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Исход 19

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1 В третий месяц по исходе сынов Израиля из земли Египетской, всамый день новолуния, пришли они в пустыню Синайскую.

2 И двинулись они из Рефидима, и пришли в пустыню Синайскую, и расположились там станом в пустыне; и расположился там Израиль станом против горы.

3 Моисей взошел к Богу на гору , и воззвал к нему Господь с горы, говоря: так скажи дому Иаковлеву и возвести сынам Израилевым:

4 вы видели, что Я сделал Египтянам, и как Я носил вас как бы на орлиных крыльях, и принес вас к Себе;

5 итак, если вы будете слушаться гласа Моего и соблюдать завет Мой,то будете Моим уделом из всех народов, ибо Моя вся земля,

6 а вы будете у Меня царством священников и народом святым; вот слова, которые ты скажешь сынам Израилевым.

7 И пришел Моисей и созвал старейшин народа и предложил им все сии слова, которые заповедал ему Господь.

8 И весь народ отвечал единогласно, говоря: все, что сказал Господь, исполним. И донес Моисей слова народа Господу.

9 И сказал Господь Моисею: вот, Я приду к тебе в густом облаке, дабыслышал народ, как Я буду говорить с тобою, и поверил тебе навсегда. И Моисей объявил слова народа Господу.

10 И сказал Господь Моисею: пойди к народу, и освяти его сегодня и завтра; пусть вымоют одежды свои,

11 чтоб быть готовыми к третьему дню: ибо в третий день сойдет Господь пред глазами всего народа на гору Синай;

12 и проведи для народа черту со всех сторон и скажи: берегитесь восходить на гору и прикасаться к подошве ее; всякий, ктоприкоснется к горе, предан будет смерти;

13 рука да не прикоснется к нему, а пусть побьют его камнями, или застрелят стрелою; скот ли то, или человек, да не останется в живых; во время протяжного трубного звука могут они взойти на гору.

14 И сошел Моисей с горы к народу и освятил народ, и они вымыли одежду свою.

15 И сказал народу: будьте готовы к третьему дню;не прикасайтесь к женам.

16 На третий день, при наступлении утра, были громы и молнии, и густое облако надгорою, и трубный звук весьма сильный; и вострепетал весь народ, бывший в стане.

17 И вывел Моисей народ из стана в сретение Богу, и стали у подошвы горы.

18 Гора же Синай вся дымилась от того, что Господь сошел на нее в огне; и восходил от нее дым, как дым из печи, и вся Гора сильно колебалась;

19 и звук трубный становился сильнее и сильнее. Моисей говорил, и Бог отвечал ему голосом.

20 И сошел Господь на гору Синай, на вершину горы, и призвал Господь Моисея на вершину горы, и взошел Моисей.

21 И сказал Господь Моисею: сойди и подтверди народу, чтобы он не порывался к Господу видеть Его , и чтобы не пали многие из него;

22 священники же, приближающиеся к Господу, должны освятить себя, чтобы не поразил их Господь.

23 И сказал Моисей Господу: не может народ взойтина гору Синай, потому что Ты предостерег нас, сказав: проведи черту вокруг горы и освяти ее.

24 И Господь сказал ему: пойди, сойди, потом взойди ты и с тобою Аарон; а священники и народ да не порываются восходить к Господу, чтобы непоразил их.

25 И сошел Моисей к народу и пересказал ему.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8814

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8814. 'And a heavy cloud on the mountain' means the Divine state in relation to those about to receive. This is clear from the meaning of 'a cloud' as truth adjusted for those about to receive, that is, the Word in the letter, dealt with in 8443, 8781, at this point God's truth adjusted for the people descended from Jacob. Because they were in great darkness so far as God's truths were concerned, 'a heavy cloud' is spoken of here, 'in the thickness of a cloud' above in verse 9, and the smoke of the fire 'like the smoke of a furnace' in verse 18 below. How much darkness they were in may be recognized from what has been mentioned above regarding that nation in 8788, and also from the consideration that things involving the internal man were not revealed to them, only those involving the external. For they did not apprehend or have any wish to apprehend internal things, because these were contrary to their kinds of love, which were that they should be highest of all in the world and also richest of all, and that all nations elsewhere should be as nothing in comparison with themselves. Where these kinds of love prevail heavenly kinds cannot be received, for the former snuff out and smother the latter. This is the reason why Jehovah, that is, the Lord, appeared to them in a dense and heavy cloud. A similar situation exists in the next life, where those steeped in falsities arising from evil are surrounded by a dense, black cloud, how dense and black being determined by the nature and amount of the falsities. This sight appears before the eyes of everyone there; even so, the sun there is shining constantly. Regarding these matters, see what has been stated already in 6832, 8137, 8138. Ordinarily the Divine appears in the next life to everyone according to the nature of their faith and love.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 8788

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8788. 'And sanctify them today and tomorrow' means covering over their interiors in order that those people may appear now and subsequently in the holiness of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'sanctifying' as arranging them so that outwardly they may appear in holiness; and since this is accomplished by covering over their interiors, 'sanctifying' has this meaning also. The fact that 'today and tomorrow' means now and subsequently is self-evident. What all this implies will be stated briefly. The Church established among the Jews was not, as regards the Jews themselves, the Church, only a representative of the Church. For the Church to exist there must reside with those belonging to the Church faith in the Lord, and also love to Him, as well as love towards the neighbour. These virtues make the Church. But they did not reside with the people who were called Jacob; for they did not acknowledge the Lord, and so did not wish to hear about faith in Him, let alone about love to Him or indeed about love towards the neighbour. They were ruled by self-love and love of the world, the kinds of love that are the complete opposites of love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour. Such a disposition has been rooted in that people from their earliest forebears. This is why no Church could be established among that people; all they could do was represent things that constitute the Church. Mere representation of the Church comes about when people's worship centres on external things, but only on such things as correspond to heavenly ones. External things then serve to represent internal, and the internal things are made evident in heaven, to which those people are consequently joined. Therefore to make representation possible among the Israelite people, when interiorly they were devoid of the faith and love of heaven, indeed were full of self-love and love of the world, their interiors were covered over. Then their externals alone, without their internals, could be conveyed to spirits, and through these to angels. Consequently unless their internals had been covered over, internals too would have been made evident, in which case the representation would have been destroyed because foul [thoughts and affections] would have burst out and defiled it. Such a covering over was possible with that people more than with all the rest because they venerated external things more than others did; they thought that those things themselves were intrinsically holy, indeed Divine.

All this makes clear what one should understand by 'sanctifying', namely covering over their interiors in order that those people may appear in the holiness of faith, though not to themselves, only to the angels present with them. See what has been shown already about this people and the establishment of the Church among them, in 4208, 4281, 4288, 4289, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4317, 4429, 4433, 4444, 4459, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4899, 4911, 4912, 4500, 7048, 7051, 8588. The fact that sanctification among them amounted to no more than an appearance of holiness in externals, since they themselves had no holiness within them, becomes clear from the ceremonies by which they were sanctified, that is to say, by sacrifices, washings, sprinklings of blood, and anointings, which do not in any way whatever touch internal things.

  
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