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出埃及記第19章

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1 以色列人埃及以後,滿了的那一天,就到西乃的曠野。

2 他們離了利非訂,到西乃的曠野,就在那裡的下安營。

3 摩西那裡,耶和華呼喚:你要這樣告訴雅各家,曉諭以色列人

4 我向埃及人所行的事,你們都見了,且見我如將你們背在翅膀上,帶來歸我。

5 如今你們若實在從我的話,遵守我的約,就要在萬民中作屬我的子民,因為全都是我的。

6 你們要歸我作祭司的國度,為聖潔的國民。這些你要告訴以色列人

7 摩西去召了民間的長老,將耶和華所吩咐他的都在他們面前陳明。

8 百姓都同聲回答:凡耶和華的,我們都要遵行。摩西就將百姓的回覆耶和華

9 耶和華摩西:我要在密中臨到你那裡,叫百姓在我與你說話的時候可以見,也可以永遠信你了。於是,摩西將百姓的奏告耶和華

10 耶和華又對摩西:你往百姓那裡去,叫他們今天自潔,又叫他們洗衣服。

11 第三要預備好了,因為第三耶和華要在眾百姓眼前降臨在西乃上。

12 你要在的四圍給百姓定界限,:你們當謹慎,不可上去,也不可摸的邊界;凡摸這的,必要治他。

13 不可用摸他,必用石頭打死,或用箭射透;無論是牲畜,都不得活。到角聲拖長的時候,他們才可到根來。

14 摩西往百姓那裡去,叫他們自潔,他們就洗衣服。

15 他對百姓:到第要預備好了。不可親女人

16 到了第三早晨,在上有轟、閃電,和密,並且角聲甚大,中的百姓盡都發顫。

17 摩西率領百姓出迎接,都站在下。

18 西乃全冒煙,因為耶和華中降於上。的煙氣上騰,如燒窯一般,遍大大的震動。

19 角聲漸漸的高而又高,摩西說話有聲音答應他。

20 耶和華降臨在西乃頂上,耶和華摩西頂,摩西就上去。

21 耶和華摩西:你去囑咐百姓,不可闖過來到我面前觀,恐怕他們有多人死亡;

22 又叫親我的祭司自潔,恐怕我忽然出來擊殺他們。

23 摩西耶和華:百姓不能上西乃,因為你已經囑咐我們:要在的四圍定界限,叫成聖

24 耶和華對他去罷,你要和亞倫一同上來;只是祭司和百姓不可闖過來上到我面前,恐怕我忽然出來擊殺他們。

25 於是摩西到百姓那裡告訴他們。

   

来自斯威登堡的著作

 

Arcana Coelestia#8778

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8778. 'And Moses brought back the people's words to Jehovah' means correspondence and being joined together. This is clear from the meaning of 'bringing words back to Jehovah' as correspondence and consequently being joined together. For the subject is the covenant that is to be made with the people; and since covenants are made through agreement on both sides, something that resembles the making of a covenant takes place here. That is to say, Jehovah proposes and the people respond, at this point through Moses, who represents the truth from God when it has been joined to Divine Truth as it exists in heaven, 8760, which is intermediary. But the only way that the covenant is made with mankind is through being receptive of the influx of truth from the Divine, and through correspondence at that time; for when higher things flow into lower they are not received in any other way.

[2] What correspondence and receptivity through correspondence are becomes clear from what has been shown at the ends of quite a number of chapters regarding the correspondence of all things present in the human being with the things that exist in heaven. It has also been shown in those places that all joining of natural things to spiritual ones, and in general of lower things to higher ones, is accomplished through correspondence. Such correspondence does not exist unless the lower things are placed in subordinate positions and made subject to the higher ones; and when the lower have been made subject, the higher ones act on them altogether as a cause does on its effect. From all this one may see what reciprocity on man's side is when the Divine flows in, and what the consequent joining together is, which is described in the sense of the letter here by the method used to make covenants, which is that Jehovah speaks to the people through a messenger, and the messenger brings their reply back to Jehovah. For this is how a person can grasp the concept of being joined to the Divine.

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