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出埃及记第15章

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1 那时,摩西以色列人耶和华唱歌:我要向耶和华,因他大大战胜,将和骑的投在中。

2 耶和华是我的力量,我的诗歌,也成了我的拯救。这是我的,我要赞美他,是我父亲,我要尊崇他。

3 耶和华是战士;他的名是耶和华

4 法老的车辆、军兵,耶和华已抛在中;他特选的军长都沉於红

5 水淹没他们;他们如同石头坠到深处

6 耶和华阿,你的右手施展能力,显出荣耀;耶和华阿,你的右手摔碎仇敌。

7 你大发威严,推翻那些起来攻击你的;你发出烈怒如火,烧灭他们像烧碎一样。

8 你发鼻中的气,便聚起成堆,大直立如垒,中的深凝结。

9 仇敌:我要追赶,我要追上;我要分掳物,我要在他们身上称我的心愿。我要拔出刀来,亲杀灭他们。

10 你叫一吹,就把他们淹没;他们如铅沉在大水之中。

11 耶和华阿,众神之中,谁能像你?谁能像你─至至荣,可颂可畏,施行奇事?

12 伸出右手,便灭他们。

13 你凭慈爱领了你所赎的百姓;你凭能力引他们到了你的所。

14 外邦人见就发颤;疼痛抓非利士居民

15 那时,以东的族长惊惶,摩押的英雄被战兢抓迦南居民心都消化了。

16 惊骇恐惧临到他们。耶和华阿,因你膀的大能,他们如石头寂然不动,等候你的百姓过去,等候你所赎的百姓过去。

17 你要将他们领进去,栽於你产业的上─耶和华阿,就是你为自己所造的处;阿,就是你所建立的圣所。

18 耶和华必作王,直到永永远远!

19 法老的马匹、车辆,和兵下到中,耶和华使回流,淹没他们;惟有以色列人中走乾地。

20 亚伦的姊姊,女先知米利暗,里拿着;众妇女也跟他出去拿跳舞

21 米利暗应声:你们要歌颂耶和华,因他大大战胜,将和骑的投在中。

22 摩西以色列人从红往前行,到了书珥的旷野,在旷野走了不着

23 到了玛拉,不能那里的;因为苦,所以那地名玛拉

24 百姓就向摩西发怨言,:我们甚麽呢?

25 摩西呼求耶和华耶和华指示他一棵。他把丢在里,就变甜了。耶和华在那里为他们定了律例、典章,在那里试验他们;

26 :你若留意耶和华─你的话,又行我眼中看为正的事,留心我的诫命,守我一切的律例,我就不将所加与埃及人疾病加在你身上,因为我─耶和华是医治你的。

27 他们到了以琳,在那里有十二股泉,七十棵棕树;他们就在那里的边安营。

   

来自斯威登堡的著作

 

Arcana Coelestia#8356

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8356. 'And the waters became sweet' means that as a result the truths were made pleasant. This is clear from the meaning of 'sweet' as pleasant, for 'sweet' in the spiritual sense means sweetness of life, which is the same thing as pleasantness; and from the meaning of 'the waters' as truths, dealt with immediately above in 8355. The situation here is that a person's feeling of affection for truth comes from good. For goodness and truth have been joined together as if in marriage, and therefore one loves the other in the way that married partner loves married partner. This also explains why in the Word, when goodness and truth are joined together, they are likened to a marriage, and why the truths and forms of good born from that marriage are called sons and daughters. From this it becomes clear that the pleasantness belonging to the affection for truth traces its origin back solely to good. Experience too demonstrates this; for people who lead a good life, that is, who love God and their neighbour, also love the truths of faith. That being so, as long as good is flowing in and being received, truth appears pleasant. But as soon as good ceases to flow in, that is, as soon as evil begins to predominate and the inflow of good to be held back, truth is immediately sensed to be unpleasant; for truth and evil repel and loathe each other. From all this one may now see why the order was given to throw wood into the bitter waters, and also why the waters were made sweet by the wood that had been thrown into them. God would never have commanded such an action to be taken if those kinds of things had not been meant by it. For God could have rendered those waters sweet without the use of wood.

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