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1 Въ третій мјсяцъ по изшествіи сыновъ Израиля изъ земли Египетской, въ самый день новолунія, пришли они въ пустыню Синайскую.

2 Отправившись изъ Рефидима, пришли въ пустыню Синайскую, и расположились станомъ въ пустынј; и поставилъ тамъ Израиль станъ противъ горы.

3 Моисей взошелъ къ Богу; и Іегова воззвалъ къ нему съ горы, говоря: Такъ скажи дому Іаковлеву И возвјсти сынамъ Израилевымъ:

4 Вы видјли, что Я сдјлалъ Египтянамъ; и какъ Я поднялъ васъ на орлиныхъ крылъяхъ, и принесъ васъ къ Себј,

5 Итакъ, если вы будете слушать гласа Моего, и соблюдать завјтъ Мой, то будете Моею драгоцјнностію изъ всјхъ народовъ; ибо вся земля Моя.

6 Вы будете у Меня царствомъ священниковъ и народомъ святымъ. Вотъ слова, которыя ты скажешь сынамъ Израилевымъ.

7 Моисей пришелъ и созвалъ старјйшинъ народа, и предложилъ имъ всј сіи слова, которыя заповјдалъ ему Іегова.

8 Весь народъ отвјчалъ единогласно, говоря: все, что сказалъ Іегова, исполнимъ. И донесъ Моисей слова народа Іеговј.

9 Іегова сказалъ Моисею: вотъ, Я приду къ тебј въ густомъ облакј, дабы слышалъ народъ, какъ Я буду говорить съ тобою, и повјрилъ тебј навсегда. Моисей опять донесъ слова народа Іеговј.

10 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: поди къ народу, и освяти его сегодня и завтра; пусть вымоютъ одежду свою,

11 и будутъ готовы къ третьему дню: ибо въ третій день Іегова предъ очами всего народа сойдетъ на гору Синай.

12 И положи для народа черту со всјхъ сторонъ, и скажи: берегитесь восходить на гору, и прикасаться къ подошвј ея; всякой, кто прикоснется къ горј, преданъ будетъ смерти.

13 Рука не прикоснется къ нему, а побьютъ его камнями, или застрјлятъ стрјлами; скотъ ли то, или человјкъ, не останется въ живыхъ. Во время протяжнаго трубнаго звука могутъ они взойдти на гору.

14 Моисей сошелъ съ горы къ народу, и освятилъ народъ, и они вымыли одежду свою.

15 И сказалъ народу: будьте готовы къ третьему дню: не прикасайтесь къ женамъ.

16 На третій день при наступленіи утра были громы, молніи, густое облако надъ горою, и трубный звукъ, весьма сильный, и вострепеталъ весь народъ бывшій въ станј.

17 И вывелъ Моисей народъ изъ стана въ срјтеніе Богу, и стали у подошвы горы.

18 Гора же Синай вся дымилась отъ того, что Іегова сошелъ на нее въ огнј; отъ ней восходилъ дымъ, какъ дымъ пещи, и вся Гора сильно колебалась.

19 Гласъ трубный усиливался болје и болје, Моисей говорилъ, а Богъ отвјтствовалъ ему гласомъ.

20 И сошелъ Іегова на гору Синай, на вершину горы, и призвалъ Іегова Моисея на вершину горы, и взошелъ Моисей.

21 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: сойди, подтверди народу, чтобы онъ не порывался къ Іеговј, дабы видјть; иначе падутъ многіе изъ него.

22 Самые священники, приближающіеся къ Іеговј, должны освятить себя, чтобы не поразилъ ихъ Іегова.

23 И сказалъ Моисей Іеговј: не можетъ народъ взойдти на гору Синай; потому что Ты приказалъ намъ, говоря: положи черту вокругъ горы, и освяти ее.

24 И сказалъ ему Іегова: поди, сойди; потомъ взойди ты и съ тобою Ааронъ: а священники и народъ да не дерзаютъ восходить къ Іеговј, чтобы не поразилъ ихъ.

25 Моисей сошелъ къ народу и пересказалъ ему.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8812

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8812. 'When it came to be morning' means a state when they were governed by good. This is clear from the meaning of 'morning' as a state of the good of love, dealt with in 8426. From these details - that Jehovah, that is, the Lord, came down onto Mount Sinai on the third day, and also in the morning of that day - it is plainly evident that this event was representative of some Divine reality in heaven which no one can come to know about except from the correspondence of such things as arise in the natural world with realities in the spiritual world, and therefore from the spiritual meaning of those things. This is so here so far as the meaning of 'morning' and 'the third day' are concerned. 'The third day' means the end of a former state, and it does so because 'three' means what is complete from start to finish, 8790; and 'morning' means a state of the good of love, because the sun - the sun in the next life which gives light to angels and the whole of heaven - is the Lord. The fire there is His Divine Love, which gives vital heat to all that lives, and the light there is Divine Truth which enlightens all who receive it. The sun there is altogether different from the sun in the world, whose fire is fire and not love, and whose radiating light is light and not truth.

[2] All this goes to show what kind of effects the fire and also the light coming from the sun in the world produce, and what kind of effects the fire and light coming from the sun of heaven produce. The sun in the world provides heat and light without life, whereas the sun in heaven provides heat and light together with life. The latter, being provided by the sun of heaven, are therefore called spiritual, because they hold life within them, whereas the former, which are provided by the sun of the world, are called natural and do not hold life within them. The life in living things that is recognized in their heat and indicated by it does not come from the heat of the sun in the world but from the heat of the sun in heaven. When the latter heat enters heat in the world it produces that effect; the body feels it as elemental heat, but this has vital heat in it, which has its origin in the love that is heat from the sun of heaven. The truth that vital heat springs from a source other than the sun in the world, and that it owes its origin to love and exists according to the amount and the character of that love within it, anyone is able to know provided that he is prepared to think about it properly. Anyone can know except those who do not acknowledge anything internal in the human being and attribute everything to natural forces.

[3] Since therefore heat from the sun in heaven, which is the Lord, is the good of love, and the light from it is the truth of faith, one may see what is meant by 'morning', and what by 'midday', 'evening', and 'night' in the next life. They are states of good and truth or love and faith, 'morning' being a state of the good of love, 'midday' a state of the truth of faith, 'evening and night' a deprivation of them, which is ignorance and blindness in insights that belong to faith, and also slowness and coldness in feelings that belong to heavenly love.

[4] Furthermore the situation with the sun of heaven is as it is with the sun in the world, in that it is motionless and does not bring about those states by any wheeling round of its own. Rather the things around it bring them about, just as a planet travelling round the sun and at the same time rotating on its axis produces changes. The appearance therefore is that those changes are attributable to the sun, but in reality they are not attributable to the sun, only to the planet going round it. So also in heaven. Changes of state there, to which morning, midday, evening, and night correspond, are not attributable to the sun there, for that sun is always radiating heat and light, that is, the good of love and the truth of faith. Instead those changes are attributable to the recipients, that is to say, to the angels and spirits, who move through a regular cycle of such changes as their life progresses. At one point it is morning, that is, they are filled with the good of love; at another it is midday, that is, they are enlightened with the truth of faith; and at yet another it is evening and night, that is, these gifts become vague and dull with them.

[5] The reason why the situation in the world is as it is in heaven, except for the difference that in the world the regular cycle consists of states belonging to the times of day, while in heaven it consists of states of life, is that all things in the world have been created in the image of those in heaven. For natural things arise from spiritual ones as effects from their causes. Consequently there is a correspondence of all things in the world with those in heaven, and therefore the whole natural order is nothing other than a theatre representative of the Lord's kingdom, 3483, 4939, 8211.

  
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