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1 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle: mene täältä, sinä ja kansa, jonkas johdatit Egyptin maalta, sille maalle, kuin minä vannoin Abrahamille, Isaakille ja Jakobille, sanoen: sinun siemenelles minä sen annan,

2 Ja lähetän sinun edelläs enkelin, ja ajan pois Kanaanealaiset, Amorilaiset, ja Hetiläiset, ja Pheresiläiset, Heviläiset, ja Jebusilaiset,

3 Sille maalle, jossa rieskaa ja hunajaa vuotaa; sillä en minä mene sinun kanssas, sillä sinä olet niskuri kansa, etten minä sinua joskus tieltä hukuttaisi.

4 Koska kansa kuuli tämän pahan puheen, tulivat he surulliseksi, ja ei yksikään pukenut kaunistusta yllensä.

5 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: sano Israelin lapsille: te olette niskurikansa, minä tulen äkisti sinun päälles, ja hukutan sinun; riisu siis nyt kaunistukses sinultas, että minä tietäisin, mitä minä sinulle tekisin.

6 Niin riisuivat Israelin lapset kaunistuksensa Horebin vuoren tykönä.

7 Moses myös otti majan ja pani sen ylös kauvas leiristä, ja kutsui sen seurakunnan majaksi: ja kuka ikänänsä tahtoi kysyä Herralta, hänen piti menemän seurakunnan majan tykö, joka oli ulkona leiristä.

8 Ja tapahtui, koska Moses meni majan tykö, niin nousi kaikki kansa, ja itsekukin seisoi majansa ovella, ja he katselivat Moseksen jälkeen siihen asti, että hän tuli majaan.

9 Ja tapahtui, koska Moses tuli majaan, tuli pilven patsas alas, ja seisoi majan ovella: ja puhutteli Mosesta.

10 Ja koska kaikki kansa näki pilven patsaan seisovan majan oven edessä, niin kaikki kansa nousi ja itsekukin kumarsi itsensä majan ovella.

11 Ja Herra puhutteli Mosesta kasvosta niin kasvoon, niinkuin joku ystävätänsä puhuttelee. Ja koska hän palasi leiriin, niin hänen palveliansa Josua Nunin poika, nuorukainen ei lähtenyt majasta.

12 Ja Moses sanoi Herralle: katso, sinä sanot minulle: johdata tämä kansa, ja et sinä ilmoittanut, kenenkä sinä lähetät minun kanssani; ja kuitenkin sinä sanoit minulle: minä tunnen sinun nimeltäs, ja sinä olet myös armon löytänyt minun edessäni.

13 Nyt siis, jos minä muutoin olen armon löytänyt sinun edessäs, niin osota nyt minulle sinun ties, että minä sinut tuntisin ja löytäisin armon sinun edessäs: ja katso kuitenkin, että tämä väki on sinun kansas.

14 Ja hän sanoi: minun kasvoni käy sinun edelläs, ja minä annan sinulle levon.

15 Ja hän sanoi hänelle: jollei sinun kasvos käy edellä, niin älä vie meitä tästä pois.

16 Ja mistä se tässä tietää saadaan, että minä ja sinun kansas olemme löytäneet armon sinun edessäs? Eikö, koskas vaellat meidän kanssamme? että me eroitettaisiin, minä ja sinun kansas, kaikista kansoista, jotka ovat maan piirin päällä.

17 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: Ja minä myös tämän teen, niinkuin sinä sanoit; sillä sinä olet löytänyt armon minun edessäni, ja minä tunnen sinun nimeltäs.

18 Mutta hän sanoi: osota siis minulle sinun kunnias.

19 Ja hän vastasi: minä annan kaikki minun hyvyyteni käydä sinun kasvois edellä, ja tahdon saarnata Herran nimeä sinun edessäs. Ja minä armaitsen, ja olen laupias, jolle minä laupias olen.

20 Ja sanoi taas: et sinä taida nähdä minun kasvojani; sillä ei yksikään ihminen, joka minun näkee, taida elää.

21 Vielä sanoi Herra: katsos, sia on minun tykönäni: siellä pitää sinun seisoman kalliolla.

22 Ja pitää tapahtuman, koska minun kunniani vaeltaa ohitse, niin minä panen sinun kallion rotkoon, ja minä peitän sinun minun kädelläni niinkauvan kuin minä vaellan ohitse.

23 Sitte koska minä otan pois minun käteni, saat sinä nähdä minun takaa; vaan minun kasvojani ei taideta nähdä.

   


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10551. 'And so it was, when Moses entered the tent, that the pillar of cloud came down, and stood at the door of the tent, and talked to Moses' means that when the Word had gone beyond what they were capable of understanding, extremely poor visibility descended on them as they stood outside, and yet there was clear perception from within. This is clear from the meaning of 'when Moses entered the tent' as when the Word had gone beyond what they were capable of understanding, dealt with immediately above in 10550; from the meaning of 'the pillar of cloud' as extremely poor visibility so far as that nation was concerned, for by 'cloud' the outward sense of the Word is meant, see Preface to Genesis 18, and 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343(end), 6752, 8443, 8781, and also the poor visibility of the Word so far as those who have no enlightenment are concerned, and its extremely poor visibility so far as those with whom the outward sense of the Word is separated from the inward are concerned, 6832, 8106, 8814, 8819, 9430; from the meaning of 'standing at the door' as being outside, dealt with above in 10549; and from the meaning of 'talking to Moses' as clear perception from within. For the Word - as it is essentially - is meant by 'Moses', see 9372, while perceiving is meant by 'talking', see in the places referred to in 10290. The reason why 'from within' is meant is that Moses, to whom 'the pillar of cloud' talked, was within the tent.

[2] What it is to see from without and to perceive from within must be stated. Those who have enlightenment when they read the Word see it from within; for their internal has been opened, and when the internal has been opened it dwells in the light of heaven. This light flows in and brings enlightenment, though the person is not conscious of its doing so. He is not conscious of this because that light flows into the cognitions or knowledge present in the human memory, which however dwell in natural light. And since the person feels, when he uses them to think with, that he does so all by himself he cannot be aware of the influx; yet there are various indications enabling him to know that he has been given enlightenment. But anyone at all who supposes that he has enlightenment is mistaken if he does not love to know truth for its own sake and for the sake of leading a good life, thus if he does not love Divine Truth for life's sake. For leading a life in keeping with Divine Truths derived from the Word constitutes loving the Lord; and from the Lord, when He is loved, springs all enlightenment.

[3] Those however who do not see a life in keeping with Divine Truths derived from the Word as the end in view, but position, gain, and reputation as the end in view and the Divine Truths of the Word therefore as the means, cannot possibly possess any enlightenment. This end is worldly and bodily, and not spiritual and heavenly. Consequently it closes off their internal man, and once this is closed no light from heaven can flow in and bring enlightenment. If these people suppose that they are enlightened when they read the Word they are completely mistaken; for their thought is inspired not by heaven but by the world, and so springs not from the Lord but from self. And to the extent that it springs from self and the world it is the product of natural light separated from heavenly light; and natural light separated from heavenly light constitutes thickest darkness in spiritual matters. If these people are convinced that they have seen something as a result of having been enlightened they are mistaken. For the only way that they perceive whether anything is true is with the aid of proofs supplied by others, which is to see truth from without and not from within, or else with the aid of faith that is no more than persuasion, the nature of which may be seen in 9363-9369. Such people are able to see falsity as truth and truth as falsity, and also to see evil as good and good as evil.

[4] From all this it is clear what seeing the Word from without is and perceiving it from within is. Seeing it from without is what is meant when it says that the people stood, [each] at the door of [his] tent, and looked after Moses, and also that they saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tent, and they bowed down, [each] at the door of [his] tent. But perceiving the Word from within is what is meant when it says that Moses entered the tent, and that the pillar of cloud at the door of the tent talked to Moses.

[5] A brief statement must also be made about the way in which the influx bringing enlightenment operates. Angels equally with men perceive the Word when it is read; but angels do so on a spiritual level, men on a natural level. A person whose internal has been opened also perceives it on a spiritual level, though he is not conscious of doing so while he lives in the world because his spiritual thought flows into his natural thought in the external man and manifests itself within this. Nevertheless that interior thought is what enlightens and is the channel through which influx from the Lord operates. Some learned people by looking into their own thoughts and reflecting on what they see have also noticed that the human being possesses interior thought which is not overt. They have therefore called the ideas composing it immaterial and intellectual 1 , distinguishing them from the overt ideas composing exterior thought, which they have called natural and material. But they have not known that the ideas composing interior thought are spiritual, nor that when these flow down from their own level they are converted into natural ones and then take on a different shape and appearance. These considerations show to some extent the way in which the influx bringing enlightenment operates.

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1. i.e. 'Apprehensible or apprehended only by the intellect; non-material, spiritual; ideal.' (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary)

  
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