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Exodus第11章

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1 Řekl pak byl Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Ještě ránu jednu uvedu na Faraona a na Egypt, potom propustí vás odsud; propustí docela, anobrž vypudí vás odsud.

2 Mluv nyní v uši lidu, ať vypůjčí jeden každý od bližního svého, a každá od bližní své klínotů stříbrných a klínotů zlatých.

3 A dal Hospodin milost lidu před očima Egyptských. (Sám také Mojžíš veliký byl velmi v zemi Egyptské, před očima služebníků Faraonových i před očima lidu.)

4 I řekl Mojžíš: Takto praví Hospodin: O půlnoci já půjdu prostředkem Egypta.

5 A pomře všecko prvorozené v zemi Egyptské, od prvorozeného Faraonova, jenž seděti měl na stolici jeho, až do prvorozeného děvky, kteráž jest při žernovu, i všecko prvorozené hovad.

6 I bude křik veliký po vší zemi Egyptské, jakéhož nebylo prvé, a jakéhož nikdy nebude více.

7 U synů pak Izraelských nikdež nehne pes jazykem svým, ovšem pak ani člověk ani hovado, abyste věděli, že rozdíl učinil Hospodin mezi Egyptskými a Izraelskými.

8 I sstoupí všickni tito služebníci tvoji ke mně, a skláněti mi se budou, řkouce: Vyjdi, ty i všecken lid, kterýž jest pod správou tvou; a potom vyjdu. A vyšel od Faraona s velikým hněvem.

9 I řekl Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Neposlechneť vás Farao, abych rozmnožil zázraky své v zemi Egyptské.

10 Ale Mojžíš a Aron činili všecky ty zázraky před Faraonem; Hospodin pak zatvrdil srdce Faraonovo, tak že nepropustil synů Izraelských z země své.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#2353

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2353. 'In the night' means the final period when these two are acknowledged no longer. This is clear from the meaning of 'the night' as a time of darkness when the things of light are seen no longer. The angels did not come in the night but at evening time, but because it was the men of Sodom who spoke and cried out, that is, those who are immersed in falsity and evil, the expression used is not 'in the evening' but 'in the night'. For 'night' in the Word means the period of time and the state when the light of truth exists no longer, but merely falsity and evil, and so is the final period when judgement takes place.

[2] This meaning is met in other places, as in Micah,

Against the prophets who lead the people astray: It is night for you instead of vision, and darkness for you instead of divination, and the sun is setting upon the prophets and the day is becoming black over them. Micah 3:5-6.

'The prophets' here stands for those who teach falsities. 'Night', 'darkness', 'sunset', and 'the day becoming black' stand for falsities and evils.

[3] In John,

If anyone walks in the day he does not stumble; but if anyone walks in the night he stumbles because the light is not in him. John 11:9-10.

Here 'night' stands for falsity deriving from evil. 'The light' stands for truth deriving from good, for just as all the light of truth derives from good, so all the night of falsity does so from evil.

[4] In the same gospel,

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; night is coming when nobody can work. John 9:4.

'Day' stands for the period of time and the state when good and truth are present, but 'night' when evil and falsity are present.

[5] In Luke,

I tell you, in that night there will be two upon one bed; one will be taken, the other left. Luke 17:34.

Here 'night' stands for the final period when the truth of faith is no more.

[6] When the children of Israel were going out of Egypt they were commanded 'to go out at midnight', because in this way the vastation of good and truth inside the Church was represented, and also that nothing except falsity and evil reigned there any longer, Exodus 11:4. And when they did, all the firstborn of Egypt were slain at midnight, Exodus 12:12, 29-30. Now because those with whom good and truth are present, who were represented by the children of Israel, are watched over when, like Lot in Sodom, they are among falsities and evils, that night is described in reference to them as 'the night when Jehovah kept watch', Exodus 12:42.

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