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Numbers 12

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1 And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on account of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

2 And they said, Has Jehovah surely spoken only by Moses? Has He not spoken also by us? And Jehovah heard it.

3 And the man Moses was very meek, more than every man who was on the face of the ground.

4 And Jehovah said suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come·​·out ye three to the Tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came·​·out.

5 And Jehovah came·​·down in the pillar of cloud, and stood in the entrance of the Tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam; and the two of them came·​·out.

6 And He said, Hear now My words: If there be a prophet among you, I Jehovah will make Myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.

7 Not so is My servant Moses; he is·​·faithful in all My house.

8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, and to the sight, and not in enigmas; and the figure of Jehovah shall he look upon. And wherefore did you not fear to speak against My servant Moses?

9 And the anger of Jehovah was·​·fierce against them; and He went.

10 And the cloud was removed from off the Tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow; and Aaron turned· his ·face unto Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

11 And Aaron said to Moses, In·​·me*, my lord, I pray thee, put not the sin on us, wherein we have been·​·stupid, and wherein we have sinned.

12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half devoured when he comes·​·out of his mother’s womb.

13 And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, I pray Thee, O God, heal her, I pray thee.

14 And Jehovah said to Moses, If her father spitting had spit in her face, should she not be humiliated seven days? Let her be shut outside from the camp seven days, and afterwards let her be gathered·​·in.

15 And Miriam was shut from outside of the camp seven days; and the people journeyed not until Miriam was gathered·​·in again.

16 And after this the people journeyed from Chazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

   


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In most cases, the meaning of "before" is pretty straightforward, both as a way of assessing relative time, and in its use meaning "in someone's presence." It takes on a deeper significance, though, when used in connection with the Lord. To be "before" the Lord means not just in His presence, but also receiving the desire for good and the understanding of truth from Him, and living according to them. And when used as an assessment of time in connection with the Lord, "before" means "from eternity," and refers to a spiritual state rather than time as we experience it.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 366, 617; Arcana Coelestia 6983, 8439, 9888)

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Arcana Coelestia # 8439

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8439. 'Come near before Jehovah' means a state in which that influx is accepted and applied. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming near before Jehovah' as influx, dealt with in 8159, and therefore also acceptance, acceptance being the response to influx since the two answer to each other. To the extent that a person accepts influx from God he is said to come near before Him; nothing other than this is meant in the spiritual sense by 'coming near before Jehovah'. What enables a person to draw near Him is faith and love; and since both faith and love come from Jehovah, that is, from the Lord, drawing near Him is also the acceptance of goodness and truth flowing in from Him. The reason why applying is also meant is that receiving it has no value unless it is applied, that is to say, put to a useful purpose. For what flows in from God passes first into perception, which belongs to a person's understanding; from there it passes into his will, and after that into action, that is, into a good deed, which is the useful purpose, and in this reaches its goal. When this passage of goodness and truth from the Lord is complete, the goodness and truth become the person's own, for now they flow all the way through to the final level of order, that is, of the natural order, which all Divine influx heads towards. The person who has the Divine flowing all the way through him may be called a road of heaven. From all this it may now be seen that 'coming near before Jehovah' means a state in which that influx is accepted and put to use, here a state in which the good meant by 'manna' and the delight meant by 'selav' are accepted.

  
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