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3 Mose 10

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1 Und die Söhne Aarons Nadab und Abihu nahmen ein jeglicher seinen Napf und taten Feuer darein und legten Räuchwerk darauf und brachten das fremde Feuer vor den HERRN, das er ihnen nicht geboten hatte.

2 Da fuhr ein Feuer aus von dem HERRN und verzehrte sie, daß sie starben vor dem HERRN.

3 Da sprach Mose zu Aaron: Das ist's, was der HERR gesagt hat: Ich erzeige mich heilig an denen, die mir nahe sind, und vor allem Volk erweise ich mich herrlich. Und Aaron schwieg still.

4 Mose aber rief Misael und Elzaphan, die Söhne Usiels, Aarons Vettern, und sprach zu ihnen: Tretet hinzu und traget eure Brüder von dem Heiligtum hinaus vor das Lager.

5 Und sie traten hinzu und trugen sie hinaus mit ihren leinenen Röcken vor das Lager, wie Mose gesagt hatte.

6 Da sprach Mose zu Aaron und seinen Söhnen Eleasar und Ithamar: Ihr sollt eure Häupter nicht entblößen noch eure Kleider zerreißen, daß ihr nicht sterbet und der Zorn über die ganze Gemeinde komme. Laßt eure Brüder, das ganze Haus Israel, weinen über diesen Brand, den der HERR getan hat.

7 Ihr aber sollt nicht ausgehen von der Tür der Hütte des Stifts, ihr möchtet sterben; denn das Salböl des HERRN ist auf euch. Und sie taten, wie Mose sagte.

8 Der HERR aber redete mit Aaron und sprach:

9 Du und deine Söhne mit dir sollt keinen Wein noch starkes Getränk trinken, wenn ihr in die Hütte des Stifts geht, auf daß ihr nicht sterbet. Das sei ein ewiges Recht allen euren Nachkommen,

10 auf daß ihr könnt unterscheiden, was heilig und unheilig, was rein und unrein ist,

11 und daß ihr die Kinder Israel lehret alle Rechte, die der HERR zu ihnen geredet hat durch Mose.

12 Und Mose redete mit Aaron und mit seinen noch übrigen Söhnen, Eleasar und Ithamar: Nehmet, was übriggeblieben ist vom Speisopfer an den Opfern des HERRN, und esset's ungesäuert bei dem Altar; denn es ist ein Hochheiliges.

13 Ihr sollt's aber an heiliger Stätte essen; denn das ist dein Recht und deiner Söhne Recht an den Opfern des HERRN; denn so ist's mir geboten.

14 Aber die Webebrust und die Hebeschulter sollst du und deine Söhne und deine Töchter mit dir essen an reiner Stätte; denn solch Recht ist dir und deinen Kindern gegeben an den Dankopfern der Kinder Israel.

15 Denn die Hebeschulter und die Webebrust soll man zu den Opfern des Fetts bringen, daß sie zum Webeopfer gewebt werden vor dem HERRN; darum ist's dein und deiner Kinder zum ewigen Recht, wie der HERR geboten hat.

16 Und Mose suchte den Bock des Sündopfers, und fand ihn verbrannt, Und er ward zornig über Eleasar und Ithamar, Aarons Söhne, die noch übrig waren, und sprach:

17 Warum habt ihr das Sündopfer nicht gegessen an heiliger Stätte? denn es ist ein Hochheiliges, und er hat's euch gegeben, daß ihr die Missetat der Gemeinde tragen sollt, daß ihr sie versöhnet vor dem HERRN.

18 Siehe, sein Blut ist nicht gekommen in das Heilige hinein. Ihr solltet es im Heiligen gegessen haben, wie mir geboten ist.

19 Aaron aber sprach zu Mose: Siehe, heute haben sie ihr Sündopfer und ihr Brandopfer vor dem HERRN geopfert, und es ist mir also gegangen, wie du siehst; und ich sollte essen heute vom Sündopfer? Sollte das dem HERRN gefallen?

20 Da das Mose hörte, ließ er's sich gefallen.

   

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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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