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Levitiko 17

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1 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al Moseo, dirante:

2 Parolu al Aaron kaj al liaj filoj kaj al cxiuj Izraelidoj, kaj diru al ili:Jen estas tio, kion la Eternulo ordonis:

3 Se iu el la domo de Izrael bucxos bovon aux sxafon aux kapron en la tendaro, aux se li bucxos gxin ekster la tendaro,

4 kaj ne alkondukos gxin al la pordo de la tabernaklo de kunveno, por prezenti gxin kiel oferon al la Eternulo, antaux la logxejo de la Eternulo, tiam tiu homo estos kulpa pri sango:li versxis sangon, kaj tiu homo ekstermigxos el inter sia popolo.

5 Por ke la Izraelidoj alkondukadu siajn bucxotojn, kiujn ili volas bucxi sur la kampo, kaj ili alkonduku ilin antaux la Eternulon, al la pordo de la tabernaklo de kunveno, al la pastro, kaj ili bucxu ilin kiel pacoferojn al la Eternulo.

6 Kaj la pastro aspergos per la sango la altaron de la Eternulo cxe la pordo de la tabernaklo de kunveno, kaj li fumbruligos la sebon kiel agrablan odorajxon al la Eternulo.

7 Ili ne bucxu plu siajn oferbrutojn al la demonoj, kiujn ili malcxaste adoras. Legxo eterna tio estu por ili en iliaj generacioj.

8 Kaj diru al ili:Se iu el la domo de Izrael, aux el la fremduloj, kiuj logxas inter ili, alportos bruloferon aux simplan oferon,

9 kaj ne alkondukos gxin al la pordo de la tabernaklo de kunveno, por oferfari gxin al la Eternulo, tiam tiu homo ekstermigxos el sia popolo.

10 Se iu el la domo de Izrael, aux el la fremduloj, kiuj logxas inter ili, mangxos ian sangon, tiam Mi turnos Mian vizagxon kontraux tiun, kiu mangxis la sangon, kaj Mi ekstermos lin el inter lia popolo.

11 CXar la animo de korpo estas en la sango; kaj Mi destinis al vi cxi tion por la altaro, por pekliberigi viajn animojn, cxar la sango pekliberigas per la animo.

12 Tial Mi diris al la Izraelidoj:Neniu el vi mangxu sangon, kaj ankaux la fremdulo, kiu logxas inter vi, ne mangxu sangon.

13 Se iu el la Izraelidoj, aux el la fremduloj, kiuj logxas inter ili, cxaskaptos beston aux birdon, kiun oni povas mangxi, tiam li elfluigu gxian sangon kaj kovru gxin per polvo.

14 CXar la animo de cxiu korpo estas gxia sango, en gxia animo gxi estas. Tial Mi diris al la Izraelidoj:La sangon de ia korpo ne mangxu, cxar la animo de cxiu korpo estas gxia sango; cxiu, kiu gxin mangxos, ekstermigxos.

15 Kaj cxiu, kiu mangxos mortintajxon aux dissxiritajxon, cxu li estas indigxeno, cxu fremdulo, lavu siajn vestojn kaj banu sin en akvo, kaj li estos malpura gxis la vespero, kaj poste li estos pura.

16 Sed se li ne lavos kaj sian korpon ne banos, li portos sur si sian malbonagon.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1011

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1011. 'His blood shall be shed' means his condemnation. This is clear from what has been stated. The sense of the letter implies that anyone who sheds blood, that is, who is a murderer, must be punished with death, but the internal sense implies that hatred of the neighbour condemns a person to death, that is, to hell, as the Lord also teaches in Matthew,

Whoever says to his brother, You fool! will be liable to the Gehenna of fire. Matthew 5:22.

Indeed when charity has been destroyed a person is left to himself and his proprium. He is no longer governed by the Lord by means of internal bonds, which are those of conscience, but by external bonds which are those of the law and those which he imposes upon himself so that he may be powerful and wealthy. And once these bonds are loosed, as indeed happens in the next life, he rushes into the most merciless and disgusting practices, and so to his own condemnation. 'His blood shall be shed who sheds blood' is a law of retaliation very well known to the ancients, by which they judged evil-minded and criminal acts, as is clear from many places in the Word. This law has its origin in the universal law, Do to your neighbour only what you would like others to do to you, Matthew 7:12, and also in the fact that the order embracing everything in the next life is such that evil punishes itself, as does falsity also, so that evil and falsity carry their own punishment And because order is such that evil punishes itself, or what amounts to the same, an evil man rushes into a form of punishment answering to his evil, the ancients derived from it their law of retaliation. It also is what is meant by the pronouncement here that 'whoever sheds blood his blood shall be shed', that is, he will rush into condemnation.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 357

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357. 'Cain's anger was set ablaze' means that charity had departed. This becomes clear from what comes further on, where it is said that he killed Abel his brother, who means charity. Anger is the general emotion that results from anything which gets in the way of self-love and its desires. In the world of evil spirits this is perceived plainly. Indeed general anger against the Lord prevails, because they are not moved at all by charity, but only by hatred. Anything that is unfavourable to self-love and the love of the world arouses opposition, which manifests itself in anger. In the Word, anger, wrath, and even rage, are frequently attributed to Jehovah; but in fact they belong to man and are attributed to Jehovah because they seem to be from Him, for reasons mentioned already. The following is stated in David,

He let loose on them His fierce anger and wrath, and rage, and distress, and a mission of evil angels. He levelled out a path for His anger, He did not spare their soul from death. Psalms 78:49-50.

Not that Jehovah ever 'lets loose His anger on anyone', but that people bring it down on themselves. Nor, as it is said, does He send evil angels but man takes them to himself. This is why the statement is added that 'He levels out a path for His anger and does not spare their soul from death', and it is said in Isaiah that

He will come to Jehovah, and all will be ashamed who were incensed against Isaiah 45:14.

From these quotations it is clear that 'anger' means evils, or what amounts to the same, a departure from charity.

  
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