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1 여호와의 말씀이 또 내게 임하여 가라사대

2 인자야 두 여인이 있었으니 한 어미의 딸이라

3 그들이 애굽에서 행음하되 어렸을 때에 행음하여 그들의 유방이 눌리며 그 처녀의 가슴이 어루만진 바 되었었나니

4 그 이름이 형은 오홀라요 아우는 오홀리바라 그들이 내게 속하여 자녀를 낳았나니 그 이름으로 말하면 오홀라는 사마리아요 오홀리바는 예루살렘이니라

5 오홀라가 내게 속하였을 때에 행음하여 그 연애하는 자 곧 그 이웃 앗수르 사람을 사모하였나니

6 그들은 다 자색 옷을 입은 방백과 감독이요 준수한 소년,말 타는 자들이라

7 그가 앗수르 중에 잘 생긴 그 모든 자들과 행음하고 누구를 연애하든지 그들의 모든 우상으로 스스로 더럽혔으며

8 그가 젊었을 때에 애굽사람과 동침하매 그 처녀의 가슴이 어루만진바 되며 그 몸에 음란을 쏟음을 당한바 되었더니 그가 그 때부터 행음함을 마지 아니하였느니라

9 그러므로 내가 그를 그 정든 자 곧 그 연애하는 앗수르 사람의 손에 붙였더니

10 그들이 그 하체를 드러내고 그 자녀를 빼앗으며 칼로 그를 죽여 그 누명을 여자에게 드러내었나니 이는 그들이 그에게 심문을 행함이니라

11 그 아우 오홀리바가 이것을 보고도 그 형보다 음욕을 더하며 그 형의 간음함보다 그 간음이 더 심하므로 그 형보다 더 부패하여 졌느니라

12 그가 그 이웃 앗수르 사람을 연애하였나니 그들은 화려한 의복을 입은 방백과 감독이요 말타는 자들과 준수한 소년이었느니라

13 그 두 여인이 한 길로 행하므로 그도 더러워졌음을 내가 보았노라

14 그가 음행을 더하였음은 붉은 것으로 벽에 그린 사람의 형상 곧 갈대아 사람의 형상을 보았음이니

15 그 형상은 허리를 띠로 동이고 머리를 긴 수건으로 쌌으며 용모는 다 존귀한 자 곧 그 고토 갈대아 바벨론 사람 같은 것이라

16 그가 보고 곧 연애하여 사자를 갈대아 그들에게로 보내매

17 바벨론 사람이 나아와 연애하는 침상에 올라 음란으로 그를 더럽히매 그가 더럽힘을 입은 후에 그들을 싫어하는 마음이 생겼느니라

18 그가 이와 같이 그 음행을 나타내며 그 하체를 드러내므로 내 마음이 그 형을 싫어한 것 같이 그를 싫어하였으나

19 그가 그 음행을 더하여 그 젊었을 때 곧 애굽 땅에서 음행하던 때를 생각하고

20 그 하체는 나귀 같고 그 정수는 말 같은 음란한 간부를 연애하였도다

21 네가 젊었을 때에 행음하여 애굽 사람에게 네 가슴과 유방이 어루만진바 되었던 것을 오히려 생각하도다

22 그러므로 오홀리바야 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 내가 너의 연애하다가 싫어하던 자들을 격동시켜서 그들로 사방에서 와서 너를 치게 하리니

23 그들은 바벨론 사람과 갈대아 모든 무리 브곳과 소아와 고아 사람과 또 그와 함께 한 모든 앗수르 사람 곧 준수한 소년이며 다 방백과 감독이며 귀인과 유명한 자, 다 말 타는 자들이라

24 그들이 병기와 병거와 수레와 크고 작은 방패를 이끌고 투구 쓴 군대를 거느리고 치러 와서 너를 에워쌀지라 내가 심문권을 그들에게 맡긴즉 그들이 그 심문권대로 너를 심문하리라

25 내가 너를 향하여 투기를 발하리니 그들이 분노로 네게 행하여 네 코와 귀를 깎아버리고 남은 자를 칼로 엎드러뜨리며 네 자녀를 빼앗고 그 남은 자를 불에 사르며

26 또 네 옷을 벗기며 네 장식품을 빼앗을지라

27 이와 같이 내가 네 음란과 애굽 땅에서부터 음행하던 것을 그치게 하여 너로 그들을 향하여 눈을 들지도 못하게 하며 다시는 애굽을 기억하지도 못하게 하리라

28 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 내가 너의 미워하는 자와 네 마음에 싫어하는 자의 손에 너를 붙이리니

29 그들이 미워하는 마음으로 네게 행하여 네 모든 수고한 것을 빼앗고 너를 벌거벗겨 적신으로 두어서 네 음행의 벗은 몸 곧 네 음란하며 음행하던 것을 드러낼 것이라

30 네가 이같이 당할 것은 네가 음란히 이방을 좇고 그 우상들로 더럽혔음이로다

31 네가 네 형의 길로 행하였은즉 내가 그의 잔을 네 손에 주리라

32 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 깊고 크고 가득히 담긴 네 형의 잔을 네가 마시고 비소와 조롱을 당하리라

33 네가 네 형 사마리아의 잔 곧 놀람과 패망의 잔에 넘치게 취하고 근심할지라

34 네가 그 잔을 다 기울여 마시고 그 깨어진 조각을 씹으며 네 유방을 꼬집을 것은 내가 이렇게 말하였음이니라 나 주 여호와의 말이니라

35 그러므로 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 네가 나를 잊었고 또 나를 네 등 뒤에 버렸은즉 너는 네 음란과 네 음행의 죄를 담당할지니라 하시니라

36 여호와께서 또 내게 이르시되 인자야 네가 오홀라와 오홀리바를 국문하려느냐 그러면 그 가증한 일을 그들에게 고하라

37 그들이 행음하였으며 피를 손에 묻혔으며 또 그 우상과 행음하며 내게 낳아준 자식들을 우상을 위하여 화제로 살랐으며

38 이외에도 그들이 내게 행한 것이 있나니 당일에 내 성소를 더럽히며 내 안식일을 범하였도다

39 그들이 자녀를 죽여 그 우상에게 드린 당일에 내 성소에 들어와서 더럽혔으되 그들이 내 성전 가운데서 그렇게 행하였으며

40 또 사자를 원방에 보내어 사람을 불러오게 하고 그들이 오매 그들을 위하여 목욕하며 눈썹을 그리며 스스로 단장하고

41 화려한 자리에 앉아 앞에 상을 베풀고 내 향과 기름을 그 위에 놓고

42 그 무리와 편히 지껄이고 즐겼으며 또 광야에서 잡류와 술취한 사람을 청하여 오매 그들이 팔쇠를 그 손목에 끼우고 아름다운 면류관을 그 머리에 씌웠도다

43 내가 음행으로 쇠한 여인을 가리켜 말하노라 그가 그래도 그들과 피차 행음하는도다

44 그들이 그에게 나아오기를 기생에게 나아옴 같이 음란한 여인 오홀라와 오홀리바에게 나아왔은즉

45 의인이 음부를 심문함 같이 심문하며 피를 흘린 여인을 심문함 같이 심문하리니 그들은 음부요 또 피가 그 손에 묻었음이니라

46 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 내가 군대를 거느리고 와서 치게 하여 그들로 학대와 약탈을 당하게 하리니

47 그 군대가 그들을 돌로 치며 칼로 죽이고 그 자녀도 죽이며 그 집들을 불사르리라

48 이와 같이 내가 이 땅에서 음란을 그치게 한즉 모든 여인이 경성하여 너희 음행을 본받지 아니하리라

49 그들이 너희 음란으로 너희에게 보응한즉 너희가 모든 우상을 위하던 죄를 담당할지라 너희가 나를 주 여호와인 줄 알리라 하시니라

   

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Arcana Coelestia #6432

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

6432. 'The blessings of the breasts' means with affections for goodness and truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the breasts' as affections for goodness and truth. 'The breasts' means those affections because the breasts communicate with the generative organs, and for that reason they too belong to the province of conjugial love (regarding that province see 5050-5062). Now conjugial love corresponds to the heavenly marriage, which is a marriage of goodness and truth (for conjugial love comes down from that marriage, see 2618, 2728, 2729, 2803, 3132, 4434, 4835, 6179), and therefore 'the breasts' means affections for goodness and truth. In addition they derive that meaning from the fact that the breasts are what feed infants and so mean, through the affection that goes with breast-feeding, conjugial love when joined to the love of offspring.

[2] The same affections are also meant by 'the breasts' in Isaiah,

You will suck the milk of nations, and the breasts of kings you will suck. Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver. Isaiah 60:16-17.

'Sucking the breasts of kings' stands for good obtained from truth, for by 'kings' truths are meant, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148. 'The milk of nations' and 'the breasts of kings' plainly mean some profoundly spiritual matter, for those words would otherwise be meaningless. The fact that goodness and truth are meant is clear from the words that follow, which are 'Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron silver'; for 'bronze' is natural good, 425, 1551, and 'gold' celestial good, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658; 'iron' is natural truth, 425, 426, and 'silver' spiritual truth, 1551, 2954, 5658, 6112.

[3] In Ezekiel,

As regards increase, I gave you to be like the seed of the field, out of which you grew up and matured and reached full beauty; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Ezekiel 16:7.

This refers to Jerusalem, which here means the Ancient spiritual Church. 'Breasts that were formed' stands for interior affections for goodness and truth, 'your hair had grown for exterior affections belonging to the natural - 'hair' being the natural as regards truth, see 3301, 5247, 5569-5573. These words plainly contain a spiritual sense which is not visible in the letter, for without that sense why would it say of Jerusalem that its breasts were formed and its hair had grown?

[4] In the same prophet,

Two women, the daughters of one mother, committed whoredom in Egypt. In their youth they committed whoredom; there their breasts were squeezed, and there they contemplated their virgin busts. Ezekiel 23:2-3, 8, 21.

This passage in Ezekiel states that the two women are Jerusalem and Samaria, by whom Churches are meant in the internal sense. The statement that in their youth they committed whoredom with Egypt means that they falsified the truths of the Church by their use of factual knowledge - 'committing whoredom' is falsifying truths, see 2466, 4865, and 'Egypt' is factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5700, 5702. Consequently 'their breasts were squeezed' stands for affections for goodness and truth that became perverted through falsifications. The fact that the women's whoredom and the squeezing of their breasts mean such things can be seen by those who are prepared to look into what is meant in the description of those women.

[5] In Hosea,

Contend with your mother, let her remove her whoredoms from her sight, 1 and her adulteries from between her breasts, lest perhaps I strip her naked, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. Hosea 2:1, 3.

'Mother' here stands for the Church, 289, 2691, 2717, 3703, 4257, 5581, whoredoms' for falsifications of truth, 2466, 4865, 'adulteries' for adulterations of good, 2466, 2729, 3399. Consequently 'adulteries from between her breasts' stands for adulterated affections for goodness and truth, 'stripping naked' for depriving of all truth, 1073, 4958, 5437, 'making like a wilderness, setting like a dry land, and slaying with thirst' for the annihilation of all truth.

[6] In the same prophet,

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Hosea 9:14.

'Dry breasts' stands for affections for neither truth nor good. In Isaiah,

O women without anxiety, stand still, hear My voice; O confident daughters, perceive My speech with your ears. Strip and make yourself bare, and gird [sackcloth] around your waist 2 - people beating themselves on their breasts for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine. Isaiah 32:9, 11-12.

'Daughters' stands for affections, 2362, 3024, 3963, 'being stripped bare' for being deprived of truth, 1073, 4958, 5433, 'girding [sackcloth] around one's waist' for suffering grief over good that has been lost, 'beating on breasts' for suffering grief over the good of truth that has been lost. Since these things are meant, it also says 'for the fields of unmixed wine, and the fruitful vine'; for 'the field' is the Church in respect of good, thus the Church's good, 2971, 3196, 3310, 3766, and 'vine' is the spiritual Church, and therefore the good of truth, 5113, 6375, 6376.

[7] In the Book of Revelation,

I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts. Revelation 1:12-13.

'Golden lampstands' are truths of good, 'the Son of Man' is Divine Truth, 'surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts' the good of love. Anyone may deduce from the holiness of the Word that the things John saw concealed within themselves realities such as belong to the Lord's kingdom and His Church; for what holiness would there be in making predictions about kingdoms in the world? From this one may recognize that they are heavenly things that are meant by 'lampstands' and by 'the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe, and surrounded by a golden girdle around the breasts'.

[8] In Luke,

A certain woman lifted up her voice out of the crowd; 3 she said about Jesus, Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts that You sucked. But Jesus said, Rather than that, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Luke 11:27-28.

The Lord's reply shows what 'blessed is the womb' and what 'the breasts' mean - 'those who hear the Word of God and keep it', thus affections for truth which exist with those who hear the Word or God, and affections for good which exist with those who keep it, that is, put it into practice.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. literally, faces

2. literally, upon your loins

3. literally, the people

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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Arcana Coelestia #4865

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

4865. 'And supposed that she was a prostitute' means that it supposed them to be nothing else than something false. This is clear from the meaning of 'a prostitute' as that which is false, dealt with in 2466, 2729, 3399, and so as the fact that with its semblance of religion the Jewish nation looked on the internal aspect of the Church as nothing else than something false. The reason 'a prostitute' means that which is false is that a marriage represents the heavenly marriage, which is that of good and truth. The husband represents good and the wife truth, and therefore sons represent truths and daughters forms of good, while a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law, a father-in-law and a mother-in-law, and many others as determined by their degrees of affinity, represent aspects of the heavenly marriage. Therefore, being opposites of these, acts of adultery and prostitution mean evil and falsity, and are in all reality the opposite of them, for people who spend their lives committing adultery or behaving as prostitutes have no concern at all for what is good and true. The reason for this is that genuine conjugial love comes down from the heavenly marriage, that is, from the marriage of good and truth, whereas adultery and prostitution spring from evil and falsity joined together - from hell; see 2727-2759.

[2] The fact that the Jewish nation looked, as also at the present day it looks, on the internal features of the Church as nothing else than falsities is meant by Judah's supposition that Tamar his daughter-in-law was no one else than a prostitute and by his connection with her as with a prostitute. This origin of that nation represents the origin and also the essential nature of their semblance of religion. It is plain to see that this nation looks on the internal aspect of the Church as a harlot, that is, as something false. For example, if anyone tells them it is an internal truth of the Church that the Messiah, who is foretold in the prophetical parts of the Word and whom they await, is the Lord, they completely reject this as something false. If anyone tells them it is an internal truth of the Church that the Messiah's kingdom is not a worldly and temporal but a heavenly and eternal one, they declare this too to be something false. If anyone tells them that the ritual observances of their Church represented the Messiah and His heavenly kingdom they have no idea what this is.

[3] If anyone tells them that the internal aspect of the Church is the good of charity and the truth of faith, both in doctrine and at the same time in life, they regard this as nothing else than a falsity. And so it is with every other truth told them. Indeed at the mere suggestion of an internal aspect of the Church they laugh nonsensically. The reason for this is that they are immersed solely in things of an external nature, and indeed in the lowest of these, which consist in the love of earthly things; for more than all others they are steeped in avarice, which is utterly worldly. Such people cannot possibly look on the interior features of the Church in any other way, since they are further removed than all others from the light of heaven, and so more than all others dwell in thickest darkness.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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