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2 Mózes 13

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1 És szóla az Úr Mózesnek, mondván:

2 Nékem szentelj minden elsõszülöttet, valami megnyitja az õ anyjának méhét az Izráel fiai között, akár ember, akár barom, enyim legyen az.

3 És monda Mózes a népnek: Megemlékezzél e napról, melyen kijöttetek Égyiptomból, a szolgálatnak házából; mert hatalmas kézzel hozott ki onnan titeket az Úr; azért ne egyetek kovászost.

4 Ma mentek ki, az Abib hónapban.

5 És ha majd bevisz téged az Úr a Kananeusok, meg Khittheusok, meg Emoreusok, meg Khivveusok és Jebuzeusok földére, melyrõl megesküdött a ti atyáitoknak, hogy néked adja azt a téjjel és mézzel folyó földet: akkor ebben a hónapban végezd ezt a szertartást.

6 Hét napon át kovásztalan kenyeret egyél, a hetedik napon pedig innepet ülj az Úrnak.

7 Kovásztalan kenyeret egyél hét napon át, és ne láttassék nálad kovászos kenyér, se kovász ne láttassék a te egész határodban.

8 És add tudtára a te fiadnak azon a napon, mondván: Ez a miatt van, a mit az Úr cselekedett velem, mikor kijövék Égyiptomból.

9 És legyen az néked jel gyanánt a te kezeden és emlékezetül a te szemeid elõtt azért, hogy az Úr törvénye a te szádban legyen, mert hatalmas kézzel hozott ki téged az Úr Égyiptomból.

10 Tartsd meg azért ezt a rendelést annak idejében esztendõrõl esztendõre.

11 Ha pedig beviénd téged az Úr a Kananeusok földére, a miképen megesküdött néked és a te atyáidnak, és azt néked adándja:

12 Az Úrnak ajánld fel akkor mindazt, a mi az õ anyjának méhét megnyitja, a baromnak is, a mi néked lesz, minden méhnyitó fajzását; a hímek az Úré.

13 De a szamárnak minden elsõ fajzását báránynyal váltsd meg; ha pedig meg nem váltod, szegd meg a nyakát. Az embernek is minden elsõszülöttét megváltsd a te fiaid közül.

14 És ha egykor a te fiad téged megkérdez, mondván: Micsoda ez? akkor mondd néki: Hatalmas kézzel hozott ki minket az Úr Égyiptomból, a szolgálatnak házából.

15 És lõn, mikor a Faraó megátalkodottan vonakodék minket elbocsátani: megöle az Úr minden elsõszülöttet Égyiptom földén, az ember elsõszülöttétõl a barom elsõ fajzásáig; azért áldozok én az Úrnak minden hímet, mely anyja méhét megnyitja, és megváltom az én fiaimnak minden elsõszülöttét.

16 Legyen azért jel gyanánt a te kezeden és homlok-kötõ gyanánt a te szemeid elõtt, mert hatalmas kézzel hozott ki minket az Úr Égyiptomból.

17 És lõn, a mikor elbocsátá a Faraó a népet, nem vivé õket Isten a Filiszteusok földje felé, noha közel vala az; mert monda az Isten: Netalán mást gondol a nép, ha harczot lát, és visszatér Égyiptomba.

18 Kerülõ úton vezeté azért Isten a népet, a veres tenger pusztájának útján; és fölfegyverkezve jövének ki Izráel fiai Égyiptom földérõl.

19 És Mózes elvivé magával a József tetemeit is, mert megesketvén megeskette vala Izráel fiait, mondván: Meglátogatván meglátogat titeket az Isten, akkor az én tetemeimet felvigyétek innen magatokkal.

20 És elindulának Szukhótból és táborba szállának Ethámban, a puszta szélén.

21 Az Úr pedig megy vala elõttök nappal felhõoszlopban, hogy vezérelje õket az úton, éjjel pedig tûzoszlopban, hogy világítson nékik, hogy éjjel és nappal mehessenek.

22 Nem távozott el a felhõoszlop nappal, sem a tûzoszlop éjjel a nép elõl.

   

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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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