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1 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: поди къ Фараону, ибо Я отягчилъ сердце его и сердце рабовъ его, дабы явить между ими сіи знаменія Мои,

2 и дабы ты разсказывалъ сыну твоему, и сыну сына твоего, о томъ, что Я сдјлалъ въ Египтј, и о знаменіяхъ Моихъ, кои Я показалъ въ немъ. и дабы вы знали, что Я Іегова.

3 Моисей и Ааронъ пришли къ Фараону и сказали ему: такъ говоритъ Іегова, Богъ Евреевъ: долго ли ты не смиришься предо Мною? отпусти народъ Мой, дабы онъ совершилъ Мнј служеніе.

4 А если ты не отпустишь народа Моего: то вотъ, завтра Я наведу саранчу на твою область.

5 Она покроетъ лице земли такъ, что нельзя будетъ видјть земли, и појстъ у васъ послјднее, что осталось, уцјлјло отъ града, и појстъ всј дерева, растущія у васъ въ полј;

6 и наполнитъ домы твои, домы всјхъ рабовъ твоихъ и домы всјхъ Египтянъ; чего не видали отцы твои, ни отцы отцевъ твоихъ со дня, какъ живутъ на землј, даже до сего. Моисей обратился и вышедъ отъ Фараона.

7 Тогда рабы Фараоновы сказали ему: долго ли ему насъ мучить? отпусти сихъ людей; пусть они совершатъ служеніе Іеговј, Богу своему; неужели ты еще не видишь, что Египетъ гибнетъ?

8 И возвратили Моисея и Аарона къ Фараону, который сказалъ имъ: подите, совершите служеніе Іеговј Богу вашему. Кто же, и кто пойдетъ?

9 Моисей сказалъ: пойдемъ съ малолјтными нашими и стариками нашими, съ сыновьями нашими, и дочерьми нашими, съ овцами нашими, и съ волами нашими пойдемъ; ибо у насъ праздникъ Іеговј.

10 Фараонъ сказалъ имъ: пусть столько же будетъ Іегова съ вами, сколько я готовъ отпустить васъ съ дјтьми вашими! видите, что у васъ худое въ намјреніи.

11 Нјтъ: подите одни совершеннолјтніе и совершите служеніе Іеговј, такъ какъ вы сего просили. И выгнали ихъ отъ Фараона.

12 Тогда Іегова сказалъ Моисею: простри руку твою на землю Египетскую, и пусть нападетъ саранча иа землю Египетскую, и појстъ всю траву земную, все, что уцјлјло отъ града.

13 И простеръ Моисей посохъ свой на землю Египетскую, и Іегова навелъ на сію землю восточный вјтръ, продолжавшийся весь тотъ день и всю ночь. Настало утро, и восточный вјтръ нанесъ саранчу.

14 И напала саранча на всю землю Египетскую, и легла по всей странј Египетской въ великомъ множествј; прожде не бывало такой саранчи, какъ сія, и послј сего не будетъ такой.

15 Она покрыла лице всей земли, такъ, что земли не было видно, и појла всю траву земную и всј плоды древесные, уцјлјвшіе отъ града, и не осталось никакой зелени, ни на деревахъ, ни на травј полевой во всей землј Египетской.

16 Фараонъ поспјшно призвалъ Моисея и Аарона, и сказалъ: согрјшилъ я предъ Іеговою, Богомъ вашимъ и предъ вами.

17 Теперь простите грјхъ мой и еще разъ, и помолитесь Іеговј, Богу вашему, дабы Онъ только сію смерть отвратилъ отъ меня.

18 Моисей вышелъ отъ Фараона и помолился Іеговј.

19 И воздвигнулъ Іегова съ противной стороны отъ моря весьма сильный вјтръ, и онъ понесъ саранчу и бросилъ ее въ Чермное море, не осталось ни одной саранчи во всей странј Египетской!

20 Но Іегова ожесточилъ сердце Фараона, и онъ не отпустилъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ.

21 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: простри руку твою къ небу, и будетъ тма на землј Египетской, осязаемая тма.

22 Моисей простеръ руку свою къ небу, и была густая тма по всей землј Египетской три дня.

23 Не видјли другъ друга, и никто не вставалъ съ мјста своего три дня; у всјхъ же сыновъ Израилевыхъ былъ свјтъ въ жилищахъ.

24 Фараонъ призвалъ Моисея, и сказалъ: подите, совершите служеніе Іеговј, пусть только останется мјлкій и крупный скотъ вашъ, а дјти ваши пусть идутъ съ вами.

25 Но Моисей сказалъ: дай также въ руки наши жертвы и всесожженія, чтобы принести Іеговј, Богу нашему.

26 Пусть пойдутъ и стада наши съ нами, не останется ни копыта; ибо изъ нихъ мы возмемъ на жертву Іеговј, Богу нашему; но доколј не придемъ туда, мы не знаемъ, что должны принести въ жертву Іеговј.

27 И ожесточилъ Іегова сердце Фараона, и онъ не захотјлъ отпустить ихъ.

28 И сказалъ ему Фараонъ: поди отъ меня; берегись, не являйся болје предъ лице мое, умрешь.

29 Моисей сказалъ: пусть будетъ, какъ ты сказалъ: я не явлюсь болје предъ лице твое.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 657

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657. Seven angels having the seven last plagues. This symbolizes the evils and falsities that exist in the church in its last state exposed in their entirety by the Lord.

Seven angels symbolize the whole of heaven. However, because heaven is heaven owing not to the angels' own inherent qualities, but to the Lord, therefore the seven angels symbolize the Lord. Moreover, only the Lord can expose the evils and falsities that are present in the church. That angels symbolize heaven, and in the highest sense the Lord, may be seen in nos. 5, 258, 344, 465, 644, 647, 648 above.

Plagues symbolize evils and falsities - evils that are matters of love, and falsities that are matters of faith. For these are what are described in the following chapter, symbolized by the foul and noxious sore; by the blood as though of someone dead, causing every living creature to die; by the blood into which the waters of the rivers and springs were turned; by the heat of the fire that scorched people; by the unclean spirits looking like frogs, which were demons; and by the great hail.

The evils and falsities symbolized by all of these are the plagues here. Last plagues symbolize evils and falsities in the church's last state. Seven means, symbolically, all (nos. 10, 390). However, because the evils symbolized by the plagues in the following chapter are not all evils in particular, but all evils in general, seven here symbolically means all universally; for a universal entity embraces all of its constituents in particular.

It is apparent from this that John's seeing seven angels having the seven last plagues means symbolically that the evils and falsities that exist in the church and their character in its last state were exposed in their entirety by the Lord.

[2] That plagues symbolize spiritual plagues, which afflict people with respect to their souls and destroy them, and that these plagues or afflictions are evils and falsities, can be seen from the following passages:

From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness..., but a fresh wound not lanced; neither has it been bound up or softened... (Isaiah 1:6)

(Jehovah) is striking the peoples wrathfully with an incurable plague... (Isaiah 14:6)

(Jehovah,) remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand. (Psalms 39:10)

Your fracture is beyond hope...; for I have struck you with the affliction of an enemy... for the multitude of your iniquities; your sins have become many... But I will... heal you of your afflictions... (Jeremiah 30:12, 14, 17)

If you do not carefully keep all the words of (the Law)..., Jehovah will bring upon you... extraordinary plagues - great and prolonged plagues - (and) every plague... which is not written in this book of the Law... until you are destroyed. (Deuteronomy 28:58-59, 61)

No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your tent. (Psalms 91:10)

Edom shall become a desolation. Everyone who goes by... will hiss at all its plagues. (Jeremiah 49:17)

...she shall be a desolation. Everyone who passes by Babylon shall be dumbfounded, and hiss over all her plagues. (Jeremiah 50:13)

...plagues will come (upon Babylon) in one day... (Revelation 18:8)

(The two witnesses will) strike the earth with every plague... (Revelation 11:6)

The plagues in Egypt, which were in part like the plagues described in the following chapter, symbolized nothing else but evils and falsities. You may find the plagues in Egypt enumerated in no. 503 1 above. They are also called plagues in Exodus 9:14; 11:1.

It is apparent from this that plagues and afflictions mean, symbolically, nothing other than spiritual plagues and afflictions, which afflict people with respect to their souls and destroy them. So also in Isaiah 30:26; Zechariah 14:12, 15; Psalms 38:5, 11; Revelation 9:20; 16:21; Exodus 12:13; 30:12; Numbers 11:33; Luke 7:21; and elsewhere.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. No. 503:4.

  
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Apocalypse Revealed # 10

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10. John, to the seven churches. (1:4) This symbolically means, to all who are in the Christian world where the Word exists and where through it the Lord is known, and who turn to the church.

The seven churches mean, not seven churches, but all who are constituents of the church in the Christian world. For numbers in the Word symbolize properties, and seven symbolizes all things or all people, and so also fullness and completeness, and it occurs in the Word where the subject is something holy, and in an opposite sense, something profane. Consequently this number involves holiness, and in an opposite sense, profanation.

Numbers symbolize properties, or rather they serve as a class of adjectives to substantives, assigning some attribute to their subjects, because a number in itself is a natural quantity. For natural things are measured by numbers, but spiritual things by properties and their states. Therefore someone who does not know the symbolism of numbers in the Word, and particularly in the book of Revelation, cannot know the many secrets that it contains.

Now, because seven symbolizes all things or all people, it is apparent that the seven churches mean all people in the Christian world where the Word exists and where through it the Lord is known. If these live according to the Lord's commandments in the Word, they form the real church.

[2] It is because of this that the Sabbath was instituted on the seventh day, and that the seventh year was called a sabbatical year, and the forty-ninth year the year of Jubilee, which symbolized everything holy in the church.

It is because of this, too, that a week in Daniel and elsewhere symbolizes an entire period from beginning to end and is predicated of the church.

Similar things are symbolized by seven hereafter, as for example, by the seven golden lampstands, in the midst of which was the Son of Man (Revelation 1:13); by the seven stars in His right hand (1:16, 20); by the seven spirits of God (1:4; 4:5); by the seven lamps of fire (4:5); by the seven angels to whom were given seven trumpets (8:2); by the seven angels having the seven last plagues (15:5-6); by the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues (16:1; 21:9); by the seven seals with which the book was sealed (5:1).

Likewise in the following places: That their hands should be filled for seven days (Exodus 29:35). That they should be sanctified for seven days (Exodus 29:37). That when they were inaugurated they should go in seven days, clothed in holy garments (Exodus 29:30). That for seven days they should not go out of the Tabernacle while being initiated into the priesthood (Leviticus 8:33, 35). That atonement should be made for the altar seven times on its horns (Leviticus 16:18-19), and also seven times toward the east (Leviticus 16:12-15). That the water of separation should be sprinkled seven times toward the Tabernacle (Numbers 19:4). That Passover should be celebrated for seven days and unleavened bread eaten for seven days (Exodus 12:1ff., Deuteronomy 16:4-7).

So, too, that the Jews should be punished sevenfold for their sins (Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28), on which account David says, "Requite our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom" (Psalms 79:12). "Sevenfold" means fully.

[3] Also in these places:

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver... in a furnace... purified seven times. (Psalms 12:6)

The hungry have ceased, until the barren has borne seven, while she who has many children has become feeble. (1 Samuel 2:5)

"The barren" is the church of the gentiles, who did not have the Word. "She who has many children" is the church of the Jews, who did have the Word. Similarly,

She will languish who has borne seven; she will breath out her soul. (Jeremiah 15:9)

Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will... set on fire and burn the weapons...; and they will make fires with them for seven years... ...they will bury Gog, and... for seven months... will be cleansing the land. (Ezekiel 39:9, 11-12)

(The unclean spirit) will take seven other spirits more wicked than himself... (Matthew 12:45)

Profanation is described there, and the seven spirits with which he would return symbolize all falsities of evil, thus a complete extinguishing of goodness and truth.

The seven heads of the dragon, and the seven jewels 1 on its heads (Revelation 12:3), symbolize the profanation of all goodness and truth.

This makes apparent that "seven" involves holiness or profanation, and symbolizes completeness and fullness.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The word translated as "jewels" here means diadems or crowns in the original Greek and Latin, but the writer's definitions of the term elsewhere make plain that he regularly and consistently interpreted it to mean jewels or gems.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.