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1 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: mene Pharaon tykö, ja sano hänelle: näin sanoo Herra: päästä minun kansani palvelemaan minua.

2 Vaan jos et sinä tahdo päästää; katso, niin minä rankaisen kaikki sinun maas ääret sammakoilla.

3 Niin että virran pitää kuohuman sammakoista, ja ne pitää astuman ylös, ja tuleman sinun huoneesees, ja sinun lepokammioos, ja sinun vuoteesees, niin myös sinun palveliais huoneesen, ja sinun kansas sekaan, ja sinun pätsiis, sinun taikina-astioihis;

4 Ja sinun päälles, ja sinun kansas ja kaikkein sinun palveliais päälle, pitää sammakot hyppelemän.

5 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: sanos Aaronille: ojenna kätes sauvoinensa virtain, jokein ja järvein ylitse, ja anna sammakot nousta ylitse koko Egyptin maan.

6 Ja Aaron ojensi kätensä Egyptin vetten ylitse; ja sammakot tulivat sieltä ylös, ja peittivät koko Egyptin maan.

7 Tekivät myös noidat niin noituuksillansa: ja antoivat sammakot tulla Egyptin maan ylitse.

8 Niin Pharao kutsui Moseksen ja Aaronin, ja sanoi: rukoilkaat Herraa, että hän ottais pois sammakot minulta ja minun kansaltani; niin minä päästän kansan uhraamaan Herralle.

9 Moses sanoi: pidä sinä se kunnia, (ettäs määräät) koska minun pitää rukoileman edestäs, ja palveliais ja kansas edestä, että sammakot pitäis hukutettaman sinulta, ja sinun huoneistas, ainoastansa virtaan jäämän.

10 Hän sanoi: huomenna. Hän vastasi: olkoon sanas jälkeen, ettäs tietäisit, ettei yksikään ole niinkuin Herra, meidän Jumalamme.

11 Silloin sammakot pitää otettaman pois sinulta, ja sinun huoneistas, ja sinun palvelioiltas, ja sinun kansaltas, ainoastansa virtaan jäämän.

12 Niin Moses ja Aaron läksivät Pharaon tyköä: ja Moses huusi Herran tykö sammakkoin tähden, jotka hän Pharaon päälle pannut oli.

13 Ja Herra teki Moseksen sanan jälkeen: ja sammakot kuolivat huoneista, kylistä ja kedoilta.

14 Ja he heittivät ne suuriin roukkioihin, ja maa haisi siitä.

15 Kun Pharao näki levon saaneensa, paadutti hän sydämensä, ja ei kuullut heitä: niinkuin Herra sanonut oli.

16 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: sano Aaronille: ojenna sauvas, ja lyö maan tomuun, että se tulis täiksi koko Egyptin maassa.

17 Ja he tekivät niin: ja Aaron ojensi kätensä sauvoinensa, ja löi maan tomua, ja täit tulivat ihmisiin ja eläimiin: ja kaikki maan tomu muuttui täiksi koko Egyptin maassa.

18 Tekivät myös noidat noituuksillansa niin, täitä matkaan saattaaksensa; vaan ei he taitaneet. Ja täit olivat ihmisissä ja eläimissä.

19 Niin sanoivat noidat Pharaolle: tämä on Jumalan sormi. Mutta Pharaon sydän paatui, ja ei kuullut heitä: niinkuin Herra sanonut oli.

20 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: nouse huomenna varhain, ja seiso Pharaon edessä; katso, hän menee vetten tykö, ja sano hänelle: näin sanoo Herra: päästä minun kansani palvelemaan minua.

21 Sillä jos et sinä päästä minun kansaani; katso, niin minä tahdon lähettää sinulle, ja sinun palvelioilles, ja sinun kansalles, ja sinun huoneisiis kaikkinaiset turilaat, niin että kaikki huoneet Egyptissä täytetään turilaista, niin myös se maa jonka päällä he ovat.

22 Ja minä tahdon eroittaa sinä päivänä Gosenin maan, jossa minun kansani asuu, ettei siinä yhtään turilasta pidä oleman: ettäs tietäisit minun olevan Herran koko maan keskellä.

23 Ja minä panen lunastuksen minun ja sinun kansas välille. Huomenna pitää tämän ihmeen tapahtuman.

24 Ja Herra teki niin. Ja tuli paljo turilaita Pharaon huoneesen, ja hänen palveliainsa huoneisiin, ja koko Egyptin maalle; ja maa turmeltiin turilailta.

25 Niin kutsui Pharao Moseksen ja Aaronin, ja sanoi: menkäät ja uhratkaat teidän Jumalallenne tällä maalla.

26 Moses sanoi: ei sovi niin tehdä; sillä me uhraisimme Herralle meidän Jumalallemme Egyptiläisten kauhistuksen: katso, jos me Egyptin maan kauhistukset uhraisimme heidän edessänsä, eikö he meitä kivittäisi?

27 Kolmen päiväkunnan matkan menemme me korpeen, ja uhraamme Herralle meidän Jumalallemme, niinkuin hän on meille sanonut.

28 Pharao sanoi: minä päästän teidät, että te uhraisitte Herralle teidän Jumalallenne korvessa, ainoastansa ettétte kauvas menisi; rukoilkaat minun edestäni.

29 Moses sanoi: Katso, kuin minä menen sinun tyköäs, niin minä rukoilen Herraa, että turilaat otettaisiin pois Pharaolta, ja hänen palvelioiltansa, ja hänen kansaltansa huomenna: ainoastansa älä minua enää viettele, niin ettes päästä kansaa uhraamaan Herralle.

30 Ja Mose läksi Pharaon tyköä, ja rukoili Herraa.

31 Ja Herra teki niinkuin Moses sanonut oli: ja otti turilaat Pharaolta ja hänen palvelioiltansa, ja hänen kansaltansa pois, niin ettei yhtäkään jäänyt.

32 Mutta Pharao paadutti sydämensä vielä nyt tälläkin haavaa ja ei päästänyt kansaa.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 7442

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7442. 'And the houses of the Egyptians will be full of the noxious flying insects, and also the land on which they are' means that malevolent falsities will take possession of everything in the natural mind. This is clear from the meaning of 'filling' as taking possession of; from the meaning of 'the houses of the Egyptians' as the interior parts of the natural mind, dealt with above in 7407; from the meaning of 'noxious flying insects' as malevolent falsities, dealt with immediately above in 7441; and from the meaning of 'the land of Egypt' as the natural mind in general, dealt with in 5276, 5178, 5180, 5288, 5301.

[2] A brief statement needs to be made about what is implied in the meaning here - by the idea that even the interior parts of the natural mind will be taken possession of by the falsities arising from evil which are present in the outermost parts of that mind. What a person has flowing into him from the Lord by way of heaven flows into the interior parts of him, and then spreads right down to the lowest or outermost levels, where he becomes conscious of it. Consequently it comes right down into the level of the senses, and through this into parts of the body. If the level of the senses is filled with mistaken ideas based on illusions and appearances, and especially if they are based on falsities, the truths that flow in are turned there into similar ideas, since they are received there in accordance with the form imposed on them, see 7743. Also to the extent that truths are turned into falsities the interior parts of the mind serving as channels for the passage of truths are closed. Eventually the opening is only just large enough for the smallest amount of influx that the person needs to engage in reasoning and to use falsities to justify evils.

[3] This being the situation with a person, it is necessary when he is being regenerated for his natural to be regenerated right down to the sensory level. For unless that level is regenerated no reception of truth and good takes place, because - as stated above - truth that is flowing in is perverted there and the interiors parts are in those circumstances closed. Consequently when the exterior parts have been regenerated the whole person has been regenerated. This was what the Lord meant by His words to Peter when He washed his feet, in John,

Simon Peter said, Lord, You are not to wash my feet only, but also my hands and head. Jesus said to him, He who has been washed has no need except to wash his feet, and the whole person is clean. John 13:9-10.

'Feet' means the parts forming the natural, 2162, 3761, 3986, 4280, 4938-4952; 'washing' means purifying, 3147, 5954 (end); 'hands' means the interior parts of the natural; and 'head' means the parts forming the spiritual. These meanings show what precisely one should understand by 'he who has been washed has no need except to wash his feet, and the whole person is clean' - that a person has been regenerated when even the exterior parts forming the natural have been regenerated. When therefore a person has had even his natural regenerated everything on that level is subordinated to more internal levels. And when the contents of the more internal levels enter they flow into images on that level which serve as the general vessels to contain them, and through those images the person is made conscious of them. When this is the situation with a person, he has conscious feelings of an affection for the truth of faith and of an affection for the good of charity.

[4] But it is difficult for the actual level of the senses, which is the lowest of the natural, to be regenerated, because it is completely filled with material ideas formed from earthly, bodily, and worldly things. For this reason a person who is being regenerated, especially at the present day, does not undergo regeneration at the sensory level, only at the natural level immediately above it, to which the Lord raises him from the level of the senses when he thinks about the truths and forms of the good of faith. The ability to be raised from the sensory level is what is imparted to the person who is being regenerated by the Lord. Regarding what the sensory level is like, and the raising of thought above it, see 5084, 5089, 5094, 5125, 5118, 5767, 6183, 6201, 6310, 6311, 6598, 6612, 6614, 6622, 6624, 6844, 6845, 6948.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 6844

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6844. Take off your shoes from upon your feet' means that the powers of the senses, which form the external levels of the natural, should be removed. This is clear from the meaning of 'shoes' as the powers of the senses forming the external levels of the natural, dealt with in 1748; and from the meaning of 'feet' as the natural, dealt with in 2162, 3147, 3761, 3986, 4280, 4938-4952. 'Taking off' plainly means removing since one is talking about the powers of the senses. Particular expressions have to be used in application to the actual matter to which they refer; thus 'being taken off' is applied to shoes, and 'being removed' to the powers of the senses. The implications of all this need to be stated. Anyone can see that here 'shoes' represent something that does not accord with Him who is holy and Divine, so that 'taking off one's shoes' was representative of the removal of things like that. Without this representation what would it matter to the Divine whether a person drew near in shoes or in bare feet, provided that inwardly he is the kind of person who can draw near the Divine in faith and love? Therefore the powers of the senses are meant by 'shoes', and those powers, which form the external levels of the natural, are by nature such that they cannot remain when one thinks with reverence about the Divine. Consequently because it was a time when representatives had to be observed, Moses was not allowed to draw near with his shoes on.

[2] The reason why the powers of the senses that form the external levels of the natural are by nature such that they cannot receive the Divine is that they are steeped in ideas of worldly, bodily, and also earthly things because they are the first to receive them. Therefore sensory impressions contained in the memory as a result of the activity of the senses draw their nature from the light and heat of the world, and hardly at all from the light and heat of heaven. As a consequence they are the last things that can be regenerated, that is, receive something of the light of heaven. This explains why, when a person is ruled by his senses and sensory impressions control his thinking, he inevitably thinks of the Divine as he does of earthly things. If also he is ruled by evil those impressions make him think in ways altogether contrary to the Divine. When therefore a person thinks about the kinds of things that have to do with faith and love to God he is raised, if he is governed by good, from the powers of the senses which form the external levels of the natural to more internal levels, consequently from earthly and worldly things nearer to celestial and spiritual ones.

[3] This is something people do not know about, the reason being that they do not know that internal levels distinct and separate from external ones are present within them, or that thought exists on increasingly internal levels as well as on more external ones. And unaware of these things a person cannot reflect on them. But see what has been stated already about thought ruled by sensory impressions:

People whose thought is ruled by sensory impressions have little wisdom, 5084, 5089, 5094, 6201, 6310-6312, 6314, 6316, 6318, 6598, 6612, 6614, 6622, 6624.

A person may be raised above the level of the senses, and when he is raised he comes into a quite gentle light; and this happens especially to those who are being regenerated, 6183, 6313, 6315.

All this now shows what is meant by 'taking off one's shoes from upon one's feet'. A person's natural divides into the external, the middle, and the internal, see 4570, 5118, 5126, 5497, 5649. The internal natural is meant by 'the feet', the middle natural by 'the soles', and the external by 'the shoes'.

  
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