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2 Mose 20

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1 Und Gott redete alle diese Worte:

2 Ich bin der HERR, dein Gott, der ich dich aus Ägyptenland, aus dem Diensthause, geführt habe.

3 Du sollst keine anderen Götter neben mir haben.

4 Du sollst dir kein Bildnis noch irgend ein Gleichnis machen, weder des, das oben im Himmel, noch des, das unten auf Erden, oder des, das im Wasser unter der Erde ist.

5 Bete sie nicht an und diene ihnen nicht. Denn ich, der HERR, dein Gott, bin ein eifriger Gott, der da heimsucht der Väter Missetat an den Kindern bis in das dritte und vierte Glied, die mich hassen;

6 und tue Barmherzigkeit an vielen Tausenden, die mich liebhaben und meine Gebote halten.

7 Du sollst den Namen des HERRN, deines Gottes, nicht mißbrauchen; denn der HERR wird den nicht ungestraft lassen, der seinen Namen mißbraucht.

8 Gedenke des Sabbattags, daß Du ihn heiligest.

9 Sechs Tage sollst du arbeiten und alle dein Dinge beschicken;

10 aber am siebenten Tage ist der Sabbat des HERRN, deines Gottes; da sollst du kein Werk tun noch dein Sohn noch deine Tochter noch dein Knecht noch deine Magd noch dein Vieh noch dein Fremdling, der in deinen Toren ist.

11 Denn in sechs Tagen hat der HERR Himmel und Erde gemacht und das Meer und alles, was darinnen ist, und ruhte am siebenten Tage. Darum segnete der HERR den Sabbattag und heiligte ihn.

12 Du sollst deinen Vater und deine Mutter ehren, auf daß du lange lebest in dem Lande, daß dir der HERR, dein Gott, gibt.

13 Du sollst nicht töten.

14 Du sollst nicht ehebrechen.

15 Du sollst nicht stehlen.

16 Du sollst kein falsch Zeugnis reden wider deinen Nächsten.

17 Laß dich nicht gelüsten deines Nächsten Hauses. Laß dich nicht gelüsten deines Nächsten Weibes, noch seines Knechtes noch seiner Magd, noch seines Ochsen noch seines Esels, noch alles, was dein Nächster hat.

18 Und alles Volk sah den Donner und Blitz und den Ton der Posaune und den Berg rauchen. Da sie aber solches sahen, flohen sie und traten von ferne

19 und sprachen zu Mose: Rede du mit uns, wir wollen gehorchen; und laß Gott nicht mit uns reden, wir möchten sonst sterben.

20 Mose aber sprach zum Volk: Fürchtet euch nicht; denn Gott ist gekommen, daß er euch versuchte und daß seine Furcht euch vor Augen wäre, daß ihr nicht sündigt.

21 Also trat das Volk von ferne; aber Mose machte sich hinzu in das Dunkel, darin Gott war.

22 Und der HERR sprach zu ihm: Also sollst du den Kindern Israel sagen: Ihr habt gesehen, daß ich mit euch vom Himmel geredet habe.

23 Darum sollt ihr nichts neben mir machen; silberne und goldene Götter sollt ihr nicht machen.

24 Einen Altar von Erde mache mir, darauf du dein Brandopfer und Dankopfer, deine Schafe und Rinder opferst. Denn an welchem Ort ich meines Namens Gedächtnis stiften werde, da will ich zu dir kommen und dich segnen.

25 Und so du mir einen steinernen Altar machen willst, sollst du ihn nicht von gehauenen Steinen bauen; denn wo du mit deinem Messer darüber fährst, so wirst du ihn entweihen.

26 Du sollst auch nicht auf Stufen zu meinem Altar steigen, daß nicht deine Blöße aufgedeckt werde vor ihm.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8978

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8978. 'He shall go out in his body' means a state of truth without delight, also after conflict. This is clear from the meaning of 'body' as truth without delight, dealt with immediately above in 8977; and from the meaning of 'going out' as after he has served for six years, that is, a state after conflict since the servitude lasting six years means a state of labour and conflict, 8975. The implications of all this are evident from what has been stated immediately above in 8977.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #8977

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8977. 'If he comes in his body' means truth without delight. This is clear from the meaning of 'body' as truth by itself, thus truth without its delight; for 'body' is used here to mean a slave by himself without a woman, that is, without delight, since a woman linked to a slave is delight joined to truth, as will become evident from what follows below. The situation with this arcanum is that members of the external Church, who were represented by 'Hebrew slaves', are those who learn truth not because of any delight in it, only because it is the truth that is taught by the Church and is the means by which, they believe, they can be saved. This belief is what drives them to learn and know it. These are the ones who are meant in the internal sense by slaves who 'come in their body and go out in their body'. With them no more than the strengthening of truth is accomplished. In the next life such people are at the entrance to heaven and not actually in heaven; they are called skin spirits because they correspond in the Grand Man to the skin, 5553-5559.

[2] But those imbued with truth to which delight has been joined are the ones who are meant here in the internal sense by slaves who come with a woman; for 'woman' means good when 'man' means truth. Here however delight is meant, since this exists in place of good in a member of the external Church. The good which such a person possesses does not spring from a spiritual origin but from a natural origin, for it savours of a delight to do the truth in life and to teach it for the sake of gain or important position, consequently for a selfish reason. This is why the word 'delight' is used and not 'good'. To outward appearance it does indeed seem like good; but because it is natural good, that is, has a worldly origin, not a heavenly one, it is called delight.

[3] Good that springs from a spiritual origin however is meant in the internal sense by the woman whom a master gives to his slave. But it cannot be joined [to truth]; and that was why it was stipulated that when the slave went out the woman was to be the master's, as also were her sons and daughters. For spiritual good is good not for the sake of gain or important positions but for the sake of the Church and the spiritual welfare of the neighbour. Such good cannot be joined to those confined to the outward things of the Church, since it is the genuine good of charity, springing out of love and affection. Those confined to the outward things of the Church cannot have any affection for the truths of faith without putting themselves first and the Church second. Though such people can indeed act in accordance with truths, thus can do good, they do not act from affection but out of obedience. These are the ones who are meant in the internal sense by those who wish to remain slaves forever.

[4] These are the arcana which the internal sense contains in these regulations regarding slaves, which can be grasped only by those imbued with the good of charity, and not at all by those imbued with the truth of faith without that good. The reason why is that those imbued with the good of charity are in the light of heaven, and from that light see things that exist in the light of the world. But those imbued with the truth of faith and not with the good of charity are in the light of the world, from which light things that exist in the light of heaven cannot be seen; for the light of heaven shines above, that is, on an inward level, whereas the light of the world shines below or on an outward level. Things on a lower or more external level can be seen from a higher or more internal one, but not the reverse; for heaven can flow into the world, but not the world into heaven, 3721, 5119, 5259, 5779, 6322.

  
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