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Az örök boldogságnak kívánsága

Az örök boldogságnak kívánsága

I rejoiced at what I heard: that we are going into the house of the Lord, where there is no sickness, no grief, and no sorrow—because God wipes away our tears and drives away all our pain.✦✦ As the deer longs for the spring, so my soul longs for you, Lord—for I know that I have no lasting city here.✦✦ How lovely, Lord, are your dwellings!✦ My soul longs and grows faint for your dwelling places.✦ Who will free me from this dungeon and captivity of death?✦ Woe is me, for my pilgrimage has been prolonged; I long to be set free and to be with Christ—for one day in your house is better than a thousand years in this world.✦✦✦1 Rejoice, O my soul, for you are going into the Lord's house, where there is no temptation, no warfare, no fear, but quiet and secure joy: where there is no envy, no shrinking back, no evil desire.23 O blessed hour, when I too will gladly sing with Saint David that you brought me through fire and water, and I have come to rest.✦ Then I too will joyfully say with the saints: Lord God, you have made us kings, and we reign forever and ever—not on this earth, where every joy and dominion is brief and passing, but in that land of the living, where there will be neither the darkness of ignorance, as in the gloom of Egypt, for God and the Lamb are the true light of that city, nor restless desires, because the Lord is all in all and intoxicates us with the delights of His house, which so far surpass our longing that the joy God has prepared for His faithful cannot even enter a human heart.✦✦✦✦✦✦45 Rejoice too, O my body, which through death was sown into the ground like good seed, so that at the rising you may spring up far more beautiful. For now you are perishable, but then you will be imperishable; now you are frail and foul, but then you will be powerful and glorious—because the soul's radiance, swiftness, power, and invulnerability will pass over to you as well.6 Into your hands I commend my soul, my God; you have redeemed me, God of truth. I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise, and clothed again in my own skin, I will see my Savior God.✦✦ This hope is hidden in my heart, and with it I go before my Lord.✦

Read the original Hungarian

Örvendeztem azon, amit hallottam, hogy az Úr házába megyünk, holott nincs semmi nyavalya, semmi bánat, semmi szomorúság: mert eltörli az Isten könnyhullatásinkat, és elkergeti minden fájdalminkat. Miképpen kívánkozik a szarvas a kútfőhöz, úgy kívánkozik az én lelkem tehozzád, Uram; mert tudom, hogy nincs itt maradandó városom. Mely gyönyörűségesek, Uram, a te Sátorid! Kívánkozik és elbágyad az én lelkem a te hajlékidba. Ki szabadít meg engem e halálnak tömlöcéből és fogságából? Jaj nékem, mert meghosszabbíttatott az én zarándokságom; kívánom, hogy mególdoztassam és Krisztussal légyek: mert jobb egy nap a te házadban, hogysem ezer esztendő e világban.

Örvendezz, oh én lelkem, mert az Úr házába mégy, melyben semmi kísértet, semmi hadakozás, semmi félelem nincsen, hanem csendes és bátorságos öröm: holott nincs semmi irigység, semmi visszavonyás, semmi gonosz kívánság. Oh áldott óra, melyben vígan éneklem én is Szent Dáviddal, hogy tűzön és vízen által vittél engem és nyugodalomra jutottam. Akkor én is örvendetesen mondom a szentekkel: Uram Isten, királyokká tettél minket, és uralkodunk örökkön-örökké; nem ezen a földön, melyen rövid és mulandó minden öröm és birodalom, hanem amaz élők földén, ahol sem tudatlanságnak setétsége nem lészen, mint az egyiptombéli homályban, mert Isten és a Bárány igaz világossága annak a városnak; sem nyughatatlan kívánságok nem találtatnak, mert az Úr mindenekben minden, és megrészegít minket házának gyönyörűségével, mely annyira fellyülhaladja a mi kívánságunkat, hogy az a vigasság csak szívébe sem ütközhetik embernek, melyet Isten készített híveinek.

Örülj te is, oh én testem, mely a halál által, mint jó mag, földbe hintetel, hogy kikeletkor sokkal ékesben kizsendülj. Mert most rothadandó vagy, de akkor rothadatlan lészesz; most gyarló és undok vagy, de akkor hatalmas és dücsőséges lészesz; mert a léleknek fényessége, gyorsasága, hathatóssága és megsérthetetlen volta reád is származik.

Kezedbe ajánlom, én Istenem, lelkemet: te váltottál meg engem, igazságnak Istene: Tudom, hogy az én megváltóm él, és az utolsó napon feltámadok, és ismét bőrömben öltözvén, meglátom az én üdvözítő Istenemet. Ez a reménység elrejtetett az én szívemben, és ezzel mégyek az én Uram eleibe.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.122.1 — I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD."
  2. ↩Rev.21.4;Isa.25.8 — And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more; neither mourning, nor crying, nor pain will be any more, for the former things have passed away. Isa.25.8 — He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; the reproach of his people he will remove from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
  3. ↩Ps.42.1 — To the choirmaskil. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.
  4. ↩Heb.13.14 — For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the one that is coming.
  5. ↩Ps.84.1 — For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
  6. ↩Ps.84.2 — How lovely are your dwelling places, LORD of hosts!
  7. ↩Rom.7.24 — Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
  8. ↩Ps.120.5 — Woe is me, for I have sojourned in Meshech; I have dwelt among the tents of Kedar.
  9. ↩Phil.1.23 — But I am hard-pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for it is far better;
  10. ↩Ps.84.10 — Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed.
  11. ↩Ps.66.12 — You rode over our heads as over a beast; we went through fire and through water, yet You brought us out to abundance.
  12. ↩Rev.5.10 — and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth
  13. ↩Ps.27.13 — Had I not believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living...
  14. ↩Rev.21.23 — And the city has no need of the sun or the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
  15. ↩1Cor.15.28 — When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all.
  16. ↩Ps.36.8 — How precious is your steadfast love, O God! And the children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
  17. ↩1Cor.2.9 — But as it is written: What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived—all that God has prepared for those who love him.
  18. ↩Ps.31.5 — Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.
  19. ↩Job.19.25-Job.19.26 — But I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the dust." "Dust" better links to mortality and verse 26 while remaining clear. Job.19.26 — And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet from my flesh I shall see God
  20. ↩Job.19.27 — whom I myself shall see, and my eyes have seen, and not another; my kidneys are consumed within me.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩mególdoztassam is older Hungarian for being loosed/released (cf. Phil 1:23 desire to depart); rendered 'set free' rather than a stiff 'loosed'.
  2. 2 ↩Early modern Hungarian bátorságos here means secure/safe rather than merely brave; rendered as 'secure' with csendes ('quiet').
  3. 3 ↩visszavonyás is recoiling/drawing back; rendered as 'shrinking back' for the moral sense of retreat from the good.
  4. 4 ↩megrészegít is strong inebriation language (cf. traditional 'inebriated with the plenty of your house'); kept as 'intoxicates' rather than flattened to mere 'fills'.
  5. 5 ↩ütközhetik = strike/enter into; the clause tracks the 1 Cor 2:9 cadence that what God prepared has not entered the human heart.
  6. 6 ↩fényessége, gyorsasága, hathatóssága, megsérthetetlen volta tracks the traditional gifts of the glorified body (clarity, agility, power/efficacy, impassibility); rendered in plain English rather than scholastic labels.

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