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1 アロンのふたりの子が、主のに近づいて死んだ

2 モーセに言われた、「あなたの兄弟アロンに告げて、彼が時をわかたず、垂幕の内なる聖所に入り、箱の上なる贖罪所のに行かぬようにさせなさい。彼が死を免れるためである。なぜなら、わたしはの中にあって贖罪所の上に現れるからである。

3 アロンが聖所に、はいるには、次のようにしなければならない。すなわち雄の牛を祭のために取り、雄を燔祭のために取り、

4 聖なる亜麻布のを着、亜麻布のももひきをその身にまとい、亜麻布のをしめ、亜麻布の帽子をかぶらなければならない。これらは聖なる衣服である。彼はに身をすすいで、これを着なければならない。

5 またイスラエルの人々の会衆から雄やぎ頭を祭のために取り、雄一頭を燔祭のために取らなければならない。

6 そしてアロンは自分のための祭の雄牛をささげて、自分と自分の族のために、あがないをしなければならない。

7 アロンはまた頭のやぎを取り、それを会見の幕屋の入口で主のに立たせ、

8 その頭のやぎのために、くじを引かなければならない。すなわち一つのくじは主のため、一つのくじはアザゼルのためである。

9 そしてアロンは主のためのくじに当ったやぎをささげて、これを祭としなければならない。

10 しかし、アザゼルのためのくじに当ったやぎは、主のに生かしておき、これをもって、あがないをなし、これをアザゼルのために、荒野に送らなければならない。

11 すなわち、アロンは自分のための祭の雄牛をささげて、自分と自分の族のために、あがないをしなければならない。彼は自分のための祭の雄牛をほふり、

12 主の祭壇から炭を満たした香炉と、細かくひいた香ばしい薫香を両手いっぱい取って、これを垂幕の内に携え入り、

13 主ので薫香をそのにくべ、薫香のに、あかしの箱の上なる贖罪所をおおわせなければならない。こうして、彼は死を免れるであろう。

14 彼はまたその雄牛のを取り、指をもってこれを贖罪所の東の面に注ぎ、また指をもってそのを贖罪所のに、七たび注がなければならない。

15 また民のための祭のやぎをほふり、そのを垂幕の内に携え入り、そのをかの雄牛ののように、贖所の上と、贖所のに注ぎ、

16 イスラエルの人々の汚れと、そのとが、すなわち、彼らのもろもろののゆえに、聖所のためにあがないをしなければならない。また彼らの汚れのうちに、彼らと共にある会見の幕屋のためにも、そのようにしなければならない。

17 彼が聖所であがないをするために、はいった時は、自分と自分の族と、イスラエルの会衆とのために、あがないをなし終えて出るまで、だれも会見の幕屋の内にいてはならない。

18 そして彼は主の祭壇のもとに出てきて、これがために、あがないをしなければならない、すなわち、かの雄牛のと、やぎのとを取って祭壇の四すみのにつけ、

19 また指をもって七たびそのをその上に注ぎ、イスラエルの人々の汚れを除いてこれを清くし、聖別しなければならない。

20 こうして聖所と会見の幕屋祭壇とのために、あがないをなし終えたとき、かの生きているやぎを引いてこなければならない。

21 そしてアロンは、その生きているやぎのに両をおき、イスラエルの人々のもろもろの悪と、もろもろのとが、すなわち、彼らのもろもろのをその上に告白して、これをやぎのにのせ、定めておいた人のによって、これを荒野に送らなければならない。

22 こうしてやぎは彼らのもろもろの悪をになって、人里離れた地に行くであろう。すなわち、そのやぎを荒野に送らなければならない。

23 そして、アロンは会見の幕屋に入り、聖所に入る時に着た亜麻布の衣服を脱いで、そこに置き、

24 聖なる所でに身をすすぎ、他の衣服を着、出てきて、自分の燔祭と民の燔祭とをささげて、自分のため、また民のために、あがないをしなければならない。

25 また祭の脂肪を祭壇の上で焼かなければならない。

26 かのやぎをアザゼルに送った者は衣服を洗い、に身をすすがなければならない。その、宿営に入ることができる。

27 聖所で、あがないをするために、そのを携え入れられた祭の雄牛と、祭のやぎとは、宿営の外に携え出し、その皮とと汚物とは、で焼き捨てなければならない。

28 これを焼く者は衣服を洗い、に身をすすがなければならない。その、宿営に入ることができる。

29 これはあなたがたが永久に守るべき定めである。すなわち、七になって、その月の十日に、あなたがたは身を悩まし、何の仕事もしてはならない。この国に生れた者も、あなたがたのうちに宿っている寄留者も、そうしなければならない。

30 このにあなたがたのため、あなたがたを清めるために、あがないがなされ、あなたがたは主のに、もろもろのが清められるからである。

31 これはあなたがたの全き休みの安息日であって、あなたがたは身を悩まさなければならない。これは永久に守るべき定めである。

32 油を注がれ、父に代って祭司の職に任じられる祭司は、亜麻布の衣服、すなわち、聖なる衣服を着て、あがないをしなければならない。

33 彼は至聖所のために、あがないをなし、また会見の幕屋のためと、祭壇のために、あがないをなし、また祭司たちのためと、民の全会衆のために、あがないをしなければならない。

34 これはあなたがたの永久に守るべき定めであって、イスラエルの人々のもろもろののために、年に一度あがないをするものである」。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1001

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1001. 'Blood' means charity, as becomes clear from many considerations, and so means the new will part which a regenerate spiritual person receives from the Lord. This new will part is identical with charity, for it is from charity that the new will takes form. Indeed charity, or love, is the essential element or the life of the will, for nobody can possibly say he wills something unless he takes delight in it or loves it. When people say they have something in mind this does not imply that they will it, unless will is implicit in thought. This new will which is one of charity is 'the blood' here. It is not the person's own but the Lord's residing with him. And because it is the Lord's it must never be mixed together with things that belong to the person's own will which, as stated, is so foul. This was the reason why in the representative Church people were commanded not to eat flesh with its soul, that is, not to eat the blood. That is to say, they were not to mix the one with the other. Because 'blood' meant charity it meant that which was holy, and because 'flesh' meant what belonged to the merely human will, it meant that which was unholy. And because these, being opposites, were quite separate, people were forbidden to eat blood. For in those times 'the eating of flesh together with the blood' was representative in heaven of profanation, or the mixing together of holy and unholy - which representation in heaven could do nothing else than strike the angels with horror. For at that period of time all things that took place among members of the Church were converted among angels - according to the meaning such things had in the internal sense - into corresponding spiritual representations.

[2] Since the nature of everything depends on that of the person to whom it refers, the same holds true with regard to the meaning of blood. When it refers to a regenerate spiritual person 'blood' means charity or love towards the neighbour. When it refers to a regenerate celestial person it means love to the Lord. But when it refers to the Lord it means the whole of His Human Essence, and so Love itself, which is His mercy towards the human race. Consequently since 'blood' in general means love and what belongs to love, it means heavenly things that are the Lord's alone, and so in reference to man it means the heavenly things a person receives from the Lord. The heavenly things that a regenerate spiritual person receives from the Lord are celestial-spiritual. These in the Lord's Divine mercy will be dealt with elsewhere.

[3] That 'blood' means heavenly things, and in the highest sense meant the Lord's Human Essence, and so Love itself, which is His mercy towards the human race, becomes clear from the sacredness that the Jewish representative Church was required to attach to blood. For this reason blood was called 'the blood of the covenant'. It was sprinkled over the people, and also, together with the anointing oil, over Aaron and his sons. And [the blood] of every burnt offering and sacrifice was sprinkled over and around the altar. For these details, see Exodus 12:7, 13, 22-23; 24:6, 8; Leviticus 1:5, 11, 15; 4:6-7, 17-18, 25, 30, 34; 5:9; 16:12-15; 18, 19; Numbers 18:17; Deuteronomy 12:27.

[4] Because blood was held to be so holy, and what belonged to the merely human will was so unholy, they were strictly forbidden to eat blood because this represented the profanation of what is holy, as in Moses,

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling-places, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood. Leviticus 3:17.

'Fat' stands for celestial life, and 'blood' in this instance for celestial-spiritual life. The celestial-spiritual is that which is spiritual having a celestial origin, as with the Most Ancient Church. With them love to the Lord was the celestial because this had been implanted in their will, while that which was celestial-spiritual with them was faith flowing from it, dealt with in 30-38, 337, 793, 398. But with a spiritual person the celestial does not exist, only the celestial-spiritual, because charity is implanted in the understanding part of his mind.

In the same author,

As for anyone from the house of Israel or from the sojourner sojourning among them who eats any blood, I will set My face 1 against the soul eating blood and will cut him off from among his people, for the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar, to make atonement for your souls, for the blood itself will make atonement by reason of the soul. The soul of all flesh is the blood of it; everyone eating it shall be cut off. Leviticus 17:10-11, 14.

Here it is plainly stated that the soul of the flesh is in the blood and that the soul of [all] flesh is the blood, or that which is celestial, that is, that which is holy and is the Lord's.

[5] In the same author,

Be sure that you do not eat blood, for the blood is the soul and you shall not eat the soul with the flesh. Deuteronomy 12:23-25.

From these words similarly it is clear that the blood is called the soul, that is, celestial life, or that which is celestial, and was represented by the burnt offerings and sacrifices of that Church. In a similar way, it was the requirement not to mingle that which was celestial - the Lord's Proprium, which alone is celestial and holy - with man's proprium, which is unholy, that was represented also by their being forbidden to make a sacrifice of, that is, to offer, the blood of the sacrifice with anything leavened, Exodus 23:18; 34:25. That which was 'leavened' meant that which was corrupt and filthy.

[6] The reason Why 'blood' is called the soul and means the holiness of charity, and why the holiness of love was represented in the Jewish Church by 'blood', is that the life of the body lies in the blood. And because the life of the body lies in the blood it is its ultimate soul, so that the blood therefore may be called the bodily soul, or the place where a person's bodily life resides. And because in representative Churches internal things were represented by external, the soul or celestial life was therefore represented by 'the blood'.

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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.