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1 Felele Mózes és monda: De õk nem hisznek nékem s nem hallgatnak szavamra, sõt azt mondják: nem jelent meg néked az Úr.

2 Az Úr pedig monda néki: Mi az a kezedben? S õ monda: Vesszõ.

3 Vesd azt - úgymond - a földre. És veté azt a földre és lõn kígyóvá; és Mózes elfutamodék elõle.

4 Monda pedig az Úr Mózesnek: Nyújtsd ki kezedet és fogd meg a farkát! És kinyújtá kezét és megragadá azt, és vesszõvé lõn az õ kezében.

5 Hogy elhigyjék, hogy megjelent néked az Úr, az õ atyáik Istene, Ábrahám Istene, Izsák Istene és Jákób Istene.

6 És ismét monda néki az Úr: Nosza dugd kebeledbe a kezed; és kebelébe dugá kezét és kihúzá: ímé az õ keze poklos vala, olyan mint a .

7 És monda: Dugd vissza kebeledbe a kezed: és visszadugá kezét kebelébe és kivevé azt kebelébõl és ímé ismét olyanná lõn mint teste.

8 És ha úgy lenne, hogy nem hisznek néked és nem hallgatnak az elsõ jel szavára, majd hisznek a második jel szavának.

9 És ha úgy lenne, hogy ennek a két jelnek sem hisznek és nem hallgatnak szavadra: akkor meríts vizet a folyóvízbõl és öntsd a szárazra, és a víz, a mit a folyóvízbõl merítettél, vérré lesz a szárazon.

10 És monda Mózes az Úrnak: Kérlek, Uram, nem vagyok én ékesenszóló sem tegnaptól, sem tegnap elõttõl fogva, sem azóta, hogy szólottál a te szolgáddal; mert én nehéz ajkú és nehéz nyelvû vagyok.

11 Az Úr pedig monda néki: Ki adott szájat az embernek? Avagy ki tesz némává vagy siketté, vagy látóvá vagy vakká? Nemde én, az Úr?

12 Most hát eredj és én lészek a te száddal, és megtanítlak téged arra, a mit beszélned kell.

13 Õ pedig monda: Kérlek, Uram, csak küldd, a kit küldeni akarsz.

14 És felgerjede az Úr haragja Mózes ellen és monda: Nemde atyádfia néked a Lévi nemzetségbõl való Áron? Tudom, hogy õ ékesenszóló és ímé õ ki is jõ elõdbe s mihelyt meglát, örvendezni fog az õ szívében.

15 Beszélj azért vele, és add szájába a beszédeket, és én lészek a te száddal és az õ szájával és megtanítlak titeket arra, a mit cselekedjetek.

16 És õ beszél majd helyetted a néphez és õ lesz néked száj gyanánt, te pedig leszesz néki Isten gyanánt.

17 Ezt a vesszõt pedig vedd kezedbe, hogy véghez vidd vele ama jeleket.

18 És méne Mózes és visszatére az õ ipához Jethróhoz és monda néki: Hadd menjek és térjek vissza az én atyámfiaihoz Égyiptomba, hogy meglássam, ha élnek-e még? És monda Jethró Mózesnek: Eredj el békességgel.

19 Az Úr pedig monda Mózesnek Midiánban: Eredj, térj vissza Égyiptomba; mert meghaltak mindazok a férfiak, a kik téged halálra kerestek vala.

20 És felvevé Mózes az õ feleségét és az õ fiait és felülteté õket a szamárra és visszatére Égyiptom földére. Az Isten vesszejét pedig kezébe vevé Mózes.

21 És monda az Úr Mózesnek: Mikor elindulsz, hogy visszatérj Égyiptomba, meglásd, hogy mindazokat a csudákat véghez vidd a Faraó elõtt, melyeket kezedbe adtam; én pedig megkeményítem az õ szívét, és nem bocsátja el a népet.

22 Ezt mondd azért a Faraónak: Így szólt az Úr: Elsõszülött fiam az Izráel.

23 Ha azt mondom néked: Bocsásd el az én fiamat, hogy szolgáljon nékem és te vonakodol elbocsátani: ímé én megölöm a te elsõszülött fiadat.

24 És lõn az úton, egy szálláson, eleibe álla az Úr és meg akarja vala õt ölni.

25 De Czippora egy éles követ veve és lemetszé az õ fiának elõbõrét és lába elé veté mondván: Bizony, vérjegyesem vagy te nékem!

26 És békét hagya néki. Akkor monda: Vérjegyes a körûlmetélkedésért.

27 Áronnak pedig monda az Úr: Eredj Mózes eleibe a pusztába! És elméne és találkozék vele az Isten hegyénél és megcsókolá õt.

28 Mózes pedig elbeszélé Áronnak az Úr mindama szavait, melyekkel õt elküldötte vala és mindazokat a jeleket, melyeket reá bízott vala.

29 És méne Mózes és Áron és egybegyûjték Izráel fiainak minden véneit.

30 És elmondá Áron mindazokat a beszédeket, melyeket mondott vala az Úr Mózesnek és megcselekedé a jeleket a nép szemei elõtt.

31 És hitt a nép, és megértette, hogy meglátogatta az Úr Izráel fiait és megtekintette nyomorúságukat. És meghajták magokat és leborulának.

   

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2242. That 'I will go down now, and I will see' means visitation becomes clear from the meaning of 'going down to see' as judgement, dealt with in Volume One, in 1311, and consequently as visitation. The final period of the Church in general and of the individual in particular is called visitation in the Word. It occurs prior to judgement, so that visitation is nothing else than an investigation into what such are like, that is, into the nature of the Church in general or of the individual in particular. Such investigation is expressed in the sense of the letter as Jehovah coming down and seeing.

[2] From this the nature of the sense of the letter is made clear, for Jehovah does not go down; indeed one cannot speak of the Lord going down because He always dwells in highest things. Nor does Jehovah look and see whether a thing is so; for one cannot speak of the Lord looking to see whether a thing is so because every single thing is known to Him from eternity. Yet the sense of the letter speaks of Jehovah going down to see because to man that is what He does appear to do. For man dwells among lowest things and when anything presents itself there he does not think about, nor does he even know, what the situation is with higher things and so does not know about how these flow in. He has no knowledge of these things because his thought does not extend beyond what is immediately about him, and therefore he cannot perceive what the Lord does as anything other than some such going down to see; and that perception is even more limited when he imagines that no one knows what he himself is thinking. Besides this, he has no other idea than that an actual coming down from on high is meant, and when said of God, from the highest. But it is not in fact a coming down from the highest but from the inmost.

[3] From this one may see what the sense of the letter is like, namely that it is shaped according to appearances, and that if it were not, nobody would understand and acknowledge the Word, nor thus accept it. But angels are not limited by appearances in the way that man is, and therefore since the Word as to the letter is for man, it is as to the internal sense for angels, and also for those men who in the Lord's Divine mercy have been allowed during their lifetime in the world to be as the angels.

[4] Visitation is mentioned in various places in the Word, where it either means the vastation of the Church or of the individual, or else deliverance, and thus the investigation into the nature of persons or things. It stands for vastation in Isaiah,

What will you do on the day of visitation? It will come from afar. To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your glory? Isaiah 10:3.

In the same prophet,

The stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not shed its light. And I will visit the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. Isaiah 13:10-11.

'The stars and the constellations which will not give their light, and the sun which will be darkened, and the moon which will not shed its light' means that no love and no charity will exist, see 2120. And since this is vastation it is 'the day of visitation'.

[5] In Jeremiah,

They will fall among those who fall, and in the time of their visitation they will stumble. Jeremiah 8:12.

This stands for the time when they have been vastated, that is, when no charity and faith exist. In Ezekiel,

The visitations of the city have drawn near, and each man has his weapon of destruction in his hand. Ezekiel 9:1.

This too is a reference to vastation; consequently 'each man has a weapon of destruction'. In Hosea,

The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense have come. Hosea 9:7.

Here the meaning is similar. In Micah,

The day of your watchmen, your visitation, has come; now will be their confusion. Micah 7:4.

Here also it stands for charity that has been laid waste. In Moses, On the day of My visiting, I will visit them with their sin. Exodus 32:34.

This refers to the people in the wilderness after they had made themselves the golden calf. That visitation also means deliverance is evident from the following places, Exodus 3:16; 4:31; Jeremiah 27:22; 29:10; Luke 1:68, 78; 19:41-42.

  
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Luke 20

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1 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

2 They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"

3 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"

5 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'

6 But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."

7 They answered that they didn't know where it was from.

8 Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

9 He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

12 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'

14 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

15 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'

18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."

19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

20 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

21 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me?

24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar's."

25 He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

26 They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.

27 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

28 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

29 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

30 The second took her as wife, and he died childless.

31 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.

32 Afterward the woman also died.

33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife."

34 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

35 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

36 For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."

39 Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well."

40 They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.

41 He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David's son?

42 David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

43 until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'

44 "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"

45 In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

46 "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

47 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."