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Levitska 24

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1 Jahve reče Mojsiju:

2 "Naredi Izraelcima da ti za svijećnjak donose čistoga ulja od istupanih maslina, da se uvijek održava svjetlo.

3 Neka ga Aron svagda sprema pred Jahvom od večeri do jutra u Šatoru sastanka, pred zavjesom Svjedočanstva. Neka je ovo trajan zakon vašim naraštajima.

4 Neka Aron neprekidno održava svjetlila na čistome svijećnjaku pred Jahvom."

5 "Potom uzmi najboljeg brašna i od njega ispeci dvanaest pogača. Neka u svakoj pogači budu dvije desetine efe.

6 Onda ih poredaj u dva reda - po šest u redu - na čistome stolu što je pred Jahvom.

7 Na svaki red stavi čistoga tamjana. Neka to bude hrana prinesena kao spomen - paljena žrtva Jahvi.

8 Svake subote, bez prijekida, neka se postavljaju pred Jahvu. To neka Izraelci vrše zbog vječnoga Saveza.

9 Neka pripadnu Aronu i njegovim sinovima. Oni ih imaju blagovati na posvećenu mjestu. To je njemu vrlo svet dio Jahvinih paljenih žrtava. To neka bude trajna odredba."

10 A sin jedne Izraelke, komu otac bijaše Egipćanin, iziđe među Izraelce i zametne u taboru svađu s nekim Izraelcem.

11 Uto sin Izraelke pogrdi Ime i opsuje ga. Tada ga dovedu Mojsiju. - Mati mu se zvala Šelomit, a bila je kći Dibrijeva iz plemena Danova. -

12 Stave ga u zatvor dok im se ne očituje volja Jahvina.

13 Onda Jahve reče Mojsiju:

14 "Izvedi psovača iz tabora. Potom svi oni koji su ga čuli neka stave svoje ruke na njegovu glavu. A onda neka ga sva zajednica kamenuje.

15 Poslije toga ćeš ovako prozboriti Izraelcima: Tko god opsuje Boga svoga neka snosi svoju krivnju;

16 tko izgovori hulu na ime Jahvino neka se smakne - neka ga sva zajednica kamenuje; bio stranac ili domorodac, ako pohuli ime Jahvino, mora mrijeti.

17 Ako čovjek zada smrtan udarac drugome, mora se smaknuti.

18 Tko usmrti živinče mora ga nadomjestiti: život za život.

19 Tko ozlijedi svoga bližnjega neka mu se učini kako je on učinio:

20 lom za lom, oko za oko, zub za zub - rana koju je on zadao drugome neka se zada i njemu.

21 Tko usmrti živinče mora ga nadoknaditi, ali tko ubije čovjeka mora umrijeti.

22 Neka vam je jednak sud i strancu i domorocu. Jer ja sam Jahve, Bog vaš."

23 Pošto je Mojsije to izložio Izraelcima, oni izvedu psovača izvan tabora i zaspu ga kamenjem. Učine, dakle, Izraelci kako je Jahve Mojsiju naredio.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 610

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610. And its number is 666. This symbolically means, their character being this, that by them all the Word's truth has been falsified.

The number of the beast symbolizes the character of the arguments the clergy use from the Word to defend their doctrine and faith (nos. 608, 609). Six hundred and sixty-six symbolizes every truth having to do with goodness, and because the statement is made in application to the Word, it symbolizes every truth in the Word having to do with goodness, in this case that truth falsified, because the number is the number of the beast.

This is the symbolic meaning because six has the same symbolism as three multiplied by two, and three symbolizes completeness and all and is predicated of truths (no. 505), while two symbolizes the marriage of truth and good. So, because six is composed of these two numbers multiplied together, therefore it symbolizes every truth in the Word having to do with goodness, in this case that truth falsified. That it also was falsified by the clergy may be seen in no. 566 above.

The number is said to be 666, because it contains the number six repeated three times, and tripling it makes it complete. Multiplying six by one hundred to make six hundred, and by ten to make sixty, does not change the number's symbolic meaning, as may be seen in no. 348 above.

[2] That the number six symbolizes completeness and all, and is used when the subject is truths having to do with goodness, may be seen from passages in the Word where that number is mentioned. However, the symbolism of the number appears clearly only to people who see the things contained in the spiritual sense. As for instance, the Lord's saying that the seeds that fell on good ground yielded fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred (Mark 4:8, 20, Matthew 13:8, 23); and that a landowner went out and hired laborers for his vineyard at the third hour and at the sixth hour (Matthew 20:3, 5). Also that the table in the Tabernacle had on it cakes of showbread arranged in two rows, each containing six cakes (Leviticus 24:6). That there were set six waterpots for the purification of the Jews (John 2:6). That there were six cities of refuge or of asylum (Numbers 35:6-7, Deuteronomy 19:1-9). That the measuring reed with which the angel measured all parts of the new temple and new city was six cubits long (Ezekiel 40:5). That the prophet drank water by measure, a sixth of a hin (Ezekiel 4:11). That they took as an offering a sixth of an ephah of a homer of wheat (Ezekiel 45:13).

Since the number six symbolizes completeness, therefore words for separating a sixth part came into use, which in the spiritual sense symbolizes something that is complete and entire, as that they gave a sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley (Ezekiel 45:13). And regarding Gog, "I will turn you around and leave but a sixth part of you" (Ezekiel 39:2). This last symbolically means that in Gog all truth in the Word having to do with goodness is destroyed. Just who are meant by Gog may be seen in no. 859.

  
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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.