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Ezechiel 44

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1 Tedy přivedl mne zase cestou k bráně svatyně zevnitřní, kteráž patří k východu, a ta byla zavřená.

2 I řekl ke mně Hospodin: Brána tato zavřená bude, nebudeť otvírána, aniž kdo bude vcházeti skrze ni. Nebo Hospodin Bůh Izraelský všel skrze ni; protož budeť zavřená.

3 Knížecí jest, kníže samo v ní sedati bude, aby jídalo chléb před Hospodinem. Cestou síně této brány vejde, a cestou její vyjde.

4 I vedl mne cestou k bráně půlnoční, k přední straně domu, i viděl jsem, a aj, naplnila sláva Hospodinova dům Hospodinův. I padl jsem na tvář svou.

5 I řekl ke mně Hospodin: Synu člověčí, přilož srdce své, a viz očima svýma, i ušima svýma slyš, cožkoli já mluvím tobě o všech ustanoveních domu Hospodinova, i o všech zákonech jeho. Přilož, pravím, srdce své k vcházení do domu, i ke všemu vycházení z svatyně,

6 A rci zpurnému domu Izraelskému: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Dosti mějte na všech ohavnostech svých, ó dome Izraelský,

7 Že jste uvodili cizozemce neobřezaného srdce a neobřezaného těla, aby bývali v svatyni mé, a poškvrňovali i domu mého, když jste obětovali chléb můj, tuk i krev, ješto oni sic rušili smlouvu mou, mimo všecky ohavnosti vaše,

8 A nedrželi jste stráže nad svatými věcmi mými, ale postavili jste strážné na stráži mé, v svatyni mé místo sebe.

9 Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Žádný cizozemec neobřezaného srdce a neobřezaného těla nevejde do svatyně mé, ze všech cizozemců, kteříž mezi syny Izraelskými jsou.

10 Nýbrž i Levítové, kteříž se vzdalovali ode mne, když bloudil Izrael, kteříž zbloudili ode mne za ukydanými bohy svými, ponesou nepravost svou.

11 Nebo budou v svatyni mé za služebníky, v povinnostech při branách domu, a za slouhy při domu. Oni budou zabíjeti oběti zápalné i oběti lidu, a oni stávati budou před nimi k sloužení jim,

12 Proto že přisluhovali jim před ukydanými bohy jejich, a byli domu Izraelskému příčinou pádu v nepravost. Pročež přisáhl jsem jim, praví Panovník Hospodin, že ponesou nepravost svou.

13 Aniž přistoupí ke mně, aby mi kněžský úřad konali, ovšem aby přistupovati měli k kterým svatým věcem mým, neb k nejsvětějším, ale ponesou pohanění své i ohavnosti své, kteréž páchali.

14 Protož postavím je za strážné u domu, ke vší službě jeho i ke všemu, což činěno býti má v něm.

15 Kněží pak Levítští, synové Sádochovi, kteříž drželi stráž nad svatyní mou, když zbloudili synové Izraelští ode mne, ti budou přistupovati ke mně, aby mi přisluhovali, a státi před tváří mou, obětujíce mi tuk i krev, praví Panovník Hospodin.

16 Ti přicházeti budou k svatyni mé, a ti přistupovati k stolu mému, aby mi sloužili a drželi stráž mou.

17 I stane se, když budou míti vcházeti do bran síně vnitřní, že roucha lněná oblekou, aniž na se vezmou vlněného, když by služby konati měli v branách síně vnitřní i u vnitřku.

18 Klobouky lněné míti budou na hlavě své, a košilky lněné ať mají na bedrách svých, a nepřepasují se ničímž, což by pot vyvodilo.

19 A majíce vyjíti do síně zevnitřní, do síně zevnitřní k lidu, svlekou roucha svá, v kterýchž služby konali, a nechají jich v komůrkách svatyně, a oblekou roucha jiná, a nebudou posvěcovati lidu rouchem svým.

20 Aniž hlavy své holiti budou, ani vlasů nositi, ale slušně ostříhají vlasy své.

21 Vína též nebude píti žádný z kněží, když budou míti vcházeti do síně vnitřní.

22 Vdovy také aneb zahnané nebudou sobě pojímati za manželky, ale panny z semene domu Izraelského, aneb vdovu, kteráž by ovdověla po knězi, pojíti mohou.

23 A lid můj budou rozdílu učiti mezi svatým a nesvatým, též mezi nečistým a čistým ať je učí rozeznávati.

24 V rozepři pak ať se postavují k souzení, a podlé soudu mého soudí ji. Zákonů mých i ustanovení mých při všech slavnostech mých ať ostříhají, a soboty mé světí.

25 K mrtvému pak člověku nepůjde, aby se poškvrniti měl, leč při otci neb při mateři, též při synu a při dceři, při bratru a sestře, kteráž nebyla za mužem, může se poškvrniti.

26 Po očištění pak jeho (sedm dní odečtou jemu),

27 V ten den, v kterýž vejde do svatyně, do síně vnitřní, aby služby konal v svatyni, obětovati bude za hřích svůj, praví Panovník Hospodin.

28 Dědictví pak jejich toto: Já jsem Dědictví jejich, protož vládařství nedávejte jim v Izraeli; já jsem vládařství jejich.

29 Oběti suché a za hřích i vinu, to oni jísti budou, i všelijaká věc, oddána Bohu v Izraeli, jejich bude.

30 I přední věci všech prvotin ze všeho, i každá obět zhůru pozdvižení všeliké věci, ze všech obětí zhůru pozdvižení vašich, kněžské bude. I prvotiny těsta vašeho dávati budete knězi, aby odpočinulo požehnání v domě tvém.

31 Žádné mrchy a udáveného, ani z ptactva ani z hovad nebudou jídati kněží.

   

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5247. 'And he clipped [his hair and beard]' means a casting aside and the change made so far as the coverings of the exterior natural were concerned. This is clear from the meaning of 'clipping' - that is, clipping the head and beard - as casting aside the coverings of the exterior natural. For 'hair' which was clipped means the exterior natural, see 3301. Also, both hair on the head and that composing the beard correspond in the Grand Man to the exterior natural. This explains why in the light of heaven sensory-minded people - that is, those who have had no belief in anything apart from that which is natural, and have had no desire to understand how anything more internal or purer can exist apart from that which they can perceive with their senses - have a hairy appearance in the next life. They look so hairy that their faces are scarcely anything else than hairy beards. I have seen faces covered with hair like these on many occasions. But rationally-minded people, that is, spiritually-minded ones, with whom the natural has played a correctly subordinate role, are seen with tidy hair. Indeed from the state of people's hair in the next life one can tell what the natural with them is like. The reason spirits appear with hair on their heads is that in the next life spirits look exactly like people on earth. This too is why the Word sometimes includes a description of the hair of the angels people have seen.

[2] From all this one may now see what is meant by 'clipping', as in Ezekiel,

The priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, shall put off their garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, and they shall not sanctify the people in their own garments. And they shall not shave their head and shall not let their hair grow long; they shall surely clip their heads. Ezekiel 44:15, 19-20.

This refers to a new Temple and a new priesthood, that is, to a new Church. 'Putting on other garments' means holy truths; 'not shaving their head, and not letting their hair grow long, but surely clipping their heads' means not casting aside the natural but taking measures to make it conformable, and so to make it subordinate. Anyone who believes that the Word is indeed holy can see that these and all the other details mentioned by the prophet which describe a new land, a new city, and a new Temple and priesthood must not be taken literally. The statement, for example, that the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, will minister there, at which time they will put off their ministerial garments and put on new ones, and will also clip their heads, is not meant literally; rather, each and all the details given by the prophet have as their meaning such things as are aspects of a new Church.

[3] The following rules were laid down for the high priest, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, in Moses,

The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated 1 to wear the garments, shall not shave his head or rend his garments. Leviticus 21:10.

The sons of Aaron shall not introduce any baldness on their head or shave the corner of their beard. They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God. Leviticus 21:5-6.

You shall purify the Levites like this: Sprinkle over them the water of expiation, and they shall pass a razor over their flesh and wash their garments, and they shall be pure. Numbers 8:7.

These rules would never have been given unless they had held holy ideas within them. Can there be anything holy or anything of the Church in the actual rule forbidding the high priest to shave his head or rend his garments, or in the actual rule forbidding the sons of Levi to introduce any baldness on their head or shave the corner of their beard, or in that commanding the Levites to shave their flesh with a razor when they underwent purification? Rather, the possession of an external or natural man made subordinate to the internal or spiritual man, both of which have thereby been made subordinate to the Divine, is the holy idea within those rules; and it is also what angels perceive when man reads about them in the Word.

[4] The same goes for what is said about a Nazirite who was holy to Jehovah. If someone next to him happened to die suddenly and so defile his consecrated head, the Nazirite was required to clip his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he had to clip it. On the day that the days of his Naziriteship were completed he had to clip his consecrated head at the door of the Tent of Meeting and to take the hair from his head and put it on the fire which was under the sacrifice of peace offerings, Numbers 6:8, 9, 13, 18. For the meaning of a Nazirite and what aspect of holiness he represented, see 3301. No one can possibly understand why anything holy existed within the Nazirite's hair unless he knows from correspondence what is meant by 'the hair' and from this what aspect of holiness a Nazirite's hair corresponded to. Nor can anyone likewise understand how the source of Samson's strength lay in his hair, which he told Delilah about in the following description,

No razor has come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite of God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, my strength will depart from me, and I shall become weak and be like anyone else. And Delilah called a man who shaved off the seven locks of his hair; and his strength departed from him. After that, when the hair on his head began to grow, even as it had been shaved off, his strength returned to him. Judges 16:17, 19, 22.

Without any knowledge of correspondence who can see that the Lord's Divine Natural was represented by 'a Nazirite', or that 'Naziriteship' had no other meaning than this, or that Samson's strength was due to that representation?

[5] Anyone who does not know, and more so one who does not believe that the Word has an internal sense, and that the sense of the letter serves to represent the real things contained in the internal sense, will recognize scarcely anything holy at all in these matters, when in fact the greatest holiness lies within them. Anyone who does not know, and more so one who does not believe that the Word has an internal sense that is intrinsically holy cannot know what the following texts enfold within them: In Jeremiah,

Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth. Cut off the hair of your Naziriteship and throw it away. Jeremiah 7:28-29.

In Isaiah,

On that day the Lord will shave by means of a razor hired at the crossing-places of the River - by means of the king of Asshur - the head and the hair of the feet; and it will consume the beard also. Isaiah 7:20.

In Micah,

Make yourself bald, and shave your head for the children of your delight; extend your baldness like an eagle, for they have departed from you. Micah 1:16.

Nor will anyone know the aspect of holiness contained in the reference to Elijah's being a man covered with hair, who wore a skin girdle around his loins, 2 Kings 1:8. Nor will he know why the children who called Elisha baldhead were torn apart by the bears out of the forest, 2 Kings 2:23-24.

[6] Both Elijah and Elisha represented the Lord as to the Word, and so represented the Word itself, specifically the prophetical part, see Preface to Genesis 18, and 2762. Being covered with hair and having a skin girdle meant the literal sense, 'a man covered with hair' meaning that sense so far as truths were concerned, 'wearing a skin girdle around his loins' so far as forms of good were concerned. For the literal sense is the natural sense of the Word since it employs ideas formed from things that exist in the world, whereas the internal sense is the spiritual sense because it employs ideas formed from things existing in heaven. These two senses are related to each other in the way that the internal and the external are related in the human being. But because the internal can have no existence without the external, the external being the last and lowest degree of order within which the internal is held in being, the calling of Elisha 'baldhead' therefore meant the shameful accusation made against the Word that it lacked so to speak an external and so lacked a sense suited to man's capacity to understand it.

[7] From all this one may see that every particular detail in the Word is holy. However, this holiness within the Word is discerned by no one unless he is acquainted with the internal sense; yet an inkling of it flows from heaven into someone who believes that the Word is holy. The internal sense known to the angels is the channel through which that influx comes; and even if the person has no understanding of that sense it nevertheless stimulates an affection in him, because the affection felt by the angels who know that sense is communicated to him. From this it is also evident that the Word was given to man so that he might have a means of communication with heaven and so that by flowing into him Divine Truth in heaven might stimulate affection in him.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, whose hand has been filled

  
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