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2 Mosebok第11章

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1 Herren hadde sagt til Moses: Ennu én plage vil jeg la komme over Farao og over Egypten, så skal han la eder fare herfra; ja, når han lar eder fare, skal han endog drive eder herfra med alt det I har.

2 Si nu så folket hører det at hver mann skal be sin granne og hver kvinne sin grannekvinne om smykker av sølv og gull.

3 Og Herren gav folket yndest hos egypterne; og så var også Moses en meget stor mann i Egypten, både for Faraos tjenere og for folket.

4 Og Moses sa: Så sier Herren: Ved midnatts tid vil jeg gå midt gjennem Egypten.

5 og alle førstefødte i Egyptens land skal , fra den førstefødte sønn av Farao, som sitter på sin trone, til den førstefødte sønn av trælkvinnen, som står bak håndkvernen, og alt førstefødt blandt buskapen.

6 Og det skal i hele Egyptens land bli et stort skrik som det ikke har vært maken til og heller ikke mere skal bli.

7 Men ikke en hund skal gjø mot nogen av Israels barn, hverken mot folk eller fe, så I skal kjenne at Herren gjør forskjell på egypterne og Israel.

8 Da skal alle disse dine tjenere komme ned til mig og bøie sig for mig og si: Dra ut, både du og hele det folk som følger dig! Og så skal jeg dra ut. Og han gikk bort fra Farao i brennende harme.

9 Som Herren hadde sagt til Moses og Aron: Farao skal ikke høre på eder, så jeg kan få gjort mange under i Egyptens land,

10 så gjorde Moses og Aron alle disse under for Farao; men Herren forherdet Faraos hjerte, så han ikke lot Israels barn dra bort fra sitt land.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#7796

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7796. 'And Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh' means that these stages of vastation, and the consequent corroborations that they are ruled by evil, were brought about by the truth emanating from God. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses and Aaron' as God's truth, 'Moses' truth that emanates directly from God, and 'Aaron' that which does so indirectly, dealt with in 7010, 7089, 7382; and from the meaning of 'the wonders' performed in Egypt or belonging to the Church who have led an evil life. The fact that those things are depicted by the wonders of Egypt may be recognized from the meaning of each wonder. And for the fact that they also depict corroborations that those people do not have faith but are ruled by evil, see immediately above in 7795. It says that 'Moses and Aaron performed these wonders', when in fact they were not Performed by them but by God. But what happened has been stated in that way because God's truth is represented by 'Moses and Aaron', and the wonders were performed by God through the truth emanating from Himself, since all that God Himself performs is performed through the truth emanating from Him. God Himself is the Being (Esse) of all things, but the truth emanating from Him is the Coming-into-Being (Existere) of all things, which rises out of His Being. Good itself, which is God's Being (Esse), brings forth all things by means of its Truth. It is said that the stages of vastation were brought about by the truth emanating from God; but it should be understood that Divine Truth is not the cause of them since God subjects no one to vastation. Rather, an evil person subjects himself to it through obstinate opposition to God's truth by eliminating, rejecting, or perverting it, and through turning God's goodness, which flows in unceasingly, into evil. This then is what subjects him to vastation; and from this it is evident where the cause of it lies, not in the inflow of goodness and truth from God - for unless they inflow life is non-existent - but in their conversion to evil and falsity, committed by the person who is ruled by evil.

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