, O Jerusalem," "Zion and Jerusalem," in the Word, meaning the church. In David:

The heaven is Thine and the earth is Thine; the world and the fullness thereof Thou hast founded them (Psalms 89:11).

Here too, "heaven and earth" signify the church; "the world" signifies the church as to good, and "the fullness thereof" signifies all the goods and truths of the church.

[5] In the same:

The earth and the world Jehovah hath founded upon the seas, and established upon the rivers. Who shall ascend into the mountain of Jehovah, and who shall stand in the place of His holiness? (Psalms 24:2-3).

The establishment of the church is described by "founding the earth and the world upon the seas, and establishing them upon the rivers," as can be seen above (n. 304, 518, 741). That the establishment of the church is signified is evident from what here follows, namely, "Who shall ascend into the mountain of Jehovah, and who shall stand in the place of His holiness?" "The mountain of Jehovah" means Zion, which signifies where the Lord reigns by means of the Divine truth, and "the place of His holiness" means Jerusalem, where the temple was, which signifies the church as to doctrine. All this makes clear that "the founding of the world" signifies the establishment of the church. For the "world" has a similar meaning as "heaven and earth;" and the expression "to found the earth" is used because the "earth" signifies the church on earth, and upon this heaven as to its holy things is founded. This also makes clear the signification of "the foundations of the earth" in the following passages. In Isaiah:

Do ye not know, do ye not hear, hath it not been declared to you from the beginning, do ye not understand the foundations of the earth? (Isaiah 40:21).

In the same:

The foundations of the earth are corrupted (Isaiah 24:18; likewise Isaiah 63:12; Jeremiah 31:37; Micah 6:2; Psalms 18:7, 15; 82:5).

(Continuation respecting the Second Kind of Profanation)

[6] Profaners of this kind are stupid and foolish in spiritual things, but are crafty and keen in worldly things, because they make one with the devils in hell; and because, as has been said above, they are merely sensual, and are therefore in what is their own [proprium], which draws its delight of life from the unclean effluvia that exhale from waste matters in the body, and that are emitted from dunghills; and these cause a swelling of their breasts when their pride is active and the titillation of these causes delight.

[7] That such is the source of their delight is made evident by their delights after death when they are living as spirits; for then more than the sweetest odors do they love the rank stenches arising from the gases of the belly and from outhouses, which to their smell are more fragrant than thyme. The approach and touch of these close up the interiors of their mind, and open the exteriors pertaining to the body, from which comes their quickness in worldly things, and their dullness in spiritual things. In a word, the love of having dominion by means of the holy things of the church corresponds to filth, and its delight to a stench indescribable by words, and at which angels shudder. Such is the exhalation from their hells when they are opened; but they are kept closed because of the oppression and occasional swooning which they produce.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 1232  
  

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.

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Micah 6:2

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2 Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.