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4 Mózes 11

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1 És lõn, hogy panaszolkodék a nép az Úr hallására, [hogy] rosszul [van dolga.] És meghallá az Úr, és haragra gerjede, és felgyullada ellenök az Úrnak tüze és megemészté a tábornak szélét.

2 Kiálta azért a nép Mózeshez, és könyörge Mózes az Úrnak, és megszünék a tûz.

3 És nevezé azt a helyet Thaberának; mert felgyulladt vala ellenök az Úrnak tüze.

4 De a gyülevész nép, a mely köztök vala, kívánságba esék, és Izráel fiai is újra síránkozni kezdének, és mondának: Kicsoda ád nékünk húst ennünk?

5 Visszaemlékezünk a halakra, a melyeket ettünk Égyiptomban ingyen, az ugorkákra és dinnyékre, a párhagymákra, vereshagymákra és a foghagymákra.

6 Most pedig a mi lelkünk eleped, mindennek híjával lévén; szemünk elõtt nincs egyéb mint manna.

7 (A manna pedig olyan vala mint a kóriándrum magva, a színe pedig mint a bdelliomnak színe.

8 Kiomol vala pedig a nép, és szedik vala [a mannát], és õrlik vala kézimalmokban, vagy megtörik vala mozsárban, és megfõzik vala fazékban, és csinálnak vala abból pogácsákat: az íze pedig olyan vala, mint az olajos kalácsé.

9 Mikor pedig a harmat leszáll vala a táborra éjjel, a manna is mindjárt leszáll vala arra.)

10 És meghallá Mózes, hogy sír a nép, az õ nemzetsége szerint, kiki az õ sátorának nyílása elõtt; és igen felgerjede az Úr haragja, és nem tetszék az Mózesnek.

11 És monda Mózes az Úrnak: Miért nyomorítád meg a te szolgádat? és miért nem találék kegyelmet a te szemeid elõtt, hogy ez egész népnek terhét én reám vetéd?

12 Avagy tõlem fogantatott-e mind ez egész nép? avagy én szûltem-e õt, hogy azt mondod nékem: Hordozd õt a te kebleden, a miképen hordozza a dajka a csecsemõt, arra a földre, a mely felõl megesküdtél az õ atyáinak?

13 Hol vegyek én húst, hogy adjam azt mind ez egész népnek? mert reám sírnak, mondván: Adj nékünk húst, hadd együnk!

14 Nem viselhetem én magam mind ez egész népet; mert erõm felett van.

15 Ha így cselekszel velem, kérlek ölj meg engemet, ölj meg ha kedves vagyok elõtted, hogy ne lássam az én nyomorúságomat.

16 Monda azért az Úr Mózesnek: Gyûjts egybe nékem hetven férfiút Izráel vénei közül, a kikrõl tudod, hogy vénei a népnek és annak elõljárói, és vidd õket a gyülekezet sátorához, és álljanak ott veled.

17 Akkor alá szállok, és szólok ott veled, és elszakasztok abból a lélekbõl, a mely te benned van, és teszem õ beléjök, hogy viseljék te veled a népnek terhét, és ne viseljed te magad.

18 A népnek pedig mondd meg: Készítsétek el magatokat holnapra, és húst esztek; mert sírtatok az Úr hallására, mondván: Kicsoda ád nékünk húst ennünk? mert jobban vala nékünk dolgunk Égyiptomban. Azért az Úr ád néktek húst és enni fogtok.

19 Nem [csak] egy napon esztek, sem két napon, sem öt napon, sem tíz napon, sem húsz napon;

20 Hanem egy egész hónapig, míglen kijön az orrotokon, és útálatossá lesz elõttetek; mivelhogy megvetettétek az Urat, a ki közöttetek van; és sírtatok õ elõtte mondván: Miért jöttünk ide ki Égyiptomból?

21 És monda Mózes: Hatszáz ezer gyalogos e nép, a mely között én vagyok, és te azt mondod: Húst adok nékik, és esznek egy egész hónapig?!

22 Nemde juhok és ökrök vágattatnak-é nékik, hogy elég legyen nékik? vagy a tengernek minden hala összegyûjtetik-é nékik, hogy elég legyen nékik?

23 Akkor monda az Úr Mózesnek: Avagy megrövidült-é az Úrnak keze? Majd meglátod: beteljesedik-é néked az én beszédem vagy nem?

24 Kiméne azért Mózes, és elmondá a népnek az Úr beszédét, és összegyûjte hetven férfiút a nép vénei közül, és állatá õket a sátor körül.

25 Akkor leszálla az Úr felhõben, és szóla néki, és elszakaszta abból a lélekbõl, a mely vala õ benne, és adá a hetven vén férfiúba. Mihelyt pedig megnyugovék õ rajtok a lélek, menten prófétálának, de nem többé.

26 Két férfiú azonban elmaradt vala a táborban; egyiknek neve Eldád, a másiknak neve Médád, és ezeken is megnyugodott vala a lélek; mert azok is az összeírottak közül valók, de nem mentek vala el a sátorhoz, és mégis prófétálának a táborban.

27 Elfutamodék azért egy ifjú, és megjelenté Mózesnek, és monda: Eldád és Médád prófétálnak a táborban.

28 Akkor felele Józsué, a Nún fia, Mózes szolgája, az õ választottai közül való, és monda: Uram, Mózes, tiltsd meg õket!

29 És felele néki Mózes: Avagy érettem buzgólkodol-é? Vajha az Úrnak minden népe próféta volna, hogy adná az Úr az õ lelkét õ beléjök.

30 Ezután visszatére Mózes a táborba, õ és az Izráel vénei.

31 És szél jöve ki az Úrtól, és hoza fürjeket a tengertõl, és bocsátá a táborra egynapi járásnyira egy felõl, és egynapi járásnyira más felõl a tábor körül, és mintegy két sing magasságnyira a földnek színén.

32 Akkor felkele a nép [és] azon az egész napon, és egész éjjel, és az egész következõ napon gyûjtének magoknak fürjeket, a ki keveset gyûjtött is, gyûjtött tíz hómert, és kiteregeték azokat magoknak a tábor körül.

33 A hús még foguk között vala, és meg sem emésztették vala, a mikor az Úrnak haragja felgerjede a népre és megveré az Úr a népet igen nagy csapással.

34 És elnevezék azt a helyet Kibrot-thaavának: mert ott temeték el a mohó népet.

35 Kibrot-thaavától elméne a nép Haseróthba; és ott valának Haseróthban.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8464

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8464. 'It is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat' means that this is the good that will become their own and constitute their life, in the highest sense that this is the Lord within you. This is clear from the meaning of 'bread' as celestial and spiritual good, and in the highest sense as the Lord, dealt with in 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976, 5915, at this point spiritual good, that is, good as it exists with a member of the spiritual Church, which is the good of truth, dealt with just above in 8458. Since that bread was the manna it follows that this good is meant by 'the manna'. This is also made plain by the description of it in verse 31 of the present chapter, which says 'it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like that of a cake with honey', as well as from the description of it in Numbers 11,

The man[na] was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium. They ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and cooked it in a pan, and made cakes out of it; and its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. 1 Numbers 11:7-8.

From the details given here it is evident that 'manna' in the spiritual sense means the good of truth, that is, good as it exists with the spiritual Church. They also explain why it is called 'the grain of the heavens' in David,

He commanded the skies from above, and threw open the doors of the heavens. And He caused man[na] to rain down onto them, and gave them the grain of the heavens. Psalms 78:23-24.

'The grain' is the good of truth, see 5295, 5410. 'Manna' again stands for the good of truth, which is given to those who undergo temptations and overcome in them, in John,

He who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white pebble. Revelation 2:17.

The fact that 'manna' in the highest sense is the Lord within us is clear from actual words used by the Lord in John,

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that anyone eating of it may not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. John 6:49-51, 58.

From these words it is clearly evident that 'the manna' in the highest sense means the Lord. The reason why is that 'manna' is the good of truth; but all good comes from the Lord, so that the Lord is within good and is Himself that good.

As regards that good, that this will become their own and constitute their life, this is meant by 'eating', 3168, 3513, 3596, 4745; for good which comes from the Lord brings the life of heaven to a person, and from then on nourishes and sustains it.

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1. literally, the taste of the juice of oil

  
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Arcana Coelestia #4211

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4211. 'And called his brothers to eat bread' means [an invitation] to make the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own. This is clear from the meaning of 'brothers' as those who were now to be joined together by the covenant, that is, by friendship, and in the internal sense as those who are governed by good and truth (for such people are called 'brothers', see 367, 2360, 3303, 3459, 3803, 3815, 4121, 4191); from the meaning of 'eating' as making one's own, dealt with in 3168, 3513 (end), 3832 (for meals taken together and feasts among the ancients meant making things their own and being joined together by means of love and charity, 3596); and from the meaning of 'bread' as good that stems from love, dealt with in 276, 680, 1798, 3478, 3735, and in the highest sense means the Lord, 2165, 2177, 3478, 3813. Since 'bread' in the highest sense means the Lord it therefore means everything holy which comes from Him, that is, it means everything good and true. And since no other good exists which is good except the good of love and charity, 'bread' therefore means love and charity. Sacrifices in former times had no other meaning, and for that reason were referred to by the single word 'bread', see 2165. And some of the flesh of the sacrifices was eaten so that the heavenly feast - that is, a joining together through good flowing from love and charity - might be represented. The same is meant today by the Holy Supper, for this has replaced sacrifices and feasts of consecrated things. The Holy Supper is in the Church an external practice that has an internal reality within it, and by means of this reality it joins one who is governed by love and charity to heaven, and by means of heaven to the Lord. For in the Holy Supper too 'eating' means making one's own - 'the bread' being celestial love and 'the wine' spiritual love - so much so that while it is being eaten by one in a state of holiness nothing else is perceived in heaven.

[2] The reason why the phrase 'making the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own' is used is that the subject is the good that exists with the gentiles, for it is this good that 'Laban' represents now, 4189. When man is joined to the Lord he is not joined to His Supreme Divine itself but to His Divine Human, for man cannot have any idea at all of the Lord's Supreme Divine, because this lies so far beyond anything he can conceive of that it fades from view altogether and ceases to mean anything to him. But he is able to have an idea of His Divine Human. For everyone is joined through thought and affection to one of whom he can have some idea but not to one of whom he cannot have any idea. If, when a person thinks about the Lord's Human, holiness is present in his ideas he also thinks of the holiness which comes from the Lord and fills heaven, and at the same time he thinks of heaven, since heaven in its entirety corresponds to a complete human being, which correspondence has its origin in the Lord, 684, 1276, 2996, 2998, 3624-3649. This explains why it is not possible to be joined to the Lord's Supreme Divine, only to His Divine Human, and through that Divine Human to His Supreme Divine. Hence the statement in John 1:18 about nobody, except the only begotten Son, ever having seen God, also the statement about there being no way to the Father except through Him; as well as from the statement that He is the Mediator. The truth of all this can be plainly recognized from the fact that all within the Church who declare their belief in a Supreme Being and yet set the Lord at nought are people who have no belief in anything at all, not even in the existence of heaven or of hell, and who worship nature. And if such people are ready to learn from experience it will be clear to them that the wicked, even those who are extremely so, declare a like belief.

[3] But the way in which people think of the Lord's Human varies, one person's ideas being different from another's, and one person's more holy than another's. Those within the Church are able to think that His Human is Divine, and also that He is one with the Father, as He Himself says that the Father is in Him and He is in the Father. But those outside the Church are unable to do this, for one thing because they do not know anything about the Lord and for another because their idea of the Divine is gained solely from visible images and tangible idols. Nevertheless the Lord joins Himself to them by means of the good they do from the charity and obedience present within their crude notions of Him. And this is why mention is made here about them making the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own. For when the Lord is joined to man the state of thought and consequent affection in him determines the exact nature of that conjunction. Those who have an entirely holy conception of the Lord and who at the same time have a true knowledge of and affections for what is good and true - as those within the Church are able to have - have been joined to the Lord as to His Divine Rational. Those however who do not have so holy a notion of Him and who do not have so interior a notion and affection, and yet the good of charity exists with them, have been joined to the Lord as regards His Divine Natural. And those whose holiness is cruder still are joined to the Lord as to His Divine Sensory Perception. This last type of joining is what is represented by 'the bronze serpent', in that those who looked at it recovered from serpent-bites, Numbers 21:9. This is the type of joining together which those among the gentiles have who worship idols and yet lead charitable lives in accordance with their own religion. From these considerations one may now see what is meant by making the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own, meant by 'Jacob called his brothers to eat bread'.

  
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