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出埃及记 33

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1 耶和华吩咐摩西:我曾起誓应许亚伯拉罕以撒雅各:要将迦南你的後裔。现在你和你从埃及所领出来的百姓,要从这里往那去。

2 我要差遣使者在你前面,撵出迦南人、亚摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人,

3 领你到那流奶与蜜之。我自己不同你们上去;因为你们是硬着颈项的百姓,恐怕我在上把你们灭绝。

4 百姓见这凶信就悲哀,也没有佩戴妆饰。

5 耶和华摩西:你告诉以色列人耶和华:你们是硬着颈项的百姓,我若霎时临到你们中间,必灭绝你们。现在你们要把身上的妆饰摘来,使我可以知道怎样待你们

6 以色列人从住何烈以後,就把身上的妆饰摘得乾净。

7 摩西素常将帐棚支搭在外,离却远,他称这帐棚为会幕。凡求问耶和华的,就到外的会幕那里去。

8 摩西出营到会幕去的时候,百姓就都起来,各站在自己帐棚的口,望着摩西,直等到他进了会幕

9 摩西会幕的时候,,立在会幕前,耶和华便与摩西说话

10 众百姓立在会幕前,就都起来,各在自己帐棚的口下拜。

11 耶和华摩西面对说话,好像与朋友说话一般。摩西里去,惟有他的帮手─一个少年嫩的儿子约书亚不离开会幕

12 摩西耶和华:你吩咐我:将这百姓领上去,却没有叫我知道你要打发谁与我同去,只:我按你的名认识你,你在我眼前也蒙了恩。

13 我如今若在你眼前蒙恩,求你将你的道指示我,使我可以认识你,好在你眼前蒙恩。求你想到这民是你的民。

14 耶和华:我必亲自和你同去,使你得安息。

15 摩西:你若不亲自和我同去,就不要把我们从这里领上去。

16 人在何事上得以知道我和你的百姓在你眼前蒙恩呢?岂不是因你与我们同去、使我和你的百姓与地上的万民有分别麽?

17 耶和华摩西:你这所求的我也要行;因为你在我眼前蒙了恩,并且我按你的名认识你。

18 摩西:求你显出你的荣耀给我

19 耶和华:我要显我一切的恩慈,在你面前经过,宣告我的名。我要恩待谁就恩待谁;要怜悯谁就怜悯谁;

20 :你不能见我的面,因为人见我的面不能存活。

21 耶和华:看哪,在我这里有地方,你要站在磐石上。

22 我的荣耀经过的时候,我必将你放在磐石穴中,用我的手遮掩你,等我过去,

23 然後我要将我的手收回,你就得见我的背,却不得见我的面。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10543

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10543. 'At Mount Horeb' means within the external things of worship, the Church, and the Word. This is clear from the meaning of 'Mount Horeb' as Divine Truth present in external things. For Horeb was the mountainous region surrounding Mount Sinai, and 'Mount Sinai' means Divine Truth; consequently 'Horeb', being the mountainous region round about, means Divine Truth present in external things. For what is in the middle and higher than the outlying parts around it means that which is internal, and therefore what is around and below it means that which is external.

'Mount Sinai' means Divine Truth, see 8805, 9420.

The middle means that which is internal, 1074, 2940, 2973, 5897, 6084, 6103, 9164, and so does what is high, 2148, 4210, 4599, 9489, 9773, 10181.

What is round about means that which is external, 2973, and so does what is below.

Since the people's interest lay in external things and not in what was internal, when the Law was declared from Mount Sinai they stood in Horeb at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain was fenced off all the way round to prevent the people from touching it, Exodus 19:12-13, 21, 23-24; 20:21; Deuteronomy 4:10-12. The external of worship, the Church, and the Word is spoken of because the external of one is the external of another; for worship is performed by the Church, and the Church's truths and forms of good, and its worship, are derived from the Word. Those therefore who are interested in only the external things of worship and the Church are interested in only the external things of the Word.

  
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