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3 Mose 17

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1 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

2 ede zu Aaron und zu seinen Söhnen und zu allen Kindern Israel und sprich zu ihnen: Dies ist es, was Jehova geboten und gesagt hat:

3 Jedermann aus dem Hause Israel, der ein ind oder ein Schaf oder eine Ziege im Lager schlachtet, (Vergl. 5. Mose 12,13-28) oder der außerhalb des Lagers schlachtet,

4 und es nicht an den Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft gebracht hat, um es Jehova als Opfergabe darzubringen vor der Wohnung Jehovas, selbigem Manne soll Blut zugerechnet werden: Blut hat er vergossen, und selbiger Mann soll ausgerottet werden aus der Mitte seines Volkes;

5 auf daß die Kinder Israel ihre Schlachtopfer (O. Schlachttiere) bringen, die sie auf freiem Felde schlachten, daß sie sie Jehova bringen an den Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft zu dem Priester und sie als Friedensopfer dem Jehova schlachten.

6 Und der Priester soll das Blut an den Altar Jehovas sprengen vor dem Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft und das Fett räuchern zum lieblichen Geruch dem Jehova.

7 Und sie sollen nicht mehr ihre Schlachtopfer (W. Schlachttiere) den Dämonen (Eig. den Böcken (welche abgöttisch verehrt wurden). Vergl. 2. Chron. 11,15) schlachten, denen sie nachhuren. Das soll ihnen eine ewige Satzung sein bei ihren Geschlechtern.

8 Und du sollst zu ihnen sagen: Jedermann aus dem Hause Israel und von den Fremdlingen, die in ihrer Mitte weilen, der ein Brandopfer oder Schlachtopfer opfert

9 und es nicht an den Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft bringt, um es Jehova zu opfern, selbiger Mann soll ausgerottet werden aus seinen Völkern.

10 Und jedermann aus dem Hause Israel und von den Fremdlingen, die in ihrer Mitte weilen, der irgend Blut essen wird, -wider die Seele, die das Blut isset, werde ich mein Angesicht richten und sie ausrotten aus der Mitte ihres Volkes.

11 Denn die Seele des Fleisches ist im Blute, und ich habe es euch auf den Altar gegeben, um Sühnung zu tun für eure Seelen; denn das Blut ist es, welches Sühnung tut durch (O. für) die Seele.

12 Darum habe ich zu den Kindern Israel gesagt: Niemand (W. keine Seele) von euch soll Blut essen; auch der Fremdling, der in eurer Mitte weilt, soll nicht Blut essen.

13 Und jedermann von den Kindern Israel und von den Fremdlingen, die in eurer Mitte weilen, der ein Wildbret oder einen Vogel erjagt, die gegessen werden, soll ihr Blut ausfließen lassen und es mit Erde bedecken.

14 Denn die Seele alles Fleisches: sein Blut, das ist seine Seele; (Vergl. 5. Mose 12,23; W. sein Blut ist als seine Seele) und ich habe zu den Kindern Israel gesagt: Das Blut irgend welches Fleisches sollt ihr nicht essen, denn die Seele alles Fleisches ist sein Blut; jeder, der es isset, soll ausgerottet werden. -

15 Und jeder, der (W. jede Seele, die) ein Aas oder Zerrissenes isset, er sei Eingeborener oder Fremdling, der soll seine Kleider waschen und sich im Wasser baden, und er wird unrein sein bis an den Abend; dann wird er rein sein.

16 Und wenn er sie nicht wäscht und sein Fleisch nicht badet, so wird er seine Ungerechtigkeit tragen.

   

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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 # 9701

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9701. EXODUS CHAPTER 27.

TEACHINGS ABOUT CHARITY AND FAITH

Something must be stated next about the internal man and the external man.

  
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