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1 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle: mene täältä, sinä ja kansa, jonkas johdatit Egyptin maalta, sille maalle, kuin minä vannoin Abrahamille, Isaakille ja Jakobille, sanoen: sinun siemenelles minä sen annan,

2 Ja lähetän sinun edelläs enkelin, ja ajan pois Kanaanealaiset, Amorilaiset, ja Hetiläiset, ja Pheresiläiset, Heviläiset, ja Jebusilaiset,

3 Sille maalle, jossa rieskaa ja hunajaa vuotaa; sillä en minä mene sinun kanssas, sillä sinä olet niskuri kansa, etten minä sinua joskus tieltä hukuttaisi.

4 Koska kansa kuuli tämän pahan puheen, tulivat he surulliseksi, ja ei yksikään pukenut kaunistusta yllensä.

5 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: sano Israelin lapsille: te olette niskurikansa, minä tulen äkisti sinun päälles, ja hukutan sinun; riisu siis nyt kaunistukses sinultas, että minä tietäisin, mitä minä sinulle tekisin.

6 Niin riisuivat Israelin lapset kaunistuksensa Horebin vuoren tykönä.

7 Moses myös otti majan ja pani sen ylös kauvas leiristä, ja kutsui sen seurakunnan majaksi: ja kuka ikänänsä tahtoi kysyä Herralta, hänen piti menemän seurakunnan majan tykö, joka oli ulkona leiristä.

8 Ja tapahtui, koska Moses meni majan tykö, niin nousi kaikki kansa, ja itsekukin seisoi majansa ovella, ja he katselivat Moseksen jälkeen siihen asti, että hän tuli majaan.

9 Ja tapahtui, koska Moses tuli majaan, tuli pilven patsas alas, ja seisoi majan ovella: ja puhutteli Mosesta.

10 Ja koska kaikki kansa näki pilven patsaan seisovan majan oven edessä, niin kaikki kansa nousi ja itsekukin kumarsi itsensä majan ovella.

11 Ja Herra puhutteli Mosesta kasvosta niin kasvoon, niinkuin joku ystävätänsä puhuttelee. Ja koska hän palasi leiriin, niin hänen palveliansa Josua Nunin poika, nuorukainen ei lähtenyt majasta.

12 Ja Moses sanoi Herralle: katso, sinä sanot minulle: johdata tämä kansa, ja et sinä ilmoittanut, kenenkä sinä lähetät minun kanssani; ja kuitenkin sinä sanoit minulle: minä tunnen sinun nimeltäs, ja sinä olet myös armon löytänyt minun edessäni.

13 Nyt siis, jos minä muutoin olen armon löytänyt sinun edessäs, niin osota nyt minulle sinun ties, että minä sinut tuntisin ja löytäisin armon sinun edessäs: ja katso kuitenkin, että tämä väki on sinun kansas.

14 Ja hän sanoi: minun kasvoni käy sinun edelläs, ja minä annan sinulle levon.

15 Ja hän sanoi hänelle: jollei sinun kasvos käy edellä, niin älä vie meitä tästä pois.

16 Ja mistä se tässä tietää saadaan, että minä ja sinun kansas olemme löytäneet armon sinun edessäs? Eikö, koskas vaellat meidän kanssamme? että me eroitettaisiin, minä ja sinun kansas, kaikista kansoista, jotka ovat maan piirin päällä.

17 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: Ja minä myös tämän teen, niinkuin sinä sanoit; sillä sinä olet löytänyt armon minun edessäni, ja minä tunnen sinun nimeltäs.

18 Mutta hän sanoi: osota siis minulle sinun kunnias.

19 Ja hän vastasi: minä annan kaikki minun hyvyyteni käydä sinun kasvois edellä, ja tahdon saarnata Herran nimeä sinun edessäs. Ja minä armaitsen, ja olen laupias, jolle minä laupias olen.

20 Ja sanoi taas: et sinä taida nähdä minun kasvojani; sillä ei yksikään ihminen, joka minun näkee, taida elää.

21 Vielä sanoi Herra: katsos, sia on minun tykönäni: siellä pitää sinun seisoman kalliolla.

22 Ja pitää tapahtuman, koska minun kunniani vaeltaa ohitse, niin minä panen sinun kallion rotkoon, ja minä peitän sinun minun kädelläni niinkauvan kuin minä vaellan ohitse.

23 Sitte koska minä otan pois minun käteni, saat sinä nähdä minun takaa; vaan minun kasvojani ei taideta nähdä.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #2341

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2341. 'And he made a feast for them' means dwelling together. This is clear from the meaning of 'a feast'. 'Feasts' are mentioned in various places in the Word, and in those places they mean in the internal sense dwelling together, as in Jeremiah,

The word of Jehovah came to him, You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. Jeremiah 16:8.

In that chapter the prophet is told many things by which he was to represent the necessity for good to have no connection with evil, nor truth to have any with falsity. Among other things he was required 'not to go into the house of feasting', which meant that good and truth were not to dwell together with evil and falsity.

[2] In Isaiah,

Jehovah Zebaoth will make on this mountain a feast of fat things for all peoples, a feast of sweet wines, of fat things full of marrow, of wines well-refined. Isaiah 25:6.

Here 'mountain' stands for love to the Lord, 795, 1430. People with whom that love exists dwell together with the Lord in good and truth, which are meant by 'a feast'. 'Fat things' and those 'full of marrow' are goods, 353, 'sweet and well-refined wines' are truths deriving from goods, 1071.

[3] The feasts made from the consecrated elements when sacrifices were offered represented in the Jewish Church nothing else than the Lord's dwelling together with man within the holy things of love meant by sacrifices, 2187. The same was at a later time meant by the Holy Supper, which the Primitive Church called a feast.

[4] Chapter 21 below refers to Abraham making a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned, in verse 8. This feast represented and therefore meant the dwelling together and initial conjunction of the Lord's Divine itself with His Human Rational. 'Feasts' have the same meaning in the internal sense in other places, as may also be deduced from the fact that feasts are occasions involving a number of people who are all simultaneously filled with love and charity, who are opening their minds to one another, and who are enjoying together the glad feelings that are the expressions of love and charity.

  
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2187. 'And they ate' means communication in this manner. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being communicated, and also being joined together, as is also evident from the Word. The injunction that Aaron, and his sons the Levites, and also the people were to eat the consecrated elements of the sacrifices in a holy place meant nothing other than the communication, conjunction, and making one's own, as stated above in 2177, at the point where Leviticus 6:16-17, is referred to. For it was celestial and spiritual food that was meant by the consecrated elements, and thus making that food their own by eating those elements. These consecrated elements were those parts of the sacrifices which were not burned on the altar but were eaten either by the priests or by the people who brought the offering, as becomes clear from very many places where the sacrifices are the subject. The consecrated elements that were to be eaten by the priests are referred to in Exodus 29:32-33; Leviticus 6:16, 26; 7:6, 15-16, 18; 8:31; 10:12-13; Numbers 18:9-11; and those to be eaten by the people, in Leviticus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 12:27; 27:7; and elsewhere. And that those who were unclean were not to eat of them is referred to in Leviticus 7:19-21; 22:4-7. These ritual feasts took place in a holy place near the altar, either at the gate or in the court outside the tent. And they meant nothing else than the communication, conjunction, and making of celestial goods one's own, for those feasts represented celestial food. For what celestial food is, see 56-58, 680, 681, 1480, 1695. And all those consecrated elements were called 'bread', for the meaning of which see above in 2165. Something similar was represented by Aaron and his sons eating the loaves of the presence, or the shewbread, in a holy place, Leviticus 24:9.

[2] The reason for the law given to the Nazirite that during the days of his Naziriteship he was forbidden to eat anything that is produced from the grape - from which wine is made - from pips even to skin, Numbers 6:4, is that the Nazirite represented the celestial man, and the celestial man is such as is not willing even to mention spiritual things, see Volume One, in 202, 337, 880 (end), 1647. And because 'wine' and 'the grape', and also whatever came from the grape, meant that which is spiritual, the Nazirite was therefore forbidden to eat of them, that is, to have any communication with spiritual things, to join himself to them, or to make them his own.

[3] Something similar is meant by 'eating' in Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on that which is not bread, and your labour on that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:1-2.

And also what is said in John,

To him who conquers I will grant to eat from the tree of life which is in the middle of the Paradise of God. Revelation 2:7.

'The tree of life' is the celestial itself, and in the highest sense it is the Lord Himself since He is the source of everything celestial, that is, of all love and charity. Thus 'eating from the tree of life' is the same as feeding on the Lord; and 'feeding on the Lord' is being endowed with love and charity, thus with those things that belong to heavenly life, as the Lord Himself declares in John,

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live for ever. He who feeds on Me will live through Me. John 6:51, 57. But they said, This is a hard saying. Jesus said however, The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:60, 63.

From this it is evident what is meant by 'eating' in the Holy Supper, Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20 - having communication, being joined together, and making one's own.

[4] From this it is also plain what is meant by the Lord's statement that

Many will come from the east and from the west and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Matthew 8:11.

The Lord did not mean that they were going to feast with these three in the kingdom of God but that they were to enjoy the celestial goods meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That is to say, they were to enjoy the inmost celestial goods of love, meant by -Abraham'; also a lower type of goods, which are intermediate, as those are which belong to the rational, meant by 'Isaac'; and a still lower type of goods which are celestial-natural, such as occur in the first heaven, meant by 'Jacob'. These are the things which constitute the internal sense of these words. That such things are meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, see 1893, and wherever else they are the subject. For whether one speaks of enjoying those celestial things, or whether one speaks of enjoying the Lord, whom they represent, it amounts to the same since the Lord is the source of all those things, and the Lord is their All in all.

  
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