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Exodus第3章

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1 Moses vogtede nu Småkvæget for sin Svigerfader Jetro, Præsten i Midjan,og drev engang Småkvæget hen hinsides Ørkenen og kom til Guds Bjerg Horeb.

2 Da åbenbarede HE ENs Engel sig for ham i en Ildslue, der slog ud af en Tornebusk, og da han så nærmere til, se, da stod Tornebusken i lys Lue, uden at den blev fortæret.

3 Da sagde Moses: "Lad mig gå hen og se på dette underfulde Skue, hvorfor Tornebusken ikke brænder op."

4 Men da HE EN så, at han gik hen for at se derpå, råbte Gud til ham fra Tornebusken: "Moses, Moses!" Og han svarede: "se, her er jeg!"

5 Da sagde han: "Kom ikke nærmere! Drag dine Sko af dine Fødder, thi det Sted, du står på, er hellig Jord!"

6 Og han sagde: "Jeg er din Faders Gud, Abrahams Gud, Isaks Gud og Jakobs Gud." Da skjulte Moses sit Ansigt, thi han frygtede for at skue Gud.

7 Derpå sagde HE EN: "Jeg har set mit Folks Elendighed i Ægypten, og jeg har hørt deres Klageskrig over deres Undertrykkere, ja, jeg kender deres Lidelser;

8 og jeg er steget ned for at udfri dem af Ægyptens Hånd og føre dem bort fra dette Land til et godt og vidtstrakt Land, til et Land, der flyder med Mælk og Honning, til Kana'anæernes, Hetiternes, Amoriternes, Perizzitemes, Hivviternes og Jebusiternes Egn.

9 Se, nu er Israeliternes Klageskrig nået til mig, og jeg har også set den Trængsel, Ægypterne har bragt over dem.

10 Derfor vil jeg nu sende dig til Farao, og du skal føre mit Folk, Israeliterne, ud af Ægypten!"

11 Men Moses sagde til Gud: "Hvem er jeg, at jeg skulde kunne gå til Farao og føre Israeliterne ud af Ægypten?"

12 Han svarede: "Jo, jeg vil være med dig! Og dette skal være dig Tegnet på, at det er mig, der har sendt dig: Når du har ført Folket ud af Ægypten, skal I dyrke Gud på dette Bjerg!"

13 Men Moses sagde til Gud: "Når jeg kommer til Israeliterne og siger dem, at deres Fædres Gud har sendt mig til dem, hvad skal jeg så svare dem, hvis de spørger om hans Navn7"

14 Gud svarede Moses: "Jeg er den, jeg er!" Og han sagde: "Således skal du sige til Israeliterne: JEG E har sendt mig til eder!"

15 Og Gud sagde fremdeles til Moses: "Således skal du sige til Israeliterne: HE EN, eders Fædres Gud, Abrahams Gud, Isaks Gud og Jakobs Gud, har sendt mig til eder; dette er mit Navn til evig Tid, og således skal jeg kaldes fra Slægt til Slægt.

16 Gå nu hen og kald Israels Ældste sammen og sig til dem: HE EN, eders Fædres Gud, Abrahams, Isaks og Jakobs Gud, har åbenbaret sig for mig og sagt: Jeg har givet Agt på eder og på, hvad man har gjort imod eder i Ægypten,

17 og jeg har sat mig for at føre eder ud af Ægyptens Elendighed til Kana'anæernes, Hetiternes, Amoriternes, Perizziternes, Hivviternes og Jebusiternes Land, til et Land, der flyder med Mælk og Honning!

18 De vil høre på dig, og du skal sammen med Israels Ældste gå til Ægypterkongen, og I skal sige til ham: HE EN, Hebræernes Gud, har mødt os, tillad os derfor at drage tre Dagsrejser ud i Ørkenen og ofre til HE EN vor Gud!

19 Jeg ved vel, at Ægypterkongen ikke vil tillade eder at drage bort uden med Magt;

20 men jeg skal udrække min Hånd og ramme Ægypten med alle mine Undergerninger, som jeg vil gøre der; så skal han give eder Lov til at drage af Sted.

21 Og jeg vil stemme Ægypterne gunstigt mod dette Folk, så at I, når I drager bort, ikke skal drage bort med tomme Hænder.

22 Enhver Kvinde skal bede sin Naboerske og de Kvinder, som er til Huse hos hende, om Sølv og Guldsmykker og Klæder, og I skal give eders Sønner og Døtre det på. Således skal I tage Bytte fra Ægypterne."

   


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Arcana Coelestia#6854

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6854. 'And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians' means that He would stoop down to them to release them from the power of false factual knowledge, which tries to destroy the truths of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming down' as stooping down, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'to deliver' as to release, for one who releases people from falsities delivers or sets them free; from the meaning of 'the hand' as the power, dealt with in 878, 3387, 3563, 4931-4937, 5544; and from the meaning of 'the Egyptians' as false factual knowledge, which is opposed to the Church's truths, dealt with in 6651, 6679, 6683, and so which tries to destroy them. As regards the Lord's coming down, the situation is that the Lord is said to come or stoop down when He comes to judgement, 1311, and also when He comes down to lower things, in this instance to those belonging to the spiritual Church, who are meant by 'the children of Israel'. For the subject in the internal sense is the way in which those people are molested by falsities, at which time they undergo temptations, and the way in which after that they are set free in order that they may be led into heaven.

[2] But the contents of the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow hold an even deeper mystery which the Church does not yet know about and which must therefore be disclosed. Those who are termed spiritual are people for whom only the understanding part of their mind, not the will part, can be regenerated. In the understanding part of their mind the Lord therefore implants a new will, a will which conforms to the teachings that compose the faith of their Church. These people, that is to say, spiritual ones such as these, were saved solely by the Lord's Coming into the world. The reason why is that the Divine passing through heaven, which was the Divine Human before the Lord's Coming, could not reach them; for to be sure the teachings of their Church were for the most part not truths, and consequently the good in their will was not good either, 6427. Since those people could be saved solely by the Lord's Coming, they could not be raised into heaven before then. They were therefore kept in the meantime on the lower earth, in places there which in the Word are called 'pits'. This lower earth was besieged on every side by the hells where there were falsities, by which they were molested greatly during that time. In spite of this however the Lord protected them. But after the Lord came into the world and made the Human within Himself Divine, He set free those who were in the pits there and raised them to heaven. From these He also formed the spiritual heaven which is the second heaven. This is what is meant by the Lord's descent into the lower parts 1 and by His deliverance of those who had been bound.

[3] This is the even deeper mystery that is described in the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow. See what has been shown already regarding those who are spiritual,

The spiritual are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned, 2708, 2715, 2718, 2831, 2849, 2935, 2937, 3241, 3833, 6289.

Their obscurity is lightened by the Lord's Divine Human, 2716, 4402.

Because they are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned they are under strong attack from the hells; but the Lord is constantly protecting them, 6419.

Those who are spiritual cannot have the will part of their mind regenerated, only the understanding part; and there the Lord forms a new will, 863, 875, 895, 927, 918, 1023, 1043, 1044, 2156, 4328, 4493, 5113.

The spiritual were saved by the Lord's Coming into the world, 2833, 2834, 3969.

[4] Various places in the prophetical part of the Word mention 'the bound' or 'the bound in the pit' and the fact that the Lord delivered them. The bound' should be taken to mean specifically those spoken of just above, as in Isaiah,

I Jehovah have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, because I will guard you, and give you to be a covenant of the people, 2 a light of the nations, to open the blind eyes, to bring the bound out of prison, out of the dungeon-house those who sit in darkness. Isaiah 42:6-7.

In the same prophet,

I have guarded you, and I have given you as covenant of the people - to restore the land; to share out the devastated inheritances; to say to the bound, Go out; to those who are in darkness, Reveal yourselves. They will feed along the ways, and on all slopes will their pasture be. Isaiah 49:8-9.

This plainly refers to the Lord. 'The bound' stands in particular for those who were held back on the lower earth until the Lord's Coming, when they were raised up to heaven, and in general for all who are governed by good, yet are held back as though bound by falsities, from which however they wish to break away.

[5] In Zechariah,

Through the blood of your covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit. Zechariah 9:11.

In Isaiah,

They will surely be gathered together, the bound ones in the pit, and they will be shut up in the dungeon; after a multitude of days they will be visited. Isaiah 24:21.

'The bound ones in the pit' stands for the same people. And in addition to these places the same meaning can be seen from the following words in Isaiah,

Jehovah has anointed Me to bring good tidings to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the broken in heart; to preach liberty to captives, to those who are bound, to him who is blind; to proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure. Isaiah 61:1-2.

And elsewhere,

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; those dwelling in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shone out. Isaiah 9:2.

脚注:

1. i.e. hell

2. 'The Latin means for the people but the Hebrew means of the people, which Swedenborg has in some other places where he quotes this verse.

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