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Exodus 19

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1 In de derde maand, na het uittrekken der kinderen Israels uit Egypteland, ten zelfden dage kwamen zij in de woestijn Sinai.

2 Want zij togen uit Rafidim, en kwamen in de woestijn Sinai, en zij legerden zich in de woestijn; Israel nu legerde zich aldaar tegenover dien berg.

3 En Mozes klom op tot God. En de HEERE riep tot hem van den berg, zeggende: Aldus zult gij tot het huis van Jakob spreken, en den kinderen Israels verkondigen:

4 Gijlieden hebt gezien, wat Ik den Egyptenaren gedaan heb; hoe Ik u op vleugelen der arenden gedragen en u tot Mij gebracht hebt.

5 Nu dan, indien gij naarstiglijk Mijner stem zult gehoorzamen, en Mijn verbond houden, zo zult gij Mijn eigendom zijn uit alle volken, want de ganse aarde is Mijn;

6 En gij zult Mij een priesterlijk koninkrijk, en een heilig volk zijn. Dit zijn de woorden, die gij tot de kinderen Israels spreken zult.

7 En Mozes kwam en riep de oudsten des volks, en stelde voor hun aangezichten al deze woorden, die de HEERE hem geboden had.

8 Toen antwoordde al het volk gelijkelijk, en zeide: Al wat de HEERE gesproken heeft, zullen wij doen! En Mozes bracht de woorden des volks weder tot den HEERE.

9 En de HEERE zeide tot Mozes: Zie, Ik zal tot u komen in een dikke wolk, opdat het volk hore, als Ik met u spreek, en dat zij ook eeuwiglijk aan u geloven. Want Mozes had de HEERE de woorden des volks verkondigd.

10 Ook zeide de HEERE tot Mozes: Ga tot het volk, en heilig hen heden en morgen, en dat zij hun klederen wassen,

11 En bereid zijn tegen den derden dag; want op den derden dag zal de HEERE voor de ogen van al het volk afkomen, op den berg Sinai.

12 En bepaal het volk rondom, zeggende: Wacht u op den berg te klimmen, en deszelfs einde aan te roeren; al wie den berg aanroert, zal zekerlijk gedood worden.

13 Geen hand zal hem aanroeren, maar hij zal zekerlijk gestenigd, of zekerlijk doorschoten worden; hetzij een beest, hetzij een man, hij zal niet leven. Als de ramshoorn langzaam gaat, zullen zij op den berg klimmen.

14 Toen ging Mozes van den berg af tot het volk, en hij heiligde het volk; en zij wiesen hun klederen.

15 En hij zeide tot het volk: Weest gereed tegen den derden dag, en nadert niet tot de vrouw.

16 En het geschiedde op den derden dag, toen het morgen was, dat er op den berg donderen en bliksemen waren, en een zware wolk, en het geluid ener zeer sterke bazuin, zodat al het volk verschrikte, dat in het leger was.

17 En Mozes leidde het volk uit het leger, Gode tegemoet; en zij stonden aan het onderste des bergs.

18 En de ganse berg Sinai rookte, omdat de HEERE op denzelven nederkwam in vuur; en zijn rook ging op, als de rook van een oven; en de ganse berg beefde zeer.

19 Toen het geluid der bazuin gaande was, en zeer sterk werd, sprak Mozes; en God antwoordde hem met een stem.

20 Als de HEERE nedergekomen was op den berg Sinai, op de spits des bergs, zo riep de HEERE Mozes op de spits des bergs; en Mozes klom op.

21 En de HEERE zeide tot Mozes: Ga af, betuig dit volk, dat zij niet doorbreken tot den HEERE, om te zien, en velen van hen vallen.

22 Daartoe zullen ook de priesters, die tot den HEERE naderen, zich heiligen, dat de HEERE niet tegen hen uitbreke.

23 Toen zeide Mozes tot den HEERE: Het volk zal op den berg Sinai niet kunnen klimmen, want Gij hebt ons betuigd, zeggende: Bepaal den berg, en heilig hem.

24 De HEERE dan zeide tot hem: Ga heen, klim af, daarna zult gij, en Aaron met u, opklimmen; doch dat de priesters en het volk niet doorbreken, om op te klimmen tot den HEERE, dat Hij tegen hen niet uitbreke.

25 Toen klom Mozes af tot het volk, en zeide het hun aan.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8794

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8794. 'And you are to set bounds for the people round about' means not extending into heaven beyond the spiritual spheres of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'setting bounds round about' as the extension of a sphere into heaven to specific limits that are determined by each one's good; and from the representation of the children of Israel, to whom 'the people' refers here, as those governed by spiritual good in which truth is to be implanted. For this state of the good of those belonging to the spiritual Church is described in the present chapter and in those that follow it, 8753. So it is that 'you are to set bounds for the people round about' means extension into heaven no further than to the spiritual spheres of good.

[2] No one can know except from revelation what to understand by extension into heaven as far as the spiritual spheres of good. The situation is this: Any good imparted to a person through regeneration by the Lord extends itself to communities in heaven. The amount and the nature of this extension varies with each person; it varies in amount as it advances towards more distant boundaries in heaven, and in nature as it shifts more towards the internal parts of heaven or more towards the external parts. The actual good residing with a person flows in from the Lord by way of the communities of heaven that are round about; good that does not flow in by way of those communities is not possible. The communities of heaven exist round about, closely joined together without a break; not a break between them appears anywhere. It is the same with every single thing that is connected with good and constitutes its essential nature. Therefore when a person is being regenerated his enrichment in good is nothing other than being introduced into angelic communities, and in this way being joined to them. See also 4067, 4073, 4077, 6598-6613

[3] This has also been demonstrated to me quite a number of times by actual experience. Sometimes contact with certain communities has been withdrawn from me, and then the amount and the nature of life that remained were determined by the amount and nature of extension into the communities that were left. And when more communities were taken away, my life suffered and began seemingly to be snuffed out. Every angel, spirit, and man has a spiritual sphere, and its nature is determined by its extension into different communities. It extends not into the actual communities, but into the spheres emanating from their good. These matters are arcana that are unknown to anyone in the world but are very well known indeed in the next life. The reason why they are unknown to anyone in the world is that a person at the present day believes that he has life in himself, and consequently that he lives without association with spirits and angels, and so without being linked to heaven. But in this he is altogether mistaken; for all the life a person has comes from the Lord by way of communities [in the spiritual world].

[4] In addition it should be recognized that the life emanating from those belonging to the spiritual Church reaches as far as the angelic spheres in the second heaven, called the spiritual heaven, but not as far as the third heaven, where those who are celestial are. The reason for this is that a member of the spiritual Church cannot receive the Divine as He exists in the inmost or third heaven where those who are celestial are, except in so general a way that he does not even notice it. And the reason for this is that those who are spiritual cannot reach even the outer doorstep of the good governing those who are celestial, 2718, 3833, 6500, 8521. All this shows what should be understood by not extending into heaven beyond the spiritual spheres of good, meant by the injunction 'you are to set bounds for the people round about', and also what should be understood by the words that follow it.

[5] It should also be recognized that just as those governed by good have an extension into angelic communities according to the nature and amount of their good, so those ruled by evil have an extension into hellish communities according to the nature and amount of their evil. And in addition to this, everyone in the next life comes among those with whom he had been in contact during his lifetime. His ruling love determines this; for that love is what constitutes the sphere emanating from each person's life, and extends as far as the nature and amount of it determine.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 4077

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4077. 'And your father has deceived me, and has changed my wages in ten ways' means the state of good in relation to Himself when, acting of Himself, He applied to Himself the things which constituted that good, and also a very great change in that good. This is clear from the meaning of 'father', who in this case is Laban, as intermediate good, dealt with already; from the meaning of 'wages' as His acting of Himself, dealt with in 3996, 3999; and from the meaning of 'ten ways' as a very great change - 'ten' meaning very great, 1988, and 'ways' changes. All this implies a change in the actual state of that good when, acting of Himself, the Lord applied to Himself the things constituting that good. Now if instead of the good meant by 'Laban' a community of spirits or angels is thought of such as are governed by that kind of good, what is involved is then made plain. Communities do not readily depart from someone with whom they have been present; but when a person with whom they are present departs they become annoyed, and they react in a way similar to Laban's behaviour here towards Jacob. Indeed even if they do perceive that some good has come to that person through them they say that it has done so from them; for when they are annoyed evil governs what they say.

[2] A similar situation exists with a person who is being regenerated. That is to say, the Lord applies communities to that person which serve to introduce genuine goods and truths, not from those communities but through them. And when the one who is being regenerated is transferred to other communities those which have been present hitherto are annoyed. But such communities are not visible to him because he does not believe that he is within any community of spirits or angels. They are however clearly visible to angels, and also to those who in the Lord's Divine mercy are allowed to talk to them and go among them as one of them. This is how I have been given to know about such things.

[3] Spirits deplore very much the fact that man does not know about such things too, not even that they are present with him, and more still the fact that many deny not only their presence but also the very existence of hell and of heaven. This ignorance however they attribute to human stupidity, for man does not in actual fact possess the smallest amount of thought or the smallest amount of will except by means of influx through those spirits themselves from the Lord. And it is through them as a means that the Lord governs the human race, and in particular every member of it.

  
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