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Exodus 17

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1 Så brød hele Israels Menighed op fra Sins Ørken og drog fra Lejrplads til Lejrplads efter HE ENs Bud. Men da de lejrede sig i efidim, havde Folket intet Vand at drikke.

2 Da kivedes Folket med Moses og sagde: "Skaf os Vand at drikke!" Men Moses svarede dem: "Hvorfor kives I med mig, hvorfor frister I HE EN?"

3 Og Folket tørstede der efter Vand og knurrede mod Moses og sagde: "Hvorfor har du ført os op fra Ægypten? Mon for at lade os og vore Børn og vore Hjorde af Tørst?"

4 Da råbte Moses til HE EN: "Hvad skal jeg gøre med dette Folk? Det er ikke langt fra, at de vil stene mig."

5 Men HE EN sagde til Moses: "Træd frem for Folket med nogle af Israels Ældste og tag den Stav, du slog Nilen med, i din Hånd og kom så!

6 Se, jeg vil stå foran dig der på Klippen ved Horeb, og når du slår på Klippen, skal der strømme Vand ud af den, så Folket kan få noget at drikke." Det gjorde Moses så i Påsyn af Israels Ældste.

7 Og han kaldte dette Sted Massa og Meriba, fordi Israeliterne der havde kivedes og fristet HE EN ved at sige: "Er HE EN iblandt os eller ej?"

8 Derefter kom Amalekiterne og angreb Israel i efdim.

9 Da sagde Moses til Josua: "Udvælg dig Mænd og ryk i. Morgen ud til Kamp mod Amalekiterne; jeg vil stille mig på Toppen af Højen med Guds Stav i Hånden!"

10 Josua gjorde, som Moses bød, og rykkede ud til Kamp mod Amalekiterne. Men Moses, Aron og Hur gik op på Toppen af Højen.

11 Når nu Moses løftede Hænderne i Vejret, fik Israeliterne Overtaget, men når han lod Hænderne synke, fik Amalekiterne Overtaget.

12 Og da Moses's Hænder blev trætte, tog de en Sten og lagde under ham; så satte han sig på den, og Aron og Hur støttede hans Hænder, hver på sin Side; således var hans Hænder stadig løftede til Solen gik ned,

13 og Josua huggede Amalekiterne og deres Krigsfolk ned med Sværdet.

14 Da sagde HE EN til Moses: "Optegn dette i en Bog, for at det kan mindes, og indskærp Josua, at jeg fuldstændig vil udslette Amalekiternes Minde under Himmelen!"

15 Derpå byggede Moses et Alter og kaldte det: "HE EN er mit Banner!"

16 Og han sagde: "Der er en udrakt Hånd på HE ENs Trone! HE EN har Krig med Amalek fra Slægt til Slægt!"

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 8603

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8603. 'And Moses, Aaron, and Hur' means levels of Divine Truth that follow one another in order. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as Divine Truth that goes forth directly from the Lord, dealt with in 7010; from the representation of 'Aaron' as Divine Truth that goes forth from the Lord in an indirect way, dealt with in 7009; and from the representation of 'Hur' as Divine Truth that goes forth again in an indirect way, but through the latter. Thus there are levels of truth that follow one another in order.

[2] What is meant by levels of truth that follow one another in order must be stated briefly. All things without exception in the entire natural world spring in order from others on a more internal level; they derive from them and follow in order after them. But the interior things do not connect with the exterior by gradually merging into them; rather, they are distinct and separate, and are joined through extensions from themselves like fibres, which act as channels of communication. Some idea of the nature of things which derive from others and therefore follow in order from them may be conveyed by considering fruits such as lemons, apples, and the like. Their most external parts are their surrounding skins, their interiors are the surrounded flesh or pulp, and their yet more interior parts are the seeds; and the seeds have casings around the outside, then on the actual seeds membranes, under which lies an inner pulp containing the initial form, the soul so to speak, from which again spring new trees and fruit.

[3] All these things follow one another in order; but they are distinct and separate, yet at the same time are joined together. The communication of interiors with exteriors is effected in a wondrous fashion through fibre-like passageways. When those interiors and exteriors are first formed they are very closely connected; but in the course of time they are separated. For before the initial form, the inmost part within the seed, can expand into forms like its parents it must be opened in stages following one another in order. When it is opened and starts to grow, the pulpy parts surrounding it adapt themselves, serving first as its 'soil', and after that as its fertilizing sap. After this phase, which is its time in the womb, it is born; at that point it is left to the soil of the earth, in which it is sown as a seed.

[4] All this enables one to form some idea of the nature of things that derive from and follow one another in order. As is the nature of them in the vegetable kingdom, so it is also in the animal kingdom, yet in a far more perfect way. In the animal kingdom there are exterior things, interior, and inmost, which in like manner follow one another in order, are distinct and separate from one another, and yet at the same time are joined together. But they are different in that forms in the animal kingdom have been created to receive life. Consequently just as forms receiving life follow one another in order, so do the resulting kinds of vitality. For the forms or substances receiving life are the subjects 1 , and the things which result from changes and modifications of those forms are the forces, which should be called vitalities because they are life-forces. From all this one may now see what is meant by levels of Divine Truth that follow one another in order. For everything constituting life has connection with truth, and the perfection it possesses with good, or in the contrary sense with falsity, and its imperfection with evil. Their transitions in order from one to the next are also called degrees.

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1. Subject is used here to mean something which really exists yet depends for its existence on something prior to itself.

8603a 'Went up to the top of the hill' means in the good of charity. This is clear from the meaning of 'the hill' as charity, dealt with in 6435, the good of it being meant by 'the top of the hill'.

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