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خروج第11章

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1 ثم قال الرب لموسى ضربة واحدة ايضا اجلب على فرعون وعلى مصر. بعد ذلك يطلقكم من هنا. وعندما يطلقكم يطردكم طردا من هنا بالتمام.

2 تكلم في مسامع الشعب ان يطلب كل رجل من صاحبه وكل امرأة من صاحبتها امتعة فضة وامتعة ذهب.

3 واعطى الرب نعمة للشعب في عيون المصريين. وايضا الرجل موسى كان عظيما جدا في ارض مصر في عيون عبيد فرعون وعيون الشعب

4 وقال موسى هكذا يقول الرب اني نحو نصف الليل اخرج في وسط مصر.

5 فيموت كل بكر في ارض مصر من بكر فرعون الجالس على كرسيه الى بكر الجارية التي خلف الرحى وكل بكر بهيمة.

6 ويكون صراخ عظيم في كل ارض مصر لم يكن مثله ولا يكون مثله ايضا.

7 ولكن جميع بني اسرائيل لا يسنن كلب لسانه اليهم لا الى الناس ولا الى البهائم. لكي تعلموا ان الرب يميّز بين المصريين واسرائيل.

8 فينزل اليّ جميع عبيدك هؤلاء ويسجدون لي قائلين اخرج انت وجميع الشعب الذين في اثرك. وبعد ذلك اخرج. ثم خرج من لدن فرعون في حموّ الغضب

9 وقال الرب لموسى لا يسمع لكما فرعون لكي تكثر عجائبي في ارض مصر.

10 وكان موسى وهرون يفعلان كل هذه العجائب امام فرعون. ولكن شدّد الرب قلب فرعون فلم يطلق بني اسرائيل من ارضه

   

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Arcana Coelestia#2353

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2353. 'In the night' means the final period when these two are acknowledged no longer. This is clear from the meaning of 'the night' as a time of darkness when the things of light are seen no longer. The angels did not come in the night but at evening time, but because it was the men of Sodom who spoke and cried out, that is, those who are immersed in falsity and evil, the expression used is not 'in the evening' but 'in the night'. For 'night' in the Word means the period of time and the state when the light of truth exists no longer, but merely falsity and evil, and so is the final period when judgement takes place.

[2] This meaning is met in other places, as in Micah,

Against the prophets who lead the people astray: It is night for you instead of vision, and darkness for you instead of divination, and the sun is setting upon the prophets and the day is becoming black over them. Micah 3:5-6.

'The prophets' here stands for those who teach falsities. 'Night', 'darkness', 'sunset', and 'the day becoming black' stand for falsities and evils.

[3] In John,

If anyone walks in the day he does not stumble; but if anyone walks in the night he stumbles because the light is not in him. John 11:9-10.

Here 'night' stands for falsity deriving from evil. 'The light' stands for truth deriving from good, for just as all the light of truth derives from good, so all the night of falsity does so from evil.

[4] In the same gospel,

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; night is coming when nobody can work. John 9:4.

'Day' stands for the period of time and the state when good and truth are present, but 'night' when evil and falsity are present.

[5] In Luke,

I tell you, in that night there will be two upon one bed; one will be taken, the other left. Luke 17:34.

Here 'night' stands for the final period when the truth of faith is no more.

[6] When the children of Israel were going out of Egypt they were commanded 'to go out at midnight', because in this way the vastation of good and truth inside the Church was represented, and also that nothing except falsity and evil reigned there any longer, Exodus 11:4. And when they did, all the firstborn of Egypt were slain at midnight, Exodus 12:12, 29-30. Now because those with whom good and truth are present, who were represented by the children of Israel, are watched over when, like Lot in Sodom, they are among falsities and evils, that night is described in reference to them as 'the night when Jehovah kept watch', Exodus 12:42.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.