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2 Mose 12

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1 Der HERR aber sprach zu Mose und Aaron in Ägyptenland:

2 Dieser Mond soll bei euch der erste Mond sein; und von ihm sollt ihr die Monde des Jahrs anheben.

3 Saget der ganzen Gemeine Israel und sprechet: Am zehnten Tage dieses Monden nehme ein jeglicher ein Lamm, wo ein Hausvater ist, je ein Lamm zu einem Hause!

4 Wo ihrer aber in einem Hause zum Lamm zu wenig sind, so nehme er's und sein nächster Nachbar an seinem Hause, bis ihrer so viel wird, daß sie das Lamm aufessen mögen.

5 Ihr sollt aber ein solch Lamm nehmen, da kein Fehl an ist, ein Männlein und eines Jahrs alt; von den Lämmern und Ziegen sollt ihr's nehmen.

6 Und sollt es behalten bis auf den vierzehnten Tag des Monden. Und ein jegliches Häuflein im ganzen Israel soll es schlachten zwischen Abends.

7 Und sollt seines Bluts nehmen und beide Pfosten an der Tür und die oberste Schwelle damit bestreichen an den Häusern, da sie es innen essen.

8 Und sollt also Fleisch essen in derselben Nacht, am Feuer gebraten, und ungesäuert Brot, und sollt es mit bittern Salsen essen.

9 Ihr sollt es nicht roh essen, noch mit Wasser gesotten, sondern am Feuer gebraten, sein Haupt mit seinen Schenkeln und Eingeweide.

10 Und sollt nichts davon überlassen bis morgen; wo aber etwas überbleibet bis morgen, sollt ihr's mit Feuer verbrennen.

11 Also sollt ihr's aber essen: Um eure Lenden sollt ihr gegürtet sein und eure Schuhe an euren Füßen haben und Stäbe in euren Händen, und sollt es essen, als die hinwegeilen; denn es ist des HERRN Passah.

12 Denn ich will in derselbigen Nacht durch Ägyptenland gehen und alle Erstgeburt schlagen in Ägyptenland, beide unter Menschen und Vieh. Und will meine Strafe beweisen an allen Göttern der Ägypter, ich, der HERR.

13 Und das Blut soll euer Zeichen sein an den Häusern, darin ihr seid, daß, wenn ich das Blut sehe, vor euch übergehe, und euch nicht die Plage widerfahre, die euch verderbe, wenn ich Ägyptenland schlage.

14 Und sollt diesen Tag haben zum Gedächtnis und sollt ihn feiern dem HERRN zum Fest, ihr und alle eure Nachkommen, zur ewigen Weise.

15 Sieben Tage sollt ihr ungesäuert Brot essen; nämlich am ersten Tage sollt ihr aufhören mit gesäuertem Brot in euren Häusern. Wer gesäuert Brot isset vom ersten Tage an, bis auf den siebenten, des Seele soll ausgerottet werden von Israel.

16 Der erste Tag soll heilig sein, daß ihr zusammenkommet; und der siebente soll auch heilig sein, daß ihr zusammenkommet. Keine Arbeit sollt ihr drinnen tun, ohne was zur Speise gehöret für allerlei Seelen, dasselbe allein möget ihr für euch tun.

17 Und haltet ob dem ungesäuerten Brot, denn eben an demselben Tage habe ich euer Heer aus Ägyptenland geführet; darum sollt ihr diesen Tag halten und alle eure Nachkommen zur ewigen Weise.

18 Am vierzehnten Tage des ersten Monden, des Abends, sollt ihr ungesäuert Brot essen, bis an den einundzwanzigsten Tag des Monden an dem Abend,

19 daß man sieben Tage kein gesäuert Brot finde in euren Häusern. Denn wer gesäuert Brot isset, des Seele soll ausgerottet werden von der Gemeinde Israel, es sei ein Fremdling oder Einheimischer im Lande.

20 Darum so esset kein gesäuert Brot, sondern eitel ungesäuert Brot in allen euren Wohnungen.

21 Und Mose forderte alle Ältesten in Israel und sprach zu ihnen: Leset aus und nehmet Schafe jedermann für sein Gesinde und schlachtet das Passah.

22 Und nehmet ein Büschel Ysop und tunket in das Blut in dem Becken und berühret damit die Überschwelle und die zween Pfosten. Und gehe kein Mensch zu seiner Haustür heraus bis an den Morgen.

23 Denn der, HERR wird umhergehen und die Ägypter plagen. Und wenn er das Blut sehen wird an der Überschwelle und an den zween Pfosten, wird er vor der Tür übergehen und den Verderber nicht in eure Häuser kommen lassen zu plagen.

24 Darum so halte diese Weise für dich und deine Kinder ewiglich.

25 Und wenn ihr ins Land kommet, das euch der HERR geben wird, wie er geredet hat, so haltet diesen Dienst.

26 Und wenn eure Kinder werden zu euch sagen: Was habt ihr da für einen Dienst?

27 sollt ihr sagen: Es ist das Passahopfer des HERRN, der vor den Kindern Israel überging in Ägypten, da er die Ägypter plagte und unsere Häuser errettete. Da neigte sich das Volk und bückte sich.

28 Und die Kinder Israel gingen hin und taten, wie der HERR Mose und Aaron geboten hätte.

29 Und zur Mitternacht schlug der HERR alle Erstgeburt in Ägyptenland, von dem ersten Sohn Pharaos an, der auf seinem Stuhl saß, bis auf den ersten Sohn des Gefangenen im Gefängnis, und alle Erstgeburt des Viehes.

30 Da stand Pharao auf und alle seine Knechte in derselben Nacht und alle Ägypter, und ward ein groß Geschrei in Ägypten; denn es war kein Haus, da nicht ein Toter innen wäre.

31 Und er forderte Mose und Aaron in der Nacht und sprach: Machet euch auf und ziehet aus von meinem Volk, ihr und die Kinder Israel; gehet hin und dienet dem HERRN, wie ihr gesagt habt.

32 Nehmet auch mit euch eure Schafe und Rinder, wie ihr gesagt habt; gehet hin und segnet mich auch.

33 Und die Ägypter drungen das Volk, daß sie es eilend aus dem Lande trieben; denn sie sprachen: Wir sind alle des Todes.

34 Und das Volk trug den rohen Teig, ehe denn er versäuert war, zu ihrer Speise, gebunden in ihren Kleidern, auf ihren Achseln.

35 Und die Kinder Israel hatten getan, wie Mose gesagt hatte, und von den Ägyptern gefordert silberne und güldene Geräte und Kleider.

36 Dazu hatte der HERR dem Volk Gnade gegeben vor den Ägyptern, daß sie ihnen leiheten; und entwandten es den Ägyptern.

37 Also zogen aus die Kinder Israel von Raemses gen Suchoth, sechshunderttausend Mann zu Fuß ohne die Kinder.

38 Und zog auch mit ihnen viel Pöbelvolk und Schafe und Rinder und fast viel Viehes.

39 Und sie buken aus dem rohen Teige, den sie aus Ägypten brachten, ungesäuerte Kuchen; denn es war nicht gesäuert, weil sie aus Ägypten gestoßen wurden, und konnten nicht verziehen und hatten ihnen sonst keine Zehrung zubereitet.

40 Die Zeit aber, die die Kinder Israel in Ägypten gewohnet haben, ist vierhundertunddreißig Jahre.

41 Da dieselben um waren, ging das ganze Heer des HERRN auf einen Tag aus Ägyptenland.

42 Darum wird diese Nacht dem HERRN gehalten, daß er sie aus Ägyptenland geführet hat; und die Kinder Israel sollen sie dem HERRN halten, sie und ihre Nachkommen.

43 Und der HERR sprach zu Mose und Aaron: Dies ist die Weise, Passah zu halten: Kein Fremder soll davon essen.

44 Aber wer ein erkaufter Knecht ist, den beschneide man, und dann esse er davon.

45 Ein Hausgenoß und Mietling sollen nicht davon essen.

46 In einem Hause soll man's essen; ihr sollt nichts von seinem Fleisch hinaus vor das Haus tragen; und sollt kein Bein an ihm zerbrechen.

47 Die ganze Gemeine Israel soll solches tun.

48 So aber ein Fremdling bei dir wohnet und dem HERRN das Passah halten will, der beschneide alles, was männlich ist; als dann mache er sich herzu, daß er solches tue, und sei wie ein Einheimischer des Landes; denn kein Unbeschnittener soll davon essen.

49 Einerlei Gesetz sei dem Einheimischen und dem Fremdling, der unter euch wohnet.

50 Und alle Kinder Israel taten, wie der HERR Mose und Aaron hatte geboten.

51 Also führete der HERR auf einen Tag die Kinder Israel aus Ägyptenland mit ihrem Heer.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 7852

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7852. 'Roasted with fire' means good that is the product of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'what is roasted with fire' as the good of love; for 'fire' means love, 934, 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324, and 'what is roasted' that which has been infused with love, consequently good. In the Word what has been roasted is distinguished from what has been boiled. 'What has been roasted' means good, because it has been cooked by means of fire, while 'what has been boiled' is used to mean truth, because it has been cooked by means of water. A similar distinction is made here, for it says in verse 9, Do not eat any of it raw, nor boiled at all in water, but roasted indeed with fire. The reason for this is that 'the Passover lamb' means the good of innocence, which is the good of love to the Lord.

[2] All this shows what 'the roasted fish', in Luke 24:42-43, means in the spiritual sense, and also 'the fish placed over the fire of coals' when the Lord appeared to the disciples, described in John as follows,

After the disciples got down onto the land they saw a fire of coals that had been set, and a small fish lying over it, and bread. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the small fish. John 21:9, 13.

'A fish' means truth in the natural, 991, while 'a fire of coals' means good. Thus 'a small fish lying over it' means the truth of spiritual good within the natural. A person who does not believe in the existence of the internal sense within the Word inevitably thinks that the presence of the fish over the coal fire, when the Lord appeared to the disciples, and its being given them by the Lord to eat lack any deeper, hidden meaning.

[3] Since 'roasted with fire' means good that is the product of celestial and spiritual love, evil that is the product of selfish and worldly love is meant in the contrary sense by 'roasted with fire' in Isaiah,

He burnt part of it with fire, over part of it he ate flesh, he roasted a roast, in order that he might be satiated; also he was made warm. And he said, O brother, 1 I have been made warm, I have seen the fire. I have burned part of it with fire, and also I have baked bread over its coals, I have roasted flesh and am eating it. Isaiah 44:16, 19.

This refers to worshippers of a carved image. 'A carved image' means falsity of evil, which is portrayed by such an image. 'Roasting a roast' and 'roasting flesh' are working evil under the influence of a filthy love. With regard to 'fire', that it is in the contrary sense the evil of self-love and love of the world, or the desires belonging to those kinds of love, see 1297, 1861, 2446, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The word in the original language consists of three Hebrew letters, which with the vowel points of the Massoretic Text read as the interjection he'ach (ah!). But the Latin treats the same three letters as the (vocative) noun ha'ach (O brother).

  
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6832. 'In a flame of fire from the middle of a bramble bush' means God's love present in true factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'a flame of fire' as God's love, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'a bramble bush' as true factual knowledge. The reason why 'a bramble bush' means true factual knowledge is that all shrubs of every kind mean factual knowledge, whereas actual plantations of trees, being larger, mean cognitions and perceptions. Because it produces flower and berries 'a bramble bush' means true factual knowledge. True factual knowledge that the Church possesses consists in nothing else than the Word as it exists in the sense of the letter and also every one of the Church's representative forms and meaningful signs that existed among the descendants of Jacob. These in the external form they take are called true factual knowledge; but in their internal form they are spiritual truths. But truths in their internal or spiritual form could not be made visible to those descended from Jacob, for the reason that they were interested solely in things of an external nature and had no wish whatever to know about anything internal. Therefore the Lord appeared in a bramble bush (when the Lord appears to people He does so in a way suited to the kind of people they are, for a person cannot receive the Divine in any way other than that which is a way suited to the kind of person he is); and therefore also, when the Lord appeared on Mount Sinai He appeared to the people' as a fire burning even to the heart of heaven, and as darkness, cloud, and pitch darkness', Deuteronomy 4:11; 5:22-25; also Exodus 19:18. He would have appeared in an altogether different way if the people below the mountain who beheld Him had not been the kind of people they were. And because those people were interested solely in things of an external nature, when Moses went in to the Lord on Mount Sinai, it is said that he went into the cloud, Exodus 20:21; 24:2, 18; 34:2-5, 'the cloud' being the external aspect of the Word, see Preface to Genesis 18, and 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343 (end), and also consequently representatives in the Church which are seen in outward form.

[2] The truth that the Lord appears to each individual person in a way suited to the kind of person he is may be recognized from the consideration that the Lord appears to those in the inmost or third heaven as the Sun from which light beyond description radiates, the reason being that those there are governed by the good of love to the Lord. He appears to those in the middle or second heaven as the Moon, the reason being that there they are governed by love to the Lord in a more remote and obscure way; for they are governed by love towards the neighbour. But the Lord does not appear to those in the lowest or first heaven either as the Sun or the Moon, only as Light, a light far more brilliant than light in the world. And since the Lord appears to each in a way suited to the kind of person he is, He cannot appear to those in hell as anything other than dark cloud and pitch darkness. For as soon as the light of heaven which comes from the Lord shines into any hell, darkness and thick darkness are produced there. From all this one may now recognize that the Lord appears to each individual person in a way suited to the kind of person he is, for this is suited to the way he receives the Lord. And since the descendants of Jacob were interested solely in things of an external nature, the Lord appeared to Moses in a bramble bush, and also in a cloud when Moses went in to the Lord on Mount Sinai.

[3] The reason why 'a flame' is God's love is that love in its earliest origin is nothing other than fire or flame from the Lord as the Sun. The fire or flame of this sun is what supplies each individual person with the being (esse) of his life; it is that life-giving fire which fills a person's interiors with warmth, as one may recognize from what happens with love. To the extent that love increases in a person he warms up; but to the extent that it diminishes he cools off. This explain s why, when the Lord appeared in a vision, He appeared as fire and flame, as in Ezekiel,

The appearance of the four living creatures (who were cherubs) was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of lamps. It was moving between the living creatures as a bright fire, and out of the fire went forth lightning. Above the firmament that was over their heads, in appearance like a sapphire stone, there was the likeness of a throne, and over the likeness of a throne there was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it, above. And I saw the shape of burning coals, as the shape of fire, within it round about, from the appearance of His loins and upwards. But from the appearance of His loins and downwards I saw as it were the appearance of fire, whose brightness was round about it. Ezekiel 1:13, 26-28.

[4] Nobody can deny that all the several details of this vision are signs that represent aspects of the Divine; but unless one knows what is meant by 'the cherubs', 'the burning coals of fire, like the appearance of lamps', 'a throne', 'the appearance of a man upon it', 'his loins from which fire emanated upwards and downwards, and the brightness radiating from the fire', one can have no knowledge of the real holiness hidden within all those several details. 'The cherubs' are the Lord's Providence, see 308; 'the throne' is heaven, or - to be exact - Divine Truth that emanates from the Lord to form heaven, 5313; 'the appearance of a man upon the throne above' is plainly the Lord's Divine Human; and 'loins' are conjugial love and all heavenly love that derives from it, 3021, 4277, 4280, 4575, 5050, 5062. This love was represented by 'the shape of burning coal, as the shape of fire, whose brightness was round about it'.

[5] In Daniel,

I saw, until thrones had been placed, and the Ancient of Days was seated. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was a flame of fire; His wheels were burning fire. A river of five issued and came forth from before Him. Daniel 7:9-10.

The Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Love was seen in this vision too as a flame of fire. In John,

He who sat on the white horse, His eyes were like aflame of fire. Revelation 19:11-12.

'He who sat on the white horse' is the Lord in respect of the Word, as is explicitly stated in verses 13, 16, of that chapter. Thus 'the flame of fire' is Divine Truth contained in the Word, which radiates from the Lord's Divine Goodness. In the same book,

In the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe. His head and hair were white, like white wool, like snow; but His eyes were like a flame of fire. Revelation 1:13-14.

Here also 'eyes like a flame of fire' is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Goodness.

[6] The meaning of 'a flame of fire' as Divine Truth emanating from the Lord is also evident in David,

The voice of Jehovah falls like a flame of fire. Psalms 29:7.

'The voice of Jehovah' stands for Divine Truth. In order that Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good might be represented, the people were commanded to make a lampstand of pure gold with seven lamps and to place it in the tent of meeting by the table where the loaves of the presence were, and to keep the lamps burning unceasingly before Jehovah, Exodus 25:31-end; 37:17-24; 40:24-25; Leviticus 24:4; Numbers 8:2; Zechariah 4:2. The lampstand with its seven lamps served to represent Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good.

[7] In order also that Divine Good itself might be represented they were commanded to have perpetual fire on the altar,

Fire shall burn on the altar and not be put out; the priest shall kindle pieces of wood on it at every dawn. Fire shall burn unceasingly on the altar and not be put out. Leviticus 6:12-13.

The fact that the ancients were very well acquainted with the use of fire to represent Divine Love may be recognized from the spread of that representative from the Ancient Church even to nations far away whose worship was idolatrous and who, as is well known, established an everlasting sacred fire and placed in charge of it virgins, who were called the vestal virgins.

[8] In the contrary sense 'fire' and 'flame' mean filthy kinds of love, such as those of vengeance, cruelty, hatred, and adultery, and in general the cravings that spring from self-love and love of the world. This too is clear from very many places in the Word, of which let just the following be quoted: In Isaiah,

Behold, they have become as stubble, the fire has burned them; they do not save themselves from the power of the flame. 1 There will be no coal to be warmed by [nor] fire to sit in front of. Isaiah 47:14.

In Ezekiel,

Behold, I will kindle in you a five, which will devour in you every green tree and every dry tree. The blazing flame 2 will not be put out, and all faces from south to north will be scorched by it. Ezekiel 20:47.

Here 'fire' and 'flame' mean desires for what is evil and false which annihilate everything good and true in the Church, and thereby lay it waste.

[9] In Luke,

The rich man said to Abraham, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. Luke 16:24.

People who do not know that a person's vital heat has a different origin from that which is the source of elemental fire cannot possibly do anything else but think that by hell fire is meant fire like that found in the world. In the Word however this latter kind of fire is not meant but the fire of love, thus the fire of a person's life, emanating from the Lord as a Sun. And when this fire comes among those engrossed in pursuits contrary to it, it is turned into the fire of evil desires which, as stated above, belong to vengeance, hatred, and cruelty, and which well up from self-love and love of the world. This is the fire that torments those who are in hell, for when the restraint placed on their evil desires is relaxed, one sets upon another and they torment one another in dreadful and indescribable ways. For each has the wish for supremacy and wants to take from the other the things he has by hidden or open devices. When one or two have such desires hatreds consequently develop within the group, and these lead to the savage deeds that are performed, especially by the use of devices involving magic and the use of figments of the imagination, devices which are countless and totally unknown in the world.

[10] People who do not believe in the existence of spiritual things, especially those who worship nature, cannot at all be led to believe that the warmth present in living persons, which constitutes the actual life within them, has a different origin from that which is the source of worldly heat. For they are not even aware, let alone able to acknowledge, that there is a heavenly fire radiating from the Lord as a Sun, and that this Fire is pure love. Consequently they are unaware of countless instances in the Word in which no other kind of fire is meant; nor are they aware of countless manifestations of it in the human being, who is an organ made to receive that fire.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, save their soul from the hand of the flame

2. literally, heavy flame of flame

  
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