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ထွက်မြောက်ရာ 24

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1 တဖန် ထာဝရဘုရားက၊ သင်သည် အာရုန်၊ နာဒပ်၊ အဘိဟု အစရှိသော ဣသရေလအမျိုး အသက်ကြီးသူ ခုနစ်ကျိပ်နှင့်တကွ၊ ထာဝရဘုရားထံတော်သို့ တက်၍၊ သူတို့သည် ဝေးဝေးကိုးကွယ်ကြစေ။

2 သင်တယောက်တည်းသာ ထာဝရဘုရားထံတော်သို့ ချဉ်းကပ်ရမည်။ အခြားသောသူ မချဉ်းမကပ်ရ။ လူများတို့သည် သင်နှင့်အတူ မတက်ရကြဟု မောရှေအား မိန့်တော်မူ၏။

3 မောရှေသည်လည်း လူများတို့ရှိရာသို့လာ၍၊ ထာဝရဘုရားစကားတော်အလုံးစုံကို၎င်း၊ စီရင်တော်မူချက်အလုံးစုံကို၎င်း ပြန်ကြား၍၊ လူများအပေါင်းကလည်း၊ ထာဝရဘုရားမိန့်တော်မူသမျှအတိုင်း အကျွန်ုပ်တို့ ပြုပါမည်ဟု တသံတည်းပြန်ပြောကြ၏။

4 မောရှေသည် ာဝရဘုရား၏ စကားတော်အလုံးစုံတို့ကို ရေးားပြီးမှ၊ နံနက်စောစော၍၊ တောင်ခြေရင်း၌ ယဇ်ပလ္လင်ကို၎င်း၊ ဣသရေလအမျိုး တဆယ်နှစ်မျိုးနှင့်အမျှ ကျောက်တိုင်တဆယ်နှစ်တိုင်ကို ၎င်း တည်လေ၏။

5 ဣသရေလအမျိုးသား လူပျိုတို့ကို စေခိုင်းသည်အတိုင်း၊ သူတို့သည် နွားများကိုယူ၍ ထာဝရဘုရား ရှေ့မှာ မီးရှို့သောယဇ်၊ မိဿဟာယယဇ်ကို ပူဇော်ကြ၏။

6 မောရှေသည်လည်း၊ အသွေးတဝက်ကို အင်တုံ၌ထည့်၍၊ တဝက်ကို ယဇ်ပလ္လင်ပေါ်မှာ ဖြန်းလေ၏။

7 ပဋိညာဉ်စာကိုလည်း ယူ၍၊ ပရိသတ်များရှေ့မှာ ဘတ်ပြီးလျှင်၊ သူတို့ကလည်း၊ ထာဝရဘုရားမိန့်တော် မူသမျှအတိုင်း အကျွန်ုပ်တို့ပြုပါမည်၊ နားထောင်ပါမည်ဟု ပြောဆိုကြ၏။

8 မောရှေသည်လည်း၊ အသွေးကို ယူ၍ လူများအပေါ်မှာ ဖြန်းလျက်၊ ဤအသွေးကား ဤအမှုအရာ တို့တွင် သင်တို့၌ ထာဝရဘုရားဝန်ခံတော်မူသော ပဋိညာဉ်၏အသွေးဖြစ်သည်ဟု ပြောဆို၏။

9 ထိုအခါ မောရှေ၊ အာရုန်၊ နာဒပ်၊ အဘိဟု အစရှိသော ဣသရေလအမျိုး အသက်ကြီးသူ ခုနစ်ကျိပ်တို့ သည် တက်၍၊

10 ဣသရေလအမျိုး၏ ဘုရားသခင်ကို မြင်ကြ၏။ ခြေတော်အောက်၌ နီလာကျောက်ဖြင့်ပြီးသော ကျောက်ခင်းကဲ့သို့၎င်း၊ ကြည်လင်သော ကောင်းကင်မျက်နှာကဲ့သို့၎င်း ထင်လေ၏။

11 ဣသရေလအမျိုးသား မှူးမတ်တို့ကို အပြစ်ပေးတော်မမူ။ သူတို့သည် ဘုရားသခင်ကို မြင်ရသော် လည်း၊ စားသောက်လျက်နေကြ၏။

12 ထာဝရဘုရားကလည်း၊ ငါရှိရာတောင်ပေါ်သို့ တက်၍နေလော့။ လူများတို့အား သွန်သင်ဘို့ရာ ကျောက်ပြားပေါ်မှာ ငါရေးထားသော ပညတ်တရားများကို သင်၌ ငါအပ်ပေးမည်ဟု မောရှေအား မိန့်တော်မူလျှင်၊

13 မောရှေသည် မိမိလက်ောက်ယောရှုနှင့် အတူဘုရားသခင်၏ တောင်တော်ပေါ်သို့ တက်သွား၏။

14 အသက်ကြီးသူတို့အားလည်း၊ ငါတို့မလာမှီတိုင်အောင် ဤအရပ်၌ ငံ့နေကြလော့။ အာရုန်နှင့် ဟုရသည် သင်တို့၌ ရှိသည်ဖြစ်၍၊ မည်သည့်သူမဆို အမှုအခင်းရှိလျှင်၊ သူတို့ထံသို့ သွားစေဟု မှာထားလေ၏။

15 မောရှေသည် တောင်တော်ပေါ်သို့တက်၍၊ မိုဃ်းတိမ်သည် တောင်တော်ကို လွှမ်းမိုး၏။

16 ထာဝရဘုရား၏ ဘုန်းတော်သည် သိနာတောင်ပေါ်မှာထိ၍၊ မိုဃ်းတိမ်သည် ခြောက်ရက်ပတ်လုံး လွှမ်းမိုး၏။ သတ္တမနေ့ရက်၌ မိုဃ်းတိမ်အထဲက အသံတော်ထွက်၍၊ မောရှေကို ခေါ်တော်မူ၏။

17 ထာဝရဘုရား၏ ဘုန်းတော်သည် တောင်ထိပ်ပေါ်မှာလောင်သော မီးကဲ့သို့ ထင်၍၊ ဣသရေလ အမျိုးသားတို့သည် မြင်ရကြ၏

18 မောရှေသည် မိုဃ်းတိမ်အထဲသို့ ဝင်သဖြင့် တောင်ပေါ်သို့ရောက်၍ အရက်လေးဆယ်ပတ်လုံး တောင်ပေါ်မှာ နေလေ၏။

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9429

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9429. 'And the glory of Jehovah lay over Mount Sinai' means the more internal levels of the Lord's Word in heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'the glory of Jehovah', when the Word is the subject, as its inward sense, thus the more internal levels of the Word, dealt with in the Preface to Genesis 18, and in 5922; and from the meaning of 'Mount Sinai' as Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, and consequently as heaven, dealt with above in 9420, 9427. The reason why the more internal levels of the Word are called 'the glory' is that Divine Truth emanating from the Lord as the Sun composes the light in heaven, which enables the angels there to see with their eyes and at the same time gives them intelligence and wisdom, 1531, 1619-1632, 2776, 3138, 3167, 3190, 3195, 3339, 3341, 3636, 3643, 3862, 3993, 4302, 4415, 4527, 5400, 6313, 6608, 6907, 8644, 8707, 8861. This Divine light is the source of all the glory in heaven, whose brightness is such that it exceeds all human imagination. From this it is evident why the inward sense of the Word is 'the glory'; for the inward sense of the Word is the Divine Truth emanating from the Lord in heaven, and so it is the light which is the source of all the glory there.

[2] This is what 'glory' is used to mean in a large number of places in the Word, such as where it says that they would see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with glory, Matthew 24:30; Luke 21:27; that the Lord, after He had suffered would enter into His glory, Luke 24:26; that when He came in His glory He would sit on the throne of His glory, Matthew 25:31, 'sitting on the throne of glory' meaning judging with Divine Truth that comes from Him; and that Moses and Elijah appeared in glory, Luke 9:30-31, 'Moses and Elijah' there being the Word, see Preface to Genesis 18, and 2762, 5247, 9372. It is also what the Lord's 'being glorified' is used to mean in John,

Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him at once. John 13:31-32.

'Being glorified in God' means becoming Divine Good from which Divine Truth springs. Something similar appears in John 12:28.

[3] Divine Truth emanating from the Lord as it exists in heaven is meant by 'the glory' in the following places as well: In Isaiah,

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah. And the glory of Jehovah will be revealed, and all flesh will see it together. Isaiah 40:3, 5.

These are words referring to the Coming of the Lord, in which 'the glory of Jehovah' that will be revealed is Divine Truth. The Lord is that Truth because it comes from Him, as is evident in John,

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. He was the true light. And the Word became flesh; and we saw His glory, glory as of the Only Begotten from the Father. John 1:1, 4, 9, 14.

'The Word' here is Divine Truth, and so is 'the light', from which it is evident what 'seeing His glory' means. The Lord, as is well known, did not appear in any glory in the world, apart from when He was transfigured.

[4] 'The glory' has the same meaning elsewhere in John,

These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him. But they delighted in the glory of men more than in the glory of God. I have come as light into the world in order that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in darkness. John 12:41, 43, 46.

Here also 'the Lord's glory' and 'the glory of God' stand for Divine Truth, while 'the glory of men' stands for falsity. In Isaiah,

Shine, for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon you. Jehovah will arise upon you, and His glory will be seen over you. The glory of Lebanon will come to you to beautify the place of My sanctuary. Your sun will no longer go down and your moon will not be withdrawn, for Jehovah will be to you an everlasting light. Isaiah 60:1-end.

This plainly refers to the Coming of the Lord, His kingdom, heaven, and the Church. Divine Truth emanating from His Divine Human is described in the whole of that chapter, where it is called light, honour, and glory.

[5] In the same prophet,

They will fear the name of Jehovah from the setting of the sun, and His glory from the rising of the sun. The Redeemer will come to Zion. Isaiah 59:19-20.

Here also it refers to the Lord. 'The name of Jehovah' stands for all the truth of faith and good of love from which worship flows, 2724, 3006, 6674, 9310. In the same prophet,

I have called You in righteousness, and will give You as a covenant of the people, 1 a light of the nations. I am Jehovah, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another. Isaiah 42:6, 8.

This too is a reference to the Lord, in which 'a light of the nations' means Divine Truth which comes from Him; 'not giving glory to another' means that that Divine Truth comes from no one other than the Lord, who is one with Jehovah, as again in the same prophet,

For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; and My glory I will not give to another. Isaiah 48:11.

[6] 'Glory' has a like meaning elsewhere in Isaiah,

Your light will break forth like the dawn; your righteousness will walk before you, the glory of Jehovah will gather you up. Isaiah 58:8.

In the same prophet,

One will come to gather all nations and tongues, that they may come and see My glory. Isaiah 66:18.

In the same prophet,

Jehovah Zebaoth will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before all His elders, glory. Isaiah 24:23.

In Moses,

Jehovah said, I am the Living One, and the whole earth will be filled with the glory of Jehovah. Numbers 14:20-21.

In all these places, which refer to the Lord, 'glory' means Divine Truth which emanates from Him.

[7] In Isaiah,

I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up. And above Him stood the seraphim. And one cried to another, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah Zebaoth; the whole earth is full of His glory. Isaiah 6:1-3.

In David,

The heavens recount the glory of God. Psalms 19:1.

And in the same author,

... that the nations may fear the name of Jehovah, and the kings of the earth Your glory, in that Jehovah has built Zion and appeared in His glory. Psalms 102:15-16.

In Revelation,

The glory of God will give the holy Jerusalem light, and its lamp is the Lamb. And the nations that are saved will walk in His light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory and honour into it. Revelation 21:23-25.

'The holy Jerusalem' stands for a new Church; 'the glory of God' stands for Divine Truth from the Lord there, as does 'His light' in which they will walk; and 'the kings of the earth' who 'will bring glory' stands for those who are guided by truths derived from good, 2015, 2069, 4581, 4966, 5044, 6148. All this now makes clear what the meaning is of 'the glory of Jehovah' which lay over Mount Sinai. See also 8427.

Notas de rodapé:

1. The Latin means for the people but the Hebrew means of the people, which Swedenborg has in some other places where he quotes this verse.

  
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Genesis 18

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1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

5 I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

9 They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

17 Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

23 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

26 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

30 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

31 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

32 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.