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2 Mose 9

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1 Der HERR sprach zu Mose: Gehe hinein zu Pharao und sprich zu ihm: Also sagt der HERR, der Gott der Ebräer: Laß mein Volk, daß sie mir dienen!

2 Wo du dich des weigerst und sie weiter aufhältst,

3 siehe, so wird Hand des HERRN sein über dein Vieh auf dem Felde, über Pferde, über Esel, über Kamele, über Ochsen, über Schafe mit einer fast schweren Pestilenz.

4 Und der HERR wird ein Besonderes tun zwischen dem Vieh der Israeliten und der Ägypter, daß nichts sterbe aus allem, das die Kinder Israel haben.

5 Und der HERR bestimmte eine Zeit und sprach: Morgen wird der HERR solches auf Erden tun.

6 Und der HERR tat solches des Morgens; und starb allerlei Vieh der Ägypter; aber des Viehes der Kinder Israel starb nicht eins.

7 Und Pharao sandte danach, und siehe, es war des Viehes Israel nicht eins gestorben. Aber das Herz Pharaos ward verstockt und ließ das Volk nicht.

8 Da sprach der HERR zu Mose und Aaron: Nehmet eure Fäuste voll Ruß aus dem Ofen, und Mose sprenge ihn gen Himmel vor Pharao,

9 daß über ganz Ägyptenland stäube, und böse schwarze Blattern auffahren, beide an Menschen und an Vieh, in ganz Ägyptenland.

10 Und sie nahmen Ruß aus dem Ofen und traten vor Pharao, und Mose sprengete ihn gen Himmel. Da fuhren auf böse schwarze Blattern, beide an Menschen und an Vieh,

11 also daß die Zauberer nicht konnten vor Mose stehen vor den bösen Blattern; denn es waren an den Zauberern ebensowohl böse Blattern als an allen Ägyptern.

12 Aber der HERR verstockte das Herz Pharaos, daß er sie nicht hörete, wie denn der HERR zu Mose gesagt hatte.

13 Da sprach der HERR zu Mose: Mache dich morgen frühe auf und tritt vor Pharao und sprich zu ihm: So sagt der HERR, der Ebräer Gott: Laß mein Volk, daß mir's diene!

14 Ich will anders diesmal alle meine Plagen über dich selbst senden, über deine Knechte und über dein Volk, daß du inne werden sollst, daß meinesgleichen nicht ist in allen Landen.

15 Denn ich will jetzt meine Hand ausrecken und dich und dein Volk mit Pestilenz schlagen, daß du von der Erde sollst vertilget werden.

16 Und zwar darum habe ich dich erwecket, daß meine Kraft an dir erscheine, und mein Name verkündiget werde in allen Landen.

17 Du trittst mein Volk noch unter dich und willst es nicht lassen.

18 Siehe, ich will morgen um diese Zeit einen sehr großen Hagel regnen lassen, desgleichen in Ägypten nicht gewesen ist, seit der Zeit es gegründet ist, bisher.

19 Und nun sende hin und verwahre dein Vieh und alles, was du auf dem Felde hast. Denn alle Menschen und Vieh, das auf dem Felde funden wird und nicht in die Häuser versammelt ist, so der Hagel auf sie fällt, werden sterben.

20 Wer nun unter den Knechten Pharaos des HERRN Wort fürchtete, der ließ seine Knechte und Vieh in die Häuser fliehen.

21 Welcher Herz aber sich nicht kehrete an des HERRN Wort, ließen ihre Knechte und Vieh auf dem Felde.

22 Da sprach der HERR zu Mose: Recke deine Hand gen Himmel, daß es hagele über ganz Ägyptenland, über Menschen, über Vieh und über alles Kraut auf dem Felde in Ägyptenland.

23 Also reckte Mose seinen Stab gen Himmel; und der HERR ließ donnern und hageln, daß das Feuer auf die Erde schoß. Also ließ der HERR Hagel regnen über Ägyptenland,

24 daß Hagel und Feuer untereinander fuhren, so grausam, daß desgleichen in ganz Ägyptenland nie gewesen war, seit der Zeit Leute drinnen gewesen sind.

25 Und der Hagel schlug in ganz Ägyptenland alles, was auf dem Felde war, beide Menschen und Vieh, und schlug alles Kraut auf dem Felde und zerbrach alle Bäume auf dem Felde.

26 Ohne allein im Lande Gosen, da die Kinder Israel waren, da hagelte es nicht.

27 Da schickte Pharao hin und ließ Mose und Aaron rufen und sprach zu ihnen: Ich habe dasmal mich versündiget; der HERR ist gerecht, ich aber und mein Volk sind Gottlose.

28 Bittet aber den HERRN, daß aufhöre solch Donnern und Hageln Gottes, so will ich euch lassen, daß ihr nicht länger hie bleibet.

29 Mose sprach zu ihm: Wenn ich zur Stadt hinaus komme, will ich meine Hände ausbreiten gegen den HERRN, so wird der Donner aufhören, und kein Hagel mehr sein, auf daß du inne werdest, daß die Erde des HERRN sei.

30 Ich weiß aber, daß du und deine Knechte euch noch nicht fürchtet vor Gott dem HERRN.

31 Also ward geschlagen der Flachs und die Gerste; denn die Gerste hatte geschosset und der Flachs Knoten gewonnen.

32 Aber der Weizen und Roggen ward nicht geschlagen, denn es war spät Getreide.

33 So ging nun Mose von Pharao zur Stadt hinaus und breitete seine Hände gegen den HERRN, und der Donner und Hagel höreten auf, und der Regen troff nicht mehr auf Erden.

34 Da aber Pharao sah, daß der Regen und Donner und Hagel aufhörete, versündigte er sich weiter und verhärtete sein Herz, er und seine Knechte.

35 Also ward des Pharao Herz verstockt, daß er die Kinder Israel nicht ließ, wie denn der HERR geredet hatte durch Mose.

   

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7554. 'Of which there has not been the like in Egypt from the day it was founded even until now' means that no such destruction happens to any others in their natural mind. This is clear from the meaning of rain in the form of hail, to which these words refer, as the destruction of truth by means of falsities, dealt with immediately above in 7553; from the meaning of 'the land of Egypt' as the natural mind, dealt with in 5276, 5278, 5280, 5288, 5301, 'from the day it was founded even until now meaning that no such destruction happens to any others, because 'day means state, 'foundation' the nature of that state, and 'Egypt' the natural mind in general. The reason why no such destruction happens to any others as happens to those who molest the upright in the next life is that those who so molest belonged to the Church when they were in the world, 7317, 7502. They are those who have filled their memory, which is part of their natural mind, with the kinds of things that are matters of faith acquired from the Word and from the teachings of their Church, and yet have led a life contrary to those things. Consequently when they undergo vastation, those matters of faith are wrenched out, and very much else attached to them, leaving deep, foul pits and craters. Such people's evil desires, as well as their falsities, have inevitably become in some measure linked to those matters of faith. And since these cannot exist together with those falsities and evils it is evident that if they cannot be separated they are cast away to the sides, leaving empty spaces within, which emit a foul stench, for every foul stench arises out of evils mixed with forms of good, and of falsities mixed with truths. These things do not happen to those outside the Church, for they have no knowledge at all of truths of faith acquired from the Word. This is what is meant by the statement that no such destruction happens to any others in their natural mind.

  
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7553. 'Behold, about this time tomorrow I am causing it to rain an extremely heavy hail' means falsities destroying all things of the Church among them. This is clear from the meaning of 'rain in the form of hail' as falsities arising from evil that destroy forms of the truth and good of faith, thus things of the Church. Those falsities are meant by 'rain in the form of hail' because then the raindrops are like stones and can destroy both men and beasts, as well as crops in the field, and also because they are pieces of ice. In general 'rain' means a blessing, or in the contrary sense a curse, 1445. When it means a blessing a flowing in and receiving of the truth of faith and the good of charity is meant; for that is a blessing. But when 'rain' means a curse falsity opposed to the truth of faith and evil opposed to the good of charity is meant, for these are a curse. 'Rain in the form of hail' however in general means a curse which is brought on by falsity arising from evil, in particular of falsity arising from evil that is opposed to the Church's truths and forms of good.

[2] These kinds of falsity are meant by 'rain in the form of hail' in the following places: In Ezekiel,

I will dispute with Gog with pestilence and blood; and deluging rain and hailstones, fire and brimstone will I cause to rain on him and on his hordes, and on the many peoples that are with him. Ezekiel 38:22.

'Gog' stands for external worship separated from internal, thus for those who, when charity has been annihilated, make Divine worship consist entirely in external observances. 'Hailstones' stands for falsities that arise from evil.

[3] In the same prophet,

Let My hand be against the prophets who see vanity and divine a lie. Say to those who daub [the wall] with what is not suitable that it will fall. There will come deluging rain from which you, O hailstones, will fall; and stormy wind will tear it apart. Ezekiel 13:9, 11.

'Prophets who are seers of vanity and diviners of a lie' stands for those who are teachers of evils and falsities. 'Those who daub [the wall] with what is unsuitable' stands for the fact that they fabricate falsities and make them look like the truth. These people are called 'hailstones' because of their falsities. But in the original language a different word, meaning intense hail, is used here and in the preceding quotation.

[4] In Isaiah,

Then Jehovah will cause His glorious voice 1 to be heard, and His arm will see repose, in the indignation of [His] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, [in] scattering and deluging, and hailstones. Isaiah 30:30-31.

'Hailstones' stands for the laying waste of truth by means of falsities. In the same prophet,

Behold, powerful and strong is the Lord, like a deluge of hail, a killing tempest, like a deluge of mighty overflowing waters, He will cast them down to the earth with His hand. The hail will overturn the refuge of a lie, and the waters will deluge the hiding-place. 2 Isaiah 28:2, 17.

'A deluge' stands for being plunged into falsities, and so for undergoing vastation of truth, 705, 739, 790, 5725, 6853, 'a deluge of hail' for the destruction of truth by means of falsities. In David,

He struck their vine with hail, and their sycamore-fig trees with heavy hail. And He gave up 3 their beasts to the hail, and their flocks to coals of fire. He let loose on them His fierce anger. Psalms 78:47-49.

[5] In the same author,

He made their rain into hail, a flaming fire in their land; and He struck their vines and their fig trees, and broke to pieces the trees of their borders. Psalms 105:32-33.

'Hail' and 'rain' stand for the laying waste of truth and good by means of falsities arising from evil. 'Vine' stands for the truth and goodness of the internal Church, 'sycamore-fig' and 'fig' for the truths and forms of good of the external Church. In the same author,

He who gives snow like wool, He sprinkles the hear-frost like dust; He who discharges His hail like balls - who can stand before His cold? Psalms 147:16-17.

'Hail' stands for falsities arising from evils. In the same author,

He made darkness His hiding-place, and His surroundings His tent - darkness of waters, clouds of the heavens. From the brightness before Him, clouds passed with hail and coals of fire. Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered His voice, hail, and coals of fire, so that He sent His arrows and scattered them. Psalms 18:11-14.

'Hail' stands for falsities arising from evils which lay waste truths and forms of good.

[6] In John,

The first angel sounded and there came hail, and fire mixed with blood; and it fell onto the earth so that a third part of the trees were burned, and all green grass was burned up. Revelation 8:7.

'Hail' stands for falsities arising from evil; 'fire mixed with blood' stands for evil desires together with falsified truths; 'the trees which were burned' stands for cognitions of truth that were destroyed by evil desires; and 'the green grass that was burned up' stands for known facts about truth that were destroyed in a similar way. For the meaning of 'fire' as evil desires, see 1297, 1861, 2446, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7314; of 'blood' as falsified truth, 4775, 6878, 7317, 7326; and of 'trees' as cognitions, 2722 (end), 2972.

[7] In Joshua,

It happened, when they fled before Israel on the descent of Beth Horon, that Jehovah cast down on them large [hail]stones from heaven, as far as Azekah, so that they died. Those who died from the hailstones were more than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword. Joshua 10:11.

This refers to the five kings who camped against Gibeon. These kings and their peoples represented those who, being steeped in falsities arising from evils, therefore died from the hailstones. Balls of hail are called stones because 'stones' too mean falsities.

From all this one may see what is meant by 'hail' and by 'rain in the form of hail', namely falsities arising from evils. And since these falsities are meant, the laying waste of truth and good is also meant, for falsities arising from evils are what lay them waste.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the glory of His voice

2. The Latin means they will deluge the hiding-place of waters, but the Hebrew means the waters will deluge the hiding-place, which Swedenborg has in his rough draft.

3. literally, shut up

  
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