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Exodus 11

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1 Derpå sagde HE EN til Moses: "Een Plage endnu vil jeg lade komme over Farao og Ægypterne, og efter den skal han lade eder rejse herfra; ja, når han lader eder rejse med alt, hvad I har, skal han endog drive eder herfra!

2 Sig nu til Folket, at hver Mand skal bede sin Nabo, og hver Kvinde sin Naboerske om Sølv og Guld smykker!"

3 Og HE EN stemte Ægypterne gunstigt imod Folket, og desuden var den Mand Moses højt anset i Ægypten både hos Faraos Tjenere og hos Folket.

4 Moses sagde: "Så siger HE EN: Ved Midnatstid vil jeg drage igennem Ægypten,

5 og så skal alle førstefødte i Ægypten , lige fra den førstefødte hos Farao, der skal arve hans Trone, til den førstefødte hos Trælkvinden, der arbejder ved Håndkværnen, og alt det førstefødte af Kvæget.

6 Da skal der i hele Ægypten lyde et Klageskrig så stort, at dets Lige aldrig har været hørt og aldrig mere skal høres.

7 Men end ikke en Hund skal bjæffe ad nogen af Israeliterne, hverken ad Folk eller Fæ for at du kan kende, at HE EN gør Skel mellem Ægypterne og Israel.

8 Da skal alle dine Tjenere der komme ned til mig og kaste sig til Jorden for mig og sige: Drag dog bort med alt det Folk, der følger dig! Og så vil jeg drage bort !" Og han gik ud fra Farao med fnysende Vrede.

9 Men HE EN sagde til Moses: "Farao skal ikke høre på eder, for at mine Undergerninger kan blive talrige i Ægypten."

10 Og Moses og Aron gjorde alle disse Undergerninger i Faraos Påsyn, men HE EN forhærdede Faraos Hjerte, så han ikke lod Israeliterne drage ud af sit Land.

   


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7794. 'Pharaoh will not hear you' means disobedience. This is clear from the meaning of 'hearing' as obedience, dealt with in 2542, 3869, 4652-4660, 5017, 7216; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as those who have molested the upright in the next life, at this point these same molesters who are to be damned.

  
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Instead, spiritual reality is structured on the basis of spiritual state, or the loves and thoughts of angels. These loves and thoughts connect in chains of cause and effect, which angels experience much as we experience time. One thought flows into another on the spiritual level, and angels sense that progression the same way we sense the progression of one moment flowing into another. And when angels have thoughts and feelings that are similar, they experience a closeness that is very much the same as our experience of physical closeness; their idea of “space” is the variation in thoughts and affections held by spirits throughout the spiritual world.When the Bible describes something as “after” something else, then, the spiritual meaning has to do with the progression of spiritual states; it is a new spiritual state emerging from the one before it. And since higher states flow into lower states, the things coming “after” tend to be the lower, more external ones. For instance, the deep, internal desire to be good to others flows of its own accord into specific ideas of specific good things we can do. Those specific ideas, then, would be “after” the desire to be good.According to Swedenborg, time and space don’t exist in spiritual reality; they are purely natural things that exist only on the physical plane. This means that one spiritual thing can’t happen “after” another spiritual thing in time, because there is no time. And one spiritual thing can’t follow “after” another in space because there is no space.