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出埃及记 29

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1 你使亚伦和他儿子成圣,给我供祭司的职分,要如此行:取只公牛犊,两只无残疾的公绵

2 无酵饼和调无酵饼,与抹无酵薄饼;这都要用细麦面做成。

3 这饼要装在个筐子里,连筐子带来,又把公牛和两只公绵牵来。

4 要使亚伦和他儿子到会幕口来,用身。

5 要给亚伦穿上内袍和以弗得的外袍,并以弗得,又带上胸牌,束上以弗得巧工织的带子。

6 把冠冕戴在他上,将冠加在冠冕上,

7 就把倒在他他。

8 要叫他的儿子来,给他们穿上内袍。

9 亚伦和他儿子束上腰带,包上裹头巾,他们就凭永远的定例得了祭司的职任。又要将亚伦和他儿子分别为圣。

10 你要把公牛带到会幕前,亚伦和他儿子要按在公牛的上。

11 你要在耶和华面前,在会幕口,宰这公牛。

12 要取些公牛的血,用指头抹在的四角上,把血都倒在脚那里。

13 要把一切盖脏的脂油与上的网子,并两个腰子和腰子上的脂油,烧在上。

14 只是公牛的、粪都要用烧在外。这牛是赎祭。

15 你要牵只公绵来,亚伦和他儿子要按在这上。

16 要宰这,把血洒在的周围。

17 要把切成块子,洗净五脏和,连块子带,都放在一处。

18 要把全烧在上,是给耶和华献的燔祭,是献给耶和华为馨的火祭。

19 你要将那一只公绵牵来,亚伦和他儿子要按上。

20 你要宰这,取点血抹在亚伦的右耳垂上和他儿子的右耳垂上,又抹在他们右的大拇指上和右的大拇指上;并要把血洒在的四围。

21 你要取点膏上的血,弹在亚伦和他的衣服上,并他儿子和他儿子的衣服上,他们和他们的衣服就一同成圣

22 你要取这的脂油和肥尾巴,并盖脏的脂油与上的网子,两个腰子和腰子上的脂油并右腿(这是承接圣职所献的)。

23 再从耶和华面前装无酵饼的筐子中取个饼,个调的饼和个薄饼,

24 都放在亚伦的手上和他儿子的手上,作为摇祭,在耶和华面前摇一摇。

25 要从他们中接过来,烧在耶和华面前上的燔祭上,是献给耶和华为馨的火祭。

26 你要取亚伦承接圣职所献公羊的胸,作为摇祭,在耶和华面前摇一摇,这就可以作你的分。

27 那摇祭的胸和举祭的腿,就是承接职所摇的、所举的,是归亚伦和他儿子的。这些你都要成为

28 亚伦和他子孙从以色列人永远所得的分,因为是举祭。这要从以色列人的平安祭中,作为献给耶和华的举祭。

29 亚伦的衣要留给他的子孙,可以穿着受膏,又穿着承接职。

30 他的子孙接续他当祭司的,每逢进会幕所供职的时候,要穿

31 你要将承接圣职所献公羊的在圣处。

32 亚伦和他儿子要在会幕和筐内的饼。

33 他们那些赎罪之物,好承接职,使他们成圣;只是外人不可,因为这是物。

34 那承接职所献的或饼,若有一点留到早晨,就要用烧了,不可这物,因为是物。

35 你要这样照我一切所吩咐的,向亚伦和他儿子行承接圣职的礼

36 要献公牛一只为赎罪祭。你洁净的时候,就洁净了;且要用,使成圣

37 要洁净,使成圣就成为至。凡挨着的都成为

38 你每所要献在上的就是两只一岁的羊羔;

39 早晨要献这只,黄昏的时候要献那只。

40 和这只羊羔同献的,要用细面伊法十分之与捣成的分之调和,又用酒分之作为奠祭。

41 那一只羊羔要在黄昏的时候献上,照着早晨的素祭和奠祭的礼办理,作为献给耶和华的火祭。

42 这要在耶和华面前、会幕口,作你们世世代常献的燔祭。我要在那里与你们相会,和你们说话

43 我要在那里与以色列人相会,会幕就要因我的荣耀成为

44 我要使会幕成圣,也要使亚伦和他的儿子成圣,给我供祭司的职分。

45 我要住在以色列人中间,作他们的

46 他们必知道我是耶和华─他们的,是将他们从埃及领出来的,为要住在他们中间。我是耶和华─他们的

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 316

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316. "And do not harm the oil and the wine." This symbolizes the Lord's provision that they not violate and profane the goods and truths concealed inwardly in the Word.

Oil symbolizes the goodness of love, and wine the truth springing from that goodness. Thus the oil here symbolizes sacred goodness, and the wine sacred truth. The Lord's provision that these not be violated and profaned is symbolized by the people's being told not to harm them. For this instruction came from the midst of the four living creatures, thus from the Lord (no. 314). Whatever the Lord says He also provides. That this is something He provides may be seen in nos. 314 and 255 above.

That oil symbolizes the goodness of love - this we will see in nos. 778, 779 below.

That wine symbolizes the truth springing from that goodness is clear from the following passages:

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes..., buy wine and milk without money... (Isaiah 55:1)

It shall come to pass in that day that the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills flow with milk... (Joel 3:18, cf. Amos 9:13-14)

Joy is taken away... from Carmel, and in the vineyards there will be no singing... No treaders will tread out wine in the presses; I have made their shouting cease. (Isaiah 16:10, cf. Jeremiah 48:32-33)

Carmel symbolizes the spiritual church, because it had vineyards there.

[2] ...wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth... The vinedressers have wailed... (Joel 1:5, 10-11)

Almost the same images occur in Hosea 9:2-3.

He washes his clothing in wine, and His vesture in the blood of grapes. His eyes are red with wine... (Genesis 49:11-12)

The subject is the Lord, and the wine symbolizes Divine truth. That is why the Lord instituted the Holy Supper, in which the bread symbolizes the Lord in respect to Divine good, and the wine the Lord in respect to Divine truth; and in their recipients the bread symbolizes a sacred goodness, and the wine sacred truth, received from the Lord. Therefore He said,

I say to you, that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you... in My Father's kingdom. (Matthew 26:29, cf. Luke 22:18)

Because bread and wine have these symbolic meanings, so too Melchizedek, going to meet Abram, brought out bread and wine, he being a priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram (Genesis 14:18-19).

[3] The grain offering and drink offering used in sacrifices had similar symbolic meanings, as described in Exodus 29:40, Leviticus 23:12-13, 18-19ff. The grain offering was an offering of wheat flour, thus taking the place of bread, and the drink offering was an offering of wine.

It can be seen from this what these words of the Lord symbolize:

Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins... But they put the... wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. (Matthew 9:17, cf. Luke 5:37-38)

New wine is the Divine truth in the New Testament, thus in the New Church, and the old wine is the Divine truth in the Old Testament, thus in the old church.

A similar idea is symbolized by these words of the Lord at the wedding in Cana of Galilee:

Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now! (John 2:1-10)

[4] Something similar is symbolized by the wine in the Lord's parable concerning the man wounded by thieves, on whose wound the Samaritan poured oil and wine (Luke 10:33-34); for the man wounded by thieves means people whom the Jews wounded spiritually by evils and falsities, and to whom the Samaritan brought aid by pouring oil and wine on their wounds, that is, by teaching them goodness and truth, and as far as possible, healing them.

Sacred truth is symbolized by wine and new wine also elsewhere in the Word, as in Isaiah 1:21-22; 25:6; 36:17.

[5] Because of this, a vineyard in the Word symbolizes a church that possesses truths from the Lord.

That wine symbolizes sacred truth can be seen also from its opposite meaning, in which it symbolizes truth falsified and profaned, as in the following places:

Harlotry, wine, and new wine have taken hold of the heart... Their wine is gone, they commit harlotry continually. (Hosea 4:11, 18)

Harlotry symbolizes the falsification of truth, and so, too, do the wine and new wine here.

...in the hand of Jehovah a cup, and He mixed it with wine; He filled it with the mixture and poured it out, and its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth, sucking, drink. (Psalms 75:8)

Babylon was a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore they are deranged. (Jeremiah 51:7)

Babylon has fallen..., because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication... If anyone worships the beast..., he shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed with undiluted wine in the cup of the wrath (of God). (Revelation 14:8-10)

(Babylon has made) all the nations (drink) of the wine... of her fornication. (Revelation 18:3)

...great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath. (Revelation 16:19)

...the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication. (Revelation 17:1-2)

[6] The wine that Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, and his lords and wives and concubines drank from the vessels of the Temple in Jerusalem, while they praised the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone (Daniel 5:2-4) - that wine symbolized nothing else but the sacred truth of the Word and church profaned, which is why the writing then appeared on the wall, and the king that very night was slain (Daniel 5:25, 30)

Wine symbolizes truth falsified also in Isaiah 5:11-12, 21-22; 28:1, 3, 7; 29:9; 56:11-12.

The drink offering that they poured out as an offering to idols has the same symbolic meaning in Isaiah 65:11; 57:6; Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17-19; Ezekiel 20:28; Deuteronomy 32:38.

It is owing to its correspondence that wine symbolizes sacred truth, and in an opposite sense, truth profaned. For when a person reads "wine" in the Word, angels - who apprehend everything spiritually - have just this interpretation of it. Such is the correspondence between the natural thoughts of people and the spiritual thoughts of angels. The case is the same with the wine in the Holy Supper. That is why the Holy Supper occasions an introduction into heaven (no. 224 at the end).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.