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出埃及记 10

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1 耶和华摩西:你进去见法老。我使他和他臣仆的刚硬,为要在他们中间显我这些神迹,

2 并要叫你将我向埃及人所做的事,和在他们中间所行的神迹,传於你儿子和你孙子的耳中,好叫你们知道我是耶和华

3 摩西亚伦就进去见法老,对他耶和华希伯来人这样:你在我面前不肯自卑要到几时呢?容我的百姓去,好事奉我。

4 你若不肯容我的百姓去,明天我要使蝗虫进入你的境内,

5 遮满地面,甚不见,并且冰雹所剩的和田间所长的一切树木

6 你的宫殿和你众臣仆的房屋,并一切埃及人房屋,都要被蝗虫占满了;自从你祖宗和你祖宗的祖宗在世以来,直到今日,没有见过这样的灾。摩西就转身离开法老出去。

7 法老的臣仆对法老:这人为我们网罗要到几时呢?容这些人去事奉耶和华─他们的罢!埃及已经败坏了,你还不知道麽?

8 於是摩西亚伦被召回来法老法老对他们:你们去事奉耶和华─你们的;但那要去的是谁呢?

9 摩西:我们要和我们老的少的、儿子女儿同去,且把羊群牛群一同带去,因为我们务要向耶和华守节。

10 法老对他们:我容你们和你们妇人孩子去的时候,耶和华与你们同在罢!你们要谨慎;因为有祸在你们眼前(或作:你们存着恶意),

11 不可都去!你们这壮年人去事奉耶和华罢,因为这是你们所求的。於是把他们从法老面前撵出去。

12 耶和华摩西:你向埃及伸杖,使蝗虫埃及上来,上一切的菜蔬,就是冰雹所剩的。

13 摩西就向埃及伸杖,那一昼一夜,耶和华使东刮在埃及上;到了早晨,东蝗虫刮了来。

14 蝗虫上来,落在埃及的四境,甚是厉害;以前没有这样的,以也必没有。

15 因为这蝗虫遮满地面,甚至都黑暗了,又上一切的菜蔬和冰雹上的果子。埃及,无论是树木,是田间的菜蔬,连一点青的也没有留下。

16 於是法老急忙召了摩西亚伦来,:我得罪耶和华─你们的,又得罪了你们。

17 现在求你,只这一次,饶恕我的,求耶和华─你们的使我脱离这一次的死亡。

18 摩西就离开法老去求耶和华

19 耶和华了极大的西,把蝗虫刮起,吹入红;在埃及的四境连个也没有留下。

20 耶和华使法老的刚硬,不容以色列人去。

21 耶和华摩西:你向伸杖,使埃及黑暗;这黑暗似乎摸得着。

22 摩西伸杖,埃及就乌黑了

23 之久,不能相见,谁也不敢起来离开本处;惟有以色列人家中都有亮

24 法老就召摩西来,:你们去事奉耶和华;只是你们的羊群牛群要留下;你们的妇人孩子可以和你们同去。

25 摩西:你总要把祭物和燔祭牲交我们,使我们可以祭祀耶和华我们

26 我们的牲畜也要带去,连一也不留下;因为我们要从其中取出,事奉耶和华我们我们未到那里,还不知道用甚麽事奉耶和华

27 耶和华使法老的刚硬,不肯容他们去。

28 法老对摩西:你离开我去罢,你要小心,不要再见我的面!因为你见我面的那日你就必

29 摩西:你得好!我必不再见你的面了。

   

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Moses

  

At the inmost level, the story of Moses -- like all of the Bible -- is about the Lord and his spiritual development during his human life as Jesus. Moses's role represents establishing forms of worship and to make the people obedient. As such, his primary representation is "the Law of God," the rules God gave the people of Israel to follow in order to represent spiritual things. This can be interpreted narrowly as the Ten Commandments, more broadly as the books of Moses, or most broadly as the entire Bible. Fittingly, his spiritual meaning is complex and important, and evolves throughout the course of his life. To understand it, it helps to understand the meaning of the events in which he was involved. At a more basic level, Moses's story deals with the establishment of the third church to serve as a container of knowledge of the Lord. The first such church -- the Most Ancient Church, represented by Adam and centered on love of the Lord -- had fallen prey to human pride and was destroyed. The second -- the Ancient Church, represented by Noah and the generations that followed him -- was centered on love of the neighbor, wisdom from the Lord and knowledge of the correspondences between natural and spiritual things. It fell prey to the pride of intelligence, however -- represented by the Tower of Babel -- and at the time of Moses was in scattered pockets that were sliding into idolatry. On an external level, of course, Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt through 40 years in the wilderness to the border of the homeland God had promised them. Along the way, he established and codified their religious system, and oversaw the creation of its most holy objects. Those rules and the forms of worship they created were given as containers for deeper ideas about the Lord, deeper truth, and at some points -- especially when he was first leading his people away from Egypt, a time before the rules had been written down -- Moses takes on the deeper representation of Divine Truth itself, truth from the Lord. At other times -- especially after Mount Sinai -- he has a less exalted meaning, representing the people of Israel themselves due to his position as their leader. Through Moses the Lord established a third church, one more external than its predecessors but one that could preserve knowledge of the Lord and could, through worship that represented spiritual things, make it possible for the Bible to be written and passed to future generations.