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Ezekiel 29

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5 καί-C καταβάλλω-VF2-FAI1S σύ- P--AS ἐν-P ταχύς-A3U-DSM καί-C πᾶς-A3--APM ὁ- A--APM ἰχθύς-N3U-APM ὁ- A--GSM ποταμός-N2--GSM σύ- P--GS ἐπί-P πρόσωπον-N2N-ASN ὁ- A--GSN πεδίον-N2N-GSN πίπτω-VF--FMI2S καί-C οὐ-D μή-D συνἄγω-VQ--APS2S καί-C οὐ-D μή-D περιστέλλω-VD--APS2S ὁ- A--DPN θηρίον-N2N-DPN ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF καί-C ὁ- A--DPN πετεινόν-N2N-DPN ὁ- A--GSM οὐρανός-N2--GSM δίδωμι-VX--XAI1S σύ- P--AS εἰς-P κατάβρωμα-N3M-ASN

6 καί-C γιγνώσκω-VF--FMI3P πᾶς-A3--NPM ὁ- A--NPM καταοἰκέω-V2--PAPNPM *αἴγυπτος-N2--ASF ὅτι-C ἐγώ- P--NS εἰμί-V9--PAI1S κύριος-N2--NSM ἀντί-P ὅς- --GPM γίγνομαι-VCI-API2S ῥάβδος-N2--NSF καλάμινος-A1--NSF ὁ- A--DSM οἶκος-N2--DSM *ἰσραήλ-N---GSM

7 ὅτε-D ἐπιλαμβάνω-VBI-AMI3P σύ- P--GS ὁ- A--DSF χείρ-N3--DSF αὐτός- D--GPM θλάω-VCI-API2S καί-C ὅτε-D ἐπικρατέω-VAI-AAI3S ἐπί-P αὐτός- D--APM πᾶς-A1S-NSF χείρ-N3--NSF καί-C ὅτε-D ἐπι ἀναπαύω-VAI-AMI3P ἐπί-P σύ- P--AS συντρίβω-VDI-API2S καί-C συνκλάζω-VAI-AAI2S αὐτός- D--GPM πᾶς-A1S-ASF ὀσφύς-N3U-ASF

8 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ὅδε- D--APN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS ἐπιἄγω-V1--PAI1S ἐπί-P σύ- P--AS ῥομφαία-N1A-ASF καί-C ἀποὀλλύω-VF2-FAI1S ἄνθρωπος-N2--APM ἀπό-P σύ- P--GS καί-C κτῆνος-N3E-APN

9 καί-C εἰμί-VF--FMI3S ὁ- A--NSF γῆ-N1--NSF *αἴγυπτος-N2--GSF ἀπώλεια-N1A-NSF καί-C ἔρημος-A1B-NSF καί-C γιγνώσκω-VF--FMI3P ὅτι-C ἐγώ- P--NS εἰμί-V9--PAI1S κύριος-N2--NSM ἀντί-P ὁ- A--GSN λέγω-V1--PAN σύ- P--AS ὁ- A--NPM ποταμός-N2--NPM ἐγώ- P--DS εἰμί-V9--PAI3P καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS ποιέω-VAI-AAI1S αὐτός- D--APM

10 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS ἐπί-P σύ- P--AS καί-C ἐπί-P πᾶς-A3--APM ὁ- A--APM ποταμός-N2--APM σύ- P--GS καί-C δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S γῆ-N1--ASF *αἴγυπτος-N2--GSF εἰς-P ἔρημος-N2--ASF καί-C ῥομφαία-N1A-ASF καί-C ἀπώλεια-N1A-ASF ἀπό-P *μάγδωλος-N2--GS καί-C *συήνη-N1--GSF καί-C ἕως-P ὅριον-N2N-GPN *αἰθίοψ-N3P-GPM

11 οὐ-D μή-D διαἔρχομαι-VB--AAS3S ἐν-P αὐτός- D--DSF πούς-N3D-NSM ἄνθρωπος-N2--GSM καί-C πούς-N3D-NSM κτῆνος-N3E-GSN οὐ-D μή-D διαἔρχομαι-VB--AAS3S αὐτός- D--ASF καί-C οὐ-D καταοἰκέω-VC--FPI3S τεσσαράκοντα-M ἔτος-N3E-APN

12 καί-C δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--ASF γῆ-N1--ASF αὐτός- D--GSF ἀπώλεια-N1A-ASF ἐν-P μέσος-A1--DSM γῆ-N1--GSF ἐρημόω-VM--XPPGSF καί-C ὁ- A--NPF πόλις-N3I-NPF αὐτός- D--GSF ἐν-P μέσος-A1--DSM πόλις-N3I-GPF ἐρημόω-VM--XPPGPF εἰμί-VF--FMI3P τεσσαράκοντα-M ἔτος-N3E-APN καί-C διασπείρω-VF2-FAI1S *αἴγυπτος-N2--ASF ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPN ἔθνος-N3E-DPN καί-C λικμάω-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--APM εἰς-P ὁ- A--APF χώρα-N1A-APF

13 ὅδε- D--APN λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM μετά-P τεσσαράκοντα-M ἔτος-N3E-APN συνἄγω-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--APM *αἰγύπτιος-N2--APM ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GPN ἔθνος-N3E-GPN ὅς- --GSM διασκορπίζω-VCI-API3P ἐκεῖ-D

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15 παρά-P πᾶς-A1S-APF ὁ- A--APF ἀρχή-N1--APF οὐ-D μή-D ὑψόω-VC--APS3S ἔτι-D ἐπί-P ὁ- A--APN ἔθνος-N3E-APN καί-C ὀλιγοστός-A1--APM αὐτός- D--APM ποιέω-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--GSN μή-D εἰμί-V9--PAN αὐτός- D--APM πολύς-A3C-APM ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPN ἔθνος-N3E-DPN

16 καί-C οὐκέτι-D εἰμί-VF--FMI3P ὁ- A--DSM οἶκος-N2--DSM *ἰσραήλ-N---GSM εἰς-P ἐλπίς-N3D-ASF ἀναμιμνήσκω-V1--PAPASF ἀνομία-N1A-ASF ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSM αὐτός- D--APM ἀκολουθέω-VA--AAN ὀπίσω-P αὐτός- D--GPM καί-C γιγνώσκω-VF--FMI3P ὅτι-C ἐγώ- P--NS εἰμί-V9--PAI1S κύριος-N2--NSM

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Apocalypse Revealed #47

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Yiya esigabeni / 962  
  

47. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow. (1:14) This symbolizes the Divine love accompanying Divine wisdom in first things and last.

A person's head symbolizes everything connected with his life, and everything connected with a person's life has some relation to love and wisdom. A head consequently symbolizes both wisdom and love. However, because there is no love without its wisdom, nor wisdom without its love, therefore it is the love accompanying wisdom that is meant by a head; and when describing the Lord, it is the Divine love accompanying Divine wisdom. But on the symbolism of the head in the Word, more will be seen in nos. 538 and 568 below.

Since a head means both love and wisdom in their first forms, it follows accordingly that hair means love and wisdom in their final forms. And because the hair mentioned here describes the Son of Man, who is the Lord in relation to the Word, His hair symbolizes the Divine good connected with love, and the Divine truth connected with wisdom, in the outmost expressions of the Word - the outmost expressions of the Word being those contained in its literal sense.

[2] The idea that the hair of the Son of Man or the Lord symbolizes the Word in this sense may seem absurd, but still it is the truth. This can be seen from passages in the Word that we cited in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 35 and 49. We showed there as well that Nazirites in the Israelite Church represented the Lord in relation to the Word in its outmost expressions, which is its literal sense, as a nazir in Hebrew is a hair or head of hair. 1 That is why the power of Samson, who was a Nazirite from the womb, lay in his hair. The Divine truth similarly has power in the literal sense of the Word, as may be seen in the aforementioned Doctrine Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 37-49.

For the same reason, too, the high priest and his sons were strictly forbidden to shave their heads.

For that reason as well, forty-two of the boys who called Elisha a baldhead were torn apart by two she-bears. Like Elijah, Elisha represented the Lord in relation to the Word. A baldhead symbolizes the Word without its outmost expression, which, as said, is its literal sense, and she-bears symbolize this sense of the Word divorced from its inner meaning. Those who so divorce it, moreover, appear in the spiritual world as bears, though only at a distance. It is apparent from this why what happened to the boys happened as it did.

It was, therefore, also the highest disgrace and a mark of extreme mourning to inflict baldness.

[3] Accordingly, when the Israelite nation had completely perverted the literal sense of the Word, this lamentation over them was composed:

Her Nazirites were whiter than snow, brighter white than milk... Darker than blackness is their form. They go unrecognized in the streets. (Lamentations 4:7-8)

Furthermore:

Every head was made bald, and every shoulder shaved bare. (Ezekiel 29:18)

Shame will be on every face, and baldness on all their heads. (Ezekiel 7:18)

So similarly Isaiah 15:2, Jeremiah 48:37, Amos 8:10.

Because the children of Israel by falsities completely dissipated the literal sense of the Word, therefore the prophet Ezekiel was commanded to represent this by shaving his head with a razor and burning a third part with fire, striking a third part with a sword, and scattering a third part to the wind, and by gathering a small amount in his skirts, to cast it, too, afterward into the fire (Ezekiel 5:1-4).

[4] Therefore it is also said in Micah:

Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, because of your precious children; enlarge your baldness like an eagle, for they have departed from you. (Micah 1:16)

The precious children are the church's genuine truths from the Word.

Moreover, because Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, represented Babylon's falsification of the Word and destruction of every truth there, it accordingly came to pass that his hair grew like eagles' feathers (Daniel 4:33).

Since the hair symbolized that holy component of the Word, therefore it is said of Nazirites that they were not to shave the hair of their head, because it was the consecration of God upon their head (Numbers 6:1-21). And therefore it was decreed that the high priest and his sons were not to shave their heads, lest they die and the whole house of Israel be angered (Leviticus 10:6).

[5] Now, because hair symbolizes Divine truth in its outmost expressions, which in the church is the Word in its literal sense, therefore something similar is said also of the Ancient of Days in Daniel:

I watched till the thrones were thrown down, and the Ancient of Days was seated. His garment was as white as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool. (Daniel 7:9)

That the Ancient of Days is the Lord is clearly apparent in Micah:

You, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from antiquity, from days of old. (Micah 5:2)

And in Isaiah, where He is called Everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6).

[6] From these passages and many others - too many to cite - it can be seen that the head and hair of the Son of Man, which were like wool, as white as snow, mean the Divine expression of love and wisdom in first things and last. And because the Son of Man means the Lord in relation to the Word, it follows that the Word, too, is meant in its first elements and last. Why else should it be that the Lord here in the book of Revelation and the Ancient of Days in Daniel are described even in respect to their hair?

That hair symbolizes the literal sense of the Word is clearly apparent from people in the spiritual world. Those who have scorned the literal sense of the Word appear bald there, and conversely, those who have loved the literal sense of the Word appear possessed of handsome hair.

The head and hair are described as being like wool and like snow because wool symbolizes goodness in outmost expressions, and snow symbolizes truth in outward expressions - as is the case also in Isaiah 1:18 2 - inasmuch as wool comes from sheep, which symbolize the goodness of charity, and snow comes from water, which symbolizes truths of faith.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. The Hebrew נָזִיר (nazir) fundamentally means "one consecrated" or "one set apart;" but as a condition of the Nazirite vow was to let the hair grow, by extension a cognate word נֵזֶר (nezer) came to mean also the hair of a Nazirite's consecration, and by analogy, a woman's long hair.

2. "Come now, and let us reason together," says Jehovah. "Though your sins be like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."

  
Yiya esigabeni / 962  
  

Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Revelation 1

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1 This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

2 who testified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

4 John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

9 I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

11 saying, "What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

12 I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.

13 And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.

14 His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.

15 His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

16 He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last,

18 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

19 Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter;

20 the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.