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Lévitique 21

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1 L'Eternel dit à Moïse: Parle aux sacrificateurs, fils d'Aaron, et tu leur diras: Un sacrificateur ne se rendra point impur parmi son peuple pour un mort,

2 excepté pour ses plus proches parents, pour sa mère, pour son père, pour son fils, pour son frère,

3 et aussi pour sa soeur encore vierge, qui le touche de près lorsqu'elle n'est pas mariée.

4 Chef parmi son peuple, il ne se rendra point impur en se profanant.

5 Les sacrificateurs ne se feront point de place chauve sur la tête, ils ne raseront point les coins de leur barbe, et ils ne feront point d'incisions dans leur chair.

6 Ils seront saints pour leur Dieu, et ils ne profaneront pas le nom de leur Dieu; car ils offrent à l'Eternel les sacrifices consumés par le feu, l'aliment de leur Dieu: ils seront saints.

7 Ils ne prendront point une femme prostituée ou déshonorée, ils ne prendront point une femme répudiée par son mari, car ils sont saints pour leur Dieu.

8 Tu regarderas un sacrificateur comme saint, car il offre l'aliment de ton Dieu; il sera saint pour toi, car je suis saint, moi, l'Eternel, qui vous sanctifie.

9 Si la fille d'un sacrificateur se déshonore en se prostituant, elle déshonore son père: elle sera brûlée au feu.

10 Le sacrificateur qui a la supériorité sur ses frères, sur la tête duquel a été répandue l'huile d'onction, et qui a été consacré et revêtu des vêtements sacrés, ne découvrira point sa tête et ne déchirera point ses vêtements.

11 Il n'ira vers aucun mort, il ne se rendra point impur, ni pour son père, ni pour sa mère.

12 Il ne sortira point du sanctuaire, et ne profanera point le sanctuaire de son Dieu; car l'huile d'onction de son Dieu est une couronne sur lui. Je suis l'Eternel.

13 Il prendra pour femme une vierge.

14 Il ne prendra ni une veuve, ni une femme répudiée, ni une femme déshonorée ou prostituée; mais il prendra pour femme une vierge parmi son peuple.

15 Il ne déshonorera point sa postérité parmi son peuple; car je suis l'Eternel, qui le sanctifie.

16 L'Eternel parla à Moïse, et dit:

17 Parle à Aaron, et dis: Tout homme de ta race et parmi tes descendants, qui aura un défaut corporel, ne s'approchera point pour offrir l'aliment de son Dieu.

18 Tout homme qui aura un défaut corporel ne pourra s'approcher: un homme aveugle, boiteux, ayant le nez camus ou un membre allongé;

19 un homme ayant une fracture au pied ou à la main;

20 un homme bossu ou grêle, ayant une tache à l'oeil, la gale, une dartre, ou les testicules écrasés.

21 Tout homme de la race du sacrificateur Aaron, qui aura un défaut corporel, ne s'approchera point pour offrir à l'Eternel les sacrifices consumés par le feu; il a un défaut corporel: il ne s'approchera point pour offrir l'aliment de son Dieu.

22 Il pourra manger l'aliment de son Dieu, des choses très saintes et des choses saintes.

23 Mais il n'ira point vers le voile, et il ne s'approchera point de l'autel, car il a un défaut corporel; il ne profanera point mes sanctuaires, car je suis l'Eternel, qui les sanctifie.

24 C'est ainsi que parla Moïse à Aaron et à ses fils, et à tous les enfants d'Israël.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 867

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867. For they are spotless before the throne of God, signifies that in the sight of angels they are without falsities from evil. This is evident from the signification of "being spotless," as meaning to be without falsities from evil (of which presently); also from the signification of "before the throne of God," as being in the sight of angels. That "the throne of God" means heaven where the angels are may be seen above n. 253. They appear spotless in the sight of the angels of heaven because they are led by the Lord, and the Lord continually provides that nothing false shall enter their will; falsity is admitted into the thought, but no further, and is cast out therefrom; and what is cast out from the thought does not defile the man. But what is taken therefrom by his will, that defiles; for that belongs to and comes to be of his love, thus of his life, and inheres in his deeds; and this cannot be removed except by an earnest and actual repentance of the life. For the will, and the love and life with it, and also the deeds, act as one, and are meant in the Word by the "heart;" and this is why those who are led by the Lord, or who follow Him, are "spotless."

[2] It is unavoidable that man should think what is false and what is evil, both because he is born into evils of every kind and because the doctrines of the church at this day are not doctrines of life but doctrines of faith only; and the doctrine of faith separated from the life does not teach the truths by which man's life can be reformed. But those who are in the Lord are kept in the spiritual affection of truth; and those who are in that affection may indeed receive falsities, although not with full consent, and only in such a manner and to such an extent as they agree with good and its truths. Therefore when those who are in the spiritual affection of truth imbibe falsities of any kind they easily reject them when they hear truths, either in this world or in the other. Such is the spiritual affection of truth. For this reason those who are in that affection are perfected in intelligence and wisdom to eternity; and they have also the faculty of understanding truths. But those who are not in that affection refuse both to understand and to listen to truths, and therefore have no faculty of understanding them. That this is so has been made plain to me from general experience in the spiritual world.

[3] Now as the angels of heaven have no perception of anything in man except his love, and his affections, desires, and delights therefrom, and thus his ends, on account of which he thinks in a certain way and in no other, so when they perceive within him the love of truth for the sake of the uses of life, which are ends, they see no falsities from evil; and if they chance to see falsities not from evil they know that these falsities do no harm, because there is no evil in them. Falsities from evil are real falsities, which are from hell; such falsities are in themselves evils because they are forms of evil.

[4] In respect to the term "spotless," it signifies what is entire and without blemish, but in the spiritual sense it signifies to be without falsities from evil. On this account it was among the things forbidden that any of the seed of Aaron who had any blemish should come near the altar or enter within the veil (Leviticus 21:17-23); it was also forbidden to make any sacrifice, as of oxen, calves, goats, or lambs, in which there was any blemish (Leviticus 22:19-25). In both of these passages the blemishes are enumerated, by all of which falsities and evils of various kinds are signified.

  
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