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433. Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. That this signifies love to the Lord, and that all who are in that love are in heaven, and come into heaven, is evident from the representation and consequent signification of Judah and his tribe, as denoting love to the Lord, concerning which we shall speak presently; from the signification of twelve thousand, as denoting all and all things, see above (n. 431), the representation of heaven is according to the order in which the tribes are named, and from the first name, or the first tribe mentioned, flow the determinations and significations of those that follow, with variety.
[2] Moreover, no one is admitted into heaven but by the Lord, for the whole heaven is His, therefore no one can be there, or come there, unless he acknowledge Him and love Him. To love Him is not merely to love Him as to person, but to live according to His precepts. This the Lord teaches in unmistakable words:
"At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. If a man love me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings" (John 14:20-24).
It is said that they love the Lord, who do and observe His commandments and words, because His commandments and words signify Divine truths, and all Divine Truth proceeds from Him, and that which proceeds from Him is Himself; wherefore, when man lives the Divine Truth, then the Lord is in him, and he in the Lord; it is therefore said, "ye in me and I in you," and that He will come and make His abode with him. This, then, is to love the Lord. To love is also to be conjoined, for love is spiritual conjunction, and conjunction is effected by the reception of Divine Truth in doctrine and in life.
[3] Before it is shown from the Word that Judah, or the tribe named from Judah, signifies love to the Lord, the signification of Judah in the Word in every sense shall be explained. In the highest sense, Judah signifies the Lord as to celestial love; in the internal sense, the celestial kingdom of the Lord, and the Word; and in the external sense, doctrine from the Word such as relates to the celestial kingdom. And because in the highest sense the Lord as to celestial love is signified, and in the internal sense the celestial kingdom, therefore love to the Lord is also signified, for this love with man is reciprocal and reigns in the Lord's celestial kingdom. There are two kingdoms into which the whole heaven is distinguished, the celestial kingdom and the spiritual kingdom. The celestial kingdom consists of those who are in love to the Lord, and the spiritual kingdom, of those who are in love towards the neighbour. It is therefore evident, what is meant by celestial love, and spiritual love. Concerning these kingdoms, see 1:1, 14).
The Word signifies the Lord as to Divine Truth proceeding from His Divine Love. Those, therefore, are in the love of the Lord, who love the Divine Truth in the Word, by doing it.
[4] That the Lord, as to celestial love, is signified by Judah, also love to the Lord, and similarly the Word, is clear from the following passages.
In Moses:
"Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up; he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall be the obedience of the people. He binds his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washeth his garment in wine, and his vesture in the blood of the grapes: his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk" (Arcana Coelestia 6363-6381).
[5] In Ezekiel:
"Thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah and for the sons of Israel his companions; then take one stick and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and of all the house of Israel. And afterwards join them one to another into one stick, that they may both be one in mine hand. Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and of the tribes of Israel his companions, and will put it, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick. I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations, whither they be gone, and will gather them from every side, and bring them into their own land; and will make them into one nation upon the land in the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. David my servant shall be king over them, and shall be as one shepherd to them all; they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their sons, and their sons' sons for ever; and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place, them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people" (Ezekiel 37:16-27).
No one can know what these words signify, unless he know the signification of Judah and Israel, and of Joseph and Ephraim. That Judah and Israel are not meant, nor Joseph and Ephraim, is evident; for it is said that the tribes of Israel dispersed among the nations shall be gathered together and brought into the land of Canaan, and that David shall be their king and prince for ever, and that he shall dwell with them for ever. Who does not know that the tribes of Israel cannot be gathered together, and that David will not be king over them any more? Therefore it must be known what is signified in the spiritual sense by Judah, by the sons of Israel, also by Joseph and Ephraim, by David, and by the land of Canaan. By Judah, in the spiritual sense, is signified the Lord's celestial kingdom; by the sons of Israel, the Lord's spiritual kingdom; by Joseph and Ephraim, and by the tribes of Israel that are dispersed and are to be gathered together, are meant those who are beneath those kingdoms, because they are neither celestial nor spiritual, but natural, and yet are in the good of life according to their religion.
[6] These also are meant by the Lord where He says in John,
"And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd" (Arcana Coelestia 643, 2784, 3720, 8354).
[7] In Isaiah,
when the Lord "shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah, from the four corners of the earth, then the envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. But they shall fly upon the shoulder of the Philistines towards the sea" (11:12-14).
These things were said concerning the salvation of the nations, which are also signified by the outcasts of Israel, and the dispersed of Judah, for it is said that the Lord shall set up an ensign for the nations. By the outcasts of Israel are meant those who are not in truths, but yet in the desire of learning them; and by the dispersed of Judah are meant those who are in the good of life, and by means of that in love to the Lord, for those who love to do good, love the Lord, the Lord being in that good, because it is from Him. Ephraim means the Intellectual, in this case, in harmony with the good of love; and that they shall no longer be at enmity with each other, is meant by, "At that time the envy also of Ephraim shall depart; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim." That they shall be separated from those who are in faith apart from charity, is signified by, "They shall fly upon the shoulder of the Philistines towards the sea." The Philistines towards the sea denote those who separate faith from charity or from the good of life, the sea signifying the ultimate of heaven where it ceases (desinit); and to fly upon the shoulder denotes to reject, and to separate themselves.
[8] In Zechariah:
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King cometh unto thee; he is just and faithful. I will bend Judah for me, I will fill the bow Ephraim, and I will raise up thy sons, O Zion" (357:1), where these things are also explained. Such are denoted by the sons of Zion. That the Jewish nation is not here meant by Judah, nor Ephraim by Ephraim, is evident; for the Lord's church was not established with the Jewish nation, for it was not received by them, and the tribe of Ephraim did not then exist.
[9] In the same:
"Jehovah of hosts will visit his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as the horse of his glory in the battle. Out of him the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the bow of war. And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will cause them to dwell. And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as with wine" (Heaven and Hell 25, 26). The remainder of this passage is explained above (n. 355:28, 376:22).
[10] In the same:
"Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee. And many nations shall be joined to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people. Jehovah shall make Judah a heritage for himself, his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again" (2:10-12).
That the Jewish nation is not meant here by Judah, nor Jerusalem by Jerusalem, is also very evident; for the subject is the coming of the Lord, at which time that nation altogether fell away, and Jerusalem was afterwards destroyed. And yet it is said, that "Jehovah shall make Judah a heritage for himself, his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again." Judah therefore means those who are in love to the Lord, and Jerusalem the church as to doctrine with them.
[11] So in Nahum:
"Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that proclaimeth peace! Keep thy feasts, O Judah, perform thy vows; for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; every one shall be utterly cut off" (1:15).
These words also refer to the Lord. His coming, is meant by, "Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace!" By keeping their feasts, and performing their vows, is signified to rejoice at His coming, and to worship Him; by the wicked no more passing through Judah, and every one being utterly cut off, is signified that evil shall not be with them, because they are in the Lord. These things could not have been said of the Jewish nation, but they are said of those who are in love to the Lord. It is therefore evident that such are meant by Judah.
[12] In Malachi:
"Behold, I send my messenger, who shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord shall suddenly come to his temple. Then shall the meat-offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to Jehovah, according to the days of an age, and according to the former years" (3:1, 4).
That these words relate to the coming of the Lord, and that by the messenger who should be sent to prepare the way before Him is meant John the Baptist, is known in the church. That the meat offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall then be pleasant to Jehovah, signifies that then there shall be acceptable worship from the good of love to the Lord. The meat-offering, of Judah signifies that worship. That the worship of the Jewish nation and of Jerusalem was not acceptable is plain, for they did not acknowledge the Lord, but rejected Him altogether. According to the days of an age, and according to the former years, signifies according to the worship in the ancient churches. The Most Ancient Church which was before the flood, and was in love to the Lord, is signified by "the days of an age," or of eternity, and the Ancient Church which existed after the flood, and was a spiritual church, is meant by "the former years."
[13] In Joel:
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine (mustum), and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of Jehovah, and shall water the stream of Shittim. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence of the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they have shed in their land. But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem unto generation and generation" (405); and that wine (vinum) and new wine (mustum) signify truth, see also above (n. 376). The hills shall flow with milk, signifies spiritual life from the good of charity towards the neighbour. All the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, signifies that from the particulars of the Word there shall be truths productive of intelligence. A fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and water the river of Shittim, signifies that out of heaven from the Lord shall come the truth of doctrine, which will enlighten those who are in cognitions and knowledges. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, signifies that false principles, and the evils of the love of self, both of them from the natural man, shall be destroyed. For the violence of the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they have shed in their land, signifies on account of the falsified truths, and adulterated goods of the Word, which they have corrupted and destroyed. Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem unto generation and generation, signifies that the Word, and the doctrine of genuine truth thence, shall remain to eternity with those who are in love to the Lord. It is therefore evident also, that Judah is not meant there by Judah, nor Jerusalem by Jerusalem.
[14] In the same prophet:
"O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of the Philistines, speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head; because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things. The sons also of Judah, and the sons of Jerusalem, have ye sold unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their borders" (Joel 3:4-6).
Tyre and Zidon, and the Philistines, mean those who have falsified the truths and goods of the Word; my silver and my gold, signify those truths and goods, and to carry them into their temples, signifies to falsify and profane them; to sell the sons of Judah, and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Grecians, signifies to pervert and falsify all the truths and goods of the Word; the sons of Judah denote the goods of the Word, the sons of Jerusalem, its truths, and the sons of the Grecians, falsities; to remove them far from their borders, signifies far from truths themselves. He who does not know the spiritual sense of the Word, may suppose that those who were in Tyre and Zidon, and in Philistia, sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Grecians, but this is a prophecy in which the nations indicated signify things of the church.
[15] In Jeremiah:
"In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers" (3:18).
The subject of this passage is also the coming of the Lord, and the new church from Him. His coming is meant by the words "in those days," and the new church, by the house of Judah, and the house of Israel. The church formed of those who are in love to the Lord, is signified by the house of Judah, and the church formed of those who are in charity towards the neighbour, and called the spiritual church, by the house of Israel. They shall come together out of the land of the north to the land which I gave for an inheritance to their fathers, signifies that they shall come out of the ignorance and the falsities, in which they then were, into the cognitions and light of the truth of the church. The land of the north signifies a state of ignorance, and what is false in religion, and the land given for an inheritance to their fathers signifies the church which is in the cognitions and light of truth. These things are said concerning the Gentiles, out of whom a new church was to be formed; because it is well known that the house of Judah and the house of Israel did not come out of the land of the north when the Lord was in the world; for the Jews were in the land of Canaan at that time, and the Israelites had been scattered abroad.
[16] In the same prophet:
"Behold, the days come, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign a king and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days shall Judah be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, Jehovah our Justice" (Jeremiah 23:5, 6; 33:15, 16).
The subject here is clearly the Lord, the Branch of David who shall reign a king and shall be called Jehovah our justice. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely, signifies that those will be saved who are in love to Him, and in charity towards the neighbour, as stated above. It is evident that Judah was not saved, and that Israel was neither recalled, nor could be recalled, so as to dwell safely, that is, without infestation from evils and falsities.
[17] In the same prophet it is said:
"And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, that he may feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon Mount Ephraim and Gilead. In those days, and in that time, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found" (Jeremiah 50:19, 20). Here, also, the subject is the establishment of the church among the Gentiles by the Lord, and these are meant by Israel, who shall be brought again to his habitation, and also by Judah, whose sins, it is said, shall not be found. That they shall be led by the Lord, and instructed in the good of charity, is meant by the words, And they shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.
[18] Again, in Zechariah:
"In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness; and I will open mine eye upon the house of Judah. In that day will I make the governors of Judah like a furnace of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem shall dwell again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first" (355). The house of Judah signifies the church with those who are in the good of love to the Lord; concerning this it is said that the Lord shall open His eye upon it. That evils from hell shall be dispersed by them and with them, and also falsities, is signified by the words, in that day will I make the governors of Judah like a furnace of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left. That that church shall be safe from the infestation of evils and falsities, is signified by, "and Jerusalem shall dwell again in her own place, even in Jerusalem;" and that the Lord shall utterly save those who are in love to Him, is signified by, Jehovah shall save the tents of Judah first.
[19] Again, in Isaiah:
"The word" of Jehovah "concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of Jehovah shall be established at the head of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and let us walk in his paths" (331).
[20] Again, in the same prophet:
"Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and thy Former from the womb, that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places thereof" (Isaiah 44:24, 26).
Here again the subject is the coming of the Lord, who is "Jehovah thy Redeemer and thy Former from the womb." He is called Redeemer from the fact of His liberating from hell; and He is called the Former from the womb because He is the regenerator of man. The prediction of the prophets concerning Him, and concerning the salvation of man, is meant by the words He confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers. That those who are of His church are to be saved and to be instructed in the truths of heavenly doctrine, is meant by the words, That saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited, and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built. Jerusalem denotes the church, and the cities of Judah, the truths of heavenly doctrine. That the falsities, which destroy the church, shall be shaken off, is meant by, I will raise up the waste places thereof. It is a well-known fact that the Lord did not say Jerusalem should be inhabited and that the cities of Judah should be built, but that Jerusalem should be destroyed, and this actually came to pass.
[21] Again, in the same prophet:
"I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; in order that mine elect may possess it, and my servants may dwell there" (Isaiah 65:9).
Here Jacob and Judah, do not mean a people from Jacob, and a nation from Judah, but the church to be established by the Lord. By Jacob is meant the church which is in the good of life; and by Judah, the church which is in the good of love to the Lord, therefore Jacob means the external church, and Judah, the internal church. By seed are meant charity and faith, and by mountains the goods of love. Those who are in charity are called the elect, and those who are in truths from the good of love are called servants, it is therefore said, "In order that mine elect may possess it, and my servants may dwell there."
[22] Again, in Ezekiel:
"Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy traders; they traded in the wheat of Minnith and pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm" (375:35), where these words are more fully explained. What the various nations mentioned in that chapter signify is evident from the commodities named therein when understood in the spiritual sense, and therefore, also what is meant by Judah, and Israel, for the commodities there named indicate it.
[23] That Judah does not mean the Jewish nation is also evident in Ezekiel (chapter 48), where the subject is the new land to be distributed among the twelve tribes of Israel, for they also are named there, and the precise portion of the land each should possess. Much is there said concerning the tribe of Judah, and it is said that the sanctuary should be in the midst of it (verses 8-22). From this it is perfectly clear that the tribes there named do not mean those tribes, for eleven of them were dispersed, and became Gentiles (gentes) from whom they could not be distinguished, for they were led away into perpetual exile. It is also evident that by the land there mentioned is not meant land, but the church, and consequently by the tribes there named are meant such things as pertain to the church, while Judah means the celestial church, or the church which is in love to the Lord, in which, therefore, is the sanctuary.
[24] Judah and Israel have a similar signification in David:
"Judah became his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion" (31).
[25] In Jeremiah:
"Behold, the days are coming, in which I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast; and in which I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days; I will give my law in the midst of them, and write it upon their heart, and will be their God, and they shall be my people" (31:27, 31, 33).
Here also by the days are coming is meant the coming of the Lord. It is not therefore meant that a new covenant will then be made with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, but with a new church to be established by the Lord, meant by the house of Israel, and by the house of Judah, in whose midst the law was to be given, and written on their heart. That this did not take place with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, is well known, for they entirely rejected the Lord's covenant, as they do at this day. A covenant signifies conjunction with the Lord by means of love to Him, and they have the law or Divine Truth in them from this conjunction, both in doctrine and in life, and this is meant by the law in their midst, and written on their heart. To sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast, signifies to reform those who are of a new church, by means of the truths and goods of intelligence and affection; for seed denotes truth, man, intelligence, and beast the good of affection. That beast has this signification, will be shown in what follows.
[26] In Zechariah:
"Many peoples and numerous nations shall come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before Jehovah. In those days ten men out of all the languages of the nations shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you; for we have heard that God is with you" (8:22, 23).
He who does not know that a Jew means those who are in love to the Lord and thence in truths of doctrine, may be easily led to believe that these things were said concerning the Jews, and their introduction into the land of Canaan, and that all others who wish to be saved will then take hold of the skirt of their raiment, praying to be allowed to go with them. But when it is seen that these things, are not said concerning any introduction into the land of Canaan and to Jerusalem there, and that a Jew does not mean those who are of that nation, but that Jerusalem means a new church to be established by the Lord, and a Jew, every one who is in the good of love to the Lord, and the skirt of a Jew, truth from that good, then the signification of all the details related in that chapter, and of these words in particular, may be apprehended. For the subject is the gathering together of the Gentiles and their coming to the church, a Jew meaning those who acknowledge the Lord and love Him, while taking hold of his skirt signifies the desire of knowing truth from Him; ten men out of all the languages of the nations mean all of any religion whatsoever, ten men signifying all, and the languages of the nations, their religious principles.
[27] From these things it is clear, how far removed those are from the truth who believe that in the end of the times the Jews will be converted to the Lord and taken to the land of Canaan. These also believe that by land, Jerusalem, Israel, and Judah, in the Word, are meant the land of Canaan, the city of Jerusalem, the Israelitish people, and the Jewish nation. But those who have hitherto held such a belief are to be excused, because they have known nothing of the spiritual sense of the Word, and have therefore been ignorant of the fact that the land of Canaan signifies the church, Jerusalem, the church as to doctrine, Israel, those who are of the spiritual church, and Judah, those who are of the celestial church. Also that when their introduction into the land of Canaan is spoken of by the prophets, the introduction of the faithful into heaven and into the church is meant. This introduction also took place, when the Lord came into the world, for then all those who had lived in the good of charity, and worshipped God under a human form, were taken to heaven. These were retained under heaven until the coming of the Lord, and were taken to heaven after the Lord had glorified His Human. These are they who are meant in many passages in the prophetic Word, where the captivity of the sons of Israel and Judah, and their return to their land, are spoken of. Those also are meant here who, after His coming, were to be introduced into the church, and thence into heaven, from the earth, not only where the Christian religion is received, but also everywhere else. Both the former and the latter are meant by Israel, Judah, and Jerusalem, where introduction into the land of Canaan is spoken of, as in the following passages: Isaiah 10:21, 22; 11:11, 12; 43:5, 6; 49:10-26; 56:8; 60:4; 61:1, 5, 9; Jeremiah 3:12-20; 16:15, 16; 23:7, 8; 30:2-11; 31:1-14, 23-40; 33:6-18; Ezekiel 16:60-62; 20:40-42; 34:11-16; 37:21-28; 39:21-29; Hosea 3:5; Joel 2:18-27; 2:32; Amos 9:12-15; and elsewhere.
[28] Let the two following passages serve as examples of those by which the Jews persuade themselves, and from which also Christians believe, that the Jewish nation will return to the land of Canaan, and be saved in a special manner.
Thus in Isaiah:
"Then they shall bring all your brethren out of all nations an offering unto Jehovah upon horses, and on chariots, and covered wagons, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to Jerusalem, the mountain of my holiness. For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make, shall stand before me, so shall your seed and your name stand" (355:15, 405:26), where they are explained. The new heaven and new earth mean the heaven and the church of those who should be saved by the Lord after the glorification of His Human, as stated above.
[29] In the same prophet:
"I will lift up my hand towards the nations, and set up my standard towards the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon the shoulder. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their princes thy nursing mothers; they shall bow their faces towards the earth before thee, and lick up the dust of thy feet" (49:22, 23).
The subject throughout the whole of this chapter is the coming of the Lord, and also the salvation of those who receive Him, as is evident from verses 6-9. The salvation of the Jews is therefore not the subject, much less their restoration to the land of Canaan. That the Jewish nation is not meant in the passages here quoted, is also evident from this fact, that it was a very bad nation, and idolatrous in heart, and that they were not introduced into the land of Canaan on account of goodness and uprightness of heart, but because of the promise made to their fathers; and further, that they possessed no truths and goods of the church, but only falsities and evils, and that they were therefore cast out and expelled from the land of Canaan; this is evident from all those passages in the Word, in which that nation is referred to.
[30] What kind of nation that was, and that it was about to become a very bad nation, is described by Moses in his song, in these words:
"I will hide my faces from them, I will see what their posterity shall be; for they are a generation of perverseness, sons in whom is no faithfulness. I said, I would scatter them into the outermost corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from man. For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? To me belong vengeance, and retribution" (Deuteronomy 32:20-35).
The quality of the church among the Jews is described in these words, namely that it was in abominable falsities from evil. The quality of the church with them is meant by their vine being of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah, a vine signifying the church. The falsities from evil which existed among them, are meant by their grapes being grapes of gall, their clusters bitter, their wine the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps; for grapes signify the goods of the church, but grapes of gall and clusters of bitterness signify evils from abominable falsities. Their falsities themselves are meant by their wine being the poison of dragons and cruel venom of asps; for wine (vinum) signifies truth from the Word, but the poison of dragons and the venom of asps signify the monstrous falsity which exists from the falsified truths of the Word. That nation is similarly described in other parts of the Word, as in Deuteronomy, the book of Judges, the Prophets, and in Jeremiah 5:20-31; 7:8-34; 9:2-26; 11:6-17; 13:9-27; 19:1-15; 32:30-35; 44:2-24. That the Jewish nation was idolatrous in heart, is evident from the passages quoted above, and also from many others, as in Jeremiah:
"According to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem, have ye set up altars to burn incense unto Baal" (2:28, and 11:13).
[31] That they were not introduced into the land of Canaan because of any goodness and uprightness of heart, but because of the promise made to their fathers, is clear in Moses:
"Not for thy justice, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land; but that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Know, therefore, that Jehovah, thy God, giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy justice; for thou art a stiff-necked people" (Deuteronomy 9:5, 6).
[32] That they possessed no truths and goods of the church but falsities and evils, is evident from the Word, where their whoredoms and adulteries are treated of; as in Jeremiah 3:1 to the end; Ezekiel 23:1 to the end. Whoredoms and adulteries, in the Word, mean the falsifications of truth, and the adulterations of good (n. Matthew 12:39; Mark 8:38); and He also said that they were full of hypocrisy, iniquity, and impurity (Matthew 23:27, 28); and that they had falsified the Word by their traditions (Matthew 15:1-6; Mark 7:1-14). And in plain terms in John:
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of it" (8:44).
A lie means falsity from evil; the devil, the extinction of all good; a murderer, the extinction of all truth. Father means both those who are of hell and those of that generation who had previously lived, even from the earliest times. To speak of his own, is to speak from what is innate.
[33] That thus everything of the church among them was destroyed, and that they were therefore rejected, is evident in Isaiah:
"The Lord Jehovah of hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the staff and the stay, the whole staff of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the old man. For Jerusalem hath stumbled, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to rebel against the eyes of his glory" (3:1, 2, 8).
By taking away the whole staff of bread, and the whole stay of water, is signified all the good of love, and the truth of faith, from which spiritual life exists; for bread denotes the good of love, and water, the truth of faith, and a staff and a stay denote powers, and thence everything pertaining to spiritual life. To take away the mighty man and the man of war, signifies all resistance against evils and falsities; to remove the judge and the prophet, signifies all the good and truth of doctrine; to remove the diviner and the old man, signifies all intelligence and wisdom. Their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to rebel against the eyes of his glory, signifies that everything in their doctrine and their life is altogether contrary to Divine Truth. Tongue denotes doctrine, doings denote the life, and the eyes of the glory of Jehovah, the Divine Truth; to rebel is to be against it.
[34] In the same prophet:
"What could have been done more to my vineyard? Judge between me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore I looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes; and I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard; I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down; and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned or digged but there shall come up briars and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it" (Isaiah 5:3-6).
The vineyard here means the church with the Jewish nation. I looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes, signifies, that instead of the goods of truth pertaining to the church with them there were evils of falsity. By taking away the hedge thereof that it may be eaten up, and breaking down the wall, that it may be trodden down, are signified its destruction as to goods and truths, so that evils and falsities break in, which are the thorns and briars that should come up. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it, signifies that they are no longer receptive of truth and good, through the Word out of heaven.
[35] The destruction of the church with that nation, is also treated of in Isaiah (Arcana Coelestia 10393-10512, and n. 10523-10557).
[36] The character of the Jewish nation is also described in the internal sense in Genesis [Arcana Coelestia 4813-4930).
[37] Their character is also portrayed in Judas Iscariot, for he represented the Jewish nation, as to the church. For the twelve disciples of the Lord represented the church of the Lord in general, and each one of them some universal essential of it, Judas Iscariot representing it as it was with the Jews.
[38] In addition to the above, the following particulars concerning this nation may be seen in the Arcana Coelestia. A representative church was instituted with the Jewish nation, but there was no church in that nation itself (n. 6362-6381). The tribe of Judah and Judea, signify the celestial church (no. 3654, 6364). The twelve tribes represented, and thence signified, all things of love and faith in the aggregate (n. 3858, 3926, 4060, 6335); therefore also heaven and the church (n. 6337, 6637, 7836, 7891). Their signification is according to the order in which they are named (n. 3862, 3926, 3939, 4603, and following numbers, also n. 6337, 6640). The twelve tribes were divided into two kingdoms, that the Jews might represent the celestial kingdom, and the Israelites the spiritual kingdom (n. 8770, 9320). The seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, signify the goods and truths of the church (n. 3373, 10445).
433. Verse 5. Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed, signifies love to the Lord, and that all who are in that love are in heaven, and come into heaven. This is evident from the representation and consequent signification of "Judah" and his tribe, as being love to the Lord (of which presently); also from the signification of "twelve thousand," as being all persons and all things (of which see above, n. 431 the representation of heaven is determined by the order in which the tribes are named, and the first name, or the tribe first named, is that from which are derived the determinations and significations of those that follow, with variations.
[2] Furthermore, no one is admitted into heaven except by the Lord, for the universal heaven is His, consequently no one is in heaven, or comes to it, unless he acknowledges the Lord and loves Him. To love the Lord is not to love Him in respect to person but to live according to His commandments, as the Lord also teaches in plain words in John:
In that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you. He that hath My commandments and doeth them, he it is that loveth Me. If anyone loveth Me he will keep My words; and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him and make Our abode with him. He that loveth Me not keepeth not My words (John 14:20, 21, 23, 24).
Those love the Lord who do and keep His commandments and His words, because His commandments and words signify Divine truths, and all Divine truth proceeds from Him, and that which proceeds from Him is Himself; when, therefore, a man is in that truth in respect to his life the Lord is in him and he in the Lord; this is why it is said "ye in Me and I in you," and "We will come and make Our abode with him;" this, therefore, is loving Him. To love means also to be conjoined, for love is spiritual conjunction, and conjunction is effected by the reception of Divine truth in doctrine and in life.
[3] Before showing from the Word that "Judah," or the tribe named from Judah, signifies love to the Lord, it shall be told what "Judah" signifies in each sense in the Word. In the highest sense "Judah" signifies the Lord in respect to celestial love; in the internal sense the Lord's celestial kingdom, and the Word; and in the external sense doctrine from the Word belonging to the celestial kingdom. Because in the highest sense the Lord in respect to celestial love is signified, and in the internal sense the celestial kingdom, love to the Lord also is signified, for that is the reciprocal love in man, and reigns in the Lord's celestial kingdom. There are two kingdoms into which the universal heaven is divided, the celestial kingdom and the spiritual kingdom; the celestial kingdom consists of those who are in love to the Lord, and the spiritual kingdom of those who are in love towards the neighbor; from this can be seen what is meant by celestial love and by spiritual love (on these kingdoms, see in the work on John 1:1, 14).
"The Word" signifies the Lord in respect to Divine truth proceeding from His Divine love; consequently those who love the Divine truth that is in the Word by doing it are in the Lord's love.
[4] That "Judah" signifies the Lord in respect to celestial love, and thus love to the Lord, and also the Word, can be seen from the following passages. In Moses:
Thou art Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's sons shall bow down to thee. Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, art thou gone up; he stooped down, he crouched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The scepter shall not be removed from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and the obedience of the peoples shall be to him. He shall bind his young ass to the vine, and the son of his she-ass to the noble vine; he washeth his vesture in wine, and his covering in the blood of grapes; his eyes shall be red from wine, and his teeth white from milk (Arcana Coelestia 6363-6381.)
[5] In Ezekiel:
Thou son of man, take thee one stick and write upon it, For Judah and for the sons of Israel his fellows; then take another stick and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and of all the house of Israel; and then join them for thee one with another into one stick, that they both may be one in thy 1hand. I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim and of the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will bring upon it with the stick of Judah, and I will make them one stick. I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations whither they are gone, and will bring them together from round about, and will bring them upon their own land; and will make them into one nation upon the land in the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be to them all for a king, and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms anymore at all. My servant David shall be king over them, that they all may have one shepherd; and they shall walk in My judgments and keep My statutes, and do them. Then shall they 2dwell upon the land that I have given unto Jacob My servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell upon it, they and their sons and their sons' sons to eternity; and David My servant shall be their prince to eternity. And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be a covenant of eternity with them; and I will give them, and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in the midst of them forever. So shall My tabernacle be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (Ezekiel 37:16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24-27).
What this signifies no one can know unless he knows what "Judah" and "Israel," and "Joseph" and "Ephraim" signify. Evidently Judah and Israel are not meant, nor Joseph and Ephraim; for it is said that the tribes of Israel scattered among the nations should be gathered together and brought into the land of Canaan, and that David should be their king and prince, and that they were to dwell with him forever. Who does not know that the tribes of Israel could not be gathered, and that David could no more be king over them? Let it be known, then, what is signified in the spiritual sense by "Judah," by "the sons of Israel," by "Joseph" and "Ephraim," and further what by "David," and by "the land of Canaan." "Judah," in the spiritual sense, signifies the Lord's celestial kingdom; "the sons of Israel" the Lord's spiritual kingdom; "Joseph" and "Ephraim," and "the scattered tribes of Israel that are to be gathered together," mean those who are below these kingdoms, being neither celestial nor spiritual but natural, and yet are in the good of life according to their religious principle.
[6] These are meant also by the Lord in John:
Other sheep also I have, which are not of this fold; them also must I bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd (Arcana Coelestia 643, 2784, 3720, 8354)
[7] In Isaiah:
Then the Lord shall lift up an ensign for the nations, and shall gather together the outcasts of Israel, and shall bring together the scattered of Judah from the four wings of the earth. Then the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not distress Ephraim; but they shall fly on the shoulder of the Philistines towards the sea (Isaiah 11:12-14).
This is said of the salvation of the Gentiles, which are also signified by "the outcasts of Israel" and "the scattered of Judah," for it is said that "the Lord shall lift up an ensign for the nations;" "the outcasts of Israel" mean those who are not in truths, but still are in the desire to learn them; and "the scattered of Judah" mean those who are in the good of life, and thereby in love to the Lord; for those who love to do good love the Lord; for the Lord is in such good, since it is from Him. "Ephraim" means the intellectual, here in agreement with the good of love; and that these shall not be at variance with each other is meant by "the envy of Ephraim shall depart;" "Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not distress Ephraim." That they shall be separated from those who are in faith separate from charity is signified by "they shall fly on the shoulder of the Philistines towards the sea;" "the philistines towards the sea" meaning those who separate faith from charity, that is from the good of life; "the sea" meaning the ultimate of heaven where it comes to an end; and "to fly on the shoulder" meaning to reject, and thus to separate themselves.
[8] In Zechariah:
Exult, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King cometh unto thee; He is just and faithful. 3I will bend Judah for Me, I will fill the bow with Ephraim, and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion (357, where this is also explained); such as these are "sons of Zion." Evidently the Jewish nation is not here meant by "Judah," nor Ephraim by "Ephraim;" for the Lord's church was not established with the Jewish nation, for it was not received by that nation, and the tribe of Ephraim did not then exist.
[9] In the same:
Jehovah of Hosts shall visit His drove, the house of Judah, and shall set them as the horse of His glory in war. Out of him shall be the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the bow of war. And I will render the house of Judah mighty, and I will save the house of Joseph, and will make them to dwell. Hence they shall be as the mighty Ephraim, and their heart shall be glad as if with wine (Heaven and Hell 25, 26. The rest may be seen explained above, n. 355, 376).
[10] In the same:
Sing for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion; for lo I come that I may dwell in the midst of thee. Then many nations shall conjoin themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be to Me for a people. Jehovah shall make Judah an heritage for Himself, His part, in the land of holiness, and shall again choose Jerusalem (Zechariah 2:10-12).
Very evidently "Judah" here does not mean the Jewish nation, nor does "Jerusalem" mean Jerusalem; for the Lord's coming is here treated of, at which time that nation had wholly receded, and afterwards Jerusalem was destroyed; and yet it is said that "Jehovah shall make Judah an heritage for Himself, and His part in the land of holiness, and shall again choose Jerusalem;" therefore "Judah" means those who are in love to the Lord, and "Jerusalem" the church with such in respect to doctrine.
[11] In Nahum:
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that proclaimeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! Celebrate thy feasts, O Judah, render thy vows; for Belial shall never more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off (Nahum 1:15).
This, too, is said of the Lord; His coming is meant by "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that proclaimeth good tidings, that publisheth peace!" "To celebrate feasts" and "to render vows" signify to rejoice in His coming and then to worship Him; "Belial shall never more pass through Judah, he is utterly cut off," signifies that evil shall be no more with them because they are in the Lord. This could not be said of the Jewish nation, but may be said of those who are in love to the Lord; which makes clear that such are meant by "Judah."
[12] In Malachi:
Behold I send My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me; and the Lord shall suddenly come to His temple. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be agreeable unto Jehovah, according to the days of an age, and according to the former years (Joel 3:1, 4).
It is known in the church that this is said of the Lord's coming, and that "the messenger who shall prepare the way before Him" means John the Baptist. "The offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be agreeable unto Jehovah" signifies that then there will be acceptable worship from the good of love to the Lord, "the offering of Judah" signifying such worship; it is evident that the worship of the Jewish nation and of Jerusalem was not acceptable, for they did not acknowledge the Lord, but utterly rejected Him; "according to the days of an age, and according to former years," signifies according to the worship in the ancient churches; the Most Ancient Church, that was before the flood, and was in love to the Lord, is signified by "the days of an age," or of eternity, and the Ancient Church, that was after the flood, and was a spiritual church, is signified by "former years."
[13] In Joel:
It shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down must, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the water-courses of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall go forth out of the house of Jehovah, and shall water the brook of Shittim. Egypt shall be a waste, and Edom shall be a waste wilderness, because of the violence to the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they have shed in their land. But Judah shall sit to eternity, and Jerusalem to generation and generation (405; and that "wine" and "must" signify truth see also above, n. 376). "The hills shall flow with milk" signifies that spiritual life will be from the good of charity towards the neighbor; and "all the watercourses of Judah shall flow with waters" signifies that from the particulars of the Word there will be truths, through which there will be intelligence; "a fountain shall go forth out of the house of Jehovah, and shall water the brook of Shittim," signifies that out of heaven from the Lord there will be truth of doctrine that will illustrate those who are in cognitions and knowledges; "Egypt shall be a waste, and Edom shall be a waste wilderness" signifies that false principles, and the evils of the love of self, both from the natural man, will be destroyed; "because of the violence to the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they have shed in their land," signifies because of the truths of the Word falsified and its goods adulterated, which they have corrupted and destroyed; "Judah shall sit to eternity, and Jerusalem to generation and generation," signifies that the Word and the doctrine of genuine truth therefrom will remain to eternity with those who are in love to the Lord. This makes clear that "Judah" does not here mean Judah, nor "Jerusalem" Jerusalem.
[14] In the same:
O Tyre and Zidon, and all the boundaries of the Philistines, I will quickly return a recompense upon your head; because ye have taken My silver and My gold, and the desirable things of My goods ye have brought into your temples; and the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem ye have sold to the sons of the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their boundaries (Joel 3:4-6).
By "Tyre and Zidon" and by "the Philistines" are understood those who have falsified the truths and goods of the Word; "my silver and my gold" signify these truths and goods, and "to bring them into their temples" signifies to falsify and profane them; "to sell the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Grecians" signifies to pervert and falsify all the truths and goods of the Word; "the sons of Judah" meaning the goods of the Word, "the sons of Jerusalem" its truths, and "the sons of the Grecians" falsities; "to remove them far from their boundaries" signifies far from the truths themselves. One who does not know the spiritual sense of the Word might believe that those who were in Tyre and Zidon and in Philistia sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Grecians; but this is a prophecy in which the nations which are named signify the things of the church.
[15] In Jeremiah:
In those days the house of Judah shall go unto 4the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north unto the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers (Jeremiah 3:18).
This, too, treats of the Lord's coming and of a new church from Him. His coming is meant by "in those days," and a new church by "the house of Judah and the house of Israel," a church from those who are in love to the Lord by "the house of Judah," and a church from those who are in charity towards the neighbor, which is called a spiritual church, by "the house of Israel." "They shall come together out of the land of the north unto the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers" signifies that they shall come out of ignorance and falsities, in which they then were, into knowledges and the light of truth of the church; "the land of the north" signifying a state of ignorance and of the falsity of religion and "the land given for an inheritance to their fathers" a church that is in knowledges and the light of truth. These things were said of the nations from whom a new church is to be established. It is well known that the house of Judah and the house of Israel did not then come out of the land of the north, namely at the time when the Lord was in the world; for the Jews were then in the land of Canaan, and the Israelites were dispersed.
[16] In the same:
Behold the days come when I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and He shall reign as King, and shall prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the land. In His days shall Judah be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is His name which they shall call Him, Jehovah our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6, 23:6; 33:16, 33:16).
This is plainly said of the Lord; He is "the Branch of David," He "shall reign as a King, and He shall be called Jehovah our Righteousness." "In His days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely," signifies that those will be saved who are in love to Him and in charity towards the neighbor (as above). It is evident that Judah was not saved, and that Israel was not recalled, and could not be recalled so as to dwell safely, that is, without infestation from evils and falsities.
[17] In the same:
I will bring Israel again to his habitation, that he may feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon Mount Ephraim and in Gilead. In those days and in that time the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found (Jeremiah 50:19, 20).
This, too, is said of the establishment by the Lord of a church among the Gentiles that are meant by "Israel," who is said to be brought back to his habitation, and "Judah" whose sins are not to be found. That these are to be led by the Lord and instructed in the good of charity is meant by "they shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and upon Mount Ephraim and in Gilead."
[18] In Zechariah:
In that day I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness; and I will open Mine eye upon the house of Judah. In that day will I make the leaders of Judah like a furnace of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf, that they may devour all the peoples round about, on the right and on the left, that Jerusalem may yet dwell in her own place, even in Jerusalem. Jehovah shall save the tents of Judah first (355; "the house of Judah" signifies the church with those who are in the good of love to the Lord; of this it is said that the Lord "will open His eye upon it." That evils from hell and also falsities will be dispersed by such and with such, is signified by "In that day will I make the leaders of Judah like a furnace of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf, that they may devour all the peoples round about, on the right and on the left." That that church will be safe from the infestation of evils and falsities is signified by "Jerusalem shall dwell in her own place, even in Jerusalem;" and that the Lord will wholly save those who are in love to Him is signified by "Jehovah shall save the tents of Judah first."
[19] In Isaiah:
The word of Jehovah respecting Judah and Jerusalem: It shall come to pass in the latter end of days that the mountain of Jehovah shall be firm on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it, and many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will instruct us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths (331)
[20] In the same:
Jehovah thy Redeemer, and thy Former from the womb, that establisheth the word of His servant, and performeth the counsel of His messengers, saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited, and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places thereof (Isaiah 44:24, 26).
This, too, treats of the Lord's coming, who is "Jehovah thy Redeemer, and thy Former from the womb;" He is called "Redeemer" because He delivered from hell; and "the Former from the womb" because He regenerates man. A prediction by the prophets respecting Him and respecting the salvation of man is meant by "that establisheth the word of His servant, and performeth the counsel of His messengers;" that those who are of His church will be saved, and will be instructed in the truths of celestial doctrine is meant by "saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited, and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built;" "Jerusalem" meaning the church, and "the cities of Judah" the truths of celestial doctrine. That the falsities that destroy the church shall be shaken off is meant by "I will raise up the waste places thereof." It is not said by the Lord that Jerusalem would be inhabited and the cities of Judah built, but that Jerusalem would be destroyed, which was done as is well known.
[21] In the same:
And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an Inheri-tor of My mountains; that My chosen may possess it, and My servants dwell there (Isaiah 65:9).
Here "Jacob" and "Judah" do not mean a people from Jacob and a nation from Judah, but a church to be established by the Lord; "Jacob" means the church that is in the good of life, and "Judah" the church that is the good of love to the Lord; thus "Jacob" an external church, and "Judah" an internal church. "Seed" means charity and faith, and "mountains" the goods of love. Those who are in charity are called "chosen," and those who are in truths from the good of love are called "servants," therefore it is said "that My chosen may possess it, and My servants dwell there."
[22] In Ezekiel:
Judah and the land of Israel were thy traders; they traded in thy market with wheats of Minnith and Pannag, and with honey and oil, and balsam (375), where this is more fully explained). From the merchandise mentioned in this chapter, when understood in the spiritual sense, what is signified by the different nations there mentioned becomes very evident, thus what is meant by "Judah" and by "Israel," for the merchandise indicates the spiritual meaning.
[23] That "Judah" does not mean the Jewish nation can be seen in Ezekiel 48:8-22, which treats of a new land that was to be distributed among the twelve tribes of Israel, and these tribes are there named, and what part of the land each one was to possess; and much is there said about the tribe of Judah, and that "the sanctuary should be in the midst of it" (verses 8-22); which makes clear that the tribes there mentioned do not mean those tribes, for eleven of them had been scattered, and had become Gentiles, from whom they could not be distinguished, for they had been carried away into perpetual exile. It is evident also that the land there mentioned does not mean a land, but a church, and consequently the tribes there mentioned mean such things as pertain to the church, and "Judah" there means the celestial church, or the church that is in love to the Lord, in which therefore, is the sanctuary.
[24] The like is meant by "Judah" and "Israel" in David:
Judah became His sanctuary, and Israel His domain (31).
[25] In Jeremiah:
Behold the days come that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of the beast; and in which I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, I will give My law in the midst of them, and will write it upon their heart; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to Me for a people (Jeremiah 31:27, 31, 33, 34).
Here, too, "the days to come" mean the Lord's coming; therefore it is not meant that a new covenant would then be made with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, but with a new church to be established by the Lord, which is meant by "the house of Israel and the house of Judah," in the midst of whom the law should be given, and should be written on the heart. Everyone knows that this was not done with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, for they utterly rejected the covenant with the Lord and likewise do so to this day. "Covenant" signifies conjunction with the Lord through love to Him, from which conjunction there is given the law or Divine truth in them, both in their doctrine and in their life, and this is the law in the midst and written 5on the heart. "To sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast" signifies to reform those who are of the new church through truths and goods that are of intelligence and affection, "seed" meaning truth, "man" intelligence, and "beast" the good of affection. That this is the signification of "beast" will be shown in what follows.
[26] In Zechariah:
Many peoples and numerous nations shall come to seek Jehovah of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the faces of Jehovah. In those days, 6ten men out of all the tongues of the nations shall take hold of the skirt of a man that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you; for we have heard that God is with you (Zechariah 8:22, 23).
One who does not know that a "Jew" means such as are in love to the Lord and in the truths of doctrine therefrom can easily be led to believe that these things are said of the Jews, and of bringing them into the land of Canaan, and that all others who desire to be saved will then take hold of the skirt of their raiment, praying to be allowed to go with them. But when it is known that this is not said of any introduction into the land of Canaan, to Jerusalem there, and that a "Jew" does not mean those who are of that nation, but that "Jerusalem" means a new church to be established by the Lord, and a "Jew" everyone who is in the good of love to the Lord, and "the skirt of a Jew" means truth from that good, then the signification of all things in this chapter and of these words in particular can be known, for this treats of the calling together of the nations and their drawing near to the church, and a "Jew" means those who acknowledge and love the Lord, and "to take hold of his skirt" signifies a longing to know truth from the Lord, and "ten men out of all the tongues of the nations" mean all, of whatever religion, "ten men" signifying all, and "tongues of the nations" their religious principles.
[27] From this it can be seen how far from the truth those have wandered, who believe that at the end of time the Jews will be converted to the Lord and brought back into the land of Canaan. These believe that "land," "Jerusalem," "Israel," and "Judah" mean in the Word the land of Canaan, the city of Jerusalem, the Israelitish people, and the Jewish nation. Those who have hitherto so believed are excusable, because they have known nothing of the spiritual sense of the Word, and therefore have not known that the "land" signifies the church, "Jerusalem" the church in respect to doctrine, "Israel" those who are of the spiritual church, and "Judah" those who are of the celestial church; also that where bringing them into the land of Canaan is treated of in the prophets, bringing the faithful into heaven and into the church is meant. This also took place when the Lord came into the world, for then all those who had lived in the good of charity and had worshiped God under a human form were brought into heaven; these had been preserved under heaven until the Lord came, and when He had glorified His Human they were brought in. These are the ones meant in many passages in the prophetic Word that treat of the captivity of the sons of Israel and Judah, and their being brought back into their land. In these passages those also are meant who were to be brought into the church, and thence into heaven from the earth after the Lord came, not only where the Christian religion is received but everywhere else. Both of these classes are meant in many passages where Israel, Judah and Jerusalem are mentioned, and their being brought into the land is treated of (as in the following: Isaiah 10:21, 22; 11:11, 12; 43:5, 6; 49:10-26; 56:8; 60:4; 61:1-5, 9; Jeremiah 3:12-20; 16:15, 16; 23:7, 8; 30:2-11; 31:1-14, 23-40; 33:6-18; Ezekiel 16:60-62; 20:40-42; 34:11-16; 37:21-28; 39:21-29; Hosea 3:5; Joel 2:18-27; 2:32; Amos 9:12-15 elsewhere).
[28] The two following may be taken as examples of passages whereby the Jews have persuaded themselves, and also Christians have come to believe, that the Jewish nation is to return into the land of Canaan, and be saved before others. In Isaiah:
Then shall they bring all your brethren out of all nations, an offering unto Jehovah, upon horses, and upon the chariot, and upon covered wagons, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to the mountain of My holiness, Jerusalem. As the new heavens and the new earth which I am about to make shall stand before Me, so shall your seed and your name stand (355, 405, where they are explained.) "The new heaven and the new earth" mean the heaven and the church formed of those who were to be saved by the Lord, when He had glorified His Human, as was said above.
[29] In the same:
I will lift up My hand towards the nations, and elevate My ensign to the peoples, that they may bring thy sons in the bosom, and carry thy daughters upon the shoulder. Kings shall be thy nourishers, and princesses thy sucklers; with the face to the earth shall they bow down to thee, and lick the dust of thy feet (Isaiah 49:22, 23).
This whole chapter treats of the coming of the Lord and the salvation of those who receive Him, as is clearly evident from verses 6-9 chapter; consequently it does not treat of the salvation of the Jews, much less of their restoration to the land of Canaan. That the Jewish nation is not meant in the above passages can be seen from the fact that it was the worst nation and at heart idolatrous, and that it was brought back into the land of Canaan not because of any goodness or righteousness of heart, but because of the promise made to their fathers; also that they had no truths and goods of the church, but only falsities and evils, and that for this reason they were rejected and driven out of the land of Canaan; as can be seen from all those passages in the Word in which that nation is described.
[30] Of what quality that nation was, and what it was to become, namely, that it was the very worst, is described by Moses in his song in these words:
I will hide My face from them, I will see what their posterity will be; for they are 7a generation of perversions, sons in whom is no faithfulness. I have said, I will hurl them into the extreme corners, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from man. For they are a nation lost of counsel, neither is there any intelligence in them. Their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are of bitternesses. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps. Is this not 8laid up in store with Me, sealed up among My treasures? Mine is vengeance and requital (Deuteronomy 32:20-35).
This describes what the nature of the church is with the Jews, namely that it is in dire falsities from evil. What the church is with them is meant by "their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah," "vine" signifying the church. The falsities from evil that they possess are meant by "their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are of bitternesses, their wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel gall of asps;" "grapes" signify the goods of the church, but "grapes of gall" and "clusters of bitternesses" signify evils from dire falsities; their falsities themselves are meant by "their wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel gall of asps;" "wine" signifies truth from the Word, but "the poison of dragons" and "the gall of asps" signify the monstrous falsity that springs from the falsified truths of the Word. In like manner is that nation described in other parts of the Word (as in Deuteronomy, in the book of Judges, and in the prophets, as in Jeremiah 5:20-31; 7:8-34; 9:2-26; 11:6-17; 13:9-27; 19; 32:30-35; 44:2-24). That this nation was at heart idolatrous is evident from the passages cited, and from many others, as in Jeremiah:
According to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye 9set up altars to burn incense unto Baal (Jeremiah 2:28, 11:13).
[31] That they were not brought into the land of Canaan on account of any goodness or righteousness of heart, but on account of the promise made to their fathers, see in Moses:
Not for thy righteousness nor for the uprightness of thy heart dost thou come to possess the land, but to establish the word that Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people (Deuteronomy 9:5, 6).
[32] That they had no truths and goods of the church, but only falsities and evils is evident from the Word, where their whoredoms and adulteries are treated of (in Jeremiah 3 end; Ezekiel 23 the end). "Whoredoms and adulteries" mean in the Word falsifications of truth and adulterations of good (See above, n. Matthew 12:39; Mark 8:38);
Also that they are full of hypocrisy, iniquity, and uncleanness (Matthew 23:27, 28);
Also that they have falsified the Word by their traditions (Matthew 15:1-6; Mark 7:1-14).
And in plain words in John:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh from his own, for he is a liar and the father thereof (John 8:44).
"A lie" means falsity from evil; "the devil" the extinction of all good; "a murderer" the extinction of all truth; "father" means both those who are from hell and those who lived from that generation back to the earliest times; "to speak from his own" means to speak from what is innate.
[33] That thus everything of the church with them was destroyed, and they were therefore rejected, is evident from Isaiah:
The Lord Jehovih of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread and the whole stay 10of water, the mighty one and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the old man. For Jerusalem hath stumbled, and Judah hath fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah to rebel against the eyes of His glory (Isaiah 3:1, 2, 8).
"To take away the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water" signifies to take away all the good of love, and the truth of faith by which there is spiritual life; "bread" meaning the good of love, and "water" the truth of faith, and "stay" and "staff" powers, and from these are all things of spiritual life; "to take away the mighty one and the man of war" signifies to take away all resistance to evils and falsities; "to take away the judge and the prophet" signifies all good and truth of doctrine; "to take away the diviner and the old man" signifies all intelligence and wisdom; "their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to rebel against the eyes of His glory" signifies that everything of their doctrine and of their life is utterly opposed to Divine truth; "tongue" meaning doctrine, "doings" life, and "the eyes of Jehovah's glory" the Divine truth; "to rebel" means to be opposed to it.
[34] In the same:
What could have been done more to My vineyard? Judge between Me and My vineyard. What could have been done more to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Therefore I expected that it would bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes. Now I will make known to you what I will do to My vineyard; in taking away its hedge that it may be eaten up, in breaking down its wall that it may be trampled down, I will lay it waste, that there may come up the brier and the bramble; I will even command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it (Isaiah 5:3-6).
The "vineyard" here means the church with that nation; "I expected that it would bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes," signifies that with that nation in place of the goods of truth of the church there were the evils of falsity; "to take away its hedge that it may be eaten up, to break down the wall that it may be trampled down," signifies the destruction of the church in respect to goods and truths, so that evils and falsities rush in, which are "the brier and the bramble" that should come up; "I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it" signifies that with them there is no more any reception of truth and good through the Word out of heaven.
[35] The destruction of the church with that nation is also treated of in Isaiah (Arcana Coelestia 10393-10512, and n. 10523-10557).
[36] What the quality of the Jewish nation was is described also in the internal sense of Arcana Coelestia 4813-4930 the explanation of which see Arcana Coelestia 4813-4930).
[37] What the quality of that nation was is also described by what is said of Judas Iscariot, for he represented the Jewish nation in respect to the church. For the Lord's twelve disciples represented the church of the Lord in general, and each one of them some universal essential of it, and Judas Iscariot represented it such as it was with the Jews. (Besides the above, see what has been written respecting that nation in Arcana Coelestia, as follows: a representative church was instituted with the Jewish nation, but in that nation itself there was no church, n. 6362-6381. The tribe of Judah, and Judea, signify the celestial church, n. 3654, 6364. The twelve tribes represented and thus signified all things of love and faith in the complex, n. 3858, 3926, 4060, 6335; consequently also heaven and the church, n. 6337, 6637, 7836, 7891. Their signification is according to the order in which they are named, n. 3862, 3926, 3939, 4603, et seq., 6337, 6640. The twelve tribes were divided into two kingdoms, that the Jews might represent the celestial kingdom, and the Israelites the spiritual kingdom, n. 8770, 9320. "The seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," signifies the goods and truths of the church, n. 3373, 10445.
Footnotes:
1. Photolithograph has "my," as also elsewhere in Swedenborg, but Hebrew has "thy."
2. Photolithograph has "I," but Hebrew has "they," which we also find in AC 9594.
3. This is the Photolithograph, the Hebrew is "saved" or "saving." The latter translation is found in AE 31, 850, and "saved" in AC 2781, Doctrine of the Lord 6.
4. Photolithograph has "and the house of Israel shall go;" the Hebrew has "shall go unto the house of Israel," which is also found in Doctrine of the Lord 4 and AC 3654.
5. Photolithograph for "written" has "I will write."
6. Photolithograph has "in that day;" the Hebrew "those days" is found in AE 455, 675, etc.
7. Photolithograph has "it is," the Hebrew "they are" is found in AE 412; AC 4317, 7051.
8. Photolithograph has "all this is," the Hebrew "is it not" is found in AC 7051, 9320.
9. Photolithograph has "hast thou," the Hebrew "have ye" is found in AE 324, 652.
10. Photolithograph has "staff," but see AE 727.
433. (Vers. 5.) "Ex tribu Jehudae duodecim millia signati." - Quod significet amorem in Dominum, et quod omnes qui in illo sunt, in caelo sint et in caelum veniant, constat ex repraesentatione et inde significatione Jehudae et ejus tribus, quod sit amor in Dominum (de qua sequitur); ex significatione "duodecim millium", quod sint omnes et omnia (de qua supra, n. 430); hic omnes qui in illo amore sunt: et ex significatione "signatorum", quod sint qui distincti et separati ab illis qui in malo sunt, proinde illi qui in bono (de qua etiam supra, n. 427 [a]); quod sint illi qui in caelo sunt et in caelum veniunt, sequitur, illi enim "signabantur in frontibus", hoc est, separabantur a malis; illi enim sunt de quibus dicitur in capite 14 Apocalypseos,
"Agnus stans super monte Sionis, et cum Eo centum quadraginta quatuor millia habentes nomen Patris scriptum in frontibus suis:.... hi sunt qui cum mulieribus non polluti sunt, virgines enim, . . . empti de hominibus, primitiae Deo et Agno" (vers. 1, 3, 4):
per "montem Sionis" significatur caelum ubi est amor in Dominum; nam omnes qui significantur per "duodecim millia ex unaquavis tribu", Seu per "centum quadraginta quatuor millia, signatos in frontibus", sunt qui agnoscunt Dominum et amant Ipsum: quare prima tribus quae nominatur est tribus Jehudae, et per illam tribum significatur amor in Dominum; nam (ut supra, n. 431 [c] dictum est) repraesentatio caeli cadit secundum ordinem in quo tribus nominantur; et primum nomen seu prima tribus nominata est ex qua determinationes et significationes sequentium cum varietate fluunt.
[2] Praeterea in caelum nemo admittitur nisi a Domino, nam universum caelum est Ipsius; quare nemo ibi est et illuc venit, nisi qui agnoscit Ipsum et amat Ipsum. Amare Ipsum non est amare Ipsum quoad Personam, sed vivere secundum praecepta Ipsius, ut quoque Dominus apertis verbis docet apud Johannem,
"In illa die cognoscetis quod Ego in Patre meo, et Vos in Me et Ego in vobis: qui habet praecepta mea et facit illa, ille est qui amat Me:.... si quis amaverit Me, verbum meum servat; et Pater meus amabit illum, et ad illum veniemus et mansionem apud illum faciemus: qui non amat Me, verba mea non servat" (14:20, 21, 23, 24):
quod illi ament Dominum qui faciunt et servant praecepta et verba Ipsius, est quia praecepta et verba Ipsius significant Divina vera, et omne Divinum Verum procedit ab Ipso, ac quod procedit ab Ipso hoc Ipse est; quare cum homo est in illo quoad vitam, tunc Dominus est in illo et ille in Domino; unde dicitur, "Vos in Me et Ego in vobis", et quod "venturus et mansionem apud illum facturus"; hoc itaque est amare Ipsum. Amare etiam est conjungi, nam amor est conjunctio spiritualis, et conjunctio fit per receptionem Divini Veri doctrina et vita.
[3] Antequam ex Verbo ostenditur quod Per "Jehudam", seu per tribum a Jehudah nominatam, significetur amor in Dominum, dicetur quid "Jehudah" in omni sensu in Verbo significat. "Jehudah"significat in sensu supremo Dominum quoad amorem caelestem; in sensu interno regnum caeleste Domini, et Verbum; et in sensu externo doctrinam e Verbo quae est regni caelestis: et quia significat in supremo sensu Dominum quoad amorem caelestem, et in sensu interno regnum caeleste, etiam significat amorem in Dominum, nam hic amor est reciprocus apud hominem, et regnat in regno caelesti Domini. Sunt duo regna in quae universum caelum distinctum est, regnum caeleste et regnum spirituale; regnum caeleste consistit ex illis qui in amore in Dominum sunt, et regnum spirituale ex illis qui in amore erga proximum sunt: inde patet quid intelligitur per amorem caelestem et per amorem spiritualem. (Sed de his regnis videatur in opere De Caelo et Inferno 20-28.) Haec duo regna repraesentabant Judaei et Israelitae, Judaei regnum caeleste et Israelitae regnum spirituale.
Quod "Jehudah" etiam significet Verbum, est quia Dominus est Verbum; et Humanum assumpsit in illa tribu ut quoad Humanum quoque esset Verbum; secundum haec apud Johannem,
"In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum:.... et Verbum Caro factum est, et habitavit inter nos" (1:1, 14):
"Verbum" significat Dominum quoad Divinum Verum procedens ex Divino Amore Ipsius; inde est quod qui amant Divinum Verum quod in Verbo, faciendo illud, in Domini amore sint.
[4] Quod Dominus quoad amorem caelestem, et inde amor in Dominum, et quoque Verbum, per "Jehudam" significetur, constare potest ex sequentibus locis:
- Apud Mosen,
"Jehudah tu, celebrabunt te fratres tui; manus tua in cervice hostium tuorum: incurvabunt se tibi filii patris tui. Catulus leonis Jehudah; a praeda, fili mi, ascendisti: curvavit se, cubuit sicut leo, et sicut leo vetulus; quis suscitabit eum? Non removebitur sceptrum a Jehudah, et legislator ab inter pedes ejus, usque dum venit Schiloh, et Ei obedientia populorum: alligat ad vitem asellum suum, et ad vitem praestantem filium asinae suae: lavat in vino vestimentum suum, et in sanguine uvarum velamen suum: ruber oculis a vino, et albus dentibus a lacte" (Genesis 49:8-12):
describitur hic per "Jehudam" in sensu spirituali regnum caeleste Domini, ac Ipse Dominus quoad amorem caelestem; amor caelestis est amor Domini receptus in regno caelesti, et amor spiritualis est amor Domini receptus in regno spirituali. Sequentia per ea verba significantur: "Celebrabunt te fratres tui" significat quod ecclesia caelestis prae reliquis eminens sit, "fratres" enim seu tribus nominatae a filiis Jacobi, qui fuerunt fratres ejus, significant ecclesiam: "manus tua in cervice hostium tuorum" significat quod infernalis et diabolica turba expelletur et detinebitur; "hostes" sunt illi qui ab inferno: "incurvabunt se tibi filii patris tui", significat quod vera omnia ecclesiae se submittent; "incurvare" est se submittere, ac "filii patris" ejus sunt omnia vera ecclesiae; nam illis qui in amore in Dominum sunt et inde in regno caelesti omnia vera ecclesiae insita sunt: "catulus leonis Jehudah" significat innocentiam cum viribus innatis; amor enim in Dominum in se spectatus est innocentia, haec significatur per "catulum", et vires ei innatae per "leonem": "a praeda, fili mi, ascendisti", significat liberationem plurium ab inferno; "curvavit se, cubuit sicut leo, et sicut leo vetulus", significat bonum amoris et verum inde in sua potentia, nam "curvare se", cum de leone, est mittere se in potentiam: "quis suscitabit eum" significat quod tutus sit ubicunque est, nec dimoveri possit ab infernis: "non removebitur sceptrum a Jehudah" significat quod non potestas recedet a bono amoris caelestis; "et legislator ab inter pedes ejus" significat quod nec vera Verbi a sensu ultimo ejus; "usque dum venit Schiloh" significat adventum Domini, et tunc tranquillum pacis; "et Ei obedientia populorum" significat vera ab Ipso, et conjunctionem per illa: "alligat ad vitem asellum suum" significat eccleSiam externam et ejus vera a Domino; "et ad vitem praestantem filium asinae suae" significat ecclesiam internam et ejus vera a Domino; "lavat in vino vestimentum suum" significat Humanum Domini externum seu naturale quod Divinum Verum ex Divino Amore Ipsius; "et in sanguine uvarum velamen suum" significat Humanum Domini internum seu rationale quod Divinum Bonum ex Divino Amore Ipsius: "ruber oculis prae vino" significat quod Humanum internum seu rationale non sit nisi Bonum; "et albus dentibus a lacte" significat [quod] Humanum externum seu naturale non sit nisi Bonum Veri. Ex singulis in descriptione illa constare potest quod per "Jehudam" non intelligatur Judah, sed aliquod eminens caeleste, quod ita describitur. (Sed illa singillatim explicata videantur in Arcanis Caelestibus, a n. 6363 ad 1
6381.)
[5] Apud Ezechielem,
"Tu fili hominis, sume tibi lignum unum, et scribe super illud, Jehudae et filiis Israelis et sociis ejus: deinde sume lignum unum, et scribe super illud, Josephi, lignum Ephraim et omnis domus Israelis . postea conjunge illa, unum cum altero tibi in lignum unum, ut sint unum ambo in manu 2
mea. .... Ego accepturus lignum Josephi quod in manu Ephraimi et tribuum Israelis sociorum ejus, et adducam super illo cum ligno Jehudae, et faciam eos in lignum unum.... .... Ego accepturus filios Israelis ab inter gentes quo abiverunt, et congregabo eos a circuitu, et adducam eos super terram suam, et faciam eos in gentem unam super terra in montibus Israelis, et Rex unus erit omnibus illis in Regem; neque erunt amplius duae gentes, neque dividentur amplius in duo regna iterum; .... servus meus David Rex super eos, ut Pastor unus sit omnibus illis, utque in judiciis meis ambulent, et statuta mea custodiant, ac faciant ea; tunc 3
habitabunt super terra, quam dedi servo meo Jacobo, in qua habitarunt patres vestri, et habitabunt super illa illi et filii eorum, et filii filiorum eorum usque in aeternum, et David Servus meus Princeps illis in aeternum; et pangam illis foedus pacis, foedus aeternitatis erit cum illis, et dabo eos, et multiplicabo eos, et ponam sanctuarium meum in medio eorum in aeternum; sic erit habitaculum meum apud illos, et ero illis in Deum, et illi erunt Mihi in populum" ( 4
37:16, 17, 19, 21, 22, [24,] 25-27);
quid haec significant nemo scire potest si non sciat quid "Jehudah" et "Israel", et quid "Joseph" et "Ephraim" significant: quod non Jehudah et Israel, nec Joseph et Ephraim, patet; nam dicitur quod "tribus Israelis dispersae inter gentes congregarentur et adducerentur super terram Canaanem", quodque "David erit rex et princeps illorum", et quod "cum Illo habitaturae in aeternum"; quis non scit quod tribus Israelis non congregari possint, et quod David non amplius erit rex super illis? Quare sciendum est, quid in sensu spirituali significatur per "Jehudam", quid per "filios Israelis", tum quid per "Josephum" et "Ephraimum", et porro quid per "Davidem", et quid per "terram Canaanem." Per "Jehudam" in sensu spirituali significatur regnum caeleste Domini, per "filios Israelis" regnum spirituale Domini; per "Josephum" et "Ephraimum" ac per "tribus Israelis dispersas et congregandas" intelliguntur illi qui infra illa regna sunt, quia non caelestes nec spirituales, sed naturales, et usque in bono vitae secundum religiosum suum:
[6] hi etiam sunt qui intelliguntur a Domino apud Johannem,
"Etiam alias oves habeo, quae non sunt ex ovili hoc; etiam illas oportet Me adducere, et vocem meam audient, et fiet unus grex, unus Pastor" (10:16);
hi enim in caelo non fuerunt ante adventum Domini, sed ab Ipso introducti postquam glorificavit Humanum suum: causa erat, quia Divinum procedens non prius ad illos extendi potuit. Qui haec scit, et quod per "Davidem" intelligatur Dominus quoad Divinum Verum procedens ex Divino Humano Ipsius, scire potest singula ibi in serie. Quod illa "scriberentur super duobus lignis", et quod duo illa ligna "conjungerentur in unum lignum", erat quia per "lignum" significatur bonum vitae, et omnis conjunctio in caelo fit per bonum, et secundum id.
(Quod "lignum" significet bonum vitae, videatur in Arcanis Caelestibus, n. 643, 2784, 3720, 8354,)
[7] Apud Esaiam,
Dominus cum "tollet signum gentibus, et congregabit expulsos Israelis, et dispersa Jehudae colliget a quatuor alis terrae: tunc recedet aemulatio Ephraimi, et hostes Jehudae exscindentur; Ephraim non aemulabitur cum Jehudah, et Jehudah non angustabit Ephraimum; sed involabunt in humerum Philisthaeorum versus mare" (11:12-14):
haec dicta sunt de salvatione gentium, quae etiam significantur per "expulsos Israelis" et "dispersa Jehudae", dicitur enim quod Dominus "tollet signum gentibus"; per "expulsos Israelis" intelliguntur qui non [in] veris sunt sed usque in desiderio discendi illa, et per "dispersa Jehudae" intelliguntur qui in bono vitae et per id in amore in Dominum; nam qui amant facere bonum illi amant Dominum, Dominus enim est in illo bono quia id est ab Ipso: per "Ephraimum" intelligitur intellectuale hic concordans cum bono amoris; quod unum non discordabit cum altero, intelligitur per "Tunc recedet aemulatio Ephraimi, Ephraim non aemulabitur cum Jehudah, et Jehudah non angustabit Ephraimum": quod separabuntur ab illis qui in fide separata a charitate sunt, significatur per quod "involabunt in humerum Philisthaeorum versus mare"; "Philisthaei versus mare" sunt qui separant fidem a charitate seu a bono vitae; "mare est ultimum caeli ubi desinit, ac "involare in humerum" est rejicere et sic se separare.
[8] Apud Sachariam,
"Exulta, filia Zionis, clange, filia Hierosolymae; ecce Rex tuus venit tibi, justus et fidelis Ille.... .tendam Mihi Jehudam, arcum implebo Ephraimum, et excitabo filios tuos, Sion" (9:9, 13):
haec de adventu Domini et de instauratione ecclesiae ab Ipso apud illos qui in bono amoris et in veris doctrinae inde sunt: "filia Sionis" et "filia Hierosolymae" significat ecclesiam quae apud illos; "Rex tuus" qui "venit justus et fidelis" est Dominus ex quo bonum amoris et verum doctrinae: "tendam Mihi Jehudam, arcum implebo Ephraimum", significat quod ecclesia instauranda sit apud illos qui in bono amoris in Dominum sunt, et in veris doctrinae inde; per Jehudam" hic intelliguntur qui in bono amoris in Dominum sunt, et per "Ephraimum" vera doctrinae; "Ephraim" enim significat intellectuale ecclesiae, et "arcus" doctrinam veri; (quod "arcus" significet doctrinam, videatur supra, n. 357 [a] , ubi etiam haec explicata sunt;) "filii Sionis" sunt illi. Quod non gens Judaica per "Jehudam" ibi intelligatur, nec Ephraim per "Ephraimum", patet; nam ecclesia Domini non instaurata est quia non recepta apud gentem Judaicam, et tribus Ephraimi tunc non erat.
[9] Apud eundem,
"Visitabit Jehovah Zebaoth gregem suum, domum Jehudae, et ponet eos sicut equum gloriae suae in bello; ex illo angularis, ex illo clavus, ex illo arcus belli: .... . potentem reddam domum Jehudae et domum Josephi servabo, et habitare faciam eos; .... hinc erunt sicut potens Ephraim, et laetabitur cor eorum sicut vino" (10:3, 4, 6, 7):
per "domum Jehudae" etiam hic intelligitur regnum caeleste Domini, quod consistit ex illis qui in amore in Ipsum sunt, et per "Ephraimum" intelliguntur qui in veris doctrinae inde sunt; nam omnes qui in regno caelesti Domini sunt, in veris doctrinae sunt, vera enim habent sicut insita et cordibus inscripta. (Videatur in opere De Caelo et Inferno 25, 26 reliqua videantur explicata supra, n. 355 [f] . 376 [d] .)
[10] Apud eundem,
"Jubila et laetare, filia Sionis; ecce Ego veniens ut habitem in medio tui...; tunc adhaerebunt gentes multae Jehovae in die illo, et erunt Mihi in populum . Jehovah hereditatem Sibi faciet Jehudam, portionem suam super terra sanctitatis, et eliget iterum Hierosolymam" (2:14-16 [B.A. 10-12]):
quod hic per "Jehudam" non gens Judaica intelligatur, nec per "Hierosolymam" Hierosolyma, manifeste patet, nam agitur ibi de adventu Domini, quando gens illa prorsus recessit, ac Hierosolyma dein destructa fuit; et tamen dicitur quod "Jehovah hereditatem Sibi faciet Jehudam, et portionem suam super terra sanctitatis, et eliget iterum Hierosolymam"; quare per "Jehudam" intelliguntur illi qui in amore in Dominum sunt, et per "Hierosolymam" intelligitur ecclesia quoad doctrinam apud illos.
[11] Apud Nahum,
"En super montibus pedes evangelizantis, proclamantis pacem; feriare Jehudah festa tua, redde vota tua, quia non addet amplius per te transire belial, omnis exscindetur" (Nahum 2:1 [B.A. 1:15]):
etiam haec de Domino; adventus Ipsius intelligitur per "En super montibus pedes evangelizantis, proclamantis pacem"; per "feriari festa", et "reddere vota", significatur ex adventu Ipsius gaudere, et tunc colere Ipsum; per quod "non addet amplius transire per Jehudam belial, omnis exscindetur", significatur quod non malum apud illos, quia in Domino; haec non dici potuerunt de gente Judaica, sed de illis qui in amore in Dominum sunt; unde patet quod hi per "Jehudam" intelligantur.
[12] Apud Malachiam,
"Ego mitto angelum meum, qui parabit viam ante Me; et subito veniet ad Templum suum Dominus:.... tunc suavis erit Jehovae minchah Jehudae et Hierosolymae, juxta dies saeculi et juxta annos priores" (3:1, 4):
quod haec dicta sint de adventu Domini, et quod per "angelum qui parabit viam ante Ipsum" intelligatur Johannes Baptista, notum est in ecclesia: quod tunc "suavis erit Jehovae minchah Jehudae et Hierosolymae" significat quod tunc acceptus erit cultus ex bono amoris in Dominum: "minchah Jehudae" illum cultum significat; quod non acceptus fuerit cultus gentis Judaicae et Hierosolymae, constat, nam non agnoverunt Dominum, sed Ipsum prorsus reprobaverunt: "juxta dies saeculi et juxta annos priores" significat juxta cultum in ecclesiis antiquis; Antiquissima Ecclesia quae ante diluvium et in amore in Dominum, intelligitur per "dies saeculi" seu "aeternitatis", et Ecclesia Antiqua quae post diluvium, quae fuit ecclesia spiritualis, intelligitur per "annos priores."
[13] Apud Joelem,
"Fiet in die illo stillabunt montes mustum, et colles fluent lacte, et omnes rivi Jehudae fluent aquis; et fons e domo Jehovae exibit et irrigabit flumen schittim: Aegyptus in vastitatem erit, et Edom in desertum vastitatis, propter violentiam filiorum Jehudae, quorum fuderunt sanguinem innocentem in terra sua: at Jehudah in aeternum sedebit, et Hierosolyma in generationem et generationem" (4 [B.A. 3:18-20] 18-20):
agitur etiam ibi de adventu Domini, ac de novo caelo et de nova terra tunc; et per quod "montes stillabunt mustum significatur quod ex bono amoris omne verum; (quod "montes" significent bonum amoris, videatur supra, n. 405 [a-f] , et quod "vinum et mustum" significet verum, etiam supra, n. 376 [a-f] ;) per quod "colles fluent lacte" significatur quod ex bono charitatis erga proximum vita spiritualis; et per quod "omnes rivi Jehudae fluent aquis" significatur quod ex singulis Verbi vera per quae intelligentia: per quod "fons e domo Jehovae exibit et irrigabit flumen schittim" significatur quod ex caelo a Domino verum doctrinae, quod illustrabit illos qui in cognitionibus et scientiis sunt: "Aegyptus in vastitatem erit, et Edom in desertum vastitatis", significat quod principia falsa et mala amoris sui, utraque ex naturali homine, destruentur; "propter violentiam filiorum Jehudae, quorum fuderunt sanguinem innocentem in terra sua", significat propter falsificata vera et adulterata bona Verbi, quae corruperunt et destruxerunt; "Jehudah in aeternum sedebit, et Hierosolyma in generationem et generationem", significat quod Verbum et inde doctrina genuini veri permansura sint in aeternum apud illos qui in amore in Dominum sunt. Inde etiam patet quod non Jehudah per "Jehudam" nec Hierosolyma per "Hierosolymam" ibi intelligatur.
[14] Apud eundem,
"Tyre et Zidon, et omnes termini Philisthaeorum, ...cito reducam retributionem in caput vestrum, propterea quod argentum meum et aurum meum sumpsistis, et desiderabilia bonorum meorum intulistis in templa vestra; et filios Jehudae et filios Hierosolymae vendidistis filiis Graecorum, ut longe removeritis eos a terminis eorum" (4 [B.A. 3:4-6] 4-6):
per "Tyrum" et "Zidonem" ac per "Philisthaeos" intelliguntur qui falsificaverunt vera et bona Verbi; "argentum meum et aurum meum" significant vera et bona illa; et "inferre illa in templa sua" significat illa falsificare et profanare: "filios Jehudae et filios Hierosolymae vendere filiis Graecorum" significat pervertere et falsificare omnia vera et bona Verbi; "filii Jehudae" sunt bona Verbi, "filii Hierosolymae" sunt vera ejus, et "filii Graecorum" sunt falsa; "longe removere illos a terminis illorum" significat procul ab ipsis veris. Qui non scit sensum spiritualem Verbi, credere potest quod illi qui in Tyro et Zidone et in Philisthaea erant vendiderint filios Jehudae et Hierosolymae ad Graecos; sed est propheticum, in quo gentes quae nominantur significant res ecclesiae.
[15] Apud Jeremiam,
"In diebus illis ibunt domus Jehudae et domus Israelis, et venient una e terra septentrionis super terram quam hereditare feci patribus vestris" (3:18):
haec etiam de adventu Domini, et de nova ecclesia ab Ipso; adventus Ipsius intelligitur per "in diebus illis", et nova ecclesia per "domum Jehudae et domum Israelis", ecclesia quae ex illis qui in amore in Dominum sunt per "domum Jehudae", et ecclesia quae ex illis qui in charitate erga proximum sunt, et vocatur ecclesia spiritualis, per "domum Israelis": quod "venient una e terra septentrionis super terram quam hereditare feci patribus vestris" significat quod ex ignorantia et ex falsitatibus in quibus tunc, in cognitiones et in lucem veri quae ecclesiae, venturi sint; "terra septentrionis" significat statum ignorantiae et falsum religionis; "terra quam hereditarunt patres" significat ecclesiam quae in cognitionibus et in luce veri. Haec dicta sunt de gentibus, ex quibus nova ecclesia instauranda; quod non domus Jehudae, nec domus Israelis tunc, nempe cum fuit Dominus in mundo, e terra septentrionis venerit, notum est; Judaei enim tunc erant in terra Canaane, et Israelitae erant dispersi.
[16] Apud eundem,
"Ecce dies venientes, ...cum suscitabo Davidi Germen justum, qui regnabit Rex et prosperabitur, et faciet judicium et justitiam in terra: in diebus Ipsius salvabitur Jehudah, et Israel habitabit secure; et hoc nomen Ipsius quod vocabunt Ipsum, Jehovah Justitia nostra" (23:5, 6; 33:15, 16):
manifeste hic de Domino, qui est "Germen Davidis", et qui "regnabit Rex", et qui vocabitur "Jehovah Justitia nostra": quod "in diebus Ipsius salvabitur Jehudah, et Israel habitabit secure", significat quod salvandi qui in amore in Ipsum et in charitate erga proximum sunt (ut supra). Quod non Jehudah salvatus sit, nec quod Israel revocatus aut revocari potuerit, ut habitaret secure, hoc est, absque infestatione a malis et falsis, constat.
[17] Apud eundem,
Reducam Israelem ad habitaculum illius, ut pascat in Carmele et Baschane, ac in monte Ephraimi et Gileade saturetur anima ejus: in diebus illis et in tempore illo .... quaeretur iniquitas Israelis et peccata Jehudae, et non invenientur" (50:19, 20):
etiam haec de instauratione ecclesiae a Domino apud gentes, quae per "Israelem qui reducetur ad habitaculum suum", similiter per "Jehudam cujus peccata non invenientur", intelliguntur; quod ducendi a Domino ac instruendi in bono charitatis, intelligitur per quod "pascent in Carmele et Baschane, et in monte Ephraimi et Gileade."
[18] Apud Sachariam,
"In die illo...percutiam omnem equum stupore, et equitem ejus amentia, et super domum Jehudae aperiam oculum meum: .... in die illo ponam duces Jehudae sicut fornacem ignis in lignis, et sicut facem ignis in manipulo, ut comedant ad dextram et ad sinistram omnes populos circumcirca, ut habitet amplius Hierosolyma, sub se in Hierosolyma; servabit Jehovah tentoria Jehudae primo" (12:4, 6, 7):
agitur ibi de devastatione ecclesiae prioris, et de instauratione ecclesiae novae a Domino; devastatio ecclesiae prioris describitur per "In die illo percutiam omnem equum stupore et equitem amentia"; per "equum" enim significatur intellectus veri apud hominem, et per "equitem" intelligentia (videatur supra, n. 355): per "domum Jehudae" significatur ecclesia apud illos qui in bono amoris in Dominum sunt; de illa dicitur quod Dominus "super illam aperiet oculum suum": quod mala quae ab inferno dispergentur ab illis et apud illos, et quoque falsa, significatur per quod "ponet duces Jehudae sicut fornacem ignis in lignis, et sicut facem ignis in manipulo, ut comedant ad dextram et ad sinistram omnes populos circumcirca": quod ecclesia illa tuta erit ab infestatione malorum et falsorum, significatur per quod "habitabit Hierosolyma sub se in Hierosolyma"; et quod Dominus omnino salvabit illos qui in amore in Ipsum sunt, significatur per quod "Jehovah servabit tentoria Jehudae primo."
[19] Apud Esaiam,
"Verbum" Jehovae "super Jehudam et Hierosolymam: Fiet in posteritate dierum stabilis erit mons Jehovae in caput montium, et elatus prae collibus; et confluent ad eum omnes gentes; et ibunt populi multi, et dicent, Ite et ascendemus ad montem Jehovae, ad domum Dei Jacobi, qui docebit nos de viis suis, et eamus in semitis ejus" (2:1-3):
haec quoque dicta sunt de nova ecclesia a Domino; per "montem Jehovae", qui tunc stabilis et in caput montium, intelligitur Sion, et significatur ecclesia caelestis, et amor in Dominum qui est illis qui ab ea ecclesia; quod hoc ecclesiae primarium sit, crescet et vires sumet, significatur per quod "erit in caput montium et elatus prae collibus"; quod illi qui in bono sunt agnituri sint Dominum et accessuri ad ecclesiam, significatur per "confluent ad eum montem omnes gentes"; "gentes" significant illos qui in bono caelesti sunt, quod est bonum amoris in Dominum, ac "populi" qui in bono spirituali sunt, quod est bonum charitatis erga proximum; de his dicitur "Ibunt populi multi et dicent, Ite et ascendemus ad montem Jehovae, ad domum Dei Jacobi."
(Quod "gentes" significent illos qui in bono caelesti sunt, ac "populi" illos qui in bono spirituali, videatur supra, n. 331.)
[20] Apud eundem,
"Jehovah Redemptor tuus, et Formator tuus ab utero stabiliens verbum servi sui, et consilium legatorum suorum perficit, dicens Hierosolymae, Habitaberis; et urbibus Jehudae, Aedificabimini; et vastitates ejus erigam" (44:24, 26):
agitur etiam ibi de adventu Domini, qui est "Jehovah Redemptor tuus, et Formator tuus ab utero"; "Redemptor" dicitur ex eo quod liberaverit ab inferno, et "Formator ex utero" ex eo quod regeneret hominem: praedictio a prophetis de Ipso et de salvatione hominum intelligitur per "Stabiliens Verbum servi sui et conSilium legatorum suorum perficit": quod illi Salvandi qui ab ecclesia Ipsius sunt, et quod illi instruendi in veris doctrinae caelestis, intelligitur per "dicens Hierosolymae, Habitaberis; et urbibus Jehudae, Aedificabimini"; "Hierosolyma" est ecclesia, et "urbes Jehudae" sunt vera doctrinae caelestis: quod falsitates, quae destruunt ecclesiam, discutientur, intelligitur per "Vastitates ejus erigam." Quod a Domino non dictum sit quod Hierosolyma habitaretur, et quod urbes Jehudae aedificarentur, sed quod Hierosolyma destrueretur, quod etiam factum, notum est.
[21] Apud eundem,
"Producam ex Jacobo semen, et ex Jehudah heredem montium meorum, ut possideant eum electi, et servi mei habitent ibi" (65:9):
hic per "Jacobum" et per "Jehudam" non intelligitur populus ex Jacobo et gens ex Jehudah, sed ecclesia a Domino instauranda; per "Jacobum" ecclesia quae in bono vitae, et per "Jehudam" ecclesia quae in bono amoris in Dominum; ita per "Jacobum" ecclesia externa, et per "Jehudam" ecclesia interna: per "semen" intelligitur charitas et fides, et per "montes" intelliguntur bona amoris: illi qui in charitate sunt, vocantur "electi"; et illi qui in veris ex bono amoris, vocantur "servi"; quare dicitur "ut possideant eum electi, et servi mei habitent ibi."
[22] Apud Ezechielem,
"Jehudah et terra Israelis fuerunt negotiatores tui in triticis minnith et pannag et melle, et oleo et balsamo, dederunt negotiationem tuam" (27:17):
haec dicta sunt de Tyro, per quam significatur ecclesia quoad cognitiones veri et boni, inde etiam per "Tyrum" significantur cognitiones veri et boni quae ecclesiae; agitur ibi de mercaturis et negotiationibus ejus, per quas describitur quomodo cognitiones illae comparantur, hic quaenam comparantur ex Jehuda et ex terra Israelis; et quia per "Jehudam" significatur bonum amoris, et per "Israelem" verum ex illo bono, ideo dicuntur negotiationes ejus esse "in triticis minnith et pannag, et in melle et in oleo et in balsamo", quia per "tritica minnith et pannag" significantur vera et bona ecclesiae omnis generis, per "mel" bonum amoris in naturali homine, per "oleum" bonum amoris in spirituali homine, et per "balsamum" vera quae ex bono grata sunt. (Videatur supra, n. 375, ubi haec amplius explicata sunt.) Ex mercaturis in eo capite memoratis, et in sensu spirituali intellectis, manifeste patet quid per varias gentes ibi memoratas significatur, ita quid per "Jehudam" et per "Israelem"; mercaturae enim ibi indicant.
[23] Quod per "Jehudam" non intelligatur gens Judaica, constare etiam potest apud Ezechielem (cap. 48), ubi agitur de nova terra quae distribuenda erit inter duodecim tribus Israelis, quae tribus etiam ibi nominantur, et quam partem terrae unaquaevis possessura est; et ibi multum de tribu Jehudae, et quod Sanctuarium in medio ejus (vers. 8-22); ex quibus manifeste patet quod per "tribus" ibi nominatas non intelligantur tribus illae, fuerunt enim undecim dispersae, ac factae gentes, a quibus non dignoscuntur, fuerunt enim in perpetuum exilium abductae: tum etiam patet quod per "terram" ibi non intelligatur terra sed ecclesia, proinde per "tribus" ibi nominatas talia quae sunt ecclesiae, ac per "Jehudam" ibi ecclesia caelestis seu ecclesia quae in amore in Dominum, in qua idcirco est Sanctuarium.
[24] Simile per "Jehudam" et "Israelem" intelligitur apud Davidem,
"Factus est Jehudah in sancturium, et Israel in dominia Ipsius" (Psalms 114:2):
"sanctuarium" significat in supremo sensu Ipsum Dominum, ac in respectivo cultum Ipsius ex bono amoris; per "Israelem" significatur verum ecclesiae ex illo bono; et quia omnis potentia est veris ex bono, seu bono per vera, ideo dicitur quod "Israel factus sit in dominia Ipsius." Quoniam per "Jehudam" significatur regnum caeleste Domini, et per "Israelem" regnum spirituale Domini (ut supra dictum est), et regnum caeleste est quod constituit sacerdotium Domini in caelo, et regnum spirituale quod constituit regium Domini (videatur in opere De Caelo et Inferno 24, 226), inde est quod Dominus in Verbo dicatur "Rex", et apud Evangelistas,
"Rex Judaeorum" (Matthaeus 2:2; Johannes 18:33, 37; 19:19):
et per Dominum ut "Regem Judaeorum" intelligitur Dominus quoad Divinum Verum procedens ex Divino Bono Divini Amoris Ipsius; inde "reges" in Verbo significant vera quae ex bono (videatur supra, n. 31).
[25] Apud Jeremiam,
"Ecce dies venientes, .... quibus seminabo domum Israelis et domum Jehudae semine hominis et semine bestiae;.... et quibus pangam cum domo Israelis et cum domo Jehudae foedus novum:.... hoc foedus quod pangam cum domo Israelis post dies hos, .... dabo legem meam in medio eorum, et super cor eorum scribam illam, et ero illis in Deum, et erunt Mihi in populum" (31:27, 31, 33, 34):
per "dies venientes" etiam hic intelligitur adventus Domini; quare non intelligitur quod novum foedus tunc pangeretur cum domo Israelis et cum domo Jehudae, sed cum nova ecclesia a Domino instauranda, quae intelligitur per "domum Israelis" et per "domum Jehudae", quorum in medio daretur lex et scriberetur super cor; quod hoc non factum sit cum domo Israelis et cum domo Jehudae notum est, nam foedus cum Domino prorsus rejecerunt, et quoque hodie similiter: "foedus" significat conjunctionem cum Domino per amorem in Ipsum, ex qua conjunctione datur lex seu Divinum Verum in illis, tam in doctrina quam in vita eorum, quod est "lex in medio" et " 5
scripta super cor": "seminare domum Israelis et domum Jehudae semine hominis et semine bestiae" significat reformare illos qui e nova ecclesia per vera et bona quae intelligentiae et affectionis; "semen" est verum, "homo" est intelligentia, et "bestia" est bonum affectionis; quod "bestia" id significet, ostendetur in sequentibus.
[26] Apud Sachariam,
"Venient populi multi et gentes numerosae ad quaerendum Jehovam Zebaoth in Hierosolyma, et ad deprecandum facies Jehovae:.... in 6
diebus illis apprehendent decem viri ex omnibus linguis gentium alam viri Judaei, dicendo, Ibimus vobiscum, quia audivimus Deum vobiscum" (8:22, 23):
qui non scit quod per "Judaeum" intelligantur illi qui in amore in Dominum sunt, et inde in veris doctrinae, facile adducentur ad credendum quod haec dicta sint de Judaeis, et de introductione illorum in terram Canaanem, et quod tunc omnes alii qui salvari volunt apprehendent alam vestis illorum, orantes ut liceat comitari; sed qui scit quod haec non dicta sint de aliqua introductione in terram Canaanem ad Hierosolymam ibi, et quod per "Judaeum" non illi ex gente illa intelligantur, sed quod per "Hierosolymam" intelligatur nova ecclesia a Domino instauranda, ac per "Judaeum" omnis qui in bono amoris in Dominum est, ac per "alam Judaei" verum ex illo bono, scire potest quid omnia in illo capite et quid illa verba in specie significant: agitur enim ibi de convocatione et accessione gentium ad ecclesiam, ac per "Judaeum" intelliguntur qui agnoscunt Dominum et amant IpSum, ac per "apprehendere alam ejus" desiderium sciendi verum ab Ipso, ac per "decem viros ex omnibus linguis gentium" intelliguntur omnes ex quacunque religione; "decem viri" significant omnes, et "linguae gentium" significant religiosa.
[27] Ex his constare potest quantum hallucinantur qui credunt quod Judaei in fine temporum convertentur ad Dominum, ac introducentur in terram Canaanem; qui sunt illi qui credunt quod per "terram", per "Hierosolymam", per "Israelem" et per "Jehudam" in Verbo, intelligatur terra Canaan, urbs Hierosolyma, populus Israeliticus et gens Judaica. Sed ignoscendi sunt qui hactenus id crediderunt, quia non sciverunt aliquid de sensu spirituali Verbi; ita non quod per "terram" significetur ecclesia, per "Hierosolymam" illa quoad doctrinam, per "Israelem" illi qui ab ecclesia spirituali sunt, et per "Jehudam" illi qui ab ecclesia caelesti; tum quod ubi agitur apud Prophetas de introductione illorum in terram Canaanem, intelligatur introductio fidelium in caelum et in ecclesiam: quod etiam factum est cum Dominus in mundum venit, nam tunc introducti sunt in caelum omnes illi qui in bono charitatis vixerunt, et Deum sub Humana forma coluerunt; qui reservati sunt sub caelo usque ad adventum Domini, ac introducti postquam Dominus glorificavit Humanum suum. Hi sunt qui intelliguntur in pluribus locis in Verbo Prophetico, ubi agitur de captivitate filiorum Israelis et Jehudae, ac de reductione eorum in terram; intelliguntur etiam illi qui introducendi erant in ecclesiam et inde in caelum e terris post adventum Ipsius, non modo ubi Christiana Religio recepta est, sed etiam ubivis alibi; hi et illi sunt qui intelliguntur in multis locis ubi nominatur Israel et Jehudah et Hierosolyma, et agitur de introductione in terram (Ut in sequentibus:-Esaias 10:21, 22; 11:11, 12; 43:5, 6; cap. 49:10-26; 56:8; 60:4; 61:1-5, 9: Jeremias 3:12-20; 16:15, 16; 23:7, 9; 30:2-11; 31:1-14, 23-49; 33:6-18; Ezechiel 16:60-62; 20:40-42; 34:11-16; 37:21-28; 39:21-29; Hoschea 3:5; Joel 2:18-27; 3:5 [B.A. 2:32] : Amos 9:12-15 et alibi).
[28] Sint pro exemplo bina haec loca, ex quibus Judaei sibi persuadent, et quoque Christiani credunt, quod gens Judaica, reditura sit in terram Canaanem, et prae reliquis salvanda:
Apud Esaiam,
"Tunc adducent omnes fratres vestros ex omnibus gentibus, munus Jehovae, super equis et super curru, et super rhedis cameratis, et super mulis, et super veredariis, ad montem sanctitatis meae Hierosolymam:.... et quemadmodum caeli novi et terra nova, quae-acturus sum, stabunt coram Me, ...sic stabit semen vestrum et nomen vestrum" (66:20, 22):
(quid illa significant, videatur supra, n. [355 [c] ,] 405 [e] , ubi explicata sunt): per "novum caelum" et "novam terram" intelligitur caelum et ecclesia ex illis qui salvandi a Domino postquam glorificavit Humanum suum, ut supra dictum est.
[29] Apud eundem,
"Tollam erga gentes manum meam, et erga populos attollam signum meum, ut adferant filios tuos in sinu, et filias tuas super humero apportent: erunt reges nutritii tui, et principes [feminae] eorum lactatrices; facies ad terram incurvabunt se Tibi, et pulverem pedum tuorum lingent" (49:22, 23):
agitur in toto illo capite de adventu Domini, et de salvatione illorum qui recipiunt Ipsum, ut manifeste patet a versibus 6, 7, 8, 9, illius capitis; proinde non de salvatione Judaeorum, minus de reductione illorum in terram Canaanem. Quod gens Judaica in allatis locis non intellecta fuerit, constare etiam potest ex eo, quod gens pessima fuerit, et corde idololatra; et quod non introducta sit in terram Canaanem propter aliquam cordis bonitatem et justitiam, sed propter promissionem factam patribus eorum; et quod nulla ecclesiae vera et bona fuerint apud illos, sed falsa et mala, et quod ideo rejecti et expulsi ex terra Canaane; ut conStare potest ex omnibus illis locis in Verbo ubi gens illa describitur.
[30] Qualis illa gens fuit et futura est, quod pessima, describitur a Mose in Cantico, his verbis,
"Occultabo, facies meas ab illis, videbo quid posteritas eorum; generatio enim perversionum 7
illi, filii in quibus fidelitas non:.... dixerim, In extremos angulos ejiciam illos, cessare faciam ab homine memoriam eorum;.... nam gens perdita consiliis illi, nec in illis intelligentia;.... de vile Sodomae vitis eorum, et de agris Gomorrhae, uvae ejus uvae fellis, botri amaritudinum illis; venenum draconum vinum eorum, et fel aspidum crudele. 8
Nonne illud absconditum apud Me, obsignatum in thesauris meis? Mihi vindicta et retributio" (Deuteronomius 32:20-35):
describitur ibi qualis ecclesia est apud illos, quod nempe in diris falsis ex malo; ecclesia apud illos qualis est intelligitur per quod "de vite Sodomae vitis eorum, et de agris Gomorrhae"; "vitis" significat ecclesiam: falsa ex malo quae illis intelliguntur per quod "uvae ejus uvae fellis, botri amaritudinum illis, venenum draconum vinum eorum, et fel aspidum crudele"; "uvae" significant bona ecclesiae, at "uvae fellis ac botri amaritudinum" significant mala ex diris falsis; ipsa falsa eorum intelliguntur per "venenum draconum vinum eorum, et fel aspidum crudele"; "vinum" significat verum ex Verbo, at "venenum draconum et fel aspidum" significat enorme falsum quod existit ex falsificatis veris Verbi. Similiter describitur gens illa alibi in Verbo (Ut in Deuteronomio; in Libro Judicum; apud Prophetas, ut apud Jeremiam, cap. 5:20-31; 7:8-34; 9:1-252-[26] ; cap. 11:6-17; 13:9-27; 19:1-15; 32:30-35; 44:2-24). Quod gens illa corde idololatra fuerit, patet ab allatis illis locis, et a plurimis aliis:
Ut apud Jeremiam,
"Juxta numerum urbium tuarum fuerunt dii tui, Jehudah;.... .... et juxta numerum platearum Hierosolymae 9
posuistis altaria ad suffiendum Baali" (2:28; 11:13).
[31] Quod non in terram Canaanem introducti fuerint propter aliquam cordis bonitatem et justitiam, sed propter promissionem factam patribus eorum, apud Mosen,
"Non propter justitiam tuam, et propter rectitudinem cordis tui tu Veniens ad possidendum terram, .... sed ut stabiliat verbum quod Jehovah juravit patribus tuis, Abrahamo, Isaco et Jacobo: quare scito quod non propter justitiam tuam Jehovah Deus tuus dans tibi terram bonam hanc ad possidendum eam, quia populus durus cervice tu" (Deuteronomius 9:5, 6).
[32] Quod nulla ecclesiae vera et bona fuerint apud illos, sed falsa et mala, patet ex Verbo ubi agitur de scortationibus et adulteriis eorum (Apud Jeremiam, cap. 3:1 ad fin. ; et apud Ezechielem, cap. 23:1 ad fin. ): per "scortationes" et "adulteria" in Verbo intelliguntur falsificationes veri et adulterationes boni (videatur supra, n. 141, 161): quapropter a Domino vocantur
"Generatio adultera" (Matthaeus 12:39; Marcus 8:38):
Et quoque illi "pleni hypocrisi, iniquitate et immunditie" (Matthaeus 23:27, 28):
Et quod per traditiones suas falsificaverint Verbum (Matthaeus 15:1-6; Marcus 7:1-14):
et apertis verbis apud Johannem,
"Vos ex patre diabolo estis, et desideria patris vestri vultis facere; ille homicida erat ab initio, et in veritate non stetit, quia non veritas in illo; quando loquitur mendacium, ex propriis loquitur, quia mendacium loquens est et pater ejus" (8:44)
per "mendacium" intelligitur falsum ex malo; per "diabolum" exstinctio omnis boni; per "homicidam" exstinctio omnis veri; per "patrem" intelliguntur tam qui ab inferno quam qui a generatione ista prius usque a primis temporibus vixerunt; "ex propriis loqui" est ex innato.
[33] Quod sic omne ecclesiae apud illos deperditum fuerit, ac ideo rejecti, constat apud Esaiam,
"Dominus 10
Jehovah Zebaoth removens ex Hierosolyma et ex Jehudah baculum et scipionem, omnem baculum panis, et omnem 11
scipionem aquae, fortem et virum belli, judicem et prophetam, et divinatorem et senem:.... nam impegit Hierosolyma et Jehudah cecidit, quia lingua eorum et opera eorum contra Jehovam ad rebellandum oculis gloriae Ipsius" (3:1, 2, 8):
"removere omnem baculum panis et omnem 12
scipionem aquae" significat omne bonum amoris et verum fidei, a quibus vita spiritualis; "panis" est bonum amoris, et "aqua" est verum fidei, ac "baculus" et "scipio" sunt potentiae, et inde omnia vitae spiritualis: "removere fortem et virum belli" significat omnem resistentiam contra mala et falsa; removere "judicem et prophetam" significat omne bonum et verum doctrinae; removere "divinatorem et senem" significat omnem intelligentiam et sapientiam: "lingua eorum et opera eorum contra Jehovam ad rebellandum oculis gloriae Ipsius" significat quod omne doctrinae eorum et vitae eorum sit prorSus contra Divinum Verum; "lingua" est doctrina, "opera" sunt vita, "oculi gloriae Jehovae" sunt Divinum Verum, "rebellare" est contra illud esse.
[34] Apud eundem,
" 13
Quid faciendum amplius vineae meae?" "Judicate..inter Me et inter vineam meam: quid faciendum [amplius] vineae meae quod non fecerim in illa? Quare exspectavi ut faceret uvas, sed fecit labruscas: et notum faciam vobis, quid Ego faciam vineae meae, removendo sepem ejus ut sit ad depascendum, perrumpendo maceriem ejus ut sit ad conculcationem; ponam eam in desolationem, .... ut ascendat sentis et vepris; immo nubibus praecipiam, ut non faciant pluere super eam pluviam" (5:3-6):
per "vineam" hic intelligitur ecclesia apud illam gentem; per "Exspectavi ut faceret uvas sed fecit labruscas" significatur quod pro bonis veri quae ecclesiae apud illam fuerint mala falsi; per "removere sepem ejus ut sit ad depascendum, perrumpendo maceriem ut sit ad conculcationem", significatur destructio ejus quoad bona et vera, ut invadant mala et falsa, quae sunt "sentis et vepris" quae ascendent; per "Nubibus praecipiam ut non faciant pluere super illam pluviam" significatur quod ulterius non aliqua receptio veri et boni illis per Verbum e caelo.
[35] De destructione ecclesiae apud illam gentem etiam agitur apud Esaiam (cap. 7:17-19, seq.), apud Jeremiam (cap. 1:15), et multis aliis in locis. Propterea etiam gens illa ejecta est e terra Canaane, primum gens Israelitica et postea gens Judaica; et hoc quia per "terram Canaanem" significatur Canaan caelestis, quae est caelum et ecclesia. Qualis utraque illa gens fuit, describitur plene in sensu interno in capitibus 32 et 33 Exodi, ubi agitur de vitulo aureo quem sibi fecerunt, propter quem Jehovah voluit illos consumere, et aliam generationem ex Mose exsuscitare (quorum omnium explicatio videatur in Arcanis Caelestibus, n. 10393-10512, et n. 10523-10557).
[36] Qualis gens Judaica fuit, describitur etiam in sensu interno in capite 38 Genescos, ubi agitur de ortu eorum, qui fuit ex Canaanitide et ex Scortatione cum nuru; tres enim stirpes eorum fuerunt, una ex muliere Canaanitide, quam Jehudah sumpsit sibi in uxorem, et binae ex Thamare quae nurus Jehudae, cum qua concubuit ut cum scorto (quorum explicatio etiam videatur in Arcanis Caelestibus, n. 4813-4930).
[37] Qualis illa gens fuit, etiam describitur per Judam Ischarioth, nam ille repraesentavit gentem Judaicam quoad ecclesiam; duodecim enim discipuli Domini repraesentaverunt ecclesiam Domini in communi, et quisque aliquod universale essentiale ejus, et Judas Ischarioth repraesentavit illam qualis apud Judaeos. (Praeter haec videantur quae in Arcanis Caelestibus, de illa gente scripta sunt, quae sunt sequentia:- Quod ecclesia repraesentativa apud gentem Judaicam instituta fuerit, sed quod in ipsa gente nulla ecclesia fuerit, n. 4899, 4912, 6304. Quod ideo quoad ipsam gentem fuerit repraesentativum ecclesiae, et non ecclesia, n. 4281, 4288, 4311, 4500, 6304, 7048, 9320, 10396, 10526, 10531, 10698. Quod gens lsraelitica et Judaica non electa fuerit, sed recepta ut ecclesiam repraesentaret, ob contumaciam qua patres eorum et Moses institerunt, n. 4290, 4293, 7051, 7439, 10430, 10535, 10632. Quod cultus eorum mere externus fuerit, absque omni cultu interno, n. 1200, 3147, 3479, 8871. Quod prorsus non sciverint interna cultus, nec scire voluerint, n. 301-303, 3479, 4429, 4433, 4680, 4844, 14
4847, 10396, 10401, 10407, 10694, 10701, 10707. Quomodo considerant interna cultus, ecclesiae et Verbi, n. 4865. Quod interiora eorum, quae sunt cogitationis et affectionis, fuerint foeda, amoribus sui et mundi ac avaritia plena, n. 3480, 9962, 10454-10457, 10462-10466, 10575. Quod ideo illis non detecta fuerint interna ecclesiae, quoniam illa profanavissent, n. 2520, 3398, 15
3479, 4289. Quod Verbum illis prorsus occlusum fuerit, et quod adhuc sit, n. 3769. Quod videant Verbum ab extra et non ab intra, 10549-10551. Quod ideo internum eorum, quando in cultu, occlusum fuerit, n. 8788, 8806, 9320, 9380, 9377, 9962, 16
10396, 10401, 10407, 10492, 10498, 10500, 10575, 10629, 17
10694. Quod usque gens illa prae aliis talis fuerit, ut potuerit esse in sancto externo, clauso interno, n. 4293, 4311, 4903, 9373, 9377, 18
9380. Status eorum tunc, n. 4311. Quod conservati sint propter Verbum in lingua originali, et quia tales esse potuerunt, n. 3479. Quod sanctum externum eorum a Domino miraculose elevatum sit in caelum, et sic interiora cultus, ecclesiae et Verbi ibi percepta, n. 3480, 19
10493, 10499, 10500, 10602. Quod hoc ut fieret, per media externa coacti sint stricte observare ritus et statuta in externa forma, n. 3147, 4281, 10149. Quia in sancto externo absque interno potuerunt esse, quod sancta ecclesiae et caeli repraesentare potuerint, n. 3479, 3881, 4208, 6306, 21
6589, 9377, 10430, 10500, 10570. Quod usque sancta illos non affecerint, n. 3479. Quia nihil refert qualis persona est quae repraesentat, quoniam repraesentatio spectat rem, non autem personam, n. 665, 1097, 1361, 3147, 3881, 4208, 4281, 4288, 4292, 4307, 4444, 4500, 6304, 7048, 7439, 22
8588, 8788, 8806. Quod gens illa pejor aliis gentibus fuerit, describitur qualis, etiam ex Verbo utriusque Testamenti, n. 4314, 4316, 4317, 4444, 4503, 4750, 4751, 4815, 4820, 4832, 5057, 5998, 7248, 8819, 9320, 10454-10457, 10462-10466. Quod tribus Jehudae abiverit in pejus quam reliquae tribus, n. 4815. Quam crudeliter tractaverunt gentes ex jucundo, n. 5057, 7248, 9320. Quod gens illa corde idololatra fuerit, ac prae aliis coluerit alios deos, n. 3732, 4208, 4444, 4825, 5998, 6877, 7401, 8301, 8871, 8882. Quod etiam cultus eorum in ipsa gente spectatus fuerit idololatricus, quia externus absque interno, n. 4281, 4825, 8871, 8882. Quod Jehovam modo quoad nomen coluerit, n. 6877, 10559-10561, 10566: et solum propter miracula, n. 4299. Quod erronee cogitent qui credunt quod Judaei in fine ecclesiae convertendi sint, et reducendi in terram Canaanem, n. 4847, 7051, 8301. Plura loca e Verbo de illa re allata, quae tamen intelligenda sunt secundum sensum internum, ita aliter quam secundum litteram, n. 7051. Quod Verbum quoad sensum externum propter illam gentem immutatum fuerit, non tamen quoad sensum internum, n. 10453, 10461, 10603, 10604. Quod Jehovah a Monte Sinai apparuerit eis secundum quale eorum, in igne consumente, densa nube et in fumo sicut fornacis, n. 1861, 6832, 8814, 8819, 9434. Quod Dominus appareat unicuivis secundum ejus quale, ut ignis vivificans et recreans illis qui in bono sunt, ac ut ignis consumens illis qui in malo, n. 934, 1861, 6832, 8814, 8819, 9434, 10551. Quod una ejus gentis origo sit ex Canaanitide, et quod binae reliquae ex scortatione cum nuru, n. 1167, 23
4899, 4913. Quod per illas origines significatum sit qualis conjunctio illorum cum ecclesia esset, quod nempe sicut cum Canaanitide et cum scortatione cum nuru, n. 4868, 4874, 4899, 4911, 4913. De statu eorum in altera vita, aliqua, n. 939, 940, 5057. Quoniam gens illa, tametsi talis repraesentabat ecclesiam, et quia Verbum apud illam et de illa conscriptum est, ideo Divina caelestia per nomina eorum significata sunt, ut per Reubenem, Schimeonem, Levi, Jehudam, Ephraimum, Josephum, et reliquos: quod per "Jehudam" in sensu interno significetur Dominus quoad amorem caelestem, ac regnum caeleste Ipsius, n. 3654, 3881, 5583, 5603, 5782, 6363. Explicatur propheticum Israelis de Jehudah, in quo agitur de Domino, Genesis 49:8-12, n. 25
Quod "tribus Jehudae" et "Judaea" significet ecclesiam caelestem, n. 3654, 6364. Quod duodecim tribus repraesentaverint et inde significaverint omnia amoris et fidei in complexu, n. 3858, 3926, 4060, 6335: inde quoque caelum et ecclesiam, n. 6337, 6637, 7836, 7891. Quod significent secundum ordinem quo nominantur, n. 3862, 3926, 3939, 4603, seq., 6337, 6640. Quod duodecim tribus divisae fuerint in duo regna, ut Judaei repraesentarent regnum caeleste, ac lsraelitae regnum spirituale, n. 8770, 9320. Quod per "semen Abrahami", "Isaci" et "Jacobi" significentur bona et vera ecclesiae, n. 26
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