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Levitska 16

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1 Poslije smrti dvojice Aronovih sinova, koji su poginuli prinoseći pred Jahvom neposvećenu vatru, progovori Jahve Mojsiju.

2 Jahve reče Mojsiju: "Kaži svome bratu Aronu da ne ulazi u svako doba u Svetište iza zavjese, pred Pomirilište koje se nalazi na Kovčegu, da ne pogine. Jer ja ću se pojavljivati nad Pomirilištem u oblaku.

3 Neka Aron ulazi u Svetište ovako: s juncem za žrtvu okajnicu i ovnom za žrtvu paljenicu.

4 Neka se obuče u posvećenu košulju od lana; na svoje tijelo neka navuče gaće od lana; neka se opaše lanenim pasom, a na glavu stavi mitru od lana. To je posvećeno ruho koje ima obući pošto se okupa u vodi.

5 Od zajednice izraelske neka primi dva jarca za žrtvu okajnicu i jednoga ovna za žrtvu paljenicu.

6 Pošto Aron prinese junca za žrtvu okajnicu za svoj grijeh i izvrši obred pomirenja za se i za svoj dom,

7 neka uzme oba jarca i postavi ih pred Jahvu na ulaz u Šator sastanka.

8 Neka Aron baci kocke za oba jarca te jednoga odredi kockom Jahvi, a drugoga Azazelu.

9 Jarca na kojega je kocka pala da bude Jahvi neka Aron prinese za žrtvu okajnicu.

10 A jarac na kojega je kocka pala da bude Azazelu neka se smjesti živ pred Jahvu, da se nad njim obavi obred pomirenja i otpremi Azazelu u pustinju.

11 Zatim neka Aron prinese junca za žrtvu okajnicu za svoj grijeh; i obavi obred pomirenja za se i za svoj dom: i neka zakolje toga junca za žrtvu okajnicu za svoj grijeh.

12 Potom neka uzme kadionik pun užarena ugljevlja sa žrtvenika ispred Jahve i dvije pune pregršti miomirisnoga tamjana u prah smrvljenoga. Neka to unese iza zavjese.

13 Sad neka stavi tamjan na vatru pred Jahvom da oblak od tamjana zastre Pomirilište što je na Svjedočanstvu. Tako neće poginuti.

14 Poslije toga neka uzme krvi od junca i svojim prstom poškropi istočnu stranu Pomirilišta; a ispred Pomirilišta neka svojim prstom poškropi sedam puta tom krvlju.

15 Neka potom zakolje jarca za žrtvu okajnicu za grijeh naroda; neka unese njegovu krv za zavjesu te s njegovom krvi učini kako je učinio s krvlju od junca: neka njome poškropi po Pomirilištu i pred njim.

16 Tako će obaviti obred pomirenja nad Svetištem zbog nečistoća Izraelaca, zbog njihovih prijestupa i svih njihovih grijeha. A tako neka učini i za Šator sastanka što se među njima nalazi, sred njihovih nečistoća.

17 Kad on uđe da obavi obred pomirenja u Svetištu, neka nikoga drugog ne bude u Šatoru sastanka dok on ne iziđe. Obavivši obred pomirenja za se, za svoj dom i za svu izraelsku zajednicu,

18 neka ode k žrtveniku koji se nalazi pred Jahvom te nad žrtvenikom obavi obred pomirenja. Neka uzme krvi od junca i krvi od jarca pa stavi na rogove oko žrtvenika.

19 Neka svojim prstom poškropi žrtvenik istom krvlju sedam puta. Tako će ga očistiti od nečistoća Izraelaca i posvetiti.

20 Kad svrši obred pomirenja Svetišta, Šatora sastanka i žrtvenika, neka primakne jarca živoga.

21 Neka mu na glavu Aron stavi obje svoje ruke i nad njim ispovjedi sve krivnje Izraelaca, sve njihove prijestupe i sve njihove grijehe. Položivši ih tako jarcu na glavu, neka ga pošalje u pustinju s jednim prikladnim čovjekom.

22 Tako će jarac na sebi odnijeti sve njihove krivnje u pusti kraj. Otpremivši jarca u pustinju,

23 neka se Aron vrati u Šator sastanka, sa sebe svuče lanenu odjeću u koju se bio obukao kad je ulazio u Svetište i neka je ondje ostavi.

24 Neka potom opere svoje tijelo vodom na posvećenu mjestu, na se obuče svoju odjeću te iziđe da prinese svoju žrtvu paljenicu i žrtvu paljenicu naroda i obavi obred pomirenja za se i za narod.

25 Loj sa žrtve okajnice neka sažeže u kad na žrtveniku.

26 Onaj koji je odveo jarca Azazelu neka opere svoju odjeću, svoje tijelo u vodi okupa i poslije toga može opet doći u tabor.

27 A junca žrtve okajnice i jarca žrtve okajnice od kojih je krv bila donesena u Svetište da se obavi obred pomirenja neka odnesu izvan tabora pa neka na vatri spale njihove kože, njihovo meso i njihovu nečist.

28 Tko ih bude spaljivao, neka opere svoju odjeću, svoje tijelo okupa u vodi i poslije toga može opet doći u tabor.

29 Ovaj zakon neka za vas trajno vrijedi. U sedmom mjesecu, deseti dan toga mjeseca, postite i ne obavljajte nikakva posla: ni domorodac ni stranac koji među vama boravi.

30 Jer toga dana nad vama se ima izvršiti obred pomirenja da se očistite od svih svojih grijeha te da pred Jahvom budete čisti.

31 Neka je to za vas subotnji počinak kad postite. Trajan je to zakon.

32 Neka obred pomirenja obavi onaj svećenik koji bude pomazan i posvećen za vršenje svećeničke službe namjesto svoga oca. Neka se obuče u posvećeno laneno ruho;

33 on neka obavi obred pomirenja za posvećeno Svetište, za Šator sastanka i za žrtvenik. Zatim neka izvrši obred pomirenja nad svećenicima i nad svim narodom zajednice.

34 Tako neka to bude za vas trajan zakon; jednom na godinu neka se nad Izraelcima obavi obred pomirenja za sve njihove grijehe." Mojsije je učinio kako mu je Jahve naredio.

   

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951. As "the seven angels that had the seven last plagues," signify the manifestation of the evils and falsities that have devastated the church, and as these are made manifest by means of the Divine truth in the Word, therefore those angels appeared "clothed in linen clean and bright;" for "linen clean and bright" signifies genuine truth. All angels appear clothed according to their functions; for the garments in which they go clothed correspond to their ministries, and in general to their interiors. The angels who are wise from Divine truth appear in white garments of muslin, lawn, or linen, because "muslin," "lawn," and "linen," correspond to the truths in which they are; and for this reason Aaron and his sons had garments of linen in which they ministered. These are described in Moses:

Thou shalt make for Aaron and his sons linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness, from the loins even unto the thighs; these shall be upon them when they shall go into the Tent of meeting and when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place, that they bear not iniquity and die (Exodus 28:42, 43).

Again:

When Aaron shall enter into the holy place he shall put on the linen coat of holiness and the linen breeches shall be upon his flesh, and he shall gird himself with a linen belt and shall put on a linen miter (Leviticus 16:4).

He should put on the same garments when expiating the people (Leviticus 16:32).

Also when he took the ashes from the altar after the burnt-offering (Leviticus 6:10).

[2] In like manner the priests were to minister in the new temple. In Ezekiel:

When the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok shall enter at the gates of the inner court they shall put on linen garments; no wool shall come upon them while they shall minister in the gates of the inner court and within; linen miters shall be upon their head and linen breeches shall be upon their loins (Ezekiel 44:15, 17, 18).

They put on linen garments when they ministered holy things, because all holy administration is effected by the Divine truth. For the priesthood in which Aaron and his sons officiated represented the Lord as to the Divine good; and this ministers all things by means of the Divine truth. Moreover, the Divine truth protects from falsities and evils, which are from hell; therefore it is said "that they bear not iniquity and die," which signifies that otherwise falsities from hell would destroy them. These garments were called "garments of holiness," because holiness is predicated of the Divine truth. As the garments of ministry were linen garments, the priests wore a linen ephod when they ministered, as is read of Samuel (1 Samuel 2:18), and of the priests whom Saul slew (1 Samuel 22:18), and of David when he went before the ark (2 Samuel 6:14).

[3] Also of the Lord Himself in John:

Jesus rose up from supper and laid aside His garments, and took a linen cloth and girded Himself, and poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the linen cloth with which He was girded (Jeremiah 13:4, 5).

The washing of the disciples' feet represented and thus signified purification from evils and falsities by means of the Divine truth from the Lord; for all purification from evils and falsities is effected by the Lord by means of the Divine truth; and this is signified by "the linen cloth" with which the Lord girded Himself and with which He wiped the disciples' feet.

[4] Besides these seven angels treated of in Revelation there have been other angels seen in linen garments; as:

The angel who shall set a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh; and who shall go in between the wheels of cherubim and take coals of fire and scatter them over the city (Ezekiel 9:3, 4, 11; 10:2, 6, 7).

Likewise the angel seen by Daniel, clothed in linen, whose loins were girt with gold of Uphas (Daniel 10:5; 12:6, 7).

These appeared clothed in linen because girded for ministry. The angel who measured the new temple, whose appearance was like that of brass:

Was seen to have a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed (Ezekiel 40:3).

By "the measuring of the temple" there, is described the New Church as to its quality; this is signified by the number of the measures; and as all the quality of the church is known by the Divine truth, therefore "a line of flax" was in his hand.

[5] As "linen" signifies truth, and "a girdle" everything of it, for it is what embraces and includes all things, and as nothing of truth any longer remained with the sons of Israel, therefore:

The prophet Jeremiah was commanded to buy himself a linen girdle, and to hide it in the cleft of a rock at the Euphrates; and at the end of many days it was spoiled and was profitable for nothing (Jeremiah 13:1-7).

"The linen girdle" signifies all the truth of doctrine from the Word. What is signified by its being "hidden in the cleft of a rock at the Euphrates and was there spoiled," may be seen above n. 569.

[6] "Linen" signifies the truth of the church also in Isaiah:

A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not extinguish, and He will bring forth judgment in truth (Isaiah 42:3).

This was said of the Lord; and "the smoking flax," that He will not extinguish signifies the small amount of truth from good with anyone. (The rest may be seen explained above, n. 627.) "Linen" signifies also truth from the Word, especially the truth of the sense of its letter (Hosea 2:5, 9).

[7] Moreover, it was a statute with the sons of Israel:

That they should not wear a garment of wool and linen mixed together (Deuteronomy 22:11).

The reason was that "wool" signifies good and "linen" truth, also because man has communication with the societies of heaven by means of his garments; and there are societies that are in good and societies that are in truth; and man must not have communication with different societies at the same time, which would cause confusion. That this was the reason for this statute no one has heretofore known. But it has been granted me to know it from changing my garments; for when I have laid aside a linen garment those in the spiritual world who were in truths have complained that they could not be present; and when I again put on the garment the same spirits became present. That there is such correspondence with the very garments of man has not been known heretofore, and yet it can be seen from the passages cited above, namely, from what is said of the linen garments of Aaron and his sons, the linen ephod that the priests and David wore, the linen in which the angels appeared clothed, and the linen cloth with which the Lord girded Himself and wiped the disciples' feet, also the other garments of Aaron and his sons, all of which were representative; also from the signification of garments in general, as being truths clothing good (See above, n. 64, 65, 195, 271, 395, 475, 476, 637).

(Continuation respecting the First Commandment)

[8] It is not believed in the world that the love of ruling from the mere delight of ruling, and the love of possessing goods from the mere delight of possession, and not from the delight of uses, conceal in themselves all evils, and also a contempt for and rejection of all things pertaining to heaven and the church; and for the reason that man is stirred up by the love of self and the love of the world to doing good to the church, the country, society, and the neighbor, by making good deeds honorable and looking for reward. Therefore this love is called by many the fire of life, and the incitement to great things. But it is to be known that so far as these two loves regard uses in the first place and self in the second they are good, while so far as they regard self in the first place and uses in the second they are evil, since man then does all things for the sake of self and consequently from self, and thus in every least thing he does there is self and what is his own [proprium], which regarded in itself is nothing but evil. But to regard uses in the first place and self in the second is to do good for the sake of the church, the country, society, and the neighbor; and the goods that man does to these for the sake of these are not from man but from the Lord. The difference between these two is like the difference between heaven and hell. Man does not know that there is such a difference, because from birth and thus from nature he is in these loves, and because the delight of these loves continually flatters and pleases him.

[9] But let him consider that the love of ruling from the delight of ruling, and not from the delight of uses, is wholly devilish; and such a man may be called an atheist; for so far as he is in that love he does not in his heart believe in the existence of God, and to the same extent he derides in his heart all things of the church, and even hates and pursues with hatred all who acknowledge God, and especially those who acknowledge the Lord. The very delight of their life is to do evil and to commit wicked and infamous deeds of every kind. In a word, they are very devils. This a man does not know so long as he lives in the world; but he will know that it is so when he comes into the spiritual world, as he does immediately after death. Hell is full of such, where instead of having dominion they are in servitude. Moreover, when they are looked at in the light of heaven they appear inverted, with the head downwards and the feet upwards, since they gave rule the first place and uses the second, and that which is in the first place is the head, and that which is the second is the feet; and that which is the head is loved, but that which is the feet is trampled upon.

  
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