圣经文本

 

出埃及記第4章

学习

   

1 摩西回答:他們必不信我,也不我的話,必耶和華並沒有向你顯現。

2 耶和華對摩西:你裡是甚麼?他:是杖。

3 耶和華:丟在上。他一丟下去,就變作摩西便跑開。

4 耶和華摩西:伸出來,拿住他的尾巴,他必在你中仍變為杖;

5 如此好叫他們信耶和華─他們祖宗的,就是亞伯拉罕的以撒的雅各,是向你顯現了。

6 耶和華又對他:把放在裡。他就把放在裡,及至抽出來,不料,長了大痲瘋,有那樣白。

7 耶和華:再把放在裡。他就再把放在裡,及至從裡抽出來,不料,已經復原,與周身的一樣;

8 :倘或他們不你的話,也不信頭一個神蹟,他們必信第二個神蹟。

9 這兩個神蹟若不信,也不你的話,你就從河裡取些,倒在旱地上,你從河裡取的必在旱地上變作血。

10 摩西耶和華阿,我素日不是能言的,就是從你對僕人說話以後,也是這樣。我本是拙的。

11 耶和華對他:誰造人的呢?誰使人、耳聾、目明、眼瞎呢?豈不是我─耶和華麼?

12 現在去罷,我必賜你才,指教你所當的話。

13 摩西:主阿,你願意打發誰,就打發誰去罷!

14 耶和華摩西發怒:不是有你的哥哥利未人亞倫麼?我知道他是能言的;現在他出來迎接你,他一見你,裡就歡喜。

15 你要將當傳給他;我也要賜你和他才,又要指教你們所當行的事。

16 他要替你對百姓說話;你要以他當作,他要以你當作

17 裡要拿這杖,好行神蹟。

18 於是,摩西回到他岳父葉忒羅那裡,對他:求你容我回去見我在埃及的弟兄,他們還在不在。葉忒羅對摩西:你可以平平安安地去罷!

19 耶和華米甸摩西:你要回埃及去,因為尋索你命的人都死了

20 摩西就帶著妻子和兩個兒子,叫他們,回埃及去。摩西裡拿著的杖。

21 耶和華摩西:你回到埃及的時候,要留意將我指示你的一切奇事行在法老面前。但我要使(或作:任憑;下同)他的剛硬,他必不容百姓去。

22 你要對法老耶和華這樣以色列是我的兒子,我的長子

23 我對你說過:容我的兒子去,好事奉我。你還是不肯容他去。看哪,我要殺你的長子

24 摩西在住宿的地方,耶和華遇見他,想要殺他。

25 西坡拉就拿一塊火石,割下他兒子的陽皮,丟在摩西前,:你真是我的血郎了。

26 這樣,耶和華才放了他。西坡拉:你因割禮就是血郎了。

27 耶和華亞倫:你往曠野去迎接摩西。他就去,在遇見摩西,和他親嘴。

28 摩西耶和華打發他所的言語和囑咐他所行的神蹟都告訴了亞倫

29 摩西亞倫就去招聚以色列的長老

30 亞倫耶和華摩西的一切了一遍,又在百姓眼前行了那些神蹟,

31 百姓就信了。以色列人耶和華眷顧他們,鑒察他們的困苦,就低頭下拜。

   

来自斯威登堡的著作

 

Arcana Coelestia#6963

学习本章节

  
/10837  
  

6963. 'And behold, his hand was leprous, like snow' means the profanation of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'hand' as power, as above in 6947, and as truth since spiritual power consists in truth, 6948, 6960; and from the meaning of 'leprosy' as profanation, in particular the profanation of truth, dealt with below. In the historical part of the Word a great deal is said about leprosy - about the various manifestations of it in the skin, about determining the nature of it from those manifestations, and about whether a leper should be shut away, leave the community, or be set at liberty; and about leprosy in garments, vessels, and actual houses. So much is said about leprosy not on account of leprosy as a disease but because it was a sign of the profanation of truth, thus on account of its spiritual meaning and because the Jews and Israelites more than any others were capable of rendering truth profane.

[2] For if those people had known the inner contents of the Word and the actual truths which the religious observances of the Church among them represented, and if they had believed those truths and yet led the lives they were predisposed to lead - namely lives ruled by self-love and love of the world, involving acts of hatred and vengeance on one another, and involving cruelty to gentiles - they could not have avoided profaning the truths they had once believed. For believing truths and leading a life that goes against them is profaning them. It was for this reason too that they were withheld as far as was possible from any recognition of internal truth, 3398, 3489, withheld from it so completely that they did not even know that they would be alive after death. Nor did they believe that the Messiah was coming to save their souls for evermore, only that He would exalt that nation above all throughout the world. And because that nation was like this, and is also like it today, they are still withheld from faith, even though they live amid Christianity. This then is the reason why the nature of leprosy has been described so extensively.

[3] The meaning of 'leprosy' as the profanation of truth is evident from the regulations regarding leprosy in Moses, Leviticus 13:1-end. That description contains in the internal sense the whole nature of the profanation of truth - what profanation is like if recent, what it is like if long-established, what it is like if it exists inwardly in a person, what it is like if it also exists outwardly, what it is like if it can be cured, what it is like if it cannot, what means can be used, and a number of other details. No one can ever come to know about any of this without the help of the internal sense of the Word. But since profane things are what 'leprosy' describes, a detailed explanation of the contents of that description must not be given; heaven has a feeling of horror at the very mention of what is profane.

[4] So let just the following be quoted from those regulations,

If leprosy has broken out severely in the skin and the leprosy has covered the entire skin of [him who has] the plague, from his head to his heels, wherever the priest looks, 1 and the priest sees that, behold, the leprosy has covered the person's entire flesh, then he shall pronounce [him] clean [who has] the plague. It has all turned white; he is clean. But on the day living flesh appears on him he shall be unclean. Leviticus 17:12-14.

Unless one knew from the internal sense how it could be that one who is leprous all over from his head to his heels was clean it would seem to be an absurdity. But one who is leprous from head to heels means a person who has a knowledge of internal truths but does not acknowledge them, that is, has no belief in them. Profanation does not exist with him inwardly, only outwardly, and is being removed. Therefore he is clean. But if he knows the truths of faith and believes them, and yet leads a life that goes against them, profanation does exist with him inwardly, as it also does with someone who has had a belief in them but subsequently denies them. This explains why it says, 'on the day living flesh appears in him he shall be unclean'; 'living flesh' is used to mean acknowledgement and faith. See also the paragraphs referred to above in 6959.

脚注:

1. literally, under all the survey of the eyes of the priest

  
/10837  
  

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