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1 Mikor pedig bemégy arra a földre, a melyet az Úr, a te Istened ád néked örökségül, és bírni fogod azt, és lakozol abban:

2 Akkor végy a föld minden gyümölcsének zsengéjébõl, a melyet szerezz a te földedbõl, a melyet az Úr, a te Istened ád néked; és tedd kosárba és menj oda a helyre, a melyet kiválaszt az Úr, a te Istened, hogy ott lakozzék az õ neve;

3 És menj be a paphoz, a ki abban az idõben lesz, és mondjad néki: Vallást teszek ma az Úr elõtt, a te Istened elõtt, hogy bejöttem a földre, a mely felõl megesküdt az Úr a mi atyáinknak, hogy nékünk adja.

4 És a pap vegye el a kosarat kezedbõl, és tegye azt az Úrnak, a te Istenednek oltára elé.

5 És szólj, és mondjad az Úr elõtt, a te Istened elõtt: Veszendõ mesopotámiai vala az atyám, és aláment vala Égyiptomba, és jövevény volt ott kevesed magával; nagy, erõs és temérdek néppé lõn ottan.

6 Bosszúsággal illetének pedig minket az Égyiptombeliek, és nyomorgatának minket, és vetének reánk kemény szolgálatot.

7 Kiáltánk azért az Úrhoz, a mi atyáink Istenéhez, és meghallgatta az Úr a mi szónkat, és megtekintette a mi nyomorúságunkat, kínunkat és szorongattatásunkat;

8 És kihozott minket az Úr Égyiptomból erõs kézzel, kinyújtott karral, nagy rettentéssel, jelekkel és csudákkal;

9 És behozott minket e helyre, és adta nékünk ezt a földet, a tejjel és mézzel folyó földet.

10 Most azért ímé elhoztam ama föld gyümölcsének zsengéjét, a melyet nékem adtál Uram. És rakd le azt az Úr elõtt, a te Istened elõtt, és imádkozzál az Úr elõtt, a te Istened elõtt;

11 És örömet találj mindabban a jóban, a melyet ád néked az Úr, a te Istened, és a te házadnépének; te és a lévita, és a jövevény, a ki te közötted van.

12 Ha a harmadik esztendõben, a tizednek esztendejében, minden termésedbõl egészen megadod a tizedet, és adod a lévitának, a jövevénynek, az árvának és özvegynek, hogy egyenek a te kapuid között, és jól lakjanak:

13 Akkor ezt mondjad az Úr elõtt, a te Istened elõtt: Kitakarítottam a szent részt a házból, és oda adtam azt a lévitának, a jövevénynek, az árvának és az özvegynek minden te parancsolatod szerint, a melyet parancsoltál nékem; nem hágtam át egyet sem a te parancsolataidból, sem el nem felejtettem!

14 Nem ettem belõle gyászomban, nem pusztítottam belõle tisztátalanul, és halottra sem adtam belõle. Hallgattam az Úrnak, az én Istenemnek szavára; a szerint cselekedtem, a mint parancsoltad nékem.

15 Tekints alá a te szentségednek lakóhelyébõl a mennyekbõl, és áldd meg Izráelt, a te népedet, és a földet, a melyet nékünk adtál, a mint megesküdtél vala a mi atyáinknak, a tejjel és mézzel folyó földet.

16 E mai napon az Úr, a te Istened parancsolja néked, hogy e rendelések és végzések szerint cselekedjél: tartsd meg azért és cselekedjed azokat teljes szívedbõl és teljes lelkedbõl!

17 Azt kívántad ma kimondatni az Úrral, hogy Isteneddé lesz néked, hogy járhass az õ útain, megtudhassad az õ rendeléseit, parancsolatait és végzéseit, és engedhess az õ szavának;

18 Az Úr pedig azt kívánja ma kimondatni veled, hogy az õ tulajdon népévé leszesz, a miképen szólott néked, és minden õ parancsolatát megtartod,

19 Hogy feljebb valóvá tegyen téged minden nemzetnél, a melyeket teremtett, dícséretben, névben és dicsõségben, és hogy szent népévé lehess az Úrnak, a te Istenednek, a mint megmondta vala.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10040

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10040. Since the flesh of the young bull together with its skin and dung was burned with fire outside the camp, it becomes clear that the good of love was not meant by its 'flesh' but the evil of [self] love, as accords with the things stated above in 10035 regarding its 'flesh', and in 10038 just above regarding 'the camp'. But the reason why they were allowed to eat the flesh of the sacrifice, as becomes clear from places which come further on, was that in its worship that nation was interested in the outward performance but not in anything internal, see the places referred to in 9320(end), 9380. And an outward performance devoid of anything internal is not at all holy because then it is something done merely by the body and spoken by the mouth, and the heart and soul are not in it. Nevertheless the outward performance devoid of anything internal was called holy because it represented holy and internal things, these being everything that belongs to love and faith received from the Lord and offered back to Him. Since that nation was by nature such they were not permitted to eat blood and fat, because 'blood' meant Divine Truth which composes faith, while 'fat' meant Divine Good which constitutes love, both of which are received from the Lord, see above in 10033. But they were permitted to eat the flesh of a sacrifice because this flesh meant the human proprium or selfhood, 10035; and the proprium of that nation was such that they worshipped the outward forms as being holy but made nothing whatever of their inward substance. And that worship - apart from the representative aspect of it, which was holy - was idolatrous, see 4281, 4311. Furthermore that flesh, as a representative sign, had no other meaning, when its blood represented Divine Truth and its fat Divine Good, 10033; for then that flesh represented something which was devoid of life and soul, as the outward devoid of the inward is, which is referred to as being dead and which is in keeping with the following words in Moses,

You shall not eat the blood, because the blood is the soul; and you shall not eat the soul with the flesh. Deuteronomy 12:23.

[2] The worship of the nation of the catholic religion, as it is called 1 , is almost the same; that is to say, its worship is outward, devoid of anything inward. The common people are prevented from knowing the inner truths of the Word, because they are forbidden to read it, for which reason also it has come about in the Lord's Divine Providence that in the Holy Supper the common people are given the bread or flesh, but not the wine or blood. And yet blood is that which gives life to flesh, even as wine gives it to bread. For just as the bread without the wine provides no nourishment to the body, neither therefore does the good of love, meant by the bread and the flesh, without the truth of faith, meant by the wine and the blood, provide any nourishment to the soul. In the Lord's Divine Providence it has also come about there that the priest should drink the wine, because by this is meant nourishing the soul by means of Divine Truth devoid of the good of love, which is something outwardly holy devoid of anything inwardly so. They have no knowledge that this has happened in the Lord's Divine Providence because they venerate outward things in an idolatrous manner and so have no idea about inward things. If it had been otherwise, then not unlike the Jews they would have profaned holy things. That drinking of the wine by the priest alone is also a sign that knowledge of Divine Truth resides with priests alone and not with the common people, except so far as they are willing to give them it. Regarding the Holy Supper, that the bread and flesh in it are the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Love towards the human race, and people's love offered back to the Lord, and that the blood and wine are the Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good, and so the truth of faith received from the Lord and offered back to Him, see 3464, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976, 6135, 6377, 6789, 7850, 9127.

As regards when it was that the flesh of sacrifices should be taken outside the camp to be burned with fire, see Leviticus 4:11-12, 21; and when it was, and by whom, that it should be eaten, Leviticus 6:26-30; 7:6, 15-19; 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 12:7, 17-18, 27; 27:6-7.

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Arcana Coelestia # 680

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680. The fact that goods and truths are man's real food may be clear to anyone, for the person who is deprived of them has no life within himself, and is a dead man. The food on which the soul of the person feeds who is dead in this sense consists of the delights arising from evils, and of the pleasures gained from falsities. These are the food of death. These delights and pleasures also derive from bodily, worldly, and natural things, which have no life at all within them. Furthermore such a person does not know what spiritual and celestial food is. Every time 'food' or 'bread' is mentioned in the Word he assumes that food for the body is meant. In the words of the Lord's Prayer, 'Give us our daily bread', for example, he thinks purely of nourishment for the body. There are some whose ideas do extend further and who assert that this petition includes all other physical requirements, such as clothing, money, and so on. Indeed they will argue fiercely that no other kind of food is meant, even though they clearly see that the petitions coming before and after it entail purely celestial and spiritual things, and refer to the Lord's kingdom, and possibly know as well that the Lord's Word is celestial and spiritual.

[2] From this and other similar considerations it becomes sufficiently clear just how bodily-minded the man of today is, and that like the Jews, he is unwilling to accept anything stated in the Word except in a very crude and materialistic way. The Lord Himself clearly teaches what His Word means by 'food' and 'bread': He speaks of food in John as follows,

Jesus said, Do not labour for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man gives you. John 6:27.

And of bread He says in the same gospel,

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living Bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread he will live for ever. John 6:49-51, 58.

Even today there are people who, like those who first heard these words, declare,

This is a hard saying; who can listen to it? And some drew back and no longer walked with Him. John 6:60, 66.

To those people the Lord said,

The words which I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:63.

[3] It is similar with water, in that it means the spiritual things of faith: He speaks of water in John as follows,

Jesus said, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but he who drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up into eternal life. John 4:13-14.

Even today there are people like the woman to whom the Lord spoke at the spring, who replied,

Sir, give me this water that I may not thirst nor come here to draw. John 4:15.

[4] In the Word 'food' means nothing other than spiritual and celestial food, which is faith in the Lord and love. This is clear from many places in the Word, as in Jeremiah,

The enemy has stretched out his hand over all the desirable things of Jerusalem, because she saw the nations come into her sanctuary, concerning whom You did command, They shall not enter your congregation. All the people groan as they search for bread. They have given their desirable things for food to restore the soul. Lamentations 1:10-11.

Here no other bread or food is meant than spiritual, for the subject is the sanctuary. In the same author,

I called to my lovers, they deceived me. My priests and my elders breathed their last in the city, for they sought food for themselves to refresh their soul. Lamentations 1:19.

Here the meaning is similar. In David,

They all look to You to give them their food in due season. You givest to them - they gather it up. You openest Your hand - they are satisfied with good. Psalms 104:27-28.

This in like manner stands for spiritual and celestial food.

[5] 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. Isaiah 55:1.

Here 'wine and milk' stands for spiritual and celestial drink. In the same prophet,

A virgin is conceiving and bearing a son, and you will call His name Immanuel. Butter and honey will He eat that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. It will be that because of the abundance of milk they produce he will eat butter, for butter and honey will everyone eat that is left in the midst of the land. Isaiah 7:14-15, 22.

Here 'eating honey and butter' means that which is celestial-spiritual, and 'those who are left' stands for remnants, which are referred to in Malachi as well,

Bring all the tithes 1 to the storehouse that there may be food in My house. Malachi 3:10.

'Tithes' 1 stands for remnants. Further concerning the meaning of 'food', see 56-58, 276.

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1. or tenths

  
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