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2 Mose 2

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1 Und es ging ein Mann vom Hause Levi und nahm eine Tochter Levi.

2 Und das Weib ward schwanger und gebar einen Sohn. Und da sie sah, daß es ein feines Kind war, verbarg sie ihn drei Monate.

3 Und da sie ihn nicht länger verbergen konnte, machte sie ein Kästlein von Rohr und verklebte es mit Erdharz und Pech und legte das Kind darein und legte ihn in das Schilf am Ufer des Wassers.

4 Aber seine Schwester stand von ferne, daß sie erfahren wollte, wie es ihm gehen würde.

5 Und die Tochter Pharaos ging hernieder und wollte baden im Wasser; und ihre Jungfrauen gingen an dem Rande des Wassers. Und da sie das Kästlein im Schilf sah, sandte sie ihre Magd hin und ließ es holen.

6 Und da sie es auftat, sah sie das Kind; und siehe, das Knäblein weinte. Da jammerte es sie, und sprach: Es ist der hebräischen Kindlein eins.

7 Da sprach seine Schwester zu der Tochter Pharaos: Soll ich hingehen und der hebräischen Weiber eine rufen, die da säugt, daß sie dir das Kindlein säuge?

8 Die Tochter Pharaos sprach zu ihr: Gehe hin. Die Jungfrau ging hin und rief des Kindes Mutter.

9 Da sprach Pharaos Tochter zu ihr: Nimm hin das Kindlein und säuge mir's; ich will dir lohnen. Das Weib nahm das Kind und säugte es.

10 Und da das Kind groß war, brachte sie es der Tochter Pharaos, und es ward ihr Sohn, und sie hieß ihn Mose; denn sie sprach: Ich habe ihn aus dem Wasser gezogen.

11 Zu den Zeiten, da Mose war groß geworden, ging er aus zu seinen Brüdern und sah ihre Last und ward gewahr, daß ein Ägypter schlug seiner Brüder, der Hebräischen, einen.

12 Und er wandte sich hin und her, und da er sah, daß kein Mensch da war, erschlug er den Ägypter und scharrte ihn in den Sand.

13 Auf einen andern Tag ging er auch aus und sah zwei hebräische Männer sich miteinander zanken und sprach zu dem Ungerechten: Warum schlägst du deinen Nächsten?

14 Er aber sprach: Wer hat dich zum Obersten oder Richter über uns gesetzt? Willst du mich auch erwürgen, wie du den Ägypter erwürgt hast? Da fürchtete sich Mose und sprach: Wie ist das laut geworden?

15 Und es kam vor Pharao; der trachtete nach Mose, daß er ihn erwürgte. Aber Mose floh vor Pharao und blieb im Lande Midian und wohnte bei einem Brunnen.

16 Der Priester aber von Midian hatte sieben Töchter; die kamen, Wasser zu schöpfen, und füllten die Rinnen, daß sie ihres Vaters Schafe tränkten.

17 Da kamen die Hirten und stießen sie davon. Aber Mose machte sich auf und half ihnen und tränkte ihre Schafe.

18 Und da sie zu ihrem Vater Reguel kamen, sprach er: Wie seid ihr heute so bald gekommen?

19 Sie sprachen: Ein ägyptischer Mann errettete uns von den Hirten und schöpfte uns und tränkte die Schafe.

20 Er sprach zu seinen Töchtern: Wo ist er? Warum habt ihr den Mann gelassen, daß ihr ihn nicht ludet, mit uns zu essen?

21 Und Mose willigte darein, bei dem Manne zu bleiben. Und er gab Mose seine Tochter Zippora.

22 Die gebar einen Sohn; und er hieß ihn Gersom; denn er sprach: Ich bin ein Fremdling geworden im fremden Lande.

23 Lange Zeit aber darnach starb der König in Ägypten. Und die Kinder Israel seufzten über ihre Arbeit und schrieen, und ihr Schreien über ihre Arbeit kam vor Gott.

24 Und Gott erhörte ihr Wehklagen und gedachte an seinen Bund mit Abraham, Isaak und Jakob;

25 und er sah darein und nahm sich ihrer an.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2913

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2913. 'And spoke to the sons of Heth, saying' means those with whom a new spiritual Church was to exist. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'Heth' and of Hittite. Many were the nations inhabiting the land of Canaan who are mentioned one by one in various places in the Word, among them the Hittites, see Genesis 15:20; Exodus 3:8, 17; 13:5; 23:23; Deuteronomy 7:1; 20:17; Joshua 3:10; 11:1, 3; 12:8; 24:11; 1 Kings 9:20; and elsewhere. Most of them belonged to the Ancient Church which was spread through many lands, including the land of Canaan, see 1238, 2385. All who belonged to that Church acknowledged charity as the chief thing, and everything they taught was about charity or life. People who cultivated teachings about faith were called Canaanites and were separate from the rest of the inhabitants in the land of Canaan, Numbers 13:29 - see 1062, 1063, 1076.

[2] The Hittites belonged among those in the land of Canaan who were more acceptable. This is also made clear by the fact that Abraham, and subsequently Isaac and Jacob, dwelt among them and had a burial-place there, and also by the fact that they treated Abraham with greatest respect, as is quite clear from what is recorded about them in this chapter, especially verses 5-6, 10-11, 14-15. Since they were an upright nation they therefore represent and mean the spiritual Church, or the truth of the Church. But it happened that like all the others who belonged to the Ancient Church the Hittites fell away in the course of time from charity or good that goes with faith; and this explains why later on they mean the falsity of the Church, as in Ezekiel 16:3, 45, and elsewhere. Yet the Hittites did belong among those who were more honourable, as may be seen from the fact that David had Hittites with him, such as Ahimelech, 1 Samuel 26:6, and Uriah, who was a Hittite, 2 Samuel 11:3, 6, 17, 21 - by whose wife Bathsheba David begot Solomon, 2 Samuel 12:24. 'Heth' means exterior cognitions that have regard to life and which constitute the external truths of the spiritual Church, 1 see 1203.

[3] The subject in the present verse is a new Church which the Lord establishes when the previous one breathes its last, and in the verses which follow the subject is the reception of faith among those people. The subject is not some particular Church among the sons of Heth but in general the re-establishment by the Lord of a spiritual Church after its predecessor fades away and approaches its end. The sons of Heth are simply those who represent and carry a spiritual meaning. Please see what has been stated already about Churches in the following places:

In course of time a Church goes into decline and decay, 494, 501, 1327, 2422.

It departs from charity, and brings forth evils and falsities, 1834, 1835.

At that point the Church is said to be vastated and made desolate, 407-411, 2243.

The Church is established among gentiles; the reason why, 1366.

Within a Church undergoing vastation something of the Church is always preserved as a nucleus, 468, 637, 931, 2422.

If the Church did not exist in the world the human race would perish, ibid.

The Church is like the heart and lungs in that vast body, of which every member of the human race is a part, 637, 931, 2054, 2853.

The nature of the spiritual Church, 765, 2669.

Charity constitutes the Church, not faith separated from charity, 809, 916.

If all possessed charity the Church would be one even though they differ in matters of doctrine and in forms of worship, 1285, 1316, 1798, 1799, 1834, 1844, 2385.

All people on earth who belong to the Lord's Church, though they are scattered throughout the entire world, still so to speak make a single whole, as is the case in heaven, 2853.

Every Church is internal and external, and both together constitute a single Church, 409, 1083, 1098, 1100, 1242.

The external Church is valueless if there is no internal Church, 1795.

The Church is compared to the rise and the setting of the sun, to the seasons of the year, and also to the periods of the day, 1837.

The Last Judgement is the final period of the Church, 900, 931, 1850, 2117, 2118.

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1. Or, reading what Swedenborg has in his rough draft the truths of the external spiritual Church

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 1063

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1063. 'Ham was the father of Canaan' means that from the corrupted Church arose worship in external things devoid of internal, which worship is meant by Canaan. This similarly is clear from what follows, for the content of this verse is introductory to what follows. That Ham means the corrupted Church, that is, people who make faith separated from charity the chief thing of religion, is clear in David,

He smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the beginning of strength in the tents of Ham. Psalms 78:51.

'The firstborn of Egypt' represented faith devoid of charity. That faith is called 'the firstborn of Egypt', see what has appeared already in 352, 367; and that faith is consequently called 'the beginning of strength', as it is here in David, see Genesis 49:3, which refers to Reuben, who, being Jacob's firstborn, represented faith and is called 'the beginning of strength'. 'The tents of Ham' is worship arising out of such faith. That 'tents' means worship, see what has appeared already in 414. Egypt is for this reason called 'the land of Ham' in Psalms 105:23, 27; 106:22.

[2] Because such people, who in the Ancient Church were called 'Ham', led lives that consisted of every evil desire, and merely babbled on about their being able to be saved by faith no matter how they lived, the ancients saw them as having, from the heat of evil desires, a black appearance; hence they were called Ham 1 '. The reason Ham is called 'the father of Canaan' is that such people do not care at all how a person lives, provided he attends religious services, for they still have the desire for worship of some kind. External worship is the only worship for them. Internal worship, which belongs solely to charity, they reject; which is why Ham is called 'the father of Canaan'.

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1. The Hebrew adjective ham means hot.

  
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