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1 Inalagaan nga ni Moises ang kawan ni Jethro na kaniyang biyanan, na saserdote sa Madian: at kaniyang pinatnubayan ang kawan sa likuran ng ilang, at napasa bundok ng Dios, sa Horeb.

2 At ang anghel ng Panginoon ay napakita sa kaniya, sa isang ningas ng apoy na mula sa gitna ng isang mababang punong kahoy; at siya'y nagmasid, at, narito, ang kahoy ay nagniningas sa apoy, at ang kahoy ay hindi natutupok.

3 At sinabi ni Moises, Ako'y liliko ngayon, at titingnan ko itong dakilang panoorin, kung bakit ang kahoy ay hindi natutupok.

4 At nang makita ng Panginoon na panonoorin niya, ay tinawag siya ng Dios mula sa gitna ng mababang punong kahoy, at sinabi, Moises, Moises. At kaniyang sinabi, Narito ako.

5 At sinabi, Huwag kang lumapit dito, hubarin mo ang iyong panyapak sa iyong mga paa, sapagka't ang dakong iyong kinatatayuan ay banal na lupa.

6 Bukod dito ay sinabi, Ako ang Dios ng iyong ama ang Dios ni Abraham, ang Dios ni Isaac, at ang Dios ni Jacob. At si Moises nga ay nagtakip ng kaniyang mukha; sapagka't siya'y natakot na tumingin sa Dios.

7 At sinabi ng Panginoon, Akin ngang nakita ang kadalamhatian ng aking bayan na nasa Egipto, at aking dininig ang kanilang daing dahil sa mga tagapagpaatag sa kanila; sapagka't talastas ko ang kanilang kapanglawan.

8 At ako'y bumaba upang iligtas sila sa kamay ng mga Egipcio at upang sila'y isampa sa isang mabuting lupain at malawak, mula sa lupaing yaon, sa isang lupaing binubukalan ng gatas at pulot sa dako ng Cananeo, at ng Hetheo, at ng Amorrheo, at ng Pherezeo, at ng Heveo at ng Jebuseo.

9 At ngayon narito, ang daing ng mga anak ni Israel ay umabot sa akin; saka aking nakita ang kapighatian na ipinipighati sa kanila ng mga Egipcio.

10 Halika nga ngayon, at ikaw ay aking susuguin kay Faraon, upang iyong ilabas sa Egipto ang aking bayan na mga anak ni Israel.

11 At sinabi ni Moises sa Dios, Sino ako, upang pumaroon kay Faraon, at upang ilabas sa Egipto ang mga anak ni Israel?

12 At kaniyang sinabi, Tunay na ako'y sasaiyo; at ito'y magiging tanda sa iyo, na ikaw ay aking sinugo: pagka iyong nailabas na sa Egipto ang bayan ay maglilingkod kayo sa Dios sa bundok na ito.

13 At sinabi ni Moises sa Dios, Narito, pagdating ko sa mga anak ni Israel, at sasabihin ko sa kanila, Sinugo ako sa inyo ng Dios ng inyong mga magulang; at sasabihin nila sa akin: Ano ang kaniyang pangalan? anong sasabihin ko sa kanila?

14 At sinabi ng Dios kay Moises, AKO YAONG AKO NGA; at kaniyang sinabi, Ganito ang sasabihin mo sa mga anak ni Israel, Sinugo ako sa inyo ni AKO NGA.

15 At sinabi pa ng Dios kay Moises, Ganito ang sasabihin mo sa mga anak ni Israel, Sinugo ako sa inyo ng Panginoon, ng Dios ng inyong mga magulang, ng Dios ni Abraham, ng Dios ni Isaac, at ng Dios ni Jacob: ito ang aking pangalan magpakailan man, at ito ang aking pinakaalaala sa lahat ng mga lahi.

16 Yumaon ka at tipunin mo ang mga matanda sa Israel, at sabihin mo sa kanila, Ang Panginoon, ang Dios ng inyong mga magulang, ang Dios ni Abraham, ni Isaac, at ni Jacob; ay napakita sa akin, na nagsasabi, tunay na kayo'y aking dinalaw, at aking nakita ang ginagawa sa inyo sa Egipto.

17 At aking sinabi, Aking aalisin kayo sa kapighatian sa Egipto at dadalhin ko kayo, sa lupain ng Cananeo, at ng Hetheo, at ng Amorrheo, at ng Pherezeo, at ng Heveo, at ng Jebuseo, sa isang lupaing binubukalan ng gatas at pulot.

18 At kanilang didinggin ang iyong tinig: at ikaw ay paroroon, ikaw at ang mga matanda sa Israel, sa hari sa Egipto, at inyong sasabihin sa kaniya, Ang Panginoon, ang Dios ng mga Hebreo, ay nakipagtagpo sa amin: at ngayo'y pahintulutan mo kami na maglakbay, na tatlong araw sa ilang, upang kami ay makapaghain sa Panginoon naming Dios.

19 At talastas ko, na hindi kayo pababayaang yumaon ng hari sa Egipto, kung hindi sa pamamagitan ng isang makapangyarihang kamay.

20 At aking iuunat ang aking kamay, at sasaktan ko ang Egipto ng aking buong kababalaghan na aking gagawin sa gitna niyaon at pagkatapos niyaon ay pahihintulutan niya kayong yumaon.

21 At pagkakalooban ko ang bayang ito ng biyaya sa paningin ng mga Egipcio: ay mangyayari, na pagyaon ninyo, ay hindi kayo yayaong walang dala:

22 Kundi bawa't babae ay hihingi sa kaniyang kapuwa, at sa tumatahan sa kaniyang bahay, ng mga hiyas na pilak, at mga hiyas na ginto at mga damit: at inyong ipagsusuot sa inyong mga anak na lalake at babae; at inyong sasamsaman ang mga Egipcio.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6952

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6952. 'Put out your hand and take hold of the tail' means the power of raising something from the last part of the sensory level. This is clear from the meaning of 'hand' as power, dealt with above in 6947; and from the meaning of 'the serpent's tail' as the lowest part of the sensory level - 'a serpent' is the sensory level, see above in 6949, so that 'its tail' is the last or lowest part of it. Raising something is meant by 'putting out and taking hold', for a person who puts out his hand and takes hold of some creature crawling on the ground raises it up. Since 'a serpent' means the separated sensory level and the resulting reasoning based on the illusions of the senses regarding the truths of faith, 'the serpent's tail' means falsity itself, for this falsity constitutes the last and lowest part. A person ruled by falsity, thus by what is last and lowest, looks altogether downwards and outwards, that is, in a worldly and earthly direction, not upwards and inwards, that is, to heaven and the Lord.

[2] The fact that these kinds of things are meant by 'the serpent's tail' is clear in John,

The locusts had tails like scorpions, and stings were in their tails, and their power, in order that they might do people harm. Revelation 9:10.

'Tails like scorpions' and 'stings in the tails' are artful reasonings based on falsities by means of which they can convince and thereby damage people; and this is why it says that the power they have is 'to do people harm'.

[3] In the same author,

The horses' tails were like serpents, having heads; and by means of them they do harm. Revelation 9:19.

Here likewise 'tails like serpents' stands for reasonings based on falsities by means of which they cause harm, especially as it is said that such tails were those of horses and had heads. For 'horses' and also 'head' mean the area of understanding in the mind, and therefore 'tails' here means the more artful kinds of reasonings against truths that are based on illusions and consequent falsities. These reasonings are the lowest, for the more artful the reasonings against truths are, the lower they are.

[4] In the same author,

The dragon's tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven and cast them down to the earth. Revelation 12:4.

'The dragon's tail' stands in a similar way for reasonings based on falsities. 'The stars of heaven' stands for cognitions of goodness and truth, 'casting them down to the earth' for destroying them. The dragon is the serpent which uses reasonings based on falsities to lead people astray and which led astray in paradise 'the mother of living ones', who was Eve, because of the tree of knowledge, that is, by means of factual knowledge based on sensory evidence, thus on illusions. This is also made plain in John,

The great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, who is called the devil and satan, who leads the whole world astray. Revelation 12:9.

[5] The fact that 'the tail' in general is the separated sensory level of the mind which does not look upwards but downwards, thus not in a heavenly but an earthly direction, and that consequently it means falsity is clear in Isaiah,

Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, the branch and the bulrush. The old and the honourable [in face] is the head, but the prophet, the teacher of a lie, is the tail. Isaiah 9:14-15.

Here 'tail' plainly stands for falsity, which the Word calls 'a lie'. In the same prophet,

There will not be for Egypt [any] work which the head and tail, branch and bulrush, may do. Isaiah 19:15.

'Bulrush' stands for that which is lowest. In Moses,

So Jehovah will give you to be the head, and not to be the tail, in order that you may be tending only upwards, but not be tending downwards, when you obey the commandments of your God. Deuteronomy 18:13.

[6] 'The tail' stands for the lowest part which looks downwards or outwards, that is, in a worldly and earthly direction and not towards heaven and the Lord. For the interior parts of the human mind together with sensory levels are raised upwards by the Lord when a person is governed by the good of faith and charity. But if he is governed by evil and falsity, then the interior parts together with the sensory levels look downwards and so solely to things in the world. As a consequence he sheds his human nature and assumes a beast-like nature, for wild beasts look downwards or solely to things on earth. The person who looks downwards wills what is evil and thinks what is false, but one whom the Lord raises upwards wills what is good and thinks what is true. A raising by the Lord does in actual fact take place and therefore a removal from evils and falsities. Angels have the actual feeling of being raised up; it is like the force drawing things towards the centre of attraction, the centre being where the Lord is within His Sun. Angels have their heads raised in this direction, but those in hell their feet, so that the angels look upwards but those in hell downwards, 3641, 3643. In the same book,

The foreigner who is in the midst of you will rise above you, upwards more and more, but you will go down, downwards more and more; he will be the head, but you will be the tail. Deuteronomy 28:43, 44.

Here the meaning is similar. In Isaiah,

Say to him, Beware, and be quiet; do not fear, and do not let your heart become soft on account of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, on account of the blazing anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. Isaiah 7:4.

'Rezin king of Syria' stands for cognitions or knowledge of what is evil, 'Syria' meaning cognitions of what is good, see 1232, 1234, 3680, and so in the contrary sense cognitions of what is evil; and 'the son of Remaliah king of Samaria' stands for knowledge or cognitions of what is false. The latter and the former kinds of cognitions are 'tails' because they constitute what is lowest. 'Smoking firebrands' stands for blazing anger.

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