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Leviticus 26

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1 Te ei tohi enestele teha ebajumalaid ega nikerdatud kuju, ärge püstitage enestele ühtki sammast ja ärge pange oma maale kummardamiseks kivist kuju, sest mina olen Issand, teie Jumal!

2 Pidage minu hingamispäevi ja kartke mu pühamut! Mina olen Issand!

3 Kui te käite mu seaduste järgi ning peate mu käske ja teete nende järgi,

4 siis ma annan teile vihma õigel ajal ning maa annab oma saagi ja puud väljal annavad oma vilja;

5 rehepeks kestab teil viinamarjalõikuseni ja viinamarjalõikus kestab külviajani: te saate leiba süüa küllastuseni ja elada oma maal julgesti.

6 Ja mina annan maale rahu, te saate magada ja ükski ei hirmuta teid; ma hävitan maalt kurjad metsloomad ja mõõk ei käi üle teie maast.

7 Te ajate taga oma vaenlasi ja need langevad teie ees mõõga läbi.

8 Viis teie seast ajavad taga sadat ja sada teie seast ajavad taga kümmet tuhandet, ja teie vaenlased langevad teie ees mõõga läbi.

9 Ma pöördun teie poole ja teen teid viljakaks, lasen teid saada arvurikkaks ja jõustan oma lepingu teiega.

10 Teile jätkub söömiseks vana, mullust vilja ja uudse pärast peate välja viskama mulluse.

11 Ma panen oma eluaseme teie keskele ja mu hing ei põlga teid ära.

12 Ma käin teie keskel ja olen teie Jumal, ja teie peate olema mu rahvas.

13 Mina olen Issand, teie Jumal, kes tõi teid ära Egiptusemaalt, et te ei oleks enam nende orjad; ma murdsin katki teie ikkepuud ja panin teid käima püstipäi.

14 Aga kui te ei kuula mind ega tee kõigi nende käskude järgi,

15 vaid hülgate mu määrused ja teie hinged põlgavad mu seadlusi, nõnda et te ei tee kõigi mu käskude järgi, vaid tühistate mu lepingu,

16 siis teen ka mina teiega sedasama ja saadan teie kallale ootamatu kohkumise, kõhetustõve ja palaviku, mis kustutab silmad ja närib hinge; ja te külvate ilmaaegu oma seemet, sest teie vaenlased söövad selle.

17 Ja ma pööran oma palge teie vastu ning teie vaenlane lööb teid; teie vihamehed hakkavad valitsema teie üle ja te põgenete, isegi kui keegi teid taga ei aja.

18 Ja kui te sellest hoolimata ei kuula mind, siis ma karistan teid veel seitse korda enam teie pattude pärast.

19 Ma murran teie ülbe kõrkuse ja teen teie taeva raua ja teie maa vase sarnaseks.

20 Siis teie ramm kulub asjata, teie maa ei anna enam saaki ja maa puud ei kanna vilja.

21 Ja kui te siiski teete mulle vastuoksa ega taha mind kuulda, siis ma nuhtlen teid veel seitsmekordselt teie pattude pärast.

22 Ma läkitan teie kallale metsloomad, kes teevad teid lapsetuks, murravad teie kariloomad ja vähendavad teid endid, nõnda et teie teed jäävad tühjaks.

23 Aga kui te sellest veel ei lase endid minu poolt hoiatada ja teete mulle ikka vastuoksa,

24 siis teen minagi teile vastuoksa ja mina löön teid seitsmekordselt teie pattude pärast.

25 Ma saadan teie kallale tasumismõõga, mis tasub kätte lepingu rikkumise eest. Ja kui te siis kogunete oma linnadesse, läkitan mina teie keskele katku ja teid antakse vaenlase kätte.

26 Kui ma murran katki teie leivatoe, siis küpsetavad teie leiba kümme naist ühes ahjus; nad annavad teie leiva tagasi kaalu järgi, ja kui te sööte, siis teie kõhud ei saa täis.

27 Aga kui te seejuures veel ei kuula mind ja teete mulle vastuoksa,

28 siis teen minagi tulises vihas teile vastuoksa ja karistan teid seitsmekordselt teie pattude pärast.

29 Te hakkate sööma oma poegade ja tütarde liha.

30 Ma hävitan teie ohvrikünkad ja purustan teie suitsutusaltarid; ma viskan teie laibad teie elutute ebajumalate peale ja mu hing põlastab teid.

31 Ma teen teie linnad varemeiks ja hävitan teie pühamud, ja ma ei salli enam teie meeldivat lõhna.

32 Jah, mina ise hävitan maa, nõnda et teie vaenlased, kes seal elavad, pööraselt kohkuvad.

33 Teid ma aga pillutan rahvaste sekka ja paljastan mõõga teie taga. Teie maa laastatakse ja teie linnad muutuvad varemeiks.

34 Siis maa saab hüvituse oma puhkeaegade arvel kõigil oma tühjuse päevil ja teie viibides vaenlaste maal. Siis maa puhkab ja saab hüvituse oma puhkeaegade arvel.

35 Kõigil oma laastatud oleku päevil ta puhkab; puhkus, mida ta ei saanud teie puhkeaegadel, siis kui te elasite seal.

36 Ja kes teist üle jäävad, nende südamed ma teen araks nende vaenlaste maal: isegi tuules lendleva lehe kahin ajab neid pakku ja nad põgenevad, otsekui põgeneksid mõõga eest. Ja nad langevad maha, olgugi et keegi taga ei aja.

37 Ja nad komistavad üksteise otsa, just nagu mõõga ees, kuigi keegi taga ei aja. Te ei suuda oma vaenlastele vastu panna.

38 Te hukkute rahvaste seas ja teid neelab teie vaenlaste maa.

39 Ja kes teist üle jäävad, hääbuvad oma patusüü pärast oma vaenlaste maal; nad hääbuvad ka oma vanemate patusüü pärast nagu nood.

40 Siis nad tunnistavad oma patusüüd ja oma vanemate patusüüd, truudusetust, mida nad mulle osutasid, samuti, et nad tegid mulle vastuoksa.

41 Minagi pean tegema neile vastuoksa ja viima nad vaenlaste maale: vahest siis alandab ennast nende ümberlõikamata süda ja nad tunnistavad oma patusüüd.

42 Siis ma mõtlen oma lepingule Jaakobi, Iisaki ja Aabrahamiga, ja ma mõtlen ka maale.

43 Aga esmalt jääb maa nende poolt mahajäetuks ja saab hüvituse oma puhkeaegade arvel, siis kui on neist tühjendatud; ja nad ise peavad tunnistama oma patusüüd, aina sellepärast, et nad on hüljanud mu seadlused ja nende hing on põlanud mu määrusi.

44 Aga isegi siis, kui nad on oma vaenlaste maal, ma ei hülga neid ega põlga täieliku hävituseni, tühistades oma lepingu nendega, sest mina olen Issand, nende Jumal.

45 Ja ma mõtlen nende heaks lepingule nende esivanematega, keda ma rahvaste silme all tõin ära Egiptusemaalt, et olla neile Jumalaks. Mina olen Issand!'

46 Need on määrused, seadlused ja õpetused, mis Issand Siinai mäel Moosese kaudu andis enese ja Iisraeli laste vahele.

   

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716. 'Sevens of each' means that they are holy. This is clear from what has been stated already in 84-87 about the seventh day or sabbath. That is to say, the Lord is the Seventh Day and from Him derives every celestial Church or man, and indeed, the celestial itself which, because it is the Lord's alone, is most holy. Consequently seven in the Word means holy; indeed in the internal sense, as here, absolutely nothing is obtained from the number itself. For people who possess the internal sense, as angels and angelic spirits do, have no concept at all of what a number is, and so do not know what seven is. Therefore the idea that they were to take seven pairs of all the clean beasts, or that the ratio of the good to the evil was to be seven to two, is not at all the meaning here. Rather it is this: Things of the will with which this member of the Church was supplied were the goods which are holy, through which, as stated already, he was capable of being regenerated.

[2] That 'seven' means that which is holy, or things that are holy, becomes clear from the rituals in the representative Church, where the number seven occurs time and again, for example, being sprinkled seven times with blood and oil, as in Leviticus,

Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the Tabernacle and everything that was in it and made them holy. And he sprinkled some of it over the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels to make them holy. Leviticus 8:10-11.

Here 'seven times' would be utterly devoid of meaning if that which is holy was not being represented in this way. 'Oil' there means the holiness of love. And elsewhere in Leviticus, when Aaron entered the Holy Place,

He shall take some of the blood of the young bull, and shall sprinkle it with his finger over the face 1 of the mercy-seat towards the east, and he shall sprinkle the face 1 of the mercy-seat seven times with some of the blood with his finger.

Similarly with the altar,

He shall sprinkle over it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and shall cleanse it, and make it holy. Leviticus 16:14, 19.

Here every single detail means the Lord Himself, and therefore the holiness of love - that is to say, 'the blood' and also 'the mercy-seat', 'the altar' too, 'the east in which direction the blood was to be sprinkled', and so 'seven' as well, all mean the Lord.

[3] In sacrifices it is similar, about which the following is said in Leviticus,

If a soul has sinned inadvertently, and if the anointed priest has sinned, thus making the people guilty, he shall slaughter the young bull in Jehovah's presence. And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times in Jehovah's presence towards the veil of the Holy Place. Leviticus 4:2-4, 6.

Here similarly 'seven' means that which is holy, for the subject is atonement, and therefore the Lord, since atonement is the Lord's alone. Similar instructions were also given concerning the cleansing of leprosy, about which the following is said in Leviticus,

[Taking some] of the bird's blood, the cedar-wood, the double-dyed scarlet, and the hyssop, the priest shall sprinkle over the one who is to be cleansed from leprosy seven times, and shall cleanse him. In a similar way some of the oil which is in his left palm, seven times in Jehovah's presence. In a similar way in a house where there is leprosy, [he shall take some] of the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the double-dyed scarlet, and shall sprinkle some of the bird's blood seven times. Leviticus 14:6-7, 27, 51.

Anyone may see that here cedar-wood, double-dyed scarlet, hyssop, oil, and blood of a bird, and so the number seven, would be utterly meaningless if things that are holy were not being represented by them. If you take away from them holy things, what is left is something dead, or something unholy and idolatrous. When however they do mean holy things the worship they contain in that case is a Divine worship which is internal and simply represented by things that are external. The Jews however were incapable of knowing what these meant; and neither does anyone today know what cedar-wood, hyssop, double-dyed scarlet, and the bird all mean. Yet if only they had been willing to think that these did embody holy things which they did not actually know, and so had worshipped the Lord - who was the Messiah to come who would heal them from their leprosy, that is, from profaning what is holy - they could have been saved. For people who do think and believe in this manner straightaway receive instruction in the next life, if they desire it, as to what every single detail represented.

[4] Similarly where 'the red heifer' is the subject it is said that the priest was to take some of its blood on his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood towards the face 1 of the tent of meeting seven times, Numbers 19:4. Because 'the seventh day' or sabbath meant the Lord, and from Him meant the celestial man and the celestial itself, the seventh day in the Jewish Church was the holiest of all its religious observances. For this reason there was a sabbath year 2 every seventh year, Leviticus 25:4. Also a jubilee was to be proclaimed after seven sabbaths of years, that is, after seven times seven years, Leviticus 25:8-9. In the highest sense the number seven means the Lord, and from this the holiness of love. This becomes clear also from the golden lampstand with its seven lamps, mentioned in Exodus 25:31-33, 37; 37:17-19, 23; Numbers 8:2-3; Zechariah 4:2. And in John it is spoken of as follows,

Seven golden lampstands; in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man. Revelation 1:12-13.

Here it is absolutely clear that 'a lampstand with seven lamps' means the Lord, and that 'the lamps' are the holy things of love, which comprise celestial things, which also is why there were seven of them.

[5] In the same author,

From the throne there were coming forth seven fiery torches burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. Revelation 4:5.

Here 'the seven torches which came forth from the Lord's throne' are seven lamps. The same applies to the number seven when it occurs in the Prophets, as in Isaiah,

The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, on the day when Jehovah will bind up the hurt of His people. Isaiah 30:26.

Here 'sevenfold light as the light of seven days' does not at all mean sevenfold but the holiness of love meant by the sun. See also what has been stated and shown already at Genesis 4:15 concerning the number seven. From these quotations it is also quite clear that all numbers used in the Word never have a numerical value [in the internal sense], as has also been shown already at Genesis 6:3.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the faces

2. literally, sabbath of a sabbath

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.