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3 Mose 17

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1 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach:

2 Sage Aaron und seinen Söhnen und allen Kindern Israel und sprich zu ihnen: Das ist's, das der HERR geboten hat:

3 Welcher aus dem Hause Israel einen Ochsen oder Lamm oder Ziege schlachtet in dem Lager oder außen vor dem Lager

4 und nicht vor die Tür der Hütte des Stifts bringet, daß es dem HERRN zum Opfer gebracht werde vor der Wohnung des HERRN, der soll des Bluts schuldig sein, als der Blut vergossen hat, und solcher Mensch soll ausgerottet werden aus seinem Volk.

5 Darum sollen die Kinder Israel ihre Opfer, die sie auf dem freien Felde opfern wollen, vor den HERRN bringen, vor die Türe der Hütte des Stifts, zum Priester, und allda ihre Dankopfer dem HERRN opfern.

6 Und der Priester soll das Blut auf den Altar des HERRN sprengen vor der Tür der Hütte des Stifts und das Fett anzünden zum süßen Geruch dem HERRN;

7 und mitnichten ihre Opfer hinfort den Feldteufeln opfern, mit denen sie huren. Das soll ihnen ein ewiges Recht sein bei ihren Nachkommen.

8 Darum sollst du zu ihnen sagen: Welcher Mensch aus dem Hause Israel, oder auch ein Fremdling, der unter euch ist, der ein Opfer oder Brandopfer tut,

9 und bringt's nicht ,vor die Tür der Hütte des Stifts, daß er's dem HERRN tue, der soll ausgerottet werden von seinem Volk.

10 Und welcher Mensch, er sei vom Hause Israel, oder ein Fremdling unter euch, irgend Blut isset, wider den will ich mein Antlitz setzen und will ihn mitten aus seinem Volk rotten.

11 Denn des Leibes Leben ist im Blut, und ich hab's euch zum Altar gegeben, daß eure Seelen damit versöhnet werden. Denn das Blut ist die Versöhnung für das Leben.

12 Darum hab ich gesagt den Kindern Israel: Keine SeeLE unter euch soll Blut essen, auch kein Fremdling, der unter euch wohnet.

13 Und welcher Mensch, er sei vom Hause Israel oder ein Fremdling unter euch, der ein Tier oder Vogel fähet auf der Jagd, das man isset, der soll desselben Blut vergießen und mit Erde zuscharren.

14 Denn des Leibes Leben ist in seinem Blut, solange es lebet; und ich habe den Kindern Israel gesagt: Ihr sollt keines Leibes Blut essen. Denn des Leibes Leben ist in seinem Blut. Wer es isset, der soll ausgerottet werden.

15 Und welche SeeLE ein Aas, oder was vom Wilde zerrissen ist, isset, er sei ein Einheimischer oder Fremdling, der soll sein Kleid waschen und sich mit Wasser baden und unrein sein bis auf den Abend, so wird er rein.

16 Wo er seine Kleider nicht waschen noch sich baden wird, so soll er seiner Missetat schuldig sein.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 586

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586. That they should not adore demons.- That this signifies that they should not worship their own disorderly desires, is evident from the signification of worshipping, and from the signification of demons, as denoting evil desires. The reason why demons denote evil desires, is, that by demons are meant infernal spirits, and all the spirits in the hells are nothing but evil desires. For all the spirits in the hells, and all the angels in the heavens, are from the human race, and every man after death becomes such as the quality of his life was in the world, consequently the quality of his affection, so that after death man is entirely his own affection, a good man the affection for good and truth, and an evil man the affection for evil and falsity. Every man, also, after death, thinks, wills, speaks, and acts, according to his own affection. The affection for evil and falsity, is what is called desire, and is signified by "demon." But what is meant by worshipping demons shall also be briefly explained.

[2] Every man is in association with spirits, for without such association and conjunction no one can live, and the spirits attendant on man are in accordance with the quality of his affections or desires. Therefore when man, in his worship, does not look to the Lord or to his neighbour, but to himself and to the world, that is, when he worships God for the sole end of being exalted to honours, and of gaining wealth, or that he may do injury to others, he worships demons; for the Lord is not then present in his worship, but infernal spirits, who are in association with him. These spirits also are so insane as to believe that they are gods, and to be worshipped. For every spirit, as well as every man, who is in the love of self, seeks to be worshipped as a god, and for this reason men after death, on becoming demon-spirits are possessed with that insane desire; this, therefore, is the signification of adoring demons.

[3] This worship is also understood by sacrificing to demons.

Thus in Moses:

"They provoked him to wrath with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrifice to demons, not to God; to gods whom they knew not" (Deuteronomy 32:16, 17).

Again:

The sons of Israel shall sacrifice at the door of the tent, and "they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto demons, after whom they go awhoring" (Leviticus 17:7).

The sacrifices which were offered at the door of the tent represented the worship of the Lord, because the altar, and also the tabernacle, represented heaven, where the Lord is present; but the sacrifices which they offered elsewhere, represented worship where the Lord was not present, thus the worship of demons; for all things at that time were representative.

[4] So in David:

"They sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons" (Psalm 106:37).

This was utterly infernal; but, in the spiritual sense, sacrificing their sons and daughters, signified by means of their evil desires to pervert and destroy the truths and goods of the church; for sons signify the truths of the church, and daughters its goods.

[5] So in Isaiah:

"The tziim shall also meet with the ijim, and the wood demon shall meet his fellow; the bird of night shall also rest there, and find for herself a place of rest" (34:14).

Here the subject treated of is the total devastation of the church through corporeal and purely natural lusts (concupiscentiae), from which flow forth evils and falsities of every kind; these lusts are signified by the tziim, and the ijim, and also by the bird of night and the wood demon, or satyr.

[6] Again, in like manner:

"The tziim shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of ochim; and the daughters of the bird of night shall dwell there, and the wood demons shall dance there" (13:21).

These things are spoken of Babylon. That such merely natural and corporeal lusts (concupiscentiae) are possessed by those meant by Babylon, and constitute the life of their mind, is signified by their houses being filled with such things, and by their dwelling and dancing there. By house is signified the internal or external mind [mens seu animus] of man, with the things contained therein; daughters of the bird of night signify falsities, and wood demons or satyrs, merely corporeal desires.

Similar language is used respecting Babylon in the Apocalypse:

"Babylon is become the habitation of demons, and the hold of every unclean spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird" (18:2).

The demons cast out by the Lord, by which many were at that time obsessed, signify falsities of every kind, with which the church was infested, and from which it was liberated by the Lord (as in Matthew 8:16, 28; 9:32, 33; 10:8; 12:22; 15:22; Mark 1:32-34; Luke 4:33-38, 41; 8:2, 26-40; 9:1, 37-44, 49, 50; 13:32, and elsewhere).

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.