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Lévitique 8

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1 L'Eternel parla à Moïse, et dit:

2 Prends Aaron et ses fils avec lui, les vêtements, l'huile d'onction, le taureau expiatoire, les deux béliers et la corbeille de pains sans levain;

3 et convoque toute l'assemblée à l'entrée de la tente d'assignation.

4 Moïse fit ce que l'Eternel lui avait ordonné; et l'assemblée se réunit à l'entrée de la tente d'assignation.

5 Moïse dit à l'assemblée: Voici ce que l'Eternel a ordonné de faire.

6 Moïse fit approcher Aaron et ses fils, et il les lava avec de l'eau.

7 Il mit à Aaron la tunique, il le ceignit de la ceinture, il le revêtit de la robe, et il plaça sur lui l'éphod, qu'il serra avec la ceinture de l'éphod dont il le revêtit.

8 Il lui mit le pectoral, et il joignit au pectoral l'urim et le thummim.

9 Il posa la tiare sur sa tête, et il plaça sur le devant de la tiare la lame d'or, diadème sacré, comme l'Eternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.

10 Moïse prit l'huile d'onction, il oignit le sanctuaire et toutes les choses qui y étaient, et le sanctifia.

11 Il en fit sept fois l'aspersion sur l'autel, et il oignit l'autel et tous ses ustensiles, et la cuve avec sa base, afin de les sanctifier.

12 Il répandit de l'huile d'onction sur la tête d'Aaron, et l'oignit, afin de la sanctifier.

13 Moïse fit aussi approcher les fils d'Aaron; il les revêtit de tuniques, les ceignit de ceintures, et leur attacha des bonnets, comme l'Eternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.

14 Il fit approcher le taureau expiatoire, et Aaron et ses fils posèrent leurs mains sur la tête du taureau expiatoire.

15 Moïse l'égorgea, prit du sang, et en mit avec son doigt sur les cornes de l'autel tout autour, et purifia l'autel; il répandit le sang au pied de l'autel, et le sanctifia pour y faire l'expiation.

16 Il prit toute la graisse qui couvre les entrailles, le grand lobe du foie, et les deux rognons avec leur graisse, et il brûla cela sur l'autel.

17 Mais il brûla au feu hors du camp le taureau, sa peau, sa chair et ses excréments, comme l'Eternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.

18 Il fit approcher le bélier de l'holocauste, et Aaron et ses fils posèrent leurs mains sur la tête du bélier.

19 Moïse l'égorgea, et répandit le sang sur l'autel tout autour.

20 Il coupa le bélier par morceaux, et il brûla la tête, les morceaux et la graisse.

21 Il lava avec de l'eau les entrailles et les jambes, et il brûla tout le bélier sur l'autel: ce fut l'holocauste, ce fut un sacrifice consumé par le feu, d'une agréable odeur à l'Eternel, comme l'Eternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.

22 Il fit approcher l'autre bélier, le bélier de consécration, et Aaron et ses fils posèrent leurs mains sur la tête du bélier.

23 Moïse égorgea le bélier, prit de son sang, et en mit sur le lobe de l'oreille droite d'Aaron, sur le pouce de sa main droite et sur le gros orteil de son pied droit.

24 Il fit approcher les fils d'Aaron, mit du sang sur le lobe de leur oreille droite, sur le pouce de leur main droite et sur le gros orteil de leur pied droit, et il répandit le sang sur l'autel tout autour.

25 Il prit la graisse, la queue, toute la graisse qui couvre les entrailles, le grand lobe du foie, les deux rognons avec leur graisse, et l'épaule droite;

26 il prit aussi dans la corbeille de pains sans levain, placée devant l'Eternel, un gâteau sans levain, un gâteau de pain à l'huile et une galette, et il les posa sur les graisses et sur l'épaule droite.

27 Il mit toutes ces choses sur les mains d'Aaron et sur les mains de ses fils, et il les agita de côté et d'autre devant l'Eternel.

28 Puis Moïse les ôta de leurs mains, et il les brûla sur l'autel, par-dessus l'holocauste: ce fut le sacrifice de consécration, ce fut un sacrifice consumé par le feu, d'une agréable odeur à l'Eternel.

29 Moïse prit la poitrine du bélier de consécration, et il l'agita de côté et d'autre devant l'Eternel: ce fut la portion de Moïse, comme l'Eternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.

30 Moïse prit de l'huile d'onction et du sang qui était sur l'autel; il en fit l'aspersion sur Aaron et sur ses vêtements, sur les fils d'Aaron et sur leurs vêtements; et il sanctifia Aaron et ses vêtements, les fils d'Aaron et leurs vêtements avec lui.

31 Moïse dit à Aaron et à ses fils: Faites cuire la chair à l'entrée de la tente d'assignation; c'est là que vous la mangerez, avec le pain qui est dans la corbeille de consécration, comme je l'ai ordonné, en disant: Aaron et ses fils la mangeront.

32 Vous brûlerez dans le feu ce qui restera de la chair et du pain.

33 Pendant sept jours, vous ne sortirez point de l'entrée de la tente d'assignation, jusqu'à ce que les jours de votre consécration soient accomplis; car sept jours seront employés à vous consacrer.

34 Ce qui s'est fait aujourd'hui, l'Eternel a ordonné de le faire comme expiation pour vous.

35 Vous resterez donc sept jours à l'entrée de la tente d'assignation, jour et nuit, et vous observerez les commandements de l'Eternel, afin que vous ne mouriez pas; car c'est là ce qui m'a été ordonné.

36 Aaron et ses fils firent toutes les choses que l'Eternel avait ordonnées par Moïse.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 330

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330. Out of every tribe and tongue, signifies by all who are in truths in respect to doctrine and in respect to life. This is evident from the signification of "tribe," as being all truths and goods in the complex (of which see above, n. 39; for these are meant by the twelve tribes, and therefore each tribe signifies something of truth and good, therefore "out of every tribe" signifies out of all who are in any kind of truth and good. It is evident also from the signification of "tongue," as being the doctrine of life and faith. That "tribes" signify all truths and goods in the complex will be shown more fully below in its own paragraph; likewise that "tongue" signifies the doctrine of life and faith, thus religion. (Here will be presented only what is shown in Arcana Coelestia respecting the signification of "tribes," namely, that the twelve tribes of Israel represented and thence signified all truths and goods in the complex, n. 3858, 3926, 4060, 6335; that the twelve apostles of the Lord have a like signification, n. 2129, 3354, 3488, 6397; that there were twelve because "twelve" signifies all, n. 577, 2089, 2129, 2130, 3272, 3858, 3913. Because the twelve tribes represented and thus signified all the truths and goods in the complex they therefore represented heaven and the church, n. 6337, 6637, 7836, 7891, 7996. That the twelve tribes signify various things according to the order in which they are named, thus in different ways all things of heaven and the church, n. 3862, 3926, 3939, 4603 seq., 6337, 6640, 10335; therefore responses could be given and were given by the Urim and Thummim, where the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were engraven on precious stones, n. 3858, 6335, 6640, 9863, 9865, 9873, 9874, 9905)

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 6854

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6854. 'And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians' means that He would stoop down to them to release them from the power of false factual knowledge, which tries to destroy the truths of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming down' as stooping down, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'to deliver' as to release, for one who releases people from falsities delivers or sets them free; from the meaning of 'the hand' as the power, dealt with in 878, 3387, 3563, 4931-4937, 5544; and from the meaning of 'the Egyptians' as false factual knowledge, which is opposed to the Church's truths, dealt with in 6651, 6679, 6683, and so which tries to destroy them. As regards the Lord's coming down, the situation is that the Lord is said to come or stoop down when He comes to judgement, 1311, and also when He comes down to lower things, in this instance to those belonging to the spiritual Church, who are meant by 'the children of Israel'. For the subject in the internal sense is the way in which those people are molested by falsities, at which time they undergo temptations, and the way in which after that they are set free in order that they may be led into heaven.

[2] But the contents of the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow hold an even deeper mystery which the Church does not yet know about and which must therefore be disclosed. Those who are termed spiritual are people for whom only the understanding part of their mind, not the will part, can be regenerated. In the understanding part of their mind the Lord therefore implants a new will, a will which conforms to the teachings that compose the faith of their Church. These people, that is to say, spiritual ones such as these, were saved solely by the Lord's Coming into the world. The reason why is that the Divine passing through heaven, which was the Divine Human before the Lord's Coming, could not reach them; for to be sure the teachings of their Church were for the most part not truths, and consequently the good in their will was not good either, 6427. Since those people could be saved solely by the Lord's Coming, they could not be raised into heaven before then. They were therefore kept in the meantime on the lower earth, in places there which in the Word are called 'pits'. This lower earth was besieged on every side by the hells where there were falsities, by which they were molested greatly during that time. In spite of this however the Lord protected them. But after the Lord came into the world and made the Human within Himself Divine, He set free those who were in the pits there and raised them to heaven. From these He also formed the spiritual heaven which is the second heaven. This is what is meant by the Lord's descent into the lower parts 1 and by His deliverance of those who had been bound.

[3] This is the even deeper mystery that is described in the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow. See what has been shown already regarding those who are spiritual,

The spiritual are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned, 2708, 2715, 2718, 2831, 2849, 2935, 2937, 3241, 3833, 6289.

Their obscurity is lightened by the Lord's Divine Human, 2716, 4402.

Because they are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned they are under strong attack from the hells; but the Lord is constantly protecting them, 6419.

Those who are spiritual cannot have the will part of their mind regenerated, only the understanding part; and there the Lord forms a new will, 863, 875, 895, 927, 918, 1023, 1043, 1044, 2156, 4328, 4493, 5113.

The spiritual were saved by the Lord's Coming into the world, 2833, 2834, 3969.

[4] Various places in the prophetical part of the Word mention 'the bound' or 'the bound in the pit' and the fact that the Lord delivered them. The bound' should be taken to mean specifically those spoken of just above, as in Isaiah,

I Jehovah have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, because I will guard you, and give you to be a covenant of the people, 2 a light of the nations, to open the blind eyes, to bring the bound out of prison, out of the dungeon-house those who sit in darkness. Isaiah 42:6-7.

In the same prophet,

I have guarded you, and I have given you as covenant of the people - to restore the land; to share out the devastated inheritances; to say to the bound, Go out; to those who are in darkness, Reveal yourselves. They will feed along the ways, and on all slopes will their pasture be. Isaiah 49:8-9.

This plainly refers to the Lord. 'The bound' stands in particular for those who were held back on the lower earth until the Lord's Coming, when they were raised up to heaven, and in general for all who are governed by good, yet are held back as though bound by falsities, from which however they wish to break away.

[5] In Zechariah,

Through the blood of your covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit. Zechariah 9:11.

In Isaiah,

They will surely be gathered together, the bound ones in the pit, and they will be shut up in the dungeon; after a multitude of days they will be visited. Isaiah 24:21.

'The bound ones in the pit' stands for the same people. And in addition to these places the same meaning can be seen from the following words in Isaiah,

Jehovah has anointed Me to bring good tidings to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the broken in heart; to preach liberty to captives, to those who are bound, to him who is blind; to proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure. Isaiah 61:1-2.

And elsewhere,

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; those dwelling in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shone out. Isaiah 9:2.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. hell

2. 'The Latin means for the people but the Hebrew means of the people, which Swedenborg has in some other places where he quotes this verse.

  
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