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Levitico 8

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1 L’Eterno parlò ancora a Mosè, dicendo:

2 "Prendi Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli con lui, i paramenti, l’olio dell’unzione, il giovenco del sacrifizio per il peccato, i due montoni e il paniere dei pani azzimi;

3 e convoca tutta la raunanza all’ingresso della tenda di convegno".

4 E Mosè fece come l’Eterno gli aveva ordinato, e la raunanza fu convocata all’ingresso della tenda di convegno.

5 E Mosè disse alla raunanza: "Questo è quello che l’Eterno ha ordinato di fare".

6 E Mosè fece accostare Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli, e li lavò con acqua.

7 Poi rivestì Aaronne della tunica, lo cinse della cintura, gli pose addosso il manto, gli mise l’efod, e lo cinse della cintura artistica dell’efod, con la quale gli fissò l’efod addosso.

8 Gli mise pure il pettorale, e sul pettorale pose l’Urim e il Thummim.

9 Poi gli mise in capo la mitra, e sul davanti della mitra pose la lamina d’oro, il santo diadema, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

10 Poi Mosè prese l’olio dell’unzione, unse il tabernacolo e tutte le cose che vi si trovavano, e le consacrò.

11 Ne fece sette volte l’aspersione sull’altare, unse l’altare e tutti i suoi utensili, e la conca e la sua base, per consacrarli.

12 E versò dell’olio dell’unzione sul capo d’Aaronne, e unse Aaronne, per consacrarlo.

13 Poi Mosè fece accostare i figliuoli d’Aaronne, li vestì di tuniche, li cinse di cinture, e assicurò sul loro capo delle tiare, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

14 Fece quindi accostare il giovenco del sacrifizio per il peccato, e Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli posarono le loro mani sulla testa del giovenco del sacrifizio per il peccato.

15 Mosè lo scannò, ne prese del sangue, lo mise col dito sui corni dell’altare tutto all’intorno, e purificò l’altare; poi sparse il resto del sangue appiè dell’altare, e lo consacrò per farvi su l’espiazione.

16 Poi prese tutto il grasso ch’era sulle interiora, la rete del fegato, i due arnioni col loro grasso, e Mosè fece fumar tutto sull’altare.

17 Ma il giovenco, la sua pelle, la sua carne e i suoi escrementi, li bruciò col fuoco fuori del campo, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

18 Fece quindi accostare il montone dell’olocausto, e Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli posarono le mani sulla testa del montone.

19 E Mosè lo scannò, e ne sparse il sangue sull’altare tutto all’intorno.

20 Poi fece a pezzi il montone, e Mosè fece fumare la testa, i pezzi e il grasso.

21 E quando n’ebbe lavato le interiora e le gambe con acqua, Mosè fece fumare tutto il montone sull’altare. Fu un olocausto di soave odore, un sacrifizio fatto mediante il fuoco all’Eterno, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

22 Poi fece accostare il secondo montone, il montone della consacrazione; e Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli posarono le mani sulla testa del montone.

23 E Mosè lo scannò, e ne prese del sangue e lo mise sull’estremità dell’orecchio destro d’Aaronne e sul pollice della sua man destra e sul dito grosso del suo piede destro.

24 Poi Mosè fece accostare i figliuoli d’Aaronne, e pose di quel sangue sull’estremità del loro orecchio destro, sul pollice della loro man destra e sul dito grosso del loro piè destro; e sparse il resto del sangue sull’altare tutto all’intorno.

25 Poi prese il grasso, la coda, tutto il grasso che copriva le interiora, la rete del fegato, i due arnioni, il loro grasso, e la coscia destra;

26 e dal paniere dei pani azzimi, ch’era davanti all’Eterno, prese una focaccia senza lievito, una focaccia di pasta oliata e una galletta, e le pose sui grassi e sulla coscia destra.

27 Poi mise tutte queste cose sulle palme delle mani d’Aaronne e sulle palme delle mani de’ suoi figliuoli, e le agitò come offerta agitata davanti all’Eterno.

28 Mosè quindi le prese dalle loro mani, e le fece fumare sull’altare sopra l’olocausto. Fu un sacrifizio di consacrazione, di soave odore: un sacrifizio fatto mediante il fuoco all’Eterno.

29 Poi Mosè prese il petto del montone e lo agitò come offerta agitata davanti all’Eterno; questa fu la parte del montone della consacrazione che toccò a Mosè, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

30 Mosè prese quindi dell’olio dell’unzione e del sangue ch’era sopra l’altare, e ne asperse Aaronne e i suoi paramenti, i figliuoli di lui e i loro paramenti; e consacrò Aaronne e i suoi paramenti, i figliuoli di lui e i loro paramenti con lui.

31 Poi Mosè disse ad Aaronne e ai suoi figliuoli: "Fate cuocere la carne all’ingresso della tenda di convegno; e quivi la mangerete col pane che è nel paniere della consacrazione, come ho ordinato, dicendo: Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli la mangeranno.

32 E quel che rimane della carne e del pane lo brucerete col fuoco.

33 E per sette giorni non vi dipartirete dall’ingresso della tenda di convegno, finché non siano compiuti i giorni delle vostre consacrazioni; poiché la vostra consacrazione durerà sette giorni.

34 Come s’è fatto oggi, così l’Eterno ha ordinato che si faccia, per fare espiazione per voi.

35 Rimarrete dunque sette giorni all’ingresso della tenda di convegno, giorno e notte, e osserverete il comandamento dell’Eterno, affinché non muoiate; poiché così m’è stato ordinato".

36 E Aaronne e i suoi figliuoli fecero tutte le cose che l’Eterno aveva ordinate per mezzo di Mosè.

   

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3813. As regards “flesh,” in the supreme sense it signifies the own of the Lord’s Divine Human, which is Divine good, and in the relative sense it signifies the own of man’s will made alive by the own of the Divine Human, that is, by His Divine good. This own is what is called the heavenly own, which in itself is the Lord’s alone appropriated to those who are in good, and thence in truth. Such an own have the angels who are in the heavens, and men who as to their interiors or as to the spirit are in the Lord’s kingdom. But in the opposite sense, “flesh” signifies the own of man’s will, which in itself is nothing but evil, and not being vivified by the Lord is called “dead,” and thus the man himself is said to be dead.

[2] That in the supreme sense “flesh” is the own of the Lord’s Divine Human, thus His Divine good, is evident from the Lord’s words in John:

Jesus said, I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eat of this bread he shall live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world. The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat ? Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you; he that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day; for My flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed; he that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, dwelleth in Me, and I in him. This is the bread which came down from heaven (John 6:51-56, 58).

That here “flesh” is the own of the Lord’s Divine Human, thus the Divine good, is very evident; and this is what in the Holy Supper is called the “body.” That in the Holy Supper the “body” or “flesh” signifies the Divine good; and the “blood” the Divine truth, may be seen above (n. 1798, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3735); and because “bread and wine” signify the same as “flesh and blood,” namely, “bread,” the Lord’s Divine good, and “wine,” His Divine truth, therefore the latter were enjoined instead of the former. This is the reason why the Lord said, “I am the living bread; the bread which I shall give is My flesh; he that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, abideth in Me, and I in him; this is the bread which came down from heaven.” (That “to eat” signifies to be communicated, to be conjoined, and to be appropriated, see above, n. 2187, 2343, 3168, 3513, 3596)

[3] The same was represented in the Jewish Church by the ordinance that Aaron, his sons, and they who sacrificed, and others who were clean, might eat the flesh of the sacrifices, and that this was holy (Exodus 12:7-9; 29:30-34; Leviticus 7:15-21; 8:31; Deuteronomy 12:27; 16:4). If therefore an unclean person ate of that flesh, he was to be cut off from his people (Leviticus 7:21). (That these sacrifices were called “bread,” may be seen above, n. 2165.) That “flesh” was called the “flesh of holiness” (Jeremiah 11:15; Haggai 2:12), and the “flesh of the offering which was on the tables in the Lord’s kingdom,” see Ezekiel 40:43, where the new temple is described, by which there is evidently signified the worship of the Lord in His kingdom.

[4] That in the relative sense “flesh” signifies the own of man’s will made alive by the Lord’s Divine good, is evident also from the following passages.

In Ezekiel:

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit in the midst of you; and I will remove the heart of stone out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26); where the “heart of stone out of their flesh” denotes the will and the own not vivified; and the “heart of flesh,” the will and the own vivified. (That the “heart” is a representative of the good of the will, may be seen above, n. 2930, 3313, 3635) In David:

O God Thou art my God; in the morning I seek Thee; my-soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee in a dry land; and I am weary without waters (Psalms 63:1).

Again:

My soul longeth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for joy unto the living God (Psalms 84:2).

[5] In Job:

I have known my Redeemer, He liveth, and at the last He shall rise upon the dust; and afterwards these things shall be encompassed with my skin, and from my flesh I shall see God; whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold; and not another (Job 19:25-27);

to be “encompassed with skin” denotes with the natural, such as man has with him after death (n. 3539); “from the flesh to see God” denotes the own vivified; therefore he says, “whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.” As it was known to the ancient 1 churches that flesh signified man’s own, and as the book of Job is a book of the Ancient Church (see n. 3540), he therefore spoke concerning these things from what is significative, as concerning many other things, in accordance with the custom of that time; so that those who deduce from this passage that the dead body itself shall be collected from the four winds, and shall rise again, are not acquainted with the internal sense of the Word. They who know the internal sense, know that they shall come into the other life with a body, but a purer one; for in the other life there are purer bodies; for they see each other, converse together, and enjoy every sense as in the present body, but in a more exquisite degree. The body which man carries about here on earth is for uses on earth, and therefore consists of bones and flesh; and the body which the spirit carries about in the other life is designed for uses in that life, and does not consist of bones and flesh, but of things which correspond to them (n. 3726).

[6] That in the opposite sense “flesh” signifies the own of man’s will, which in itself is nothing but evil, is evident from the following passages.

In Isaiah:

They shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm (Isaiah 9:20).

I will feed their oppressors with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with new wine (Isaiah 49:26).

In Jeremiah:

I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his companion (Jeremiah 19:9).

In Zechariah:

Let those who are left eat everyone the flesh of another (Zech. 11:9).

In Moses:

I will chastise you seven 2 times for your sins; and ye shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat (Leviticus 26:28-29).

The own of man’s will, that is, the nature of man, is thus described, for this is nothing else than evil and the derivative falsity; thus is hatred against truths and goods, which is signified by “eating the flesh of his arm, the flesh of sons and daughters, and the flesh of a companion.”

[7] In John:

I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a great voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together to the supper of the great God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all both free and bond, both small and great (Revelation 19:17-18Ezekiel 39:17-20).

That here by the “flesh of kings, of captains, of mighty men, of horses and of those that sit upon them, of all, both free and bond,” are not signified such things as these, must be evident to everyone; thus that by “flesh” are signified other things which have hitherto been unknown. That evils which are from falsities, and evils from which are falsities, both from the own of man’s will, are signified, is manifest from the several expressions.

[8] As in the internal sense the falsity which results from the own of man’s understanding is “blood”; and as the evil which results from the own of his will is “flesh,” therefore the Lord speaks as follows concerning the man who is to be regenerated:

As many as received, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe in His name; who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:12-13).

Hence it is that by “flesh” in general is meant every man (see n. 574, 1050); for whether you say man, or man’s own, it is the same thing.

[9] That by “flesh” in the supreme sense is signified the Lord’s Divine Human is manifest from the passage above quoted, and also from this in John:

The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we held His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father (John 1:14).

From this “flesh” all flesh is vivified, that is to say, every man is vivified from the Lord’s Divine Human by the appropriation of His love, which appropriation is signified by “eating the flesh of the Son of man” (John 6:51-58), and by “eating the bread” in the Holy Supper; for the “bread” is the “body” or “flesh” (Matthew 26:26-27).

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The word “ancient” was added to the printed text because antiquis is in the Latin—NewSearch footnote.

2. The Latin is Ego, ecce Ego, “I, behold I.”

  
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