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2 Mózes 19

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1 A harmadik hónapban azután hogy kijöttek vala Izráel fiai Égyiptom földérõl, azon a napon érkezének a Sinai pusztába.

2 Refidimbõl elindulván, érkezének a Sinai pusztába és táborba szállának a pusztában; a hegygyel átellenben szálla pedig ott táborba az Izráel.

3 Mózes pedig felméne az Istenhez, és szóla hozzá az Úr a hegyrõl, mondván: Ezt mondd a Jákób házanépének és ezt add tudtára az Izráel fiainak.

4 Ti láttátok, a mit Égyiptommal cselekedtem, hogy hordoztalak titeket sas szárnyakon és magamhoz bocsátottalak titeket.

5 Mostan azért ha figyelmesen hallgattok szavamra és megtartjátok az én szövetségemet, úgy ti lesztek nékem valamennyi nép közt az enyéim; mert enyim az egész föld.

6 És lesztek ti nékem papok birodalma és szent nép. Ezek azok az ígék, melyeket el kell mondanod Izráel fiainak.

7 Elméne azért Mózes és egybehívá a nép véneit és eleikbe adá mindazokat a beszédeket, melyeket parancsolt vala néki az Úr.

8 És az egész nép egy akarattal felele és monda: Valamit rendelt az Úr, mind megteszszük. És megvivé Mózes az Úrnak a nép beszédét.

9 És monda az Úr Mózesnek: Ímé én hozzád megyek a felhõ homályában, hogy hallja a nép mikor beszélek veled és higyjenek néked mindörökké. És elmondá Mózes az Úrnak a nép beszédét.

10 Az Úr pedig monda Mózesnek: Eredj el a néphez és szenteld meg õket ma, meg holnap és hogy mossák ki az õ ruháikat;

11 És legyenek készek harmadnapra; mert harmadnapon leszáll az Úr az egész nép szeme láttára a Sinai hegyre.

12 És vess határt a népnek köröskörûl, mondván: Vigyázzatok magatokra, hogy a hegyre fel ne menjetek s még a szélét se érintsétek; mindaz, a mi a hegyet érinti, halállal haljon meg.

13 Ne érintse azt kéz, hanem kõvel köveztessék meg, vagy nyillal nyilaztassék le; akár barom, akár ember, ne éljen. Mikor a kürt hosszan hangzik, akkor felmehetnek a hegyre.

14 Leszálla azért Mózes a hegyrõl a néphez, és megszentelé a népet, és megmosák az õ ruháikat.

15 És monda a népnek: Legyetek készen harmadnapra; asszonyhoz ne közelítsetek.

16 És lõn harmadnapon virradatkor, mennydörgések, villámlások és sûrû felhõ lõn a hegyen és igen erõs kürtzengés; és megrémûle mind az egész táborbeli nép.

17 És kivezeté Mózes a népet a táborból az Isten eleibe és megállának a hegy alatt.

18 Az egész Sinai hegy pedig füstölög vala, mivelhogy leszállott arra az Úr tûzben és felmegy vala annak füstje, mint a kemenczének füstje; és az egész hegy nagyon reng vala.

19 És a kürt szava mindinkább erõsödik vala; Mózes beszél vala és az Isten felel vala néki hangosan.

20 Leszálla tehát az Úr a Sinai hegyre, a hegy tetejére, és felhívá az Úr Mózest a hegy tetejére, Mózes pedig felméne.

21 És monda az Úr Mózesnek: Menj alá, intsd meg a népet, hogy ne törjön elõre az Urat látni, mert közûlök sokan elhullanak.

22 És a papok is, a kik az Úr eleibe járulnak, szenteljék meg magokat, hogy reájok ne rontson az Úr.

23 Mózes pedig monda az Úrnak: Nem jöhet fel a nép a Sinai hegyre, mert te [magad] intettél minket, mondván: Vess határt a hegy körûl, és szenteld meg azt.

24 De az Úr monda néki: Eredj, menj alá, és jõjj fel te és Áron is veled; de a papok és a nép ne törjenek elõre, hogy feljõjjenek az Úrhoz; hogy reájok ne rontson.

25 Aláméne azért Mózes a néphez, és megmondá nékik.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8788

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8788. 'And sanctify them today and tomorrow' means covering over their interiors in order that those people may appear now and subsequently in the holiness of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'sanctifying' as arranging them so that outwardly they may appear in holiness; and since this is accomplished by covering over their interiors, 'sanctifying' has this meaning also. The fact that 'today and tomorrow' means now and subsequently is self-evident. What all this implies will be stated briefly. The Church established among the Jews was not, as regards the Jews themselves, the Church, only a representative of the Church. For the Church to exist there must reside with those belonging to the Church faith in the Lord, and also love to Him, as well as love towards the neighbour. These virtues make the Church. But they did not reside with the people who were called Jacob; for they did not acknowledge the Lord, and so did not wish to hear about faith in Him, let alone about love to Him or indeed about love towards the neighbour. They were ruled by self-love and love of the world, the kinds of love that are the complete opposites of love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour. Such a disposition has been rooted in that people from their earliest forebears. This is why no Church could be established among that people; all they could do was represent things that constitute the Church. Mere representation of the Church comes about when people's worship centres on external things, but only on such things as correspond to heavenly ones. External things then serve to represent internal, and the internal things are made evident in heaven, to which those people are consequently joined. Therefore to make representation possible among the Israelite people, when interiorly they were devoid of the faith and love of heaven, indeed were full of self-love and love of the world, their interiors were covered over. Then their externals alone, without their internals, could be conveyed to spirits, and through these to angels. Consequently unless their internals had been covered over, internals too would have been made evident, in which case the representation would have been destroyed because foul [thoughts and affections] would have burst out and defiled it. Such a covering over was possible with that people more than with all the rest because they venerated external things more than others did; they thought that those things themselves were intrinsically holy, indeed Divine.

All this makes clear what one should understand by 'sanctifying', namely covering over their interiors in order that those people may appear in the holiness of faith, though not to themselves, only to the angels present with them. See what has been shown already about this people and the establishment of the Church among them, in 4208, 4281, 4288, 4289, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4317, 4429, 4433, 4444, 4459, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4899, 4911, 4912, 4500, 7048, 7051, 8588. The fact that sanctification among them amounted to no more than an appearance of holiness in externals, since they themselves had no holiness within them, becomes clear from the ceremonies by which they were sanctified, that is to say, by sacrifices, washings, sprinklings of blood, and anointings, which do not in any way whatever touch internal things.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #4307

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4307. In the internal historical sense 'Jacob asked and said, Tell me, I pray, your name' means evil spirits. This becomes clear from many connections in this sense, in which these words and those that follow have reference to the descendants of Jacob; for the meaning in the internal sense depends on the specific subject under discussion. For not good spirits but evil ones are meant by him who wrestled with Jacob, as becomes clear from the consideration that 'wrestling' means temptation, 3927, 3928, 4274; and no temptation is ever carried out by good spirits, only by evil ones. For temptation consists in the activation of the evil and falsity residing with a person, 741, 751, 761, 1820, 4249, 4299. Good spirits and angels never activate evils and falsities but defend a person against them and turn them to good; for good spirits are led by the Lord, and from the Lord nothing except holy good and holy truth ever proceeds. The Lord does not tempt anyone, as is well known from teaching accepted in the Church; see also 1875, 2768. From this and also from the fact that the descendants of Jacob gave in to every temptation not only in the desert but also after that, it is evident that they were not good spirits but evil ones who are meant by him who wrestled with Jacob. What is more, the nation meant by 'Jacob' here was not governed by any spiritual or celestial love, only by bodily and worldly love, 4281, 4288-4290, 4293. The spirits present with any people depend on the loves governing those people, good spirits and angels being present with those who are governed by spiritual or celestial love, evil spirits with those who are governed solely by bodily or worldly love. So true is this that anyone can know which kind of spirits are present with him merely by noting the nature of his own loves, or what amounts to the same, the nature of his ends in view, since everyone has that which he loves as his end in view.

[2] The reason the one who wrestled with him called himself 'God' is Jacob's own belief that he was. In this he was like his descendants who believed unceasingly that Jehovah was present in their holy external observances, when in fact Jehovah was present solely in what these represented, as will be clear from what follows below. They also believed that Jehovah led them into temptations, was the author of all evil, and was full of anger and fury whenever they were punished. It is because they believed He was like this that such descriptions of Him appear in the Word, when in actual fact Jehovah never leads anyone into temptations, is never the author of anything evil, and is never full of anger, still less of fury, see 223, 245, 592, 696, 1093, 1683, 1874, 1875, 2395, 3605, 3607, 3614. This also explains why the one who wrestled with Jacob was unwilling to reveal his name. The reason why in the internal spiritual sense the one who wrestled with Jacob is used to mean the angelic heaven, 4295, is that the Lord, who in the highest sense is there represented by 'Jacob', allowed even angels to enter in and tempt Him, and that the angels were in that case left alone to their proprium, as has been shown in the paragraph just referred to.

  
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