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1 Sitten Herra sanoi Moosekselle: "Mene faraon tykö ja puhu hänelle: 'Näin sanoo Herra, hebrealaisten Jumala: Päästä minun kansani palvelemaan minua.

2 Sillä jos kieltäydyt päästämästä heitä ja vielä pidätät heitä,

3 niin katso, Herran käsi on lyövä sinun karjaasi, joka on kedolla, hevosia, aaseja, kameleita, nautoja ja lampaita ylen ankaralla ruttotaudilla.

4 Mutta Herra on tekevä erotuksen israelilaisten karjan ja egyptiläisten karjan välillä, niin ettei mitään kuole siitä, mikä on israelilaisten omaa.'"

5 Ja Herra asetti määrätyn ajan ja sanoi: "Huomenna on Herra tekevä niin tässä maassa".

6 Ja seuraavana päivänä Herra teki niin, ja kaikki Egyptin karja kuoli; mutta israelilaisten karjasta ei kuollut ainoatakaan.

7 Ja kun farao lähetti tiedustelemaan, niin katso, israelilaisten karjasta ei ollut kuollut ainoatakaan. Mutta faraon sydän kovettui, eikä hän päästänyt kansaa.

8 Sitten Herra sanoi Moosekselle ja Aaronille: "Ottakaa kahmalonne täyteen pätsin nokea, ja Mooses viskatkoon sen taivasta kohti faraon silmien edessä,

9 niin se muuttuu tomuksi, joka peittää koko Egyptin maan, ja siitä tulee ihmisiin ja karjaan märkäpaiseita kaikkialla Egyptin maassa".

10 Ja he ottivat pätsin nokea ja astuivat faraon eteen, ja Mooses viskasi sen taivasta kohti; niin märkäpaiseita tuli ihmisiin ja karjaan.

11 Eivätkä tietäjätkään voineet pitää puoliaan Moosesta vastaan paiseiden tähden, sillä paiseita oli tietäjissä samoin kuin kaikissa muissakin egyptiläisissä.

12 Mutta Herra paadutti faraon sydämen, niin ettei hän kuullut heitä, niinkuin Herra oli sanonutkin Moosekselle.

13 Sitten Herra sanoi Moosekselle: "Astu huomenaamuna varhain faraon eteen ja sano hänelle: 'Näin sanoo Herra, hebrealaisten Jumala: Päästä minun kansani palvelemaan minua.

14 Muutoin minä tällä kertaa lähetän kaikki vitsaukseni vaivaamaan sinua itseäsi, sinun palvelijoitasi ja kansaasi, tietääksesi, ettei ketään ole minun vertaistani koko maan päällä.

15 Sillä minä olisin jo ojentanut käteni ja lyönyt sinua ja sinun kansaasi ruttotaudilla, niin että olisit kokonaan hävinnyt maan päältä,

16 mutta juuri sitä varten minä olen antanut sinun säilyä, että näyttäisin sinulle voimani ja että minun nimeni julistettaisiin kaiken maan päällä.

17 Jos sinä vielä estät minun kansaani etkä päästä heitä,

18 niin katso, huomenna tähän aikaan minä annan tulla ylen ankaran raesateen, jonka kaltaista ei ole Egyptissä ollut siitä päivästä saakka, jona sen perustus pantiin, aina tähän asti.

19 Lähetä siis nyt saattamaan suojaan karjasi ja kaikki, mitä sinulla on kedolla. Sillä kaikki ihmiset ja karja, jotka ovat kedolla ja joita ei ole korjattu kotiin, joutuvat raesateen alle ja kuolevat.'"

20 Se faraon palvelijoista, joka pelkäsi Herran sanaa, toimitti silloin palvelijansa ja karjansa huoneiden suojaan;

21 mutta joka ei välittänyt Herran sanasta, se jätti palvelijansa ja karjansa kedolle.

22 Ja Herra sanoi Moosekselle: "Ojenna kätesi taivasta kohti, niin raesade kohtaa koko Egyptin maata, ihmisiä, karjaa ja kaikkia kedon kasveja Egyptin maassa".

23 Niin Mooses ojensi sauvansa taivasta kohti, ja Herra antoi jylistä ja lähetti rakeita, ja tulta iski maahan. Näin Herra antoi sataa rakeita yli Egyptin maan.

24 Ja rakeita tuli, ja tulta leimahteli rakeiden keskellä. Raesade oli ylen ankara, niin ettei sellainen ollut kohdannut koko Egyptin maata siitä ajasta saakka, jolloin se tuli asutuksi.

25 Ja rakeet löivät maahan kaikkialla Egyptin maassa kaiken, mitä kedolla oli, sekä ihmiset että karjan; ja rakeet tuhosivat kaikki maan kasvit ja pirstoivat kaikki kedon puut.

26 Ainoastaan Goosenin maata, jossa israelilaiset olivat, ei raesade kohdannut.

27 Niin farao kutsutti Mooseksen ja Aaronin ja sanoi heille: "Minä olen tehnyt syntiä tällä kertaa. Herra on oikeassa, mutta minä ja minun kansani olemme väärässä.

28 Rukoilkaa Herraa, sillä jo on meillä kyllin Jumalan jylinää ja rakeita. Minä päästän teidät, eikä teidän tarvitse enää viipyä."

29 Mooses vastasi hänelle: "Kun lähden kaupungista, niin minä ojennan käteni Herran puoleen, ja jylinä lakkaa eikä rakeita enää tule, tietääksesi, että maa on Herran.

30 Mutta et sinä eivätkä sinun palvelijasi, sen kyllä tiedän, vielä nytkään pelkää Herraa Jumalaa."

31 Niin pellava ja ohra tuhoutuivat, sillä ohra oli tähkällä ja pellava kukalla;

32 mutta nisu ja kolmitahkoinen vehnä eivät turmeltuneet, sillä ne tuleentuvat myöhemmin.

33 Ja Mooses lähti faraon luota, ulos kaupungista, ja ojensi kätensä Herran puoleen; ja jylinä ja rakeet lakkasivat, eikä sade enää vuotanut maahan.

34 Kun farao näki, että sade, rakeet ja jylinä lakkasivat, teki hän yhä edelleen syntiä ja kovensi sydämensä, sekä hän että hänen palvelijansa.

35 Niin faraon sydän paatui, eikä hän päästänyt israelilaisia, niinkuin Herra oli Mooseksen kautta sanonutkin.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #7523

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

7523. 'And there will be on man and on beast' means the products of interior and exterior evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'man' as the affection for good, and in the contrary sense as the desire for evil; and 'beast' is similar in meaning. But when 'man' and 'beast' are mentioned together, 'man means interior affection or desire and 'beast' exterior; regarding both, see 7424. Interior good or else interior evil, which is meant by 'man', is that connected with intentions or ends in view, for intentions or ends in view are at a person's core, whereas exterior good or else exterior evil, which is meant by 'beast', is that connected with thought and consequently, if nothing stands in the way, with action. Exterior good is meant by 'beast' because a person is in respect of his external or natural man no different from a beast; for he is endowed with similar desires and also cravings, as well as appetites and senses. And interior good is meant by 'man because it is in respect of his internal or spiritual man that a person is a human being, on which internal level he is endowed with affections for what is good and true such as exist with the angels in heaven, and because he controls his natural or animal man, which is 'a beast', by means of that internal man. Regarding the meaning of 'beast' as the affection for good and in the contrary sense the desire for evil, see 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 719, 776, 2179, 2180, 3218, 3519, 5198.

[2] These things are what are meant by 'man and beast' in the following places too: In Jeremiah,

My anger and My wrath have been poured out on this place, on man and on beast. Jeremiah 7:20

In the same prophet,

I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence. Jeremiah 21:6.

In the same prophet,

It will make her land a desolation, so that none may dwell in it; both man and beast have scattered themselves, they have gone away. Jeremiah 50:3.

In Ezekiel,

When a land has sinned against Me by committing great transgression, I will cut off from it man and beast. Ezekiel 14:13, 19, 21.

In the same prophet,

I will stretch out My hand over Edom, and cut off from it man and beast, and make it a waste. Ezekiel 25:13.

In Zephaniah,

I will consume man and beast, I will consume the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from the surface of the earth. Zephaniah 1:3.

[3] 'Man and beast' stands for interior and exterior good in the following places: In Jeremiah,

I have made the earth, man and beast, by My great strength. Jeremiah 27:5.

In the same prophet,

Behold, the days are coming, said Jehovah, in which I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. Jeremiah 31:17.

In the same prophet,

A desolation will the earth be, so that man and beast are not there. Jeremiah 32:43.

In the same prophet,

In the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that have been devastated, there is no man and inhabitant, and there is no beast. Jeremiah 33:10; 51:62.

In David,

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, Your judgements a great deep; You preserve man and beast, O Jehovah. Psalms 36:6.

It was because 'man and beast' meant such things that the firstborn of the Egyptians died, not only of men but also of beasts, Exodus 12:29, and that the firstborn were consecrated [to Jehovah], not only of men but also of beasts, Numbers 18:15, and also that the king of Nineveh, following sacred religious practice, commanded that not only man but also beast should fast and also be clothed in sackcloth, Jonah 3:7-8.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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

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Arcana Coelestia #5280

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

5280. 'And the abundance of corn in the land will not be known' means that no discernment at all regarding the truth present previously will exist there. This is clear from the meaning of 'being known' as being discerned; from the meaning of 'the abundance of corn' as truth that has been multiplied, dealt with above; in 5276, 5278; and from the meaning of 'the land', in this case the land of Egypt, as the natural mind, also dealt with above, in 5276, 5278, 5279. From these meanings it is evident that 'the abundance of corn in the land will not be known means that no discernment at all regarding the truth present previously will exist in the natural.

[2] This verse deals with the final state of desolation, when despair, which comes immediately before regeneration, is experienced; and this being the matter dealt with in this verse, something must be said about the nature of it. Everyone has to be reformed, and to be born anew or regenerated, so that he may enter heaven, No one, unless he is born again, can see the kingdom of God. John 3:3, 5-6.

The human being is born into sin which has increased as it has come down in a long line of descent from ancestors, grandparents, and parents; it has become hereditary and so has been handed down to offspring. At birth a person is born into so many inherited evils which have gradually increased, as described, that he is nothing but sin; therefore unless he undergoes regeneration he remains wholly immersed in sin. But to be regenerated, he must first undergo reformation, which is effected by means of the truths of faith; for he must learn from the Word, and from teaching drawn from it, what good is. Items of knowledge regarding what is good that have been acquired from the Word - that is, from teaching drawn from there - are called the truths of faith; for all truths of faith well up out of good and flow in the direction of good, good being the end they have in view.

[3] This state comes first and is called the state of reformation. Most people within the Church are introduced into it during the period from young childhood through to adolescence, though few are regenerated because most people within the Church learn the truths of faith - or religious knowledge about what is good - for the sake of reputation and position and for the sake of material gain. Since therefore the truths of faith have been introduced through his love of these things, a person cannot be born anew or be regenerated until that love has been removed. To enable such love to be removed that person is launched into a state of temptation, which takes place in the following way: His love of reputation, position, and material gain is activated by the hellish crew, for that crew's desire is to live immersed in the love of those things. But at the same time angels activate affections for what is true and good which were implanted in the state of innocence during early childhood and then stored away interiorly and preserved there for this particular purpose. As a result conflict between evil spirits and angels takes place, and this conflict taking place within a person is experienced by him as temptation. And because the action at this time involves truths and forms of good, the actual truths which were instilled initially are so to speak banished by the falsities infused by the evil spirits - so banished that they are not seen - dealt with above in 5268-5270. And as the person allows himself at this time to be regenerated, the Lord introduces through an internal route the light of truth radiated from good in the natural, in which light the truths are restored there in their proper order.

[4] This is what happens to a person who is being regenerated, but few at the present day are permitted to enter that regenerative state. So far as they allow it to happen, all people, it is true, start to be reformed through the instruction they receive in the truths and forms of good that belong to spiritual life; but as soon as they reach adolescent years they allow the world to distract them. So they turn away into those parts where hellish spirits are, who gradually alienate these people from heaven; the spirits alienate them so completely that they scarcely believe any longer in the existence of heaven. Consequently those people cannot be launched into any spiritual temptation; for if they were they would go under instantly, in which case their latter state would be worse than their former one, Matthew 12:45. From all this one may see the nature of what the internal sense contains here, namely the state of reformation and the state of regeneration. This particular verse however describes the final state in temptation, which is a state of despair - this state being dealt with immediately above in 5279.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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