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2 Mose 32

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1 Da aber das Volk sah, daß Mose verzog, von dem Berge zu kommen, sammelte sich's wider Aaron und sprach zu ihm: Auf, und mach uns Götter, die vor uns hergehen! Denn wir wissen nicht, was diesem Mann Mose widerfahren ist, der uns aus Ägyptenland geführet hat.

2 Aaron sprach zu ihnen: Reißet ab die güldenen Ohrenringe an den Ohren eurer Weiber, eurer Söhne und eurer Töchter und bringet sie zu mir.

3 Da riß alles Volk seine güldenen Ohrenringe von ihren Ohren und brachten sie zu Aaron.

4 Und er nahm sie von ihren Händen und entwarf es mit einem Griffel und machte ein gegossen Kalb. Und sie sprachen: Das sind deine Götter, Israel, die dich aus Ägyptenland geführet haben!

5 Da das Aaron sah, bauete er einen Altar vor ihm und ließ ausrufen und sprach: Morgen ist des HERRN Fest!

6 Und stunden des Morgens frühe auf und opferten Brandopfer und brachten dazu Dankopfer. Danach setzte sich das Volk zu essen und zu trinken, und stunden auf zu spielen.

7 Der HERR aber sprach zu Mose: Gehe, steig hinab; denn dein Volk, das du aus Ägyptenland geführet hast, hat's verderbet.

8 Sie sind schnell von dem Wege getreten, den ich ihnen geboten habe. Sie haben ihnen ein gegossen Kalb gemacht und haben's angebetet und ihm geopfert und gesagt: Das sind deine Götter, Israel, die dich aus Ägyptenland geführet haben.

9 Und den HERR sprach zu Mose: Ich sehe, daß es ein halsstarrig Volk ist.

10 Und nun laß mich, daß mein Zorn über sie ergrimme und sie auffresse, so will ich dich zum großen Volk machen.

11 Mose aber flehete von dem HERRN, seinem Gott, und sprach: Ach, HERR, war um will dein Zorn ergrimmen über dein Volk, das du mit großer Kraft und starker Hand hast aus Ägyptenland geführet?

12 Warum sollen die Ägypter sagen und sprechen: Er hat sie zu ihrem Unglück ausgeführt, daß er sie erwürgete im Gebirge und vertilgete sie von dem Erdboden? Kehre dich von dem Grimm deines Zorns und sei gnädig über die Bosheit deines Volks!

13 Gedenk an deine Diener, Abraham, Isaak und Israel, denen du bei dir selbst geschworen und ihnen verheißen hast: Ich will euren Samen mehren wie die Sterne am Himmel, und alles Land, das ich verheißen habe, will ich eurem Samen geben, und sollen es besitzen ewiglich.

14 Also gereuete den HERRN das Übel, das er dräuete seinem Volk zu tun.

15 Mose wandte sich und stieg vom Berge und hatte zwo Tafeln des Zeugnisses in seiner Hand, die waren geschrieben auf beiden Seiten.

16 Und Gott hatte sie selbst gemacht und selbst die Schrift drein gegraben.

17 Da nun Josua hörete des Volks Geschrei, daß sie jauchzeten, sprach er zu Mose: Es ist ein Geschrei im Lagen wie im Streit.

18 Er antwortete: Es ist nicht ein Geschrei gegeneinander, deren, die obliegen und unterliegen, sondern ich höre ein Geschrei eines Singetanzes.

19 Als er aber nahe zum Lager kam und das Kalb und den Reigen sah, ergrimmete er mit Zorn und warf die Tafeln aus seiner Hand und zerbrach sie unten am Berge.

20 Und nahm das Kalb, das sie gemacht hatten, und verbrannte es mit Feuer und zermalmete es zu Pulver und stäubte es aufs Wasser und gab's den Kindern Israel zu trinken.

21 Und sprach zu Aaron: Was hat dir das Volk getan, daß du eine so große Sünde üben sie gebracht hast?

22 Aaron sprach: Mein HERR lasse seinen Zorn nicht ergrimmen. Du weißt, daß dies Volk böse ist.

23 Sie sprachen zu mir: Mache uns Götter, die vor uns hergehen; denn wir wissen nicht, wie es diesem Mann Mose gehet, der uns aus Ägyptenland geführet hat.

24 Ich sprach zu ihnen: Wer hat Gold, der reiße es ab und gebe es mir. Und ich warf es ins Feuer; daraus ist das Kalb geworden.

25 Da nun Mose sah, daß das Volk los worden war (denn Aaron hatte sie losgemacht durch ein Geschwätz, damit er sie fein wollte anrichten),

26 trat er in das Tor des Lagers und sprach: Her zu mir, wer dem HERRN angehöret! Da sammelten sich zu ihm alle Kinder Levi.

27 Und er sprach zu ihnen: So spricht der HERR, der Gott Israels: Gürte ein jeglicher sein Schwert auf seine Lenden und durchgehet hin und wieder von einem Tor zum andern im Lagen und erwürge ein jeglicher seinen Bruder, Freund und Nächsten.

28 Die Kinder Levi taten, wie ihnen Mose gesagt hatte, und fiel des Tages vom Volk dreitausend Mann.

29 Da sprach Mose: Füllet heute eure Hände dem HERRN, ein jeglicher an seinem Sohn und Bruder, daß heute über euch der Segen gegeben werde.

30 Des Morgens sprach Mose zum Volk: Ihr habt eine große Sünde getan; nun will ich hinaufsteigen zu dem HERRN, ob ich vielleicht eure Sünde versöhnen möge.

31 Als nun Mose wieder zum HERRN kam, sprach er: Ach, das Volk hat eine große Sünde getan und haben ihnen güldene Götter gemacht.

32 Nun vergib ihnen ihre Sünde! Wo nicht, so tilge mich auch aus deinem Buch, das du geschrieben hast.

33 Der HERR sprach zu Mose: Was? Ich will den aus meinem Buch tilgen, der an mir sündiget.

34 So gehe nun hin und führe das Volk, dahin ich dir gesagt habe. Siehe, mein Engel soll vor dir hergehen. Ich werde ihre Sünde wohl heimsuchen, wenn meine Zeit kommt heimzusuchen.

35 Also strafte der HERR das Volk, daß sie das Kalb hatten gemacht, welches Aaron gemacht hatte.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #10503

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

10503. 'And they have made gods of gold for themselves' means, and they cultivate a hellish delight. This is clear from the meaning of 'making gods for themselves' as cultivating; and from the meaning of 'gold' as delight belonging to external kinds of love, thus delight that is hellish, dealt with above in 10402. Four kinds of idols are mentioned in the Word - those made of stone, those made of wood, those made of silver, and those made of gold. Idols made of stone served to mean a cult consisting of falsities contained in religious teachings, and those made of wood a cult consisting of evils contained in them; idols made of silver served to mean the cult of what was false in both teachings and life, and those made of gold the cult of what was evil in both. Consequently idols made of gold served to mean the worst cult of all. Those who practised it not only falsified truths but also adulterated forms of good; for they called evils forms of good, and resulting falsities truths. All people who are ruled by self-love and nevertheless believe the Word practise this cult; for they use the literal sense of the Word to lend support to everything they think and do, thus to the cult or worship of themselves.

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

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Arcana Coelestia #10402

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

10402. 'Pull away the ear-jewels of gold from the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters' means drawing out of the literal sense of the Word such things as are favourable to external forms of love and to the immediate offspring of these loves. This is clear from the meaning of 'pulling away' as drawing out, at this point out of the literal sense of the Word since that sense is the subject; from the meaning of 'the ear-jewels of gold which are on the ears' as symbols representative of obedience to the delights belonging to external kinds of love and discernment of them, for obedience and discernment are meant by 'the ears', and the good of love - at this point the delight belonging to external kinds of love - is meant by 'gold', so that 'the ear-jewels of gold' are symbols representative of that obedience and discernment (for the meaning of 'the ears' as obedience and discernment, see 2542, 4652-4660, 8990, 9397, 10061; for that of 'gold' as the good of love, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917, 9510, 9874, 9881, so that when it has reference to external kinds of love, which are self-love and love of the world, 'gold' means the delight belonging to them, thus that which is evil, 8932; and the fact that 'ear-jewels' consequently are symbols representative of obedience and discernment, 4551); from the meaning of 'wives' as forms of good in the Church, dealt with in 3160, 4823, 6014, 7022, 8337, and therefore in the contrary sense as forms of evil there, 409; from the meaning of 'sons' as truths, and in the contrary sense as falsities, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 2803, 2813, 3373, 3704, 4257, 6583, 6584, 9807; and from the meaning of 'daughters' as affections for truth and good, and therefore in the contrary sense as affections for falsity and evil, dealt with in 2362, 3963, 6729. From all this it is evident that 'pull away the ear-jewels of gold from the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters' means drawing out of the literal sense of the Word such things as are discerned to be obedient or favourable to the delights belonging to external forms of love and favourable to the major ideas resulting from these.

[2] The fact that 'ear-jewels' are symbols of obedience and discernment is clear in Hosea,

Contend with your mother, since she is not My wife, in order that she may remove her whoredoms from her sight 1 , lest perhaps I strip her naked, and make her like a wilderness, and do not have mercy on her children, since she has said, I will go after my lovers, those giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen. And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain and the new wine and the oil, and who multiplied the silver for her, and the gold they made for baal. And I will lay waste her vine and her fig tree. And I will visit on her 2 the days of the baals to whom she burned incense and decked herself with her ear-jewels and her other jewellery, and went after her lovers and forgot Me. Hosea 2:1-13.

'Burning incense to and decking herself with ear-jewels for the baals' denotes worshipping the baals as gods and being obedient to them.

[3] Earlier parts of that chapter have also been quoted to allow it to be seen what the outward sense of the Word is like without the inward, and what it is like together with the inward, and so how the Word is understood by those who see its outward statements in isolation from what is inward, and how it is understood by those who see the outward statements from the point of view of that which is inward. Those who see the outward statements in isolation from what is inward inevitably take them literally. That is, they take them to mean that they should literally contend with the mother of the children of Israel; that she was literally no longer loved by Jehovah as a wife; that if she did not remove the whoredoms from herself she would literally be stripped naked and made like a wilderness, and Jehovah would not have mercy on her children, since she had said that she was going to go after her lovers who gave her bread, water, wool, and linen; that she did not know it was Jehovah who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied the silver; that they made the gold for baal; that for this reason her vine and her fig tree would be laid waste; and that there would literally be a visitation on her because she burned incense to the baals, decked herself with ear-jewels and other jewellery for them, and went after her adulterous lovers, forgetful of Jehovah.

[4] All this is the literal meaning, and so it is how those who see the outward statements in isolation from their inward meaning understand the Word, for it is how the Jews at the present day and also some Christians understand it. But that is not the real meaning of the Word, as all who have any degree of enlightenment may see. By 'mother', regarding whom all those things are stated, they do not understand a mother but the kind of Church that existed among that nation. They take each of the things stated regarding her to mean something that has to do with the Church; for all those things are such as follow in order from what is put forward or laid down first. That is how they take 'whoredoms', 'lovers', and 'children' or 'sons', then 'bread, water, wool, linen, grain, new wine, oil, silver, gold', after that 'vine and fig', and also 'incense' and 'ear-jewels'.

[5] What each of these serves to mean can be known from no other source than the internal sense. In this sense 'mother' and 'wife' mean the Church; 'making her naked, and like a wilderness' means leaving it without any good of love or truth of faith, truths of faith and forms of the good of love, of which it will be bereft, being meant by 'sons', 'bread and water', 'wool and linen', 'grain, new wine, oil, silver, and gold', and finally 'vine and fig'. The actual worship springing from obedience to falsities and evils, which take over for truths and forms of good, is meant by 'burning incense to the baals and being decked out with ear-jewels and other jewellery for them'.

'Mother' means the Church, see 289, 2691, 2717, 4257, 5581.

So does 'wife', 252, 253, 409, 749, 770, 7022.

'Her being made naked' means being deprived of forms of the good of love and the truths of faith, 9960.

'A wilderness' means a state devoid of the Church's truth and good, 2708, 3900, 4736, 7055.

'Whoredoms' means falsifications of truth, 2466, 2729, 4865, 8904, so that 'lovers' means those who falsify.

'Sons' means truths, and in the contrary sense falsities, 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 2803, 2813, 3373, 3704, 4257, 6583, 6584, 9807.

'Bread and water' means the good of love and truth of faith, 9323.

'Wool' means the good in the external man, 9470.

'Linen' means the truth there, 7601, 9959.

'Grain' means good from which truth may be obtained, 5295, 5410, 5959.

'New wine' means truth derived from good, 3580.

'Oil' means celestial good, 9780, 10261.

'Silver' means truth and 'gold' good in general, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914,

6917, 9881.

'Vine' means the internal spiritual Church, 1069, 6376, 9277.

'Fig' means the external good of that Church, 217, 4231, 5113.

'Burning incense' means worship, 10177, 10298.

'Ear-jewel' is a symbol representative of obedience, 4551, so that 'being decked out with it' means offering obedience.

[6] When all the entities listed immediately above are understood instead of or in conjunction with the people or things that serve to mean them, the nature of the Word discerned on a spiritual level, thus the nature of the spirit within it, becomes apparent. All who read the Word are sustained by the Lord on that level of meaning; but none receive and accept it apart from those whose interiors are open. And since these receive it within the cognitions or knowledge they possess, they accept it so far as they can understand it, that is, in the measure and manner that their power of understanding can be enlightened through the cognitions or knowledge in their possession. In addition to this, they are affected in a general way by the holiness that radiates from the Word.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. literally, faces

2. i.e. I will punish her for

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