Arcana Coelestia # 8819
8819. ‘Et mons Sinai fumabat totus ille’: quod significet apparitionem boni caelestis in maximo obscuro, constat ex significatione ‘montis Sinai’ quod sit bonum caeleste, ut 1 mox supra n. 8818, et ex significatione ‘fumare’ quod sit apparitio 2 in obscuro; per obscurum intelligitur obscurum fidei quale est illorum qui ab Ecclesia spirituali respective ad illos qui ab Ecclesia caelesti, n. 2708 princ. , 2715, 2718, 2831, 2935, 2937, 3241, 3833, 6289. Per maximum obscurum, quod significatur per quod ‘mons Sinai fumabat totus’ et per id quod mox infra dicitur quod ‘ascenderet fumus ejus sicut fumus fornacis’ intelligitur id obscurum in quo fuit gens Israelitica, coram qua apparitio fiebat; nam Jehovah seu Dominus apparet unicuique secundum quale ejus, n. 8788, 8814; ita sicut amor et sicut lux veri illis qui in bono sunt, at sicut hostis et vindex illis qui in malo sunt; quod talis apparuerit populo 3 Israelitico, constat etiam alibi 4 apud Moschen, Aspectus gloriae Jehovae 5 sicut ignis comedens in capite montis, ante oculos filiorum Israelis, Exod. 24:16, 17:
apud eundem,
Accessistis et stetistis sub monte, cum mons flagrans igne usque ad cor caeli, tenebrae et nubes et caligo, et locutus est Jehovah ad vos e medio ignis, Deut. 6 4:11, 12, 5:19 [KJV 5:22]:
et apud eundem,
Factum cum audivistis vocem e medio tenebrarum, et mons flagrans igne, et accessistis ad me, et dixistis, Quare moriemur? quia comedet nos ignis magnus hic; si addentes 7 nos audire vocem Jehovae Dei nostri amplius, moriemur, Deut. 5:20-22 [KJV 5:23-25];
[2] quod res ita se habeat, est quia quisque non aliter videre potest Deum quam ex talibus quae in se sunt, ut qui in odio est videt Ipsum 8 ex odio, qui in immisericordia videt Ipsum in immisericordia, et vicissim, qui in charitate et 9 misericordia, vident Ipsum ex illis, ac ita in illis; se habet hoc sicut lucis radii qui cum in formas taetras incidunt, vertuntur illi in colores taetros, at cum incidunt in formas pulchras, tunc vertuntur in colores pulchros. Quod ‘fumus’ sit obscurum veri, et quoque caliginosum quod est falsi, constat apud Esai. 9:17, 18, Esaias 34:9, 10 10 ; apud Joelem 3:3, 4 [KJV 2:30, 31]; 11 apud Hoscheam 13:1, 3; 12 in Apocalypsi 9:17, 18, 18:2, 18, Apocalypsis 19:3 13 .
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5. The editors of the third Latin edition made a minor correction here. For details, see the end of the appropriate volume of that edition.
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Arcana Coelestia # 1927
1927. 'Near a spring of water in the desert' means natural truth that has not yet acquired any life. This is clear from the meaning of 'a spring of water' as truth, and from the meaning of 'desert' as that which as yet possesses little life. Something similar is meant by 'desert' in the internal sense of the following reference to the Lord in Luke,
The boy grew and became strong in spirit; he was however in desert places till the days of his manifestation to Israel. Luke 1:80. 1
It may be confirmed from very many places in the Word that 'spring of water' and 'desert' have these meanings, but as 'springs' and also 'a desert' are frequently mentioned in places further on where they have the same meanings, confirmations will in the Lord's Divine mercy be given in those places. What truth is when it has yet to acquire life will be clear from what is to be stated next.
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