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Exodus 12

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1 De HEERE nu had tot Mozes en tot Aaron in Egypteland gesproken, zeggende:

2 Deze zelfde maand zal ulieden het hoofd der maanden zijn; zij zal u de eerste van de maanden des jaars zijn.

3 Spreekt tot de ganse vergadering van Israel, zeggende: Aan den tienden dezer maand neme een iegelijk een lam, naar de huizen der vaderen, een lam voor een huis.

4 Maar indien een huis te klein is voor een lam, zo neme hij het en zijn nabuur, de naaste aan zijn huis, naar het getal der zielen, een iegelijk naar dat hij eten kan; gij zult rekening maken naar het lam.

5 Gij zult een volkomen lam hebben, een manneken, een jaar oud; van de schapen of van de geitenbokken zult gij het nemen.

6 En gij zult het in bewaring hebben tot den veertienden dag dezer maand; en de ganse gemeente der vergadering van Israel zal het slachten tussen twee avonden.

7 En zij zullen van het bloed nemen, en strijken het aan beide zijposten, en aan den bovendorpel, aan de huizen, in welke zij het eten zullen.

8 En zij zullen het vlees eten in denzelfden nacht, aan het vuur gebraden, met ongezuurde broden; zij zullen het met bittere saus eten.

9 Gij zult daarvan niet rauw eten, ook geenszins in water gezoden; maar aan het vuur gebraden, zijn hoofd met zijn schenkelen en met zijn ingewand.

10 Gij zult daarvan ook niet laten overblijven tot den morgen; maar hetgeen daarvan overblijft tot den morgen, zult gij met vuur verbranden.

11 Aldus nu zult gij het eten: uw lenden zullen opgeschort zijn, uw schoenen aan uw voeten, en uw staf in uw hand; en gij zult het met haast eten; het is des HEEREN pascha.

12 Want Ik zal in dezen nacht door Egypteland gaan, en alle eerstgeborenen in Egypteland slaan, van de mensen af tot de beesten toe; en Ik zal gerichten oefenen aan alle goden der Egyptenaren, Ik, de HEERE!

13 En dat bloed zal ulieden tot een teken zijn aan de huizen, waarin gij zijt; wanneer Ik het bloed zie, zal Ik ulieden voorbij gaan; en er zal geen plaag onder ulieden ten verderve zijn, wanneer Ik Egypteland slaan zal.

14 En deze dag zal ulieden wezen ter gedachtenis, en gij zult hem den HEERE tot een feest vieren; gij zult hem vieren onder uw geslachten tot een eeuwige inzetting.

15 Zeven dagen zult gijlieden ongezuurde broden eten; maar aan den eersten dag zult gij het zuurdeeg wegdoen uit uw huizen; want wie het gedesemde eet, van den eersten dag af tot op den zevenden dag, diezelve ziel zal uitgeroeid worden uit Israel.

16 En op den eersten dag zal er een heilige verzameling zijn; ook zult gij een heilige verzameling hebben op den zevenden dag; er zal geen werk op denzelven gedaan worden; maar wat van iedere ziel gegeten zal worden, datzelve alleen mag van ulieden toegemaakt worden.

17 Zo onderhoudt dan de ongezuurde broden, dewijl Ik even aan denzelfden dag ulieder heiren uit Egypteland geleid zal hebben; daarom zult gij dezen dag houden, onder uw geslachten, tot een eeuwige inzetting.

18 In de eerste maand, aan den veertienden dag der maand, in den avond, zult gij ongezuurde broden eten, tot den een en twintigsten dag der maand, in den avond.

19 Dat er zeven dagen lang geen zuurdesem in uw huizen gevonden worde, want al wie het gedesemde eten zal, dezelve ziel zal uit de vergadering van Israel uitgeroeid worden, hij zij een vreemdeling of een ingeborene des lands.

20 Gij zult niets eten, dat gedesemd is; in al uw woningen zult gij ongezuurde broden eten.

21 Mozes dan riep al de oudsten van Israel, en zeide tot hen: Leest uit, en neemt u lammeren voor uw huisgezinnen, en slacht het pascha.

22 Neemt dan een bundelken hysop, en doopt het in het bloed, dat in een bekken zal wezen; en strijkt aan den bovendorpel, en aan de beide zijposten van dat bloed, hetwelk in het bekken zijn zal; doch u aangaande, niemand zal uitgaan uit de deur van zijn huis, tot aan den morgen.

23 Want de HEERE zal doorgaan, om de Egyptenaren te slaan; doch wanneer Hij het bloed zien zal aan den bovendorpel en aan de twee zijposten, zo zal de HEERE de deur voorbijgaan, en den verderver niet toelaten in uw huizen te komen om te slaan.

24 Onderhoudt dan deze zaak, tot een inzetting voor u en voor uw kinderen, tot in eeuwigheid.

25 En het zal geschieden, als gij in dat land komt, dat u de HEERE geven zal, gelijk Hij gesproken heeft, zo zult gij dezen dienst onderhouden.

26 En het zal geschieden, wanneer uw kinderen tot u zullen zeggen: Wat hebt gij daar voor een dienst?

27 Zo zult gij zeggen: Dit is den HEERE een paasoffer, Die voor de huizen der kinderen Israels voorbijging in Egypte, toen Hij de Egyptenaren sloeg, en onze huizen bevrijdde! Toen boog zich het volk en neigde zich.

28 En de kinderen Israels gingen en deden het, gelijk als de HEERE Mozes en Aaron geboden had, alzo deden zij.

29 En het geschiedde ter middernacht, dat de HEERE al de eerstgeborenen in Egypteland sloeg, van den eerstgeborene van Farao af, die op zijn troon zitten zou, tot op den eerstgeborene van de gevangene, die in het gevangenhuis was, en alle eerstgeborenen der beesten.

30 En Farao stond op bij nacht, hij en al zijn knechten, en al de Egyptenaars; en er was een groot geschrei in Egypte; want er was geen huis, waarin niet een dode was.

31 Toen riep hij Mozes en Aaron in den nacht, en zeide: Maakt u op, trekt uit het midden van mijn volk, zo gijlieden als de kinderen van Israel; en gaat heen, dient den HEERE, gelijk gijlieden gesproken hebt.

32 Neemt ook met u uw schapen en uw runderen, zoals gijlieden gesproken hebt, en gaat heen, en zegent mij ook.

33 En de Egyptenaars hielden sterk aan bij het volk, haastende, om die uit het land te drijven; want zij zeiden: Wij zijn allen dood!

34 En het volk nam zijn deeg op, eer het gedesemd was, hun deegklompen, gebonden in hun klederen, op hun schouderen.

35 De kinderen Israels nu hadden gedaan naar het woord van Mozes, en hadden van de Egyptenaren geeist zilveren vaten, en gouden vaten, en klederen.

36 Daartoe had de HEERE het volk genade gegeven in de ogen der Egyptenaren, dat zij hun hun begeerte deden; en zij beroofden de Egyptenaren.

37 Alzo reisden de kinderen Israels uit van Rameses naar Sukkoth, omtrent zeshonderd duizend te voet, mannen alleen, behalve de kinderkens.

38 En veel vermengd volk trok ook met hen op, en schapen, en runderen, gans veel vee.

39 En zij bakten van het deeg, dat zij uit Egypte gebracht hadden, ongezuurde koeken; want het was niet gedesemd; overmits zij uit Egypte uitgedreven werden, zodat zij niet vertoeven konden, noch ook tering voor zich bereiden.

40 De tijd nu der woning, die de kinderen Israels in Egypte gewoond hebben, is vierhonderd jaren en dertig jaren.

41 En het geschiedde ten einde van de vierhonderd en dertig jaren, zo is het even op denzelfden dag geschied, dat al de heiren des HEEREN uit Egypteland gegaan zijn.

42 Dezen nacht zal men den HEERE op het vlijtigst houden, omdat Hij hen uit Egypteland geleid heeft; deze is de nacht des HEEREN, die op het vlijtigst moet gehouden worden, van al de kinderen Israels, onder hun geslachten.

43 Voorts zeide de HEERE tot Mozes en Aaron: Dit is de inzetting van het pascha: geen zoon eens vreemdelings zal daarvan eten.

44 Doch alle knecht van iedereen, die voor geld gekocht is, nadat gij hem zult besneden hebben, dan zal hij daarvan eten.

45 Geen uitlander noch huurling zal er van eten.

46 In een huis zal het gegeten worden; gij zult van het vlees niet buiten uit het huis dragen, en gij zult geen been daaraan breken.

47 De ganse vergadering van Israel zal het doen.

48 Als nu een vreemdeling bij u verkeert, en den HEERE het pascha houden zal, dat alles, wat mannelijk is, bij hem besneden worde, en dan kome hij daartoe, om dat te houden, en hij zal wezen als een ingeborene des lands; maar geen onbesnedene zal daarvan eten.

49 Enerlei wet zij voor de ingeborene, en den vreemdeling, die als vreemdeling in het midden van u verkeert.

50 En alle kinderen Israels deden het; gelijk als de HEERE Mozes en Aaron geboden had, alzo deden zij.

51 En het geschiedde even ten zelfden dage, dat de HEERE de kinderen Israels uit Egypteland leidde, naar hun heiren.

   

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7852. 'Roasted with fire' means good that is the product of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'what is roasted with fire' as the good of love; for 'fire' means love, 934, 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324, and 'what is roasted' that which has been infused with love, consequently good. In the Word what has been roasted is distinguished from what has been boiled. 'What has been roasted' means good, because it has been cooked by means of fire, while 'what has been boiled' is used to mean truth, because it has been cooked by means of water. A similar distinction is made here, for it says in verse 9, Do not eat any of it raw, nor boiled at all in water, but roasted indeed with fire. The reason for this is that 'the Passover lamb' means the good of innocence, which is the good of love to the Lord.

[2] All this shows what 'the roasted fish', in Luke 24:42-43, means in the spiritual sense, and also 'the fish placed over the fire of coals' when the Lord appeared to the disciples, described in John as follows,

After the disciples got down onto the land they saw a fire of coals that had been set, and a small fish lying over it, and bread. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the small fish. John 21:9, 13.

'A fish' means truth in the natural, 991, while 'a fire of coals' means good. Thus 'a small fish lying over it' means the truth of spiritual good within the natural. A person who does not believe in the existence of the internal sense within the Word inevitably thinks that the presence of the fish over the coal fire, when the Lord appeared to the disciples, and its being given them by the Lord to eat lack any deeper, hidden meaning.

[3] Since 'roasted with fire' means good that is the product of celestial and spiritual love, evil that is the product of selfish and worldly love is meant in the contrary sense by 'roasted with fire' in Isaiah,

He burnt part of it with fire, over part of it he ate flesh, he roasted a roast, in order that he might be satiated; also he was made warm. And he said, O brother, 1 I have been made warm, I have seen the fire. I have burned part of it with fire, and also I have baked bread over its coals, I have roasted flesh and am eating it. Isaiah 44:16, 19.

This refers to worshippers of a carved image. 'A carved image' means falsity of evil, which is portrayed by such an image. 'Roasting a roast' and 'roasting flesh' are working evil under the influence of a filthy love. With regard to 'fire', that it is in the contrary sense the evil of self-love and love of the world, or the desires belonging to those kinds of love, see 1297, 1861, 2446, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575.

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1. The word in the original language consists of three Hebrew letters, which with the vowel points of the Massoretic Text read as the interjection he'ach (ah!). But the Latin treats the same three letters as the (vocative) noun ha'ach (O brother).

  
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1861. 'And behold, a smoking furnace' means grossest falsity, and 'a flaming torch' the heat of evil desires. This is clear from the meaning of 'a smoking furnace' as gross falsity, and from the meaning of 'a flaming torch' as the heat of evil desires. The expression 'a smoking furnace' is used because anyone, especially a member of the Church, who has some knowledge of the truth, and yet does not acknowledge it but at heart denies it, and leads a life pursuing things that are contrary to the truth, is seen as nothing other than a smoking furnace, he himself as 'the furnace', and the falsity arising from his hatred as 'the smoke'. Evil desires out of which falsities arise are seen as nothing other than torches of fire from such a furnace, as is also clear from the representatives in the next life which have been described from experience in 814, 1528. It is desires belonging to hatred, revenge, cruelty, and adultery - especially when mingled with deceit - that are seen as such and become such things.

[2] That in the Word such are meant by a furnace, smoke, and fire, becomes clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

Everyone is a hypocrite and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. For wickedness burns like a fire, it consumes brier and thorn, and kindles the entangled boughs of the wood, and they surge up in an uprising of smoke. Through the wrath of Jehovah Zebaoth the earth has been darkened, and the people has become as fuel for the fire; a man will not spare his brother. Isaiah 9:17-19.

Here 'fire' stands for hatred, 'the rising up of smoke from it' for falsities of that kind. Hatred is described by the statement that 'a man will not spare his brother'. Such people, when looked at by angels, appear exactly like the things described here.

[3] In Joel,

I will give portents in the heavens and on earth, blood and fire, and columns of smote. The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah comes. Joel 2:30-31.

Here 'fire' stands for hatred, 'columns of smoke 'for falsities, 'sun' for charity, and 'moon' for faith.

[4] In Isaiah,

The land will become burning pitch. Night and day it will not be quenched; its smoke will go up eternally. Isaiah 34:9-10.

'Burning pitch' stands for dreadful evil desires, 'smoke' for falsities.

[5] In Malachi,

Behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant and every evil-doer will be stubble; and the day that is coming will burn them up; it will leave them neither root nor branch. Malachi 4:1.

'A burning furnace' stands for the same things as before. 'A root' stands for charity, 'a branch' for truth, which will not be left.

[6] In Hosea,

Ephraim has become guilty through Baal. It will be like chaff that is driven by the whirlwind from the threshing-floor, and like smoke from a chimney. Hosea 13:1, 3.

'Ephraim' stands for one with understanding who has become such.

[7] In Isaiah,

The strong will be as tow, and his work as a spark, and both of them will burn together, with none to quench them. Isaiah 1:31.

This stands for the fact that people governed by self-love - or what amounts to the same, by hatred against the neighbour - will be burnt up by their own evil desires. In John,

Babylon has become the dwelling-place of demons. Those cried out who saw the smoke of her burning. The smoke goes up for ever and ever. Revelation 18:2, 18; 19:3.

[8] In the same book,

He opened the pit of the abyss, from which there went up smoke out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun was darkened, and the air, with the smoke of the pit. Revelation 9:2.

In the same book,

Out of the mouths of the horses there went forth fire, and smoke, and brimstone. By these a third part of mankind was killed - by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which went forth out of their mouths. Revelation 9:17-18.

In the same book,

He who worships the beast will drink 1 from the wine of God's anger, poured unmixed as it is in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone. Revelation 14:9-10.

In the same book,

The fourth angel poured out his bowl into the sun, and it was allowed to scorch men with fire; therefore men were burned by the fierce heat, and they blasphemed the name of God. Revelation 16:8-9.

And it is in like manner said that

They were thrown into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. Revelation 19:20; 20:14-15; 21:8.

[9] In all of these places 'fire' stands for the evil desires, 'smoke' for the falsities, which will reign in the last times. These thing as they actually exist in the next life were seen by John following the opening of his interior sight. Similar things are also seen by spirits, and by souls after death. These references show what hell-fire is, that it is nothing other than hatred, revenge, and cruelty, or what amounts to the same, self-love, which passes into such a visible form. As long as a person is in his bodily life, no matter how different his outward appearance might seem to be, he cannot be seen by the angels, when they look at him closely, in any other way than this; that is, his hatred is not seen by them except as 'flaming torches' nor the falsities coming from it except as 'smoking furnaces'.

[10] Of this fire the Lord speaks in Matthew as follows,

Every tree not bearing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. Matthew 3:10; Luke 3:9.

'Good fruit' is used to mean charity, and anyone who deprives himself of this 'cuts himself down and casts himself into such a fire'. In the same gospel,

The Son of Man will send His angels, who will gather out of His kingdom all offences, and those who work iniquity, and will send them into the furnace of fire. Matthew 13:41-42, 50.

Here the meaning is similar. In the same gospel,

The king will say 2 to those on his left hand, Depart from me, O cursed ones, into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Matthew 25:41.

Here the meaning is similar.

[11] Where it is said that they were to be sent into eternal fire, the Gehenna of fire, and that their worm does not die, and their fire is not quenched in Matthew 18:8-9; Mark 9:43-49, the meaning is similar. In Luke,

Send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. Luke 16:24.

Here the meaning is similar.

[12] People who have no knowledge of the arcana of the Lord's kingdom imagine that the Lord sends the wicked down into hell, that is, into the kind of fire which, as has been stated, is the manifestation of hatred. But the truth of the matter is altogether different, for it is the person himself, or the devil-spirit himself, who casts himself down. Yet because it appears as though the Lord casts down, it has been spoken of in the Word in that way - according to the appearance, indeed according to the illusions of the senses. This was especially necessary with the Jews, who were totally unwilling to accept anything if it did not coincide with their own sensory perceptions, no matter what illusions these might entail. This is why the sense of the letter, especially the prophetical sections, is full of such ideas, as in Jeremiah,

[13] Thus said Jehovah, Execute judgement in the morning, and deliver him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go forth like fire and burn with none to quench it because of the wickedness of their works. Jeremiah 21:12.

'Executing judgement' is declaring the truth. 'Delivering him who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor' is doing a good work of charity. 'Fire' stands for the hellish punishment of those who do not do these things, that is, who pass their time clinging to falsity that is the product of hatred. In the sense of the letter such fire and anger are attributed to Jehovah, but in the internal sense it is quite the reverse.

[14] Similarly in Joel,

The day of Jehovah, fire devours before him, and behind him a flame burns. Joel 2:1, 3.

In David,

Smoke went up out of His nose, and fire out of His mouth devoured; glowing coals flamed forth from Him; and there was thick darkness under His feet. Psalms 18:8-9.

In Moses,

A fire has flared up in My anger, and will burn right down to the lowest hell, and will devour the land and its increase, and will set on fire the foundations of the mountains. Deuteronomy 32:22.

Here 'a fire' stands for the hatred, 'smoke' for the falsities, that reside with a person, which are attributed to Jehovah or the Lord for the reasons that have been stated. To the hells also it seems that Jehovah or the Lord does the things described, but quite the reverse is the case. It is they who do them because they dwell in the fires of hatred. From this it is evident how easily a person can sink into delusions if the internal sense of the Word is not known.

[15] It was similar with the smoke and fire which the people saw coming from Mount Sinai when the Law was given; for Jehovah or the Lord is seen by everyone according to his character and disposition. By celestial angels He is seen as the sun, by spiritual angels as the moon, by all who are good as light of varying delightfulness and loveliness; but by the evil as smoke and as devouring fire. And because the Jews had no charity at all when the Law was given, but self-love and love of the world reigned among them, and so nothing but evils and falsities, He was therefore seen by them as smoke and fire, while in the same instant He was seen by angels as the sun and heavenly light.

[16] The fact that He was seen thus by the Jews, because their character was such, is clear in Moses,

The glory of Jehovah dwelt over Mount Sinai. And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel. Exodus 24:16-17.

In the same book,

Mount Sinai was smoking, the whole of it, because Jehovah came down upon it in fire and its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. Exodus 19:18.

And elsewhere in the same author,

You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire even to the heart of heaven, with darkness and cloud and thick darkness. And Jehovah spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. Deuteronomy 4:11-12; 5:22.

Also in the same,

When you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to Me and you said, Why should we die? For this great fire will devour us; if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more we shall die. Deuteronomy 5:23-25.

[17] The same would be the case if anyone else who spends his time hating and performing filthy deeds that are the product of hatred were to see the Lord. He would inevitably see Him from his own hatred and the filthy deeds that are the product of it. These things being the recipients of the rays of good and truth from Him, they would convert those rays into that type of fire, smoke, and thick darkness. The same places that have been quoted also show what' a smoking furnace' is, and what 'a burning torch' is, namely the grossest falsity and the filthiest evil which took possession of the Church in its last times.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Reading bibet (he will drink) for bibat (let him drink)

2. Reading dices (will say) for dicit (says)

  
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