Sinai, mount
In Exodus 16:1, this signifies the good from which proceeds the truth with spiritual people after regeneration. (Arcana Coelestia 8399)
In Exodus 24:12, this signifies elevation into the Lord's presence. Mount Sinai also signifies represents the Word, which is from the Lord and is the Lord, thus also heaven. (Arcana Coelestia 9415) In the following verse, this signifies the Law, or the Divine Truth proceeding from the Lord's Divine Good. (Arcana Coelestia 9420)
In Exodus 19:23, this signifies that those of the spiritual kingdom cannot rise to the celestial kingdom. (Arcana Coelestia 8835)
(Mga Sanggunian: Arcana Coelestia 8753; Exodus 19:1)
Arcana Coelestia # 9415
9415. 'Come up to Me into the mountain, and be there' means the Lord's presence with them through an intermediary. This is clear from the meaning of 'going up' as being raised towards higher, that is, more internal things, dealt with in 3084, 4539, 4969, 5406, 5817, 6007, and consequently being joined to them, 8760, 9373. The Lord's presence is meant because it says, 'Come up to Me into the mountain, and be there'; for Jehovah to whom Moses was told to go up means the Lord, see above in 9414, and 'Mount Sinai' means the Word which comes from the Lord, and in which the Lord is for that reason present, 8399, 8753, 8793, 8805. Heaven too is meant by that mountain, for the Word is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, and heaven is a receptacle of God's truth, thus of the Lord Himself, as has often been shown before. From this it is evident that 'going up to Jehovah into the mountain' means the Lord's presence. His presence with that people is through an intermediary, because Moses now represents the people as its head, and so as an intermediary, as stated immediately above in 9414.
[2] The words 'the Lord's presence with them through an intermediary' are used here because the Lord makes Himself present with man, but man does not make himself present with the Lord. For all the good that belongs to love and the truth that belongs to faith comes from the Lord, and no good or truth whatever comes from man. Therefore the Lord's presence exists with those who let Him in, that is, with those who receive in faith and love God's truth coming from Him. That the Lord comes to them, and not they to him, is the Lord's own teaching in John,
He who loves Me keeps My word, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. John 14:23.
In the same gospel,
He who abides in Me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for without Me you can do nothing. John 15:5.
And in the same gospel,
Man cannot receive 1 anything unless it is given him from heaven. John 3:27.
Mga talababa:
1. The Latin means do but the Greek means receive, which Swedenborg has in most other places where he quotes this verse.
