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Exodus第34章

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1 Derpå sagde HE EN til Moses: "Tilhug dig to Stentavler ligesom de forrige, så vil jeg på Tavlerne skrive de samme Ord, som stod på de forrige Tavler, du slog i Stykker.

2 Gør dig så rede til i Morgen, stig om Morgenen op på Sinaj Bjerg og stil dig hen og vent på mig der på Bjergets Top.

3 Ingen må følge med dig derop, og ingen må vise sig noget Sted på Bjerget, end ikke Småkvæg eller Hornkvæg må græsse i Nærheden af dette Bjerg."

4 Da tilhuggede han to Stentavler ligesom de forrige, og tidligt næste Morgen steg Moses op på Sinaj Bjerg, som Gud havde pålagt ham, og tog de to Stentavler med sig.

5 Da steg HE EN ned i Skyen; og Moses stillede sig hos ham der og påkaldte HE ENs Navn.

6 Og HE EN gik forbi ham og råbte: "HE EN, HE EN, Gud, som er barmhjertig og nådig, langmodig og rig på Miskundhed og Trofasthed,

7 som bevarer Miskundhed mod Tusinder, som tilgiver Brøde, Overtrædelse og Synd, men ikke lader den skyldige ustraffet, som straffer Fædres Brøde på Børn og Børnebørn, på dem i tredje og fjerde Led!"

8 Da bøjede Moses sig hastelig til Jorden, tilbad

9 og sagde: "Har jeg fundet Nåde for dine Øjne, Herre, så drage min Herre med i vor Midte; thi det er et halsstarrigt Folk. Men tilgiv vor Brøde og vor Synd og lad os være din Ejendom!"

10 Han sagde: "Se, jeg vil slutte en Pagt; i hele dit Folks Påsyn vil jeg gøre Undere, som aldrig før er sket nogensteds på Jorden og blandt noget Folkeslag, og hele det Folk, i hvis Midte du lever, skal Se HE ENs Værk; thi det, jeg vil udføre ved dig, er forfærdeligt.

11 Hold dig det efterrettelig, som jeg i Dag byder dig! Se, jeg vil drive Amoriterne, Kana'anæerne, Hetiterne, Perizziterne, Hivviterne og Jebusiterne bort foran dig!

12 Vogt dig vel for at slutte nogen Pagt med Indbyggerne i det Land, du kommer til, for at de ikke skal blive en Snare for dig, når de lever i din Midte.

13 Men I skal nedbryde deres Altre, sønderslå deres Stenstøtter og omhugge deres Asjerastøtter!

14 Thi du må ikke tilbede nogen anden Gud, thi "Nidkær" er HE ENs Navn, nidkær Gud er han.

15 Du må ikke slutte Pagt med Landets Indbyggere, og når de boler med deres Guder og ofrer til dem og man indbyder dig til at være med, må du ikke spise af deres Ofre;

16 og du må ikke af deres Døtre tage Hustruer til dine Sønner, så deres Døtre, når de boler med deres Guder, får dine Sønner til også at bole med dem.

17 Du må ikke gøre dig noget støbt Gudebillede.

18 Du skal lejre de usyrede Brøds Højtid; i syv Dage skal du spise usyret Brød, som jeg har pålagt dig, lå den fastsatte Tid i Abib Måned, thi i Abib Måned drog du ud af Ægypten.

19 Alt førstefødt tilhører mig; af dine Hjorde skal du ofre mig det førstefødte af Handyrene, både af Okset og småt Kvæg;

20 men de førstefødte Æsler skal du udløse med et Stykke småt Kvæg, og hvis du ikke udløser det, skal du sønderbryde Halsen derpå; alle dine førstefødte Sønner skal du udløse. Du må ikke stedes for mit Åsyn med tomme Hænder

21 I seks Dage må du arbejde, men på den syvende skal du hvile; i Pløje og Høsttiden skal du holde Hviledag.

22 Du skal fejre Ugehøjtid med Førstegrøden af Hvedehøsten og Frugthøsthøjtid ved Jævndøgnstide.

23 Tre Gange om Året skal alle at Mandkøn hos dig stedes for den Herre HE EN Israels Guds Åsyn.

24 Thi jeg vil drive Folkeslag bort foran dig og gøre dine Landemærker vide, og ingen skal attrå dit Land, medens du drager hen for at stedes for HE EN din Guds Åsyn tre Gange 01n Året.

25 Du må ikke ofre Blodet af mit offer sammen med syret Brød. Påskehøjtidens Offer må ikke gemmes til næste Morgen.

26 Det bedste af din Jords Førstegrøde skal du bringe til HE EN din Guds Hus. Du må ikke koge et Hid i dets Moders Mælk!"

27 Og HE EN sagde til Moses: "Skriv disse Ord op, thi på Grundlag af disse Ord slutter jeg Pagt med dig og Israel."

28 Og han blev der hos HE EN fyrretyve Dage og fyrretyve Nætter uden at spise eller drikke; og han skrev Pagtsordene, de ti Ord, på Tavlerne.

29 Da Moses steg ned fra Sinaj Bjerg med Vidnesbyrdets to Tavler i Hånden, vidste han ikke, at hans Ansigts Hud var kommet til at stråle, ved at han talede med ham.

30 Men Aron og alle Israeliterne så Moses, og se, hans Ansigts Hud strålede, og de turde ikke komme ham nær.

31 Men Moses kaldte på dem, og da vendte Aron og alle Menighedens Øverster tilbage til ham, og Moses talte til dem.

32 Derpå kom alle Israeliterne hen til ham, og han pålagde dem alt, hvad HE EN havde talet til ham på Sinaj Bjerg.

33 Men da Moses var færdig med at tale til dem, lagde han et Dække over sit Ansigt.

34 Hver Gang han derefter trådte frem for HE ENs Åsyn for at tale med ham, tog han Sløret af, indtil han kom ud igen; og når han kom ud, meddelte han Israeliterne, hvad der var blevet ham påbudt.

35 Da så Israeliterne, at Moses's Ansigts Hud strålede; og Moses lagde da Dækket over sit Ansigt, indtil han atter gik ind for at tale med ham.

   


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Arcana Coelestia#6306

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6306. 'Which I took out of the hand of the Amorite' means because of the victory over evil. This is clear from the representation of 'the Amorite' as evil, dealt with in 1857; and from the meaning of 'taking out of the hand' as acquiring through victory. As regards 'the Amorites', it should be recognized that they mean evil, just as 'the Canaanites' and all the other nations in the land that are mentioned in the Word mean various kinds of evil and also of falsity. Such things were represented by the nations when the children of Israel were taking possession of the land of Canaan. The reason for this was that whenever the children of Israel represented the things of heaven those nations represented the things of hell; thus the land of Canaan represented every state that exists in the next life. Also, because the nations represented the things of hell they were utterly destroyed; and entrance into any treaty with those who might remain was forbidden.

[2] The action of the children of Israel, of their taking possession of and dwelling in the land of those who represented the hells, was representative. It represented what happened around the time of the Lord's Coming, when spirits from hell had possession of a large part of heaven but He, by coming into the world and making the human within Himself Divine, cast them out of there and down into hell, and thereby delivered heaven from them, which He then gave as an inheritance to those who belonged to His spiritual kingdom.

[3] The representation of the Amorite nation as evil in general is evident from the places where it is referred to, as in Ezekiel, Thus said the Lord Jehovih to Jerusalem, 1 Your tradings and your births are of the land of the Canaanite. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. Ezekiel 16:3, 45.

'Father' in the internal sense means the Church's good, or in the contrary sense evil, and 'mother' means the Church's truth, or in the contrary sense falsity; and this is why it is said, 'Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite'.

[4] In Amos,

I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and whose strength was like the oaks. I led you in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. Amos 2:9-10.

Here also 'the Amorite' stands for evil, for the evil of self-love is described by 'the height of the cedars' and 'the strength of an oak'. The reason why 'the Amorite' means evil in general is that the entire land of Canaan was called 'the land of the Amorite'; for it says, 'I led you in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite'. In addition the second Book of Kings says,

Manasseh king of Judah did what was evil, greater than all the evil which the Amorites did, who were before him. 2 Kings 21:11.

[5] 'With my sword' means through truth engaged in conflict. This is clear from the meaning of 'sword' as truth engaged in conflict, dealt with in 2799, 4499.

'And my bow' means received from doctrine. This is clear from the meaning of 'bow' as doctrine, dealt with in 2686, 2709.

[6] The words used here, 'the portion which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow' were, it is quite evident, uttered by Israel on account of the internal sense; for Jacob did not take that portion from the Amorite with sword or bow. He bought it from the sons of Hamor, as is evident from Genesis 33, where these words occur, Jacob came to Salem, the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, as he was coming from Paddan Aram; and he encamped towards the face of the city. And he bought the portion of the field where he had stretched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs. Genesis 33:18-19.

The fact that this field was the portion he gave to Joseph is clear in Joshua,

The bones of Joseph which the children of Israel caused to be brought up out of Egypt they buried in Shechem, in the part of the field which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs; and they had become an inheritance for the children of Joseph. Joshua 24:32.

From this it is evident that the portion had been bought, and that this is what was given to Joseph. Nor was the city of Shechem nearby meant, the city in which Simeon and Levi killed every male and which they took with the sword, Genesis 34. This is made clear by the fact that Jacob detested what they did and for that reason cursed Simeon and Levi, completely dissociating himself from the crime. He said,

Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of violence are their swords. Into their secret place let my soul not come; in their congregation let not my glory be united; for in their anger they killed a man, and in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was hard. 2 I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:5-7.

From all this it may now be seen that the words 'the portion which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow' were uttered by him, when the spirit of prophecy rested on him, for the sake of the internal sense.

脚注:

1. The Latin means O Jerusalem but the Hebrew means to Jerusalem, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse (and possibly in his rough draft here).

2. i.e. cruel

  
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Arcana Coelestia#2709

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2709. 'And was an archer' means the member of the spiritual Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'darts, arrows, or shafts' as truth, and from the meaning of 'a bow' as doctrine, dealt with above in 2686. The member of the spiritual Church was in former times called 'an archer' because such a member uses truths to defend himself, and discusses truths, unlike the member of the celestial Church who is protected by good and does not discuss truths, see above in 2708. The truths which the member of the spiritual Church uses to defend himself and which he discusses are derived from the doctrine he acknowledges.

[2] The fact that the spiritual man was in former times called 'an archer' and 'a bowman', and that doctrine was called a bow and a quiver, and the truths of doctrine, or rather matters of doctrine, were called arrows, darts, and shafts, is further clear in David,

The children of Ephraim who were armed (they were archers) turned back on the day of battle. Psalms 78:9.

'Ephraim' stands for the intellectual side of the Church. In the Book of Judges,

You who ride white she-asses, you who sit on Middin, 1 and you who walk along the way, may you ponder. From the voice of the bowmen among those drawing water, there they will discuss the righteous acts of Jehovah, the righteous acts of His village in Israel. Judges 5:10-11.

In Isaiah.

Jehovah called me from the womb, from my mother's body 2 He made mention of my name and set my mouth like a sharp sword. In the shadow of His hand He hid me and turned me into a polished arrow; in His quiver He hid me, and He said to me, You are My servant Israel, for I will be glorified in you. Isaiah 49:1-3.

'Israel' stands for the spiritual Church.

[3] In David,

Like arrows in the hand of a powerful man so are the children of the days of one's youth. Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. Psalms 127:4-5.

'A quiver' stands for the doctrine of good and truth. In Habakkuk,

The sun, the moon, stood still in their place. At the light of Your arrows they will go, at the flash of Your glittering spear. Habakkuk 3:11.

In the reference to Joash king of Israel who at Elisha's command shot the arrow from the bow through the window, with Elisha saying as he shot it, Jehovah's arrow of salvation, Jehovah's arrow of salvation against the Syrian, 2 Kings 13:16-18, arcana to do with the doctrine of good and truth are meant.

[4] Since most things in the Word also possess a contrary sense, darts, arrows, shafts, bows, and archers accordingly possess such. In that contrary sense they mean falsities, doctrine that teaches what is false, and those who are under the influence of falsity, as in Moses,

The son of a fruitful one is Joseph, the son of a fruitful one beside a spring, O daughters, 3 he trails over the wall; and they bitterly grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him did the archers. Genesis 49:22-23.

In Jeremiah,

They shot with their tongue, their bow is a bow of lies and not used for truth. Their tongue is a shaft extended; it speaks deceit. Jeremiah 9:3, 8.

In David,

They sharpened their tongue like a sword, they aimed their shaft, a bitter word, to shoot in secret places at the upright; they will shoot suddenly and will not fear him. They will make strong for themselves an evil matter; they will tell of laying snares secretly. Psalms 64:3-5.

In the same author,

Behold, the evil bend the bow, they make ready their shaft upon the string, to shoot in thick darkness itself at the upright in heart. Psalms 11:2.

In the same author,

His truth is a shield and buckler; you will not be afraid of the terror of the night, of the shaft that flies by day. Psalms 91:4-5.

脚注:

1. A Hebrew word, the meaning of which is uncertain.

2. literally, viscera

3. The Latin means beside the daughters' spring, but the Hebrew appears to mean beside a spring, O daughters, which Swedenborg has in the chapter explaining Genesis 49.

  
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