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1 イスラエルの人々の全会衆はエリムを出発し、エジプトの地を出て二か目の十五に、エリムとシナイとの間にあるシンの荒野にきたが、

2 その荒野イスラエルの人々の全会衆は、モーセとアロンにつぶやいた

3 イスラエルの人々は彼らに言った、「われわれはエジプトの地で、のなべのかたわらに座し、飽きるほどパンを食べていた時に、主のにかかって死んでいたら良かった。あなたがたは、われわれをこの荒野に導き出して、全会衆を餓死させようとしている」。

4 そのときモーセに言われた、「見よ、わたしはあなたがたのために、天からパンを降らせよう。民は出て日々の分をごとに集めなければならない。こうして彼らがわたしの律法に従うかどうかを試みよう。

5 目には、彼らが取り入れたものを調理すると、それはごとに集めるものの二倍あるであろう」。

6 モーセとアロンは、イスラエルのすべての人々に言った、「夕暮には、あなたがたは、エジプトの地からあなたがたを導き出されたのが、であることを知るであろう。

7 また、には、あなたがたは主の栄光を見るであろう。はあなたがたがにむかってつぶやくのを聞かれたからである。あなたがたは、いったいわれわれを何者として、われわれにむかってつぶやくのか」。

8 モーセはまた言った、「は夕暮にはあなたがたにを与えて食べさせ、にはパンを与えて飽き足らせられるであろう。はあなたがたが、にむかってつぶやくつぶやきを聞かれたからである。いったいわれわれは何者なのか。あなたがたのつぶやくのは、われわれにむかってでなく、にむかってである」。

9 モーセはアロンに言った、「イスラエルの人々の全会衆に言いなさい、『あなたがたは主のに近づきなさい。があなたがたのつぶやきを聞かれたからである』と」。

10 それでアロンがイスラエルの人々の全会衆に語ったとき、彼らが荒野の方を望むと、見よ、主の栄光がのうちに現れていた。

11 モーセに言われた、

12 「わたしはイスラエルの人々のつぶやきを聞いた。彼らに言いなさい、『あなたがたは夕にはを食べ、にはパンに飽き足りるであろう。そうしてわたしがあなたがたのであることを知るであろう』と」。

13 夕べになると、うずらが飛んできて宿営をおおった。また、になると、宿営の周囲にが降りた。

14 その降りたがかわくと、荒野には、薄いうろこのようなものがあり、ちょうど地に結ぶ薄いのようであった。

15 イスラエルの人々はそれを見て互に言った、「これはなんであろう」。彼らはそれがなんであるのか知らなかったからである。モーセは彼らに言った、「これはがあなたがたの食物として賜わるパンである。

16 が命じられるのはこうである、『あなたがたは、おのおのその食べるところに従ってそれを集め、あなたがたの人数に従って、ひとり一オメルずつ、おのおのその天幕におるもののためにそれを取りなさい』と」。

17 イスラエルの人々はそのようにして、ある者は多く、ある者は少なく集めた。

18 しかし、オメルでそれを計ってみると、多く集めた者にも余らず、少なく集めた者にも不足しなかった。おのおのその食べるところに従って集めていた。

19 モーセは彼らに言った、「だれもまでそれを残しておいてはならない」。

20 しかし彼らはモーセに聞き従わないで、ある者はまでそれを残しておいたが、虫がついて臭くなった。モーセは彼らにむかって怒った。

21 彼らは、おのおのその食べるところに従って、ごとにそれを集めたが、日が熱くなるとそれは溶けた

22 目には、彼らは倍のパン、すなわちひとりにオメルを集めた。そこで、会衆の長たちは皆きて、モーセに告げたが、

23 モーセは彼らに言った、「主の語られたのはこうである、『あすは主の聖安息で休みである。きょう、焼こうとするものを焼き、煮ようとするものを煮なさい。残ったものはみなまでたくわえて保存しなさい』と」。

24 彼らはモーセの命じたように、それをまで保存したが、臭くならず、また虫もつかなかった。

25 モーセは言った、「きょう、それを食べなさい。きょうは主の安息であるから、きょうは野でそれを獲られないであろう。

26 の間はそれを集めなければならない。七目は安息であるから、そのには無いであろう」。

27 ところが民のうちには、七目に出て集めようとした者があったが、獲られなかった。

28 そこでモーセに言われた、「あなたがたは、いつまでわたしの戒めと、律法とを守ることを拒むのか。

29 見よ、はあなたがたに安息与えられた。ゆえに目には、ふつか分のパンをあなたがたに賜わるのである。おのおのその所にとどまり、七目にはその所から出てはならない」。

30 こうして民は七目に休んだ。

31 イスラエルのはその物の名をマナと呼んだ。それはコエンドロの実のようで白く、そのは蜜を入れたせんべいのようであった。

32 モーセは言った、「主の命じられることはこうである、『それを一オメルあなたがたの子孫のためにたくわえておきなさい。それはわたしが、あなたがたをエジプトの地から導き出した時、荒野であなたがたに食べさせたパンを彼らに見させるためである』と」。

33 そしてモーセはアロンに言った「一つのつぼを取り、マナ一オメルをその中に入れ、それを主のに置いて、子孫のためにたくわえなさい」。

34 そこでモーセ命じられたように、アロンはそれをあかしの箱のに置いてたくわえた。

35 イスラエルの人々は人の住む地に着くまで四十年の間マナ食べた。すなわち、彼らはカナンの地の境に至るまでマナ食べた

36 一オメルは一エパの十分の一である。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8464

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8464. 'It is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat' means that this is the good that will become their own and constitute their life, in the highest sense that this is the Lord within you. This is clear from the meaning of 'bread' as celestial and spiritual good, and in the highest sense as the Lord, dealt with in 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976, 5915, at this point spiritual good, that is, good as it exists with a member of the spiritual Church, which is the good of truth, dealt with just above in 8458. Since that bread was the manna it follows that this good is meant by 'the manna'. This is also made plain by the description of it in verse 31 of the present chapter, which says 'it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like that of a cake with honey', as well as from the description of it in Numbers 11,

The man[na] was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium. They ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and cooked it in a pan, and made cakes out of it; and its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. 1 Numbers 11:7-8.

From the details given here it is evident that 'manna' in the spiritual sense means the good of truth, that is, good as it exists with the spiritual Church. They also explain why it is called 'the grain of the heavens' in David,

He commanded the skies from above, and threw open the doors of the heavens. And He caused man[na] to rain down onto them, and gave them the grain of the heavens. Psalms 78:23-24.

'The grain' is the good of truth, see 5295, 5410. 'Manna' again stands for the good of truth, which is given to those who undergo temptations and overcome in them, in John,

He who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white pebble. Revelation 2:17.

The fact that 'manna' in the highest sense is the Lord within us is clear from actual words used by the Lord in John,

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that anyone eating of it may not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. John 6:49-51, 58.

From these words it is clearly evident that 'the manna' in the highest sense means the Lord. The reason why is that 'manna' is the good of truth; but all good comes from the Lord, so that the Lord is within good and is Himself that good.

As regards that good, that this will become their own and constitute their life, this is meant by 'eating', 3168, 3513, 3596, 4745; for good which comes from the Lord brings the life of heaven to a person, and from then on nourishes and sustains it.

Mga talababa:

1. literally, the taste of the juice of oil

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 4211

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4211. 'And called his brothers to eat bread' means [an invitation] to make the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own. This is clear from the meaning of 'brothers' as those who were now to be joined together by the covenant, that is, by friendship, and in the internal sense as those who are governed by good and truth (for such people are called 'brothers', see 367, 2360, 3303, 3459, 3803, 3815, 4121, 4191); from the meaning of 'eating' as making one's own, dealt with in 3168, 3513 (end), 3832 (for meals taken together and feasts among the ancients meant making things their own and being joined together by means of love and charity, 3596); and from the meaning of 'bread' as good that stems from love, dealt with in 276, 680, 1798, 3478, 3735, and in the highest sense means the Lord, 2165, 2177, 3478, 3813. Since 'bread' in the highest sense means the Lord it therefore means everything holy which comes from Him, that is, it means everything good and true. And since no other good exists which is good except the good of love and charity, 'bread' therefore means love and charity. Sacrifices in former times had no other meaning, and for that reason were referred to by the single word 'bread', see 2165. And some of the flesh of the sacrifices was eaten so that the heavenly feast - that is, a joining together through good flowing from love and charity - might be represented. The same is meant today by the Holy Supper, for this has replaced sacrifices and feasts of consecrated things. The Holy Supper is in the Church an external practice that has an internal reality within it, and by means of this reality it joins one who is governed by love and charity to heaven, and by means of heaven to the Lord. For in the Holy Supper too 'eating' means making one's own - 'the bread' being celestial love and 'the wine' spiritual love - so much so that while it is being eaten by one in a state of holiness nothing else is perceived in heaven.

[2] The reason why the phrase 'making the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own' is used is that the subject is the good that exists with the gentiles, for it is this good that 'Laban' represents now, 4189. When man is joined to the Lord he is not joined to His Supreme Divine itself but to His Divine Human, for man cannot have any idea at all of the Lord's Supreme Divine, because this lies so far beyond anything he can conceive of that it fades from view altogether and ceases to mean anything to him. But he is able to have an idea of His Divine Human. For everyone is joined through thought and affection to one of whom he can have some idea but not to one of whom he cannot have any idea. If, when a person thinks about the Lord's Human, holiness is present in his ideas he also thinks of the holiness which comes from the Lord and fills heaven, and at the same time he thinks of heaven, since heaven in its entirety corresponds to a complete human being, which correspondence has its origin in the Lord, 684, 1276, 2996, 2998, 3624-3649. This explains why it is not possible to be joined to the Lord's Supreme Divine, only to His Divine Human, and through that Divine Human to His Supreme Divine. Hence the statement in John 1:18 about nobody, except the only begotten Son, ever having seen God, also the statement about there being no way to the Father except through Him; as well as from the statement that He is the Mediator. The truth of all this can be plainly recognized from the fact that all within the Church who declare their belief in a Supreme Being and yet set the Lord at nought are people who have no belief in anything at all, not even in the existence of heaven or of hell, and who worship nature. And if such people are ready to learn from experience it will be clear to them that the wicked, even those who are extremely so, declare a like belief.

[3] But the way in which people think of the Lord's Human varies, one person's ideas being different from another's, and one person's more holy than another's. Those within the Church are able to think that His Human is Divine, and also that He is one with the Father, as He Himself says that the Father is in Him and He is in the Father. But those outside the Church are unable to do this, for one thing because they do not know anything about the Lord and for another because their idea of the Divine is gained solely from visible images and tangible idols. Nevertheless the Lord joins Himself to them by means of the good they do from the charity and obedience present within their crude notions of Him. And this is why mention is made here about them making the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own. For when the Lord is joined to man the state of thought and consequent affection in him determines the exact nature of that conjunction. Those who have an entirely holy conception of the Lord and who at the same time have a true knowledge of and affections for what is good and true - as those within the Church are able to have - have been joined to the Lord as to His Divine Rational. Those however who do not have so holy a notion of Him and who do not have so interior a notion and affection, and yet the good of charity exists with them, have been joined to the Lord as regards His Divine Natural. And those whose holiness is cruder still are joined to the Lord as to His Divine Sensory Perception. This last type of joining is what is represented by 'the bronze serpent', in that those who looked at it recovered from serpent-bites, Numbers 21:9. This is the type of joining together which those among the gentiles have who worship idols and yet lead charitable lives in accordance with their own religion. From these considerations one may now see what is meant by making the good from the Lord's Divine Natural their own, meant by 'Jacob called his brothers to eat bread'.

  
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