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2 Mózes 34

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1 És monda az Úr Mózesnek: Vágj két kõtáblát, hasonlókat az elõbbiekhez, hogy írjam fel azokra azokat a szavakat, a melyek az elõbbi táblákon voltak, a melyeket széttörtél.

2 És légy készen reggelre, és jöjj fel reggel a Sinai hegyre, és állj ott elõmbe a hegy tetején.

3 De senki veled fel ne jöjjön, és senki ne mutatkozzék az egész hegyen; juhok és barmok se legeljenek a hegy környékén.

4 Vágott azért két kõtáblát, az elõbbiekhez hasonlókat, és felkelvén reggel, felméne Mózes a Sinai hegyre, a mint az Úr parancsolta néki, és kezébe vevé a két kõtáblát.

5 Az Úr pedig leszálla felhõben, és ott álla õ vele, és nevén kiáltá az Urat:

6 És az Úr elvonula õ elõtte és kiálta: Az Úr, az Úr, irgalmas és kegyelmes Isten, késedelmes a haragra, nagy irgalmasságú és igazságú.

7 A ki irgalmas marad ezeríziglen; megbocsát hamisságot, vétket és bûnt: de nem hagyja a [bûnöst] büntetlenül, megbünteti az atyák álnokságát a fiakban, és a fiak fiaiban harmad és negyedíziglen.

8 És Mózes nagy sietséggel földre borula, és lehajtá [fejét.]

9 És monda: Uram, ha elõtted kedvet találtam, kérlek járjon az Úr velünk; mert keménynyakú nép ez! Kegyelmezz a mi vétkeinknek és gonoszságunknak, és fogadj minket örökségeddé.

10 Õ pedig monda: Ímé szövetséget kötök; a te egész néped elõtt csudákat teszek, a milyenek nem voltak az egész földön, sem a népek között, és meglátja az egész nép, a mely között te vagy, az Úrnak cselekedeteit; mert csudálatos az, a mit én cselekszem veled.

11 Jegyezd meg magadnak a mit ma parancsolok néked. Ímé kiûzöm elõled az Emoreust, Kananeust, Khittheust, Perizeust, Khivveust, Jebuzeust.

12 Vigyázz magadra, nehogy szövetséget köss annak a földnek lakosaival, a melybe bemégy, hogy botránkozásra ne legyen közötted.

13 Hanem oltáraikat rontsátok el, törjétek össze bálványaikat, és vágjátok ki berkeiket.

14 Mert nem szabad imádnod más istent; mert az Úr, a kinek neve féltõn szeretõ, féltõn szeretõ Isten õ.

15 Hogy valamiképen szövetséget ne köss annak a földnek lakosaival, hogy a mikor isteneiket követvén paráználkodnak, és áldoznak az õ isteneiknek, és meghívnak téged, egyél az õ áldozatukból.

16 És [feleséget] ne végy az õ leányaik közül a te fiaidnak, hogy mikor paráználkodnak az õ leányaik isteneiket követvén, a te fiaidat is paráználkodásra vigyék, az õ isteneiket követvén.

17 Ne csinálj magadnak öntött isteneket.

18 A kovásztalan kenyér innepét megtartsad: hét nap egyél kovásztalan kenyeret, a mint megparancsoltam néked, az Abib hónap ideje alatt; mert Abib hónapban jöttél ki Égyiptomból.

19 Mindaz a mi az anyja méhét megnyitja, enyém legyen, és minden hímbarmod is, a mely a te tehenednek vagy juhodnak elsõ fajzása.

20 De a szamárnak elsõ vemhét juhon váltsd meg; ha pedig nem váltod, szegd nyakát. Fiaid közül minden elsõszülöttet megválts, és ne jöjjön üresen elõmbe senki.

21 Hat napon munkálkodjál, a hetedik napon pedig pihenj; szántás és aratás idején is pihenj.

22 A hetek innepét is megtartsd a búza zsengének aratásakor; meg a betakarás innepét is az esztendõ végén.

23 Háromszor esztendõnként minden férfiú jelenjen meg az Úrnak, Izráel Ura Istenének színe elõtt.

24 Mert kiûzöm a népeket elõled, és kiszélesítem határodat, és senki nem kívánja meg a te földedet, mikor felmégy, hogy a te Urad Istened elõtt megjelenjél, esztendõnként háromszor.

25 Áldozatom vérét ne ontsd ki kovász mellett, és a husvét innepének áldozatja ne maradjon meg reggelig.

26 Földed zsengéibõl az elsõt vidd fel az Úrnak a te Istenednek házába. Ne fõzz gödölyét az anyja tejében.

27 És monda az Úr Mózesnek: Írd fel ezeket a szavakat; mert ezeknek a szavaknak értelme szerint kötöttem szövetséget veled és Izráellel.

28 És ott vala az Úrral negyven nap és negyven éjjel: kenyeret nem evett, vizet sem ivott. És felírá a táblákra a szövetség szavait, a tíz parancsolatot.

29 És lõn, a mikor Mózes a Sinai hegyrõl leszálla, (a Mózes kezében vala a bizonyság két táblája, mikor a hegyrõl leszálla) Mózes nem tudta, hogy az õ orczájának bõre sugárzik, mivelhogy Õvele szólott.

30 És a mint Áron és az Izráel minden fiai meglátták Mózest, hogy az õ orczájának bõre sugárzik: féltek közelíteni hozzá.

31 Mózes pedig megszólítá õket, és Áron és a gyülekezetnek fejei mind hozzá menének, és szóla velök Mózes.

32 Azután az Izráel fiai is mind hozzá járulának, és megparancsolá nékik mind azt, a mit az Úr mondott néki a Sinai hegyen.

33 Mikor pedig elvégezte Mózes velök a beszédet, leplet tõn orczájára.

34 És mikor Mózes az Úr elébe méne, hogy vele szóljon, levevé a leplet, míg kijõne. Kijövén pedig, elmondá az Izráel fiainak, a mi parancsot kapott.

35 És az Izráel fiai láták a Mózes orczáját, hogy sugárzik a Mózes orczájának bõre; és Mózes a leplet ismét orczájára borítá, mígnem beméne, hogy Õvele szóljon.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10659

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10659. 'Because in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt' means because then there was deliverance from hell. This is clear from the meaning of 'the month of Abib' as the beginning of a new state, as immediately above in 10658; and from the meaning of 'coming out of Egypt' as deliverance from molestation by falsities, thus also from hell, dealt with in 9292, and in the places referred to in 8866, 9197. From all this it becomes clear that the feast of Passover, which was also called the feast of unleavened bread, was established for a remembrance of the Lord's deliverance of mankind from hell. This deliverance was accomplished by the Lord's subduing of the hells and glorifying of His Human, see just above in 10655.

[2] The majority of people within the Church believe that the Lord came into the world to reconcile the Father through the passion of the Cross, after which those for whom He interceded would be accepted. They also believe that He released mankind from damnation by the fulfillment - by Himself alone - of the law, which otherwise would have condemned everyone; and thus that all who held to that belief with confidence and assurance would be saved. But those with any enlightenment from heaven can see how wrong it is to think that the Divine, who is Love itself and Mercy itself, could cast the human race away from Himself and condemn them to hell; that He had of necessity to be reconciled by the passion of His Son on the Cross; that His Mercy was not aroused by anything other than this; that afterwards no one would be condemned for the way he lived, provided he held with confidence to belief in that reconciliation; and that all salvation is accomplished through faith or belief instilled out of mercy. Those who think and believe such things cannot see anything at all; they speak but have no understanding of anything. Mysteries therefore is what they call those things which are to be believed but not by any means understood. From this it follows that any enlightenment from the Word showing that the situation is different from what they suppose it to be is rejected; for light from heaven cannot enter where such dimness resulting from contradictory ideas prevails. The word 'dimness' is used to describe that which is not understood at all.

[3] But to those who receive enlightenment the Lord imparts an ability to understand the things they believe. Those who acknowledge the Lord and love to lead a life in keeping with His commandments are the ones who are enlightened when they read the Word and who have an understanding of it, not those who say they believe and do not lead such a life. For the Lord flows into a person's life and from this into his belief, but not into a person's belief separate from his life. What those who are enlightened by the Lord through the Word understand is that the Lord came into the world to subdue the hells and to restore everything there and in the heavens to order, which could not by any means have been accomplished except through His Human; for He was able from the Human, but not from the Divine without the Human, to fight against the hells. Their understanding is that He also came into the world to glorify His Human, in order that through that glorified Human all things restored to order by Him might be maintained forever in that condition. From this comes the salvation of mankind. For every person is surrounded by the hells; each one is born into evils of every kind, and where evils exist, so do the hells. And unless these had been thrown back by the Lord's Divine Power no one at all could have been saved. These are the things which the Word teaches and which are discerned by all who let the Lord into their life, these, as stated above, being people who acknowledge Him and love to lead a life in keeping with His commandments. See what has been quoted and shown from the Word in 9937, 10019, 10152, 10579, and many other places.

[4] Being led away from evils, being regenerated, and so being saved is all an act of Mercy. This Mercy however does not operate by direct intervention, as people believe, but indirectly, that is, in those who depart from evils and so let the truth of faith and the good of love from the Lord into their life. The direct intervention of mercy, which everyone would experience if no more than God's good pleasure were necessary, is contrary to Divine order; and what is contrary to Divine order is contrary to God, since order begins in God and what is Divine and His in heaven constitutes order. When people accept order in themselves they are saved, and this comes about solely as a result of their leading a life in keeping with the Lord's commandments. The regeneration of a person takes place to the end that he may accept the order of heaven within himself; and that regeneration is accomplished by means of faith and the life of faith, which is charity. Anyone who has that order within him is in heaven, and also presents a kind of image of heaven; but anyone who does not have it is in hell and presents a kind of image of hell. One cannot by any means be changed and transformed into the other by any direct intervention of mercy, since they are opposites; for evil is the opposite of good, and good has life and heaven within it, whereas evil has death and hell within it. The impossibility for one to be transformed into the other is the Lord's teaching in Luke,

Abraham said to the rich man in hell, Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass across from here to you cannot, nor can those who are there pass across to us. Luke 16:26.

Furthermore if the direct intervention of mercy were possible all people in the world, however many, would be saved, and hell would not exist; for the Lord, being Love itself which desires the salvation of all and the death of none, is Mercy itself.

  
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10579. 'For no one will see Me and live' means that the essential nature of the Divine Himself can be seen only through the Lord in heaven. This may be recognized from the truth that no one has ever seen Jehovah the Father, but that when He has been seen the Lord is the One who has been seen, because the Lord is the very face of Jehovah.

No one has ever seen Jehovah the Father

This is clear from the words of the Lord Himself in John,

Nobody has ever seen God; the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has made Him known. John 1:18.

In the same gospel,

You have never heard the Father's voice nor seen His shape. John 5:37.

In Matthew,

No one knows the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son wishes to reveal Him. Matthew 11:27.

[2] When Jehovah the Father has been seen the Lord is the One who has been seen This too is the Lord's teaching in John,

Jesus said, If you recognize Me you recognize My Father also, and from now on you recognize Him and have seen Him. Philip said, Lord, show us the Father. Jesus said to him, Have I been with you for so long and yet you do not know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. So why do you say, Show us the Father? John 14:7-9.

In the same gospel,

Abraham your father rejoiced to see My day, and saw it and was glad. Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am. John 8:56, 58.

From these statements it becomes clear that the Lord - His Divine Human - is the One whom people have seen when they have seen Jehovah, thus that He is the face of Jehovah.

[3] The Lord is the face of Jehovah

This too is clear from the Word, as in Isaiah,

He became their Saviour. The angel of Jehovah's face delivered them; because of His love and His compassion He redeemed them, and took them and carried them all the days of eternity. Isaiah 63:8-9.

Similarly in Exodus,

Behold, I send an angel before you to keep you safe on the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. Take notice of His face, lest you provoke Him, for He will not bear your transgression; for My name is in the middle of Him. Exodus 23:20-21.

[4] Before the Lord's Coming into the world, whenever Jehovah appeared to people He did so in the form of an angel; for when He passed through heaven He took on that form, which was a human form. For the whole of heaven, by virtue of what is Divine there, exists as one complete human being, as has been shown in much detail where the Grand Man, which is heaven, has been the subject; and this was how the Divine Human in those times came into being. And since Jehovah appeared in the human form of an angel it is evident that [this Divine Human] was nevertheless Jehovah Himself and that that actual form also was His, being what was Divine and His in heaven; and this was the Lord from eternity. But because Jehovah took on that human form by passing through heaven, and yet in order to save the human race it was necessary for Him to be a human being - in all reality and essentially such - He was pleased to undergo human birth, and so to take on a truly human form in which He - Jehovah Himself - was present. The Lord teaches that this is so in John,

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. John 14:11.

And elsewhere,

I and the Father are one. John 10:30.

[5] The Lord's existence from eternity is also taught by Him in John,

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made through Him and without Him nothing was made that was made. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. John 1:1-3, 14.

In the same gospel,

I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again I am leaving the world and going to the Father. John 16:28-29.

In the same gospel,

Jesus said, Father, glorify Me in Your Own Self with the glory I had with You before the world was. John 17:5.

And in the same gospel,

Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am. John 8:58.

[6] These places show plainly that the Lord's Human as well is Jehovah, thus that His Human is Divine. It is on account of this that it says in John, The Word was God, and the Word became flesh, and also, 'Before Abraham was, I am', not 'I was', because Jehovah is I Am, Exodus 3:14.

From all this it may now be recognized that 'no one will see Me and live' means that the essential nature of the Divine Himself cannot be seen, except through the Lord in heaven. The expression 'through the Lord in heaven' is used because the Lord, being the Sun of heaven, is above the heavens, yet is present within them. Divine Truth is present within them, and Divine Truth emanating from the Lord as the Sun is the Lord in heaven; therefore the Divine Truth there is His face.

[7] It has been stated above in 10567, 10568, that things which are interior and Divine in the Word, the Church, and worship are meant by 'Jehovah's face'. The reason for this is that Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, thus the Lord in heaven, composes the things that are interior and Divine in the Word, the Church, and worship. This Truth is what is meant by 'Jehovah's face' wherever this is referred to in the Word, as in Matthew,

See that you do not despise any of these tiny ones; for I say to you that their angels in heaven always see the face of [My] Father who is in heaven. Matthew 18:10.

In the Book of Revelation,

The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the holy Jerusalem, and His servants will minister to Him. And they will see His face. Revelation 22:3-4.

[8] In Moses,

Jehovah will make His face shine upon you and be merciful to you. Jehovah will lift up His face upon you and give you peace. Numbers 6:25-26.

In David,

Many are saying, Who will show us good? Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Jehovah. Psalms 4:6.

In the same author,

How long, O Jehovah, do You hide Your face from me? Psalms 13:1.

In the same author,

To You my heart said, Seek My face! Your face, O Jehovah, I seek. Psalms 27:8.

In the same author,

God will be merciful to us and bless us; He will make His face shine upon us. Psalms 67:1.

In the same author,

Turn us back, O God, and make Your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalms 80:3, 7, 19.

In the same author,

Blessed are Your people, who walk in the light of Your face. Psalms 89:15.

In the same author,

O Jehovah, do not hide Your face from me. Psalms 102:2.

In the same author,

You hide Your face, they are dismayed. Psalms 104:29.

[9] Anyone can understand what 'Jehovah's face' serves to mean in these places, namely the Divine and everything which is an attribute of the Divine. Thus His 'face' serves to mean mercy, peace, and every kind of good, but in the universal sense Divine Truth since Divine Truth encompasses every kind of good. Both among people in the world and among angels in heaven Divine Good is embodied within Divine Truth; without it Divine Good does not exist, for truth is the receiver of good, thus also of mercy and peace. From this it now follows that where Divine Good does not exist within Divine Truth, neither does Jehovah's face. It also follows that where evil exists within falsity the Divine is not seen. This is what Jehovah's hiding His face and turning it away is used to mean in the following places: In Isaiah,

Your sins have hidden Jehovah's face from you. Isaiah 59:2.

In Jeremiah,

On account of their wickedness I have hidden My face from this city. Jeremiah 33:5.

In Ezekiel,

I turn My face away from them, and they profane My secret place. Ezekiel 7:22.

And in Micah,

Jehovah will hide His face from them, as they have rendered their deeds evil. Micah 3:4.

But it should be recognized that Jehovah, that is, the Lord, never turns His face away from a person, but that a person ruled by evil turns his face away from the Lord; and since, when he does so, the Divine is behind his back the appearance is that the Divine hides Himself or turns Himself away. The reality is that all hellish spirits turn their back to the Lord as the Sun, but angels always turn their face towards Him; and as to their spirit people behave in the same way while they live in the world.

  
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