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Levitska 2

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1 "Kad tko želi prinijeti Jahvi žrtvu prinosnicu, neka njegov dar bude od najboljeg brašna; neka ga polije uljem i na nj stavi tamjana.

2 Neka ga onda donese Aronovim sinovima, svećenicima. Zatim neka zagrabi šaku od toga brašna i ulja i sav tamjan, pa neka svećenik na žrtveniku to sažeže u kad za spomen-žrtvu. To je žrtva paljena Jahvi na ugodan miris.

3 A što od žrtve prinosnice ostane, neka pripadne Aronu i njegovim sinovima - najsvetije od žrtava Jahvi paljenih.

4 Ako za žrtvu prinosnicu želiš prinijeti tijesta pečena u peći, neka to budu beskvasne pogače od najboljeg brašna, zamiješene u ulju, ili beskvasne prevrte uljem namazane.

5 Ako tvoj dar bude žrtva prinosnica pečena na tavi, neka bude od najboljeg brašna, neukvasana i u ulju zamiješena.

6 U komade je izlomi i po njima ulja polij: žrtva je to prinosnica.

7 Bude li tvoja prinosnica kuhana u kotluši, neka bude od najboljeg brašna, pripravljena s uljem.

8 Donosi Jahvi žrtvu prinosnicu tako pripravljenu! Neka se preda svećeniku, a on će je polagati na žrtvenik.

9 Neka svećenik odvoji od žrtve prinosnice dio kao spomen-žrtvu, pa neka ga sažeže u kad na žrtveniku - kao žrtvu paljenu Jahvi na ugodan miris!

10 A što od žrtve prinosnice ostane, neka pripadne Aronu i njegovim sinovima - najsvetije od žrtava Jahvi paljenih.

11 Nikakva žrtva prinosnica koju budeš prinosio Jahvi neka ne bude priređivana s kvasom, jer ne smiješ u kad sažigati ni kvasa ni meda kao žrtvu paljenicu.

12 Prinosite ih Jahvi kao prvine plodova, ali neka se sa žrtvenika ne viju na ugodan miris.

13 Svaku svoju žrtvu prinosnicu posoli. Ne ostavljaj svoje žrtve prinosnice bez soli Saveza sa svojim Bogom: sa svakim svojim prinosom prinesi i sol.

14 Ako prinosiš Jahvi žrtvu prinosnicu od prvina, prinesi tu žrtvu od prvina svojih plodova u obliku klasa pržena na vatri ili brašna od samljevenog zrnja.

15 Dodaj još ulja i na nju stavi tamjana. To je žrtva prinosnica.

16 Onda neka svećenik sažeže u kad za spomen-žrtvu dio kruha i ulja i sav tamjan kao žrtvu Jahvi paljenu."

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 781

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781. "And merchandise of horses, and wagons, and the bodies and souls of people." This symbolically means that all of these things depend on an understanding of the Word and on doctrine drawn from it, and on the goods and truths in the Word's literal sense, which these Roman Catholics do not possess, because they have falsified and adulterated the Word by using the things in it contrary to their real meaning in order to gain dominion over heaven and the world.

The valuables here follow the preposition "of," because they involve all of the things that go before. That horses symbolize an understanding of the Word may be seen in no. 298. Chariots symbolize doctrine from the Word (no. 437); consequently so do wagons. The bodies and souls of people symbolize goods and truths in the literal sense of the Word, because they have the same symbolism as the body and blood in the Holy Supper. The body in that supper symbolizes the Lord's Divine goodness, and the blood the Lord's Divine truth; and because of this symbolism they also symbolize the Divine good and truth in the Word, because the Lord embodies the Word.

Instead of blood, however, the text here says souls. That is because the soul likewise symbolizes truth (see no. 681 above), and because blood in the Word is called the life or soul (Genesis 9:4-5). "Human lives" in Ezekiel 27:13 has a similar symbolic meaning. So does the "seed of men" in Daniel 2:43.

[2] Horses and wagons have a similar symbolic meaning in Isaiah:

Then they shall bring all your brethren... on horses and in chariots and in wagons, and on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem... (Isaiah 66:20)

This is said of the Lord's New Church, which Jerusalem is, regarding people in it who have an understanding of the Word and doctrine derived from it, which are the horses, chariots, and wagons.

Now because these people of the Roman Catholic religion falsify and adulterate the Word by using it to gain dominion over heaven and the world, the symbolic meaning here is that they do not possess any goods and truths from the Word, and so do not have any in their doctrine either.

Regarding this Jeremiah says the following:

...the king of Babylon has devoured me, has thrown me into confusion; He has made me an empty vessel; He has swallowed me up like a whale; He has filled his stomach with my delicacies... (Jeremiah 51:34-35)

A sword is against the horses (of Babylon), against her chariots, and... against her treasures, so that they are plundered. A drought is upon her waters, so that they are dried up. For the land is one of carved images, and they boast of their dreadful deeds. (Jeremiah 50:37-38)

  
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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.

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Jeremiah 51:34-35

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34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.