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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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Arcana Coelestia # 9164

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9164. 'Or is led away captive' means removal. This is clear from the meaning of 'being led away captive', when it has reference to the good or truth present with a person, as removal. The situation here is that when truth that springs from good reigns in a person the truth he believes in the most strongly lies in the middle, and the truths he believes in less strongly are stationed further and further away from the middle, ending with those about which he is in doubt. Bordering the truths are falsities, but they are not part of that sequence of truths. Nor do they stand upright pointing to heaven in the way that the truths springing from good do, but are bent over pointing downwards, and in the measure that they arise from evil they look towards hell. But when falsity supplants truth order is turned upside down; the truths move away to the sides and form the outer circle, and the falsities arising from evil occupy the middle. This shows what removal is used to mean, regarding which see also 3436, 6084, 6103. The reason why that kind of removal is meant by 'being led away captive' is that when falsities take truths captive they lead them away in that manner. Such things are also meant by 'being taken captive' and 'being led away captive' in Jeremiah,

The wind will feed on all your shepherds, and your lovers will be led away into captivity. Jeremiah 22:22.

In the same prophet,

Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished, for your sons have been led away into captivity, and your daughters into captivity. Yet I will bring back the captives 1 of Moab in the last days. Jeremiah 48:46-47.

'Sons' who have been led away into captivity are truths, and 'daughters' are forms of good. And in Luke,

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken captive among all the gentiles; 2 and at length Jerusalem will be trodden underfoot by the gentiles. 2 Luke 21:24.

This refers to the close of the age, which is the final period of the Church. 'Falling by the edge of the sword' means being destroyed by falsities, 'the sword' being falsity engaged in conflict against truth, 2799, 4499, 6353, 7102, 8294. 'The gentiles' among whom they will be taken captive and by whom the Church will be trodden underfoot are evils that give rise to falsities, see 1259, 1260, 1849, 1868, 6306; and 'Jerusalem' which will be trodden underfoot then is the Church, 2117, 3654.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the captivity

2. or the nations

  
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Luke 20:17-18

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17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'

18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."