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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 # 378

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378. "And have washed their robes." This symbolically means, who have cleansed their religious beliefs of the evils accompanying falsity.

Washing in the Word symbolizes a cleansing oneself of evils and falsities, and robes symbolize general truths (no. 328). General truths are concepts of goodness and truth drawn from the literal sense of the Word, in accordance with which these people have lived, so that they are religious beliefs. And because every matter of religion has relation to goodness and truth, therefore robes are mentioned twice - "have washed their robes" and "have made their robes white."

Robes or religious beliefs are cleansed only in the case of people who fight against evils and so reject falsities, who thus undergo temptations or trials, which are symbolically meant by "the great tribulation" (no. 377).

That to be washed means, symbolically, to be cleansed of evils and falsities, and so to be reformed and regenerated, can be seen from the following passages:

When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and rinsed away the blood of Jerusalem... by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of purification... (Isaiah 4:4)

Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from My eyes. Cease to do evil... (Isaiah 1:16)

Wash your heart of its wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved. (Jeremiah 4:14)

Wash me clean of my iniquity..., and I shall be whiter than snow. (Psalms 51:2, 7)

...if you wash yourself with soda, and use much soap, your iniquity will still retain its spots. (Jeremiah 2:22)

If I wash myself with melted snow, and cleanse my hands with soap..., yet... my own clothes will abhor me. (Job 9:30-31)

Who... has washed his clothing in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes. (Genesis 49:11)

This is said of the celestial church, from which come people prompted by love toward the Lord, and in the highest sense it is said of the Lord Himself. Wine and the blood of grapes are spiritual and celestial Divine truth.

I washed you with water, and rinsed off your blood from upon you... (Ezekiel 16:9)

This is said of Jerusalem. Water is truth, and blood is an adulteration of truth.

[2] It can be seen from this what washing in the Israelite Church represented and thus symbolized. As, for example, that Aaron was to wash himself before he put on the vestments of his ministry (Leviticus 16:4, 24), and before he approached the altar to minister (Exodus 30:18-21; 40:30-31).

[3] It can be seen from this that among the children of Israel washing represented a spiritual washing, which is a cleansing from evils and falsities, and thus reformation and regeneration.

It is apparent also from the aforesaid what baptism by John in the Jordan symbolized (Matthew 3, Mark 1:4-13), and what the symbolic meaning of the following words by John regarding the Lord is, that He baptized with the Holy Spirit and with fire (Luke 3:16, John 1:33), and regarding himself, that he baptized with water (John 1:26). The meaning is that the Lord washes or purifies a person by Divine truth and Divine goodness, and that John by his baptism represented this. For the Holy Spirit is Divine truth, the fire is Divine goodness, and the water is representative of these. For water symbolizes the truth in the Word, which becomes goodness by one's living in accordance with it (no. 50).

  
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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.