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申命记 9

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1 以色列阿,你当!你今日要过约但河,进去赶出比你强的国民,得着广坚固、得顶的城邑。

2 那民是亚衲族的人,又又高,是你所知道的;也曾见有人指着他们:谁能在亚衲族人面前站立得住呢?

3 你今日当知道耶和华─你的在你前面过去,如同烈,要灭绝他们,将他们制伏在你面前。这样,你就要照耶和华的赶出他们,使他们速速灭亡。

4 耶和华─你的将这些国民从你面前撵出以後,你心里不可耶和华将我领进来得这是因我的。其实,耶和华将他们从你面前赶出去是因他们的恶。

5 你进去得他们的,并不是因你的,也不是因你心里正直,乃是因这些国民的恶,耶和华─你的将他们从你面前赶出去,又因耶和华要坚定他向你列祖亚伯拉罕以撒雅各起誓所应许的

6 你当知道耶和华─你将这美赐你为业,并不是因你的;你本是硬着颈项的百姓。

7 你当记念不忘,你在旷野怎样惹耶和华─你发怒。自从你出了埃及的那日,直到你们到这地方,你们时常悖逆耶和华

8 你们在何烈山又惹耶和华发怒;他恼怒你们,要灭绝你们。

9 我上了,要领受两块版,就是耶和华与你们立约的版。那时我在四十昼夜,没有饭,也没有

10 耶和华把那两块版交我,是用指头的。版上所的是照耶和华在大会的日子、在上、从中对你们所的一切

11 过了四十昼夜,耶和华把那两块版,就是约版,交我。

12 对我:你起来,赶快去!因为你从埃及领出来的百姓已经败坏了自己;他们快快的偏离了我所吩咐的道,为自己铸成了偶像。

13 耶和华又对我:我这百姓是硬着颈项的百姓。

14 你且由着我,我要灭绝他们,将他们的名从涂抹,使你的後裔比他们成为更大更强的国。

15 於是我转身烧着,两块约版在我两之中。

16 我一见你们得罪了耶和华─你们的,铸成了犊,快快的偏离了耶和华所吩咐你们的道,

17 我就把那两块版从我中扔下去,在你们眼前摔碎了。

18 因你们所犯的一切,行了耶和华眼中看为恶的事,惹他发怒,我就像从前俯伏在耶和华面前四十昼夜,没有饭,也没有

19 我因耶和华向你们大发烈怒,要灭绝你们,就甚害怕;但那次耶和华又应允了我。

20 耶和华也向亚伦甚是发怒,要灭绝他;那时我又为亚伦祈祷。

21 我把那叫你们犯所铸的犊用焚烧,又捣磨得很细,以至细如灰尘,我就把这灰尘撒在从来的水中。

22 你们在他备拉、玛撒、基博罗哈他瓦又惹耶和华发怒。

23 耶和华打发你们离开加低斯巴尼亚,说:你们上去得我所赐你们的。那时你们违背了耶和华─你们的命令,不信服他,不从他的话。

24 自从我认识你们以来,你们常常悖逆耶和华

25 我因耶和华要灭绝你们,就在耶和华面前照旧俯伏四十昼夜。

26 我祈祷耶和华耶和华阿,求你不要灭绝你的百姓。他们是你的产业,是你用大力救赎的,用大能从埃及领出来的。

27 求你记念你的仆人亚伯拉罕以撒雅各,不要想念这百姓的顽梗、邪恶、过,

28 免得你领我们出来的那之人耶和华因为不能将这百姓领进他所应许之,又因恨他们,所以领他们出去,要在旷野杀他们。

29 其实他们是你的百姓,你的产业,是你用能和伸出来的膀领出来的。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9437

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9437. 'And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights' means the instructions given and influx in their completeness. This is clear from the meaning of 'forty' as completeness. 'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means that which is complete, 9103, as similarly does 'ten', 3107, 4638, and forty is the product of four multiplied by ten. For compound numbers have a meaning similar to the simple numbers of which they are the product, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973; and all numbers in the Word mean spiritual realities, see 575, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175. All this goes to explain why Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights. The fact that 'forty' here means the instructions given and the influx in their completeness is evident from Chapters 25-32 which come next, recording the instructions Moses received, that is, instructions regarding the ark, Aaron, the urim and thummim, and sacrifices. The reason why influx in its completeness is also meant is that at that time Moses began to represent the outward holiness of the Word, which acted as the intermediary between the Lord and the people, and mediation is accomplished by means of influx through that holiness into the representative existing among that people, 9419.

[2] It was because 'forty' represented completeness that Moses remained on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights not only this time but also on another occasion, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:18, 25; 10:10. For the same reason the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness forty years until, as it says in Numbers 14:33-34; 32:13, all that generation had been consumed; Jonah told the Ninevites that their city would be overturned after forty days, Jonah 3:4; the prophet was commanded to lie on his right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, Ezekiel 4:6; it says regarding Egypt that it would be made completely desolate for forty years, after which they would be gathered from the peoples, Ezekiel 29:11-13; and the earth was rained on forty days and forty nights, so that it was inundated with the flood, Genesis 7:4, 12, 17. From all this it is evident why the wicked person was to receive forty blows, Deuteronomy 25:3, for 'forty blows' meant the punishment in its completeness. It is also evident what should be understood in the prophecy of Deborah and Barak when it says that no shield or spear was seen among the forty thousand of Israel, Judges 5:8, 'among the forty thousand of Israel' meaning among them all. It is in addition evident why the temple built by Solomon was forty cubits long, 1 Kings 6:17, as was the new temple, according to Ezekiel 41:2; for in the highest sense 'the temple' means the Lord, and in the internal sense heaven and the Church, so that 'forty' means completeness in respect of representation. And it has a like meaning in other places.

  
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