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出埃及记 34

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1 耶和华吩咐摩西:你要凿出两块版,和先前你摔碎的那版一样;其上的我要在这版上。

2 明日早晨,你要预备好了,上西乃,在顶上站在我面前。

3 谁也不可和你一同上去,遍都不可有,在根也不可叫羊群牛群吃草。

4 摩西就凿出两块版,和先前的一样。清晨起来,照耶和华所吩咐的上西乃去,里拿着两块版。

5 耶和华中降临,和摩西一同站在那里,宣告耶和华的名。

6 耶和华在他面前宣告耶和华耶和华,是有怜悯有恩典的神,不轻易发怒,并有丰盛的慈爱和诚实,

7 万人存留慈爱,赦免孽、过犯,和罪恶,万不以有的为无,必追讨他的,自父及子,直到、四代。

8 摩西急忙伏下拜,

9 :主阿,我若在你眼前蒙恩,求你在我们中间同行,因为这是硬着颈项的百姓。又求你赦免我们孽和罪恶,以我们为你的产业。

10 耶和华:我要立约,要在百姓面前行奇妙的事,是在遍万国中所未曾行的。在你四围的外邦人就要耶和华的作为,因我向你所行的是可畏惧的事。

11 今天所吩咐你的,你要谨守。我要从你面前撵出亚摩利人、迦南人、赫人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人。

12 你要谨慎,不可与你所去那居民立约,恐怕成为你们中间的网罗;

13 却要拆毁他们的祭坛,打碎他们的柱像,砍下他们的木偶。

14 不可敬拜别神;因为耶和华是忌邪的神,名为忌邪者。

15 只怕你与那居民立约,百姓随从他们的,就行邪淫,祭祀他们的,有人你,你便他的祭物,

16 又为你的儿子娶他们的女儿为妻,他们的女儿随从他们的,就行邪淫,使你的儿子也随从他们的行邪淫。

17 不可为自己铸造像。

18 你要守除酵节,照我所吩咐你的,在亚笔内所定的日期无酵,因为你是这亚笔内出了埃及

19 凡头生的都是我的;一切牲畜头生的,无论是是羊,公的都是我的。

20 头生的要用羊羔代赎,若不代赎就要打折他的颈项。凡头生的儿子都要赎出来。谁也不可空手朝见我。

21 日要做工,第七日要安息,虽在耕种收割的时候也要安息。

22 在收割初熟麦子的时候要守七七节;又在年底要守收藏节。

23 你们一切男丁要一年三次朝见耶和华以色列的

24 我要从你面前赶出外邦,扩张你的境界。你一年三次上去朝见耶和华─你的时候,必没有贪慕你的土。

25 你不可将我祭物的血和有的饼一同献上。逾越节的祭物也不可留到早晨

26 地里首先初熟之物要送到耶和华─你的殿。不可用山羊羔母的奶山羊羔。

27 耶和华吩咐摩西:你要将这些上,因为我是按这与你和以色列人立约。

28 摩西在耶和华那里四十昼夜,也不饭也不耶和华将这约的,就是条诫,在两块版上。

29 摩西里拿着两块法版西乃的时候,不知道自己的面因耶和华和他说话就发了光。

30 亚伦以色列众人摩西的发光他。

31 摩西他们来;於是亚伦和会众的官长都到他那里去,摩西就与他们说话

32 以色列众人都前来,他就把耶和华在西乃与他所的一切话都吩咐他们。

33 摩西与他们说完了话就用帕子蒙上脸。

34 摩西进到耶和华面前与他说话就揭去帕子,及至出的时候便将耶和华所吩咐的告诉以色列人

35 以色列人摩西的发光摩西又用帕子蒙上脸,等到他进去与耶和华说话就揭去帕子。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3727

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3727. In regard to the signification of a “pillar,” as being a holy boundary, thus the ultimate of order, this comes from the fact that in the most ancient times stones were placed at the boundaries, which marked the possession or inheritance of one person from that of another, and were for a sign and a witness that the boundaries were at that place. The most ancient people, who in every object, and in every pillar, thought of something celestial and spiritual (n. 1977, 2995), in these stones also which they set up, thought from them concerning the ultimates in man, and thus concerning the ultimate of order, which is truth in the natural man. The ancients who were after the flood received this from the most ancient people who were before the flood (n. 920, 1409, 2179, 2896, 2897), and began to account those stones holy which were set up in the boundaries, because as before said, they signified holy truth which is in the ultimate of order. They also called those stones “pillars;” and thus it came to pass that pillars were introduced into worship, and that they erected them in the places where they had their groves, and afterwards where they had their temples, and also that they anointed them with oil, concerning which something shall be said in what follows. For the worship of the Ancient Church consisted in the perceptives and significatives of the most ancient people who were before the flood, as is manifest from the sections just cited. As the most ancient people spoke with angels and were together with them while on earth, they were instructed from heaven that stones signify truth, and that wood signifies good (see above, n. 3720). This is the reason why “pillars” signify a holy boundary, thus the truth which is the ultimate of order in man; for the good that inflows through the internal man from the Lord is terminated in the external man, in the truth therein. Man’s thought, speech, and action, which are the ultimates of order, are nothing else than truths from good, being the images or forms of good; for they belong to man’s intellectual part, while the good which is in them, and from which they are, belongs to his will part.

[2] That pillars were erected for a sign and for a witness, and also for worship; and that in the internal sense they signify a holy boundary, or the truth in man’s natural which is the ultimate of order, may be seen from other passages in the Word-as from the following, concerning the covenant between Laban and Jacob:

Come now, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have set up between me and thee; this heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap to me, and this pillar, for evil (Genesis 31:44-45, 51-52).

That in this passage a “pillar” signifies truth, will be seen in the explication of the passage.

[3] In Isaiah:

In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak with the lips of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah Zebaoth. In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the boundary thereof to Jehovah; which shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Jehovah Zebaoth in the land of Egypt (Isaiah 19:18-20);

“Egypt” denotes the memory-knowledges that belong to the natural man; an “altar,” Divine worship in general, for in the second Ancient Church, which began from Eber, the altar was made the primary representative of worship (n. 921, 1343, 2777, 2811); the “midst of the land of Egypt” denotes what is primary and inmost of worship (n. 2940, 2973, 3436); a “pillar,” the truth which is the ultimate of order in the natural. That this is in the boundary for a sign and for a witness is manifest.

[4] In Moses:

Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning and builded an altar near Mount Sinai, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel (Exodus 24:4); where in like manner an “altar” was representative of all worship, and indeed of good in worship; while the twelve pillars were a representative of the truth which is from good in worship. (That “twelve” denotes all things of truth in one complex may be seen above, n. 577, 2089, 2129, 2130, 3272; and that the “twelve tribes” in like manner signify all things of the truth of the church, will of the Lord’s Divine mercy be shown in the following chapter.)

[5] Inasmuch as altars were representative of all the good of worship, and as the Jewish Church was instituted in order that it might represent the celestial church which acknowledged no other truth than that which is from good, which is called celestial truth-for it was not in the least willing to separate truth from good, insomuch that it was not willing to mention anything of faith or truth unless it was thinking of good, and this from good, n. 202, 337, 2069, 2715, 2718, 3246—therefore there was a representative of truth by means of the stones of the altar, and it was forbidden to represent it by pillars, lest thereby truth should be separated from good, and should be representatively worshiped instead of good. For this reason it is written in Moses:

Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God which thou shalt make thee; and thou shalt not set thee up a pillar, which Jehovah thy God hateth (Deuteronomy 16:21-22);

for to worship truth separate from good, or faith separate from charity, is contrary to the Divine, because contrary to order, and this is signified by the prohibition, “thou shalt not set thee up a pillar, which Jehovah thy God hateth.”

[6] Nevertheless that they did set up pillars, and thereby represented those things which are contrary to order, is evident in Hosea:

Israel according to the multiplying of his fruit, multiplies his altars; according to the good of their land they make goodly pillars; but He shall overturn their altars; He shall lay waste their pillars (Hos. 10:1-2).

In the first book of Kings:

Judah did that which was evil in the eyes of Jehovah; they also built them high places, and pillars, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree (1 Kings 14:22-23).

In the second book of Kings:

The sons of Israel set them up pillars and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree (2 Kings 17:10).

Hezekiah removed the high places, and he brake the pillars and cut down the grove and ground to pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made, for they did burn incense to it (2 Kings 18:4).

[7] Inasmuch as the Gentiles also had by tradition the belief that the holy of worship was represented by altars and by pillars, and yet were in evil and falsity, therefore by “altars” among the gentiles are signified evils of worship, and by “pillars,” falsities; for which reason it was commanded that they should be destroyed. As in Moses:

Ye shall overthrow their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves (Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 7:5; 12:3).

Thou shalt not bow to their gods, nor worship them, nor do after their works; because destroying thou shalt destroy them, and breaking thou shalt break in pieces their pillars (Exodus 23:24).

The “gods” of the nations denote falsities; their “works,” evils; to “break in pieces their pillars” denotes to destroy worship from falsity.

[8] In Jeremiah:

Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon shall break in pieces the pillars of the house of the sun that is in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire (Jeremiah 43:13).

In Ezekiel:

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon with the hoofs of his horses shall tread down all thy streets; he shall slay the people with the sword, and shall cause the pillars of thy strength to go down to the earth (Ezekiel 26:11);

speaking of Tyre. “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon” denotes that which causes vastation (n. 1327); the “hoofs of the horses” denote the lowest intellectual things, such as are memory-knowledges from mere things of sense; that “hoofs” are the lowest things will of the Lord’s Divine mercy be confirmed elsewhere; “horses” denote intellectual things (n. 2760-2762); “streets,” truths, and in the opposite sense, falsities (n. 2336); to “tread them down” is to destroy the knowledges of truth, which are signified by “Tyre” (that “Tyre,” which is the subject here referred to, signifies the knowledges of truth, may be seen above, n. 1201); to “slay the people with the sword” denotes to destroy truths by that which is false. (That “people” is predicated of truth, may be seen above, n. 1259, 1260,(3295),3581; and that a “sword” signifies falsity combating, n. 2799.) From all this we see what is meant by “causing the pillars of strength to come down to the earth.” That “strength” is predicated of what is true and of what is false, is also evident from the Word.

  
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