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出埃及记第32章

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1 百姓见摩西迟延不,就大家聚集到亚伦那里,对他起来!为我们像,可以在我们前面引路;因为领我们埃及的那个摩西我们知道他遭了甚麽事。

2 亚伦对他们:你们去摘下你们妻子、儿女耳上的环,拿来给我。

3 百姓就都摘下他们耳上的环,拿来给亚伦

4 亚伦从他们里接过来,铸了一只犊,用雕刻的器具做成。他们就以色列阿,这是领你出埃及

5 亚伦见,就在牛犊面前筑,且宣告:明日要向耶和华守节。

6 次日清,百姓起来献燔祭和平安祭,就起来玩耍。

7 耶和华吩咐摩西去罢,因为你的百姓,就是你从埃及领出来的,已经败坏了。

8 他们快快偏离了我所吩咐的道,为自己铸了一只犊,向他下拜献祭,以色列阿,这就是领你出埃及

9 耶和华摩西:我这百姓真是硬着颈项的百姓。

10 你且由着我,我要向他们发烈怒,将他们灭绝,使你的後裔成为国。

11 摩西便恳求耶和华─他的耶和华阿,你为甚麽向你的百姓发烈怒呢?这百姓是你用力和能的埃及领出来的。

12 为甚麽使埃及人议论他领他们出去,是要降祸与他们,把他们杀在中,将他们从地上除灭?求你意,不发你的烈怒,後悔,不降祸与你的百姓。

13 求你记念你的仆人亚伯拉罕以撒以色列。你曾指着自己起誓:我必使你们的後裔像上的那样多,并且我所应许的这全,必你们的後裔,他们要永远承受为业。

14 於是耶和华後悔,不把所的祸降与他的百姓。

15 摩西转身里拿着两块法版。这版是两面的,这面那面有字,

16 工作,字是的,刻在版上。

17 约书亚一见百姓呼喊的声音,就对摩西:在里有争战的声音

18 摩西:这不是人打胜仗的声音,也不是人打败仗的声音,我所见的乃是人歌唱的声音

19 摩西挨近前就犊,又见人跳舞,便发烈怒,把两块版扔在摔碎了,

20 又将他们所铸的犊用焚烧,磨得粉,撒在面上,叫以色列人喝。

21 摩西亚伦:这百姓向你做了甚麽?你竟使他们陷在罪里!

22 亚伦:求我不要发烈怒。这百姓专於作恶,是你知道的。

23 他们对我:你为我们像,可以在我们前面引路;因为领我们埃及的那个摩西我们知道他遭了甚麽事。

24 我对他们:凡有环的可以摘下来,他们就了我。我把环扔在中,这犊便出来了。

25 摩西见百姓放肆(亚伦纵容他们,使他们在仇敌中间被讥刺),

26 就站在中,:凡属耶和华的,都要到我这里来!於是利未的子孙都到他那里聚集

27 他对他们耶和华以色列的这样:你们各把刀跨在腰间,在中往来,从这到那,各杀他的弟兄与同伴并邻舍。

28 利未的子孙照摩西的行了。那一天百姓中被杀的约有

29 摩西今天你们要自洁,归耶和华为圣,各攻击他的儿子和弟兄,使耶和华赐福与你们。

30 到了第二天,摩西对百姓:你们犯了。我如今要上耶和华那里去,或者可以为你们赎罪

31 摩西回到耶和华那里,:唉!这百姓犯了罪,为自己做了像。

32 倘或你肯赦免他们的……不然,求你从你所的册上涂抹我的名。

33 耶和华摩西:谁得罪我,我就从我的册上涂抹谁的名。

34 现在你去领这百姓,往我所告诉你的地方去,我的使者必在你前面引路;只是到我追讨的日子,我必追讨他们的

35 耶和华杀百姓的缘故是因他们同亚伦做了犊。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#10402

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10402. 'Pull away the ear-jewels of gold from the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters' means drawing out of the literal sense of the Word such things as are favourable to external forms of love and to the immediate offspring of these loves. This is clear from the meaning of 'pulling away' as drawing out, at this point out of the literal sense of the Word since that sense is the subject; from the meaning of 'the ear-jewels of gold which are on the ears' as symbols representative of obedience to the delights belonging to external kinds of love and discernment of them, for obedience and discernment are meant by 'the ears', and the good of love - at this point the delight belonging to external kinds of love - is meant by 'gold', so that 'the ear-jewels of gold' are symbols representative of that obedience and discernment (for the meaning of 'the ears' as obedience and discernment, see 2542, 4652-4660, 8990, 9397, 10061; for that of 'gold' as the good of love, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917, 9510, 9874, 9881, so that when it has reference to external kinds of love, which are self-love and love of the world, 'gold' means the delight belonging to them, thus that which is evil, 8932; and the fact that 'ear-jewels' consequently are symbols representative of obedience and discernment, 4551); from the meaning of 'wives' as forms of good in the Church, dealt with in 3160, 4823, 6014, 7022, 8337, and therefore in the contrary sense as forms of evil there, 409; from the meaning of 'sons' as truths, and in the contrary sense as falsities, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 2803, 2813, 3373, 3704, 4257, 6583, 6584, 9807; and from the meaning of 'daughters' as affections for truth and good, and therefore in the contrary sense as affections for falsity and evil, dealt with in 2362, 3963, 6729. From all this it is evident that 'pull away the ear-jewels of gold from the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters' means drawing out of the literal sense of the Word such things as are discerned to be obedient or favourable to the delights belonging to external forms of love and favourable to the major ideas resulting from these.

[2] The fact that 'ear-jewels' are symbols of obedience and discernment is clear in Hosea,

Contend with your mother, since she is not My wife, in order that she may remove her whoredoms from her sight 1 , lest perhaps I strip her naked, and make her like a wilderness, and do not have mercy on her children, since she has said, I will go after my lovers, those giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen. And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain and the new wine and the oil, and who multiplied the silver for her, and the gold they made for baal. And I will lay waste her vine and her fig tree. And I will visit on her 2 the days of the baals to whom she burned incense and decked herself with her ear-jewels and her other jewellery, and went after her lovers and forgot Me. Hosea 2:1-13.

'Burning incense to and decking herself with ear-jewels for the baals' denotes worshipping the baals as gods and being obedient to them.

[3] Earlier parts of that chapter have also been quoted to allow it to be seen what the outward sense of the Word is like without the inward, and what it is like together with the inward, and so how the Word is understood by those who see its outward statements in isolation from what is inward, and how it is understood by those who see the outward statements from the point of view of that which is inward. Those who see the outward statements in isolation from what is inward inevitably take them literally. That is, they take them to mean that they should literally contend with the mother of the children of Israel; that she was literally no longer loved by Jehovah as a wife; that if she did not remove the whoredoms from herself she would literally be stripped naked and made like a wilderness, and Jehovah would not have mercy on her children, since she had said that she was going to go after her lovers who gave her bread, water, wool, and linen; that she did not know it was Jehovah who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied the silver; that they made the gold for baal; that for this reason her vine and her fig tree would be laid waste; and that there would literally be a visitation on her because she burned incense to the baals, decked herself with ear-jewels and other jewellery for them, and went after her adulterous lovers, forgetful of Jehovah.

[4] All this is the literal meaning, and so it is how those who see the outward statements in isolation from their inward meaning understand the Word, for it is how the Jews at the present day and also some Christians understand it. But that is not the real meaning of the Word, as all who have any degree of enlightenment may see. By 'mother', regarding whom all those things are stated, they do not understand a mother but the kind of Church that existed among that nation. They take each of the things stated regarding her to mean something that has to do with the Church; for all those things are such as follow in order from what is put forward or laid down first. That is how they take 'whoredoms', 'lovers', and 'children' or 'sons', then 'bread, water, wool, linen, grain, new wine, oil, silver, gold', after that 'vine and fig', and also 'incense' and 'ear-jewels'.

[5] What each of these serves to mean can be known from no other source than the internal sense. In this sense 'mother' and 'wife' mean the Church; 'making her naked, and like a wilderness' means leaving it without any good of love or truth of faith, truths of faith and forms of the good of love, of which it will be bereft, being meant by 'sons', 'bread and water', 'wool and linen', 'grain, new wine, oil, silver, and gold', and finally 'vine and fig'. The actual worship springing from obedience to falsities and evils, which take over for truths and forms of good, is meant by 'burning incense to the baals and being decked out with ear-jewels and other jewellery for them'.

'Mother' means the Church, see 289, 2691, 2717, 4257, 5581.

So does 'wife', 252, 253, 409, 749, 770, 7022.

'Her being made naked' means being deprived of forms of the good of love and the truths of faith, 9960.

'A wilderness' means a state devoid of the Church's truth and good, 2708, 3900, 4736, 7055.

'Whoredoms' means falsifications of truth, 2466, 2729, 4865, 8904, so that 'lovers' means those who falsify.

'Sons' means truths, and in the contrary sense falsities, 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 2803, 2813, 3373, 3704, 4257, 6583, 6584, 9807.

'Bread and water' means the good of love and truth of faith, 9323.

'Wool' means the good in the external man, 9470.

'Linen' means the truth there, 7601, 9959.

'Grain' means good from which truth may be obtained, 5295, 5410, 5959.

'New wine' means truth derived from good, 3580.

'Oil' means celestial good, 9780, 10261.

'Silver' means truth and 'gold' good in general, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914,

6917, 9881.

'Vine' means the internal spiritual Church, 1069, 6376, 9277.

'Fig' means the external good of that Church, 217, 4231, 5113.

'Burning incense' means worship, 10177, 10298.

'Ear-jewel' is a symbol representative of obedience, 4551, so that 'being decked out with it' means offering obedience.

[6] When all the entities listed immediately above are understood instead of or in conjunction with the people or things that serve to mean them, the nature of the Word discerned on a spiritual level, thus the nature of the spirit within it, becomes apparent. All who read the Word are sustained by the Lord on that level of meaning; but none receive and accept it apart from those whose interiors are open. And since these receive it within the cognitions or knowledge they possess, they accept it so far as they can understand it, that is, in the measure and manner that their power of understanding can be enlightened through the cognitions or knowledge in their possession. In addition to this, they are affected in a general way by the holiness that radiates from the Word.

脚注:

1. literally, faces

2. i.e. I will punish her for

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