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2 Mose 32

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1 Da aber das Volk sah, daß Mose verzog, von dem Berge zu kommen, sammelte sich's wider Aaron und sprach zu ihm: Auf, und mach uns Götter, die vor uns hergehen! Denn wir wissen nicht, was diesem Mann Mose widerfahren ist, der uns aus Ägyptenland geführet hat.

2 Aaron sprach zu ihnen: Reißet ab die güldenen Ohrenringe an den Ohren eurer Weiber, eurer Söhne und eurer Töchter und bringet sie zu mir.

3 Da riß alles Volk seine güldenen Ohrenringe von ihren Ohren und brachten sie zu Aaron.

4 Und er nahm sie von ihren Händen und entwarf es mit einem Griffel und machte ein gegossen Kalb. Und sie sprachen: Das sind deine Götter, Israel, die dich aus Ägyptenland geführet haben!

5 Da das Aaron sah, bauete er einen Altar vor ihm und ließ ausrufen und sprach: Morgen ist des HERRN Fest!

6 Und stunden des Morgens frühe auf und opferten Brandopfer und brachten dazu Dankopfer. Danach setzte sich das Volk zu essen und zu trinken, und stunden auf zu spielen.

7 Der HERR aber sprach zu Mose: Gehe, steig hinab; denn dein Volk, das du aus Ägyptenland geführet hast, hat's verderbet.

8 Sie sind schnell von dem Wege getreten, den ich ihnen geboten habe. Sie haben ihnen ein gegossen Kalb gemacht und haben's angebetet und ihm geopfert und gesagt: Das sind deine Götter, Israel, die dich aus Ägyptenland geführet haben.

9 Und den HERR sprach zu Mose: Ich sehe, daß es ein halsstarrig Volk ist.

10 Und nun laß mich, daß mein Zorn über sie ergrimme und sie auffresse, so will ich dich zum großen Volk machen.

11 Mose aber flehete von dem HERRN, seinem Gott, und sprach: Ach, HERR, war um will dein Zorn ergrimmen über dein Volk, das du mit großer Kraft und starker Hand hast aus Ägyptenland geführet?

12 Warum sollen die Ägypter sagen und sprechen: Er hat sie zu ihrem Unglück ausgeführt, daß er sie erwürgete im Gebirge und vertilgete sie von dem Erdboden? Kehre dich von dem Grimm deines Zorns und sei gnädig über die Bosheit deines Volks!

13 Gedenk an deine Diener, Abraham, Isaak und Israel, denen du bei dir selbst geschworen und ihnen verheißen hast: Ich will euren Samen mehren wie die Sterne am Himmel, und alles Land, das ich verheißen habe, will ich eurem Samen geben, und sollen es besitzen ewiglich.

14 Also gereuete den HERRN das Übel, das er dräuete seinem Volk zu tun.

15 Mose wandte sich und stieg vom Berge und hatte zwo Tafeln des Zeugnisses in seiner Hand, die waren geschrieben auf beiden Seiten.

16 Und Gott hatte sie selbst gemacht und selbst die Schrift drein gegraben.

17 Da nun Josua hörete des Volks Geschrei, daß sie jauchzeten, sprach er zu Mose: Es ist ein Geschrei im Lagen wie im Streit.

18 Er antwortete: Es ist nicht ein Geschrei gegeneinander, deren, die obliegen und unterliegen, sondern ich höre ein Geschrei eines Singetanzes.

19 Als er aber nahe zum Lager kam und das Kalb und den Reigen sah, ergrimmete er mit Zorn und warf die Tafeln aus seiner Hand und zerbrach sie unten am Berge.

20 Und nahm das Kalb, das sie gemacht hatten, und verbrannte es mit Feuer und zermalmete es zu Pulver und stäubte es aufs Wasser und gab's den Kindern Israel zu trinken.

21 Und sprach zu Aaron: Was hat dir das Volk getan, daß du eine so große Sünde üben sie gebracht hast?

22 Aaron sprach: Mein HERR lasse seinen Zorn nicht ergrimmen. Du weißt, daß dies Volk böse ist.

23 Sie sprachen zu mir: Mache uns Götter, die vor uns hergehen; denn wir wissen nicht, wie es diesem Mann Mose gehet, der uns aus Ägyptenland geführet hat.

24 Ich sprach zu ihnen: Wer hat Gold, der reiße es ab und gebe es mir. Und ich warf es ins Feuer; daraus ist das Kalb geworden.

25 Da nun Mose sah, daß das Volk los worden war (denn Aaron hatte sie losgemacht durch ein Geschwätz, damit er sie fein wollte anrichten),

26 trat er in das Tor des Lagers und sprach: Her zu mir, wer dem HERRN angehöret! Da sammelten sich zu ihm alle Kinder Levi.

27 Und er sprach zu ihnen: So spricht der HERR, der Gott Israels: Gürte ein jeglicher sein Schwert auf seine Lenden und durchgehet hin und wieder von einem Tor zum andern im Lagen und erwürge ein jeglicher seinen Bruder, Freund und Nächsten.

28 Die Kinder Levi taten, wie ihnen Mose gesagt hatte, und fiel des Tages vom Volk dreitausend Mann.

29 Da sprach Mose: Füllet heute eure Hände dem HERRN, ein jeglicher an seinem Sohn und Bruder, daß heute über euch der Segen gegeben werde.

30 Des Morgens sprach Mose zum Volk: Ihr habt eine große Sünde getan; nun will ich hinaufsteigen zu dem HERRN, ob ich vielleicht eure Sünde versöhnen möge.

31 Als nun Mose wieder zum HERRN kam, sprach er: Ach, das Volk hat eine große Sünde getan und haben ihnen güldene Götter gemacht.

32 Nun vergib ihnen ihre Sünde! Wo nicht, so tilge mich auch aus deinem Buch, das du geschrieben hast.

33 Der HERR sprach zu Mose: Was? Ich will den aus meinem Buch tilgen, der an mir sündiget.

34 So gehe nun hin und führe das Volk, dahin ich dir gesagt habe. Siehe, mein Engel soll vor dir hergehen. Ich werde ihre Sünde wohl heimsuchen, wenn meine Zeit kommt heimzusuchen.

35 Also strafte der HERR das Volk, daß sie das Kalb hatten gemacht, welches Aaron gemacht hatte.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 222

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222. And I will write upon him the name of My God, signifies their quality in respect to Divine truth implanted in the life. This is evident from the signification of "writing upon one," when spoken of the Lord, as being to implant in the life (of which presently); also from the signification of "name," as being quality of state (See above, n. 148); and also from the signification of "God," as being Divine truth proceeding from the Lord in heaven, thus the Lord in heaven (concerning which see above, n. 220; for the Lord is above the heavens, appearing to those who are in heaven as a sun (See the work on Heaven and Hell 116-125). The Divine proceeding therefrom, which is called Divine truth, and which makes heaven in general and in particular, is what is meant in the Word by "God;" from this it is that angels are called "gods," and that "God," in the Hebrew is Elohim, in the plural. This makes clear why the Lord here says, "the name of My God;" and above, "I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God" n. 219; and below, "I will write upon him the name of the city of My God, of the New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from My God" n. 223.

[2] "To write upon one" means to implant in the life, because to write is to commit to paper anything from the memory, thought, or mind, that is to be preserved; in the spiritual sense, therefore, it signifies that which is to endure in man's life, inscribed on it and implanted in it. Thus the natural sense of this expression is turned into a spiritual sense; for it is natural to write upon paper and in a book, but it is spiritual to inscribe on the life, which is done when anything is implanted in the faith and love, since love and faith make man's spiritual life. Because "to write" signifies to implant in the life, it is said of Jehovah or the Lord that "He writes," and that "He has written in a book," meaning that which is inscribed by the Lord on man's spirit, that is, on his heart and soul, or what is the same, on his love and faith. Thus, in David:

My bone was not hidden from Thee when I was made in secret; upon Thy book were written all the days when they were fashioned, and not one of them is wanting (Psalms 139:15-16).

In the same :

Let them be blotted out of the book of lives, and not be written with the righteous (Psalms 69:28).

In Daniel:

The people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book (Daniel 12:1).

In Moses:

Blot me, I pray Thee, out of the book which Thou hast written. And Jehovah said, Whosoever hath sinned against Me will I blot out of My book (Exodus 32:32-33).

In Revelation:

A book written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals, which no one could open but the Lamb only (Revelation 5:1).

Again:

All shall worship the beast whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life (Revelation 13:8; 17:8).

Again:

I saw that the books were opened: and another book was opened which is that of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the book, 1 according to their works. And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:12-13, 20:15).

Again :

And there shall enter into the New Jerusalem only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life (Revelation 21:27).

In these passages it is not meant that they are written in a book, but that all things of faith and love are inscribed on man's spirit (as may be seen from the things shown in the work on Heaven and Hell 461-469).

[3] That "to write," in the Word, signifies to inscribe on and implant in the life, is clear from other passages where "writing" is mentioned. Thus in Jeremiah:

I will give My law in the midst of them, and will write it on their heart (Jeremiah 31:33).

"To give the law in the midst of them" means Divine truths in them; "in the midst" signifies inwardly with man (See Arcana Coelestia 1074, 2940, 2973); and "to write it on the heart" is to impress upon the love, for "heart" signifies love (See Arcana Coelestia 7542, 9050, 10336). In Ezekiel:

The prophet saw a roll of a book written front and back, and there were written thereon plaints, moaning, and woe (Ezekiel 2:9, 10; 3:1-3).

"The roll of a book written front and back" signifies the state of the church at that time, thus what the life was of those of the church; therefore "the roll of the book" means the same as "the book of life" mentioned above; and as their life was destitute of the goods of love and the truths of faith, it is said that "there were written thereon plaints, moaning, and woe":

That the law was inscribed on tables of stone, and written with the finger of God (Exodus 31:18; Deuteronomy 4:13; 9:10); signified that it must be impressed on the life (Arcana Coelestia 9416); for "the law," in a strict sense, means the ten commandments of the Decalogue, but in a broad sense, the whole Word (See Arcana Coelestia 6752, 7463); and "stone" signifies truth, here Divine truth (Arcana Coelestia 643[1-4], 1298, 3720, 6426, 8609, 10376). The like is signified by :

Their writing the words of the law upon the twelve stones taken out of the Jordan (Deuteronomy 27:2-4, 8; Joshua 4:3, seq .)

[4] In Ezekiel:

Son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his fellows; and take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and of all the house of Israel, his fellows; and then join them for thee one to another into one stick, that they both may be one in My 2 hand (Ezekiel 37:16, 17).

What these things signify no one can know unless he knows what was represented by "Judah," and what by "Joseph." "Judah" represented the Lord's celestial kingdom, and "Joseph" His spiritual kingdom; and "writing them upon two sticks" signifies each one's state of love and of life therefrom. Their conjunction into one heaven is signified by "joining them one to another into one stick, that they both may be one in My hand." The signification of these words is like that of the Lord's words:

Other sheep also I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring; and there shall be one flock and one shepherd (John 10:16).

The writing was to be upon a stick, because a "stick (wood)" signifies good, and it is good that conjoins. (But these things will be more evident from what is shown in the Arcana Coelestia, namely, that the spiritual kingdom before the Lord's coming was not as it was after His coming, n. 6372, 8054; that it was the spiritual especially that were saved by the Lord's coming into the world, and that they were then conjoined with those who were of His celestial kingdom into one heaven, n. 2661, 2716, 2833, 2834, 3969, 6854, 6914, 7035, 7091, 7828, 7932, 8018, 8159, 8321, 9684. That there are two kingdoms, the celestial and spiritual, and that there are three heavens, and that these are conjoined into one heaven, see the work on Heaven 20-28, 29-40. That "Judah" in the representative sense signifies the Lord's celestial kingdom, Arcana Coelestia 3654, 3881, 5583, 5603, 5782, 6363; that " Joseph" signifies the Lord's spiritual kingdom, n. 3969, 3971, 4669, 6417; that " Ephraim" signifies the intellectual of the spiritual church, n. 3969, 5354, 6222, 6234, 6238, 6267, 6296; that "wood" signifies the good of love, n. 643, 3720, 8354.)

[5] In Isaiah:

This one shall say, I am Jehovah's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah, and surname himself by the name of Israel (Isaiah 44:5).

These things are said of the Lord and of His Divine Human. "Jacob" and "Israel," where the Lord is treated of, signifies His Human, and that the Human is Jehovah is meant by "This one shall say, I am Jehovah's," and "he shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah." (That "Israel" and "Jacob" are, in the highest sense, the Lord, see Arcana Coelestia 4286, 4570, 6424)

[6] In Jeremiah :

O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake Me shall be ashamed, and they that depart from Me shall be written on the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters. Heal me, O Jehovah, that I may be healed (Jeremiah 17:13, 14). "To be written in the earth" is to be condemned on account of the state of life, since "earth" signifies what is condemned (See Arcana Coelestia n. 2327, 7418, 8306).

[7] This makes clear what is signified by the Lord's writing with His finger in the earth in John:

The Scribes and Pharisees brought to Jesus in the temple a woman taken in adultery; and they said, This woman was taken in the very act. They asked whether she should be stoned according to the law of Moses. Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote in the earth; and rising He said, He that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her; and again stooping down, He wrote in the earth. And when they heard these things, they went out one after another; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman; and He said to her, Woman, where are thine accusers; hath no man condemned thee? And He said, Go and sin no more (John 8:2-11).

The Lord's "writing in the earth" signifies the same as above in Jeremiah, "they that depart from Me shall be written in the earth," namely, that they also were condemned on account of adulteries; therefore He said, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." The Lord's "writing twice in the earth" in the temple, signified their condemnation for adulteries in the spiritual sense; for the Scribes and Pharisees were those who adulterated the goods and falsified the truths of the Word, thus of the church; and "adulteries" in the spiritual sense are adulterations of good and falsifications of truth (See above, n. 141, 161); therefore that nation was also called by the Lord:

An adulterous and sinful generation (Mark 8:38).

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The Greek has "books," as found in Apocalypse Explained 98, 250, 785.

2. The Hebrew has "my."

  
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