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3 Mose 21

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1 Und Jehova sprach zu Mose: ede zu den Priestern, den Söhnen Aarons, und spricht zu ihnen: Keiner von ihnen soll sich (W. Er (der Priester) soll sich nicht) wegen einer Leiche verunreinigen unter seinen Völkern:

2 außer wegen seines Blutsverwandten, der ihm nahe steht: wegen seiner Mutter und wegen seines Vaters und wegen seines Sohnes und wegen seiner Tochter und wegen seines Bruders;

3 und wegen seiner Schwester, der Jungfrau, die ihm nahe steht, die noch keines Mannes geworden ist: wegen dieser darf er sich verunreinigen.

4 Er soll sich nicht verunreinigen als Herr unter seinen Völkern, sich zu entweihen.

5 Sie sollen keine Glatze auf ihrem Haupte machen, und den and ihres Bartes sollen sie nicht abscheren, und an ihrem Fleische sollen sie keine Einschnitte machen.

6 Sie sollen ihrem Gott heilig sein, und den Namen ihres Gottes sollen sie nicht entweihen, denn die Feueropfer Jehovas, das Brot ihres Gottes, bringen sie dar; und sie sollen heilig sein.

7 Eine Hure und eine Entehrte sollen sie nicht zum Weibe nehmen, und ein von ihrem Manne verstoßenes Weib sollen sie nicht nehmen; denn heilig ist er seinem Gott.

8 Und du sollst ihn für heilig achten, denn das Brot deines Gottes bringt er dar; er soll dir heilig sein; denn heilig bin ich Jehova, der euch heiligt.

9 Und wenn die Tochter eines Priesters sich durch Hurerei entweiht, so entweiht sie ihren Vater: sie soll mit Feuer verbrannt werden. -

10 Und der Hohepriester unter seinen Brüdern, auf dessen Haupt das Salböl gegossen worden, und der geweiht ist, um die heiligen Kleider anzulegen, soll sein Haupt nicht entblößen und soll seine Kleider nicht zerreißen.

11 Und er soll zu keiner Leiche kommen; wegen seines Vaters und wegen seiner Mutter soll er sich nicht verunreinigen.

12 Und aus dem Heiligtum soll er nicht hinausgehen und nicht entweihen das Heiligtum seines Gottes; denn die Weihe des Salböls seines Gottes ist auf ihm. Ich bin Jehova.

13 Und derselbe soll ein Weib in ihrer Jungfrauschaft nehmen.

14 Eine Witwe und eine Verstoßene und eine Entehrte, eine Hure, diese soll er nicht nehmen; sondern eine Jungfrau aus seinen Völkern soll er zum Weibe nehmen.

15 Und er soll seinen Samen nicht entweihen unter seinen Völkern; denn ich bin Jehova, der ihn heiligt.

16 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

17 ede zu Aaron und sprich: Jemand von deinem Samen bei ihren Geschlechtern, an dem ein Gebrechen ist, soll nicht herzunahen, um das Brot seines Gottes darzubringen;

18 denn jedermann, an dem ein Gebrechen ist, soll nicht herzunahen, es sei ein blinder Mann oder ein lahmer oder ein stumpfnasiger, (And. üb.: spaltnasiger) oder der ein Glied zu lang hat,

19 oder ein Mann, der einen Bruch am Fuße oder einen Bruch an der Hand hat,

20 oder ein Höckeriger oder ein Zwerg, (W. ein Dünner, Elender) oder der einen Flecken an seinem Auge (And. üb.: ein triefendes Auge) hat, oder der die Krätze oder Flechte, oder der zerdrückte Hoden hat.

21 Jedermann vom Samen Aarons, des Priesters, der ein Gebrechen hat, soll nicht herzutreten, die Feueropfer Jehovas darzubringen; ein Gebrechen ist an ihm, er soll nicht herzutreten, das Brot seines Gottes darzubringen.

22 Das Brot seines Gottes von dem Hochheiligen und von dem Heiligen mag er essen;

23 allein zum Vorhang soll er nicht kommen, und zum Altar soll er nicht nahen, denn ein Gebrechen ist an ihm, daß er nicht meine Heiligtümer (O. heiligen Dinge) entweihe; denn ich bin Jehova, der sie heiligt.

24 Und so redete Mose zu Aaron und zu seinen Söhnen und zu allen Kindern Israel.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 49

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49. His feet were like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace. (1:15) This symbolizes natural Divine good.

The Lord's feet symbolize His natural Divinity. Fire or being fired symbolizes goodness. And fine brass symbolizes the natural goodness of truth. Consequently the feet of the Son of Man like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace, symbolize natural Divine good.

His feet have this symbolic meaning because of their correspondence.

Present in the Lord, and so emanating from the Lord, are a celestial Divinity, a spiritual Divinity, and a natural Divinity. His celestial Divinity is meant by the head of the Son of Man; His spiritual Divinity by His eyes and by His breast girded with a golden girdle; and His natural Divinity by His feet.

[2] Because these three elements are present in the Lord, therefore the same three are also present in the angelic heaven. The third or highest heaven exists on the celestial Divine level, the second or middle heaven on the spiritual Divine level, and the first or lowest heaven on the natural Divine level. The like is the case with the church on earth. For the whole of heaven is, in the Lord's sight, like a single person, in which those who are governed by the Lord's celestial Divinity form the head, and those who are governed by His spiritual Divinity form the trunk, while those who are governed by His natural Divinity form the feet.

For this reason, too, every person, having been created in the image of God, has in him the same three degrees, and as they are opened he becomes an angel either of the third heaven, or of the second, or of the last.

It is owing to this also that the Word contains three levels of meaning - a celestial one, a spiritual one, and a natural one.

The reality of this may be seen in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom, particularly in Part Three, in which we discussed these three degrees.

To be shown that feet, the soles of the feet, and heels correspond to natural attributes in people, and that in the Word, therefore, they symbolize natural attributes, see in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), published in London, nos. 2162 and 4938-4952.

[3] Natural Divine good is also symbolically meant by feet in the following passages. In Daniel:

I lifted my eyes and looked; behold, a... man clothed in linen garments, whose loins were girded with the gold of Uphaz! And his body was like beryl, and... his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and his feet like the sheen of burnished bronze. (Daniel 10:5-6)

In the book of Revelation:

I saw... an angel coming down from heaven, ...his feet like pillars of fire. (Revelation 10:1)

And in Ezekiel:

(The feet of the cherubim) sparkled like the sheen of burnished bronze. (Ezekiel 1:7)

Angels and cherubim so appeared for the reason that the Lord's Divinity was represented in them.

[4] Since the Lord's church exists below the heavens, thus under the Lord's feet, it is therefore called His footstool in the following places:

The glory of Lebanon shall come to you..., to beautify the place of My sanctuary; ...I will make the place of My feet honorable. And... they shall bow themselves at the soles of your feet. (Isaiah 60:13-14)

Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. (Isaiah 66:1)

(God) does not remember His footstool in the day of His anger. (Lamentations 2:1)

...worship (Jehovah) in the direction of His footstool. (Psalms 99:5)

Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah (Bethlehem).... We will go into His dwelling places, we will bow ourselves at His footstool. (Psalms 132:6-7)

That is why worshipers fell at the Lord's feet (Matthew 28:9, Mark 5:22, Luke 8:41, John 11:32), and why they kissed His feet and wiped them with their hair (Luke 7:37-38, 44-46, John 11:2; 12:3).

[5] Because feet symbolize the natural self, therefore the Lord said to Peter, when He washed Peter's feet,

He who is washed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is completely clean. (John 13:10)

To wash the feet is to purify the natural self. When it has been purified, the whole self also is purified, as we showed many times in Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), and in The Doctrines of the New Jerusalem. 1 The natural self, which is also the outer self, is purified when it refrains from the evils which the spiritual or inner self sees to be evils and ones to be shunned.

[6] Now because the feet mean the natural component of a person, and this perverts everything if it is not washed or purified, therefore the Lord says,

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than to have two feet and be cast into hell, into the unquenchable fire... (Mark 9:45)

The foot here does not mean the foot, but the natural self.

The like is meant by treading down the good pasture with the feet and troubling waters with the feet (Ezekiel 32:2; 34:18-19, Daniel 7:7, 19, and elsewhere).

[7] Since the Son of Man means the Lord in relation to the Word, it is apparent that His feet mean the Word in its natural sense as well, which we dealt with at length in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, and also that the Lord came into the world to fulfill everything in the Word and to become thereby an embodiment of the Word, even in its outmost expressions (The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 98-100). But this is a secret for people who will be in the New Jerusalem.

[8] The Lord's natural Divinity was also symbolized by the bronze serpent that Moses was commanded to set up in the wilderness, so that all who had been bitten by serpents were healed by looking at it (Numbers 21:6, 8-9). That this symbolized the Lord's natural Divinity, and that those people are saved who look to it, the Lord Himself teaches in John:

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:14-15)

The serpent was made of bronze because bronze, like fine brass, symbolizes the natural self in respect to good, as may be seen in no. 775 below.

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1. Perhaps The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem, and The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding Faith (Amsterdam, 1763). But perhaps The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (London, 1758).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.