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Eliro 5

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1 Poste venis Moseo kaj Aaron, kaj diris al Faraono:Tiel diris la Eternulo, la Dio de Izrael:Permesu, ke Mia popolo iru kaj faru al Mi feston en la dezerto.

2 Sed Faraono diris:Kiu estas la Eternulo, kies vocxon mi devas obei kaj lasi Izraelon iri? mi ne konas la Eternulon, kaj al Izrael mi ne permesos iri.

3 Kaj ili diris:La Dio de la Hebreoj vokis nin; permesu, ke ni iru vojon de tri tagoj en la dezerton kaj ni alportu oferon al la Eternulo, nia Dio, por ke Li ne frapu nin per pesto aux glavo.

4 Sed la regxo de Egiptujo diris al ili:Kial vi, Moseo kaj Aaron, fortiras la popolon de gxiaj laboroj? iru al viaj laboroj.

5 Kaj Faraono diris:Jen multenombra estas nun la popolo de la lando, kaj vi volas liberigi ilin de iliaj laboroj!

6 Kaj Faraono ordonis en tiu tago al la voktoj de la popolo kaj al gxiaj kontrolistoj, dirante:

7 Ne donu plu pajlon al la popolo por la farado de la brikoj, kiel gxis nun; ili mem iru kaj kolektu al si pajlon.

8 Sed la nombron de la brikoj, kiun ili pretigas gxis nun, postulu de ili, ne malgrandigu gxin; cxar ili vagas senlabore, tial ili krias:Ni iru kaj alportu oferon al nia Dio.

9 Oni devas premi tiujn homojn per la laboro, por ke ili estu okupitaj de gxi kaj ne atentu mensogajn vortojn.

10 Tiam eliris la voktoj de la popolo kaj gxiaj kontrolistoj, kaj diris al la popolo:Tiel diras Faraono:Mi ne donos al vi pajlon;

11 iru mem, prenu al vi pajlon, kie vi trovos; sed el via laboro nenio estos deprenata.

12 Tiam la popolo disigxis en la tuta lando Egipta, por kolekti pecojn da pajlo.

13 Kaj la voktoj insistadis, dirante:Pretigu vian cxiutagan laboron, kiel tiam, kiam vi havis pajlon.

14 Kaj la kontrolistojn Izraelidojn, starigitajn super ili de la voktoj de Faraono, oni batadis, dirante:Kial vi ne pretigis vian ordonitan nombron da brikoj hieraux kaj hodiaux, kiel gxis nun?

15 La kontrolistoj Izraelidoj venis kaj kriis al Faraono, dirante:Kial vi agas tiel kun viaj sklavoj?

16 Pajlo ne estas donata al viaj sklavoj, kaj brikojn oni ordonas al ni fari; kaj nun viaj sklavoj estas batataj, kaj via popolo pekas.

17 Sed li diris:Mallaboruloj vi estas, mallaboruloj, tial vi diras:Ni iru, Ni alportu oferon al la Eternulo.

18 Kaj nun iru, laboru, kaj pajlon oni ne donos al vi, kaj la difinitan nombron da brikoj liveru.

19 Kaj la kontrolistoj Izraelidoj vidis, ke estas al ili malbone, cxar estas dirite:Ne malgrandigu la cxiutagan nombron de viaj brikoj.

20 Ili renkontis Moseon kaj Aaronon, kiuj staris antaux ili, kiam ili eliris de Faraono.

21 Kaj ili diris al tiuj:La Eternulo rigardu vin, kaj jugxu vin por tio, ke vi malbonodorigis nian odoron antaux Faraono kaj antaux liaj servantoj, kaj donis glavon en iliajn manojn, por mortigi nin.

22 Tiam Moseo turnis sin al la Eternulo, kaj diris:Mia Sinjoro! kial Vi faris malbonon al tiu popolo? kial Vi sendis min?

23 De tiu tempo, kiam mi venis al Faraono, por paroli en Via nomo, li farigxis pli malbona kontraux tiu popolo, kaj Vi ne savis Vian popolon.

   

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #7113

Studere hoc loco

  
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7113. 'To make bricks' means for fabrications and falsities which are to be introduced. This is clear from the meaning of 'making bricks' as fabricating falsities, dealt with in 1296, 6669. The historical account in the sense of the letter says that the children of Israel were to make the bricks, thus it was as if they were to fabricate falsities; but the meaning in the internal sense is that those in hell who are steeped in falsities would introduce them. Since, as stated already, those falsities seem to belong to those who receive them, the sense of the letter speaks in accordance with that appearance; but its real meaning is explained by means of the internal sense. There are very many things like this in the sense of the letter, see 5094, 6400, 6948.

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

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #6669

Studere hoc loco

  
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6669. 'In clay and in bricks' means on account of the evils which they devised and the falsities which they fabricated. This is clear from the meaning of 'clay' as good, and in the contrary sense as evil, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'bricks' as falsities that people fabricate, dealt with in 1296. As regards the evils and falsities which those in hell devise and fabricate, see just above in 6666.

The fact that 'clay' means evil from which falsity is produced is evident from the following places in the Word: In Isaiah,

The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest; its waters throw out mud and clay. Isaiah 57:20.

'Mud' stands for falsity from which evil is derived, and 'clay' for evil from which falsity is produced.

[2] In Jeremiah,

Your feet have sunk into the clay, [your close friends] have turned away backwards. Jeremiah 38:22.

'Feet sunk into the clay' stands for the natural sunken in evil. In Nahum,

Draw yourself water for the siege, strengthen your fortifications; go into the mud and tread the clay; renew the brick-kiln. There the fire will devour you, and the sword cut you off. Nahum 3:14-15.

'Treading the clay' stands for being prompted by evil to think what is false. In Habakkuk,

He will say, Woe to him who multiplies what is not his - how long? And to him who loads clay onto himself, Will there not rise up suddenly those who will bite you? Habakkuk 2:6-7.

'Loading clay onto himself' stands for taking up evil.

[3] In David,

Jehovah caused me to come up out of the pit of devastation, out of the muddy clay, and He set my feet upon a rock. Psalms 49:2.

In the same author,

I sank in deep clay, and there was no standing; I came into the depths of the waters, and a wave overwhelmed me. Snatch me out of the clay lest I sink, and out of the depths of the waters; and do not let the depth swallow me up. Psalms 69:2, 14-15.

'Clay' stands for evil from which falsity is produced. In Isaiah,

He will come against prelates as though against clay, as a potter treads mud. 1 Isaiah 41:15.

[4] But in the following places 'clay' stands for good: In Isaiah,

Now, O Jehovah, You are our Father, we are the clay, and You are our potter; and we are all the work of Your hands. Isaiah 64:8.

'The clay' stands for the member of the Church who is being formed, thus for the good of faith by means of which that person is formed, that is, reformed.

[5] Similarly in Jeremiah,

Jehovah said to Jeremiah, Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear My words. I went down therefore to the potter's house, and behold, he made a work on the table. But the vessel that he was making was marred, like clay in the potter's hand. And he returned and made it into another vessel, as was right in the eyes of the potter to make it. Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Like this potter can I not do to you, O house of Israel? Said Jehovah. Behold, like the clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. Jeremiah 18:1-6.

'The house of Israel' stands for the Church that is to be formed. And it is because the good of charity and the truth of faith are used in the forming of it, and because such good and truth are meant by 'the clay' and 'the potter's vessel', that the prophet was commanded to go to the potter's house. This would not have happened if 'the clay' and 'the potter's vessel' had not had those meanings.

[6] There are other places too in which Jehovah or the Lord is called 'the potter' and the person who is being reformed 'the clay', namely Isaiah 29:15-16; 45:9; Job 10:9; 33:6. The incident in which the Lord made clay with His saliva and anointed the eyes of the man born blind and then commanded him to wash in the pool of Siloam, with the result that the blind man was made to see, John 9:6-7, 11, took place because it represented the reformation of man, who is born without any knowledge of truth. And that reformation is effected by means of the good of faith, meant by 'the clay'.

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1. The Latin seems to say Prelates will come as clay, and as a potter treads mud.

  
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