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出エジプト記第24章

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1 また、モーセに言われた、「あなたはアロン、ナダブ、アビウおよびイスラエルの七十人の長老たちと共に、主のもとにのぼってきなさい。そしてあなたがたは遠く離れて礼拝しなさい。

2 ただモーセひとりがに近づき、他の者は近づいてはならない。また、民も彼と共にのぼってはならない」。

3 モーセはきて、主のすべての言葉と、すべてのおきてとを民に告げた。民はみな同音に答えて言った、「わたしたちは主の仰せられた言葉を皆、行います」。

4 そしてモーセ主の言葉を、ことごとく書きしるし、はやく起きてのふもとに祭壇を築き、イスラエルの十二部族に従って十二の柱を建て、

5 イスラエルの人々のうちの若者たちをつかわして、に燔祭をささげさせ、また酬恩祭として雄牛をささげさせた。

6 その時モーセはそのの半ばを取って、鉢に入れ、また、そのの半ばを祭壇に注ぎかけた。

7 そして契約の書を取って、これを民に読み聞かせた。すると、彼らは答えて言った、「わたしたちはが仰せられたことを皆、従順に行います」。

8 そこでモーセはそのを取って、民に注ぎかけ、そして言った、「見よ、これはがこれらのすべての言葉に基いて、あなたがたと結ばれる契約のである」。

9 こうしてモーセはアロン、ナダブ、アビウおよびイスラエルの七十人の長老たちと共にのぼって行った。

10 そして、彼らがイスラエルの見ると、その下にはサファイアの敷石のごとき物があり、澄み渡るおおぞらのようであった。

11 イスラエルの人々の指導者たちをにかけられなかったので、彼らはを見て、飲み食いした。

12 ときにモーセに言われた、「に登り、わたしの所にきて、そこにいなさい。彼らを教えるために、わたしが律法と戒めとを書きしるした石の板をあなたに授けるであろう」。

13 そこでモーセは従者ヨシュアと共に立ちあがり、モーセ神のに登った。

14 彼は長老たちに言った、「わたしたちがあなたがたの所に帰って来るまで、ここで待っていなさい。見よ、アロンとホルとが、あなたがたと共にいるから、事ある者は、だれでも彼らの所へ行きなさい」。

15 こうしてモーセに登ったが、をおおっていた。

16 主の栄光がシナイの上にとどまり、のあいだ、をおおっていたが、七目にの中からモーセ呼ばれた

17 主の栄光はの頂で、燃えるのようにイスラエルの人々のに見えたが、

18 モーセの中にはいって、に登った。そしてモーセ四十四十にいた。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#9404

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9404. 'And seventy of the elders of Israel' means all who are governed by good which results from truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'seventy' as that which is complete, thus all things or all people, dealt with in 6508; and from the meaning of 'the elders of Israel' as those who are governed by good which results from truths and guided by truths which flow from good. For 'elders' in the Word means those with wisdom, 6524, thus those who lead a good life as a result of teachings declaring what is true; and 'Israel' means those who belong to the spiritual Church, 6426, 6637, 6862, 6868, 7035, 7062, 7198, 7201, 7215, 7223, 8805, 9340, thus those who are guided by truths that lead to good and governed by good from which truths flow, 7957, 8234. From all this it is evident that 'seventy elders of Israel' means those who are governed by good which results from truths, and that in the sense detached from persons that good itself is meant. The same is meant in the internal sense by 'the Lord's seventy disciples', Luke 10:1, 17. The children of Israel were divided into twelve tribes, which had twelve princes or governors set in authority over them, and also seventy elders. 'The twelve tribes' meant all the truths and forms of good the Church possesses in their entirety, 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335, 6337, 6397, 6640, 7836, 7891, 7996, 7997; but 'the twelve princes' meant all the primary truths, 5044, and 'the seventy elders' all the forms of good resulting from truths.

[2] When the expression 'good which results from truths' is used the spiritual Church is meant; for this Church is governed by good resulting from truths. Anyone unacquainted with the arcana of the Church and of heaven may think that, since good cannot be implanted except through truths, all the good in the Church exists as a result of truths, indeed that a person cannot know what good is except through truths. However, the good which arises through truths is the spiritual Church's good, which regarded in itself is truth but is called good when it becomes part of will and action, and consequently of life. But good that does not arise through truths but through forms of the good of mutual love is the celestial Church's good, which regarded in itself is not truth but good since it is the good of love to the Lord. The Jewish Church represented this second kind of good, whereas the Israelite Church represented the first; and this accounts for their division into two kingdoms. For what the essential difference is between those two Churches and consequently the two kinds of good, see what has been shown already in 2048, 2227, 2669, 2708 (end), 2715, 2718, 2935, 2937, 2954, 3166, 3235, 3236, 3240, 3246, 3374, 3833, 3887, 3969, 4138, 4286, 4493, 4585, 4938, 5113, 5150, 5922, 6289, 6296, 6366, 6427, 6435, 6500, 6647, 6648, 7091, 7233, 7877, 7977, 7992, 8042, 8152, 8234, 8521. From what has been introduced in these paragraphs it becomes clear that the Lord's heaven is divided into a spiritual heaven and a celestial heaven, and that the celestial heaven is the inmost or third heaven, while the spiritual heaven is the middle or second.

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