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1 Между тјмъ Моисей былъ пастыремъ овецъ у Іофора тестя своего, священника Мадіамскаго. Однажды провелъ онъ стадо далеко въ пустыню, и пришелъ къ горј Божіей Хориву.

2 Здјсь явидся ему Ангелъ Іеговы въ пылающемъ огнј среди терноваго куста. Онъ смотритъ, и вотъ, терновый кустъ пылаетъ огнемъ, но кустъ не сгараетъ.

3 Моисей сказалъ: пойду и посмотрю на сіе великое явленіе, отъ чего кустъ не сгараетъ.

4 Іегова увидјлъ, что онъ идетъ смотрјть и воззвалъ къ нему Богъ изъ среды куста, и сказалъ: Моисей! Моисей! Онъ сказалъ: я!

5 Богъ сказалъ: не подходи сюда; сними обувь твою съ ногъ твоихъ; ибо мјсто, на которомъ ты стоишь, есть земля святая.

6 И сказалъ: Я Богъ отца твоего, Богъ Авраама, Богъ Исаака, и Богъ Іакова. Моисей закрылъ лице свое, потому что боялся воззрјть на Бога.

7 И сказалъ Іегова: Я вижу страданіе народа Моего, который въ Египтј, и слышу, какъ онъ стонетъ отъ приставниковъ своихъ; знаю скорби его;

8 Я снизшелъ избавить его отъ руки Египтянъ, и возвести его изъ земли сей въ землю добрую и пространную, въ землю, гдј течетъ молоко и медъ, на мјсто Хананеевъ, и Хеттеевъ, и Аюрреевъ, и Ферезеевъ, и Хивеевъ, и Іевусеевъ.

9 И нынј, се, вопль сыновъ Израилевыхъ дошелъ до Меня, и Я вижу угнетеніе, какимъ угнетаютъ ихъ Египтяне.

10 Итакъ поди: Я пошлю тебя къ Фараону; и выведи изъ Египта народъ Мой, сыновъ Израилевыхъ.

11 Моисей сказалъ Богу: кто я, мнј ли идти къ Фараону, и мнј ли вывести изъ Египта сыновъ Израилевыхъ?

12 Но Богъ говорилъ: ибо Я буду съ тобою; и вотъ тебј знаменіе, что Я послалъ тебя: когда ты выведешь народъ изъ Египта, вы совершите служеніе Богу при сей самой горј.

13 Моисей сказалъ Богу: вотъ, я приду къ сынамъ Израилевымъ и скажу имъ: Богъ отцевъ вашихъ послалъ меня къ вамъ. А они мнј скажутъ: какъ Ему имя? Что мнј сказать имъ?

14 Богъ сказалъ Моисею: Я есмъ Тотъ, Который есмь, и сказалъ: такъ скажи сынамъ Израилевымъ: Сущій послалъ меня къ вамъ.

15 Еще сказалъ Богъ Моисею: такъ скажи сынамъ Израилевымъ: Іегова, Богъ отцевъ вашихъ, Богъ Авраамовъ, Богъ Исааковъ и Богъ Іаковлевъ послалъ меня къ вамъ. Вотъ имя Мое на вјки, и вотъ именованіе Мое изъ рода въ родъ.

16 Поди, собери старјйшинъ Израилевыхъ, и скажи имъ: Іегова, Богъ отцевъ вашихъ явился мнј, Богъ Авраамовъ, Богъ Исааковъ и Іаковлевъ, и сказалъ: Я обратилъ вниманіе на васъ, и на то, что дјлается съ вами въ Египтј.

17 И сказалъ: Я выведу васъ отъ угнетенія Египетскаго въ землю Хананеевъ, и Хеттеевъ, и Аморреевъ, и Ферезеевъ, и Хивеевъ, и Іевусеевъ, въ землю, гдј течетъ молоко и медъ.

18 И они послушаютъ гласа твоего, и пойдешь ты и старјйшины Израилевы къ царю Египетскому, и скажете ему: Іегова, Богъ Евреевъ явился намъ; итакъ отпусти насъ въ пустыню, на три дня пути, чтобы принести жертву Іеговј Богу нашему.

19 Но я знаю, что царь Египетскій не позволитъ вамъ идти, если не принудітъ его рукою крјпкою.

20 И Я простру руку Мою, и поражу Египетъ всјми чудесами Моими, которыя сдјлаю среди его; и послј сего онъ отпуститъ васъ.

21 И дамъ народу сему благодать предъ очами Египтянъ; и такимъ образомъ, когда пойдете, то пойдете не съ пустыми руками.

22 Каждая женщина выпроситъ у сосјдки своей и у живущей въ домј ея вещей серебряныхъ, и вещей золотыхъ, и одеждъ; и вы украсите ими сыновей вашихъ и дочерей вашихъ, и оберете Египтянъ.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 505

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505. Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their bodies for three and a half days. (11:9) This symbolizes all those who were or who would be caught up in doctrinal falsities and the resulting evil practices at the end of the church still existing, when they have heard and later hear about these two essential elements at the beginning of the New Church, namely, an acknowledgment of the Lord and of works in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

Peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations mean all those of the Protestant Reformed who were or who would be caught up in doctrinal falsities and the resulting evil practices owing to their faith alone. Peoples symbolize people caught up in doctrinal falsities (no. 483), tribes the falsities and evils in the church (no. 349), tongues a confession and acceptance of these (no. 483), and nations people caught up in evil practices (no. 483). Therefore the four together symbolize all those individually and collectively who were or who would be of such a character, thus all those who were in that great city and all those like them who would later come from the world.

The bodies that they would see, those of the two witnesses, symbolize the two essential elements of the New Church, as said in no. 501 above. That they would see them means, symbolically, when they have heard and later hear about them, since it is bodies that are said to be seen, and the two essential elements that are heard.

Three and a half days mean, symbolically, at the end and then the beginning, namely, at the end of the church still existing and the beginning of a new one.

Putting all these things together now into a single meaning, it is apparent that "those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their bodies for three and a half days" has, in the spiritual sense, the symbolic meaning stated above.

Three and a half days mean, symbolically, at the end and then the beginning because a day symbolizes a state, the number three symbolizes something completed to the end, and a half symbolizes a new beginning. For three and half days have the same symbolic meaning as a week, six days of which symbolize something completed to the end, and the seventh day something holy. That is because the number three and a half is one half of seven, and seven days constitute a week; and a number doubled or divided has the same symbolic meaning.

[2] That the number three symbolizes something completed, thus something completed to the end, can be seen from the following accounts in the Word:

That Isaiah was to go naked and barefoot for three years (Isaiah 20:3).

That Jehovah called three times to Samuel, and Samuel ran three times to Eli, and that the third time Eli understood (1 Samuel 3:1-8).

That Elijah stretched himself out three times on the widow's son (1 Kings 17:21).

That Elijah ordered that water be poured on the burnt sacrifice three times (1 Kings 18:34).

That Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal (Matthew 13:33).

That Jesus told Peter he would deny Him three times (Matthew 26:34).

That the Lord asked Peter three times, "Do you love Me?" (John 21:15-17).

That Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights (Jonah 1:17).

That Jesus said He would destroy the Temple and in three days build it (Matthew 26:61, John 2:19)

That Jesus prayed three times in Gethsemane (Matthew 26:39-44).

That Jesus rose on the third day (Matthew 28:1ff.).

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 16:14; Hosea 6:2; Exodus 3:18; 10:22-23; 19:1, 11, 15-16, 18; Leviticus 19:23-25; Numbers 19:11-22; 31:19-24; Deuteronomy 19:2-4; 26:12; Joshua 1:11; 3:2; 1 Samuel 20:5, 12, 19-20, 35-36, 41; 2 Samuel 24:11-13; Daniel 10:1-3; Mark 12:2, 4-6; Luke 20:12; 13:32-33.

Seven, like three, symbolizes something full and complete, but seven is predicated of holy things, while three is predicated of things not holy.

  
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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.