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出埃及记 9

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1 耶和华吩咐摩西:你进去见法老,对他耶和华希伯来人这样:容我的百姓去,好事奉我。

2 你若不肯容他们去,仍旧强留他们,

3 耶和华的加在你田间的牲畜上,就是在骆驼牛群羊群上,必有重重的瘟疫

4 耶和华要分别以色列的牲畜和埃及的牲畜,凡属以色列人的,一样都不

5 耶和华就定了时候,:明天耶和华必在此行这事。

6 第二天,耶和华就行这事。埃及的牲畜几乎都死了,只是以色列人的牲畜,个都没有

7 法老打发人去看,谁知以色列人的牲畜连个都没有法老的却是固执,不容百姓去。

8 耶和华吩咐摩西亚伦:你们取几捧炉灰,摩西要在法老面前向扬起来。

9 这灰要在埃及变作尘土,在人身上和牲畜身上成了起泡的

10 摩西、亚伦取了炉灰,站在法老面前。摩西扬起来,就在人身上和牲畜身上成了起泡的

11 行法术的在摩西面前站立不住,因为在他们身上和一切埃及人身上都有这

12 耶和华使法老的刚硬,不他们,正如耶和华摩西的。

13 耶和华摩西:你清起来,站在法老面前,对他耶和华希伯来人这样:容我的百姓去,好事奉我。

14 因为这一次我要叫一切的灾殃临到你和你臣仆并你百姓的身上,叫你知道在普天下没有像我的。

15 我若伸瘟疫攻击你和你的百姓,你早就从上除灭了。

16 其实,我叫你存立,是特要向你显我的大能,并要使我的名传遍天下。

17 你还向我的百姓自高,不容他们去麽?

18 到明约在这时候,我必叫重大的冰雹降下,自从埃及开国以来,没有这样的冰雹

19 现在你要打发人把你的牲畜和你田间一切所有的催进来;凡在田间不收回家的,无论是人是牲畜冰雹必降在他们身上,他们就必

20 法老的臣仆中,惧怕耶和华的,便叫他的奴仆和牲畜跑进家来。

21 但那不把耶和华放在上的,就将他的奴仆和牲畜留在田里。

22 耶和华摩西:你向伸杖,使埃及的人身上和牲畜身上,并田间各样菜蔬上,都有冰雹

23 摩西伸杖,耶和华打雷下雹,有闪到上;耶和华下雹在埃及上。

24 那时,雹与搀杂,甚是利害,自从埃及成国以来,遍没有这样的。

25 埃及,雹击打了田间所有的人和牲畜,并一切的菜蔬,又打坏田间一切的树木

26 惟独以色列人所住的歌珊没有冰雹

27 法老打发人召摩西亚伦来,他们:这一次我犯了罪了。耶和华是公的;我和我的百姓是邪恶的。

28 轰和冰雹已经够了。请你们求耶和华,我就容你们去,不再住你们。

29 摩西对他:我一出城,就要向耶和华举手祷告;必止住,也不再有冰雹,叫你知道都是属耶和华的

30 至於你和你的臣仆,我知道你们还是不惧耶和华

31 那时,麻和大麦被雹击打;因为大麦已经吐穗,麻也开了花。

32 只是小麦和粗麦没有被击打,因为还没有长成。)

33 摩西离了法老出城,向耶和华举手祷告;和雹就止住,也不再浇在上了。

34 法老和雹与止住,就越发犯罪;他和他的臣仆都硬着

35 法老的刚硬,不容以色列人去,正如耶和华藉着摩西的。

   

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #7527

Studere hoc loco

  
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7527. 'And stood before Pharaoh' means in the presence of those engaged in molestation. This is clear from the meaning of 'standing before someone' as being in his presence; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as those who engage in molestation, dealt with in 7107, 7110, 7126, 7142, 7220, 7228.

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

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #893

Studere hoc loco

  
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893. Verse 13 And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters dried up from over the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out, and behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry.

'It happened in the six hundred and first year' means a finishing point. 'At the beginning, on the first of the month' means a starting point. 'The waters dried up from over the earth' means that falsities were not at that time apparent. 'And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw out' means the light, once falsities had been removed, shed by the truths of faith, which he acknowledged and in which he had faith. 'And behold, the face 1 of the ground was dry' means regeneration.

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1. literally, the faces

[893a] 1 That 'it happened in the six hundred and first year means a finishing point is clear from the meaning of the number six hundred, dealt with at Chapter 7:6, in 737, as a beginning, and in particular in that verse as the beginning of temptation. The end of it is specified by the same number, with a whole year having now passed by. It took place therefore at the end of a year, and this also is why the words are added 'at the beginning, on the first of the month', meaning a starting point. In the Word any complete period is specified either by a day, or a week, or a month, or a year, and even by a hundred or a thousand years - for example, 'the days' mentioned in Genesis 1, which meant stages in the regeneration of the member of the Most Ancient Church. For in the internal sense day and year mean nothing else than a period of time; and meaning a period of time they also mean a state. Consequently a year stands in the Word for a period of time and for a state, as in Isaiah,

To proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure, and the day of vengeance for our God; to comfort all who mourn. Isaiah 61:2.

This refers to the Lord's Coming. In the same prophet,

The day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed had come. Isaiah 63:4.

Here too 'day' and 'year' stand for a period of time and for a state. In Habakkuk,

Your work, O Jehovah, in the midst of the years make it live, in the midst of the years do You make it known. Habakkuk 3:2.

Here 'years' stands for a period of time and for a state. In David,

'You are God Himself, and Your years have no end. Psalms 102:27.

This statement, in which 'years' stands for periods of time, means that time does not exist with God. The same applies in the present verse where 'the year' of the flood in no way means any one particular year but a period of time that is not determined by a specific number of years. At the same time it means a state. See what has been said already about 'years' in 482, 487, 488, 493.

1. This paragraph is not numbered in the Latin.

  
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