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Exodus 15

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1 Tehdy zpíval Mojžíš a synové Izraelští píseň tuto Hospodinu, a řekli takto: Zpívati budu Hospodinu, neboť jest slavně zveleben; koně i s jezdcem uvrhl do moře.

2 Síla má a píseň jest Hospodin, nebo vysvobodil mne. Onť jest Bůh můj silný, protož stánek vzdělám jemu; onť jest Bůh otce mého, protož vyvyšovati ho budu.

3 Hospodin jest udatný bojovník, Hospodin jméno jeho.

4 Vozy Faraonovy i vojsko jeho uvrhl do moře; a nejpřednější hejtmané jeho ztopeni jsou v moři Rudém.

5 Propasti přikryly je; vpadli do hlubiny jako kámen.

6 Pravice tvá, Hospodine, zvelebena jest v síle, pravice tvá, ó Hospodine, potřela nepřítele.

7 A ve mnohé vyvýšenosti své podvrátil jsi povstávající proti tobě; pustils hněv svůj, kterýžto sežral je jako strniště.

8 A duchem chřípí tvých shromážděny jsou vody, stály tekuté vody jako hromada, ssedly se propasti u prostřed moře.

9 Řekl nepřítel: Honiti budu, dohoním se, budu děliti loupeže, nasytí se jimi duše má, vytrhnu meč svůj, zahladí je ruka má.

10 Povanul jsi větrem svým, i přikrylo je moře; pohlceni jsou jako olovo v prudkých vodách.

11 Kdo podobný tobě mezi silnými, ó Hospodine? Kdo jest tak, jako ty, velebný v svatosti, hrozný v chvalách, činící divy?

12 Vztáhls pravici svou, i požřela je země.

13 Zprovodíš v milosrdenství svém lid tento, kterýž jsi vykoupil; laskavě povedeš jej v síle své k příbytku svatosti své.

14 Uslyší lidé, bouřiti se budou; bolest zachvátí obyvatele Filistinské.

15 Tedy zkormoucena budou knížata Idumejská, silné Moábské podejme strach, rozplynou se všickni obyvatelé Kananejští.

16 Připadne na ně strach a lekání, pro velikost ramene tvého; mlčeti budou jako kámen, dokudž nepřejde lid tvůj, ó Hospodine, dokudž nepřejde lid ten, kteréhožs sobě dobyl.

17 Uvedeš je, a štípíš je na hoře dědictví svého, na místě, kteréž jsi k příbytku svému připravil, Hospodine, v svatyni, kterouž utvrdí ruce tvé, Pane.

18 Hospodin kralovati bude na věky věků.

19 Nebo vešli koni Faraonovi s vozy jeho i s jezdci jeho do moře, a obrátil na ně Hospodin vody mořské, synové pak Izraelští šli po suše u prostřed moře.

20 I vzala Maria prorokyně, sestra Aronova, buben v ruku svou, a vyšly za ní všecky ženy s bubny a s píšťalami.

21 I odpovídala jim Maria: Zpívejte Hospodinu, poněvadž slavně zveleben jest; koně i s jezdcem uvrhl do moře.

22 Hnul pak Mojžíš lidem Izraelským od moře Rudého, a táhli na poušť Sur. I šli tři dni po poušti, a nenalezli vod.

23 A přišedše do Marah, nemohli píti vod z Marah, nebo byly hořké; protož nazváno jest jméno jeho Marah.

24 Z té příčiny reptal lid na Mojžíše, řka: Co budeme píti?

25 I volal k Hospodinu, a ukázal mu Hospodin dřevo, kteréž jakž uvrhl do vod, učiněny jsou sladké vody. Tu vydal jemu práva a soudy, a tu ho zkusil.

26 A řekl: Jestliže skutečně poslouchati budeš hlasu Hospodina Boha svého, a činiti budeš, což spravedlivého jest před očima jeho, a nakloníš uší k přikázaním jeho, a ostříhati budeš všech ustavení jeho: žádné nemoci, kterouž jsem dopustil na Egypt, nedopustím na tebe; nebo já jsem Hospodin, kterýž tě uzdravuji.

27 I přišli do Elim, kdež bylo dvanácte studnic vod a sedmdesáte palm; i rozbili tu stany při vodách.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8325

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8325. 'You will bring them in' means raising up. This is clear from the meaning of 'bringing in', when used to denote taking to heaven, as raising up. The words 'raising up' are used because heaven beheld by outward sight that spirits possess is on high; and when beheld by inward sight such as angels possess heaven occupies an inward position. Everything inward in the next life manifests itself in a representative fashion as something above, and everything outward as something below; consequently heaven appears up above and hell down below, 2148, 3084, 4599, 5146. For states of truth and good, and in the contrary sense states of falsity and evil, are what positions high up and those deep down, in short, distances and places, represent in the next life, see 2625, 2837, 3356, 3387, 4321, 4882, 5605, 7381.

[2] The following experience alone enables one to infer how difficult it is for a natural man to apprehend spiritual things, consequently things that belong to heaven. Can anyone like him see that space and time do not exist in heaven, but states instead? Or to be more precise, that states of good or states of being (esse) exist there, presenting themselves as extents of space, and states of truth or states of coming-into-being (existere), presenting themselves as periods of time? Will not a merely natural man suppose that where time and space do not exist there is complete emptiness and nothingness? From this it is evident that if a natural man makes up his mind to believe nothing apart from what he can apprehend he lays himself open to grossly mistaken ideas. And as it is with space and time, so it is also with many other matters. For example, a natural man inevitably falls into a nonsensical way of thinking about God when with notions involving the passage of time he contemplates what God was doing before the creation of the world, that is, what He was engaged in from eternity up to then. Nor can he be extricated from that tangled knot until notions of time and space are banished. When angels contemplate that eternity they never do so with notions of time but with ideas of state.

[3] In the next life two statues appear, partly of flesh and partly of stone. They are stationed on the edge of the created universe, in front over to the left. They are said to swallow up those who contemplate what God was doing from eternity before He created the world. The swallowing up represents the consideration that since a person cannot contemplate anything without notions involving space and time he cannot extricate himself from the difficulty unaided. He does so only with the aid of God, either by ceasing to contemplate the matter or by banishing notions involving time.

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

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Arcana Coelestia #3387

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3387. 'For he was afraid to say, My wife, [thinking,] The men of the place may perhaps kill me on account of Rebekah' means that it was impossible for Divine Truths themselves to be disclosed, and so for Divine Good to be received. This is clear from the meaning of 'being afraid to say' as an inability to disclose; from the meaning of 'wife', who is Rebekah here, as the Lord's Divine Rational in respect to Divine Truth, dealt with in 3012, 3013, 3077; from the meaning of 'killing me' as good not being received, for 'Isaac', to whom 'me' refers here, represents the Divine Good of the Lord's Rational, 3012, 3194, 3210 - good being said 'to be killed' or to perish when it is not received, for it ceases to exist with that person; and from the meaning of 'the men of the place' as people who possess matters of doctrine concerning faith, dealt with just above in 3385. From these meanings it is now evident what the internal sense of these words is, namely: If Divine truths themselves were disclosed they would not be received by those who possess matters of doctrine concerning faith because those truths go beyond the whole range of their rational grasp of things, and so go beyond the whole of their faith, and as a consequence of this no good at all could flow in from the Lord. For good from the Lord, or Divine good, cannot flow in except into truths, for truths are the vessels for good, as shown many times.

[2] Truths or appearances of truth are given to a person to enable Divine Good to develop the understanding part of his mind, and so the person himself, for truths exist to the end that good may flow in. Indeed without vessels or receptacles good has nowhere to go, for it can find no condition answering to itself. Where no truths exist therefore, that is, where they have not been received, neither does any rational or human good exist; and as a consequence the person does not possess any spiritual life. Therefore, so that a person may nevertheless possess truths, and from these receive spiritual life, appearances of truth are given, to everyone according to his ability to grasp them; and these appearances are acknowledged as truths because they have the capacity to hold Divine things within them.

[3] So that it may be known what appearances are and that they are what serve a person as Divine truths, let the following be used by way of illustration: If man were told that in heaven angels have no concept of place, and so no concept of distance, but that instead they have concepts of state, he could not possibly grasp it, for he would suppose from this that nothing distinct and separate existed but that everything was fused together, that is to say, all the angels were together in a single place. Yet everything there is so distinct and separate that nothing could ever be more so. Places, distances, and intervals of space which exist in the natural order exist in heaven as states, see 3356. From this it is evident that all the things that are stated in the Word about places and intervals of space between objects, also ideas that are formed from these and expressed through them, are appearances of truth; and unless everything were stated by means of those appearances it would in no way be received and would as a consequence be scarcely anything; for the concept of space and time is present in almost every single detail of a person's thought as long as he is in the world, that is, living within space and time.

[4] The fact that the Word speaks according to appearances involving space is clear from almost every single part of it, as in Matthew,

Jesus said, How is it that David says, The Lord [said] to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool? Matthew 22:43-44.

Here the expression 'sitting at the right hand' is derived from the concept of place and so according to the appearance - when in fact it is a state of the Lord's Divine power which is described by that expression. In the same gospel,

Jesus said, Hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven. Matthew 26:64.

Here similarly 'sitting at the right hand' and also 'coming on clouds' are expressions derived from men's concept of place, whereas the concept angels have is one of the state of the Lord's power. In Mark,

The sons of Zebedee said to Jesus, Grant us to sit in Your glory, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left. Jesus replied, To sit at My right hand and at My left is not Mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared. Mark 10:37, 40.

From this it is evident what kind of concept the disciples had of the Lord's kingdom, that is to say, one that involved sitting on the right hand and on the left. Such being the concept they had of it the Lord also replied to them in a way they could understand and so by an appearance that could be seen by them.

[5] In David,

Like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, he rejoices as a mighty man to run the course. From the end of the heavens is His going forth, and His circuit to the ends of them. Psalms 19:5-6.

This refers to the Lord, the state of whose Divine power is described by means of such things as belong to space. In Isaiah,

How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the dawn! You said in your heart, I will go up into the heavens, above the stars of God 1 I will raise my throne. I will go up above the heights of the clouds. Isaiah 14:12-14.

'Falling from heaven', 'going up the heavens', 'raising a throne above the stars of God', 'going up above the heights of the clouds' are all expressions derived from the concept and appearance of space or a place, and are used to describe self-love profaning holy things. Since celestial and spiritual things are presented to man by means of and according to visual objects like these, heaven too is therefore described as being on high when in fact it is not on high but in that which is internal, 450, 1380, 2148.

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1. The Latin means heaven; but the Hebrew means God which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

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