10033. Since the present chapter deals with the sacrifice and the burnt offering through which Aaron and his sons were consecrated to the priestly office a little more will be stated regarding the blood and the fat. All the blood of a sacrifice or of a burnt offering had to be poured out at the altar and all the fat had to be burned on the altar, as the statutes and laws in Leviticus relating to burnt offerings and sacrifices make clear. The reason why this was done to the blood and fat was that the blood meant Divine Truth and the fat Divine Good. The fact that the blood meant Divine Truth is clear from what has been shown regarding 'blood' in 4735, 6378, 6978, 7317, 7326, 7850, 9127, 9393, and that the fat meant Divine Good is clear from what has been shown in 5943.

[2] That 'blood' means Divine Truth is perfectly clear in Ezekiel,

Gather yourselves from all around to My sacrifice which I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You will eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth. You will eat fat till you are glutted, and drink blood till you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I will sacrifice for you. You will be glutted at My table with horse, chariot, the mighty, and every man of war. Thus will I set My glory among the nations. Ezekiel 39:17-22.

Anyone can see that 'blood' is not used to mean blood here, for it states that they were going to drink the blood of the princes of the earth, doing so till they were drunk, and also that they were going to eat fat till they were glutted, and then that they would be glutted with horse and chariot. From these statements it is evident that 'blood' is used to mean something other than blood, 'the princes of the earth' to mean something other than princes of the earth, and also 'fat' as well as 'horse and chariot' something other than fat, or horse and chariot. What is meant however none can know except through the internal sense. This shows that 'blood' means Divine Truth, 'the princes of the earth' the Church's primary or leading truths, 'fat' Divine Good, 'horse' the internal sense of the Word, and 'chariot' actual doctrinal teachings derived from there.

'Blood' means Divine Truth; this is clear from the places referred to above.

'The princes of the earth' means primary truths, 5044.

'The earth' means the Church, 9325.

'Horse' means the internal sense of the Word, 2760-2762.

'Chariot' means doctrinal teachings, 5321, 8215.

[3] From all this it is now evident what the meaning is of the Lord's words in John,

Jesus said, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood you will have no life in yourselves. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. John 6:53-56.

'Flesh' means Divine Good, see 3813, 7850, 9127; and 'the Son of Man' whose flesh they were to eat and blood they were to drink means the Lord in respect of Divine Truth emanating from Divine Good, 9807.

[4] But the fact that 'fat' means Divine Good is clear in Isaiah,

Jehovah will make for all peoples on this mountain a feast of fat things. Isaiah 25:6.

In the same prophet,

Attend [diligently] to Me and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:2.

And in Jeremiah,

I will fill the soul of the priests with fat, and My people will be satisfied with My goodness. Jeremiah 31:14.

From these quotations it becomes clear why all the fat of a sacrifice was burned on the altar and why all the blood was poured out at the side of it.

[5] Because blood and fat were signs of those Divine Entities the Israelite people were totally forbidden to eat fat or blood, as is clear in Moses,

[This shall be] a perpetual statute throughout your generations: You shall eat no fat and no blood. Leviticus 3:17.

In the same author,

You shall eat no fat, neither of ox, nor sheep, nor she-goat. Everyone who eats fat from a beast, from one that is offered as a fire-offering to Jehovah, that soul eating it will be cut off from his peoples. Leviticus 7:23, 25.

And again in the same author,

Whoever eats any blood, I will set My face against the soul eating blood and will cut him off from among his people. Leviticus 17:10-14; Deuteronomy 12:16, 23-25.

[6] The reason why eating blood and fat was so strictly forbidden was that eating them represented the profanation of Divine Truth and Divine Good. For the Israelite and Jewish nation was interested in outward forms but not their inner substance, so that in their faith and love there was no Divine Truth nor any Divine Good; and their worship was external devoid of these. This was because they were ruled by self-love and love of the world more than other nations; consequently they were steeped in evils gushing out of those loves, these evils being contempt for others, enmity, hatred, vengeance, brutality, and cruelty. This also was the reason why internal truths were not revealed to them, for if these had been revealed that nation would have inevitably profaned them. Such was the character of that nation, as may be seen in the places referred to in 9320(end), 9380. Therefore they would have represented profanation if they had eaten blood and fat; for whatever was established among them was representative of the interior things of the Church and heaven.

[7] From these considerations it is even more evident what the meaning is of the words in Ezekiel 39:17-22, dealt with above, stating that they would eat fat till they were glutted and drink blood, the blood of the princes of the earth, till they were drunk. That is to say, the meaning is that when inner virtues were opened up, those with whom these virtues existed, that is, faith in and love to the Lord, would have Divine Truth and Divine Good imparted to them as their own, as happened among gentile nations when the Lord came into the world. Therefore also those words go on to say, Thus will I set My glory among the nations, 'glory' meaning Divine Truth emanating from the Lord as it exists in heaven, 9429, and 'the nations' meaning all who are governed by good, 1259, 1260, 1416, 1849, 4574, 6005, 8771, 9256.

[8] This the Lord Himself corroborates, in His declaration that His flesh was truly food and His blood was truly drink, and whoever ate His flesh and drank His blood would abide in Him, and He in that person, John 6:55-56, and also in His institution of the Holy Supper, in which they were to eat His flesh and to drink His blood, Matthew 26:26-29, by which receiving Divine Good and Divine Truth from Him and making them their own was meant. Receiving Divine Good and Divine Truth from the Lord and making them their own is possible only with those who acknowledge the Lord's Divinity, for this is the first and most essential of all matters of belief within the Church. To no others can the way to heaven be opened, because the whole of heaven assents to that belief, and therefore Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good, meant here by 'blood', cannot be imparted to them. Therefore let anyone who is within the Church beware of refusing to believe in the Lord and also His Divinity; for heaven is closed and hell opened to that refusal. For those people are separated from the Lord, and so are separated from heaven, where the Lord's Divinity is the All in all since it composes heaven. And when heaven has been closed, knowledge of the truths of faith derived from the Word and from the teachings of the Church indeed exists, but not a particle of faith that is real faith because real faith comes from above, that is, from the Lord by way of heaven.

[9] The Lord spoke in this manner, that is to say, He called the Divine Good emanating from Himself His flesh, and the Divine Truth emanating from His Divine Good His blood, because the Word, which sprang from Him, was His Divinity filling the whole of heaven. Such a Word must manifest itself through the use of correspondences, as a result of which it is representative and carries a spiritual meaning in every single part; for in this and no other way could it link members of the Church to angels in heaven. For when people in the world understand the Word according to its literal meaning angels understand it according to its inner meaning. Thus instead of the Lord's flesh they understand Divine Good, and instead of His blood they understand Divine Truth, both emanating from the Lord. As a consequence that which is holy flows in by way of the Word.

447. 9:16 "마병대의 수는 이만만이니 내가 그들의 수를 들었노라"

"마병대의 수는 이만만이니"는 악에 속한 엄청나게 많은 단순한 거짓에 의하여 그들의 마음의 내성을 메우는 믿음 만에 대한 추리를 뜻한다.

"군대"는 선과 진리를 뜻하고, 반대의 뜻으로는 악과 거짓을 뜻하며, 여기서는 악의 거짓을 뜻하며, 이에 대하여서는 아래에, "마병"은 믿음 만에 대하여 추리하는 것을 뜻한다. "말"이 말씀의 이해를 뜻하며 (298) 또한 못쓰게 된 말씀의 이해를 뜻하기 때문이다(305, 313, 320). 그래서 "마병"은 못쓰게 된 말씀의 이해로부터 추리하는 것을, 여기서는 믿음 만에 대하여 추리하는 것을 뜻한다. 그 안에 원리원칙이 되어 있는 사람들을 다루기 때문이다. "이만만"은 그렇게 많은 수효를 뜻하지 아니하고 아주 많은 것을 뜻한다. "둘"이 기록되어 있는 것은 "둘"이 선에 속하고, 반대의 뜻으로는 악에 속하며(322), "만만"은 진리에 속하고 반대의 뜻으로는 거짓에 속하기 때문이다(287). 이것으로 "이만만이나 되는 마병대의 수효"가 악에 속한 단순한 많은 거짓으로 말미암아 그들의 속마음이 채워진 믿음 만에 관한 추리를 뜻하는 것이 분명할 것이다. 말씀 가운데 "군대"가 천국과 교회의 선과 진리를 뜻하며, 반대의 뜻으로는 악과 거짓을 뜻하는 것이 해와 달과 별을 군대라 일컫는 곳을 보아 분명할 것이다. 또 "해"는 사랑의 선을, "달"은 신앙의 진리를, 그리고 "별들"은 선과 진리에 대한 지식을 뜻하며, 반대의 뜻으로는 그 상반된 것을 뜻하는 것을 보아서도 분명할 것이다. 아래 구절에는 전자와 후자를 다 "군대"라 말하여 있다.

"그의 모든 군대여 여호와를 찬양하라 해와 달아 찬양하며 모든 별들아 그를 찬양할 지어다"(시편 148:2-3)

"내 손이 하늘을 펴고 그 만상을 명하였도다"(이사야 45:12)

"여호와의 말씀으로 하늘이 지은바 되었으며 그 만상이 그 입 기운으로 지은 바 되었도다"(시편 33:6)

"천지의 만물이 다 이루리라"(창세기 2:1)

"그 숫양의 뿔이 하늘 군대에 미칠 만큼 커서 그 군대와 별 중의 몇을 땅에 떨어뜨리고 또 스스로 높아져서 군대의 주재를 대적하며 범죄 함을 인하여 매일 드리는 제자를 그에게 붙인 바 되었고, 그것이 또 진리를 땅에 던짐이라. 거룩한 자가 말하되 성소와 군대가 짓밟힐 일이 어느 때까지 이를고 하니"(다니엘 8:10-14)

"여호와께서 그 군대 앞에서 소리를 내시고"(요엘 2:11)

"그 집 위에서 하늘의 군대에게 분향하고"(예레미아 19:13)

"두렵건대 네가 해와 달과 별과 하늘의 군대에 경배하며 섬길까 하노라"(신명기 4:19; 17:3; 예레미아 8:2; 이사야 13:4; 34:4; 40:26; 예레미아 33:22; 스가랴 9:8; 요한계시록 19:14)

"하늘의 군대"는 천국과 교회의 선과 진리를 뜻하므로 주님을 만군의 여호와 곧 군대의 여호와라 말한 것이며, 이 때문에 레위족속의 성직을 군복무라 말하였던 것이다(민수기 4:3, 23, 30, 39).

그리고 시편에 일렀으되,

"여호와를 받들며 그의 뜻을 하는 너희 모든 군대여 여호와를 송축하라"(시편 103:21)

"군대"는 또 교회 안에 있는 악과 거짓을 뜻한다.

나라의 군대(이사야 34). 남방 왕을 대적하기 위하여 온 북방 왕의 군대(다니엘 11:13, 15, 20).

"북방 왕"은 교회 안에 있는 악의 거짓을 뜻하고, "남방 왕"은 교회 안에 있는 선의 진리를 뜻한다. 주께서 말씀하시기를,

"너희가 예루살렘이 군대들에게 에워싸이는 것을 보거든 그 멸망이 가까운 줄을 알라"(누가복음 21:20).

"예루살렘"은 교회를 뜻하고, "군대"는 교회를 못 쓰게 만든 악과 거짓을 뜻한다. 여기서는 교회의 종말을 뜻한 말세를 다루고 있다.

요엘서에 있는 "군대"는 악과 거짓을 뜻한다.

"내가 너희에게 보낸 큰 군대 곧 메뚜기의 늣과 달팽이와 팟종이의 먹은 횟수대로 너희에게 갚아 주리니"(요엘 2:25)

"메뚜기"와 그밖의 것이 극 외적인 것 안에 있는 거짓을 뜻하는 것은 위(424)를 보면 알 수 있을 것이다.