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1 Annakutána pedig elmenének Mózes és Áron és mondának a Faraónak: Ezt mondá az Úr, Izráelnek Istene: Bocsásd el az én népemet, hogy ünnepet üljenek nékem a pusztában.

2 A Faraó pedig mondá: Kicsoda az Úr, hogy szavára hallgassak, és elbocsássam Izráelt? Nem ismerem az Urat és nem is bocsátom el Izráelt.

3 Õk pedig mondának: A héberek Istene megjelent nékünk; hadd mehessünk hát háromnapi útra a pusztába, hogy áldozhassunk az Úrnak a mi Istenünknek, hogy meg ne verjen minket döghalállal vagy fegyverrel.

4 Égyiptom királya pedig monda nékik: Mózes és Áron! miért vonjátok el a népet az õ munkáitól? menjetek dolgotokra.

5 Ezt is mondja vala a Faraó: Ímé a föld népe most sok, és ti elhagyatjátok velök az õ munkáikat.

6 Parancsolá azért a Faraó azon a napon a nép sarczoltatóinak és felvigyázóinak, mondván:

7 Ne adjatok többé polyvát a népnek a téglavetéshez mint ennekelõtte; hadd menjenek el õk magok és szedjenek magoknak polyvát.

8 De a tégla számát, mennyit ennekelõtte csináltak, vessétek ki rájok; azt le ne szállítsátok, mert restek õk és azért kiáltoznak, mondván: Menjünk el, áldozzunk a mi Istenünknek.

9 Nehezíttessék meg a szolgálat ezeken az embereken, hogy azzal legyen dolguk és ne hajtsanak hazug szóra.

10 Kimenének azért a nép sarczoltatói és felvigyázói és ezt mondák a népnek mondván: Ezt mondja a Faraó: Nem adok néktek polyvát.

11 Menjetek magatok, szedjetek magatoknak polyvát onnan, a hol találtok; mert semmi sem szállíttatik le szolgálatotokból.

12 És elszélede a nép egész Égyiptom földén, hogy tarlót szedjen polyva helyett.

13 A sarczoltatók pedig szorítják vala, mondván: Végezzétek el munkátokat, napjában a napi munkát, mint akkor, a mikor polyva volt.

14 És verettetének az Izráel fiai közül való felvigyázók, a kiket a Faraó sarczoltatói rendeltek vala föléjök, mondván: Miért nem végeztétek el a rátok vetett téglaszámot sem tegnap, sem ma úgy, mint ennekelõtte?

15 És elmenének az Izráel fiai közül való felvigyázók és kiáltának a Faraóhoz, mondván: Miért cselekszel így a te szolgáiddal?

16 Polyvát nem adnak a te szolgáidnak és azt mondják nékünk: Csináljatok téglát! És ímé a te szolgáid verettetnek, a te néped pedig vétkezik.

17 Az pedig monda: Restek vagytok, restek, azért mondjátok: Menjünk el, áldozzunk az Úrnak!

18 Most pedig menjetek, dolgozzatok, polyvát ugyan nem adnak néktek, de a rátok vetett tégla-számot be kell adnotok.

19 Akkor látják vala Izráel fiainak felvigyázói, hogy bajban vannak, mivel azt kell mondaniok: a tégla-számot le ne szállítsátok; napjában a napi munka meglegyen.

20 És mikor kijövének a Faraótól, szembe találkozának Mózessel és Áronnal.

21 S mondának nékik: Lásson meg titeket az Úr és ítéljen meg, kik rossz hírbe kevertetek minket a Faraó elõtt és az õ szolgái elõtt, fegyvert adván azok kezébe, hogy megöljenek minket.

22 És visszaméne Mózes az Úrhoz és monda: Uram, miért engedsz rosszul bánni ezzel a néppel! Miért küldél engem ide?

23 Mert attól fogva, hogy bemenék a Faraóhoz, hogy a te nevedben szóljak, rosszabbul bánik e néppel; megszabadítani pedig nem szabadítád meg a te népedet.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #7164

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7164. 'And Moses returned to Jehovah and said' means complaint from the law of God. This is clear from the meaning of 'returning to Jehovah' as bearing complaint to the Divine regarding the molestation by those who are steeped in falsities and evils of those governed by truths and forms of good (the fact that 'returning to Jehovah' means complaint is evident from what follows); and from the representation of 'Moses' as the law of God, dealt with in 6723, 6752, 6771, 6827, 7014. The complaint comes therefore from truth belonging to the law of God, the substance of the complaint being that those steeped in falsities exercise such control over those in possession of truths.

  
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1999. That 'Abram fell on his face' 1 means adoration is clear without explanation. Falling on one's face' was the reverent way in which the Most Ancient Church, and as a consequence the ancients, expressed adoration. The reason they expressed it in this way was that 'the face' meant the inward parts, and 'falling on one's face' 1 represented a state of humiliation of those inward parts; and from this it became in the Jewish representative Church an act of reverence. True adoration or humility of heart entails prostration before the Lord face-downwards on the ground as the natural action resulting from it. Indeed humiliation of heart entails the acknowledgement of oneself as being nothing but uncleanness, and at the same time the acknowledgement of the Lord's infinite mercy towards such. When these acknowledgements are fixed in the mind, the mind itself casts itself down towards hell and prostrates the body. Nor does it raise itself until raised up by the Lord, as happens in all true humiliation, accompanied by a perception that such raising up is of the Lord's mercy. Such was the humiliation of members of the Most Ancient Church. It is different however with adoration which does not flow from humiliation of heart, see 1153.

[2] It is well known from the Word, in the Gospels, that the Lord adored and prayed to Jehovah, His Father, and that He did so as though to Someone other than Himself, even though Jehovah was within Him. But the state that the Lord experienced at such times was the state of His humiliation, the nature of which has been discussed in Volume One, namely this, that at such times as these He was in the infirm human derived from the mother. But to the extent He cast this off and took on the Divine His state was different, which state is called the state of His glorification. In the first state He adored Jehovah as Someone other than Himself, even though He was within Him, for, as has been stated, His Internal was Jehovah. In the latter state however, that is to say, the state of glorification, He spoke to Jehovah as to Himself, since He was Jehovah Himself.

[3] The truth of all this however cannot be grasped unless one knows what the internal is and how the internal operates into the external, and furthermore how the internal and external are distinct and separate and yet joined together. The matter may be illustrated however by means of something similar, namely by means of the internal with man and of its influx and operation into the external with him. For the fact that man has an internal, an interior or rational, and an external, see what has appeared already in 1889, 1940. Man's internal is that which makes him human and distinguishes him from animals. It is by means of this internal that man lives on after death and for ever, and by means of it the Lord can raise him up among angels. It is the prior or primary form from which anyone becomes and is a human being, and it is by means of this internal that the Lord is united to man. The heaven itself that is nearest to the Lord consists of these human internals, but being above even the inmost angelic heaven these internals therefore belong to the Lord Himself. In this way the entire human race is directly present beneath the eyes of the Lord. Distance, a visible feature of this sublunary world, does not exist in heaven, still less above heaven - see what has been mentioned from experience in 1275, 1277.

[4] These inward aspects of men possess no life in themselves but are recipient forms of the Lord's life. To the extent then that anyone is under the influence of evil, both that of his own doing and that which is hereditary, he has been so to speak separated from this internal which is the Lord's and resides with the Lord, and so has been separated from the Lord. For although that human internal is joined to the person and cannot be separated from him, yet to the extent he moves away from the Lord he does in a way separate himself from it, see 1594. But such separation is not a complete severance from that human internal - for if it were, man would no longer be able to live after death; but it is a lack of harmony and agreement with it on the part of his capacities which are beneath it, that is, of his rational and external man. Insofar as disharmony and disagreement are present there is no conjunction, but insofar as they are absent man is joined to the Lord by means of the internal, which is achieved in the measure that he is moved by love and charity, for love and charity effect conjunction. Such is the situation with man.

[5] But the Lord's Internal was Jehovah Himself, since He was conceived from Jehovah, who cannot be divided or become the relative of another, like a son who has been conceived from a human father. For unlike the human, the Divine is not capable of being divided but is and remains one and the same. To this Internal the Lord united the Human Essence. Moreover because the Lord's Internal was Jehovah it was not, like man's internal, a recipient form of life, but life itself. Through that union His Human Essence as well became life itself. Hence the Lord's frequent declaration that He is Life, as in John,

As the Father has Life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have Life in Himself. John 5:26.

And elsewhere besides this in the same gospel, 1:4; 5:21; 6:33, 35, 48; 11:25. 'The Son' is used to mean the Lord's Human Essence. To the extent therefore that the Lord was in the human which He received by heredity from the mother, He appeared to be distinct and separate from Jehovah, and worshipped Jehovah as Someone other than Himself. But to the extent He cast off this human, the Lord was not distinct and separate from Jehovah but one with Him. The first state, as has been mentioned, was the state of the Lord's humiliation, but the second the state of His glorification.

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1. lit faces

  
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