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Exodus 24

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1 Daarna zeide Hij tot Mozes: Klim op tot den HEERE, gij en Aaron, Nadab en Abihu, en zeventig van de oudsten van Israel; en buigt u neder van verre!

2 En dat Mozes alleen zich nadere tot den HEERE, maar dat zij niet naderen; en het volk klimme ook niet op met hem.

3 Als Mozes kwam en verhaalde aan het volk al de woorden des HEEREN, en al de rechten, toen antwoordde al het volk met een stem, en zij zeiden: Al deze woorden, die de HEERE gesproken heeft, zullen wij doen.

4 Mozes nu beschreef al de woorden des HEEREN, en hij maakte zich des morgens vroeg op, en hij bouwde een altaar onder aan den berg, en twaalf kolommen, naar de twaalf stammen van Israel.

5 En hij zond de jongelingen van de kinderen Israels, die brandofferen offerden, en den HEERE dankofferen offerden, van jonge ossen.

6 En Mozes nam de helft van het bloed, en zette het in bekkens; en de helft van het bloed sprengde hij op het altaar.

7 En hij nam het boek des verbonds, en hij las het voor de oren des volks; en zij zeiden: Al wat de HEERE gesproken heeft, zullen wij doen en gehoorzamen.

8 Toen nam Mozes dat bloed, en sprengde het op het volk; en hij zeide: Ziet, dit is het bloed des verbonds, hetwelk de HEERE met ulieden gemaakt heeft over al die woorden.

9 Mozes nu en Aaron klommen opwaarts, ook Nadab en Abihu, en zeventig van de oudsten van Israel.

10 En zij zagen den God van Israel, en onder Zijn voeten als een werk van saffierstenen, en als de gestaltenis des hemels in Zijn klaarheid.

11 Doch Hij strekte Zijn hand niet tot de afgezonderden van de kinderen Israels; maar zij aten en dronken, nadat zij God gezien hadden.

12 Toen zeide de HEERE tot Mozes: Kom tot Mij op den berg, en wees aldaar; en Ik zal u stenen tafelen geven, en de wet, en de geboden, die Ik geschreven heb, om hen te onderwijzen.

13 Toen maakte zich Mozes op, met Jozua, zijn dienaar; en Mozes klom op den berg Gods.

14 En hij zeide tot de oudsten: Blijft gij ons hier, totdat wij weder tot u komen; en ziet, Aaron en Hur zijn bij u; wie enige zaken heeft, zal tot dezelve komen.

15 Toen Mozes op den berg geklommen was, zo heeft een wolk den berg bedekt.

16 En de heerlijkheid des HEEREN woonde op den berg Sinai, en de wolk bedekte hem zes dagen, en op den zevenden dag riep Hij Mozes uit het midden der wolk.

17 En het aanzien der heerlijkheid des HEEREN was als een verterend vuur, op het opperste diens bergs, in de ogen der kinderen Israels.

18 En Mozes ging in het midden der wolk, nadat hij op den berg geklommen was; en Mozes was op dien berg veertig dagen en veertig nachten.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9280

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9280. 'In order that your ox and your ass may rest' means the peace and serenity that external forms of good and truths enjoy at the same time. This is clear from the meaning of 'resting', when it refers to the seventh day or the sabbath, as peace and serenity, as immediately above in 9279; and from the meaning of 'ox' as external good, and of 'ass' as external truth, dealt with in 2781, 9135, 9255.

Beasts were signs of affections and inclinations such as the human being shares in common with them, see 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 776, 2179, 2180, 2781, 3218, 3519, 5198, 5913, 8937, 9090, 9135.

Beasts were used in sacrifices in accordance with their spiritual meaning, 1823, 2180, 2805, 2807, 2830, 3519.

All things existing in the world, in its three kingdoms, were representative of the spiritual and celestial realities of the Lord's kingdom, 1632, 1881, 2758, 2987-3003, 3213-3227, 3483, 3624-3649, 4939, 5116, 5427, 5428, 5477, 8211.

All things have a correspondence, 2987-3003, 3213-3226, 3337-3352, 3472-3485, 3624-3649, 3745-3750, 3883-3896, 4039-4055, 4218-4228, 4318-4331, 4403-4420, 4523-4533, 4622-4634, 4652-4660, 4791-4806, 4931-4952, 5050-5062, 5171-5189, 5377-5396, 5552-5573, 5711-5727, 8615.

[2] These references have been drawn together to enable it to be seen that not merely all beasts but also all objects in the world have a correspondence, and that in accordance with their correspondences they all represent and serve to mean spiritual and celestial realities, and in the highest sense Divine realities that are the Lord's. And from this the character of the ancient Churches, called representative Churches, may be seen. This character was such that each one of their sacred observances served to represent things that are the Lord's and belong to His kingdom, thus aspects of love to Him and belief in Him. In those times heaven was joined to a member of the Church by means of these observances, since internal aspects were presented in heaven. The Word of the Lord has also been given to the same end, for every detail in it, even to the smallest part of a letter, has a correspondence and spiritual meaning. Through the Word alone therefore is heaven linked to mankind.

[3] No one at the present day knows that this is so. Consequently when the natural man reads the Word and seeks to discover where its Divinity lies, but does not find it in the letter on account of its very ordinary style, he at first begins to disparage it and then to reject the idea that it has been dictated by God and sent down to mankind by way of heaven. The natural man does not know that the Word is Divine by virtue of its spiritual sense, which is not visible in the letter but is nevertheless present within the letter; nor does he know that this sense is presented in heaven when someone on earth reads it devoutly, and that the subject in that sense is the Lord and His kingdom. These are the Divine things which make the Word Divine and through which holiness flows from the Lord by way of heaven, even into the literal sense and into the actual letters. But as long as a person does not know what anything spiritual is he cannot know either what the spiritual sense is, nor thus what correspondence is. And as long as a person loves the world more than heaven, and self more than the Lord, he has no wish to know these things and understand them. Yet they were the source of all intelligence among the ancients, and they are also the source of wisdom among the angels. Hidden mysteries, which numerous diviners have vainly toiled to track down in the Word, lie in those things alone.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 4791

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4791. CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GRAND MAN - continued

IN THIS SECTION THE CORRESPONDENCE OF TASTE AND OF THE TONGUE, AND ALSO OF THE FACE, WITH THAT GRAND MAN

The tongue provides an entrance leading into both the lungs and the stomach, and so represents a kind of forecourt leading to spiritual things and to celestial ones, to spiritual because it serves the lungs and thereby speech, to celestial because it serves the stomach which supplies nourishment to the blood and the heart. For the lungs correspond to spiritual realities, the heart to celestial ones, see 3635, 3883-3896. All this being so, the tongue corresponds in general to the affection for truth, that is, to those in the Grand Man whose affection is for truth, and after that whose affection is for good which is a product of that truth. People therefore who love the Word of the Lord and wish to gain from it a knowledge of what is good and true belong to that province. Yet they differ from one another, in that some belong to the actual tongue, some to the larynx and trachea, some to the throat, some also to the gums, while others belong to the lips. For not even the smallest part of the human being fails to have a correspondence.

[2] I have been allowed on many occasions to learn by experience that those governed by an affection for truth belong to that province understood in the broad sense. On one occasion they plainly entered my tongue, on another my lips; and I have been allowed to talk to them. I have also noticed that some correspond to the more internal parts of the tongue and lips, others to their more external parts. There are some who have an affection for and receive only exterior truths, not interior ones, though they do not reject them. The operation of these I have felt in the exterior but not the interior parts of my tongue.

  
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