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Exodus 33

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1 HE EN sagde til Moses: "Drag nu bort herfra med Folket, som du førte ud af Ægypten, til det Land, jeg tilsvor Abraham, Isak og Jakob med de Ord: Dit Afkom vil jeg give det!

2 Jeg sender en Engel foran dig, og han skal drive Kana'anæerne, Amoriterne, Hetiterne, Perizziterne, Hivviterne og Jebusiterne bort

3 til et Land, der flyder med Mælk og Honning. Men selv vil jeg ikke drage med i din Midte, thi du er et halsstarrigt Folk; drog jeg med, kunde jeg tilintetgøre dig undervejs!"

4 Da Folket hørte denne onde Tidende, sørgede de, og ingen tog sine Smykker på.

5 Da sagde HE EN til Moses: "Sig til Israeliterne; I er et halsstarrigt Folk! Vandrede jeg kun et eneste Øjeblik i din Midte, måtte jeg tilintetgøre dig. Tag du dine Smykker af, så skal jeg tænke over, hvad jeg vil gøre for dig!"

6 Da aflagde Israeliterne deres Smykker fra Horebs Bjerg af.

7 Moses plejede at tage Teltet og slå det op udenfor Lejren i nogen Afstand derfra; han gav det Navnet "Åbenbaringsteltet". Enhver som vilde rådspørge HE EN, gik ud til Åbenbaringsteltet uden for Lejren.

8 Men hver Gang Moses gik ud til teltet, rejste alt Folket sig op og stillede sig alle ved Indgangen til deres Telte og så efter Moses, indtil han kom ind i Teltet.

9 Og når Moses kom ind Teltet, sænkede Skystøtten sig og stillede sig ved Indgangen til Teltet; da talede HE EN med Moses.

10 Men når alt Folket så Skystøtten stå ved Indgangen til Teltet, rejste de sig alle op og tilbad ved Indgangen til deres Telte.

11 Så talede HE EN med Moses Ansigt til Ansigt, som når den ene Mand taler med den anden, og derpå vendte Moses tilbage til Lejren; men hans Medhjælper Josua, Nuns Søn, en ung Mand, veg ikke fra Teltet.

12 Moses sagde til HE EN: "Se, du siger til mig: Før dette Folk frem! Men du har ikke ladet mig vide, hvem du vil sende med mig; og dog har du sagt: Jeg kender dig ved Navn, og du har fundet Nåde for mine Øjne!

13 Hvis jeg nu virkelig har fundet Nåde for dine Øjne, så lær mig dine Veje at kende, at jeg kan kende dig og finde Nåde for dine Øjne; tænk dog på, at dette Folk er dit Folk!"

14 Han svarede: "Skal mit Åsyn da vandre med, og skal jeg således føre dig til Målet?"

15 Da sagde Moses til ham: "Hvis dit Åsyn ikke vandrer med, så lad os ikke drage herfra!

16 Hvorpå skal det dog kendes. at jeg har fundet Nåde for dine Øjne, jeg og dit Folk? Mon ikke på, at du vandrer med os, og der således vises os, mig og dit Folk, en Udmærkelse fremfor alle andle Folkeslag på Jorden?"

17 HE EN svarede Moses: "Også hvad du der siger, vil jeg gøre, thi du har fundet Nåde for mine Øjne, og jeg kalder dig ved Navn."

18 Da sagde Moses: "Lad mig dog skue din Herlighed!"

19 Han svarede: "Jeg vil lade al min igdom drage forbi dig og udråbe HE ENs Navn foran dig, thi jeg viser Nåde, mod hvem jeg vil, og Barmhjertighed, mod hvem jeg vil!"

20 Og han sagde: "Du kan ikke skue mit Åsyn, thi intet Menneske kan se mig og leve."

21 Og HE EN sagde: "Se, her er et Sted i min Nærhed, stil dig på Klippen der!

22 Når da min Herlighed drager forbi, vil jeg lade dig stå i Klippehulen, og jeg vil dække dig 1ned min Hånd, indtil jeg er kommet forbi.

23 Så tager jeg min Hånd bort, og da kan du se mig bagfra; men mit Åsyn kan ingen skue!"

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 1444

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1444. 'And the Canaanite was at that time in the land' means the hereditary evil from the mother, in His external man. This becomes clear from what has been stated already about the Lord's heredity; for He was born as any other is born and from the mother acquired evils which He fought against and overcame. It is well known that the Lord underwent and endured very severe temptations - which will in the Lord's Divine mercy be described further on - temptations so great in fact that He fought by Himself and from His own power against the whole of hell. Nobody can undergo temptation unless he has evil clinging to him. The person who has no evil cannot experience the smallest temptation, for it is evil that spirits from hell stir up.

[2] With the Lord no evil of His own doing or that was His own was present, as there is with all human beings, only hereditary evil from the mother, which is here called 'the Canaanite at that time in the land'. For this matter see what has been stated above in verse 1, in 1414, to the effect that people are born with two heredities in them, the first from the father, the second from the mother. What comes from the father remains for ever, but what comes from the mother is dispelled by the Lord when the person is being regenerated. The Lord's heredity from His Father however was Divine, while the heredity from the mother was the hereditary evil referred to here, through which He underwent temptations. Regarding His temptations, see Mark 1:12-13; Matthew 4:1; Luke 4:1-2. But, as has been stated, He had no evil of His own doing or which was His own, nor did He have any hereditary evil from the mother after He had overcome hell by means of temptations. It is for this reason that the expression at that time occurs here, that is to say, 'the Canaanite was at that time in the land'.

[3] The Canaanites were people who dwelt by the sea and by the bank of the Jordan, as is clear in Moses,

The spies returned and said, We came into the land to which you sent us, and it is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless the people dwelling in the land are powerful and the cities are very strongly fortified, and also we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekite dwells in the south, and the Hittite, Jebusite, and Amorite dwell in the mountains, and the Canaanite dwells by the sea and by the bank of the Jordan. Numbers 13:27-29.

'The Canaanite dwelt by the sea and by the bank of the Jordan' meant evil consequently residing with the external man, such as that acquired by heredity from the mother, for the sea and the Jordan were boundaries.

[4] That this kind of evil is meant by 'the Canaanite' is clear also in Zechariah,

And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah Zebaoth on that day. Zechariah 14:21.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom. It means that the Lord overcame the evil meant by 'the Canaanite' and drove it out of His kingdom. Evils of every kind are meant by the idolatrous nations in the land of Canaan, among which were the Canaanites, Genesis 15:19-21; Exodus 3:8, 17; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11; Deuteronomy 7:1; 20:17; Joshua 3:10; 24:11; Judges 3:5. Which evil is meant by each nation specifically will in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated elsewhere.

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