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出埃及記第10章

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1 耶和華摩西:你進去見法老。我使他和他臣僕的剛硬,為要在他們中間顯我這些神蹟,

2 並要叫你將我向埃及人所做的事,和在他們中間所行的神蹟,傳於你兒子和你孫子的耳中,好叫你們知道我是耶和華

3 摩西亞倫就進去見法老,對他耶和華希伯來人這樣:你在我面前不肯自卑要到幾時呢?容我的百姓去,好事奉我。

4 你若不肯容我的百姓去,明天我要使蝗蟲進入你的境內,

5 遮滿地面,甚不見,並且冰雹所剩的和田間所長的一切樹木

6 你的宮殿和你眾臣僕的房屋,並一切埃及人房屋,都要被蝗蟲佔滿了;自從你祖宗和你祖宗的祖宗在世以來,直到今日,沒有見過這樣的災。摩西就轉身離開法老出去。

7 法老的臣僕對法老:這人為我們網羅要到幾時呢?容這些人去事奉耶和華─他們的罷!埃及已經敗壞了,你還不知道麼?

8 於是摩西亞倫被召回來法老法老對他們:你們去事奉耶和華─你們的;但那要去的是誰呢?

9 摩西:我們要和我們老的少的、兒子女兒同去,且把羊群牛群一同帶去,因為我們務要向耶和華守節。

10 法老對他們:我容你們和你們婦人孩子去的時候,耶和華與你們同在罷!你們要謹慎;因為有禍在你們眼前(或作:你們存著惡意),

11 不可都去!你們這壯年人去事奉耶和華罷,因為這是你們所求的。於是把他們從法老面前攆出去。

12 耶和華摩西:你向埃及伸杖,使蝗蟲埃及上來,上一切的菜蔬,就是冰雹所剩的。

13 摩西就向埃及伸杖,那一晝一夜,耶和華使東颳在埃及上;到了早晨,東蝗蟲颳了來。

14 蝗蟲上來,落在埃及的四境,甚是厲害;以前沒有這樣的,以也必沒有。

15 因為這蝗蟲遮滿地面,甚至都黑暗了,又上一切的菜蔬和冰雹上的果子。埃及,無論是樹木,是田間的菜蔬,連一點青的也沒有留下。

16 於是法老急忙召了摩西亞倫來,:我得罪耶和華─你們的,又得罪了你們。

17 現在求你,只這一次,饒恕我的,求耶和華─你們的使我脫離這一次的死亡。

18 摩西就離開法老去求耶和華

19 耶和華了極大的西,把蝗蟲颳起,吹入紅;在埃及的四境連個也沒有留下。

20 耶和華使法老的剛硬,不容以色列人去。

21 耶和華摩西:你向伸杖,使埃及黑暗;這黑暗似乎摸得著。

22 摩西伸杖,埃及就烏黑了

23 之久,不能相見,誰也不敢起來離開本處;惟有以色列人家中都有亮

24 法老就召摩西來,:你們去事奉耶和華;只是你們的羊群牛群要留下;你們的婦人孩子可以和你們同去。

25 摩西:你總要把祭物和燔祭牲交我們,使我們可以祭祀耶和華我們

26 我們的牲畜也要帶去,連一也不留下;因為我們要從其中取出,事奉耶和華我們我們未到那裡,還不知道用甚麼事奉耶和華

27 耶和華使法老的剛硬,不肯容他們去。

28 法老對摩西:你離開我去罷,你要小心,不要再見我的面!因為你見我面的那日你就必

29 摩西:你得好!我必不再見你的面了。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#7693

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7693. 'In the whole land of Egypt' means on every side in the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land of Egypt' as the natural mind, and so the natural, dealt with in 7674. Since 'the locust', which has been the subject here, means falsity in the outermost parts, that is, in the sensory level of the human mind, let me say what the sensory level is in order that people may thereby know what falsity in the outermost parts of the mind is. A sensory-minded person, or a person whose thought and actions are reduced to the sensory level, is one who does not believe anything unless it is palpable to his outward senses, and who is led solely by bodily appetites, pleasure-seeking desires, and covetous passions, and not by rational ways of thinking. Ideas that lend support to urges such as these are what he believes to be rational ways of thinking. Being like this a sensory-minded person denies the existence of everything of an internal nature, until at length he will not even allow it to be mentioned. Consequently he refuses in his heart to believe in anything whatever of heaven. He does not have any belief in life after death, because he considers life to reside solely in the body. He therefore also supposes that when he dies it will be the same for him as for an animal. That person thinks so to speak on the surface, that is, on the lowest or outermost levels, and he is totally unaware of the existence of interior thought that is dependent on the perception of what is true and good. The reason why he is not aware of this, nor even of the existence of an internal man, is that the inner parts of his mind look down towards things of the world, the body, and the earth, and make one with them. They have therefore been diverted from looking upwards or towards heaven, for they are turned in the opposite direction. Looking upwards or towards heaven does not consist in thinking about the things of heaven but in having them as one's end in view, that is, loving them above all else. For in whatever direction love turns, the inner parts of a person's mind turn, and so too his thought. All this goes to show the nature of the sensory level of a person's mind, or the natural in its outermost parts, for a person who thinks on the sensory level is called sensory-minded.

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