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1 Tiam tumultigxis la tuta komunumo kaj ekkriis, kaj la popolo ploris en tiu nokto.

2 Kaj ekmurmuris kontraux Moseo kaj kontraux Aaron cxiuj Izraelidoj, kaj la tuta komunumo diris al ili:Ho, se ni estus mortintaj en la lando Egipta, aux se ni mortus en cxi tiu dezerto!

3 Kaj por kio la Eternulo irigas nin en tiun landon, por ke ni falu de glavo? niaj edzinoj kaj infanoj farigxos militakiro. CXu ne estas pli bone, ke ni revenu Egiptujon?

4 Kaj ili diris unu al alia:Ni starigu al Ni estron, kaj Ni reiru Egiptujon.

5 Tiam Moseo kaj Aaron jxetigxis vizagxaltere antaux la tuta anaro de la komunumo de la Izraelidoj.

6 Kaj Josuo, filo de Nun, kaj Kaleb, filo de Jefune, el tiuj, kiuj esplorrigardis la landon, dissxiris siajn vestojn,

7 kaj ili diris al la tuta komunumo de la Izraelidoj jene:La lando, kiun ni trapasis, por esplorrigardi gxin, tiu lando estas tre, tre bona.

8 Se la Eternulo estos favorkora al ni, Li venigos nin en tiun landon kaj donos gxin al ni, tiun landon, en kiu fluas lakto kaj mielo.

9 Nur ne ribelu kontraux la Eternulo, kaj ne timu la popolon de la lando, cxar nia mangxotajxo ili estas; ilia sxirmo forigxis de ili, kaj la Eternulo estas kun ni; ne timu ilin.

10 Kaj la tuta komunumo diris, ke oni mortigu ilin per sxtonoj. Sed la majesto de la Eternulo aperis en la tabernaklo de kunveno antaux cxiuj Izraelidoj.

11 Kaj la Eternulo diris al Moseo:GXis kiam incitados Min cxi tiu popolo? kaj gxis kiam gxi ne kredos al Mi, malgraux cxiuj pruvosignoj, kiujn Mi faris meze de gxi?

12 Mi frapos gxin per pesto kaj ekstermos gxin, kaj Mi faros el vi popolon pli grandan kaj pli fortan ol gxi.

13 Sed Moseo diris al la Eternulo:Auxdos la Egiptoj, el inter kiuj Vi elkondukis cxi tiun popolon per Via forto,

14 kaj ili diros al la logxantoj de tiu lando, kiuj auxdis, ke Vi, la Eternulo, estas meze de cxi tiu popolo, kaj ke Vi, la Eternulo, montris Vin al ili okulon kontraux okulo, kaj ke Via nubo staras super ili, kaj ke Vi iras antaux ili dum la tago en nuba kolono kaj dum la nokto en kolono fajra;

15 se Vi ekstermos cxi tiun popolon kiel unu homon, tiam la popoloj, kiuj auxdis la famon pri Vi, dirus:

16 CXar la Eternulo ne povis venigi cxi tiun popolon en la landon, pri kiu Li jxuris al ili, tial Li bucxis ilin en la dezerto.

17 Nun montrigxu do granda la forto de mia Sinjoro, laux la parolo, kiun Vi diris:

18 La Eternulo estas longepacienca kaj multe favorkora; Li pardonas kulpon kaj krimon, sed antaux Li neniu estas senkulpa; Li punas la kulpon de patroj sur filoj kaj nepoj, en la tria kaj kvara generacioj.

19 Ho, pardonu la kulpon de cxi tiu popolo laux Via granda favorkoreco kaj kiel Vi pardonadis al cxi tiu popolo de Egiptujo gxis nun.

20 Kaj la Eternulo diris:Mi pardonis konforme al via diro;

21 sed kiel Mi vivas kaj kiel de la gloro de la Eternulo estas plena la tuta tero,

22 cxiuj homoj, kiuj vidis Mian gloron kaj Miajn pruvosignojn, kiujn Mi faris en Egiptujo kaj en la dezerto, kaj provis Min jam dek fojojn kaj ne auxskultis Mian vocxon,

23 ne vidos la landon, pri kiu Mi jxuris al iliaj patroj, kaj cxiuj, kiuj incitis Min, ne vidos gxin.

24 Sed Mian sklavon Kaleb, cxar estis en li spirito alia kaj li estis obeema al Mi, lin Mi venigos en la landon, en kiun li iris, kaj lia idaro heredos gxin.

25 Sed la Amalekidoj kaj Kanaanidoj logxas en la valo; morgaux turnu vin kaj ekiru en la dezerton sur la vojo al la Rugxa Maro.

26 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al Moseo kaj al Aaron, dirante:

27 GXis kiam cxi tiu malbona komunumo murmuros kontraux Mi? la murmuradon de la Izraelidoj, kiun ili murmuras kontraux Mi, Mi auxdis.

28 Diru al ili:Kiel Mi vivas, diras la Eternulo, kiel vi parolis al Miaj oreloj, tiel Mi faros al vi:

29 en cxi tiu dezerto falos viaj kadavroj, kaj el cxiuj viaj kalkulitoj, laux via tuta kalkulo, en la agxo de dudek jaroj kaj pli, kiuj murmuris kontraux Mi,

30 neniu venos en la landon, pri kiu Mi levis Mian manon, ke Mi logxigos vin en gxi, neniu krom Kaleb, filo de Jefune, kaj Josuo, filo de Nun.

31 Viajn infanojn, pri kiuj vi diris, ke ili farigxos militakiro, Mi venigos tien, kaj ili ekkonos la landon, kiun vi malsxatis.

32 Sed vi-viaj kadavroj falos en cxi tiu dezerto.

33 Kaj viaj filoj estos pasxtistoj en la dezerto dum kvardek jaroj, kaj portos vian malcxastecon, gxis kiam viaj kadavroj konsumigxos en la dezerto.

34 Laux la nombro de la tagoj, dum kiuj vi esplorrigardis la landon, kvardek tagoj, po jaro pro cxiu tago, vi portos la punon pro via malbonago dum kvardek jaroj, por ke vi ekkonu Mian malfavoron.

35 Mi, la Eternulo, tion diris:tion Mi faros al tiu tuta malbona komunumo, kiu ribelis kontraux Mi; en cxi tiu dezerto ili pereos kaj cxi tie ili mortos.

36 Kaj la viroj, kiujn Moseo sendis, por esplorrigardi la landon, kaj kiuj revenis kaj murmurigis kontraux li la tutan komunumon, disvastigante malbonan famon pri la lando-

37 tiuj viroj, kiuj disvastigis malbonan famon pri la lando, mortis de pesto antaux la Eternulo.

38 Sed Josuo, filo de Nun, kaj Kaleb, filo de Jefune, restis vivaj el tiuj viroj, kiuj iris, por esplorrigardi la landon.

39 Kaj Moseo diris tiujn vortojn al cxiuj Izraelidoj, kaj la popolo tre malgxojis.

40 Kaj ili levigxis frumatene, kaj iris sur la supron de la monto, dirante:Jen ni estas, kaj ni iru sur la lokon, pri kiu parolis la Eternulo; cxar ni pekis.

41 Sed Moseo diris:Por kio vi kontrauxagas al la vortoj de la Eternulo? tio ja ne sukcesos.

42 Ne iru, cxar la Eternulo ne estas inter vi; kaj ne estu frapataj antaux viaj malamikoj.

43 CXar la Amalekidoj kaj la Kanaanidoj estas tie antaux vi, kaj vi falos de glavo; cxar pro tio, ke vi deturnigxis de la Eternulo, la Eternulo ne estos kun vi.

44 Sed ili obstinis, kaj iris sur la supron de la monto; tamen la kesto de la interligo de la Eternulo kaj Moseo ne eliris el la tendaro.

45 Kaj malsupreniris la Amalekidoj kaj la Kanaanidoj, kiuj logxis sur la monto, kaj batis ilin kaj persekutis ilin gxis HXorma.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 633

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633. Forty and two months.- That this signifies even to the end of the old church, and the beginning of the new, is evident from the signification of months as denoting states, in this case the states of the church; for times, whether hours, days, months, years, or ages, signify states, and such states are designated by the numbers by which those times are determined, as in this case by the number forty-two (concerning this see above, n. 571, 610); and from the signification of forty-two as denoting the end of the former and the beginning of a new church. The reason this number has such a signification is, that it means six weeks, and by six weeks is signified the same as by six days of one week, that is, a state of combat and labour, consequently the end, when the church is altogether vastated, or when evil is consummated; and by the seventh week, which then follows, is signified the beginning of a new church. For the number forty-two results from the multiplication of six into seven, six times seven being forty-two, therefore it signifies the same as six weeks, and six weeks the same as six days of one week, that is, a state of combat and labour, as stated, and also a full state, in the present case, a full consummation of good and truth, or a complete vastation of the church.

[2] In the Word mention is frequently made of forty days, months, and years, and that number there signifies either a complete vastation of the church, or also a full state of temptation. That this state is signified by the numbers forty and forty-two, is evident from the following passages.

In Ezekiel:

Egypt "shall not be inhabited forty years; I will make Egypt a solitude in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and her cities in the midst of the cities that are devastated shall be a solitude forty years; and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and I will scatter them in the lands; at the end of forty years I will gather Egypt together from the peoples, whither they were dispersed, and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt" (29:11-14)

Egypt signifies the church as to truths scientific (vera scientifica) upon which doctrine is founded. Truths scientific at that time were the knowledges (scientiae) of correspondences and representations, upon which the doctrine of their church was founded. But because the Egyptians turned those knowledges into magic, and by that means perverted the church, therefore its vastation, meant by forty years, is described. This, then, is the signification of Egypt not being inhabited forty years, and its cities being a solitude forty years. By Egypt being dispersed among the nations, and scattered in the lands, is signified that evils and falsities would completely take possession of that church and pervert all its scientifics. It is therefore evident that by forty years is signified the state of its complete vastation, or even to its end, when there would be no longer any truth and good remaining. But the beginning of a new church, signified by the end of forty years, is meant by these words, "at the end of forty years I will gather Egypt together from the peoples whither they were dispersed, and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt."

[3] In the same prophet there is a similar signification in the command

"that he should lie on his right side forty days, and lay siege to Jerusalem," which "shall want bread and water, and shall be desolate a man and a brother and waste away for their iniquity" (4:6, 7, 17).

The complete vastation of the church is also signified by that number; by Jerusalem is signified the church; by laying siege to it is signified to bring it into distress by evils and falses; by wanting bread and water is signified to be vastated as to the good of love and as to the truth of doctrine; by a man and a brother being desolate, and wasting away for their iniquity, things of a similar kind are signified, for a man and a brother denote truth and charity, and to waste away denotes to die.

[4] The forty days of the flood have a similar signification in Genesis:

"For yet seven days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy all substance, which I have made, from upon the faces of the earth; and there was rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights"; then "after seven days, he sent out a dove, which did not return unto him" (7:4, 12; 8:6, 13).

The flood signifies the devastation of the old, or Most Ancient church, also a last judgment upon those who were of that church. By the rain of forty days is signified its destruction by the falsities of evil; but the beginning of a new church is signified by the drying up of the earth after those forty days, and by its germinating anew. The dove which he sent out signifies the good of charity, which was the essential of that church. Concerning these things see the Arcana Coelestia, where they are explained.

[5] From this signification of the number forty originated this law in Moses, That the wicked man shall be smitten with forty stripes, and not more, "lest thy brother seem vile in thine eyes" (Deuteronomy 25:3). Full punishment as well as vastation is described by forty, for punishment is equally the consummation of evil. And because after punishment reformation succeeds, therefore it is said that he shall not be smitten with more stripes, "lest thy brother seem vile in thine eyes"; for forty signifies the end of evil and also the beginning of good, therefore if more than forty stripes were given, the beginning of good, or reformation, would not be signified.

[6] The vastation of the church with the sons of Jacob by the servitude of four hundred years in Egypt is signified by the words of Jehovah to Abraham,

"Know thou that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not theirs, where they shall make them serve four hundred years" (Genesis 15:13).

The signification of four hundred is similar to that of forty, also the signification of a thousand is similar to that of a hundred, of a hundred to that of ten.

[7] The vastation of the church, and also full temptation, are also signified by the sons of Israel remaining forty years in the wilderness, of which it is thus written in the following passages:

"Your sons shall be feeding in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, even until your carcases are consumed in the wilderness" (Numbers 14:33, 34):

"He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that did evil in the eyes of Jehovah was consumed" (Numbers 32:13):

"Jehovah hath known thy walking through this great wilderness these forty years, Jehovah thy God was with thee, that thou lackedst nothing" (Deuteronomy 2:7):

"Thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to afflict thee, and to tempt thee; he fed thee with manna to afflict thee, to tempt thee, and that he might do thee good at the last" (Deuteronomy 8:2, 3, 16):

"Your fathers tempted me, they proved me; forty years I loathed in this generation, and I said, they are a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways" (Psalm 95:9, 10):

"I made you to ascend out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years in the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite" (Amos 2:10).

It is evident from what has been stated that by forty years is not only signified the vastation of the church with the sons of Israel, but also a full state of temptation; also that by the end of those years the beginning of a new church is signified. The vastation of the church is described by these words, that they should feed in the wilderness forty years, and bear their whoredoms, until their bodies should be consumed; also by these, until all this generation, which hath done evil in the eyes of Jehovah, be consumed; also by these, I loathed in this generation, and I said, they are a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. But the temptation which is also signified by forty years is described by these words: Jehovah thy God was with thee through the forty years, that thou lackedst not any thing; also by these, Jehovah hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to afflict thee, and to tempt thee, and he fed thee with manna; also by these, He led thee in the wilderness to tempt thee, and to do thee good at the last. The beginning of the new church, at the end of the forty years, is described by their introduction into the land of Canaan, which took place after those forty years; and is also meant by the words, to do thee good at the last; also by these, I led you in the wilderness forty years to possess the land of the Amorite.

Full temptation is also signified by Moses being upon Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights, during which he neither ate bread nor drank water (Exodus 24:18; 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 18, 25); similarly, also, by "Jesus being in the wilderness tempted by the devil, where He fasted forty days" (Matthew 4:1, 2; Mark 1:13; Luke 4:1).

[8] From this it is evident that the number forty in the Word signifies complete vastation and consummation, that is, when all the good of the church is vastated, and evil consummated. The same number also signifies full temptation, and at the same time the establishment of the church anew, or reformation. From this the signification of the holy city being trodden under foot by the nations forty and two months is evident. And also in the following in the Apocalypse - that to the beast coming up out of the sea "was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and power was given to him forty and two months" (Revelation 13:15). Let no one therefore suppose that by forty and two months are meant months, or that any special time is designated by the numbers mentioned here and in the words that follow.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.