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3 Mose 7

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1 Und dies ist das Gesetz des Schuldopfers. Ein Hochheiliges ist es.

2 An der Stätte, da man das Brandopfer schlachtet, soll man auch das Schuldopfer schlachten und sein Blut auf dem Altar umhersprengen.

3 Und all sein Fett soll man opfern, den Schwanz und das Fett, welches das Eingeweide bedeckt,

4 die zwei Nieren mit dem Fett, das daran ist, an den Lenden, und das Netz über der Leber, an den Nieren abgerissen.

5 Und der Priester soll's auf dem Altar anzünden zum Feuer dem HERRN. Das ist ein Schuldopfer.

6 Was männlich ist unter den Priestern, die sollen das essen an heiliger Stätte; denn es ist ein Hochheiliges.

7 Wie das Sündopfer, also soll auch das Schuldopfer sein; aller beider soll einerlei Gesetz sein; und sollen dem Priester gehören, der dadurch versöhnt.

8 Welcher Priester jemandes Brandopfer opfert, des soll des Brandopfers Fell sein, das er geopfert hat.

9 Und alles Speisopfer, das im Ofen oder auf dem Rost oder in der Pfanne gebacken ist, soll dem Priester gehören, der es opfert.

10 Und alles Speisopfer, das mit Öl gemengt oder trocken ist, soll aller Kinder Aarons sein, eines wie des andern.

11 Und dies ist das Gesetz des Dankopfers, das man dem HERRN opfert.

12 Wollen sie ein Lobopfer tun, so sollen sie ungesäuerte Kuchen opfern, mit Öl gemengt, oder ungesäuerte Fladen, mit Öl bestrichen, oder geröstete Semmelkuchen, mit Öl gemengt.

13 Sie sollen aber solches Opfer tun auf Kuchen von gesäuerten Brot mit ihrem Lob- und Dankopfer,

14 und sollen einen von den allen dem HERRN zur Hebe opfern, und es soll dem Priester gehören, der das Blut des Dankopfers sprengt.

15 Und das Fleisch ihres Lob- und Dankopfers soll desselben Tages gegessen werden, da es geopfert ist, und nichts übriggelassen werden bis an den Morgen.

16 Ist es aber ein Gelübde oder freiwilliges Opfer, so soll es desselben Tages, da es geopfert ist, gegessen werden; so aber etwas übrigbleibt auf den andern Tag, so soll man's doch essen.

17 Aber was vom geopferten Fleisch übrigbleibt am dritten Tage, soll mit Feuer verbrannt werden.

18 Und wo jemand am dritten Tage wird essen von dem geopferten Fleisch seines Dankopfers, so wird er nicht angenehm sein, der es geopfert hat; es wird ihm auch nicht zugerechnet werden, sondern es wird ein Greuel sein; und welche Seele davon essen wird, die ist einer Missetat schuldig.

19 Und das Fleisch, das von etwas Unreinem berührt wird, soll nicht gegessen, sondern mit Feuer verbrannt werden. Wer reines Leibes ist, soll von dem Fleisch essen.

20 Und welche Seele essen wird von dem Fleisch des Dankopfers, das dem HERRN zugehört, und hat eine Unreinigkeit an sich, die wird ausgerottet werden von ihrem Volk.

21 Und wenn eine Seele etwas Unreines anrührt, es sei ein unreiner Mensch, ein unreines Vieh oder sonst was greulich ist, und vom Fleisch des Dankopfers ißt, das dem HERRN zugehört, die wird ausgerottet werden von ihrem Volk.

22 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach:

23 Rede mit den Kindern Israel und sprich: Ihr sollt kein Fett essen von Ochsen, Lämmern und Ziegen.

24 Aber das Fett vom Aas, und was vom Wild zerrissen ist, macht euch zu allerlei Nutz; aber essen sollt ihr's nicht.

25 Denn wer das Fett ißt von dem Vieh, davon man dem HERRN Opfer bringt, dieselbe Seele soll ausgerottet werde von ihrem Volk.

26 Ihr sollt auch kein Blut essen, weder vom Vieh noch von Vögeln, überall, wo ihr wohnt.

27 Welche Seele würde irgend ein Blut essen, die soll ausgerottet werden von ihrem Volk.

28 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach:

29 Rede mit den Kindern Israel und sprich: Wer dem HERRN sein Dankopfer tun will, der soll darbringen, was vom Dankopfer dem HERRN gehört.

30 Er soll's aber mit seiner Hand herzubringen zum Opfer des HERRN; nämlich das Fett soll er bringen samt der Brust, daß sie ein Webeopfer werden vor dem HERRN.

31 Und der Priester soll das Fett anzünden auf dem Altar, aber die Brust soll Aarons und seiner Söhne sein.

32 Und die rechte Schulter sollen sie dem Priester geben zur Hebe von ihren Dankopfern.

33 Und welcher unter Aarons Söhnen das Blut der Dankopfer opfert und das Fett, des soll die rechte Schulter sein zu seinem Teil.

34 Denn die Webebrust und die Hebeschulter habe ich genommen von den Kindern Israel von ihren Dankopfern und habe sie dem Priester Aaron und seinen Söhnen gegeben zum ewigen Recht.

35 Dies ist die Gebühr Aarons und seiner Söhne von den Opfern des HERRN, des Tages, da sie überantwortet wurden Priester zu sein dem HERRN,

36 die der HERR gebot am Tage, da er sie salbte, daß sie ihnen gegeben werden sollte von den Kindern Israel, zum ewigen Recht allen ihren Nachkommen.

37 Dies ist das Gesetz des Brandopfers, des Speisopfers, des Sündopfers, des Schuldopfers, der Füllopfer und der Dankopfer,

38 das der HERR dem Mose gebot auf dem Berge Sinai des Tages, da er ihm gebot an die Kinder Israel, zu opfern ihre Opfer dem HERRN in der Wüste Sinai.

   

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1153. And fine flour and wheat signifies profaned worship from truths and goods that are from a spiritual origin. This is evident from the signification of "fine flour," as being truth from a spiritual origin (of which presently); also from the signification of "wheat," as being good from a spiritual origin (See n. 374, 375). These also signify worship because the meal offering was composed of them, which was offered with the sacrifices upon the altar the same as the wine and the oil; for the meal offerings were prepared with oil and the drink offerings with wine. And because of the crops of these they had rejoicings in festivals which were instituted to celebrate their harvests. "Fine flour" signifies truth from spiritual good because it is prepared from wheat, which signifies spiritual good, as truth comes from good.

[2] As this truth of the church was signified by "fine flour," it was prescribed what quantity of it should be used in the cakes that were called the meal offerings, which were offered with the sacrifices upon the altar (respecting which see Exodus 29; Leviticus 5 - Leviticus 7, 23; Numbers 18, 28, 29); also the quantity of fine flour in the show bread (Leviticus 23:17; 24:5); for it was commanded that the meal offering that was to be offered on the altar should be prepared from fine flour, and oil and frankincense poured thereon (Leviticus 2:1). Because of this signification of "fine flour," when Abraham talked with the three angels he said to Sarah his wife:

Hasten, knead three measures of flour, of fine flour, and make cakes (Genesis 18:6).

[3] "Fine flour" also signifies the truth of good from a spiritual origin in Ezekiel:

Thou didst eat fine flour, honey, and oil, whence thou didst become exceeding beautiful, and didst prosper even to a kingdom. My bread which I gave thee, fine flour, honey, and oil, with which I fed thee, thou didst offer before idols as an odor of rest (Ezekiel 16:13, 19).

This is said of Jerusalem, which signifies the church as to doctrine, and in that chapter is described what it had been in its beginning and what it became afterwards. "Fine flour and oil" signify truth and good from a spiritual origin, and "honey" good from a natural origin. "Thou didst become exceeding beautiful" signifies to be intelligent and wise; "to prosper even to a kingdom" signifies even to becoming a church, "kingdom" being the church; "to offer these to idols as an odor of rest" signifies the idolatrous worship into which the true worship of the church was afterwards changed.

[4] But "flour" from barley signifies truth from a natural origin, for "barley" signifies natural good, as "wheat" signifies spiritual good. Thus in Isaiah:

Take the millstone and grind flour, make thyself bare (Isaiah 47:2).

This is said of Babylon. "To take a millstone and grind flour" signifies to falsify the truths of the Word, and "to make oneself bare" signifies to adulterate the goods of the Word. In Hosea:

They sow the wind and they reap the whirlwind; he hath no standing corn, the blade shall yield no flour; and if perchance it do, strangers shall devour it (Hosea 8:7).

Here, too, "flour" signifies truth from a natural origin.

(Continuation respecting the Athanasian Faith)

[5] 5. The fifth law of the Divine providence is, That from sense and perception in himself man cannot know how good and truth flow in from the Lord, and how evil and falsity flow in from hell; nor can he see how the Divine providence operates in favor of good against evil; if he did he could not act from freedom according to reason as if from himself. It is sufficient for him to know and acknowledge this from the Word and from the doctrine of the church. This is what is meant by the Lord's words in John:

The wind bloweth where it willeth, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh or whither it goeth; so is everyone that is born of the spirit (John 3:8).

Also by these words in Mark:

The kingdom of God is like a man that casteth seed upon the earth and then sleepeth and riseth night and day; but the seed springeth up and groweth up when he knows it not, for the earth beareth fruit of herself, first the blade, then the ear, at length the full corn in the ear; and when the fruit is produced, he putteth in the sickle because the harvest is at hand (Mark 4:26, 29).

[6] Man does not perceive the operation of the Divine providence within him, because that would take away his freedom, and thus his ability to think as if of himself, and with it every delight of life; thus man would be like an automaton, in which there is no reciprocal, and by that, conjunction; also he would be a slave and not free. The Divine providence moves so secretly that scarcely a trace of it is seen, although it acts upon the most minute things of man's thought and will, which regard his eternal state, chiefly for the reason that the Lord continually wills to impress His love on man, and through it his wisdom, and thus create him into His image. Consequently the operation of the Lord is into man's love and from that into his understanding, and not the reverse. Love with its affections, which are manifold and innumerable, is perceived by man only by a most general feeling, and thus so slightly that there is scarcely anything of it; and yet that man may be reformed and saved he must be led from one affection of love into another according to their connection from order, a thing that no man and even no angel can at all comprehend.

[7] If a man should learn anything of these arcana, he could not be withheld from leading himself; and in this he would be continually led from heaven into hell, while the Lord's leading is continually from hell towards heaven. For from himself man constantly acts against order, while the Lord acts constantly according to order; for man, from the nature derived from his parents, is in the love of self and the love of the world, and consequently perceives from a feeling of delight everything belonging to those loves as good; nevertheless, those loves as ends must be removed; and this is done by the Lord in infinite ways, that appear like a labyrinth even before the angels of the third heaven.

[8] All this makes clear that man would find no help at all in knowing anything about this from sense or perception, but it would do him harm instead, and would destroy him forever. It is sufficient for man to know truths, and by means of truths to know what is good and what is evil, and to acknowledge the Lord and His Divine auspices in every least thing. Then so far as he knows truths, and by means of them what is good and evil, and does what is good as if from himself, so far the Lord leads him from love into wisdom, conjoining love to wisdom and wisdom to love, and making them to be one, because they are one in Himself. These ways by which the Lord leads man may be compared to the vessels through which the blood in man courses and circulates, also the fibers and their foldings within and without the viscera of the body, especially in the brain, through which the animal spirit flows and gives life.

[9] How all these things flow in and flow through, man knows nothing; and yet he lives if only he knows what he needs to do and does it. But the ways by which the Lord leads man are far more complicated and inexplicable, both those by which the Lord leads man through the societies of hell and away from them, and also those by which he leads him through the societies of heaven and interiorly into them. This, therefore, is what is meant by "the wind bloweth where it willeth, and thou knowest not whence it cometh and whither it goeth" (John 3:8), also by "the seed springeth up and groweth up, the man knoweth not how" (Mark 4:27). Moreover, of what consequence is it for a man to know how seed grows up, provided he knows how to plow and harrow the land, to sow the seed, and when he reaps his harvest to bless God?

  
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