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Exodus 34

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1 I řekl Hospodin k Mojžíšovi: Vyteš sobě dvě dsky kamenné podobné prvním, a napíši na dskách těch slova, kteráž byla na dskách prvních, kteréž jsi rozrazil.

2 Budiž tedy hotov ráno, a vstoupíš v jitře na horu Sinai, a staneš přede mnou na vrchu hory té.

3 Žádný ať nevstupuje s tebou, aniž také kdo vidín bude na vší hoře; ani ovce neb volové pásti se budou naproti hoře této.

4 Tedy Mojžíš vytesal dvě dsky kamenné podobné prvním, a vstav ráno, vstoupil na horu Sinai, jakž mu přikázal Hospodin, a vzal v ruku svou dvě dsky kamenné.

5 I sstoupil Hospodin v oblaku, a stál s ním tam, a zavolal ze jména: Hospodin.

6 Nebo pomíjeje Hospodin tvář jeho, volal: Hospodin, Hospodin, Bůh silný, lítostivý a milostivý, dlouhočekající a hojný v milosrdenství a pravdě,

7 Milosrdenství čině tisícům, odpouštěje nepravost a přestoupení i hřích, a kterýž nikoli neospravedlňuje vinného, navštěvuje nepravost otců na synech, a na synech synů do třetího i čtvrtého pokolení.

8 Mojžíš pak rychle sklonil hlavu k zemi, a poklonu učinil.

9 A řekl: Prosím, našel-li jsem milost v očích tvých, Pane, nechť jde, prosím, Pán u prostřed nás, nebo lid jest tvrdé šíje, a milostiv buď nepravosti naší a hříchu našemu, a měj nás za dědictví.

10 Kterýžto řekl: Aj, já učiním smlouvu přede vším lidem tvým. Učiním divné věci, kteréž nejsou učiněny na vší zemi a ve všech národech, a viděti bude všecken lid, (mezi nimiž jsi,) skutky Hospodinovy; nebo hrozné bude to, což já učiním s tebou.

11 Zachovej to, což já dnes tobě přikazuji. Aj, já vyženu před tváří tvou Amorea a Kananea, Hetea a Ferezea, Hevea a Jebuzea.

12 Varuj se pak, abys nečinil smlouvy s obyvateli země té, do kteréž vejdeš, ať by nebyli osídlem u prostřed tebe.

13 Ale zboříte oltáře jejich, a modly jejich polámete, a jejich háje posekáte.

14 Nebo nebudeš se klaněti Bohu jinému, proto že Hospodin jest, jméno má horlivý, Bůh silný, horlivý jest.

15 Nevcházej v smlouvu s obyvateli země té, aby když by smilnili, jdouce po bozích svých, a obětovali bohům svým, nepovolali tě, a jedl bys z oběti jejich.

16 A abys nebral ze dcer jeho synům svým, i smilnily by dcery jejich, jdouce po bozích svých, a naučily by smilniti syny tvé, jdouce po bozích svých.

17 Bohů slitých neuděláš sobě.

18 Slavnost přesnic zachovávati budeš. Za sedm dní jísti budeš chleby nekvašené, jakž jsem přikázal tobě, v čas vyměřený měsíce Abib; nebo měsíce toho vyšel jsi z Egypta.

19 Všecko což otvírá život, mé jest, i všeliký samec v dobytku tvém, prvorozený z volů a ovcí.

20 Ale prvorozené osle vyplatíš dobytčetem; pakli bys nevyplatil, šíji zlomíš jemu. Každého prvorozeného z synů svých vyplatíš, aniž ukáží se přede mnou prázdní.

21 Šest dní pracovati budeš, dne pak sedmého přestaneš; v čas orání i žně přestaneš.

22 A učiníš sobě slavnost téhodnů, svátek prvotin žně pšeničné a slavnost klizení po vyjití každého roku.

23 Třikrát v roce ukáže se každý z vás pohlaví mužského před oblíčejem Panovníka Hospodina, Boha Izraelského.

24 Nebo vyvrhu národy od tváři tvé a rozšířím meze tvé, aniž kdo sáhne na zemi tvou, když vstoupíš, abys se ukázal před Hospodinem Bohem svým třikrát v roce.

25 Nebudeš obětovati krve oběti mé, dokavadž u tebe kvas jest, aniž zůstane do jitra obět slavnosti Fáze.

26 Prvotiny prvních úrod země své přinášeti budeš do domu Hospodina Boha svého. Nebudeš vařiti kozelce v mléce matky jeho.

27 I řekl Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Napiš sobě slova tato; nebo podlé slov těch učinil jsem smlouvu s tebou a s Izraelem.

28 Byl pak tam s Hospodinem čtyřidceti dní a čtyřidceti nocí, chleba nejedl a vody nepil; a napsal na dskách slova té smlouvy, totiž deset slov.

29 I stalo se, když sstupoval Mojžíš s hory Sinai, (a měl dvě dsky svědectví v rukou svých, když sstupoval s hory), nevěděl, že by se stkvěla kůže tváři jeho, když mluvil s ním.

30 A viděl Aron i všickni synové Izraelští Mojžíše, a aj, stkvěla se kůže tváři jeho, a nesměli přistoupiti k němu.

31 Ale Mojžíš zavolal jich, a navrátili se k němu Aron i všecka knížata shromáždění toho, a mluvil Mojžíš s nimi.

32 Potom přišli také k němu všickni synové Izraelští, jimžto přikázal všecko, což s ním mluvil Hospodin na hoře Sinai.

33 Dokudž pak mluvil Mojžíš s nimi, měl zástěru na tváři své.

34 Ale když vcházel Mojžíš před tvář Hospodina, aby mluvil s ním, odjímal zástěru, dokudž nevyšel. Vyšed pak, mluvil synům Izraelským, což mu bylo rozkázáno.

35 Tedy viděli synové Izraelští tvář Mojžíšovu, že se stkvěla kůže tváři jeho. A kladl zase Mojžíš zástěru na tvář svou, dokudž nevcházel, aby mluvil s ním.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4299

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4299. 'For I have seen God face to face, and my soul is delivered' means that He suffered the severest temptations, seemingly attributable to the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing God' as going closer to Him by means of interior things, that is to say, by means of goods and truths, and consequently as presence, dealt with in 4198; and from the meaning of 'the face' as interior things, dealt with in 1999, 2434, 3527, 3573, 4066, and so as thoughts and affections, for affections and thoughts are interior things because they belong to the disposition and mind (animus et mens) and reveal themselves in the face; and from the meaning of 'my soul is delivered' as suffering God's presence. The fact that all these words mean that He suffered the severest temptations seemingly attributable to the Divine, cannot be seen from anything else than the immediate causes and the remote causes of temptations. The evils and falsities present with a person which lead him into temptations, and therefore the evil spirits and genii who instill them are the immediate causes, 4249. Nevertheless, no one can be tempted, that is, undergo any spiritual temptation, except him who has a conscience. Indeed spiritual temptation is nothing else than the torture of a person's conscience, and consequently none can be tempted but those who are governed by celestial and spiritual good. For the latter have conscience, but all others do not; indeed they do not even know what conscience is.

[2] Conscience is a new will and a new understanding received from the Lord, and so is the Lord's presence with a person, a presence which becomes all the closer the more the person is stirred by the affection for good or for truth. If the closeness of the Lord's presence exceeds the amount of affection for good or for truth in him, he enters into temptation. The reason why is that the evils and falsities which reside with him, and which are moderated by the goods and truths residing with him, cannot suffer that closer presence. This becomes clear from the following things that happen in the next life: Evil spirits cannot by any means move towards any heavenly community without starting to feel distress and torment; also, evil spirits cannot stand angels looking at them because they are instantly tormented and collapse unconscious. And in addition there is the fact that hell is remote from heaven, for the reason that it cannot suffer heaven, that is, the Lord's presence in heaven. This explains why in the Word it is said in reference to evil spirits,

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. Luke 23:30.

And elsewhere,

They will say to the mountains and rocks, Rush down on us and hide us from the face of Him who is seated on the throne. Revelation 6:16.

Also the sphere of cloud and thick darkness which emanates from the evils and falsities of those in hell looks like a mountain or rock beneath which they are hidden, see 1265, 1267, 1270.

[3] From these considerations it can now be recognized that 'I have seen God face to face and my soul is delivered' means the severest temptations, seemingly attributable to the Divine. Temptations and torments do seem to be attributable to the Divine because they arise, as has been stated, through the Lord's Divine presence. Yet they do not originate in the Divine or the Lord but in the evils and falsities residing with the person who is being tempted or tormented. From the Lord nothing else proceeds but a holiness which is good and true and merciful, and it is this holiness - which is good, true, and merciful - that those subject to evils and falsities cannot suffer; for such evils and falsities are opposite or contrary to it. Evils, falsities, and lack of mercy are bent all the time on doing violence to those qualities belonging to holiness; and in the measure they assail these, they themselves suffer torment. And when they assail them and consequently suffer torment they imagine that it is the Divine who torments them. These are the considerations meant by 'seemingly attributable to the Divine'.

[4] It was well known to the ancients that no one can see Jehovah face to face and live, and from them knowledge of the same came down to the descendants of Jacob. This explains why they were so glad when they saw any angel and remained alive, as in the Book of Judges,

Gideon saw that he was the angel of Jehovah, therefore Gideon said, O Lord Jehovih! Inasmuch as I have seen the angel of Jehovah face to face. And Jehovah said to him, Peace be to you; do not fear, for you will not die. Judges 6:22-23.

In the same book, Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, for we have seen God. Judges 13:22.

And in Moses, Jehovah said to Moses, You cannot see My face, for no man will see Me and live. Exodus 33:20.

[5] The reason why it is said of Moses that he spoke to Jehovah face to face, Exodus 33:11, and that Jehovah knew him face to face, Deuteronomy 34:10, is that He showed Himself to him in a human form suited to his reception, which was an external form - as a bearded old man sitting with him, as I have learned from angels. For the same reason the Jews had no other idea of Jehovah than of one who was very old with a long white beard, who was better able to perform miracles than other gods. They did not have the idea of His being the most holy because they did not know what holiness was, let alone that they could not in any way see the holiness proceeding from Him because they were governed by bodily and earthly love devoid of internal holiness, 4289, 4293.

  
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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.

Fusnotat:

1. lit faces

  
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