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1 ENTONCES cantó Moisés y los hijos de Israel este cántico á Jehová, y dijeron: Cantaré yo á Jehová, porque se ha magnificado grandemente, Echando en la mar al caballo y al que en él subía.

2 Jehová es mi fortaleza, y mi canción, Y hame sido por salud: Este es mi Dios, y á éste engrandeceré; Dios de mi padre, y á éste ensalzaré.

3 Jehová, varón de guerra; Jehová es su nombre.

4 Los carros de Faraón y á su ejército echó en la mar; Y sus escogidos príncipes fueron hundidos en el mar Bermejo.

5 Los abismos los cubrieron; Como piedra descendieron á los profundos.

6 Tu diestra, oh Jehová, ha sido magnificada en fortaleza; Tu diestra, oh Jehová, ha quebrantado al enemigo.

7 Y con la grandeza de tu poder has trastornado á los que se levantaron contra ti: Enviaste tu furor; los tragó como á hojarasca.

8 Con el soplo de tus narices se amontonaron las aguas; Paráronse las corrientes como en un montón; Los abismos se cuajaron en medio de la mar.

9 El enemigo dijo: Perseguiré, prenderé, repartiré despojos; Mi alma se henchirá de ellos; Sacaré mi espada, destruirlos ha mi mano.

10 Soplaste con tu viento, cubriólos la mar: Hundiéronse como plomo en las impetuosas aguas.

11 ¿Quién como tú, Jehová, entre los dioses? ¿Quién como tú, magnífico en santidad, Terrible en loores, hacedor de maravillas?

12 Extendiste tu diestra; La tierra los tragó.

13 Condujiste en tu misericordia á este pueblo, al cual salvaste; Llevástelo con tu fortaleza á la habitación de tu santuario.

14 Oiránlo los pueblos, y temblarán; Apoderarse ha dolor de los moradores de Palestina.

15 Entonces los príncipes de Edom se turbarán; A los robustos de Moab los ocupará temblor; Abatirse han todos los moradores de Canaán.

16 Caiga sobre ellos temblor y espanto; A la grandeza de tu brazo enmudezcan como una piedra; Hasta que haya pasado tu pueblo, oh Jehová, Hasta que haya pasado este pueblo que tú rescataste.

17 Tú los introducirás y los plantarás en el monte de tu heredad, En el lugar de tu morada, que tú has aparejado, oh Jehová; En el santuario del Señor, que han afirmado tus manos.

18 Jehová reinará por los siglos de los siglos.

19 Porque Faraón entró cabalgando con sus carros y su gente de á caballo en la mar, y Jehová volvió á traer las aguas de la mar sobre ellos; mas los hijos de Israel fueron en seco por medio de la mar.

20 Y María la profetisa, hermana de Aarón, tomó un pandero en su mano, y todas las mujeres salieron en pos de ella con panderos y danzas.

21 Y María les respondía: Cantad á Jehová; porque en extremo se ha engrandecido, Echando en la mar al caballo, y al que en él subía.

22 E hizo Moisés que partiese Israel del mar Bermejo, y salieron al desierto de Shur; y anduvieron tres días por el desierto sin hallar agua.

23 Y llegaron á Mara, y no pudieron beber las aguas de Mara, porque eran amargas; por eso le pusieron el nombre de Mara.

24 Entonces el pueblo murmuró contra Moisés, y dijo: ¿Qué hemos de beber?

25 Y Moisés clamó á Jehová; y Jehová le mostró un árbol, el cual metídolo que hubo dentro de las aguas, las aguas se endulzaron. Allí les dió estatutos y ordenanzas, y allí los probó;

26 Y dijo: Si oyeres atentamente la voz de Jehová tu Dios, é hicieres lo recto delante de sus ojos, y dieres oído á sus mandamientos, y guardares todos sus estatutos, ninguna enfermedad de las que envié á los Egipcios te enviaré á ti; porque yo soy Jehová tu

27 Y llegaron á Elim, donde había doce fuentes de aguas, y setenta palmas; y asentaron allí junto á las aguas.

   

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502. Which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt. This symbolizes the two hellish loves, namely, a love of ruling springing from a love of self, and a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, loves which are present in the church where there is not one God and where the Lord is not worshiped, and where people do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

Sodom symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, a love of ruling springing from a love of self, as we shall presently see; and Egypt symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, as we shall also presently see. So, because these two loves are symbolized, therefore the city is called, spiritually speaking, Sodom and Egypt.

These two loves are present in the church where there is not one God and where the Lord is not worshiped, and where people do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, because people are born with these two loves, and they come into them as they grow up. Nor can these loves be removed except by God the Savior and by a life in accordance with His commandments, and God cannot remove them unless people turn to Him, and neither is a life in accordance with His commandments possible unless a person is led by Him. Actually it is possible, but not a life that contains anything of heaven and so of the church.

A life like that is possible only from Him who is life. That the Lord is that life may be seen in John 1:1, 4; 5:26; 6:33-35ff., 11:25-26; 14:6, 19, and in many other places.

[2] A love of ruling springing from a love of self, and a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, are the principal loves of all the loves in hell, and so are the origin of all the evils and thus of all the falsities in the church. This is something unknown at the present day. The delights of these loves, which surpass the delights of all the heart's pleasures, cause it to be unknown, even though they are, spiritually, Sodom and Egypt.

That Sodom is a love of ruling springing from a love of self can be seen from the description of Sodom in Genesis, where we are told that when angels arrived there, the inhabitants tried to forcibly assault them at the house of Lot, and that fire and brimstone rained down on them from heaven (Genesis 19:1ff.). Fire and brimstone symbolize that love, together with its appetites.

I saw similar sights when cities and societies of people like that were overthrown at the time of the Last Judgment and their inhabitants cast into hell.

These loves and their accompanying evils are symbolized by Sodom and Gomorrah in the following passages: Isaiah 1:10; 3:8-9; 13:19.

[3] That this love is symbolically meant by Sodom is unknown in the world, but remember it and recall it when you come after death into the world of spirits and you will be completely convinced.

It should be known, however, that a love of ruling springing from a love of self and a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services are two different things. The latter love is a heavenly love, while the first is a hellish one. Consequently, when one is in first place, the other is in last place; which is to say, when a love of ruling springing from a love of self forms the head, then a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services - which is a love of serving the neighbor originating from the Lord - forms first the feet, then the soles of the feet, and finally is trampled underfoot.

On the other hand, when a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services - which, as we said, is a heavenly love - forms the head, then a love of ruling springing from a love of self - which, as we said, is a hellish love - forms first the feet, then the soles of the feet, and finally is trampled underfoot.

Still, these two loves can hardly be distinguished by a person in the world. That is because in outward appearance they are similar. But they can be told apart by this, that a heavenly love is present in people who turn to the Lord and live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, while a hellish love is present in people who do not turn to the Lord, and who do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.