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1 Men Arons Sønner Nadab og Abihu tog hver sin Pande, kom Ild i dem og lagde øgelse derpå og frembar for HE ENs Åsyn fremmed Ild, som han ikke havde pålagt dem.

2 Da for Ild ud fra HE ENs Åsyn og fortærede dem, så de døde for HE ENs Åsyn.

3 Moses sagde da til Aron: "Det er det, HE EN talede om, da han sagde: Jeg viser min Hellighed på dem, der står mig nær, og min Herlighed for alt Folkets Øjne!" Og Aron tav.

4 Da kaldte Moses Misjael og Elzafan, Arons Farbroder, Uzziels Sønner, til sig og sagde til dem: "Kom og bær eders Frænder bort fra Helligdommen uden for Lejren!"

5 Og de kom og bar dem uden for Lejren i deres Kjortler, som Moses havde sagt.

6 Men Moses sagde til Aron og hans Sønner Eleazar og Itamar: "I må hverken lade eders Hår vokse frit eller sønderrive eders Klæder, ellers skal I og Vrede komme over hele Menigheden; lad eders Brødre, hele Israels Hus, begræde den Brand, HE EN har antændt;

7 og vig ikke fra Åbenbaringsteltets indgang, ellers skal I , thi HE ENs Salveolie er på eder!" Og de gjorde som Moses sagde.

8 Og HE EN talede til Aron og sagde:

9 Vin og stærk Drik må hverken du eller dine Sønner drikke, når I gået ind i Åbenbaringsteltet, for at I ikke skal . Det skal være eder en evig gyldig Anordning fra Slægt til Slægt,

10 for at I kan gøre Skel mellem det hellige og det, der ikke er helligt, og mellem det urene og det rene,

11 og for at I kan vejlede Israeliterne i alle de Love, HE EN har kundgjort dem ved Moses.

12 Og Moses sagde til Aron og hans tilbageblevne Sønner Eleazar og Itamar: "Tag Afgrødeofferet, der er levnet fra HE ENs Ildoffer, og spis det usyret ved Siden af Alteret, thi det er højhelligt;

13 I skal spise det på et helligt Sted; det er jo din og dine Sønners retmæssige Del af HE ENs Ildofre; thi således er det mig påbudt.

14 Og Svingningsbrystet og Offerydelseskøllen skal I spise på et rent Sted, du, dine Sønner og Døtre, thi de er givet dig tillige med dine Sønner som en retmæssig Del af Israeliternes Takofre;

15 Offerydelseskøllen og Svingningsbrystet skal man frembære sammen med de til Ildofre bestemte Fedtdele, for at Svingningen kan udføres for HE ENs Åsyn, og de skal tilfalde dig og dine Sønner tillige med dig som en evig gyldig ettighed, således som HE EN har påbudt!"

16 Og Moses spurgte efter Syndofferbukken, men se, den var opbrændt. Da blev han fortørnet på Eleazar og Itamar, Arons tilbageblevne Sønner, og sagde:

17 "Hvorfor har I ikke spist Syndofferet på det hellige Sted? Det er jo dog højhelligt, og han har givet eder det. for at I skal borttage Menighedens Skyld og således skaffe dem Soning for HE ENs Åsyn.

18 Se, Blodet deraf er ikke blevet bragt ind i Helligdommens Indre, derfor havde det været eders Pligt at spise det på det hellige Sted, således som jeg har påbudt!"

19 Men Aron svarede Moses: "Se, de har i Dag frembåret deres Syndoffer og Brændoffer for HE ENs Åsyn, og en sådan Tilskikkelse har ramt mig! Om jeg i Dag havde spist Syndofferkød, vilde HE EN da have billiget det?"

20 Da Mose's hørte dette, billigede han det.

   


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748. "And eat her flesh and burn her with fire." This symbolically means that Protestants will with hatred condemn and destroy in themselves the evils and falsities inherent in the Roman Catholic religion, and will renounce the religion itself and expunge it in themselves.

This is said of Protestants, who will deal thus with the harlot, that is, with the Roman Catholic religion. To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, about which we will say more below. And to burn her with fire means, symbolically, to renounce that religion as profane and expunge it in themselves.

This is what burning with fire means because the penalty for profaning something holy was burning. Therefore, according to Divine law, people who profaned the name of Jehovah by worshiping other gods were burned with fire - they and all their belongings (Deuteronomy 13:12-18). Therefore Moses burned with fire the golden calf that the children of Israel were profanely worshiping (Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 9:21). Moreover, because two of Aaron's sons profaned holy things, they were consumed by fire from heaven (Leviticus 10:1-6). Nor is anything else symbolized by the fire and pyre in Tophet but the fire of hell, which awaits those who profane holy things (Isaiah 30:33, Jeremiah 7:11, 31-32; 19:5-6, 2 Kings 23:10), for there the people worshiped Molech with a heinous sacrifice. 1

[2] Since the fourth beast in Daniel 7 symbolizes a religion that profanes the Word and consequently the sanctities of the church (no. 717), therefore we are told that it was burned with fire (Daniel 7:11).

Now, because it is profane worship to worship a person instead of the Lord, we are accordingly told here that they burnt the harlot with fire, which symbolically means that they renounced the religion itself and expunged it in themselves.

To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, because that is the symbolic meaning of eating her flesh. For flesh symbolizes the inherent characteristics of a thing which relate to goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, to evils and falsities, and to eat means, symbolically, to consume, thus to destroy.

That flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, which in itself is evil, is clear from the following passages:

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. (John 6:63)

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)

As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to be children of God...: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh... (John 1:12-13)

(God) remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again. (Psalms 78:39)

The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. (Isaiah 31:3)

(Jerusalem) committed harlotry with the Egyptians..., great of flesh. (Ezekiel 16:26)

Jesus... said to (Peter), ."..flesh and blood has not revealed this to you...." (Matthew 16:17)

Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm... (Jeremiah 17:5)

[3] Because flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, and people who hate others attack their personal character with the intention of destroying it, therefore to eat the flesh has also this symbolic meaning, as in the following passages:

Let the dying die, and the cut off be cut off. Those that are left eat each other's flesh. (Zechariah 11:9)

They shall devour Israel with the whole mouth... Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm - Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh. (Isaiah 9:12, 20-21)

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh... (Isaiah 49:26)

...everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend... (Jeremiah 19:9)

To eat the flesh of sons and daughters (Jeremiah 19:9, Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:53) means, symbolically, to destroy truths and goods in oneself, for sons symbolize truths, and daughters goods, as may be seen in nos. 139, 543, 545, 612[1-4] above.

Moreover, in the Word we find reference to "all flesh," and this symbolically means all mankind (Genesis 6:12-13, 17, 19).

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1. The heinous sacrifice consisted of "passing infants through the fire to Molech," by burning them alive on a sacrificial altar. Vestiges of this worship have been found elsewhere, as far as northern Africa. Tophet was a site in the valley of Hinnom at the foot of Mount Zion on the south side. Because of the nature of its worship, the valley of Hinnon (Ge' Hinnom = Gehenna) became synonymous with Hades or hell.

  
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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.