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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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True Christianity # 19

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19. 1. The one God is called Jehovah from "being," that is, from the fact that he alone is [and was] and will be, and that he is the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega. "Jehovah" means "I am" and "to be," as is generally known. We know from the Book of Creation, or Genesis, that God was called "Jehovah" from most ancient times. In the first chapter he is called "God," but in the second and subsequent chapters he is called "Jehovah God. " Later on the descendants of Abraham through Jacob forgot the name of God owing to their long sojourn in Egypt. Then in the event recorded in the following passage it was recalled to memory:

Moses said to God, "What is your name?" God said, "I Am I Who Am. So you will say to the Children of Israel, 'I Am sent me to you. ' And you will say, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, sent me to you. This is my name to eternity, and this is how I will be remembered from generation to regeneration. " (Exodus 3:13-15)

Since God alone is "I Am" and being, or "Jehovah," therefore nothing exists in the created universe that does not derive its underlying reality from him. (How this happens will be discussed below [21, 75-76, 78].) The same thing is meant by these words: "I am the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega" (Isaiah 44:6 and Revelation 1:8, 11; 22:13). This means that on every level of existence he is the one and only entity, the source of all things.

[2] God is called the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, because alpha is the first letter in the Greek alphabet and omega is the last; so together they mean all things as a whole.

In the spiritual world, every alphabetical letter has a meaning. A vowel, because it carries tone, means a feeling or some kind of love. Spiritual and angelic speech, and also writing, depends on these meanings - but this is a mystery that has not been known until now. There is in fact a universal language shared by all angels and spirits. It has nothing in common with any human language in our world. After death everyone inherits that language, because it is latent in everyone from creation. In the spiritual world, then, everyone can understand everyone else. I have often been allowed to hear that language. I have compared it with languages in the physical world and have ascertained that it has not even the least thing in common with any earthly language. It differs by its very origin, which is that every letter of every word has a meaning. This is why God is here called the Alpha and the Omega, meaning that on every level of existence he is the one and only entity, the source of all things. (For more on how this language and its written form flow from angels' spiritual thought, see the work Marriage Love 326-329; see also what follows in this work [280].)

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.