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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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Arcana Coelestia # 934

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934. 'Cold' means the absence of love, that is, of charity and faith, 'heat' or 'fire' the presence of love or of charity and faith. This becomes clear from the following places in the Word: In John, in the letter to the Church at Laodicea,

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! But because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot I will spew you out of My mouth. Revelation 7:15, 16.

Here 'cold' stands for no charity, 'hot' for much. In Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah, I will be still and I will behold in My place; like clear heat on the light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. Isaiah 18:4.

The subject here is a new Church that is to be founded. 'Heat on the light' and 'the heat of harvest' stand for love and charity. In the same prophet,

Jehovah's fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem. Isaiah 3:9.

'Fire' stands for love. Concerning the cherubim seen by Ezekiel,

As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches, moving between the living creatures. And the five was bright and out of the fire went forth lightning. Ezekiel 1:13.

[2] And concerning the Lord in the same prophet,

Above the firmament that was above the heads of the cherubim, in appearance like a sapphire stone, there was the likeness of a throne, and above the likeness of a throne, there was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above. And I saw as it were the shape of fiery coals, as the shape of fire, within it round about, from the appearance of His loins upwards. And from the appearance of His loins and downwards I saw as it were the appearance of fire, whose brightness was round about it. Ezekiel 1:26-27; 8:2.

Here 'fire' stands for love. In Daniel,

The Ancient of Days was seated. His throne was flames of fire, its wheels were burning fire. A stream of fire issued and came forth from before Him, a thousand thousands served Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. Daniel 7:9-10.

'Fire' stands for the Lord's love. In Zechariah,

I will be to her, said Jehovah, a wall of fire round about. Zechariah 2:5.

This refers to the New Jerusalem. In David,

Jehovah makes winds His messengers, and flaming fire His ministers. Psalms 104:4.

'Flaming fire' stands for that which is celestial-spiritual.

[3] Because 'fire' meant love, fire also became a representative of the Lord. This is clear from 'the five on the altar of burnt offering that was to be kept burning all the time', Leviticus 6:9, 12-13, representing the Lord's mercy. For this reason 'before Aaron entered the place of atonement he had to burn incense with fire taken from the altar of burnt offering', Leviticus 16:12-14. And also, to signify that worship was acceptable to the Lord, 'fire was sent down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering', as in Leviticus 9:24, and elsewhere. In the Word 'fire' also means self-love and its attendant desire. With that love heavenly love can never agree; consequently it is also said that Aaron's two sons were devoured by fire because they employed strange fire, Leviticus 10:1-2. 'Strange fire' means all self-love and love of the world, and every desire accompanying those loves. In addition heavenly love seems to wicked people like nothing else than a burning and devouring fire; and this is why in the Word devouring fire is attributed to the Lord. The fire on Mount Sinai, for example, which represented the Lord's love or mercy, was perceived by the people as a consuming fire, as a consequence of which they told Moses not to make them hear the voice of Jehovah God, or see the great Fire lest they died, Deuteronomy 18:16. This is how the Lord's love or mercy appears to people engulfed in the fire of self-love and love of the world.

  
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