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1 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: поди къ Фараону и скажи ему: такъ говоритъ Іегова, Богъ Евреевъ: отпусти народъ Мой, дабы онъ совершилъ Мнј служеніе.

2 А если ты не хочешь отпустить, и еще будешь удерживать его:

3 то вотъ, рука Іеговы будетъ на скотј твоемъ, который въ полј, на коняхъ, на ослахъ, на верблюдахъ, на волахъ, и на овцахъ; будетъ язва весьма тяжкая.

4 И положитъ Іегова раздјленіе между скотомъ Израильскимъ и между скотомъ Египетскимъ, и изъ всего принадлежащаго сынамъ Израилевымъ не умретъ ничего.

5 И назначилъ Іегова время, сказавъ: завтра сдјлаетъ сіе Іегова въ землј сей.

6 И сдјлалъ сіе Іегова на другой день, и вымеръ весь скотъ Египетскій; изъ скота же сыновъ Израилевыхъ не умерло ничего.

7 Фараонъ послалъ узнать и воть, изъ скота Израильскаго не умерло даже ничего. Но сердце Фараоново отягчилось, и онъ не отпустилъ народа.

8 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею и Аарону: возмите полную горстъ сажи изъ печи, и пусть броситъ ее Моисей къ небу въ глазахъ Фараона.

9 И сдјлается пыль по всей землј Египетской; и будетъ на людяхъ и на скотј воспаленіе, соединенное съ нарывами, во всей землј Египетской.

10 Они взяли сажи изъ печи, и явились предъ лице Фараона. Моисей бросилъ ее къ небу, и сдјлалось воспаленіе, соединенное съ нарывами, на людяхъ и на скотј.

11 И не могли тайновјдцы стоять предъ Моисеемъ по причинј воспаленія, потому что воспаленіе было на тайновјдцахъ и на всјхъ Египтянахъ.

12 Но Іегова ожесточилъ сердце Фараона, и онъ не послушалъ ихъ, такъ какъ и говорилъ Іегова Моисею.

13 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: завтра встань рано, и явись предъ лице Фараона, и скажи ему: такъ говоритъ Іегова, Богъ Евреевъ: отпусти народъ Мой, дабы онъ совершилъ Мнј служеніе.

14 Ибо теперь Я пошлю всј язвы Мои въ сердце твое, и на рабовъ твоихъ, и на народъ твой, дабы ты узналъ, что нјтъ подобнаго Мнј на всей землј.

15 Поелику Я уже простеръ руку Мою, то поразилъ бы тебя и народъ твой язвою, и ты истребленъ бы былъ съ земли:

16 но для того сохранилъ тебя, чтобы показать тебј силу Мою, и чтобы проповјдано было имя Мое по всей землј.

17 Еще ли ты будешь противостоять народу Моему, не отпуская его?

18 Вотъ Я пошлю завтра въ сіе самое время градъ весьма сильный, коему подобнаго не было въ Египтј, со времени основанія его, даже до нынј.

19 Итакъ пошли собрать стада твои, и все, что есть у тебя въ полј; на всјхъ людей и скотъ, которые останутся въ полј, и не соберутся въ домы, падетъ градъ, и они умрутъ.

20 Тј изъ рабовъ Фараоновыхъ, которые убоялись слова Іеговы, поспјщно собрали рабовъ своихъ и стада свои въ домы;

21 а кто не обратилъ сердца своего къ слову Іеговы, тотъ оставилъ рабовъ своихъ и стада свои въ полј.

22 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: простри руку твою къ небу, и падетъ градъ на всю землю Египетскую, на людей, и на скотъ, и на всю траву полевую въ землј Египетской.

23 Моисей простеръ посохъ свой къ небу; и Іегова произвелъ громъ и градъ, и огонь разливался по землј, и послалъ Іегова градъ на землю Египетскую.

24 И былъ градъ, и огонь между градомъ; градъ весьма сильный, какого не было во всей землј Египетской со времени населенія оной.

25 И побилъ градъ по всей землј Египетской все, что ни было въ полј, отъ человјка до скота; и всю траву полевую побилъ градъ, и поломалъ всј деревья въ полј.

26 Только въ землј Гесемъ, гдј жили сыны Израилевы, не было града.

27 Фараонъ послалъ, призвалъ Моисея и Аарона, и сказалъ имъ: теперь я согрјшилъ; Іегова праведенъ, а я и народъ мой виновны,

28 Помолитесь Іеговј; пусть перестанутъ громы Божіи и градъ, и отпущу васъ, и вы уже не будете удержаны.

29 Моисей сказалъ ему: какъ скоро я выйду изъ города, простру руки мои къ Іеговј, громы перестанутъ, и града болје не будетъ, дабы ты узналъ, что земля Іеговы.

30 Но я знаю, что ты и рабы твои еще не убоитесь Іеговы Бога.

31 Тогда и ленъ и ячмень были побиты, потому что ячмень колосился, а ленъ далъ головки.

32 А пшеница и полба не были побиты, потому что онј были позднія.

33 И вышелъ Моисей отъ Фараона изъ города, и простеръ руки свои къ Іеговј; и прекратились громъ и градъ, и дождь пересталъ литься на землю.

34 Фараонъ увидјлъ, что пересталъ дождь и градъ, и громъ, и продолжалъ согрјшать, и отягчилъ сердце свое, самъ и рабы его.

35 И ожесточилось сердце Фараона, и онъ не отпустилъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ, какъ и говорилъ Іегова чрезъ Моисея.

   

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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 # 11

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11. Which are in Asia. This symbolically means, to those who from the Word possess the light of truth.

Since, as we said before, all the names of persons and places in the Word mean things having to do with heaven and the church, so too does Asia, and likewise the names of the seven churches there, as will be apparent from considerations that follow.

Asia means those who possess the light of truth from the Word because the Most Ancient Church existed there, followed by the Ancient Church, and later the Israelite Church, and because the Ancient Word existed among them, and later the Israelite Word. For all light of truth comes from the Word.

To be shown that there were ancient churches in the Asiatic world, and that they had a Word which was afterward lost, and that there finally existed there the Word that we have today, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 101-103.

That, now, is the reason that Asia here symbolizes all those who from the Word possess the light of truth.

[2] Regarding the aforementioned Ancient Word which existed in Asia before the Israelite Word, this new information deserves to be reported, that it is still preserved there among peoples who live in Great Tartary. 1 I have spoken with spirits and angels in the spiritual world who came from there, who said that they possessed a Word, that they had possessed it from ancient times, that they conduct their worship in accordance with it, and that it consists of nothing but things that correspond. They said that it also contains the book of Jasher, which is mentioned in Joshua (Joshua 10:12-13) 2 and in the Second Book of Samuel (2 Samuel 1:17, 18) 3 , and that they have among them as well The Wars of Jehovah and Prophecies, books which Moses mentions in Numbers (Numbers 21:14, 15, 27-30) 4 .

Moreover, when I read in their presence the words that Moses took from those books, they looked to see whether they existed there, and they found them.

It was apparent to me from this that the Ancient Word still exists among them.

In the course of my conversation with them they said they worship Jehovah - some of them worshiping Him as an invisible God, some as a visible one.

Furthermore, they related that they do not allow foreigners to enter their midst, with the exception of the Chinese, with whom they cultivate a peaceful relationship, because the Chinese emperor came from them. They said, too, that their country is so populous that they do not believe any region in the whole world to be more populous - which is also believable on account of the wall extending so many miles which the Chinese once built to protect themselves from being invaded by them.

Inquire concerning the Ancient Word in China, and perhaps you will find it there among the Tartars. 5

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1. A vast region controlled by Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries, extending from eastern Europe over much of Asia. After the Turkish groups known as Tatars were conquered and assimilated by the Mongols in the early 13th century, the Mongol invaders of Russia and Hungary became known to Europeans as Tatars or Tartars, and their territory was depicted in maps as Great Tartary.

2. "Then Joshua spoke to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: 'Sun, stand still over Gibeon; and Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.' So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the people had revenge upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher?"

3. "Then David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son, and he told them to teach the children of Judah the Song of the Bow; indeed it is written in the Book of Jasher."

4. "Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Jehovah: 'Waheb in Suphah, the brooks of the Arnon, and the slope of the brooks that reaches to the dwelling of Ar, and lies on the border of Moab.'" "...Therefore the Prophecies say: 'Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be repaired. For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the heights of the Arnon. Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites. But we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. Then we laid waste as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.'"

5. I.e., among the descendants of the Mongols.

  
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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.