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1 はまたモーセに言われた、

2 「アロンとそのたちに告げて、イスラエルの人々の聖なる物、すなわち、彼らがわたしにささげる物をみだりに用いて、わたしの聖なる名を汚さないようにさせなさい。わたしはである。

3 彼らに言いなさい、『あなたがたの代々の孫のうち、だれでも、イスラエルの人々がにささげる聖なる物に、汚れた身をもって近づく者があれば、その人はわたしのから断たれるであろう。わたしはである。

4 アロンの子孫のうち、だれでも、らい病の者、また流出ある者は清くなるまで、聖なる物を食べてはならない。また、すべて死体によって汚れた物に触れた者、精を漏らした者、

5 または、すべて人を汚す這うものに触れた者、または、どのような汚れにせよ、人を汚れさせる人に触れた者、

6 このようなものに触れた人は夕まで汚れるであろう。彼はその身をにすすがないならば、聖なる物を食べてはならない。

7 日が入れば、彼は清くなるであろう。そののち、聖なる物を食べることができる。それは彼の食物だからである。

8 自然に死んだもの、または裂き殺されたものを食べ、それによって身を汚してはならない。わたしはである。

9 それゆえに、彼らはわたしの言いつけを守らなければならない。彼らがこれを汚し、これがために、罪を獲て死ぬことのないためである。わたしは彼らを聖別するである。

10 すべて一般の人は聖なる物を食べてはならない。祭司の同居人や雇人も聖なる物を食べてはならない。

11 しかし、祭司が金をもって人を買った時は、その者はこれを食べることができる。またそのに生れた者も祭司の食物食べることができる。

12 もし祭司の娘が一般の人にとついだならば、彼女は聖なる供え物を食べてはならない。

13 もし祭司の娘が、寡婦となり、または出されて、子供もなく、その父のに帰り、娘の時のようであれば、その父の食物食べることができる。ただし、一般の人は、すべてこれを食べてはならない。

14 もし人があやまって聖なる物を食べるならば、それにその五分の一を加え、聖なる物としてこれを祭司に渡さなければならない。

15 祭司はイスラエルの人々が、にささげる聖なる物を汚してはならない。

16 人々が聖なる物を食べて、そののとがを負わないようにさせなければならない。わたしは彼らを聖別するである』」。

17 はまたモーセに言われた、

18 「アロンとそのたち、およびイスラエルのすべての人々に言いなさい、『イスラエルのの者、またはイスラエルにおる他国人のうちのだれでも、誓願の供え物、または自発の供え物を燔祭としてにささげようとするならば、

19 あなたがたの受け入れられるように牛、羊、あるいはやぎの雄の全きものをささげなければならない。

20 すべてきずのあるものはささげてはならない。それはあなたがたのために、受け入れられないからである。

21 もし人が特別の誓願をなすため、または自発の供え物のために、牛またはを酬恩祭の犠牲として、にささげようとするならば、その受け入れられるために、それは全きものでなければならない。それには、どんなきずもあってはならない。

22 すなわち獣のうちで、めくらのもの、折れた所のあるもの、切り取った所のあるもの、うみの出る者、かいせんの者、かさぶたのある者など、あなたがたは、このようなものをにささげてはならない。また祭壇の上に、これらを火祭として、にささげてはならない。

23 牛あるいは羊で、足の長すぎる者、または短すぎる者は、あなたがたが自発の供え物とすることはできるが、誓願の供え物としては受け入れられないであろう。

24 あなたがたは、こうがんの破れたもの、つぶれたもの、裂けたもの、または切り取られたものを、にささげてはならない。またあなたがたののうちで、このようなことを、行ってはならない。

25 また、あなたがたは異邦人のからこれらのものを受けて、あなたがたの神の食物としてささげてはならない。これらのものには欠点があり、きずがあって、あなたがたのために受け入れられないからである』」。

26 はまたモーセに言われた、

27 「牛、または羊、またはやぎが生れたならば、これを七の間その母親のもとに置かなければならない。八目からはにささげる火祭として受け入れられるであろう。

28 あなたがたは雌牛または雌羊をその子と同じにほふってはならない。

29 あなたがたが感謝の犠牲をにささげるときは、あなたがたの受け入れられるようにささげなければならない。

30 これはそののうちに食べなければならない。明くるまで残しておいてはならない。わたしはである。

31 あなたがたはわたしの戒めを守り、これを行わなければならない。わたしはである。

32 あなたがたはわたしの聖なる名を汚してはならない。かえって、わたしはイスラエルの人々のうちに聖とされなければならない。わたしはあなたがたを聖別するである。

33 あなたがたのとなるために、あなたがたをエジプトから導き出した者である。わたしはである」。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10109

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10109. 'And they shall eat those things containing what has been expiated' means the making of good their own by those who have been purified from evils and consequent falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' as making one's own, dealt with above in 10106; and from the meaning of 'what has been expiated' as that which has been purified from evils and consequent falsities, dealt with in 9506. The words 'purified from evils and consequent falsities' are used because falsities as well as truths exist with those ruled by evil, and also falsities as well as truths exist with those who are governed by good. The falsities present with those ruled by evil are falsities of evil, and the truths present with them are falsified truths, which are dead. But the falsities present with those governed by good are accepted as truths, for those falsities are tempered by the good and put to good and useful purposes, and the truths present with them are the truths of good, which are alive. Regarding both kinds of falsity and truth, see what has been shown in 2243, 2408, 2863, 4736, 4822, 6359, 7272, 7437, 7574, 7577, 8051, 8137, 8138, 8149, 8298, 8311, 8318 (end), 9258, 9298.

[2] Since 'eating the holy things containing what has been expiated' means the making of good their own by those who have been purified from evils and consequent falsities, anyone unclean was strictly forbidden to eat of those things; for uncleanness means defilement by evils and consequent falsities. For the situation is that as long as a person is steeped in evils and consequent falsities good cannot by any means be made his own. This is because evil comes up from hell and good comes down from heaven, and where hell is heaven cannot be, since they are diametrically opposed to each other. Therefore to make a place for heaven - that is, for good from heaven - hell, that is, evil from hell, must be removed. From this it may be seen that good cannot by any means be made a person's own as long as he is ruled by evil. By making good his own the implanting of good in the will should be understood, for good cannot be said to have been made a person's own until it becomes part of his will. A person's will is the actual person, and his understanding also, to the extent that it derives from the will. For what is part of the will forms part of the person's love and consequently his life, since what a person wills he loves and calls good, and also when it is done by him it is felt to be such. The situation is different with those things which are part of the understanding but not at the same time part of the will. It should also be recognized that when a person is said to make good his own, no more should be understood than his ability to receive good from the Lord, an ability he is endowed with through regeneration. Consequently good as it exists with a person is not that person's; rather it is the Lord's with him. And he is maintained in it to the extent that he allows himself to be withheld from evils. The impossibility for good to become a person's own, that is, for it to be transmitted to him, as long as he is ruled by evil was the reason for the prohibition which prevented one who was unclean from eating the flesh and the bread of a sacrifice; for that eating represented making good one's own, as stated above.

[3] Those who were unclean were forbidden on pain of death to eat from holy offerings, as is clear in Moses,

Everyone who is clean shall eat flesh. The soul who eats the flesh of sacrifices while uncleanness is on him shall be cut off from his people. The soul who touches anything unclean - the uncleanness of a human being or an unclean beast or any unclean creeping thing whatever - and eats of the flesh of the eucharistic sacrifice shall be cut off from [his] people. Leviticus 7:19-21.

All those outward kinds of uncleanness represented inward kinds, which are a person's evils; and they are evils present in his will, having been made his own by the life he actually leads.

[4] This matter is described further elsewhere in Moses,

Any man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper or suffers a discharge shall not eat of the holy things until he has been made clean. Whoever has touched anything made unclean by a corpse 1 , [or any] man who has had an emission of semen 2 , or [any] man who has touched any creeping thing by which he is defiled, or [has touched] a person by whom any one is defiled, as to all his uncleanness - the soul who has touched that thing shall be unclean until evening and not eat of the holy things. But when he has washed his flesh with water, and the sun has gone down, he shall be clean; and afterwards he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread. No outsider shall eat what is holy; a stranger staying with a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat what is holy. If the priest buys a soul - a buying with his silver - [that soul] may eat of it, and one who is born in his house; these shall eat of his bread. When a priest's daughter has married a man, an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of holy things. But if the priest's daughter has been made a widow or divorced and has no seed, and has indeed returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread. Leviticus 22:1-16.

All these rules, it is plainly evident, serve to mean more internal considerations, that is, they imply the transmission of holy things to those in a receptive state of mind, who then make those things their own. The rule that no outsider could eat the holy things meant, not those who do not acknowledge the Lord within the Church, thus not those with whom none of the Church's truth and good exists. The rule that no stranger or hired servant could eat them meant, neither those with whom natural good exists devoid of the good of faith, nor those who do good for the sake of reward. The rule that those bought with silver and those born in the house could eat them meant, those who have been converted, and those with whom the Church's truth and good exists as the result of faith and love. The rule that a priest's daughter married to a man who was an outsider could not eat them meant that the good which had not been wedded to the Church's truths [but to something other] could not make the holy things of the Church its own. The rule however that a widow or a divorcee who had no seed could eat them meant that good can be made one's own after the removal of things which do not belong to the Church, provided that no notions have been hatched or born out of that union that have become an integral part of one's faith. The fact that such considerations are meant is evident from the internal sense of these specific rules.

[5] But hereditary evils do not prevent anyone from making good his own. This consideration too is described in Moses,

No man of the seed of Aaron in whom there is a blemish shall approach to offer the bread of God - no man who is blind, lame, mutilated, or [has a limb] too long; none who has a broken foot or hand, is a hunchback, is bruised, has a defect in his eye, has scabs, has warts, or has a crushed testicle. He shall not approach to offer the bread of his God; but he shall eat the bread of God from among the most holy and the holy things. Leviticus 21:17-23.

These defects, as has been stated, serve to mean hereditary evils, some specific evil being meant by each particular defect. The reason why these men should not offer bread or approach the altar as priests was that if they did so the people would catch sight of those imperfections or ills, and in what was caught sight of some representation would take shape, none of which would happen if those defects remained hidden. For although a priest, Levite, or the people were unclean inwardly, they were nevertheless called clean and also thought to be sanctified, provided that outwardly they were washed and looked clean.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, anything unclean on account of the soul

2. literally, a man from whom the lying together of semen (i.e. semen from sexual intercourse) has gone out

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