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2 Mose第17章

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1 Und die ganze Gemeinde der Kinder Israel brach auf aus der Wüste Sin, nach ihren Zügen, (Eig. eisestationen; and. üb.: zu ihren Zügen) nach dem Befehl Jehovas; und sie lagerten sich zu ephidim; und da war kein Wasser zum Trinken für das Volk.

2 Und das Volk haderte mit Mose, und sie sprachen: Gebet uns Wasser, daß wir trinken! Und Mose sprach zu ihnen: Was hadert ihr mit mir? Was versuchet ihr Jehova?

3 Und das Volk dürstete daselbst nach Wasser, und das Volk murrte wider Mose und sprach: Warum doch hast du uns aus Ägypten heraufgeführt, um mich und meine Kinder und mein Vieh vor Durst sterben zu lassen?

4 Da schrie Mose zu Jehova und sprach: Was soll ich mit diesem Volke tun? Noch ein wenig, und sie steinigen mich.

5 Und Jehova sprach zu Mose: Gehe hin vor dem Volke, und nimm mit dir von den Ältesten Israels; und deinen Stab, womit du den Strom geschlagen hast, nimm in deine Hand und gehe hin.

6 Siehe, ich will daselbst vor dir stehen auf dem Felsen am Horeb; und du sollst auf den Felsen schlagen, und es wird Wasser aus demselben herauskommen, daß das Volk trinke. Und Mose tat also vor den Augen der Ältesten Israels.

7 Und er gab dem Orte den Namen Massa (Versuchung) und Meriba, (Hader) wegen des Haderns der Kinder Israel und weil sie Jehova versucht hatten, indem sie sagten: Ist Jehova in unserer Mitte oder nicht?

8 Und es kam Amalek und stritt wider Israel in ephidim.

9 Und Mose sprach zu Josua: (H. Jehoschua: Jehova ist ettung (Griech. Jesus); vergl. 4. Mose 13,16) Erwähle uns Männer und ziehe aus, streite wider Amalek; morgen will ich auf dem Gipfel des Hügels stehen, mit dem Stabe Gottes in meiner Hand.

10 Und Josua tat, wie Mose ihm gesagt hatte, um wider Amalek zu streiten; und Mose, Aaron und Hur stiegen auf den Gipfel des Hügels.

11 Und es geschah, wenn Mose seine Hand erhob, so hatte Israel die Oberhand, und wenn er seine Hand ruhen ließ, so hatte Amalek die Oberhand.

12 Und die Hände Moses wurden schwer. Da nahmen sie einen Stein und legten denselben unter ihn, und er setzte sich darauf; und Aaron und Hur unterstützten seine Hände, hier einer und dort einer; und so waren seine Hände fest, bis die Sonne unterging.

13 Und Josua streckte Amalek und sein Volk nieder mit der Schärfe des Schwertes. -

14 Und Jehova sprach zu Mose: Schreibe dieses zum Gedächtnis in ein (O. das) Buch, und lege in die Ohren Josuas, daß ich das Gedächtnis Amaleks gänzlich unter dem Himmel austilgen werde.

15 Und Mose baute einen Altar und gab ihm den Namen: Jehova, mein Panier! (H. Jahwe-Nissi)

16 Und er sprach: Denn die Hand ist (O. sprach: Die Hand ist) am Throne Jahs: (d. h. zum Schwur) Krieg hat Jehova wider Amalek von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht!

   

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8573. 'And Moses cried out to Jehovah, [saying]' means deep grief, and intercession. This is clear from the meaning of 'crying out' - when it refers to the Divine aid which the people demanded in their misery and grief - as deep grief, as also previously in 7782, and intercession, as in 8179. Since 'Moses cried out to Jehovah' means intercession by Divine Truth, which 'Moses' represents, what intercession is and the nature of it must be stated briefly. People who do not know what intercession is can have no other conception of it than this, that the Lord constantly prays to the Father and intercedes for the sinner who pleads in a devout manner and promises to repent. Indeed the simple think that the Lord sits with the Father and speaks to Him about a sinner, asking the Father to give Him that sinner to be in His kingdom and possess eternal happiness. An idea such as this is what very many have about intercession referred to in the Word, where it says that the Lord will entreat the Father on their behalf. But who can fail to see that human ways of thinking were being used in what was said? For everyone at that time, like very many also at the present day, could think of a heavenly kingdom only as they think of an earthly kingdom. The latter serves them to gain an idea of the former. This is plainly evident from the Lord's apostles themselves - from James and John, who asked to sit one on His right, the other on His left in His kingdom, Mark 10:35-37; and also from the rest of the apostles, among whom a quarrel arose over which of them was to be greatest in His kingdom, and to whom the Lord said that they would eat and drink at His table in His kingdom, and that they would sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel, Luke 22:24, 30, and therefore that they would reign with Him. The things He said, it is evident, were adapted to their way of thinking and so to their ability to grasp them; but in the interior sense those things had a different meaning, which could not be made known at that time. What twelve thrones with the apostles seated on them mean, see 2129, 6397.

[2] As regards the nature of intercession, all love holds intercession within it, and so does all mercy since mercy is the characteristic of love. Anyone who has love or who has mercy is interceding constantly, as the following examples demonstrate: The husband who loves his wife wishes her to be well-received and well-treated by others. He does not express his wish in actual words, but it is constantly in his thinking, so that he is silently requesting it and interceding for her. Parents do the same thing for their children whom they love. It is likewise what a person governed by charity does for his neighbour, and what one moved by friendship does for a friend. These examples show that intercession is present unceasingly in all love. The same is true of the Lord's intercession for the human race, especially for those with whom the goodness and truth of faith are present; for towards them Divine - that is, infinite - love is shown, and Divine - that is, infinite - mercy. Not that the Lord prays to the Father for them and intercedes in that way; for then He would be acting in an entirely human manner. Rather He is constantly excusing and constantly forgiving, because He is constantly showing mercy; this the Lord Himself is doing since the Lord and the Father are one, John 14:8-12.

[3] An arcanum that lies even more deeply concealed within the word 'intercession' must also be mentioned. Divine Truth which emanates from the Lord intercedes constantly in such a way because it emanates from Divine Love. While the Lord was in the world He was Divine Truth; but now that He has been glorified, which was accomplished when He rose again, He is Divine Good, 7499. Divine Good is what is meant in the Word in the internal sense by 'the Father', and Divine Truth by 'the Son', 2803, 3704, 7499. And since Divine Truth, which emanates from Divine Good, holds constant intercession within it, the Son is said to entreat the Father and to intercede for a person. People were able to grasp the latter notion of the Son, but the former idea of Divine Truth only with difficulty.

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