9373. Come up unto Jehovah. That this signifies conjunction with the Lord, is evident from the signification of “coming up,” as being to be raised toward interior things (see n. 3084, 4539, 4969, 5406, 5817, 6007), consequently also to be conjoined (n. 8760). That it denotes conjunction with the Lord, is because by “Jehovah” in the Word is meant the the Lord, (n. 1343, 1736, 1793, 2004, 2005, 2018, 2025, 2921, 3023, 3035, 5663, 6280, 6303, 6905, 8274, 8864, 9315). A secret which also lies hidden in the internal sense of these words, is that the sons of Jacob, over whom Moses was the head, were not called and chosen; but they themselves insisted that Divine worship should be instituted among them (according to wh at has been said in n. 4290, 4293); and therefore it is here said, “and He said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah,” as if not Jehovah, but another, had said that he should come up. For the same reason in what follows it is said that “the people should not go up” (verse 2); and that “Jehovah sent not His hand unto the sons of Israel who were set apart” (verse 11); and that “the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel” (verse 17); and lastly that Moses, being called the seventh day, “entered into the midst of the cloud.” For by “the cloud” is meant the Word in the letter (n. 5922, 6343, 6752, 6832, 8106, 8443, 8781); and with the sons of Jacob the Word was separated from its internal sense, because they were in external worship without internal, as can be clearly seen from the fact that now, as before, they said, “all the words which Jehovah hath spoken we will do” (verse 3); and yet scarcely forty days afterward they worshiped a golden calf instead of Jehovah; which shows that this was hidden in their hearts while they were saying with their lips that they would serve Jehovah alone. But nevertheless those who are meant by “the called and the chosen” are those who are in internal worship, and who from internal worship are in external; that is, those who are in love to and faith in the Lord, and from this in love toward the neighbor.
Arcana Coelestia #9093
9093. And they shall divide the silver of it. That this signifies that the truth thereof shall be dissipated, is evident from the signification of “dividing,” as being to banish and dissipate (see n. 6360, 6361); and from the signification of “silver,” as being truth (n. 1551, 2048, 5658, 6112, 6914, 6917, 7999). That “to divide” denotes to dissipate, is because if those things which have been associated together are divided, they are also scattered, as he who divides his mind destroys it. For the mind of man is an association of two parts, one part being called the understanding, the other the will. He who divides these two parts scatters the things which belong to one part, for one part must live from the other; consequently the other also perishes. It is the same with him who divides truth from good, or what is the same, faith from charity. He who does this destroys both. In a word, all things which ought to be united in a one, if divided perish.
[2] This division is meant by the Lord’s words in Luke:
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will prefer the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (Luke 16:13).
That is, by faith serve the Lord, and by love the world; thus acknowledge truth, and do evil. He who does this has a divided mind, from which comes its destruction. From all this it is evident whence it is that “to divide” denotes to dissipate; as is also evident in Matthew:
The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, and shall divide him, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites (Matthew 24:50-51); where “to divide” denotes to separate and remove from goods and truths (n. 4424), thus to dissipate.
[3] In Moses:
Cursed be their anger, for it was vehement; and their wrath, for it was hard. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel (Genesis 49:7); where Israel speaks prophetically of Simeon and Levi. By Simeon and Leviticus are there represented those who are in faith separate from charity (n. 6352), by Jacob and Israel the church external and internal, and also the external and internal man (n. 4286, 4598, 5973, 6360, 6361). “To divide them in Jacob” denotes to expel them from the external church; and “to scatter them in Israel” denotes from the internal church; thus to dissipate the goods and the truths of the church appertaining to them.
[4] That “dividing” has this signification is also plain from the words written on the wall when Belshazzar king of Babel, together with his lords, his wives, and his concubines, drank wine from the vessels of gold and of silver which belonged to the temple that was at Jerusalem. The writing was:
Numbered, numbered, weighed, and divided (Daniel 5:2-4, 25-28); where “divided” means separated from the kingdom. In this passage it is plain how all things were at that time representative. In it is described the profanation of good and truth, which is signified by “Babel” (that Babel” denotes profanation, see n. 1182, 1283, 1295, 1304-1308, 1321, 1322, 1326); “vessels of gold and of silver” denote the goods of love and the truths of faith from the the Lord, (n. 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917). Profanation is signified by “drinking therefrom, and at the same time praising the gods of gold, of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone,” as we read in the fourth verse of the chapter, which denote evils and falsities in a series (n. 4402, 4544, 7873, 8941). By the “temple at Jerusalem” from which the vessels came, is signified in the supreme sense the Lord, in the representative sense His kingdom and church (n. 3720). The kingdom of Belshazzar being “divided” signified the dissipation of good and truth, and he himself being “slain that night” signified the loss of the life of truth and good, thus damnation; for “to be divided” denotes to be dissipated; “a king” denotes the truth of good (n. 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148); the like is signified by “kingdom” (n. 1672, 2547, 4691); “to be slain” denotes to be deprived of the life of truth and good (n. 3607, 6767, 8902); and the “night” in which he was slain denotes a state of evil and falsity (n. 2353, 7776, 7851, 7870, 7947). From this it is plain that all things there were representative.
[5] It says in David:
They divided My garments among them, and upon My vesture did they cast a lot (Psalms 22:18).
They divided His garments, casting a lot; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet (Matthew 27:35).
The soldiers took His garments, and made four parts; and the tunic, the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore, Let us not divide it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the Scripture might be fulfilled (John 19:23-24).
He who reads these words and knows nothing of the internal sense of the Word, is not aware that anything secret lies hidden in them, when yet in each word there is a Divine secret. The secret was that Divine truths had been dissipated by the Jews, for the Lord was the Divine truth; and hence He is called “the Word” (John 1). “The Word” denotes Divine truth; His garments represented truths in the external form; and His tunic, truths in the internal form; the division of the garments represented the dissipation of the truths of faith by the Jews. (That “garments” denote truths in the external form, see n. 2576, 5248, 5954, 6918; also that “a tunic” denotes truth in the internal form, n. 4677.) Truths in the external form are such as are those of the Word in the literal sense; but truths in the internal form are such as are those of the Word in the spiritual sense. The division of the garments into four parts signified total dissipation, in like manner as the division in Zechariah 14:4, and in other passages; likewise the division into two parts, as we read of the veil of the temple (Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38). The rending of the rocks also at that time (Matthew 27:51) represented the dissipation of all things of faith, for a “rock” denotes the Lord as to faith, consequently it denotes faith from the Lord.
Mark 14
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After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
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But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
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And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
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And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
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For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
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And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
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For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
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She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
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Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
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And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
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And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
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And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
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And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
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And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, Where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
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And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.
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And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
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And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
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And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
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And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
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And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.
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The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
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And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
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And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
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And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
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Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
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And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
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And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
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But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
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But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.
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And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
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But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.
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And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.
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And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
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And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
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And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
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And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
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And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
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Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
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And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.
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And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.
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And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
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Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.
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And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
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And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
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And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, Master, master; and kissed him.
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And they laid their hands on him, and took him.
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And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
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And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
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I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.
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And they all forsook him, and fled.
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And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
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And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
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And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
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And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.
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And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
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For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
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And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,
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We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
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But neither so did their witness agree together.
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And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
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But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
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And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
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Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?
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Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
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And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
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And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest:
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And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.
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But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
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And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.
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And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.
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But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.
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And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.
