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2 Mose 15

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1 Da sang Mose und die Kinder Israel dies Lied dem HERRN und sprachen: Ich will dem HERRN singen; denn er hat eine herrliche Tat getan: Roß und Wagen hat er ins Meer gestürzt.

2 Der HERR ist meine Stärke und Lobgesang und ist mein Heil. Das ist mein Gott, ich will ihn preisen; er ist meines Vaters Gott, ich will ihn erheben.

3 Der HERR ist der rechte Kriegsmann. HERR ist sein Name.

4 Die Wagen Pharaos und seine Macht warf er ins Meer, seine auserwählten Hauptleute versanken im Schilfmeer.

5 Die Tiefe hat sie bedeckt, sie fielen zu Grund wie die Steine.

6 HERR, deine rechte Hand tut große Wunder; HERR, deine rechte Hand hat die Feinde zerschlagen.

7 Und mit deiner großen HERRLIchkeit hast du deine Widerwärtigen gestürzt; denn da du deinen Grimm ausließest, verzehrte er sie wie Stoppeln.

8 Durch dein Blasen taten sich die Wasser auf, und die Fluten stunden auf Haufen; die Tiefe wallete voneinander mitten im Meer.

9 Der Feind gedachte: Ich will ihnen nachjagen und erhaschen und den Raub austeilen und meinen Mut an ihnen kühlen; ich will mein Schwert ausziehen, und meine Hand soll sie verderben.

10 Da ließest du deinen Wind blasen, und das Meer bedeckte sie, und sanken unter wie Blei im mächtigen Wasser.

11 HERR, wer ist dir gleich unter den Göttern? Wer ist dir gleich, der so mächtig, heilig, schrecklich, löblich und wundertätig sei?

12 Da du deine rechte Hand ausrecktest, verschlang sie die Erde.

13 Du hast geleitet durch deine Barmherzigkeit dein Volk, das du erlöset hast, und hast sie geführet durch deine Stärke zu deiner heiligen Wohnung.

14 Da das die Völker höreten, erbebeten sie; Angst kam die Philister an;

15 da erschraken die Fürsten Edoms; Zittern kam die Gewaltigen Moabs an; alle Einwohner Kanaans wurden feig.

16 Laß über sie fallen Erschrecken und Furcht durch deinen großen Arm, daß sie erstarren wie die Steine, bis dein Volk, HERR, hindurchkomme, bis das Volk hindurchkomme, das du erworben hast.

17 Bringe sie hinein und pflanze sie auf dem Berge deines Erbteils, den du, HERR, dir zur Wohnung gemacht hast, zu deinem Heiligtum, HERR, das deine Hand bereitet hat.

18 Der HERR wird König sein immer und ewig.

19 Denn Pharao zog hinein ins Meer mit Rossen und Wagen und Reitern, und der HERR ließ das Meer wieder über sie fallen. Aber die Kinder Israel gingen trocken mitten durchs Meer.

20 Und Mirjam, die Prophetin, Aarons Schwester, nahm eine Pauke in ihre Hand; und alle Weiber folgten ihr nach hinaus mit Pauken am Reigen.

21 Und Mirjam sang ihnen vor: Lasset uns dem HERRN singen; denn er hat eine herrliche Tat getan, Mann und Roß hat er ins Meer gestürzt.

22 Mose ließ die Kinder Israel ziehen vom Schilfmeer hinaus zu der Wüste Sur. Und sie wanderten drei Tage in der Wüste, daß sie kein Wasser fanden.

23 Da kamen sie gen Mara; aber sie konnten des Wassers zu Mara nicht trinken, denn es war fast bitter. Daher hieß man den Ort Mara.

24 Da murrete das Volk wider Mose und sprach: Was sollen wir trinken?

25 Er schrie zu dem HERRN; und der HERR weisete ihm einen Baum, den tat er ins Wasser; da ward es süß. Daselbst stellete er ihnen ein Gesetz und ein Recht und versuchte sie

26 und sprach: Wirst du der Stimme des HERRN, deines Gottes, gehorchen und tun, was recht ist vor ihm, und zu Ohren fassen seine Gebote und halten alle seine Gesetze, so will ich der Krankheit keine auf dich legen, die ich auf Ägypten gelegt habe; denn ich bin der HERR, dein Arzt.

27 Und sie kamen nach Elim, da waren zwölf Wasserbrunnen und siebenzig Palmbäume; und lagerten sich daselbst ans Wasser.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8297

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8297. 'The sea covered them over' means that all the falsity they possessed hemmed them in. This is clear from the meaning of 'covering over' as hemming in; and from the meaning of 'the sea', here the waters of the Sea Suph, as falsities arising from evils, which sea also means hell, dealt with in 8099, 8137, 8138, 8148. As regards their being hemmed in there by falsities arising from evil, [see] 8210, 8232.

  
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8099. 'The Sea Suph' means the damnation which they first had to pass through. This is clear from the meaning of 'the Sea Suph' as the hell where those spirits are who are governed by faith separated from charity and lead a life of evil; and since 'the Sea Suph' means hell it also means damnation. The reason why they first had to pass through damnation is this: There were people belonging to the spiritual Church who were held back on the lower earth until the Lord's Coming, where they were molested by those governed by faith separated from charity. These have been the subject in the preceding chapters. When those people were delivered from that place they were not raised to heaven immediately. Before this they were led into a second state - a state of purification, which is a state of temptations. For truths and forms of the good of faith can be neither firmly accepted nor bonded together without temptations; and until these had been firmly accepted and bonded together those people could not be raised into heaven. These things were represented by the children of Israel, by their not being led straightaway into the land of Canaan but living first in the wilderness, where they remained for forty years, undergoing various temptations, which are described in the books of Moses.

[2] In regard to this matter, that they first passed through the Sea Suph, which means the hell of those who are governed by separated faith and lead an evil life, thus that they first passed through the middle of damnation, it should be recognized that this hell is situated deep down out in front beneath the adulterers' hells, stretching rather widely towards the left. It is separated from the adulterers' hells by waters like those of the sea on the right there, but higher up, is the place where those governed by the truth of faith but not by the good of faith are gathered - those meant by 'the Philistines', who are referred to just above in 8096. But the lower earth, the region where those who suffer molestation are, is beneath the soles of the feet, slightly out in front. Those who are delivered from molestation are not led towards the right since the ones meant by the Philistines are there. Instead they are led towards the left, through the midst of the hell that has been mentioned and they come out on the left, where there is a kind of wilderness. I have been allowed on two occasions to see that this is the way which they pass through when rescued from molestations. As they pass through they are protected by the Lord in such a way that nothing bad at all can touch them, let alone any damnation. For they are encompassed by a pillar of angels with whom the Lord is present.

[3] This is represented by the passage of the children of Israel through the Sea Suph. Such was also meant by the following in Isaiah,

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah. Were You not that which dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, which made the deep places of the sea a road, in order that the redeemed might pass through? Isaiah 51:9-10.

'The arm of Jehovah' is the Lord's Divine Human. 'The waters of the great deep' and 'the depths of the sea' are the hell in which those live who are governed by faith separated from charity and lead a life of evil. The waters like those of the sea beneath which they live are falsities; for in the next life falsities appear as thick, dark clouds, and also as deluges of water, 739, 4423, 7307. The redeemed who were to pass through them are those whom the Lord has delivered.

[4] In the same prophet,

Jehovah remembered the days of old, Moses, [and] His people, [saying,] Where is He who caused them to come up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put the spirit of His holiness in the midst of them? Isaiah 63:11.

In this prophetic utterance 'Moses' is used to mean the Lord, who is also 'the shepherd of the flock'. 'The people whom He caused to come up out of the sea' are those who were delivered from damnation. In Jeremiah,

At the noise of their fall the earth shook; [as for their] cry, the noise of it was heard in the Sea Suph. Jeremiah 49:21.

'The Sea Suph' stands for hell, for Edom and its damnation is the subject there. It says that the noise of it was heard coming out of the Sea Suph, when yet they were not the ones who were drowned in that sea but the Egyptians. From this it is evident that 'the Sea Suph' means hell and damnation 'Edom' there means those who are led by the evil of self-love to reject the truths taught by doctrine and to embrace falsities, 3322.

From all this one may now see what is meant in the representative internal sense by 'the sea Suph', and what is meant by the passage through it of the children of Israel and the drowning in it of the Egyptians, events described in the next chapter.

  
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