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Levitico 24

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1 L’Eterno parlò ancora a Mosè dicendo:

2 "Ordina ai figliuoli d’Israele che ti portino dell’olio di uliva puro, vergine, per il candelabro, per tener le lampade continuamente accese.

3 Aaronne lo preparerà nella tenda di convegno, fuori del velo che sta davanti alla testimonianza, perché le lampade ardano del continuo, dalla sera al mattino, davanti all’Eterno. E’ una legge perpetua, di generazione in generazione.

4 Egli le disporrà sul candelabro d’oro puro, perché ardano del continuo davanti all’Eterno.

5 Prenderai pure del fior di farina, e ne farai cuocere dodici focacce; ogni focaccia sarà di due decimi d’efa.

6 Le metterai in due file, sei per fila, sulla tavola d’oro puro davanti all’Eterno.

7 E porrai dell’incenso puro sopra ogni fila, e sarà sul pane come una ricordanza, come un sacrifizio fatto mediante il fuoco all’Eterno.

8 Ogni giorno di sabato si disporranno i pani davanti all’Eterno, del continuo; saranno forniti dai figliuoli d’Israele; è un patto perpetuo.

9 I pani apparterranno ad Aaronne e ai suoi figliuoli, ed essi li mangeranno in luogo santo; poiché saranno per loro cosa santissima tra i sacrifizi fatti mediante il fuoco all’Eterno. E’ una legge perpetua".

10 Or il figliuolo di una donna israelita e di un Egiziano uscì tra i figliuoli d’Israele; e fra questo figliuolo della donna israelita e un Israelita nacque una lite.

11 Il figliuolo della Israelita bestemmiò il nome dell’Eterno, e lo maledisse; onde fu condotto a Mosè. La madre di quel tale si chiamava Shelomith figliuola di Dibri, della tribù di Dan.

12 Lo misero in prigione, finché fosse deciso che cosa fare per ordine dell’Eterno.

13 E l’Eterno parlò a Mosè dicendo:

14 "Mena quel bestemmiatore fuori del campo; e tutti quelli che l’hanno udito posino le mani sul suo capo, e tutta la raunanza lo lapidi.

15 E parla ai figliuoli d’Israele, e di’ loro: Chiunque maledirà il suo Dio porterà la pena del suo peccato.

16 E chi bestemmia il nome dell’Eterno dovrà esser messo a morte; tutta la raunanza lo dovrà lapidare. Sia straniero o nativo del paese, quando bestemmi il nome dell’Eterno, sarà messo a morte.

17 Chi percuote mortalmente un uomo qualsivoglia, dovrà esser messo a morte.

18 Chi percuote a morte un capo di bestiame, lo pagherà: vita per vita.

19 Quand’uno avrà fatto una lesione al suo prossimo, gli sarà fatto com’egli ha fatto:

20 frattura per frattura, occhio per occhio, dente per dente; gli si farà la stessa lesione ch’egli ha fatta all’altro.

21 Chi uccide un capo di bestiame, lo pagherà; ma chi uccide un uomo sarà messo a morte.

22 Avrete una stessa legge tanto per il forestiero quanto per il nativo del paese; poiché io sono l’Eterno, l’Iddio vostro".

23 E Mosè parlò ai figliuoli d’Israele, i quali trassero quel bestemmiatore fuori del campo, e lo lapidarono. Così i figliuoli d’Israele fecero quello che l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9938

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9938. 'Which the children of Israel shall sanctify, even in all their gifts of holy things' means acts of worship representative of removal from sins. This is clear from the meaning of 'gifts' - or presents, which among the Israelite and Jewish nation were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs - as the inner realities of acts of worship; for those realities were represented by these acts. The inner realities of worship are the fruits of love and faith; they are therefore pardonings of sins, that is, removals from them, since faith and love are the means by which the Lord moves sins away. For in the measure that the good of love and faith comes in, or what amounts to the same thing, heaven comes in, sins are removed, that is, hell is removed - the hell within the person as well as the hell outside him. From this it is evident what should be understood by the gifts which they made holy, that is, offered. The gifts were called holy, and giving or offering them was called sanctifying them, because they represented holy realities. For they were offered to expiate people, thus to remove them from their sins, which is accomplished by means of faith in and love to the Lord received from the Lord.

[2] Gifts and presents were said to be made to Jehovah, though Jehovah, that is, the Lord, is not the receiver of gifts or presents, but the giver of them, freely to everyone. Even so, His will is that they should come from a person as though they did so from that person himself, provided the person acknowledges that they do not actually come from him but from the Lord. For the Lord imparts a desire to do good because he loves it, and a desire to speak the truth because he believes it. The actual desire flows in from the Lord, yet appears to be inherent in the person and so to flow from the person. For whatever a person does out of love and desire for it, he does from his life, love being what composes anyone's life. From this it is evident that the things that are called gifts and presents made to the Lord by a person are essentially gifts and presents made to a person by the Lord, and that they are called gifts and presents on account of what they appear to be. All who are wise at heart recognize this appearance, but not so the simple. Yet their gifts and presents are acceptable, so far as they are made in ignorance that has innocence within it. Innocence is the good of love to God, and dwells within ignorance, especially with the wise at heart. Those who are wise at heart know, indeed perceive, that nothing whatever of the wisdom within themselves originates in themselves, but that the all of wisdom is attributable to the Lord, that is, the all of the good of love and the all of the truth of faith are attributable to Him, and that for this reason even with the wise innocence dwells in ignorance. From this it is evident that the acknowledgement of this matter, and especially the perception of it, constitutes the innocence of wisdom.

[3] The gifts offered in the Jewish Church, which were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs, were also spoken of as offerings made for the expiations of sins; for they were offered for the sake of being pardoned from sins, that is, being removed from them. Those who belonged to that Church also thought that sins were pardoned, indeed completely taken away, by means of these offerings; for it is said of people who have offered them that they will be pardoned, see Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 9:7; 15:15, 30. But they were unaware of the fact that their gifts represented more internal things, thus the kinds of things that are done by a person from love and faith received from the Lord; that these are what expiate, that is, remove sins; and that when they have been removed they appear to have been completely removed or banished, as has been shown above in the present paragraph and the one before it. The worship of that nation was representative, and so was external devoid of anything internal; and it was by means of this worship that heaven was joined to mankind, in those times, see the places referred to in 9320 (end), 9380.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 661

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661. 'To destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life 1 [from] under the heavens' means that all the descendants of the Most Ancient Church would destroy themselves. This is clear from what has just been stated and also from the description of them given already to the effect that step by step they obtained by heredity from their forefathers a mental constitution that resulted in their being steeped more than anybody else in most dreadful persuasions. This came about chiefly because they plunged into their desires the doctrinal matters concerning faith which they had in their possession; and in so doing became such. The situation has been utterly different with people who have no doctrinal matters concerning faith in their possession and who live altogether in ignorance. They are incapable of doing the same, and so are incapable of profaning holy things, and in so doing of closing off the road for remnants. Consequently they are not capable of driving the Lord's angels away from themselves.

[2] As has been stated, remnants are all things of innocence, all those of charity, all those of mercy, and all those of the truth of faith, which a person has acquired from the Lord and learned since early childhood. Every single one of them lies stored away. And if a person did not acquire them, no innocence, charity, or mercy could possibly be present in his thinking and actions, and so no good and truth at all could be present. He would then be worse than any fierce monster, as he would also be if he did possess remnants of such things and yet so blocked their path with filthy desires and dreadful false persuasions that they could not do their work. Such was the nature of the people before the Flood who destroyed themselves and who are meant by 'all flesh in which there is the spirit of life 1 [from] under the heavens'. As shown already, 'flesh' means the whole of mankind in general and the bodily-minded man in particular. 'The spirit of life 1 ' means all life in general, but in a strict sense it was the life in people who had been regenerated. Here therefore the final descendants of the Most Ancient Church are meant. They are here called 'the spirit of life 1 ' or, as in Chapter 7:22 below, 'in whose nostrils is the breath of the spirit of life 1 ' because although no life of faith remained with them they nevertheless derived from their forefathers something of that Church's seed, which they stifled. 'Flesh under the heavens' means that which is merely bodily, 'the heavens' being things constituting man's understanding of truth and his will for good. When these have been separated from what is bodily, a person can stay alive no longer. That which sustains him is his conjunction with heaven, that is, with the Lord by way of heaven.

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1. literally, of lives.

  
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