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1 Ja hän sanoi Moosekselle: "Nouse Herran tykö, sinä ja Aaron, Naadab ja Abihu ynnä seitsemänkymmentä Israelin vanhinta; ja kumartukaa ja rukoilkaa taampana.

2 Mooses yksinään lähestyköön Herraa; muut älkööt lähestykö, ja kansa älköön nousko sinne hänen kanssansa."

3 Ja Mooses tuli ja kertoi kansalle kaikki Herran sanat ja kaikki hänen säädöksensä. Niin koko kansa vastasi yhteen ääneen ja sanoi: "Kaiken, mitä Herra on puhunut, me teemme".

4 Sitten Mooses kirjoitti kaikki Herran sanat. Ja hän nousi varhain seuraavana aamuna ja rakensi alttarin vuoren juurelle sekä pystytti kaksitoista patsasta Israelin kahdentoista sukukunnan mukaan.

5 Ja hän lähetti israelilaisten joukosta nuoria miehiä uhraamaan polttouhreja ja teurastamaan härkiä yhteysuhriksi Herralle.

6 Ja Mooses otti verestä puolet ja pani uhrimaljoihin, ja toisen puolen hän vihmoi alttarille.

7 Ja hän otti liitonkirjan ja luki sen kansan kuullen. Ja he sanoivat: "Kaikkea, mitä Herra on puhunut, me noudatamme ja tottelemme".

8 Niin Mooses otti veren ja vihmoi sitä kansan päälle ja sanoi: "Katso, tämä on sen liiton veri, jonka Herra on tehnyt teidän kanssanne kaikkien näiden sanojen perusteella".

9 Ja Mooses ja Aaron, Naadab ja Abihu ynnä seitsemänkymmentä Israelin vanhinta nousivat vuorelle.

10 Ja he näkivät Israelin Jumalan; ja hänen jalkainsa alla oli alusta, niinkuin safiirikivistä, kirkas kuin itse taivas.

11 Eikä hän kajonnut kädellänsä israelilaisten valittuihin, ja he katselivat Jumalaa, söivät ja joivat.

12 Ja Herra sanoi Moosekselle: "Nouse minun tyköni vuorelle ja ole siellä, niin minä annan sinulle kivitaulut ynnä lain ja käskyt, jotka minä olen kirjoittanut heille opetukseksi".

13 Silloin Mooses ja hänen palvelijansa Joosua lähtivät; ja Mooses nousi Jumalan vuorelle.

14 Mutta vanhimmille hän sanoi: "Odottakaa meitä täällä, kunnes palaamme teidän tykönne. Ja katso, Aaron ja Huur ovat teidän kanssanne; jolla on jotakin asiaa, kääntyköön heidän puoleensa."

15 Kun Mooses oli noussut vuorelle, peitti pilvi vuoren.

16 Ja Herran kirkkaus laskeutui Siinain vuorelle, ja pilvi peitti sen kuusi päivää; ja seitsemäntenä päivänä hän huusi Moosesta pilven keskeltä.

17 Ja Herran kirkkaus vuoren kukkulalla näytti israelilaisten silmissä kuluttavalta tulelta.

18 Ja Mooses meni pilven keskelle ja nousi vuorelle. Ja Mooses oli vuorella neljäkymmentä päivää ja neljäkymmentä yötä.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9375

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9375. 'Nadab and Abihu' means teachings derived from both senses. This is clear from the fact that they were Aaron's sons; therefore when the Word is meant by 'Aaron', teachings are meant by 'his sons', teachings derived from the inward sense of the Word being meant by the older son, and teachings derived from the outward sense of it by the younger. Teachings derived from the inward sense of the Word and teachings derived from the outward sense of the Word make one with each other; for people alert to what lies on an inward level are aware also of what lies on an outward level. The Lord's Church exists everywhere on an inward level and on an outward level. The Church on an inward level resides in the heart, the Church on an outward level resides on the lips; that is, the inward Church resides in the will, the outward in action. When the inward level in a person makes one with the outward what resides in the heart then lies also on the lips, or what resides in the will then lies in action. Or what amounts to the same thing, what lies on the lips is then the heart speaking, and what lies in action is then the will acting, without any disagreement between the inward and the outward. Thus it is also faith speaking and love or charity acting, that is, it is the Lord, who is the Source of faith and charity, speaking and acting.

[2] Since Nadab and Abihu, Aaron's sons, represented teachings derived from the Word, they were therefore killed when they introduced worship based on teachings different from those derived from the Word. This was represented by the following incident involving them, recorded in Moses,

Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer and put fire in it, onto which they placed incense, and in so doing offered to Jehovah foreign 1 fire, which He had not commanded them. Therefore fire went out from before Jehovah and devoured them, so that they died before Jehovah. And Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah spoke, saying, In those who are near Me 2 I will be sanctified. Leviticus 10:1-3.

'Foreign fire in the censer' means teachings derived from a source other than the Word. For 'fire' means the good of love and 'incense' the truth of faith rising from it, and the good of love and the truth of faith are the realities which go to make teachings derived from the Word. From this it is evident why they were devoured by fire 'from before Jehovah'. 'Being sanctified through those who are near' means with those who are joined to the Lord through the good of love and the truth of faith derived from the Word. For the meaning of 'fire' as the good of heavenly love, see 934, 4906, 5071 (end), 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324, 7852, 9055; and the meaning of 'incense' as faith rising from the good of love will be shown elsewhere.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. unauthorized or profane

2. literally, In My near ones

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 5072

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5072. Genesis 40

1. And so it was after these words, 1 that they sinned - the cupbearer of the king of Egypt, and the baker - against their lord the king of Egypt.

2. And Pharaoh was incensed with his two courtier-ministers, with the chief of the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers.

3. And he put them in the custody of the house of the chief of the attendants, at the prison-house, the place where Joseph was bound.

4. And the chief of the attendants set Joseph over them and he ministered to them; and they were in custody for days. 2

5. And they both dreamed a dream, each his dream in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker to the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison-house.

6. And Joseph came to them in the morning, and he saw them, and behold, they were troubled.

7. And he asked Pharaoh's courtier-ministers who were with him in the custody of his lord's house, saying, Why are your faces sad 3 today?

8. And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream and there is no interpreter for it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, I beg you.

9. And the chief of the cupbearers told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, and behold, a vine before me.

10. And on the vine three shoots, and it was as though budding; its blossom came up, and its clusters ripened into grapes.

11. And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and put the cup onto Pharaoh's palm.

12. And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it: The three shoots are three days.

13. In yet three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and will restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh's cup into his hand, according to the former manner when you were his cupbearer.

14. But remember me when it is well with you, and show, I beg you, mercy to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

15. For I have indeed been taken by theft out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have not done anything for which they should put me in the pit.

16. And the chief of the bakers saw that he had interpreted what was good, and he said to Joseph, I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets with holes in them were on my head.

17. And in the highest basket there was some of every kind of food for Pharaoh, the work of the baker, and the birds were eating them out of the basket, from upon my head.

18. And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days.

19. In yet three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from upon you, and will hang you on wood; and the birds will eat your flesh from upon you.

20. And it happened on the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers, and the head of the chief of the bakers, in the midst of his servants.

21. And he restored the chief of the cupbearers to his supervision over [Pharaoh's] drink, and he put the cup onto Pharaoh's palm.

22. And the chief of the bakers he hanged, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

23. And the chief of the cupbearers did not remember Joseph, and forgot him.

CONTENTS

The internal sense of this chapter continues to deal with the state of temptations, by means of which bodily things could be brought into a state of agreement. Rightly called bodily ones, those things are the powers of the senses, of which there are two kinds, some sensory powers being subordinate to the understanding part of the mind, others to the will part. Those subordinate to the understanding part are represented by the cupbearer of the king of Egypt, and those subordinate to the will part by the baker. The eventual retention of the former but casting away of the latter is represented by the fact that the cupbearer returned to the position he had held previously, whereas the baker was hanged. Everything else will become evident from the train of thought.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. things, see 5075

2. i.e. for a considerable length of time

3. literally, evil

  
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