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1 耶和華摩西

2 你曉諭亞倫和他兒子以色列眾人耶和華所吩咐的乃是這樣:

3 以色列家中的宰公牛,或是綿羊羔,或是山羊,不拘宰於外,

4 若未曾牽到會幕口、耶和華的帳幕前獻給耶和華為供物,流血的罪必歸到那身上。他流了血,要從民中剪除。

5 這是為要使以色列人把他們在田野裡所獻的祭會幕口、耶和華面前,交給祭司,獻與耶和華為平安祭。

6 祭司要把血灑在會幕口、耶和華的上,把脂油焚燒,獻給耶和華為馨的祭。

7 他們不可再獻祭給他們行邪淫所隨從的鬼魔(原文作公山羊);這要作他們世世代永遠的定例。

8 你要曉諭他們:凡以色列家中的,或是寄居在他們中間的外,獻燔祭或是平安祭,

9 若不會幕口獻給耶和華,那必從民中剪除。

10 以色列家中的,或是寄居在他們中間的外,若甚麼血,我必向那血的變臉,把他從民中剪除。

11 因為活物的生命是在血中。我把這血賜你們,可以在上為你們的生命贖罪;因血裡有生命,所以能贖罪

12 因此,我對以色列人:你們都不可血;寄居在你們中間的外人也不可血。

13 以色列人,或是寄居在他們中間的外,若打獵得了可的禽獸,必放出他的血來,用土掩蓋。

14 論到一切活物的生命,就在血中。所以我對以色列人:無論甚麼活物的血,你們都不可,因為一切活物的血就是他的生命。凡吃了血的,必被剪除。

15 自死的,或是被野獸撕裂的,無論是本地人,是寄居的,必不潔淨到晚上,都要衣服,用身,到了晚上才為潔淨。

16 但他若不衣服,也不身,就必擔當他的罪孽。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 458

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458. So as not to worship demons. This symbolically means that thus they were caught up in the evils of their lusts, and acted in concert with their like in hell.

Demons symbolize lusts for evil arising from a love of the world. That is because people in hell who are caught up in those lusts are called demons, and people on earth who are caught up in them too, become demons after death. They also have an affiliation with those in hell. For everyone is affiliated with spirits in respect to his affections, so closely that the two are inseparable. It is apparent from this that to worship demons is to yield to those lusts from a love of them.

Someone, then, who invokes faith alone as the chief tenet of his religion or as his idol - he, because he does not search out any evil in himself that he calls a sin, and therefore does not determine to remove it by repentance, remains caught up in it. And because every evil is composed of lusts, and is nothing but a bundle of lusts, it follows that a person who does not search out any evil in himself and refrain from it as a sin against God, which is possible solely through repentance, after death becomes a demon.

[2] Demons symbolize just such lusts in the following passages:

They sacrifice to demons, not to God. (Deuteronomy 32:17)

(The children of Israel) no longer offered their sacrifices to demons, after whom they had played the harlot. (Leviticus 17:7, cf. Psalms 106:37)

Ziyyim will meet with 'iyyim, and the forest demon will encounter its companion. (Isaiah 34:14)

Ziyyim will sing there, and their houses will be full of 'ochim; the offspring of owls will dwell there, and forest demons will caper there. (Isaiah 13:21).

Ziyyim, 'iyyim, 'ochim, and the offspring of owls symbolize various lusts. Forest demons are the kinds of lusts exhibited by priapi and satyrs.

Babylon... has become a dwelling place of demons, and a prison for every foul spirit... (Revelation 18:2)

The demons that the Lord cast out embodied such lusts when they lived in the world - regarding which see Matthew 8:16, 28; 9:32-33; 10:8; 12:22; 15:22; Luke 4:33-37, 41; 8:2, 8:26-40; 9:1, 9:37-42, 9:49; 13:32.

  
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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.