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出埃及记 8

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1 耶和华吩咐摩西:你进去见法老,对他耶和华这样:容我的百姓去,好事奉我。

2 你若不肯容他们去,我必使青蛙糟蹋你的四境。

3 河里要滋生青蛙;这青蛙要上进你的宫殿和你的卧房,上你的榻,进你臣仆的房屋,上你百姓的身上,进你的炉灶和你的抟面盆,

4 又要上你和你百姓并你众臣仆的身上。

5 耶和华晓谕摩西:你对亚伦:把你的杖伸在江、、池以上,使青蛙埃及上来。

6 亚伦便伸杖在埃及的诸水以上,青蛙就上来,遮满了埃及

7 行法术的也用他们的邪术照样而行,叫青蛙上了埃及

8 法老召了摩西亚伦来,:请你们求耶和华使这青蛙离开我和我的民,我就容百姓去祭祀耶和华

9 摩西法老:任凭你罢,我要何时为你和你的臣仆并你的百姓祈求,除灭青蛙离开你和你的宫殿只留在河里呢?

10 :明天。摩西:可以照你的罢,好叫你知道没有像耶和华─我们的。

11 青蛙要离开你和你的宫殿,并你的臣仆与你的百姓,只留在河里。

12 於是摩西亚伦离开法老出去。摩西为扰害法老的青蛙呼求耶和华

13 耶和华就照摩西的行。凡在房里、院中、田间的青蛙死了

14 众人把青蛙聚拢成堆,遍就都腥

15 法老见灾祸松缓,就硬着,不肯他们,正如耶和华的。

16 耶和华吩咐摩西:你对亚伦伸出你的杖击打上的尘土,使尘土埃及变作虱子(或译:虼蚤;下同)。

17 他们就这样行。亚伦伸杖击打上的尘土,就在人身上和牲畜身上有了虱子;埃及尘土都变成虱子了。

18 行法术的也用邪术要生出虱子来,却是不能。於是在人身上和牲畜身上都有了虱子。

19 行法术的就对法老:这是的手段。法老里刚硬,不肯摩西、亚伦,正如耶和华的。

20 耶和华摩西:你清起来法老来到边,你站在他面前,对他耶和华这样:容我的百姓去,好事奉我。

21 你若不容我的百姓去,我要叫成群的苍蝇到你和你臣仆并你百姓的身上,进你的房屋,并且埃及人房屋和他们所住的地都要满了成群的苍蝇

22 当那日,我必分别我百姓所住的歌珊,使那里没有成群的苍蝇,好叫你知道我是下的耶和华

23 我要将我的百姓和你的百姓分别出来。明天必有这神迹。

24 耶和华就这样行。苍蝇成了大群,进入法老的宫殿,和他臣仆的房屋埃及就因这成群的苍蝇败坏了。

25 法老召了摩西亚伦来,:你们去,在这祭祀你们的罢!

26 摩西:这样行本不相宜,因为我们要把埃及人所厌恶的祭祀耶和华我们;若把埃及人所厌恶的在他们眼前献为祭,他们岂不拿石头打死我们麽?

27 我们要往旷野去,走的路程,照着耶和华我们所要吩咐我们的祭祀他。

28 法老:我容你们去,在旷野祭祀耶和华─你们的;只是不要走得很远。求你们为我祈祷。

29 摩西:我要出去求耶和华,使成群的苍蝇明天离开法老法老的臣仆并法老的百姓;法老却不可再行诡诈,不容百姓去祭祀耶和华

30 於是摩西离开法老去求耶和华

31 耶和华就照摩西的行,叫成群的苍蝇离开法老和他的臣仆并他的百姓,个也没有留下。

32 这一次法老又硬着,不容百姓去。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3016

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3016. 'Abraham, being old, was advanced in years' means when the state was reached in which the Lord's Human could become Divine. This is clear from the representation of 'Abraham' as the Lord, dealt with in 1893, 1965, 1989, 2011, 2172, 2198, 2501, 2833, 2836, and many times elsewhere; from the meaning of 'old' or old age as casting off what is human and putting on what is heavenly, dealt with in 1854, 2198, and when it has reference to the Lord, putting on what is Divine; and from the meaning of 'day' as state, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, and therefore from the meaning of 'advanced in years' as the point when a state has been reached. The reason why 'old' and 'advanced in years' mean these things is that with angels the notion of old age does not exist, nor that of getting older, meant by 'advanced in years', only the notion of state as regards the life that is theirs. Consequently when getting older or old age is mentioned in the Word the angels present with man can have no other idea than that of the state of life that is theirs or that is men's as they pass through the different stages of life until they reach the last, that is to say, as they accordingly cast off what is human and put on what is heavenly. For man's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death and the actual transition from one life to the next. Burial therefore is also resurrection since the casting-off process is completed then, 2916, 2917. Such being the idea that angels have, nothing else can be meant by 'advanced in years' and by 'old age' in the internal sense - the sense which exists primarily for angels and for men who have minds like those of angels.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 893

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893. Verse 13 And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters dried up from over the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out, and behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry.

'It happened in the six hundred and first year' means a finishing point. 'At the beginning, on the first of the month' means a starting point. 'The waters dried up from over the earth' means that falsities were not at that time apparent. 'And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out' means the light, once falsities had been removed, shed by the truths of faith, which he acknowledged and in which he had faith. 'And behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry' means regeneration.

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1. literally, the faces

[893a] 1 That 'it happened in the six hundred and first year means a finishing point is clear from the meaning of the number six hundred, dealt with at Chapter 7:6, in 737, as a beginning, and in particular in that verse as the beginning of temptation. The end of it is specified by the same number, with a whole year having now passed by. It took place therefore at the end of a year, and this also is why the words are added 'at the beginning, on the first of the month', meaning a starting point. In the Word any complete period is specified either by a day, or a week, or a month, or a year, and even by a hundred or a thousand years - for example, 'the days' mentioned in Genesis 1, which meant stages in the regeneration of the member of the Most Ancient Church. For in the internal sense day and year mean nothing else than a period of time; and meaning a period of time they also mean a state. Consequently a year stands in the Word for a period of time and for a state, as in Isaiah,

To proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure, and the day of vengeance for our God; to comfort all who mourn. Isaiah 61:2.

This refers to the Lord's Coming. In the same prophet,

The day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed had come. Isaiah 63:4.

Here too 'day' and 'year' stand for a period of time and for a state. In Habakkuk,

Your work, O Jehovah, in the midst of the years make it live, in the midst of the years do You make it known. Habakkuk 3:2.

Here 'years' stands for a period of time and for a state. In David,

'You are God Himself, and Your years have no end. Psalms 102:27.

This statement, in which 'years' stands for periods of time, means that time does not exist with God. The same applies in the present verse where 'the year' of the flood in no way means any one particular year but a period of time that is not determined by a specific number of years. At the same time it means a state. See what has been said already about 'years' in 482, 487, 488, 493.

1. This paragraph is not numbered in the Latin.

  
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