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出埃及记第4章

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1 摩西回答:他们必不信我,也不我的话,必耶和华并没有向你显现。

2 耶和华对摩西:你里是甚麽?他:是杖。

3 耶和华:丢在上。他一丢下去,就变作摩西便跑开。

4 耶和华摩西:伸出来,拿住他的尾巴,他必在你中仍变为杖;

5 如此好叫他们信耶和华─他们祖宗的,就是亚伯拉罕的以撒的雅各,是向你显现了。

6 耶和华又对他:把放在怀里。他就把放在怀里,及至抽出来,不料,上长了大麻风,有那样白。

7 耶和华:再把放在怀里。他就再把放在怀里,及至从怀里抽出来,不料,已经复原,与周身的一样;

8 :倘或他们不你的话,也不信头一个神迹,他们必信第二个神迹。

9 这两个神迹若不信,也不你的话,你就从河里取些,倒在旱地上,你从河里取的必在旱地上变作血。

10 摩西耶和华阿,我素日不是能言的,就是从你对仆人说话以後,也是这样。我本是拙的。

11 耶和华对他:谁造人的呢?谁使人、耳聋、目明、眼瞎呢?岂不是我─耶和华麽?

12 现在去罢,我必赐你才,指教你所当的话。

13 摩西:主阿,你愿意打发谁,就打发谁去罢!

14 耶和华摩西发怒:不是有你的哥哥利未人亚伦麽?我知道他是能言的;现在他出来迎接你,他一见你,里就欢喜。

15 你要将当传给他;我也要赐你和他才,又要指教你们所当行的事。

16 他要替你对百姓说话;你要以他当作,他要以你当作

17 里要拿这杖,好行神迹。

18 於是,摩西回到他岳父叶忒罗那里,对他:求你容我回去见我在埃及的弟兄,他们还在不在。叶忒罗对摩西:你可以平平安安地去罢!

19 耶和华米甸摩西:你要回埃及去,因为寻索你命的人都死了

20 摩西就带着妻子和两个儿子,叫他们,回埃及去。摩西里拿着的杖。

21 耶和华摩西:你回到埃及的时候,要留意将我指示你的一切奇事行在法老面前。但我要使(或作:任凭;下同)他的刚硬,他必不容百姓去。

22 你要对法老耶和华这样以色列是我的儿子,我的长子

23 我对你说过:容我的儿子去,好事奉我。你还是不肯容他去。看哪,我要杀你的长子

24 摩西在住宿的地方,耶和华遇见他,想要杀他。

25 西坡拉就拿一块火石,割下他儿子的阳皮,丢在摩西前,:你真是我的血郎了。

26 这样,耶和华才放了他。西坡拉:你因割礼就是血郎了。

27 耶和华亚伦:你往旷野去迎接摩西。他就去,在遇见摩西,和他亲嘴。

28 摩西耶和华打发他所的言语和嘱咐他所行的神迹都告诉了亚伦

29 摩西亚伦就去招聚以色列的长老

30 亚伦耶和华摩西的一切了一遍,又在百姓眼前行了那些神迹,

31 百姓就信了。以色列人耶和华眷顾他们,鉴察他们的困苦,就低头下拜。

   

来自斯威登堡的著作

 

Arcana Coelestia#6977

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6977. 'And it will be water which you have taken' means an inversion of state. This is clear from the words that come immediately after these, for it says that the water will become blood on the dry land, meaning the falsification of all truth and the deprivation of it in the natural. When this happens a complete inversion of state takes place. Thus it is that because those words imply an inversion of state they are also said to mean such an inversion. A total inversion of state has also taken place in the natural when nothing but falsities are in possession of it. This rarely happens with a person while he is living in the world; but in the next life it is what happens with all who are cast into hell. The reason why it rarely happens with a person while he is living in the world is that during that time he is preserved constantly in a condition that enables him to be reformed, provided that in freedom he refrains from behaving in evil ways. But after death the life he has led follows him, and he remains in the condition he has acquired through the whole course of his life in the world. Then one who is immersed in evil is no longer able to be reformed; and for fear that he should come into contact with any community in heaven, everything true or good is taken away from him. As a result he remains immersed in evil and falsity, and these - the evil and falsity - increase in him according to the ability he has acquired in the world to receive them. Even so, he is not allowed to go beyond his acquired limits. This is what an inversion of state is used to mean here. The nature of it is such that a person can no longer undergo inward, only outward correction, that is to say, through fear on account of punishments. And when he has suffered these often, he finally refrains from evil, not in freedom but through compulsion, though the desire to do evil remains. This desire is held in check by means of fears which, as has been stated, are outward means of correction and provide compulsion. This is the condition of the evil in the next life.

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