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1 Nämät ovat Israelin lasten nimet, jotka Jakobin kanssa tulivat Egyptiin, itsekukin huoneinensa he sinne tulivat,

2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi ja Juuda.

3 Isaskar, Zebulon ja Benjamin.

4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad ja Asser.

5 Ja kaikki henget, jotka Jakobin kupeista olivat tulleet, olivat seitsemänkymmentä henkeä. Mutta Joseph oli (ennen) Egyptissä.

6 Ja Joseph oli kuollut, ja kaikki hänen veljensä, ja kaikki sen aikaiset.

7 Ja Israelin lapset olivat hedelmälliset ja suuresti enenivät ja lisääntyivät, ja sangen voimallisesti vahvistuivat, niin että maa täytettiin heistä.

8 Niin uusi kuningas tuli Egyptiin, joka ei Josephista mitään tietänyt.

9 Hän sanoi kansallensa: katso, Israelin lasten joukko on suurempi ja väkevämpi meitä.

10 Tulkaat, käykäämme kavalasti heidän kimppuunsa, ettei heitä tulisi niin paljo. Sillä jos joku sota nousis, tohtisivat he mennä meidän vihamiestemme puolelle, ja sotia meitä vastaan, ja lähteä maalta pois.

11 Niin asetettiin heidän päällensä veron päämiehet, vaivaamaan heitä orjuudella; sillä Pharaolle rakennettiin verokaupungit, Pitom ja Raamses.

12 Mutta jota enemmin he rasittivat kansaa, sitä enemmin se lisääntyi ja kasvoi. Ja he tulivat suutuksiin Israelin lasten tähden.

13 Ja Egyptiläiset vaivasivat Israelin lapsia orjuudella armaitsemata.

14 Ja saattivat heidän elämänsä katkeraksi raskaalla saven ja tiilein työllä, ja kaikkinaisella rasituksella kedolla, ja kaikkinaisella työllä, kuin he taisivat heidän päällensä panna, armaitsemata.

15 Ja Egyptin kuningas puhui Heprealaisille lastenämmille, joista yhden nimi oli Siphra, ja toisen nimi Pua.

16 Ja hän sanoi: Koska te autatte Hebreailaisia vaimoja heidän synnyttäissänsä, ja näette istuimella, jos on poika, niin surmatkaat häntä; mutta jos se tytär on, niin se eläköön.

17 Mutta lastenämmät pelkäsivät Jumalaa, ja ei tehneet niinkuin Egyptin kuningas oli heille sanonut; mutta antoivat poikaiset elää.

18 Niin Egyptin kuningas kutsui lastenämmät, ja sanoi heille: miksi te tämän teitte, että te annoitte poikaisten elää?

19 Niin lastenämmät vastasivat Pharaota: Heprealaiset vaimot ei ole niinkuin Egyptiläiset; sillä he ovat vahvemmat luonnostansa, ja ennenkuin lastenämmä tulee heidän tykönsä, ovat he synnyttäneet.

20 Sentähden teki Jumala lastenämmille hyvin, ja kansa lisääntyi ja vahvistui sangen suuresti.

21 Ja että lastenämmät pelkäsivät Jumalaa, rakensi hän heille huoneita.

22 Niin käski Pharao kaikelle kansallensa, sanoen: kaikki pojat kuin syntyvät pitää teidän heittämän virtaan, mutta kaikki tyttäret antakaat elää.


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Arcana Coelestia #6675

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6675. 'He said, When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstools' means a discernment of the truth and good flowing from the internal into the Church's factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'acting as a midwife' as the reception of goodness and truth flowing from the internal into the natural, for inasmuch as the natural receives influx it is 'a midwife', see 4588, 6673; from the meaning of 'the Hebrew women as things that belong to the Church, dealt with in 5136, 5236; from the meaning of 'seeing' as a discernment, dealt with in 2150, 3764, 4567, 4723, 5400; and from the meaning of 'the birthstools' as things in the natural that receive the forms of good and the truths flowing from the internal, thus true factual knowledge, since that knowledge is what receives them. From this it is evident that 'when you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstools' means a discernment of the truth and good flowing from the internal into the Church's factual knowledge, which resides in the natural.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #5236

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5236. 'And a Hebrew boy was there with us' means that owing to temptation the guiltlessness of the Church had been cast away there. This is clear from the meaning of 'a boy' as guiltlessness, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'Hebrew' as a person belonging to the Church, dealt with in 5136, thus some attribute of the Church. His having been cast away there owing to temptation is meant by the words 'was there', that is to say, in custody; for 'custody', in which Joseph had been placed, means a state of temptation, 5036, 5037, 5039, 5044, 5045, that state being the subject in Chapters 39, 40.

[2] The reason 'a boy' [or older 'child'] 1 means guiltlessness is that in the internal sense a young child means innocence. References are made in the Word to suckling, young child, and older child, by whom three degrees of innocence are meant, the first degree being meant by 'suckling', the second degree by 'young child', and the third by 'older child'. But because an older child is one who is beginning to lose his innocence, he therefore means the kind of innocence that is called guiltlessness. Because three degrees of innocence are meant by 'suckling', 'young child', and 'child', three degrees of love and charity are also meant by them, for the reason that celestial and spiritual love, which is love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, can have no existence except within innocence. It should be recognized however that the innocence of sucklings, young children, and older ones is purely external and that no internal innocence exists with anyone until he has been born anew, that is, has so to speak become a suckling, young child, and older child once again. These are the states meant in the Word by these three, for the internal sense of the Word has only that which is spiritual as its meaning, and therefore has purely spiritual birth - called rebirth and also regeneration - as its meaning.

[3] The fact that the innocence called guiltlessness is meant by 'a child' is clear in Luke,

Jesus said, Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it. Luke 18:17.

'Receiving the kingdom of God like a child' means receiving charity and faith because of one's innocence In Mark,

Jesus took a child, set him in the midst of them and took him up in His arms. He said to them, Whoever takes up one of such children in My name is taking up Me. Mark 9:36-37; Luke 9:47-48.

'A child' here is a representation of innocence; anyone who takes this up is taking up the Lord because He is the Source from which every trace of innocence is derived. Anyone may see that 'taking up a child in the Lord's name' does not mean taking up a child, so that something heavenly is represented by such an action.

[4] In Matthew,

When the children in the temple cried out, Hosanna to the son of David, [the chief priests and scribes] were indignant. Therefore Jesus said to them, Have you not read that out of the mouth of young children and sucklings You have perfected praise? Matthew 21:15-16; Psalms 8:2.

The children's cry 'Hosanna to the son of David' was voiced so as to represent the truth that innocence alone acknowledges and accepts the Lord, that is, that those who have innocence within them do so. The words 'out of the mouth of young children and sucklings You have perfected praise' mean that there is no other path than innocence along which praise can go to the Lord. Along this path alone can any communication be established, any influx take place, or consequently any approach be made. This is why the Lord says, in the same gospel,

Unless you are converted and become as children you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3.

[5] In the following places too 'a boy' [or 'a child'] means innocence: In Zechariah,

The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. Zechariah 8:5.

This refers to a new Jerusalem, or the Lord's kingdom. In David.

Praise Jehovah, Young men and also virgins, old men and children. Psalms 148:12

In the same author,

Jehovah redeems 2 Your life from the pit. He satisfies your mouth with what is good, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. 3 Psalms 103:4-5.

In Joel,

Over My people they have cast lots, for they have given a boy for a harlot and have sold a girl for wine which they have drunk. Joel 3:3.

In Jeremiah,

I will scatter throughout you man and woman, and I will scatter throughout you old man and boy, and I will scatter throughout you young man and virgin. Jeremiah 51:12.

In Isaiah,

To us a boy is born, to us a son is given, upon whose shoulder is the government; and He will call His name, Wonderful, Counsellor, God, Hero, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6.

Note a piè di pagina:

1. The Latin word puer used for a boy may also be used to mean simply a child, male or female, as in several places in the remainder of this paragraph.

2. The Latin means renews, but the Hebrew means redeems, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes this verse.

3. literally, so that you are renewed like the eagle with your childhood

  
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