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3 Mose 10

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1 Und die Söhne Aarons, Nadab und Abihu, nahmen ein jeder seine Räucherpfanne und taten Feuer hinein und legten Räucherwerk darauf und brachten fremdes Feuer vor Jehova dar, das er ihnen nicht geboten hatte.

2 Da ging Feuer von Jehova aus und verzehrte sie, und sie starben vor Jehova.

3 Und Mose sprach zu Aaron: Dies ist es, was Jehova geredet hat, indem er sprach: In denen, die mir nahen, will ich geheiligt, und vor dem ganzen Volke will ich verherrlicht werden. Und Aaron schwieg.

4 Und Mose rief Misael und Elzaphan, die Söhne Ussiels, des Oheims Aarons, und sprach zu ihnen: Tretet herzu, traget eure Brüder von dem Heiligtum hinweg außerhalb des Lagers.

5 Und sie traten herzu und trugen sie in ihren Leibröcken hinweg außerhalb des Lagers, so wie Mose geredet hatte. -

6 Und Mose sprach zu Aaron und zu Eleasar und zu Ithamar, seinen Söhnen: Eure Häupter sollt ihr nicht entblößen und eure Kleider nicht zerreißen, damit ihr nicht sterbet, und er nicht erzürne über die ganze Gemeinde; aber eure Brüder, das ganze Haus Israel, sollen diesen Brand beweinen, den Jehova angerichtet hat.

7 Und von dem Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft sollt ihr nicht weggehen, daß ihr nicht sterbet; denn das Öl der Salbung Jehovas ist auf euch. Und sie taten nach dem Worte Moses.

8 Und Jehova redete zu Aaron und sprach:

9 Wein und starkes Getränk sollst du nicht trinken, du und deine Söhne mit dir, wenn ihr in das Zelt der Zusammenkunft hineingehet, daß ihr nicht sterbet, eine ewige Satzung bei euren Geschlechtern-

10 und damit ihr unterscheidet zwischen dem Heiligen und dem Unheiligen und zwischen dem Reinen und dem Unreinen,

11 und damit ihr die Kinder Israel lehret alle die Satzungen, die Jehova durch Mose zu euch geredet hat.

12 Und Mose redete zu Aaron und zu Eleasar und zu Ithamar, seinen Söhnen, den übriggebliebenen: Nehmet das Speisopfer, das von den Feueropfern Jehovas übrigbleibt, und esset es ungesäuert neben dem Altar; denn hochheilig ist es.

13 Und ihr sollt es essen an heiligem Orte, denn es ist dein Bestimmtes und das Bestimmte deiner Söhne von den Feueropfern Jehovas; denn also ist mir geboten.

14 Und die Brust des Webopfers und den Schenkel des Hebopfers sollt ihr essen an reinem Orte, du und deine Söhne und deine Töchter mit dir; denn als dein Bestimmtes und das Bestimmte deiner Söhne sind sie gegeben von den Friedensopfern der Kinder Israel.

15 Den Schenkel des Hebopfers und die Brust des Webopfers sollen sie nebst den Feueropfern der Fettstücke bringen, um sie als Webopfer vor Jehova zu weben; und sie sollen dir gehören und deinen Söhnen mit dir, als eine ewige Gebühr, so wie Jehova geboten hat.

16 Und Mose suchte eifrig den Bock des Sündopfers, und siehe, er war verbrannt. Und er erzürnte über Eleasar und über Ithamar, die Söhne Aarons, die übriggeblieben, und sprach:

17 Warum habt ihr nicht das Sündopfer an heiligem Orte gegessen? Denn es ist hochheilig; und er hat es euch gegeben, um die Ungerechtigkeit der Gemeinde zu tragen, um Sühnung für sie zu tun vor Jehova.

18 Siehe, das Blut desselben ist nicht in das Innere des Heiligtums gebracht worden; ihr sollt es jedenfalls im Heiligtum essen, so wie ich geboten habe.

19 Und Aaron redete zu Mose: Siehe, heute haben sie ihr Sündopfer und ihr Brandopfer vor Jehova dargebracht; und solches ist mir begegnet; und hätte ich heute das Sündopfer gegessen, würde es gut gewesen sein in den Augen Jehovas?

20 Und Mose hörte es, und es war gut in seinen Augen.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2187

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2187. 'And they ate' means communication in this manner. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being communicated, and also being joined together, as is also evident from the Word. The injunction that Aaron, and his sons the Levites, and also the people were to eat the consecrated elements of the sacrifices in a holy place meant nothing other than the communication, conjunction, and making one's own, as stated above in 2177, at the point where Leviticus 6:16-17, is referred to. For it was celestial and spiritual food that was meant by the consecrated elements, and thus making that food their own by eating those elements. These consecrated elements were those parts of the sacrifices which were not burned on the altar but were eaten either by the priests or by the people who brought the offering, as becomes clear from very many places where the sacrifices are the subject. The consecrated elements that were to be eaten by the priests are referred to in Exodus 29:32-33; Leviticus 6:16, 26; 7:6, 15-16, 18; 8:31; 10:12-13; Numbers 18:9-11; and those to be eaten by the people, in Leviticus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 12:27; 27:7; and elsewhere. And that those who were unclean were not to eat of them is referred to in Leviticus 7:19-21; 22:4-7. These ritual feasts took place in a holy place near the altar, either at the gate or in the court outside the tent. And they meant nothing else than the communication, conjunction, and making of celestial goods one's own, for those feasts represented celestial food. For what celestial food is, see 56-58, 680, 681, 1480, 1695. And all those consecrated elements were called 'bread', for the meaning of which see above in 2165. Something similar was represented by Aaron and his sons eating the loaves of the presence, or the shewbread, in a holy place, Leviticus 24:9.

[2] The reason for the law given to the Nazirite that during the days of his Naziriteship he was forbidden to eat anything that is produced from the grape - from which wine is made - from pips even to skin, Numbers 6:4, is that the Nazirite represented the celestial man, and the celestial man is such as is not willing even to mention spiritual things, see Volume One, in 202, 337, 880 (end), 1647. And because 'wine' and 'the grape', and also whatever came from the grape, meant that which is spiritual, the Nazirite was therefore forbidden to eat of them, that is, to have any communication with spiritual things, to join himself to them, or to make them his own.

[3] Something similar is meant by 'eating' in Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on that which is not bread, and your labour on that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:1-2.

And also what is said in John,

To him who conquers I will grant to eat from the tree of life which is in the middle of the Paradise of God. Revelation 2:7.

'The tree of life' is the celestial itself, and in the highest sense it is the Lord Himself since He is the source of everything celestial, that is, of all love and charity. Thus 'eating from the tree of life' is the same as feeding on the Lord; and 'feeding on the Lord' is being endowed with love and charity, thus with those things that belong to heavenly life, as the Lord Himself declares in John,

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live for ever. He who feeds on Me will live through Me. John 6:51, 57. But they said, This is a hard saying. Jesus said however, The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:60, 63.

From this it is evident what is meant by 'eating' in the Holy Supper, Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20 - having communication, being joined together, and making one's own.

[4] From this it is also plain what is meant by the Lord's statement that

Many will come from the east and from the west and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Matthew 8:11.

The Lord did not mean that they were going to feast with these three in the kingdom of God but that they were to enjoy the celestial goods meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That is to say, they were to enjoy the inmost celestial goods of love, meant by -Abraham'; also a lower type of goods, which are intermediate, as those are which belong to the rational, meant by 'Isaac'; and a still lower type of goods which are celestial-natural, such as occur in the first heaven, meant by 'Jacob'. These are the things which constitute the internal sense of these words. That such things are meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, see 1893, and wherever else they are the subject. For whether one speaks of enjoying those celestial things, or whether one speaks of enjoying the Lord, whom they represent, it amounts to the same since the Lord is the source of all those things, and the Lord is their All in all.

  
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