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1 Ja Herra oli sanonut Mosekselle: vielä minä annan tulla yhden rangaistuksen Pharaolle ja Egyptiin, sitte hän päästää teidät täältä, ja koska hän teidät kokonansa päästää, niin hän ajain ajaa teidät täältä ulos.

2 Niin sano siis nyt kansalle: että joka mies anois lähimmäiseltänsä, ja jokainen vaimo lähimmäiseltänsä, hopia- ja kulta-astioita.

3 Sillä Herra oli antanut armon kansalle Egyptiläisten edessä. Ja Moses oli sangen kuuluisa mies Egyptin maalla, Pharaon palveliain ja kansan edessä.

4 Ja Moses sanoi: näin sanoo Herra: puoliyön aikaan minä vaellan Egyptin maan lävitse,

5 Ja jokainen esikoinen Egyptin maalla pitää kuoleman, Pharaon esikoisesta, joka hänen istuimellansa piti istuman, piian esikoiseen asti, joka myllyssä on, niin myös kaikkein eläinten esikoiset.

6 Ja suuren parun pitää oleman koko Egyptin maalla, jonkakaltaista ei ole ollut, eikä tuleman pidä.

7 Mutta kaikkein Israelin lasten seassa ei koirakaan kieltänsä värväyttämän pidä ihmisiä taikka eläimiä vastaan: että te tietäisitte, kuinka Herra eroittaa Egyptin ja Israelin.

8 Silloin kaikki nämät sinun palvelias pitää tuleman minun tyköni, ja kumartaman minua, sanoen: lähde ulos, sinä ja kaikki kansa, jotka sinun allas ovat, ja sitte minä lähden. Ja hän läksi Pharaon tyköä sangen vihoissansa.

9 Mutta Herra oli sanonut Mosekselle: ei Pharao kuule teitä, että paljo minun ihmeitäni tapahtuis Egyptin maalla.

10 Ja Moses ja Aaron tekivät kaikki nämä ihmeet Pharaon edessä, vaan Herra paadutti hänen sydämensä, ja ei hän päästänyt Israelin lapsia maaltansa.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 7797

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7797. 'And Jehovah made Pharaoh's heart unyielding' means that they remained obstinate. This is clear from the meaning of 'making the heart unyielding' as remaining obstinate, dealt with in 7272, 7300, 7305. The fact that Jehovah does not make the heart unyielding or do anything bad, even though it is attributed to Him in the literal sense of the Word, see 7533, 7631, 7643.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 7272

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7272. 'And I will harden Pharaoh's heart' means obstinacy rising from the evil of falsity. This is clear from the meaning of 'hardening' as obstinacy. Its rise from the evil of falsity is meant by 'Pharaoh's heart', for in the genuine sense 'the heart' means the good which belongs to heavenly love, 3313, 3887, 3889, and therefore in the contrary sense it means hellish evil. And the reason why it is the evil of falsity is that 'Pharaoh' represents those who are steeped in falsity. The evil of falsity is anything which traces its origin back to basic ideas of falsity. Take for example the idea, such as existed among the Israelites and Jews, that they were made holy by means of external acts - by sacrifices, washings, or the sprinkling of blood - and that they were not made holy through charity and faith, thus that they were holy even though their lives were filled with hatred, vengeance, plundering, savagery, and the like. These evils are what are called the evils of falsity, because they trace their origin back to basic ideas of falsity.

[2] Take as another example a person who believes that faith alone saves and that the works of charity contribute nothing to salvation, a person who also believes that he can be saved even in his final hour before death, no matter what kind of life he has been leading throughout the whole course of his life. If on the basis of these ideas he leads a life devoid of any charity and is filled with contempt for others, enmity and hatred towards anyone who does not pay him respect, the desire for revenge, the craving to deprive others of their goods, lack of pity, trickery, and deceit, these evils too are evils of falsity. They are such because he convinces himself on the basis of a falsity either that they are not evils or that even if they were evils they would nevertheless be purged, provided that before he breathed his last he declared with apparent trust his belief that the Lord is the Mediator and that sins are purged through His passion on the Cross.

[3] Take as yet another example those who approach people who have died, make supplication to them as saints, and so venerate them, even images of them. The evil contained in that practice is the evil of falsity. Doers of the evil of falsity all believe that falsity is the truth, and consequently that evil either is not evil or else cannot cause damnation. It is similar with those who believe that sins can be pardoned by mere human beings, and also with those who believe that they can be brought into heaven, regardless of their sins, that is, of their foul spiritual odour and stench. In short the evils of falsity are as many in number as the falsities of faith and worship. Such evils do cause condemnation, but not to so great an extent as evils that have their origin in evil. Evils that have their origin in evil are those which exist as a result of a desire welling up from self-love and love of the world.

  
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