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Exodus第5章

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1 Ja seejärel Mooses ja Aaron tulid ning ütlesid vaaraole: 'Nõnda ütleb Issand, Iisraeli Jumal: Lase mu rahvas minna, et nad kõrbes peaksid mulle püha!'

2 Aga vaarao vastas: 'Kes on Issand, et peaksin kuulama ta sõna ja laskma Iisraeli ära minna? Mina ei tunne Issandat ega lase ka Iisraeli ära minna!'

3 Siis nad ütlesid: 'Heebrealaste Jumal tuli meile vastu. Lase meid minna kolme päeva tee kõrbesse ja ohverdada Issandale, meie Jumalale, et tema meid ei tabaks katku või mõõgaga!'

4 Aga Egiptuse kuningas vastas neile: 'Mooses ja Aaron, mispärast tahate rahva tööst vabastada? Minge oma töökohustuste juurde!'

5 Vaarao mõtles: 'Vaata, arvukas on nüüd maa rahvas, ja teie tahate nad töökohustusest vabastada!'

6 Ja vaarao käskis selsamal päeval rahva sundijaid ja ülevaatajaid, öeldes:

7 'Ärge koguge ega andke enam rahvale õlgi telliskivide tegemiseks nagu varem. Nad mingu ja korjaku ise endile õlgi!

8 Ja telliskivide määr, mis nad tänini on teinud, pange neile peale, ärge seda vähendage, sest nad on laisad! Sellepärast nad kisendavad ja ütlevad: Me tahame minna oma Jumalale ohverdama!

9 Saagu orjus meestele raskemaks, et neil oleks sellega tegemist ega kuulataks valekõnesid!'

10 Ja rahva sundijad ja ülevaatajad läksid välja ning rääkisid rahvaga, öeldes: 'Nõnda ütleb vaarao: Mina ei anna teile enam õlgi.

11 Minge ise, võtke endile õlgi, kust aga leiate, ent teie orjusest ei vähendata midagi!'

12 Siis rahvas hajus üle kogu Egiptusemaa korjama kõrsi õlgede asemel.

13 Ja sundijad kihutasid tagant, öeldes: 'Tehke oma töö valmis, oma igapäevane jagu nagu siis, kui oli õlgi!'

14 Ja Iisraeli laste ülevaatajaid, kes vaarao sundijate poolt olid pandud nende üle, peksti, öeldes: 'Mispärast te ei ole täitnud telliskivide määra endiselt, ei eile ega täna?'

15 Siis Iisraeli laste ülevaatajad tulid ja kisendasid vaarao poole, öeldes: 'Mispärast sa teed oma sulastega nõnda?

16 Õlgi su sulastele ei anta, aga siiski öeldakse meile: Tehke telliskive! Vaata, su sulaseid pekstakse ja su rahvas teeb pattu!'

17 Aga tema vastas: 'Laisad olete! Te olete laisad, seepärast te ütlete: Me tahame minna Issandale ohverdama!

18 Nüüd minge tööle! Õlgi teile ei anta, aga määratud hulga telliskive te peate andma!'

19 Siis Iisraeli laste ülevaatajad nägid endid olevat täbaras olukorras, kui neile öeldi: 'Te ei tohi ühelgi päeval vähendada oma telliskivide päevaosa!'

20 Ja kui nad vaarao juurest tulid, siis nad kohtasid Moosest ja Aaronit, kes olid neid oodanud,

21 ja ütlesid neile: 'Issand karistagu teid ja mõistku kohut, sest te olete meid viinud halba kuulsusesse vaarao ja tema sulaste silmis ja neile mõõga meie tapmiseks kätte andnud!'

22 Siis Mooses pöördus jälle Issanda poole ning ütles: 'Issand, mispärast sa oled sellele rahvale kurja teinud? Milleks sa siis mind oled läkitanud?

23 Alates sellest, kui ma tulin vaarao juurde sinu nimel rääkima, on ta sellele rahvale kurja teinud ja sina ei ole oma rahvast tõesti mitte päästnud!'

   

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Arcana Coelestia#7097

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7097. 'I do not know Jehovah' means that they have no interest in the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'not knowing' as having no interest in, for a person who has no interest in something says that he knows nothing about it; and 'Jehovah' is used to mean the Lord, see above in 7091. The implications of this, of Pharaoh's saying that he does not know Jehovah, are as follows: The Egyptians had known Jehovah since ancient times, the reason being that the Ancient Church had existed in Egypt also, as may be plainly recognized from the fact that they were in possession of the representatives and meaningful signs of that Church. Egyptian hieroglyphics are nothing else, for these served to denote spiritual realities; and people knew that they did in actual fact correspond to those realities. But because they began to use such representatives and signs in their sacred worship, to treat them as objects of worship and also at length to turn them into magic, and in so doing to become linked to the devil's crew in hell, they completely destroyed the Ancient Church among themselves. This is why in the Word 'the Egyptians' means facts known to the Church that have been perverted, and also falsities that are opposed to the truths of the Church.

[2] Once the worship of God had become perverted in this way in Egypt, then they were no longer allowed to worship Jehovah either, or at length even to know that Jehovah had been the God of the Ancient Church; and the reason why this happened was to prevent them from profaning the name of Jehovah. The fact that the name of Jehovah was also known at that time, before it was revealed once again to Abraham's descendants through Moses on Mount Horeb, is plainly evident from Balaam, who was from Syria. He not only knew Jehovah but also worshipped Him and offered sacrifice to Him, Numbers 22-24. From all this one may now see why Pharaoh said, 'Who is Jehovah whose voice I am to hear, [telling me] to send the people away? I do not know Jehovah.'

[3] But since 'Pharaoh' represents those in hell who are steeped in falsities and molest those belonging to the spiritual Church, what is involved in all this needs to be stated. Those in hell who molest members of the spiritual Church consist for the most part of the kind of people who have said that faith alone saves and yet have led a life contrary to faith. And since the life they have led, thus the evil which they have contemplated, planned, and carried out, remains after death of the body, therefore to defend the evils assimilated into their life they either employ the things which they have said were matters of faith or else reject them altogether. But to prevent them from misusing the truths of faith, these are taken away from them. And when those truths have been taken they seize on falsities, which are completely contrary to the truths of faith, and then use the falsities to molest those guided by truths. Doing this is then for them the delight of life. Quite a number of them, to acquire power, also learn magic. This is done by those who used various tricks which they devised in the world to deceive their neighbour, and being successful then attributed everything to their own prudence.

[4] Those who have become like this acknowledge the Father as the Creator of all things, but they do not acknowledge the Lord. Regarding the Lord they use similar words to Pharaoh's here regarding Jehovah, 'Who is Jehovah? I do not know Jehovah'. Indeed just as the whole sphere pervading heaven is full of an acknowledgement of and love for the Lord, so the whole sphere pervading the hells is full of a denial of the Lord and of hatred towards Him. Nor can they bear to hear His name mentioned. Those in hell are by nature such that admonitions and threats do not make them leave off, so great is the delight of their life to molest the upright and draw them away from their acknowledgement of the Lord and faith in Him. That delight is intensified by the admonitions they receive to leave off, for they lead them to imagine that those whom they molest will shortly be done for. These are the ones whom 'Pharaoh' and 'the Egyptians' are used to mean specifically.

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