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Mooseksen kirja 15

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1 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle ja Aaronille, sanoen:

2 Puhukaat Israelin lapsille, ja sanokaat heille: koska miehellä on lihansa juoksu, on hän saastainen.

3 Ja silloin on hän saastainen siitä juoksusta, koska hänen lihansa juoksee taikka tulee tukituksi siitä vuotamisesta; niin se on saastaisuus.

4 Jokainen vuode, jossa hän lepää, jolla on juoksu, on saastainen, ja kaikki se, jonka päällä hän istuu, saastutetaan.

5 Ja se, joka sattuu hänen vuoteesensa, pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman hänensä vedellä, ja pitää oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

6 Se joka istuu sillä istuimella millä hän on istunut, jolla juoksu on, hänen pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oelman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

7 Se joka sattuu hänen lihaansa, hän peskään vaatteensa, ja viruttakaan hänensä vedellä, ja olkaan saastainen ehtoosen asti.

8 Jos hän sylkee puhtaan päälle, niin se pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman hänensä vedellä, ja oleman saastainen ehtoosen asti.

9 Ja koko se satula, jolla hän ajaa, pitää oleman saastainen.

10 Ja se joka sattuu johonkuhun siihen, joka hänen allansa on ollut, pitää saastaisen oleman ehtoosen asti, ja joka niitä kantaa, pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

11 Ja johonka hän, jolla juoksu on, tarttuu, ennen kuin hän kätensä pesee vedellä, sen pitää vaatteensa pesemän ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

12 Jos hän tarttuu saviseen astiaan, se pitää rikottaman; mutta puu-astia pitää vedellä virutettaman.

13 Ja tultuansa puhtaaksi lihansa juoksusta, pitää hänen lukeman seitsemän päivää puhdistuksestansa, ja pitää pesemän vaatteensa, niin myös viruttaman itsensä juoksevalla vedellä, niin hän on puhdas.

14 Ja kahdeksantena päivänä pitää hänen ottaman parin mettisiä, eli kaksi kyhkyläisen poikaa, ja pitää tuoman Herran eteen seurakunnan majan ovella, ja antaman ne papille.

15 Ja papin pitää ne uhraaman, yhden rikosuhriksi, ja toisen polttouhriksi, ja sovittaman hänen Herran edessä hänen juoksustansa.

16 Koska miehestä siemen vuotaa unessa, hänen pitää pesemän koko ruumiinsa vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

17 Ja kaikki vaate, ja kaikki nahka, joka senkaltaisella siemenellä tahrattu on, pitää pestämän vedellä, ja oleman saastainen ehtoosen asti.

18 Ja vaimo, jonka tykönä senkaltainen mies makaa, jolla on siemenen juoksu, heidän pitää pesemän itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaiset ehtoosen asti.

19 Koska vaimolla on lihansa veren juoksu, pitää hänen erinänsä oleman seitsemän päivää, ja joka häneen sattuu, sen pitää saastaisen oleman ehtoosen asti.

20 Ja kaikki jonka päälllä hän lepää, niinkauvan kuin hän erinänsä on, pitää oleman saastainen, ja kaikki, jonka päällä hän istuu, pitää oleman saastainen.

21 Ja se, joka hänen vuoteesensa sattuu, pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

22 Ja joka tarttuu johonkuhun, jonka päällä hän on istunut, hänen pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

23 Jos jotakin osaa olla sen vuoteessa, eli istuimella, kussa hän istuu, ja joku siihen tarttuu, hänen pitää oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

24 Ja jos joku mies leväten lepää hänen tykönänsä, siihen aikaa kuin hänen aikansa tulee, hänen pitää oleman saastaisen seitsemän päivää, ja koko hänen vuoteensa, jossa hän levännyt on, pitää oleman saastaisen.

25 Jos jonkun vaimon veren juoksu vuotaa kauvan aikaa, ei vaivoin niinkauvan kuin aika on, mutta myös ylitse sen ajan, hänen pitää oleman saastaisen niinkauvan kuin se vuotaa, niinkuin hänen oikialla vuotonsa ajalla.

26 Kaikki vuode, kussa hän lepää, niinkauvan kuin hän vuotaa, pitää oleman niinkuin oikian vuotonsa ajan vuode. Ja kaikki istuin, jonka päällä hän istuu, pitää oleman saastainen, niinkuin se hänen oikiana vuotamisensa aikana on saastainen.

27 Se joka rupee johonkuhun niihin, hänen pitää oleman saastaisen, ja pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

28 Koska hän on puhdas vuotamisesta, niin hänen pitää lukeman seitsemän päivää, ja sitte hänen pitää oleman puhtaan.

29 Mutta kahdeksantena päivänä pitää hänen ottaman parin mettisiä eli kaksi kyhkyläisen poikaa, ja viemän papille, seurakunnan majan oven edessä.

30 Ja papin pitää uhraaman yhden rikosuhriksi, ja toisen polttouhriksi, ja sovittaman hänen Herran edessä saastaisuutensa juoksusta.

31 Niin teidän pitää eroittaman Israelin lapsia heidän saastaisuudestansa, ettei he kuolisi saastaisuudessa, koska he minun majani saastuttavat, joka heidän seassansa on.

32 Tämä on sääty vuotamisesta, ja siitä, jolta (unessa) siemen vuotaa, niin että hän siitä tulee saastaiseksi,

33 Ja siitä, jolla on veren juoksu, ja siitä, jolla joku vuotaminen on, miehestä eli vaimosta: ja koska mies lepää saastaisen tykönä.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 10208

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10208. 'And Aaron shall make expiation on its horns' means purification from evils by means of the truths of faith which spring from the good of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'making expiation' as purifying from evils, dealt with in 9506; from the representation of 'Aaron' as the Lord in respect of Divine Good, and in respect of the work of salvation, dealt with in 9806, 9946, 10017; and from the meaning of 'horns' as powers, dealt with in 10182, and also outer levels, 10186. The reason why purification by means of the truths of faith which spring from the good of love is meant is that expiation was made by means of blood, and 'blood' means the truth of faith emanating from the good of love, 4735, 7317, 7326, 7846, 7850, 7877, 9127, 9393, 10026, 10033, 10047; and all purification from evils is accomplished by means of the truths of faith that spring from the good of love, 2799, 5954(end), 7044, 7918, 9088. The fact that expiations were made by the blood on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and the altar of incense is clear in Leviticus 4:3, 7, 18, 25, 30, 34; 16:18.

[2] The altars were expiated in this way because holy things were polluted by the sins of the people. The people represented the Church; therefore those places which were the Church's, called its sanctuaries, such as the altar and the tent, together with their contents, were defiled whenever those people were guilty of sin; for those sanctuaries were places belonging to the Church. This is also made clear in Moses,

You shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, in order that they may not die in their uncleanness when they pollute My dwelling-place which is in their midst. Leviticus 15:31.

And in another place,

Aaron shall expiate the holy place from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. Thus shall he expiate the holy sanctuary, and the tent of meeting, and the altar. Leviticus 16:16, 33.

[3] The implications of all this are that those things which are called the holy things of the Church are not holy unless they are received with holy respect; for unless they are received with that respect what is Divine does not flow into them. Anything holy that exists with people is holy only by virtue of what is Divine flowing into it; sacred shrines for example, the altars there, and the bread and wine for the Holy Supper are made holy solely by the presence of the Lord. Therefore if the Lord is unable to be present there on account of the people's sins, those things have no holiness because they lack what is Divine. Furthermore the holy things of the Church are rendered unholy by sins because sins take what is Divine away from them.

[4] This then is the reason why sanctuaries are said to have been polluted by the uncleanness of the people and why those places therefore had to be expiated annually. The reason why the expiations were made with blood on the horns of the altars and not on the altars themselves was that the horns were the extremities of them, and nothing of a person has been purified unless the extremities or what is outermost has been purified. For inner things flow into those that are outermost, but the state of the outermost conditions the inflow. Consequently if what is outermost has been perverted the things within become perverted; for when those inner things flow into outermost ones, the recipient forms into which they descend are conditioned by the state in which the outermost things exist. The situation is like that when the eye is in bad condition; the power of sight which comes from within sees things only as that eye-condition will allow. Or it is like that when the arms are in bad shape; the powers which come from within exert themselves only as that condition will allow. Consequently if the natural man has been perverted the spiritual lacks the opportunity to function properly within the natural man, and this is why the spiritual or internal man is closed.

[5] But see what has been shown already on these matters, namely the following;

If a person is to be purified the natural or external man must be purified, see the places referred to in 9325(end).

This is because the path that all influx takes is from the internal to the external, and not vice versa, 5119, 6322.

For it is on the natural level within a person that influx from the spiritual world reaches its destination, 5651.

The outward aspects of a person have been formed to serve the inward, 5947, 9216, 9828.

Thus the external man must be altogether subject to the internal, 5786, 6275, 6284, 6299.

This is because the internal man is in heaven and the external man is in the world, 3167, 10156.

And the external man by himself or left to himself alone acts contrary to the internal, 3913, 3928.

In addition to all this, see 9701-9709 stating what the internal man is and what the external man is.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 10156

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10156. 'Who brought them out of the land of Egypt' means salvation from hell by the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'being brought out of the land of Egypt' as being delivered from hell, dealt with in 8866, 9197, thus being saved. 'The land of Egypt' means hell because that land in its true and proper sense means the natural level and the factual knowledge there; and 'being brought out of' the natural man and the factual knowledge there and being raised to the level of the spiritual man, to intelligence and wisdom there, also constitutes being brought out of hell. For a person is born natural, but becomes spiritual through regeneration; and if he does not become spiritual he is in hell. The knowledge which the natural man, that is, a person who has not been regenerated, possesses dwells in the light of the world, whereas the intelligence which the spiritual man, that is, a person who has been regenerated, possesses dwells in the light of heaven. And as long as a person sees things solely in the light of the world he is in hell; but when he sees them at the same time in the light of heaven he is in heaven.

[2] But people who possess no more than natural knowledge and as a consequence do not see things in any light other than the light of the world can have no belief at all in the things that belong to heaven. Furthermore if they wish to investigate these things with the light they see by, called natural illumination, they encounter a kind of thick darkness which blinds them and blots out everything heavenly. For that in the mind which appears to be thick darkness is in reality such. This explains why a merely natural man, however much he thinks himself to be more enlightened than others, at heart rejects Divine and heavenly realities. It is also the reason why so many learned people are made brainless by their knowledge; for more of them than of simple people refuse to accept the things that constitute the faith of the Church and of heaven. It is different with those who allow themselves to be raised by the Lord to the light of heaven. These are first raised above the factual knowledge which the natural man possesses, and then in the light of heaven they behold the things within their natural man, which are called known facts, and clearly distinguish them, choosing those that make sense and are consistent, and rejecting or setting aside those that make no sense and are inconsistent.

[3] In short, the situation is that as long as a person is merely natural his interiors, which behold things in the light of heaven, are closed, and his exteriors, which behold things in the light of the world, are open. At this time the person looks downwards, that is, to the world and towards self; for everything composing his will and thought inclines in that direction. And the direction in which a person looks is also that in which his heart, that is, his will and his love, is turned. But when a person becomes spiritual his interiors, which behold things in the light of heaven, are opened, and then the person looks upwards, which is brought about through his being raised up by the Lord, so that he looks to heaven and towards the Lord. In this direction also everything that composes his will and his thought - thus his heart, that is, his love - is raised.

[4] For the human being has been created in such a way that his internal man should conform to an image of heaven, and his external man to an image of the world, 6057, 9279, to the end that heaven and the world might be brought together in the human being. Thus through him the Lord would flow from heaven into the world and govern it, with each individual person in particular and with all in general, and in this way would join the two together and thereby cause the likeness of heaven to exist in the world as well. When however a person is interested only in the world heaven with him has been closed; but when he allows himself to be raised by the Lord heaven with him is opened and the world becomes subordinate to it. And when this happens hell is separated and removed from him, at which point the person knows what good is and what evil is, but not before. This is what is called 'the image of God' with a person, Genesis 1:26-27.

[5] These matters have been stated in order that people may know what the spiritual man is and what the natural man is, and that the merely natural man, if he is not made spiritual by the Lord, is an embodiment of hell, consequently that they may know why hell is meant by 'Egypt', when yet the natural level and the factual knowledge there are meant by it.

'Egypt' means factual knowledge, see the places referred to in 9340.

It therefore means the natural level, see those referred to in 9391.

It also means hell, 8866, 9197.

  
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