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제사장은 그 속건제 희생의 피를 취하여 정결함을 받을 자의 우편 귓부리와, 우편 손 엄지가락과, 우편 발 엄지가락에 바를 것이요
Arcana Coelestia # 7430
7430. 'The finger of God is this' means that the power came from the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'the finger of God' as power from the Divine. The reason why 'finger' means power is that the fingers are parts of the hands, and by 'hands' is meant power, 878, 4931-4937, 6344, 6424, 6948. The meaning of 'finger' as power is clear from the following places also: In David,
When I look at the heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and stars which You have established 1 ... Psalms 8:3
In Luke,
Jesus said, If I cast out demons by the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come to you. Luke 11:20.
When Jesus took aside from the people the deaf man who spoke with difficulty and put His finger into his ears, and spat and touched his tongue, Mark 7:32-33, this too was an action representative of Divine power.
[2] The fact that 'finger' represents power is also evident from rituals observed in the Church among the Jews, the ritual in which blood was put on the thumb, and the ritual in which the priest sprinkled blood with his finger, both commanded in the following places in Moses,
You shall slaughter the ram, and put some of the blood on the thumb of the right hand of Aaron and of his sons, and on the big toe of his right foot. Exodus 29:20.
The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt-offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed from leprosy, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. Then the priest shall dip his right finger in some of the oil which is on the palm of his left hand, and sprinkle some of the oil on his finger seven times before Jehovah. Some of the rest of the oil that is on his palm the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. Leviticus 14:14, 16-17.
You shall take some of the blood of the young bull, and place it with your finger on the horns of the altar. Exodus 29:11.
Further places in which such rituals occur are Leviticus 4:6; 9:9.
[3] All these rituals served to mean the hidden and holy things of heaven. This is clear from the consideration that the Word has a Divine origin and is inspired as to every tittle, Luke 16:17; and this being so, 'thumb' and 'finger' mean the power of good exercised through truth, as is evident from their internal sense in the places just quoted. Power is again meant by 'finger' in David,
Blessed be Jehovah, who trains my hands for conflict, and my fingers for war. Psalms 144:1
And in Isaiah,
He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and what his fingers have made. Isaiah 17:8.
'The altars' stands for worship in general, 4541, 'the work of hands' and 'what fingers have made' for the kinds of things that are the product of what is properly one's own, thus of one's own power.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. literally, prepared
[7430a 'And Pharaoh's heart was unyielding' means obstinacy, as above in 7272, 7300, 7305, 7412.]
Genesis 35
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God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
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Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
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Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
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They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
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They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
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So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
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He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
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God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
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God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.
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God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
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The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
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God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
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Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
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Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."
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They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
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When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."
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It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
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Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).
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Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
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Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
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It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
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The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
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The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.
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The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
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Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
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The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
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Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
