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4 Mose 16

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1 Und Korah, der Sohn Jezehars, des Sohns Kahaths, des Sohns Levis, samt Dathan und Abiram, den Söhnen Eliabs, und On, dem Sohne Peleths, den Söhnen Rubens,

2 die empöreten sich wider Mose, samt etlichen Männern unter den Kindern Israel, zweihundertundfünfzig der Vornehmsten in der Gemeine, Ratsherren und ehrliche Leute.

3 Und sie versammelten sich wider Mose und Aaron und sprachen zu ihnen: Ihr macht's zu viel! Denn die ganze Gemeine ist überall heilig, und der HERR ist unter ihnen; warum erhebet ihr euch über die Gemeine des HERRN?

4 Da das Mose hörete, fiel er auf sein Angesicht

5 und sprach zu Korah und zu seiner ganzen Rotte: Morgen wird der HERR kundtun, wer sein sei, wer heilig sei und ihm opfern soll; welchen er erwählet, der soll ihm opfern.

6 Das tut: Nehmet euch Pfannen, Korah und seine ganze Rotte,

7 und leget Feuer drein und tut Räuchwerk drauf vor dem HERRN morgen. Welchen der HERR erwählet, der sei heilig. Ihr macht's zuviel, ihr Kinder Levis!

8 Und Mose sprach zu Korah: Lieber, höret doch, ihr Kinder Levis!

9 Ist's euch zu wenig, daß euch der Gott Israels ausgesondert hat von der Gemeine Israel, daß ihr ihm opfern sollet, daß ihr dienet im Amt der Wohnung des HERRN und vor die Gemeine tretet, ihr zu dienen?

10 Er hat dich und alle deine Brüder, die Kinder Levis, samt dir zu sich genommen; und ihr suchet nun auch das Priestertum.

11 Du und deine ganze Rotte machet einen Aufruhr wider den HERRN. Was ist Aaron, daß ihr wider ihn murret?

12 Und Mose schickte hin und ließ Dathan und Abiram rufen, die Söhne Eliabs. Sie aber sprachen: Wir kommen nicht hinauf.

13 Ist's zu wenig, daß du uns aus dem Lande geführet hast, da Milch und Honig innen fleußt, daß du uns tötest in der Wüste? Du mußt auch noch über uns herrschen?

14 Wie fein hast du uns gebracht in ein Land, da Milch und Honig innen fleußt, und hast uns Acker und Weinberge zu Erbteil gegeben! Willst du den Leuten auch die Augen ausreißen? Wir kommen nicht hinauf.

15 Da ergrimmete Mose sehr und sprach zu dem HERRN: Wende dich nicht zu ihrem Speisopfer! Ich habe, nicht einen Esel von ihnen genommen und habe ihrer keinem nie kein Leid getan.

16 Und er sprach zu Korah: Du und deine ganze Rotte sollt morgen vor dem HERRN sein; du, sie auch und Aaron.

17 Und ein jeglicher nehme seine Pfanne und lege Räuchwerk drauf, und tretet herzu vor den HERRN, ein jeglicher mit seiner Pfanne, das sind zweihundertundfünfzig Pfannen.

18 Und ein jeglicher nahm seine Pfanne und legte Feuer drein und tat Räuchwerk drauf und traten vor die Tür der Hütte des Stifts, und Mose und Aaron auch.

19 Und Korah versammelte wider sie die ganze Gemeine vor die Tür der Hütte des Stifts. Aber die HERRLIchkeit des HERRN erschien vor der ganzen Gemeine.

20 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und Aaron und sprach:

21 Scheidet euch von dieser Gemeine, daß ich sie plötzlich vertilge!

22 Sie fielen aber auf ihr Angesicht und sprachen: Ach Gott, der du bist ein Gott der Geister alles Fleisches, ob ein Mann gesündiget hat, willst du darum über die ganze Gemeine wüten?

23 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach:

24 Sage der Gemeine und sprich: Weichet ringsherum von der Wohnung Korahs und Dathans und Abirams!

25 Und Mose stund auf und ging zu Dathan und Abiram, und die Ältesten Israels folgten ihm nach.

26 Und redete mit der Gemeine und sprach: Weichet von den Hütten dieser gottlosen Menschen und rühret nichts an, was ihr ist, daß ihr nicht vielleicht umkommet in irgend ihrer Sünden einer.

27 Und sie gingen herauf von der Wohnung Korahs, Dathans und Abirams. Dathan aber und Abiram gingen heraus, traten an die Tür ihrer Hütten mit ihren Weibern und Söhnen und Kindern.

28 Und Mose sprach: Dabei sollt ihr merken, daß mich der HERR gesandt hat, daß ich alle diese Werke täte, und nicht aus meinem Herzen:

29 Werden sie sterben, wie alle Menschen sterben, oder heimgesucht, wie alle Menschen heimgesucht werden, so hat mich der HERR nicht gesandt.

30 Wird aber der HERR etwas Neues schaffen, daß die Erde ihren Mund auftut und verschlinget sie mit allem, das sie haben, daß sie lebendig hinunter in die Hölle fahren, so werdet ihr erkennen, daß diese Leute den HERRN gelästert haben.

31 Und als er diese Worte alle hatte ausgeredet, zerriß die Erde unter ihnen;

32 und tat ihren Mund auf und verschlang sie mit ihren Häusern, mit allen Menschen, die bei Korah waren, und mit aller ihrer Habe.

33 Und fuhren hinunter lebendig in die Hölle mit allem, das sie hatten, und die Erde deckte sie zu, und kamen um aus der Gemeine.

34 Und ganz Israel, das um sie her war, floh vor ihrem Geschrei; denn sie sprachen: Daß uns die Erde nicht auch verschlinge!

35 Dazu fuhr das Feuer aus von dem HERRN und fraß die zweihundertundfünfzig Männer, die das Räuchwerk opferten.

36 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach:

37 Sage Eleasar, dem Sohn Aarons, des Priesters, daß er die Pfannen aufhebe aus dem Brande und streue das Feuer hin und her.

38 Denn die Pfannen solcher Sünder sind geheiliget durch ihre Seele, daß man sie zu breiten Blechen schlage und den Altar damit behänge; denn sie sind geopfert vor dem HERRN und geheiliget und sollen den Kindern Israel zum Zeichen sein.

39 Und Eleasar, der Priester, nahm die ehernen Pfannen, die die Verbrannten geopfert hatten, und schlug sie zu Blechen, den Altar zu behängen,

40 zum Gedächtnis der Kinder Israel, daß nicht jemand Fremdes sich herzumache, der nicht ist des Samens Aaron, zu opfern Räuchwerk vor dem HERRN, auf daß ihm nicht gehe wie Korah und seiner Rotte, wie der HERR ihm geredet hatte durch Mose.

41 Des andern Morgens aber murrete die ganze Gemeine der Kinder Israel wider Mose und Aaron und sprachen: Ihr habt des HERRN Volk getötet!

42 Und da sich die Gemeine versammelte wider Mose und Aaron, wandten sie sich zu der Hütte des Stifts. Und siehe, da bedeckte es die Wolke, und die HERRLIchkeit des HERRN erschien.

43 Und Mose und Aaron gingen hinein zu der Hütte des Stifts.

44 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach:

45 Hebet euch aus dieser Gemeine; ich will sie plötzlich vertilgen. Und sie fielen auf ihr Angesicht.

46 Und Mose sprach zu Aaron: Nimm die Pfanne und tue Feuer drein vom Altar und lege Räuchwerk drauf, und gehe eilend zu der Gemeine und versöhne sie; denn das Wüten ist von dem HERRN ausgegangen, und die Plage ist angegangen.

47 Und Aaron nahm, wie ihm Mose gesagt hatte, und lief mitten unter die Gemeine (und siehe, die Plage war angegangen unter dem Volk) und räucherte und versöhnete das Volk.

48 Und stund zwischen den Toten und Lebendigen. Da ward der Plage gewehret.

49 Derer aber, die an der Plage gestorben waren, war vierzehntausendundsiebenhundert, ohne die, so mit Korah starben.

50 Und Aaron kam wieder zu Mose vor die Tür der Hütte des Stifts, und der Plage ward gewehret.

   

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10130. 'Everyone touching the altar will be sanctified' means whoever receives what is Divine and the Lord's. This is clear from the meaning of 'touching' as an imparting, conveying, and being received, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'the altar' as that which is representative of the Lord in respect of the good of love, at this point in heaven and in the Church, dealt with above in 10129; and from the meaning of 'being sanctified' as receiving what is Divine and the Lord's, also dealt with above, in 10128. The reason why 'touching' means an imparting, conveying, and being received is that a person's inner feelings are expressed by outward means, in particular by touch, and are thereby imparted and conveyed to another; and insofar as the will of the other is in tune and at one with his they are received. Whether you say the will or the love, it amounts to the same thing; for whatever a person loves he likewise wills. From this it also follows that the inner feelings a person has as a result of what he loves and therefore thinks are expressed through touch, and by means of it are imparted and conveyed to another. And insofar as the other loves the person expressing those feelings or loves the things which that person says and does, those feelings are received.

[2] This is especially apparent in the next life, for all people's actions there flow from the heart, that is, from their will or love. They are not allowed to act with gestures separate from their will or love, nor to speak with fraudulent lips, that is, separately from the thoughts of the heart. There it is evident how inner feelings are imparted and conveyed to another by touch, and how the other's reception of them is determined by his own love. Everyone's will or love constitutes the entire person there, and the sphere of life from it flows out from him like breath or an exhalation, envelops him, and constitutes an extension of himself, so to speak, around himself, in a way scarcely different from the emission around plants in the world, which is also detected at a distance through their odours, and also that around animals, which is actually detected by a dog with its keen sense of smell. There is a like emission from every human being, as also a wealth of experience makes known. But when a person lays aside the body and becomes a spirit or an angel that emission or exhalation is not material, as it was in the world; instead it is something spiritual flowing from his love. This love produces a sphere around him, which enables other spirits to detect at a distance what he is like. See what has been shown regarding this sphere in the places referred to in 9606.

[3] Since in their world this sphere is imparted and conveyed to another, and is received by him in accordance with his love, very many wonders occur there which are unknown to people in the world, such as,

1. People's presence with one another is always due to the likeness of their loves, and their absence from one another is always due to unlikeness.

2. All are brought into association with one another on the basis of their loves. Those governed by love to the Lord received from the Lord live in association with one another in the inmost heaven; those governed by love towards the neighbour received from the Lord live in association with one another in the middle heaven; and those governed by the obedience of faith, that is, those who do the truth for its own sake, live in association with one another in the lowest heaven. But those ruled by self-love and love of the world, that is, those who do what they do with selfish and worldly ends in view, live in association with one another in hell.

[4] 3. All turn their eyes towards those they love. Those who love the Lord turn their eyes towards the Lord as the Sun; those who love the neighbour with love received from the Lord turn their eyes towards the Lord as the Moon; and those who do the truth for its own sake act in a similar way. (Regarding the Lord as the Sun and as the Moon, see what has been shown in 1521, 1529-1531, 3636, 3643, 4060, 4321 (end), 5097, 5377, 7078, 7083, 7171, 7173, 8644, 8812.) And what is astonishing, whichever way they face, that is, whichever of the four quarters they turn towards, they still behold the Lord in front of them. The opposite is so with those in hell; the more they are ruled there by self-love and by love of the world, the more they turn from the Lord and have Him behind their back. And again this is so whichever way they face or whichever quarter they turn towards.

[5] 4. When an angel of heaven focuses his attention on others his inner feelings are imparted and conveyed to them, according to the amount and the essential nature of his love; and it is received by them according to the essential nature and the amount of their love. If therefore attention is focused by an angel of heaven on those who are good, it gives rise to gladness and joy; but if it is focused on the evil, it gives rise to pain and torment.

[6] But an imparting, conveying, and being received is also meant by touching with the hand because the whole body's capacity to act is concentrated in the arms and hands, and in the Word interior things are expressed by means of exterior ones. So it is that power is meant by 'the arms', by 'the hands', and especially by 'the right hand', see the places referred to in 10019, and what has been stated in 10023, 10076; and so it is that whatever resides with a person, thus the entire person in his capacity to act, is meant by 'the hands', see the places referred to in 10019. Furthermore all the outward senses of sight, hearing, taste, and smell are connected with touch, being varieties of touch, as is well known in the learned world.

[7] The meaning of 'touching' as an imparting, conveying, and being received is clear from a great number of places in the Word, of which let the following be brought to the fore: In Moses,

You shall anoint the tent of meeting, and the ark of the Testimony, and the table and all its vessels, and the lampstand and its vessels, and the altar of incense, and the altar of burnt offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its pedestal. Thus you shall sanctify them, that they may be the holy of holies. Everyone who touches them will be made holy. Exodus 30:26-29.

In the same author,

Everything that touches the remainder of the minchah and the remainder of the flesh from the sacrifices, which are for Aaron and his sons, will be made holy. Leviticus 6:18, 27.

In Daniel,

The angel touched Daniel 1 and raised him onto his knees; and he touched his lips and opened his mouth; and again he touched him and strengthened him. Daniel 10:10, 16, 18.

In Isaiah,

One of the seraphim touched my mouth with the burning coal; he said, Behold, this has touched your lips, therefore your iniquity has departed and your sin is expiated. Isaiah 6:7.

In Jeremiah,

Jehovah put out His hand and touched my mouth, and said, I am putting 2 My words into your mouth. Jeremiah 1:9.

In Matthew,

Jesus, stretching out a hand to the leper, touched him, saying, I am willing; be clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Matthew 8:3.

In the same gospel,

Jesus saw Peter's mother-in-law sick with a fever, and He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Matthew 8:14-15.

In the same gospel,

Jesus touched the eyes of the blind, and their eyes were opened. Matthew 9:29-30.

In the same gospel,

Jesus touched the eyes of the two blind men, and immediately they received sight. Matthew 20:34.

In Luke,

Jesus touched the servant's 3 ear and healed [him]. Luke 22:51.

In Mark,

They brought the sick to Jesus, that they might just touch the hem of His clothing; and as many as touched [Him] were made well. Mark 6:56; Matthew 14:36.

In Luke,

A woman suffering from a discharge of blood touched the hem of Jesus' garment; and immediately the flow of blood stopped. Jesus said, Who is it who touched Me? Someone touched Me; I perceived that power had gone out from Me. Luke 8:44-48.

In Mark,

They brought young children to Jesus, that He might touch them. And He took them up in His arms, laid His hands on them, and blessed them. Mark 10:13, 16.

[8] From these quotations it is evident that 'touching' means an imparting, conveying, and being received.

[9] This is similarly evident in places where uncleannesses are the subject, by which evils and falsities that come from the hells are meant in the internal sense, as in Moses,

Whoever touches the dead body of any person 4 will be unclean for seven days. Whoever touches a dead body, that of a person who has died 5 , and has not expiated himself, defiles Jehovah's dwelling-place; therefore this soul shall be cut off from Israel. Everyone who has touched on the surface of the field one slain with the sword, or one dead, or a human bone, or a sepulchre will be unclean for seven days. Whoever touches the water of separation will be unclean until the evening. Everything that the unclean person has touched will become unclean; and the soul who has touched it will be unclean until the evening. Numbers 19:11, 13, 16, 21-22.

In the same author,

He who touches unclean beasts, unclean creeping things, will be unclean until the evening. Everything onto which [any of them] falls will be unclean; whether it is a wooden vessel, a garment, water, an earthenware vessel, food, drink, an oven, a spring, a cistern, [or] a water-tank, it will be unclean. Leviticus 11:31-36.

The like occurs at Leviticus 5:2-3; 7:21.

In the same book,

[A person] who has a discharge is unclean. A man (vir) who touches that person's bed ..., if he sits on a vessel on which the person has sat ..., whoever touches that person's flesh [or] his garments ..., if someone suffering from a discharge spits on one who is clean ..., a seat 6 on which he rides ..., an earthenware vessel ..., a wooden vessel ..., he will be unclean. Leviticus 15:1-end.

So too one who touches a leper, Leviticus 22:4. In the same book,

If any of the carcass falls onto any sowing seed which is sown, it will be clean. But if water is put onto the seed, and the carcass falls onto it, it will be unclean. Leviticus 11:37-38.

[10] By these uncleannesses are meant various kinds of evils and consequent falsities coming from hell, which have been imparted, conveyed, and received. Each particular uncleanness means some specific evil; for evils are what render a person unclean, because they infect his soul. Also the evils in their hearts gush out of evil spirits and genii, and - depending on how convincing the false ideas accompanying evil are - they infect those who are present. This contagious influence is what is meant by touching uncleannesses.

[11] In Moses,

Of the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden you shall not eat, nor shall you touch it, or else you will die. Genesis 3:3.

In the same book,

The angel who wrestled with Jacob, seeing that he did not prevail against him, touched the socket of his thigh, and the socket of the thigh was out of joint. Genesis 32:25.

In the same author,

Moses said that they should not touch anything that belonged to Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, lest they be consumed on account of all their sins. Numbers 16:26.

In Isaiah,

Depart, depart. Do not touch the unclean thing. Go out from the midst of her; be purified, bearers of Jehovah's vessels. Isaiah 52:11.

In Jeremiah,

They went astray blind in the streets, they are defiled with blood. Things which have no power they touch with their garments. Depart; he is unclean. They cry out to them, Depart, do not touch [us]. Lamentations 4:14-15.

In Haggai,

Behold, if a man carries 7 holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and his skirt touches bread, or wine, or oil, or any food whatever, still it will not be made holy. If one who is unclean from a dead body 8 touches any of them whatever still he will be unclean. Haggai 2:12-14.

In Hosea,

Perjuring, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they commit robbery, and blood touches blood 9 . Therefore the land will mourn. Hosea 4:2-3.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Swedenborg adds five words here meaning literally and restored onto his station i.e. stood him on his feet again. They appear in Daniel 8:18 but are echoed in the angel's command to Daniel in Daniel 10:11 to stand up, which comes after the words and raised him onto his knees.

2. literally, I am giving

3. Reading servi (the servant's) for surdi (the deaf man's)

4. literally, the dead, as to every soul of man (homo)

5. literally, Whoever touches the dead, as to the soul of a man (homo) who dies

6. literally, chariot or carriage

7. literally, Behold, a man (vir) will carry

8. literally, from a soul

9. literally, bloods touch bloods i.e. bloodshed comes on top of bloodshed

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.