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Leviticus 24

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Command the sons of Israel that they take to thee pure olive oil, beaten for the light, to cause the flame of the lamp to go·​·up* continually.

3 Outside the veil of the testimony, in the Tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron arrange it from the evening to the morning before Jehovah continually; it shall be an eternal statute to your generations.

4 He shall arrange the lamps upon the pure* lampstand before Jehovah continually.

5 And thou shalt take flour, and bake it, twelve cakes, two tenths shall be one cake.

6 And thou shalt set them in two arrays, six in an array, upon a clean table before Jehovah.

7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense on each array, and it shall be on the bread for a memorial, even a fire·​·offering to Jehovah.

8 In the day of the Sabbath, in the day of the Sabbath, he shall arrange it before Jehovah continually, being taken from the sons of Israel by an eternal covenant.

9 And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place; for it is a holy of holies to him of the fire·​·offerings of Jehovah by an eternal statute.

10 And the son of a woman, an Israelitess, and he was the son of an Egyptian man, went·​·out in the midst of the sons of Israel; and the son of the Israelitess and an Israelite man quarreled in the camp;

11 and the son of the woman, the Israelitess, cursed the name, and reviled it. And they brought him to Moses; and the name of his mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan,

12 and they placed him under guard, that the mouth of Jehovah might be made·​·clear to them.

13 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

14 Bring·​·out the reviling one to outside the camp; and let all that heard lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

15 And to the sons of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, A man, a man that reviles his God shall bear his sin.

16 And he who curses the name of Jehovah, dying he shall be made to die; all the congregation stoning shall stone him; as the sojourner, as the native, when he curses the name, he shall be made to die.

17 And a man when he smites any soul of man, dying he shall be·​·put·​·to·​·death.

18 And he who smites the soul of a beast shall repay it, a soul in·​·return·​·for a soul.

19 And if a man put a blemish on his fellow·​·man; as he has done, so shall it be done to him;

20 breaking in·​·return·​·for breaking, eye in·​·return·​·for eye, tooth in·​·return·​·for tooth; as he has put a blemish on the man, so shall it be put on him.

21 And he who smites a beast, he shall repay it; and he who smites man*, he shall be put·​·to·​·death.

22 You shall have one judgment, for the sojourner, as for the native born; for I am Jehovah your God.

23 And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, that they should bring·​·out the reviling one to outside the camp, and stone him with stones. And the sons of Israel did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 4236

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4236. 'And Jacob said [when he saw them], This is God's camp' means heaven. 'God's camp' means heaven, for the reason that 'an army' means truths and goods, 3448, and goods and truths are arranged by the Lord in conformity with heavenly order. Hence the arrangement of them like armies when arrayed is meant by 'an encampment', and the heavenly order itself, which is heaven, by 'a camp'. This camp or order is such that it cannot in any way be broken apart by hell, despite the constant effort from hell to break it apart. This also is why this order, which is heaven, is referred to as 'a camp', and why truths and goods, that is, angels, who are arranged in conformity with that order are called 'armies'. From all this it is now evident how 'God's camp' comes to mean heaven. It is that actual order, and so heaven itself, which was represented by the encampments of the children of Israel in the wilderness; and their actual dwelling together there according to their tribes was referred to as 'the camp'. The Tabernacle pitched in the middle and around which they encamped represented the Lord Himself. Regarding the children of Israel's encampment in this manner, see Numbers 1:1-end, and 33:2-56; and regarding their encampment around the Tabernacle according to their tribes - Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun to the east; Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north; and the Levites in the middle next to the Tabernacle - Numbers 2:2 and following verses.

[2] The tribes' means all goods and truths in their entirety, see 3858, 3862, 3926, 3939, 4060. Consequently when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to tribes and the Spirit of God came upon him, he delivered the utterance,

How good your tabernacles are, O Jacob; your dwelling-places, O Israel! They are like valleys that are planted, like gardens beside a river. Numbers 24:2-3, 5-6.

It is quite plain that this prophecy did not mean the people named Jacob and Israel but that it was the Lord's heaven which was represented. This also is why in other places in the Word their ordered settlements in the wilderness, or encampments according to tribes, are called camps, and in those places 'a camp' in the internal sense means heavenly order and 'encampment' an arrangement in conformity with that order, that is to say, with the order in which goods and truths exist in heaven - as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 3; 4:4 and following verses; 5:2-4; Numbers 9:17-end; 10:1-10, 28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 31:19-24; Deuteronomy 23:9-14.

[3] The meaning of 'God's camp' as heaven may also be seen in Joel,

The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled. The sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars gathered back their shining; and Jehovah gave voice before His army, for His camp is exceedingly many; for that which executes His word is uncountable. Joel 2:10-11.

In Zechariah,

I will encamp by My house with an army set against anyone passing through and against anyone leaving, so that the oppressor passes over them no more. Zechariah 9:8.

In John,

Gog and Magog went up over the breadth 1 of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; but fire came down 2 from God and consumed them. Revelation 20:9.

'Gog and Magog' stands for people whose worship is external separated from internal - worship that has become idolatrous, 1151. 'The breadth of the earth' stands for truth possessed by the Church - 'breadth', or a plain, meaning truth that constitutes doctrinal teaching, 2450, and 'earth' the Church, 556, 662, 1066, 1067, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355. 'The camp of the saints' stands for heaven or the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church.

[4] Since most things in the Word also have a contrary sense, so too does the word 'camp'. In this case it means evils and falsities, and consequently hell, as in David,

Though the evil pitch camp against me, my heart will not fear. Psalms 27:3.

In the same author,

God has scattered the bones of those encamping against you; 3 you have put them to shame, for God has rejected them. Psalms 53:5.

The camp of Asshur in which the angel of Jehovah smote a hundred and eighty-five thousand, Isaiah 37:36, does not have any other meaning, nor likewise does the camp of the Egyptians, Exodus 14:19-20.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the plain

2. The Latin means went up, but the Greek means came down, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes this verse.

3. The Latin means me, but the Hebrew means you.

  
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