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Mooseksen kirja 17

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1 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

2 Puhu Aaronille ja hänen pojillensa, ja kaikille Israelin lapsille, ja sano heille: tämä on se, minkä Herra käskenyt on, sanoen:

3 Kuka ikänänsä Israelin huoneesta teurastaa härjän, eli karitsan, eli vuohen leirissä, taikka joka teurastaa ulkona leiristä,

4 Ja ei kanna seurakunnan majan oven eteen sitä, mikä Herralle uhriksi pitää tuotaman, Herran majan eteen, hänen pitää vereen vikapää oleman, niinkuin se, jonka veren vuodattanut on, ja se ihminen pitää hävitettämän kansastansa.

5 Sentähden pitää Israelin lapset uhrinsa, jonka he kedolla uhrata tahtovat, Herran eteen kantaman seurakunnan majan ovella papille, ja siellä uhraaman ne kiitosuhriksi Herralle.

6 Ja papin pitää priiskottaman veren Herran alttarille seurakunnan majan oven edessä, ja polttaman lihavuuden Herralle lepytyshajuksi,

7 Ja ei millään muotoa enää uhriansa uhraaman ajattaroille, joiden kanssa he huorin tehneet ovat. Se pitää oleman heille heidän sukukunnissansa ijankaikkinen sääty.

8 Sentähden pitää sinun sanoman heille: kuka ikänänsä ihminen Israelin huoneesta, eli vieras, joka teidän seassanne on muukalainen, teki uhrin eli polttouhrin,

9 Eikä sitä kanna seurakunnan majan oven eteen, että hänen Herralle sen tekemän pitäis, se ihminen pitää hävitettämän kansastansa.

10 Ja kuka ikänänsä ihminen Israelin huoneesta, eli muukalaisista, jotka teidän seassanne asuvat, syö jotakin verta, häntä vastoin minä panen minun kasvoni, ja hävitän hänen kansastansa

11 Sillä lihan sielu on veressä, ja minä olen sen teille antanut alttarille, että teidän sielunne pitäis sen kautta sovitettaman; sillä veri on sielun sovinto.

12 Sentähden minä olen sanonut Israelin lapsille: ei yksikään henki teidän seassanne pidä verta syömän: eikä yksikään muukalainen, joka teidän seassanne asuu, pidä verta syömän.

13 Ja kuka ikänä ihminen Israelin lapsista, taikka muukalainen teidän seassanne, joka saa metsän eläimen eli linnun pyydyksellä, jota syödään, hänen pitää vuodattaman sen veren, ja peittämän sen multaan.

14 Sillä kaiken lihan henki on hänen verensä niinkauvan kuin se elää. Ja minä olen sanonut Israelin lapsille: ei teidän pidä yhdenkään lihan verta syömän; sillä kaiken lihan henki on hänen verensä: kuka ikänänsä sen syö, se pitää hukutettaman.

15 Ja kuka ikänä henki syö raatoa, taikka sitä, joka revitty on, olkoon hän kotolainen eli muukalainen, hänen pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman hänensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti: niin hän tulee puhtaaksi.

16 Jollei hän pese itsiänsä ja ihoansa viruta, niin hänen pitää itse kantaman vääryytensä.

   


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Apocalypse Explained # 586

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586. That they should not adore demons, signifies that they should not worship their own cupidities. This is evident from the signification of "to adore," as being to worship, and from the signification of "demons," as being evil cupidities. "Demons" are evil cupidities because by demons infernal spirits are meant, and all spirits that are in the hells are nothing but evil cupidities; for all spirits that are in the hells, as well as all angels in the heavens, are from the human race; and every man after death becomes such as his life has been in the world, consequently such as his affection has been; therefore after death man is wholly his affection, a good man the affection of good and truth, and an evil man the affection of evil and falsity. Moreover, every man after death thinks, wills, speaks, and acts in accordance with his affection. The affection of evil and falsity is what is called cupidity, and is what is signified by "demon. "

[2] But what is meant by "worshiping demons" shall also be told briefly. Every man is associated with spirits; without association and conjunction with them no one can live; and the spirits with man are such as his affections or cupidities are; therefore when man in his worship does not look to the Lord or to the neighbor, but looks to himself and to the world, that is, when he worships God for the sole end of being carried to honors, and of gaining wealth, or of being able to do injury to others, then he worships demons; for then the Lord is not present in his worship, but infernal spirits are present, who are closely associated with him. These spirits are so insane as to believe that they are gods, and that they are to be worshiped; for every spirit, as well as every man, who is in the love of self, is eager to be worshiped as a god; consequently this insane cupidity continues with men after death, when they become demon-spirits; and this is what is signified by "adoring demons."

[3] This worship is meant also by "sacrificing to demons." In Moses:

They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they made Him angry. They sacrificed to demons that were not God, to gods that they knew not (Deuteronomy 32:16, 17).

The sons of Israel shall sacrifice at the entrance of the tent, and they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto demons, after whom they go whoring (Leviticus 17:7).

The sacrifices that were offered at the entrance of the tent represented the worship of the Lord, because the altar, and also the tabernacle, represented heaven where the Lord is present; but the sacrifices that were offered elsewhere represented worship where the Lord is not present, thus the worship of demons; this was because all things at that time were representative.

[4] In David:

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons (Psalms 106:37).

This was altogether infernal; but in the spiritual sense "to sacrifice sons and daughters" signified to pervert and destroy the truths and goods of the church by evil cupidities; "sons" signifying the truths of the church, and "daughters" its goods.

[5] In Isaiah:

The tziim shall encounter the ijim, and the demon of the wood shall meet his fellow, the night-monster shall also settle there and find for itself rest (Isaiah 34:14).

This treats of the total devastation of the church by corporeal and merely natural lusts, from which flow forth falsities and evils of every kind; such lusts are signified by "the tziim and the ijim," also by "the night-monster, and the demon of the wood" (or satyr).

[6] So elsewhere in the same:

The tziim shall sing 1 there, and their houses shall be full of ochim, and the daughters of the owl shall dwell there, and the demons of the wood shall dance there (Isaiah 13:21).

This is said of Babylon; that there are such corporeal and purely natural lusts with those who are meant by Babylon, and that these constitute the life of their mind is signified by "their houses shall be full of such things," and "they shall dwell and dance there." "House" signifies the mind or disposition of man, with the things therein; "daughters of the owl" signify falsities, and "demons of the wood" (or satyrs) cupidities merely corporeal. Like things are said of Babylon in Revelation:

Babylon is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird (Revelation 18:2).

The demons cast out by the Lord, by which many were then obsessed, signify falsities of every kind by which the church was infested, and from which it was delivered by the Lord (as in Matthew 8:16, 28; 9:32, 33; 10:8; 12:22; 15:22; Mark 1:32-34; Luke 4:33-38, 41; 8:2, 26-40; 9:1, 37-44, 49, 50; 13:32; and elsewhere).

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1. Latin has "sing," the Hebrew "lie," as also in AE 1029; AR 548, 757.

  
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