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4 Mózes 19

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1 Szóla azután az Úr Mózesnek és Áronnak, mondván:

2 Ez a törvény rendelése, a melyet parancsolt az Úr, mondván: Szólj Izráel fiainak, hogy hozzanak hozzád egy veres tehenet, épet, a melyben ne legyen hiba, a melynek nyakán iga nem volt.

3 És adjátok azt Eleázárnak, a papnak, és õ vitesse ki azt a táboron kivül, és öljék meg azt õ elõtte.

4 És vegyen Eleázár, a pap annak vérébõl az õ újjával, és hintsen a gyülekezet sátorának eleje felé annak vérébõl hétszer.

5 Azután égessék meg azt a tehenet az õ szemei elõtt; annak bõrét, húsát, és vérét a ganéjával együtt égessék meg.

6 Akkor vegyen a pap czédrusfát, izsópot és karmazsint, és vesse a tehénnek égõ részei közé.

7 És mossa meg a pap az õ ruháit, az õ testét is mossa le vízzel, és azután menjen be a táborba, és tisztátalan legyen a pap estvéig.

8 Az is, a ki megégeti azt, mossa meg az õ ruháit vízzel, és az õ testét is mossa le vízzel, és tisztátalan legyen estvéig.

9 Valamely tiszta ember pedig szedje fel annak a tehénnek hamvát, és helyezze el azt a táboron kivûl tiszta helyre, hogy legyen az Izráel fiai gyülekezetének szolgálatára a tisztulásnak vizéhez; bûnért való áldozat ez.

10 És az, a ki felszedi a tehénnek hamvát, mossa meg az õ ruháit, és tisztátalan legyen estvéig; és legyen ez Izráel fiainak és a köztök tartózkodó jövevénynek örök rendelésül.

11 A ki illeti akármely embernek a holttestét, és tisztátalanná lesz hét napig:

12 Az olyan tisztítsa meg magát azzal a vízzel harmadnapon és hetednapon, [és] tiszta lesz; ha pedig nem tisztítja meg magát harmadnapon és hetednapon, akkor nem lesz tiszta.

13 Valaki holtat illet, bármely embert a ki megholt, és meg nem tisztítja magát, az megfertézteti az Úrnak hajlékát; és irtassék ki az a lélek Izráelbõl mivelhogy tisztulásnak vize nem hintetett õ reá, tisztátalan lesz; még rajta van az õ tisztátalansága.

14 Ez legyen a törvény, mikor valaki sátorban hal meg. Mindaz, a ki bemegy a sátorba, és mindaz, a ki ott van a sátorban, tisztátalan legyen hét napig.

15 Minden nyitott edény is, a melyen nincs lezárható fedél, tisztátalan.

16 És mindaz, a ki illet a mezõn fegyverrel megöletettet, vagy megholtat, vagy emberi csontot, vagy sírt, tisztátalan legyen hét napig.

17 És vegyenek a tisztátalanért a bûnért való megégetett áldozatnak hamvából, és töltse[nek] arra élõ vizet edénybe.

18 Valamely tiszta ember pedig vegyen izsópot, és mártsa azt vízbe, és hintse meg a sátort és minden edényt, és minden embert, a kik ott lesznek; és azt is, a ki a csontot, vagy a megöltet, vagy a megholtat, vagy a koporsót illette.

19 Hintse pedig meg a tiszta a tisztátalant harmadnapon és hetednapon, és tisztítsa meg õt hetednapon; azután mossa meg az õ ruháit, mossa le magát is vízzel, és tiszta lesz estve.

20 Ha pedig valaki tisztátalanná lesz, és nem tisztítja meg magát, az a lélek irtassék ki a község közûl; mivelhogy az Úrnak szenthelyét megfertéztette, a tisztulásnak vize nem hintetett õ reá, tisztátalan az.

21 Ez legyen õ nálok örök rendelésül: mind az, a ki hinti a tisztulásnak vizét, mossa meg az õ ruháit; mind az, a ki illeti a tisztulásnak vizét, tisztátalan legyen estvéig.

22 És valamit illet a tisztátalan, tisztátalan legyen az; és az a lélek is, a ki illeti azt, tisztátalan legyen estvéig.

   

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6767. 'Do you intend to kill me . . .' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith ... This is clear from the meaning of 'killing' as destroying, dealt with below; and from the meaning of a Hebrew man, to whom 'me' refers here, as one who belongs to the Church. Faith too is accordingly meant, for faith goes together with the Church, and the two are so bound up with each other that a person who destroys the faith present with someone destroys the Church with him. This is also 'to kill him', for by taking faith away he takes spiritual life away, the life that remains being a life that is called death. From this it is evident that 'Do you intend to kill me?' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith?

[2] The fact that 'killing' is taking away spiritual life is evident from many places in the Word, as in Jeremiah,

Drag them away like sheep for the slaughter, and destine them to the day of killing. How long will the land mourn and the plant of every field wither, on account of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds will be devoured. Jeremiah 12:3-4.

'The day of killing' stands for the time that the Church is laid waste, when there is no longer any faith because there is no charity. 'The land which will mourn' stands for the Church; 'the plant of every field' stands for all the facts known to the Church that hold truth within them; 'the beasts and the birds will be devoured' stands for the fact that forms of good and truths will be destroyed. For the meaning of 'the land' as the Church, see 566, 662, 1067, 1262, 1413, 1607, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 2928, 3755, 4447, 4535, 5577. The meaning of 'the plant' as factual knowledge holding truth within it is clear from places in the Word where plant is mentioned. And for the meaning of 'the field' as that which is of the Church, see 2971, 3710, 3766, of 'the beasts' as affections for good, thus forms of good, 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 719, 1823, 2179, 2180, 3218, 3519, 5198, and of 'the birds' as affections for truth, 5149. From all this one may recognize what the meaning of these words is, and also that the spiritual sense is present in every detail there. Anyone can see that without the inner meaning there could be no understanding of what 'the day of killing' is, or of what is described by the details 'will the land mourn', 'the plant of every field wither, on account of the wickedness of those who dwell in it', and 'the beasts and the birds will be devoured'.

[3] In Zechariah,

Thus said Jehovah my God, Feed the sheep for killing, whose owners kill them. Zechariah 11:4-5.

'The sheep for killing' plainly stands for people whose faith is destroyed by those who are their owners. In Ezekiel,

You have desecrated Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for crusts of bread, to kill souls that ought not to die, and to keep alive souls that ought not to live. Ezekiel 13:19.

Here also 'killing' plainly stands for destroying spiritual life, that is, charity and faith. In Isaiah,

What will you do on the day of visitation and vastation? They will fall beneath the bound and beneath the killed. Isaiah 10:3-4.

Here 'the killed' stands for those who are in hell, thus for those immersed in evils and falsities.

[4] In the same prophet,

You are cast out from your sepulchre like an abominable branch, [like] a garment of the killed, [like] those pierced with the sword. You will not be united with them in the sepulchre, for you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. Isaiah 14:19-20.

'The killed' stands for those who have been deprived of spiritual life; 'you have killed your people' stands for his destruction of forms of the truth and good of faith. In John,

The thief does not come except in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that they may have life. John 10:10.

'Killing' stands for destroying the life of faith, and therefore it says, 'I have come in order that they may have life'. In Mark,

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his children, and the children will rise up against parents and kill them. Mark 13:12.

This refers to the last days of the Church when there is no longer any charity and therefore no faith either. 'Brother', 'children', and 'parents' in the internal sense are the Church's forms of good and its truths; and 'killing' is destroying them.

[5] Because one who had been 'killed' meant a person who had been deprived of spiritual life, and 'the field' meant the Church, it had therefore been decreed in the representative church that if anyone on the surface of the field touched somebody who had been pierced with the sword, or who had been killed, he would be unclean for seven days, Numbers 19:16. 'Slain with the sword' means truth wiped out by falsity, see 4507; for 'the sword' is falsity that wipes out truth, 2799, 4499, 653. It was likewise decreed that if anyone was found killed in the land which was their inheritance, lying on the field, and it was not known who had killed him, the elders and judges were to measure the distances to the cities which were round about. Having found out by doing this which was the nearest city, they were to take a heifer and break its neck at a fast-flowing river, and to do many other things, Deuteronomy 21:1-10.

  
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Ezekiel 13

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1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear the word of Yahweh:

3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

4 Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

5 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.

6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

7 Haven't you seen a false vision, and Haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?

8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh.

9 My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no Peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash:

11 tell those who plaster it with whitewash, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.

12 Behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?

13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

14 So will I break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in its midst: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it;

16 [to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh.

17 You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them,

18 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?

19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls whom you hunt to make [them] fly.

21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:

23 Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.