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Éxodo 11

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1 Y el SEÑOR dijo a Moisés: Una plaga traeré aún sobre el Faraón, y sobre Egipto; después de la cual él os dejará ir de aquí; y seguramente os echará de aquí del todo.

2 Habla ahora al pueblo, y que cada uno demande a su vecino, y cada una a su vecina, vasos de plata y de oro.

3 Y el SEÑOR dio gracia al pueblo en los ojos de los egipcios. También Moisés era gran varón en la tierra de Egipto, delante de los siervos del Faraón, y delante del pueblo.

4 Y dijo Moisés: El SEÑOR ha dicho así: A la medianoche yo saldré por en medio de Egipto,

5 y morirá todo primogénito en tierra de Egipto, desde el primogénito del Faraón que está asentado en su trono, hasta el primogénito de la sierva que está tras la muela; y todo primogénito de las bestias.

6 Y habrá gran clamor por toda la tierra de Egipto, cual nunca fue, ni jamás será.

7 Mas entre todos los hijos de Israel, desde el hombre hasta la bestia, ni un perro moverá su lengua: para que sepáis que hará diferencial el SEÑOR entre los egipcios y los israelitas.

8 Y descenderán a mí todos estos tus siervos, e inclinados delante de mí dirán: Sal tú, y todo el pueblo que está debajo de ti; y después de esto yo saldré. Y salió muy enojado de la presencia del Faraón.

9 Y el SEÑOR dijo a Moisés: El Faraón no os oirá, para que mis maravillas se multipliquen en la tierra de Egipto.

10 Y Moisés y Aarón hicieron todos estos prodigios delante del Faraón: mas el SEÑOR había endurecido el corazón del Faraón, para que no dejase ir de su tierra a los hijos de Israel.

   

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Companion

  
Good Friend, by Hermann Kern

In the Bible, there is a careful distinction between the word “brother” and the word “companion” or “friend.” That’s partly because the people of Israel used the word “brother” to identify another Hebrew and “companion” for a non-Hebrew acquaintance. But as you might expect, it also has a spiritual significance. According to Swedenborg, “brother” represents people or spiritual states that are linked through shared loves - a similar desire for good. “Companion” or “friend” represents people or spiritual states linked through shared thoughts and ideas – a powerful link, but not as internal as “brother.”

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Moses

  

At the inmost level, the story of Moses -- like all of the Bible -- is about the Lord and his spiritual development during his human life as Jesus. Moses's role represents establishing forms of worship and to make the people obedient. As such, his primary representation is "the Law of God," the rules God gave the people of Israel to follow in order to represent spiritual things. This can be interpreted narrowly as the Ten Commandments, more broadly as the books of Moses, or most broadly as the entire Bible. Fittingly, his spiritual meaning is complex and important, and evolves throughout the course of his life. To understand it, it helps to understand the meaning of the events in which he was involved. At a more basic level, Moses's story deals with the establishment of the third church to serve as a container of knowledge of the Lord. The first such church -- the Most Ancient Church, represented by Adam and centered on love of the Lord -- had fallen prey to human pride and was destroyed. The second -- the Ancient Church, represented by Noah and the generations that followed him -- was centered on love of the neighbor, wisdom from the Lord and knowledge of the correspondences between natural and spiritual things. It fell prey to the pride of intelligence, however -- represented by the Tower of Babel -- and at the time of Moses was in scattered pockets that were sliding into idolatry. On an external level, of course, Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt through 40 years in the wilderness to the border of the homeland God had promised them. Along the way, he established and codified their religious system, and oversaw the creation of its most holy objects. Those rules and the forms of worship they created were given as containers for deeper ideas about the Lord, deeper truth, and at some points -- especially when he was first leading his people away from Egypt, a time before the rules had been written down -- Moses takes on the deeper representation of Divine Truth itself, truth from the Lord. At other times -- especially after Mount Sinai -- he has a less exalted meaning, representing the people of Israel themselves due to his position as their leader. Through Moses the Lord established a third church, one more external than its predecessors but one that could preserve knowledge of the Lord and could, through worship that represented spiritual things, make it possible for the Bible to be written and passed to future generations.