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Exodus 5

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1 Potom pak přišli Mojžíš s Aronem, a řekli Faraonovi: Takto praví Hospodin, Bůh Izraelský: Propusť lid můj, ať mi slaví svátky na poušti.

2 Odpověděl Farao: Kdo jest Hospodin, abych poslechl hlasu jeho a propustil Izraele? Hospodina neznám, Izraele také nepropustím.

3 I řekli: Bůh Hebrejský potkal se s námi. Nechť medle jdeme cestou tří dní na poušť, a obětujeme Hospodinu Bohu našemu, aby nedopustil na nás moru neb meče.

4 I řekl jim král Egyptský: Proč ty Mojžíši a Arone, odtrhujete lid od prací jejich? Jděte k robotám svým.

5 Řekl také Farao: Hle, již nyní mnoho jest lidu toho v zemi, a vy odvozujete je od robot jejich.

6 I přikázal Farao v ten den úředníkům nad lidem a šafářům jeho, řka:

7 Nedávejte již více slámy lidu k dělání cihel jako prvé; nechať jdou sami a sbírají sobě slámu.

8 Však touž summu cihel, kterouž udělávali prvé, uložte na ně, nic neujímejte z ní; neboť zahálejí, a protož volají, řkouce: Poďme, obětujme Bohu našemu.

9 Nechť se přitíží robot mužům těm; a nechť pracují v nich, aby se neohlédali na slova lživá.

10 Vyšedše tedy úředníci nad lidem a šafáři jeho, mluvili k lidu, řkouce: Takto praví Farao: Já nebudu vám dávati slámy.

11 Sami jděte, beřte sobě slámu, kdekoli naleznete; ale nic nebude ujato díla vašeho.

12 I rozběhl se lid po vší zemi Egyptské, aby trhal strniště místo slámy.

13 A úředníci nutili je, řkouce: Vyplňte díla svá, úkol denní v den jeho, jako když sláma byla.

14 I biti jsou šafáři synů Izraelských, kteréž ustanovili nad nimi úředníci Faraonovi, a mluveno k nim: Proč jste nevyplnili úkolu svého v díle cihel, jako prvé, ani včera ani dnes?

15 I přišli šafáři synů Izraelských, a volali k Faraonovi, řkouce: Proč tak děláš služebníkům svým?

16 Slámy se nedává služebníkům tvým, a říkají nám: Dělejte cihly; a hle, služebníci tvoji biti bývají, a hřeší lid tvůj.

17 I řekl: Zahálíte, zahálíte, a protož mluvíte: Poďme, obětujme Hospodinu.

18 Protož nyní jděte, dělejte; slámy se vám dávati nebude, ale vy summu cihel vyplňujte.

19 Vidouce šafáři synů Izraelských, že zle s nimi, poněvadž řečeno: Neujmete počtu cihel vašich z úkolu denního v den jeho,

20 Potkali se s Mojžíšem a Aronem, kteříž stáli, aby jim vstříc vyšli, když by se vraceli od Faraona.

21 A mluvili jim: Pohlediž Hospodin na vás, a suď; nebo zošklivili jste nás před Faraonem a služebníky jeho, a dali jste meč v ruku jejich, aby nás zamordovali.

22 I navrátil se Mojžíš k Hospodinu a řekl: Pane, proč jsi tyto zlé věci uvedl na lid tento? Proč jsi mne sem poslal?

23 Nebo od té chvíle, jakž jsem všel k Faraonovi, abych mluvil jménem tvým, hůře nakládá s lidem tímto, a ty jsi vždy nevysvobodil lidu svého.

   

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533. APOCALYPSE. CHAPTER 9.

1. And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth; and there was given unto him the key of the pit of the abyss.

2. And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke 1 of a great furnace; and the sun was darkened, and the air, by the smoke of the pit.

3. And out of the smoke there went forth locusts on the earth; and there was given unto them power as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4. And it was said to them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but the men only that have not the seal of God on their foreheads.

5. And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should torment them five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it striketh a man.

6. And in those days shall men seek death and shall not find it; and they shall long to die and death shall flee from them.

7. And the likenesses of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for battle; and upon their heads as it were crowns like gold, and their faces as men's faces.

8. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as those of lions.

9. And they had breastplates as iron breastplates; and the voice of their wings was as the voice of chariots of many horses running into battle.

10. And they had tails like scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months.

11. And they had over them a king, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew Abaddon, and in Greek he hath the name Apollyon.

12. One woe is past; behold there come yet two woes after this.

13. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God.

14. Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Loose the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates.

15. And the four angels were loosed that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.

16. And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two myriads of myriads; and I heard the number of them.

17. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those that sat on them, having breastplates fiery and hyacinthine and brimstone-like; and the heads of the horses as the beads of lions; and out of their mouths proceeded fire and smoke and brimstone.

18. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone that proceeded out of their mouths.

19. For their power was in their mouth, for their tails were like serpents and had heads, and with them do they hurt.

20. And the rest of men who were not killed in these plagues, and repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not adore demons and idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

21. And repented not of their murders nor of their enchantments nor of their whoredoms nor of their thefts.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Latin "pit," Greek "smoke," as we find just above, as also in AE 539.

EXPOSITION.

Verses 1, 2. And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth; and there was given unto him the key of the pit of the abyss. And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darkened and the air by the smoke of the pit.

1. "And the fifth angel sounded" signifies influx out of heaven manifesting the state of the church, that it was wholly changed (n. 534); "and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth," signifies the knowledges of truth falsified, and thus turned into falsities (n. 535); "and there was given unto him the key of the pit of the abyss," signifies communication and conjunction with the hells n. 536.

2. "And he opened the pit of the abyss," signifies communication and conjunction with the hells, where and from which are such falsities (n. 537, 538); "and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace," signifies dense falsities therefrom out of the evils of earthly and corporeal loves (n. 539, 540); "and the sun was darkened and the air by the smoke of the pit," signifies that the light of truth from the Lord was made thick darkness by infernal falsities (n. 541).

  
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Amos 1:13

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13 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.