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3 Mose 7

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1 Und dies ist das Gesetz des Schuldopfers; es ist hochheilig.

2 An dem Orte, wo man das Brandopfer schlachtet, soll man das Schuldopfer schlachten; und sein Blut soll er (d. h. der Priester) an den Altar sprengen ringsum.

3 Und alles Fett soll er davon darbringen, den Fettschwanz und das Fett, welches das Eingeweide bedeckt,

4 und die beiden Nieren und das Fett, das an ihnen, das an den Lenden ist, und das Netz über der Leber: samt den Nieren soll er es abtrennen.

5 Und der Priester soll es auf dem Altar räuchern als ein Feueropfer dem Jehova: es ist ein Schuldopfer.

6 Alles Männliche unter den Priestern soll es essen; an heiligem Orte soll es gegessen werden: hochheilig ist es.

7 Wie das Sündopfer, so das Schuldopfer: ein Gesetz soll für sie sein. Der Priester, der damit Sühnung tut, ihm soll es gehören. -

8 Und der Priester, der jemandes Brandopfer darbringt: ihm, dem Priester, soll die Haut des Brandopfers gehören, das er dargebracht hat.

9 Und alles Speisopfer, das im Ofen gebacken, und alles, was im Napfe oder in der Pfanne bereitet wird: dem Priester, der es darbringt, ihm soll es gehören.

10 Und alles Speisopfer, das mit Öl gemengt oder trocken ist, soll allen Söhnen Aarons gehören, dem einen wie dem anderen.

11 Und dies ist das Gesetz des Friedensopfers, das man Jehova darbringt:

12 Wenn man es zum Danke (Anderswo: Lob; eig. Anerkennung) darbringt, so bringe man nebst dem Dankopfer ungesäuerte Kuchen dar, gemengt mit Öl, und ungesäuerte Fladen, gesalbt mit Öl, und Feinmehl, eingerührt mit Öl: Kuchen, gemengt mit Öl.

13 Nebst den Kuchen soll man gesäuertes Brot als Opfergabe darbringen, nebst seinem Dank-Friedensopfer. (O. Lob-Dankopfer)

14 Und man soll je eines davon, von der ganzen Opfergabe, dem Jehova als Hebopfer darbringen; dem Priester, der das Blut des Friedensopfers sprengt, ihm soll es gehören.

15 Und das Fleisch seines (des Opfernden) Dank-Friedensopfers soll am Tage seiner Darbringung gegessen werden; er soll nichts davon liegen lassen bis an den Morgen.

16 Und wenn das Schlachtopfer seiner Opfergabe ein Gelübde oder eine freiwillige Gabe ist, so soll es an dem Tage, da er sein Schlachtopfer darbringt, gegessen werden; und am anderen Tage soll dann, was davon übrigbleibt, gegessen werden;

17 und was vom Fleische des Schlachtopfers am dritten Tage übrigbleibt, soll mit Feuer verbrannt werden.

18 Und wenn irgendwie vom Fleische seines Friedensopfers am dritten Tage gegessen wird, so wird es nicht wohlgefällig sein; wer es dargebracht hat, dem wird es nicht zugerechnet werden: ein Greuel wird es sein; und die Seele, die davon isset, wird ihre Ungerechtigkeit tragen.

19 Und das Fleisch, das irgend etwas Unreines berührt, soll nicht gegessen werden, mit Feuer soll es verbrannt werden. Und was das Fleisch betrifft, jeder eine darf das Fleisch essen;

20 aber die Seele, welche Fleisch von dem Friedensopfer isset, das Jehova gehört, und ihre Unreinigkeit ist an ihr, selbige Seele soll ausgerottet werden aus ihren Völkern.

21 Und wenn eine Seele irgend etwas Unreines anrührt, die Unreinigkeit eines Menschen oder ein unreines Vieh oder irgend ein unreines Scheusal, und sie isset von dem Fleische des Friedensopfers, das Jehova gehört: selbige Seele soll ausgerottet werden aus ihren Völkern.

22 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

23 ede zu den Kindern Israel und sprich: Kein Fett vom indvieh und von Schaf und Ziege sollt ihr essen.

24 Und das Fett vom Aas und das Fett vom Zerrissenen kann verwendet werden zu allerlei Werk; aber ihr sollt es durchaus nicht essen.

25 Denn jeder, der Fett isset vom Vieh, wovon man ein Feueropfer dem Jehova darbringt-die Seele, die es isset, soll ausgerottet werden aus ihren Völkern.

26 Und kein Blut sollt ihr essen in allen euren Wohnsitzen, es sei vom Gevögel oder vom Vieh.

27 Jede Seele, die irgend Blut isset, selbige Seele soll ausgerottet werden aus ihren Völkern.

28 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

29 ede zu den Kindern Israel und sprich: Wer sein Friedensopfer dem Jehova darbringt, soll von seinem Friedensopfer seine Opfergabe dem Jehova bringen.

30 Seine Hände sollen die Feueropfer Jehovas bringen; das Fett, samt der Brust soll er es bringen: die Brust, um sie als Webopfer vor Jehova zu weben.

31 Und der Priester soll das Fett auf dem Altar räuchern, und die Brust soll Aaron und seinen Söhnen gehören.

32 Und den rechten Schenkel sollt ihr als Hebopfer von euren Friedensopfern dem Priester geben.

33 Wer von den Söhnen Aarons das Blut des Friedensopfers und das Fett darbringt, dem soll der rechte Schenkel zuteil werden.

34 Denn die Brust des Webopfers und den Schenkel des Hebopfers habe ich von den Kindern Israel genommen, von ihren Friedensopfern, und habe sie Aaron, dem Priester, und seinen Söhnen gegeben als eine ewige Gebühr (Eig. ein für ewig Bestimmtes) von seiten der Kinder Israel. -

35 Das ist das Salbungsteil (W. die Salbung) Aarons und das Salbungsteil seiner Söhne von den Feueropfern Jehovas, an dem Tage, (d. h. von dem Tage an) da man (O. er) sie herzunahen ließ, um Jehova den Priesterdienst auszuüben,

36 das Jehova geboten hat, ihnen zu geben von seiten der Kinder Israel, an dem Tage, da man sie salbte: eine ewige Satzung bei ihren Geschlechtern.

37 Das ist das Gesetz des Brandopfers, des Speisopfers und des Sündopfers und des Schuldopfers und des Einweihungsopfers und des Friedensopfers,

38 welches Jehova dem Mose geboten hat auf dem Berge Sinai, an dem Tage, da er den Kindern Israel gebot, ihre Opfergaben dem Jehova darzubringen, in der Wüste Sinai.

   

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10109. 'And they shall eat those things containing what has been expiated' means the making of good their own by those who have been purified from evils and consequent falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' as making one's own, dealt with above in 10106; and from the meaning of 'what has been expiated' as that which has been purified from evils and consequent falsities, dealt with in 9506. The words 'purified from evils and consequent falsities' are used because falsities as well as truths exist with those ruled by evil, and also falsities as well as truths exist with those who are governed by good. The falsities present with those ruled by evil are falsities of evil, and the truths present with them are falsified truths, which are dead. But the falsities present with those governed by good are accepted as truths, for those falsities are tempered by the good and put to good and useful purposes, and the truths present with them are the truths of good, which are alive. Regarding both kinds of falsity and truth, see what has been shown in 2243, 2408, 2863, 4736, 4822, 6359, 7272, 7437, 7574, 7577, 8051, 8137, 8138, 8149, 8298, 8311, 8318 (end), 9258, 9298.

[2] Since 'eating the holy things containing what has been expiated' means the making of good their own by those who have been purified from evils and consequent falsities, anyone unclean was strictly forbidden to eat of those things; for uncleanness means defilement by evils and consequent falsities. For the situation is that as long as a person is steeped in evils and consequent falsities good cannot by any means be made his own. This is because evil comes up from hell and good comes down from heaven, and where hell is heaven cannot be, since they are diametrically opposed to each other. Therefore to make a place for heaven - that is, for good from heaven - hell, that is, evil from hell, must be removed. From this it may be seen that good cannot by any means be made a person's own as long as he is ruled by evil. By making good his own the implanting of good in the will should be understood, for good cannot be said to have been made a person's own until it becomes part of his will. A person's will is the actual person, and his understanding also, to the extent that it derives from the will. For what is part of the will forms part of the person's love and consequently his life, since what a person wills he loves and calls good, and also when it is done by him it is felt to be such. The situation is different with those things which are part of the understanding but not at the same time part of the will. It should also be recognized that when a person is said to make good his own, no more should be understood than his ability to receive good from the Lord, an ability he is endowed with through regeneration. Consequently good as it exists with a person is not that person's; rather it is the Lord's with him. And he is maintained in it to the extent that he allows himself to be withheld from evils. The impossibility for good to become a person's own, that is, for it to be transmitted to him, as long as he is ruled by evil was the reason for the prohibition which prevented one who was unclean from eating the flesh and the bread of a sacrifice; for that eating represented making good one's own, as stated above.

[3] Those who were unclean were forbidden on pain of death to eat from holy offerings, as is clear in Moses,

Everyone who is clean shall eat flesh. The soul who eats the flesh of sacrifices while uncleanness is on him shall be cut off from his people. The soul who touches anything unclean - the uncleanness of a human being or an unclean beast or any unclean creeping thing whatever - and eats of the flesh of the eucharistic sacrifice shall be cut off from [his] people. Leviticus 7:19-21.

All those outward kinds of uncleanness represented inward kinds, which are a person's evils; and they are evils present in his will, having been made his own by the life he actually leads.

[4] This matter is described further elsewhere in Moses,

Any man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper or suffers a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he has been made clean. Whoever has touched anything made unclean by a corpse 1 , [or any] man who has had an emission of semen 2 , or [any] man who has touched any creeping thing by which he is defiled, or [has touched] a person by whom any one is defiled, as to all his uncleanness - the soul who has touched that thing shall be unclean until evening and not eat of the holy things. But when he has washed his flesh with water, and the sun has gone down, he shall be clean; and afterwards he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread. No outsider shall eat what is holy; a stranger staying with a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat what is holy. If the priest buys a soul - a buying with his silver - [that soul] may eat of it, and one who is born in his house; these shall eat of his bread. When a priest's daughter has married a man, an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of holy things. But if the priest's daughter has been made a widow or divorced and has no seed, and has indeed returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread. Leviticus 22:1-16.

All these rules, it is plainly evident, serve to mean more internal considerations, that is, they imply the transmission of holy things to those in a receptive state of mind, who then make those things their own. The rule that no outsider could eat the holy things meant, not those who do not acknowledge the Lord within the Church, thus not those with whom none of the Church's truth and good exists. The rule that no stranger or hired servant could eat them meant, neither those with whom natural good exists devoid of the good of faith, nor those who do good for the sake of reward. The rule that those bought with silver and those born in the house could eat them meant, those who have been converted, and those with whom the Church's truth and good exists as the result of faith and love. The rule that a priest's daughter married to a man who was an outsider could not eat them meant that the good which had not been wedded to the Church's truths [but to something other] could not make the holy things of the Church its own. The rule however that a widow or a divorcee who had no seed could eat them meant that good can be made one's own after the removal of things which do not belong to the Church, provided that no notions have been hatched or born out of that union that have become an integral part of one's faith. The fact that such considerations are meant is evident from the internal sense of these specific rules.

[5] But hereditary evils do not prevent anyone from making good his own. This consideration too is described in Moses,

No man of the seed of Aaron in whom there is a blemish shall approach to offer the bread of God - no man who is blind, lame, mutilated, or [has a limb] too long; none who has a broken foot or hand, is a hunchback, is bruised, has a defect in his eye, has scabs, has warts, or has a crushed testicle. He shall not approach to offer the bread of his God; but he shall eat the bread of God from among the most holy and the holy things. Leviticus 21:17-23.

These defects, as has been stated, serve to mean hereditary evils, some specific evil being meant by each particular defect. The reason why these men should not offer bread or approach the altar as priests was that if they did so the people would catch sight of those imperfections or ills, and in what was caught sight of some representation would take shape, none of which would happen if those defects remained hidden. For although a priest, Levite, or the people were unclean inwardly, they were nevertheless called clean and also thought to be sanctified, provided that outwardly they were washed and looked clean.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, anything unclean on account of the soul

2. literally, a man from whom the lying together of semen (i.e. semen from sexual intercourse) has gone out

  
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