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1 Jahve reče Mojsiju: "Naskoro ćeš vidjeti kako ću ja s faraonom! Pod jakom rukom pustit će ih da odu; pod jakom rukom sam će ih iz svoje zemlje istjerati."

2 Još reče Bog Mojsiju: "Ja sam Jahve.

3 Abrahamu, Izaku i Jakovu objavljivao sam se kao El Šadaj. Ali njima se nisam očitovao pod svojim imenom - Jahve.

4 I sklopio sam svoj Savez s njima da ću im dati kanaansku zemlju, zemlju gdje su živjeli kao pridošlice.

5 A sada, pošto sam čuo uzdisaje Izraelaca koje Egipćani drže u ropstvu, sjetih se svoga Saveza.

6 Kaži, dakle, Izraelcima da sam ja Jahve; da ću vas izbaviti od tereta što su vam ga Egipćani nametnuli. Oslobodit ću vas od ropstva u kojem vas drže; izbavit ću vas udarajući jako i kažnjavajući strogo.

7 Za svoj ću vas narod uzeti i bit ću vašim Bogom. Tada ćete znati da sam vas ja, Jahve, vaš Bog, izbavio od egipatske tlake.

8 Dovest ću vas u zemlju za koju sam se zakleo da ću je dati Abrahamu, Izaku i Jakovu i dat ću vam je u baštinu, ja, Jahve."

9 Mojsije to kazivaše Izraelcima, ali ga ne htjedoše slušati: duhovi su im bili pomućeni od teškoga ropstva.

10 Onda Jahve reče Mojsiju:

11 "Idi i reci faraonu, kralju egipatskome, da otpusti Izraelce iz svoje zemlje."

12 Mojsije prozbori Jahvi: "Kad me Izraelci nisu slušali, kako će me, spora u govoru, saslušati faraon!"

13 Ali je Jahve govorio Mojsiju i Aronu i slao ih sad k Izraelcima, a sad k faraonu, kralju egipatskome, da pusti Izraelce iz Egipta.

14 Ovo su glave njihovih domova. Sinovi Izraelova prvorođenca Rubena: Henok, Palu, Hesron i Karmi. To su obitelji potekle od Rubena.

15 A sinovi Šimunovi: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Sohar i Šaul, sin Kanaanke. To su obitelji potekle od Šimuna.

16 Ovo su imena Levijevih sinova s njihovim potomstvom: Geršon, Kehat i Merari. Levi je živio sto trideset i sedam godina.

17 Sinovi su Geršonovi: Libni i Šimi sa svojim obiteljima.

18 Sinovi su Kehatovi: Amram, Jishar, Hebron i Uziel. Kehat je živio sto trideset i tri godine.

19 Merarijevi su sinovi: Mahli i Muši. To su Levijeve obitelji s njihovim potomcima.

20 Amram se oženi svojom tetkom Jokebedom, koja mu rodi Arona i Mojsija. Amram je živio sto trideset i sedam godina.

21 Sinovi Jisharovi bijahu: Korah, Nefeg i Zikri.

22 A sinovi su Uzielovi: Mišael, Elsafan i Sitri.

23 Aron se oženi Elišebom, kćerkom Aminadabovom, a sestrom Nahšonovom, koja mu rodi: Nadaba, Abihua, Eleazara i Itamara.

24 Korahovi su sinovi: Asir, Elkana i Abiasaf. To su Korahovi potomci.

25 Aronov sin Eleazar oženi se jednom Putielovom kćeri, koja mu rodi Pinhasa. To su glave Levijevih domova prema njihovim koljenima.

26 To je onaj Aron i Mojsije kojima je Jahve zapovjedio da izvedu Izraelce iz Egipta po njihovim četama.

27 To su oni isti, Mojsije i Aron, koji su govorili faraonu, kralju egipatskome, da pusti Izraelce iz Egipta.

28 U dan kad je Jahve govorio s Mojsijem u egipatskoj zemlji,

29 rekao mu je: "Ja sam Jahve. Izvijesti faraona, egipatskoga kralja, o svemu što ti kažem."

30 Mojsije se pred Jahvom ispričavao: "Spor sam ja u govoru. Kako će me faraon poslušati?"

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 7217

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7217. 'For shortness of breath' means because of the state in which they were close to despair. This is clear from the meaning of 'shortness of breath' as a state in which a person is close to despair; for those passing through that state experience shortness of breath. 1 That state is meant by the burden which Pharaoh placed on the children of Israel - to gather their own straw to make bricks - as shown at the end of the previous chapter. The fact that 'shortness of breath' means a state in which a person is close to despair may be recognized from the consideration that those passing through this kind of state suffer inward distress and at the same time actual shortness of breath. In the external sense 'shortness of breath' is a tight feeling around the chest and an apparent inability to breathe properly. But in the internal sense it is distress caused by being deprived of the truth of faith and the good of charity, and is consequently a state close to despair. A feeling of tightness and the distress caused by being deprived of the truth of faith and the good of charity go with each other as natural effect in the body produced by spiritual cause in the mind, as may be seen from what has been shown in 97, 1119, 3886, 3887, 3889, 3892, 3893.

[2] Those without any faith or charity are unable to believe that the deprivation of spiritual truth and good gives rise to such distress and consequently such shortness of breath. They suppose that anyone who feels distress on account of that deprivation must be weak in the head and mentally ill; and the reason why they suppose this is that they see nothing real in faith and charity, or thus in the things that belong to their souls and those that belong to heaven; for them only wealth and prominence, thus things belonging to the body and the world possess any reality. They also think, 'What are faith and charity? Are they not mere words? And what indeed is conscience? Feeling distressed on account of these is feeling distressed on account of the kinds of things that insane imagination causes a person to suppose to be something when in fact they are nothing. But what wealth and prominence are, we can see with our eyes and feel with pleasure that they really exist, for they swell the body and fill it with joy.' This is how people who are wholly natural think and talk to one another. But those who are spiritual think in a different way; for them the life in their spirit is primary, thus the life in the things that belong to the spirit, which are faith and charity. Therefore when they think that they are being deprived of the truths and forms of good that compose faith and charity they suffer agony like those undergoing the throes of death, for they see spiritual death, that is, damnation, before them. As stated above, these people are seen by those who are wholly natural to be soft in the head and ill in mind or spirit. But they are sound in the head and healthy in mind, whereas those who are wholly natural see themselves as being sound and healthy, as indeed they are physically. But they are completely unhealthy in spirit, because spiritually they are dead. If they saw what their spirit was like they would acknowledge this; but they do not see it until after the death of their body.

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1. The Latin angustia spiritus describes both a mental state and the physical condition that results from it. Therefore it means both distress of spirit and shortness of breath.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.