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Mooseksen kirja 12

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1 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

2 Puhu Israelin lapsille, ja sano: koska vaimo siittää ja synnyttä poikalapsen, niin hänen pitää seitsemän päivää oleman saastaisen, niinkauvan kuin hän kärsii sairauttansa.

3 Ja kahdeksantena päivänä pitää ympärileikattaman hänen esinahkansa liha.

4 Mutta hänen pitää oleman kotona kolmeneljättäkymmentä päivää puhdistuksensa veressä; ei hänen pidä rupeeman yhteekään, mikä pyhä on, eikä hänen pidä pyhään tuleman, siihenasti kuin hänen puhdistuspäivänsä täytetään.

5 Mutta jos hän synnyttää piikalapsen, niin hänen pitää saastaisen oleman kaksi viikkoa, niinkauvan kuin hän kärsii sairauttansa, ja kuusiseitsemättäkymmentä päivää pitää hänen kotona oleman puhdistuksensa veressä.

6 Mutta koska hänen puhdistuspäivänsä pojan eli tyttären jälkeen ovat täytetyt, niin tuokaan vuosikuntaisen karitsan polttouhriksi, ja kyhkyläisen pojan eli mettisen rikosuhriksi, papille seurakunnan majan oven eteen,

7 Jonka ne pitää uhraaman Herran edessä, ja sovittaman hänen, niin hän puhdistuuu verensä juoksusta. Tämä on sääty pojan eli tyttären synnyttämisestä.

8 Jos ei hänellä ole varaa karitsaan, niin ottakaan kaksi mettistä, eli kaksi kyhkyläisen poikaa, toisen polttouhriksi ja toisen rikosuhriksi. Ja niin papin pitää sovittaman hänen, että hän puhdistettaisiin.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 870

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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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