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5 Mosebog 18

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1 Levitpræsterne, hele Levis Stamme, skal ikke have arvelod og Del sammen med det øvrige Israel, men leve af HE ENs Ildofre og af det, der tilfalder ham.

2 Han må ikke eje nogen Arvelod blandt sine Brødre; HE EN er hans Arvelod, som han lovede ham.

3 Og dette skal være den et, Præsterne har Krav på hos Folket, hos dem, der slagter Ofre, være sig Okser eller Småkvæg: Han skal give Præsten Boven, Kæberne og Kaljunet.

4 Det første af dit Korn, din Most og din Olie og den første Uld af dine Får skal du give ham.

5 Thi ham har HE EN din Gud udvalgt blandt alle dine Stammer, så at han og hans Sønner altid skal gøre Præstetjeneste i HE ENs Navn.

6 Når en Levit inden dine Porte et steds i Israel, hvor han har haft sit Ophold, kommer til det Sted, HE en udvælger det står ham frit for at komme, hvis han vil

7 må han gøre Præstetjeneste i HE EN sin Guds Navn, lige så vel som alle hans Brødre, de andre Leviter, der står for HE ENs Åsyn der.

8 De skal nyde samme et, fraregnet hvad enhver er kommet til ved Salg af sin Fædrenearv.

9 Når du kommer ind i det Land, HE EN din Gud vil give dig, må du ikke lære at efterligne disse Folks Vederstyggeligheder.

10 Der må ingen findes hos dig, som lader sin Søn eller datter gå igennem. Ilden, ingen, som driver Spådomskunst, tager Varsler, er Sandsiger eller øver Trolddom,

11 ingen, som foretager Besværgelse eller gør Spørgsmål til Genfærd og Sandsigerånder og henvender sig til de døde;

12 thi enhver, der gør sligt, er HE EN vederstyggelig, og for disse Vederstyggeligheders Skyld er det, at HE EN din Gud driver dem bort foran dig.

13 Ustraffelig skal du være for HE EN din Gud.

14 Thi disse Folk, som du skal drive bort, hører på dem, der tager Varsler og driver Spådomskunst; men sligt har HE EN din Gud ikke tilladt dig.

15 HE EN din Gud vil lade en Profet som mig fremstå af din Midte, af dine Brødre; ham skal I høre på.

16 Således udbad du dig det jo af HE EN din Gud ved Horeb, den Dag I var forsamlede, da du sagde: "Lad mig ikke mere høre HE EN min Guds øst og se denne vældige Ild, at jeg ikke skal !"

17 Da sagde HE EN til mig: "De har talt rettelig!

18 Jeg vil lade en Profet som dig fremstå for dem af deres Brødre og lægge mine Ord i hans Mund, og han skal sige dem alt, hvad jeg byder ham!

19 Og enhver, der ikke vil høre mine Ord, som han taler i mit Navn, ham vil jeg kræve til egnskab.

20 Men den Profet, der formaster sig til at tale noget i mit Navn, som jeg ikke har pålagt ham at tale, eller taler i en anden Guds Navn, den Profet skal !"

21 Og hvis du tænker ved dig selv: "Hvorledes skal vi kende det Ord, HE EN ikke har talt?"

22 så vid: Hvad en Profet taler i HE ENs Navn, uden at det sker og indtræffer, det er noget, HE EN ikke har talt. I Formastelighed har Profeten udtalt det, og du skal ikke være bange for ham!

   


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1045. Having a golden cup in her hand full of the abominations and uncleanness of her whoredoms. That this signifies doctrine from goods and truths profaned, is evident from the signification of a cup, as denoting falsity from hell. For the signification of a cup is the same as that of wine; and by wine is signified truth from heaven, and, in the opposite sense, falsity from hell (see (n. 887, 960, 1022). And because a cup signifies truth or falsity; and the doctrine of every church is either that of truth or of falsity - for all the truth or falsity of the church is contained in doctrine - therefore by a cup is also signified doctrine, and by a golden cup, the doctrine of falsity from evil.

[2] Similarly in Jeremiah:

"A golden cup is Babel in the hand of Jehovah, making drunken the whole earth" (51:7).

It is called a golden cup for the same reason that the woman is said to be clothed in crimson and scarlet, and decked with gold, precious stones, and pearls, namely, from appearance in externals, although, in internals, it is as a cup full of abominations and uncleanness. For it is as the Lord says of the externals and internals with the scribes and Pharisees:

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, who make clean the outside of the cup and platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. And ye make yourselves like to whitened sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of bones of the dead and all uncleanness" (Matthew 23:25-27).

It is also evident from the signification of abominations, as denoting the profanations of good, of which we shall speak presently; and from the signification of the uncleanness of whoredom, as denoting the profanation of truth. For whoredom signifies the falsification of truth, as above, hence the uncleanness thereof signifies profanation.

[3] As to the profanations signified by abominations, they are the perversions of the holy things of the church; thus, the turning of its goods into evils, and its truths into falsities. They are called abominations, because the angels abominate them; for so far as they were the holy things of the church, from goods and truths from the Word, they ascend into heaven; but so far as they were applied to evils, and thus profaned, they carry with them that which is infernal, concealed within. Consequently, they are perceived as things dead, in which there once was a living soul, and therefore heaven abominates and detests them.

[4] That such things are meant by abominations in the Word, is evident from the account of the abominations of Jerusalem. Thus in Ezekiel:

As that she took off the garments of her adorning which were given to her, and made herself variegated lofty places, and played the harlot upon them.

That of the gold and silver given to her, she made herself images of a male, with which she also committed whoredom.

That the oil, the incense, the bread, fine flour, and honey, which were given to her, she made into an odour of rest.

That they sacrificed their sons and their daughters.

That she committed whoredom first in Egypt, and afterwards with the sons of Asshur, and lastly with the Chaldeans. Besides several other things which are there called abominations (16:2-63).

By all these things are signified the profanations of the Word, of the church, and of worship. Similarly in other passages where abominations are either recounted or spoken of:

As Jeremiah 7:9, 10; 16:18; 32:35; Ezekiel 5:11; 7:19, 20; 8:6-18; 11:21; 14:6; 20:7, 8; Deuteronomy 7:25, 26; 12:31; 18:9, 10; Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14; Dan. 9:27; 11:31; and elsewhere.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.