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2 Mose 11

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1 Und der HERR sprach zu Mose: Ich will noch eine Plage über Pharao und Ägypten kommen lassen, danach wird er euch lassen von hinnen, und wird nicht allein alles lassen, sondern euch auch von hinnen treiben.

2 So sage nun vor dem Volk, daß ein jeglicher von seinem Nächsten und eine jegliche von ihrer Nächstin silberne und güldene Gefäße fordere.

3 Denn der HERR wird dem Volk Gnade geben vor den Ägyptern. Und Mose war ein sehr großer Mann in Ägyptenland vor den Knechten Pharaos und vor dem Volk.

4 Und Mose sprach: So sagt der HERR: Ich will zur Mitternacht ausgehen in Ägyptenland;

5 und alle Erstgeburt in Ägyptenland soll sterben, von dem ersten Sohn Pharaos an, der auf seinem Stuhl sitzt, bis an den ersten Sohn der Magd, die hinter der Mühle ist, und alle Erstgeburt unter dem Vieh.

6 Und wird ein groß Geschrei sein in ganz Ägyptenland, desgleichen nie gewesen ist noch werden wird;

7 aber bei allen Kindern Israel soll nicht ein Hund mucken, beide unter Menschen und Vieh, auf daß ihr erfahret, wie der HERR Ägypten und Israel scheide.

8 Dann werden zu mir herabkommen alle diese deine Knechte und mir zu Fuße fallen und sagen: Zeuch aus, du und alles Volk, das unter dir ist. Danach will ich ausziehen, und er ging von Pharao mit grimmigem Zorn.

9 Der HERR aber sprach zu Mose: Pharao höret euch nicht, auf daß viele Wunder geschehen in Ägyptenland.

10 Und Mose und Aaron haben diese Wunder alle getan vor Pharao; aber der HERR verstockte ihm sein Herz, daß er die Kinder Israel nicht lassen wollte aus seinem Lande.

   

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Moses

  

At the inmost level, the story of Moses -- like all of the Bible -- is about the Lord and his spiritual development during his human life as Jesus. Moses's role represents establishing forms of worship and to make the people obedient. As such, his primary representation is "the Law of God," the rules God gave the people of Israel to follow in order to represent spiritual things. This can be interpreted narrowly as the Ten Commandments, more broadly as the books of Moses, or most broadly as the entire Bible. Fittingly, his spiritual meaning is complex and important, and evolves throughout the course of his life. To understand it, it helps to understand the meaning of the events in which he was involved. At a more basic level, Moses's story deals with the establishment of the third church to serve as a container of knowledge of the Lord. The first such church -- the Most Ancient Church, represented by Adam and centered on love of the Lord -- had fallen prey to human pride and was destroyed. The second -- the Ancient Church, represented by Noah and the generations that followed him -- was centered on love of the neighbor, wisdom from the Lord and knowledge of the correspondences between natural and spiritual things. It fell prey to the pride of intelligence, however -- represented by the Tower of Babel -- and at the time of Moses was in scattered pockets that were sliding into idolatry. On an external level, of course, Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt through 40 years in the wilderness to the border of the homeland God had promised them. Along the way, he established and codified their religious system, and oversaw the creation of its most holy objects. Those rules and the forms of worship they created were given as containers for deeper ideas about the Lord, deeper truth, and at some points -- especially when he was first leading his people away from Egypt, a time before the rules had been written down -- Moses takes on the deeper representation of Divine Truth itself, truth from the Lord. At other times -- especially after Mount Sinai -- he has a less exalted meaning, representing the people of Israel themselves due to his position as their leader. Through Moses the Lord established a third church, one more external than its predecessors but one that could preserve knowledge of the Lord and could, through worship that represented spiritual things, make it possible for the Bible to be written and passed to future generations.