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1 Und Jehova redete zu Mose in der Wüste Sinai, im zweiten Jahre nach ihrem Auszug aus dem Lande Ägypten, im ersten Monat, und sprach:

2 Die Kinder Israel sollen das Passah feiern zu seiner bestimmten Zeit;

3 am vierzehnten Tage in diesem Monat, zwischen den zwei Abenden, sollt ihr es feiern zu seiner bestimmten Zeit; nach allen seinen Satzungen und nach allen seinen Vorschriften sollt ihr es feiern.

4 Und Mose redete zu den Kindern Israel, daß sie das Passah feiern sollten.

5 Und sie feierten das Passah im ersten Monat, am vierzehnten Tage des Monats, zwischen den zwei Abenden, in der Wüste Sinai; nach allem, was Jehova dem Mose geboten hatte, also taten die Kinder Israel.

6 Und es waren Männer da, die unrein waren wegen der Leiche eines Menschen und an jenem Tage das Passah nicht feiern konnten; und sie traten an jenem Tage vor Mose und vor Aaron.

7 Und diese Männer sprachen zu ihm: Wir sind unrein wegen der Leiche eines Menschen; warum sollen wir verkürzt werden, daß wir die Opfergabe Jehovas nicht zur bestimmten Zeit in der Mitte der Kinder Israel darbringen?

8 Und Mose sprach zu ihnen: Bleibet stehen, und ich will hören, was Jehova eurethalben gebieten wird. -

9 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

10 Rede zu den Kindern Israel und sprich: Wenn irgend jemand von euch oder von euren Geschlechtern unrein ist wegen einer Leiche oder ist auf einem fernen Wege, so soll er dem Jehova Passah feiern;

11 im zweiten Monat, am vierzehnten Tage, zwischen den zwei Abenden, sollen sie es feiern; mit Ungesäuertem und bitteren Kräutern sollen sie es essen;

12 sie sollen nichts davon übrig lassen bis an den Morgen, und sollen kein Bein an ihm zerbrechen; nach allen Satzungen des Passah sollen sie es feiern.

13 Der Mann aber, der rein und nicht auf dem Wege ist, und es unterläßt, das Passah zu feiern, selbige Seele soll ausgerottet werden aus ihren Völkern; denn er hat die Opfergabe Jehovas nicht zur bestimmten Zeit dargebracht; selbiger Mann soll seine Sünde tragen.

14 Und wenn ein Fremdling bei euch weilt und dem Jehova Passah feiern will, so soll er es feiern nach der Satzung des Passah und nach seiner Vorschrift. Eine Satzung soll für euch sein, sowohl für den Fremdling als auch für den Eingeborenen des Landes.

15 Und an dem Tage, da die Wohnung aufgerichtet wurde, bedeckte die Wolke die Wohnung des Zeltes des Zeugnisses; und am Abend war es über der Wohnung wie das Ansehen eines Feuers bis an den Morgen.

16 So war es beständig: die Wolke bedeckte sie, und des Nachts war es wie das Ansehen eines Feuers.

17 Und so wie die Wolke sich von dem Zelte erhob, brachen danach die Kinder Israel auf; und an dem Orte, wo die Wolke sich niederließ, daselbst lagerten sich die Kinder Israel.

18 Nach dem Befehl Jehovas brachen die Kinder Israel auf, und nach dem Befehl Jehovas lagerten sie sich; alle die Tage, da die Wolke auf der Wohnung ruhte, lagerten sie.

19 Und wenn die Wolke viele Tage auf der Wohnung verweilte, so warteten die Kinder Israel der Hut Jehovas und brachen nicht auf.

20 Und geschah es, daß die Wolke wenige Tage auf der Wohnung war, nach dem Befehl Jehovas lagerten sie sich, und nach dem Befehl Jehovas brachen sie auf.

21 Und geschah es, daß die Wolke da war vom Abend bis an den Morgen, und die Wolke erhob sich am Morgen, so brachen sie auf; oder einen Tag und eine Nacht, und die Wolke erhob sich, so brachen sie auf;

22 oder zwei Tage oder einen Monat oder eine geraume Zeit, wenn die Wolke auf der Wohnung verweilte, indem sie darauf ruhte, so lagerten die Kinder Israel und brachen nicht auf; und wenn sie sich erhob, so brachen sie auf.

23 Nach dem Befehl Jehovas lagerten sie sich, und nach dem Befehl Jehovas brachen sie auf; sie warteten der Hut Jehovas nach dem Befehl Jehovas durch Mose.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4236

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4236. And Jacob said when he saw them, This is the camp of God. That this signifies heaven, is because the “camp of God” signifies heaven, for the reason that an “army” signifies truths and goods (n. 3448), and truths and goods are marshaled by the Lord in heavenly order; hence an “encamping” denotes a marshalling by armies; and the heavenly order itself which is heaven, is the “camp.” This “camp” or order is of such a nature that hell cannot possibly break in upon it, although it is in the constant endeavor to do so. Hence also this order, or heaven, is called a “camp,” and the truths and goods (that is, the angels) who are marshaled in this order, are called “armies.” This shows whence it is that the “camp of God” signifies heaven. It is this very order, and thus heaven itself, which was represented by the encampments of the sons of Israel in the wilderness; and their dwelling together in the wilderness according to their tribes was called the “camp.” The tabernacle in the midst, and around which they encamped, represented the Lord Himself. That the sons of Israel encamped in this manner, may be seen in Numbers 1:1-54 33:2-56; as also that they encamped around the tabernacle by their tribes-toward the east Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; toward the south Reuben, Simeon, and Gad; toward the west Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin; toward the north Dan, Asher, and Naphtali; and the Levites in the middle near the tabernacle (2:2-34).

[2] The tribes signified all goods and truths in the complex (see n. 3858, 3862, 3926, 3939, 4060). It was for this reason that when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, and the spirit of God came upon him, he uttered his enunciation, saying:

How good are thy tabernacles, O Jacob, thy dwelling places, O Israel, as the valleys are they planted, as gardens by the river (Numbers 24:5-6).

That by this prophecy was not meant the people named Jacob and Israel, but that it was the heaven of the Lord that was represented, is very manifest. For the same reason their marshallings in the wilderness, that is, their encampings by tribes, are called “camps” in other passages of the Word; and by a “camp” is there signified in the internal sense heavenly order; and by “encamping” a marshalling in accordance with this order, namely, the order in which goods and truths are disposed in heaven (as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 2; 4:5-33; 5:2-4; 9:17 to the end; 10:1-10, 28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 31:19-24; Deuteronomy 23:10-14).

[3] That the “camp of God” denotes heaven may also be seen in Joel:

The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled, the sun and the moon were blackened, and the stars withdrew their brightness, and Jehovah uttered His voice before His army, for His camp is exceeding many, for numerous is he that doeth His word (Joel 2:10-11).

In Zechariah:

I will encamp at my house from the army, on account of him who passeth by, and on account of him who goeth away, lest the extortioner should pass over them (Zech. 9:8).

In John:

Gog and Magog went up over the plain of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; but fire came up from God and consumed them (Revelation 20:9);

“Gog and Magog” denote those who are in external worship that is separated from internal and made idolatrous (n. 1151); the “plain of the earth” denotes the truth of the church (that a “plain” is the truth which is of doctrine may be seen above, n. 2450; and that the “earth” is the church, n. 556, 662, 1066, 1067, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355); the “camp of the saints” denotes the heaven or kingdom of the Lord on the earth, which is the church.

[4] As most things in the Word have also an opposite sense, so likewise has a “camp,” which then signifies evils and falsities, consequently hell; as in David:

Though the evil should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear (Psalms 27:3).

In the same:

God hath scattered the bones of them that encamp against me; thou hast put them to shame, because God hath rejected them (Psalms 53:5).

By the camp of Assyria, in which the angel of Jehovah smote a hundred and eighty-five thousand (Isaiah 37:36), nothing else is meant; and the same by the camp of the Egyptians (Exodus 14:20).

  
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1151. Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. That these were so many nations among whom such worship existed, and that in the internal sense they signify so many doctrinals, which were the same as rituals, which they devoutly observed, is very evident from the Word, where these nations are frequently mentioned; for they everywhere signify external worship-sometimes external worship corresponding to internal, sometimes the opposite. The reason why they signify the opposite is that all churches, wherever they were, in process of time have been changed, even to their opposites. That the nations here named signify nothing but external worship, consequently their doctrinals which were rituals, can be established, as was said, from the Word in other places, especially in the Prophets.

[2] Thus, of Magog, Meshech, Tubal, and Gomer, it is written in Ezekiel:

Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, the land of Magog, the prince, head of Meshech and Tubal; and prophesy against him and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovih, Behold I am against thee, O Gog, prince, head of Meshech and Tubal, and I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords; Persia, Cush, and Put with them; with them Gomer and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the sides of the north, and all his hordes. In the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been made a waste (Ezekiel 38:2-6, 8).

This whole chapter treats of the church, which became perverted, and at length made all worship consist in externals, or rituals; charity, which is signified by “the mountains of Israel,” being extinguished. Here “Gog, and the land of Magog the prince and head of Meshech and Tubal,” is worship in externals. Anyone may see that it is not Gog and Magog that are treated of, for the Word of the Lord does not treat of worldly things, but enfolds within it Divine things.

[3] In the same:

Prophesy upon Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovih, Behold I am against thee, O Gog, prince, head of Meshech and Tubal; and I will turn thee about, and take a sixth part of thee, I will cause thee to come up from the sides of the north, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel; upon the mountains of Israel thou shalt fall, thou and all thy hordes, and the people that are with thee (Ezekiel 39:1-2, 4).

The whole of this chapter, likewise, treats of external worship separated from internal, and become idolatrous, which is here signified by Gog, Meshech, and Tubal, by whom also are meant the doctrinals which they receive and afterwards confirm by the literal sense of the Word, and thus falsify truths and destroy internal worship. For, as was said, the opposite also are signified by the same nations.

[4] In John:

When the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to war. They went up over the plain of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city (Revelation 20:7-9); where “Gog and Magog” have a similar signification. External worship separate from internal, that is, separate from love to the Lord and love toward the neighbor, is nothing else than idolatrous, which encompasses the camp of the saints, and the beloved city.

[5] Of Meshech and Tubal it is said in Ezekiel:

There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living (Ezekiel 32:26).

The subject here is Egypt, or the memory-knowledges wherewith men desire to explore spiritual things. “Meshech and Tubal” denote doctrinals which are rituals, and which, when there is no love, are called “uncircumcised.” Hence they are slain with the sword, and a terror in the land of the living.

[6] Of Javan it is said in Joel:

The sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem ye have sold unto the sons of the Javanites that ye might remove them far from their border (Joel 3:6).

“The sons of Judah” denote celestial things of faith; “the sons of Jerusalem,” spiritual things of faith-thus things internal; and “the sons of the Javanites,” worship in externals separate from what is internal. Because this worship is so widely remote from what is internal, it is said that they have “removed them far from their border.”

[7] Javan and Tubal denote true external worship itself in Isaiah:

It shall come that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come, and shall see My glow. And I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the Isles afar off, that have not heard My fame, neither have seen My glory; and they shall declare My glory among the nations (Isaiah 66:18-19).

The subject here is the kingdom of the Lord and His coming. “Tubal and Javan” denote those who are in external worship corresponding to internal, who are to be instructed concerning internal things.

  
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