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Leviticus 12

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1 Verder sprak de HEERE tot Mozes, zeggende:

2 Spreek tot de kinderen Israels, zeggende: Wanneer een vrouw zaad gegeven, en een knechtje gebaard zal hebben, zo zal zij zeven dagen onrein zijn; volgens de dagen der afzondering harer krankheid zal zij onrein zijn.

3 En op den achtsten dag zal het vlees zijner voorhuid besneden worden.

4 Daarna zal zij drie en dertig dagen blijven in het bloed harer reiniging; niets heiligs zal zij aanroeren, en tot het heiligdom zal zij niet komen, totdat de dagen harer reiniging vervuld zijn.

5 Maar indien zij een meisje gebaard zal hebben, zo zal zij twee weken onrein zijn, volgens haar afzondering; daarna zal zij zes en zestig dagen blijven in het bloed harer reiniging.

6 En als de dagen harer reiniging voor den zoon, of voor de dochter, vervuld zullen zijn, zo zal zij een eenjarig lam ten brandoffer, en een jonge duif, of tortelduif, ten zondoffer brengen, voor de deur van de tent der samenkomst, tot den priester.

7 Die zal dat offeren voor het aangezicht des HEEREN, en zal voor haar verzoening doen, zo zal zij rein zijn van den vloed haars bloeds. Dit is de wet dergene, die een knechtje of meisje gebaard heeft.

8 Maar indien haar hand niet genoeg voor een lam vindt, zo zal zij twee tortelduiven, of twee jonge duiven nemen, een ten brandoffer, en een ten zondoffer; en de priester zal voor haar verzoening doen; zo zal zij rein zijn.

   

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Dove

  

In Genesis 8:8-11, this signifies the truths and goods of faith in people who have developed spiritually. (Arcana Coelestia 870)

In John 1:32, this signifies regeneration and purification and the affections and thoughts relating to these processes. (True Christian Religion 144)

In Hosea 11:11, a dove signifies rational good.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 876)


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870. That 'a dove' means the truths and goods of faith residing with a person who is to be regenerated is clear from the meaning of 'a dove' in the Word, especially from the dove that alighted on Jesus when He was baptized, as mentioned in Matthew,

When Jesus was baptized He went up immediately out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Himself. Matthew 3:16-17; and in John 1:32, Luke 3:21-22; Mark 1:10-11.

Here 'a dove' meant nothing else than the holiness of faith, and the 'baptism' itself meant regeneration. It also meant therefore the truth and good of faith residing with the new Church that was to arise, which truth and good people receive through being regenerated by the Lord.

[2] Similar things were represented and embodied in the young doves or the turtle doves - mentioned in Leviticus 1:14-end; 5:7-10; 12:6; 14:21-22; 15:14-15, 29-30; Numbers 6:10-11; Luke 2:22-24 - which they used to offer as sacrifices and as burnt offerings in the Jewish Church, as becomes clear from each of the references just given. Anyone may grasp that they had such a meaning merely from the fact that they could not have been anything else than things of a representative nature. Otherwise they would be pointless, and in no sense Divine, for the external side of the Church is lifeless, but is made alive by the internal, as is the internal by the Lord.

[3] That 'a dove' in general means the intellectual concepts of faith is also clear in the Prophets, as in Hosea,

Ephraim will be like a stupid dove with no heart; they called Egypt, they went away to Assyria. Hosea 7:11.

In the same prophet, speaking of Ephraim,

They will tremble like a bird out of Egypt and a dove from the land of Assyria. Hosea 11:11.

Here 'Ephraim' stands for one who has intelligence, 'Egypt' for him who has knowledge, 'Assyria' for him who is rational, and 'a dove' stands for what belongs to the intellectual concepts of faith, the subject there being the regeneration of the spiritual Church. In David,

O Jehovah, deliver not the soul of [Your] turtle dove to the wild animal. Psalms 74:19.

'Wild animal' stands for people without any charity, 'the soul of a turtle dove' for the life of faith. See what has been stated and shown already in 40, 776, about birds meaning intellectual things. Harmless, beautiful, clean, and useful birds in particular mean intellectual truths and goods; but harmful, ugly, unclean, and useless ones, such as the raven, which is here used as the opposite of the dove, mean their opposites, namely falsities.

  
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