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Exodus 19

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1 Kolmandal kuul pärast Iisraeli laste lahkumist Egiptusemaalt, just sel ajal, tulid nad Siinai kõrbesse,

2 sest nad olid Refidimist teele läinud, Siinai kõrbesse tulnud ja kõrbes leeri üles löönud; Iisrael oli seal leeris mäe jalamil.

3 Mooses läks üles Jumala juurde ja Issand hüüdis teda mäelt, öeldes: 'Ütle nõnda Jaakobi soole ja kuuluta Iisraeli lastele:

4 Te olete näinud, mida ma olen teinud egiptlastele, kuidas ma teid olen kandnud kotka tiibadel ja kuidas ma teid olen toonud enese juurde.

5 Ja kui te nüüd tõesti kuulate minu häält ja peate minu lepingut, siis te olete minu omand kõigi rahvaste hulgast, sest minu päralt on kogu maailm.

6 Te olete mulle preestrite kuningriigiks ja pühaks rahvaks. Need on sõnad, mis sa pead Iisraeli lastele rääkima!'

7 Ja Mooses tuli ning kutsus rahva vanemad ja pani nende ette kõik need sõnad, nagu Issand teda oli käskinud.

8 Ja kogu rahvas vastas üksmeelselt ning ütles: 'Me teeme kõik, mis Issand on öelnud.' Ja Mooses viis rahva vastuse Issandale.

9 Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Vaata, mina tulen su juurde paksus pilves, et rahvas kuuleks, kui ma sinuga räägin, ja nad usuksid ka sind igavesti.' Ja Mooses kuulutas Issandale rahva vastuse.

10 Siis Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Mine rahva juurde, pühitse neid täna ja homme, ja nad pesku oma riided!

11 Ja nad olgu valmis kolmandaks päevaks, sest kolmandal päeval astub Issand kogu rahva silma ees alla Siinai mäele.

12 Aga hoia rahvast igast küljest tagasi, öeldes: Hoiduge mäele üles minemast ja selle jalamit puudutamast! Igaühte, kes mäge puudutab, karistatakse surmaga!

13 Kellegi käsi ei tohi seda puudutada, vaid ta visatagu kividega surnuks või lastagu maha; olgu loom või inimene, ta ei tohi jääda elama! Alles kui pikalt sarve puhutakse, võivad nad minna mäele.'

14 Ja Mooses tuli mäelt alla rahva juurde; ta pühitses rahvast ja nad pesid oma riided.

15 Ja ta ütles rahvale: 'Olge valmis kolmandaks päevaks! Ärge minge naise ligi!'

16 Ja kolmandal päeval, kui hommik oli saabunud, sündis, et hakkas müristama ja välku lööma: mäe kohal oli ränk pilv ja kostis väga vali sarvehääl, nõnda et kogu rahvas, kes oli leeris, värises.

17 Siis Mooses viis rahva leerist välja Jumalale vastu; ja nad jäid mäe jalamile.

18 Ja kogu Siinai mägi suitses, kui Issand laskus sinna tule sees; selle suits tõusis üles nagu sulatusahju suits, ja kogu mägi vabises kõvasti.

19 Ja sarvehääl läks üha valjemaks; Mooses rääkis ja Jumal vastas temale valjusti.

20 Ja Issand laskus Siinai mäele, mäetippu; Issand kutsus Moosese mäetippu ja Mooses läks üles.

21 Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Mine alla, hoiata rahvast, et nad ei tungiks Issanda juurde teda vaatama, et paljud neist ei langeks!

22 Ja preestridki, kes liginevad Issandale, peavad endid pühitsema, et Issand neid ei kohtleks karmilt!'

23 Ja Mooses ütles Issandale: 'Rahvas ei või tõusta Siinai mäele, sest sina oled meid hoiatanud, öeldes: Märgi piir ümber mäe ja kuuluta see pühaks!'

24 Ja Issand ütles temale: 'Mine alla ja tule taas üles, sina ja Aaron koos sinuga! Preestrid ja rahvas aga ärgu tungigu üles Issanda juurde, et tema neid ei kohtleks karmilt!'

25 Siis Mooses läks alla rahva juurde ja kõneles nendega.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8765

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8765. 'And brought you to Myself' means thus to the good of love existing in heaven. This is clear from the consideration that Jehovah, who says that they were drawn to Himself, is the Divine Good of Divine Love, 2586, 2769, 2807, 2822, 3921 (end), 4402, 7010, 7268, 7873, 8301, 8760, at this point the Divine Good of Divine Love as it exists in heaven, 8761. In what way these things link together with those that come immediately before them is self-evident. The words in what comes immediately before, bore you on eagles' wings', mean that they were raised by means of truths to heavenly light, while the words here, 'brought you to Myself', mean to the Divine Good of love as it exists in heaven; for the truths of faith are the means by which a person is brought to good, and so into heaven, and to the Lord there. A person is not in heaven, nor thus with the Lord, until he is governed by good, that is, by charitable affection.

[2] People who suppose that salvation lies in faith alone, and not at the same time in the life of faith, that is, in the life of charity, believe that anyone can enter heaven and come to the Lord, irrespective of the life he has led. They do not know what the life of man is; and not knowing what this is they imagine that the life is of no importance at all. Consequently if they are asked whether a bad person is able to be among the good, they say that by God's mercy he can be, since it is the work of an almighty power. Indeed if they are asked whether the devil is able to become an angel of heaven, they say Yes, provided that he wishes to receive faith. Nor are they in any doubt about his ability to receive it. But if they are told that evil is not able to be turned into good, nor thus hell into heaven with a person, and that such a conversion is impossible because it is contrary to order, therefore contrary to God's truth, and so contrary to God Himself who is order, they reply that such ideas are false reasonings about salvation that do not interest them. All these and countless other considerations go to show how great a blindness regarding salvation and eternal life is caused by teachings about faith alone.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 5658

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5658. 'Our silver in its full weight' means truths commensurate with each one's state. This is clear from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2954; and from the meaning of 'weight' as the state of something as regards good, dealt with in 3104, so that truths commensurate with each one's state means commensurate with the good they are able to receive. Many places in the Word make reference to weights or to measures, but no weight nor any measure is meant in the internal sense. Rather states so far as the good involved in some reality is concerned are meant by 'weights', while states so far as the truth involved in it is concerned are meant by 'measures'. The same applies to the properties of gravity and spatial magnitude; gravity in the natural world corresponds to good in the spiritual world, and spatial magnitude to truth. The reason for this is that in heaven, where correspondences originate, neither the property of gravity nor that of spatial magnitude exists because space has no existence there. Objects possessing these properties do, it is true, seem to exist among spirits, but those objects are appearances that have their origins in the states of goodness and truth in the heaven above those spirits.

[2] It was very well known in ancient times that 'silver' meant truth; therefore the ancients divided up periods of time ranging from the earliest to the latest world epochs into the golden ages, the silver ones, the copper ones, and the iron ones, to which they also added the clay ones. They applied the expression 'golden ages' to those periods when innocence and perfection existed, when everyone was moved by good to do what was good and by righteousness to do what was right. They used 'silver ages' however to describe those times when innocence did not exist any longer, though there was still some sort of perfection, which did not consist in being moved by good to do what was good but in being moved by truth to do what was true. 'Copper ages' and 'iron ages' were the names they gave to the times that were even more inferior than the silver ones.

[3] What led those people to give periods of time these names was not comparison but correspondence. For the ancients knew that 'silver' corresponded to truth and 'gold' to good; they knew this from being in communication with spirits and angels. For when a discussion takes place in a higher heaven about what is good, this reveals itself among those underneath them in the first or lowest heaven as what is golden; and when a discussion takes place about what is true this reveals itself there as what is silvery. Sometimes not only the walls of the rooms where they live are gleaming with gold and silver but also the very air within them. Also, in the homes of those angels belonging to the first or lowest heaven who are moved by good to live among what is good, tables made of gold, lampstands made of gold, and many other objects are seen; but in the homes of those who are moved by truth to live among what is true, similar objects made of silver are seen. But who at the present day knows that correspondence was what led the ancients to call ages golden ones and silver ones? Indeed who at the present day knows anything at all about correspondence? Anyone who does not know this about the ancients, and more so anyone who thinks pleasure and wisdom lie in contesting whether such an idea is true or untrue, cannot begin to know the countless facets there are to correspondence.

  
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