圣经文本

 

Shemot第19章

学习

   

1 בחדש השלישי לצאת בני־ישראל מארץ מצרים ביום הזה באו מדבר סיני׃

2 ויסעו מרפידים ויבאו מדבר סיני ויחנו במדבר ויחן־שם ישראל נגד ההר׃

3 ומשה עלה אל־האלהים ויקרא אליו יהוה מן־ההר לאמר כה תאמר לבית יעקב ותגיד לבני ישראל׃

4 אתם ראיתם אשר עשיתי למצרים ואשא אתכם על־כנפי נשרים ואבא אתכם אלי׃

5 ועתה אם־שמוע תשמעו בקלי ושמרתם את־בריתי והייתם לי סגלה מכל־העמים כי־לי כל־הארץ׃

6 ואתם תהיו־לי ממלכת כהנים וגוי קדוש אלה הדברים אשר תדבר אל־בני ישראל׃

7 ויבא משה ויקרא לזקני העם וישם לפניהם את כל־הדברים האלה אשר צוהו יהוה׃

8 ויענו כל־העם יחדו ויאמרו כל אשר־דבר יהוה נעשה וישב משה את־דברי העם אל־יהוה׃

9 ויאמר יהוה אל־משה הנה אנכי בא אליך בעב העןן בעבור ישמע העם בדברי עמך וגם־בך יאמינו לעולם ויגד משה את־דברי העם אל־יהוה׃

10 ויאמר יהוה אל־משה לך אל־העם וקדשתם היום ומחר וכבסו שמלתם׃

11 והיו נכנים ליום השלישי כי ביום השלישי ירד יהוה לעיני כל־העם על־הר סיני׃

12 והגבלת את־העם סביב לאמר השמרו לכם עלות בהר ונגע בקצהו כל־הנגע בהר מות יומת׃

13 לא־תגע בו יד כי־סקול יסקל או־ירה יירה אם־בהמה אם־איש לא יחיה במשך היבל המה יעלו בהר׃

14 וירד משה מן־ההר אל־העם ויקדש את־העם ויכבסו שמלתם׃

15 ויאמר אל־העם היו נכנים לשלשת ימים אל־תגשו אל־אשה׃

16 ויהי ביום השלישי בהית הבקר ויהי קלת וברקים ועןן כבד על־ההר וקל שפר חזק מאד ויחרד כל־העם אשר במחנה׃

17 ויוצא משה את־העם לקראת האלהים מן־המחנה ויתיצבו בתחתית ההר׃

18 והר סיני עשן כלו מפני אשר ירד עליו יהוה באש ויעל עשנו כעשן הכבשן ויחרד כל־ההר מאד׃

19 ויהי* קול השופר הולך וחזק מאד משה ידבר והאלהים יעננו בקול׃

20 וירד יהוה על־הר סיני אל־ראש ההר ויקרא יהוה למשה אל־ראש ההר ויעל משה׃

21 ויאמר יהוה אל־משה רד העד בעם פן־יהרסו אל־יהוה לראות ונפל ממנו רב׃

22 וגם הכהנים הנגשים אל־יהוה יתקדשו פן־יפרץ בהם יהוה׃

23 ויאמר משה אל־יהוה לא־יוכל העם לעלת אל־הר סיני כי־אתה העדתה בנו לאמר הגבל את־ההר וקדשתו׃

24 ויאמר אליו יהוה לך־רד ועלית אתה ואהרן עמך והכהנים והעם אל־יהרסו לעלת אל־יהוה פן־יפרץ־בם׃

25 וירד משה אל־העם ויאמר אלהם׃ ס

   

来自斯威登堡的著作

 

Arcana Coelestia#8773

学习本章节

  
/10837  
  

8773. 'And Moses came and called the elders of the people' means the choice of those who ranked first in the understanding of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'calling to oneself' as choosing; and from the meaning of 'the elders of the people' as those who rank first in the understanding of truth, or - in the sense completely separate from actual persons - leading truths, dealt with in 6524, 6525, 6890, 8578, 8585. The implications of all this are as follows: People governed by the kind of good that is the subject in the present chapter - that is, good that has not as yet received truths to give it form - are reformed by the Lord first by means of leading truths, that is, by general truths, which contain and are the source of all other truths. Leading truths are these: God is one; the Lord was born a human being in order that the human race might be saved; heaven exists, and hell; those who have led a good life enter heaven, and those who have led a bad one enter hell; love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour are the commandments on which all others hang; and only through faith can this love exist. These and others like them are the leading truths which the Lord first instills into the good present with a person who is being regenerated. When these truths have been instilled into the good and become the truths of good, all other truths are instilled. They are arranged into order within and beneath those general or leading truths, and are in keeping with the form that heaven takes. Thus by degrees they enable the life of heaven to exist in that person, who is then so to speak a miniature heaven; that is, they enable all that composes his understanding and that constitutes his will to be linked to the forms of good and the truths residing with angels, and so to the angels themselves.

  
/10837  
  

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

圣经文本

 

Genesis第50章

学习

   

1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and Bury my father, and I will come again.'"

6 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."

16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,

17 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

19 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

21 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.

24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

25 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.