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Leviticus 8

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1 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens :

2 Tolle Aaron cum filiis suis, vestes eorum, et unctionis oleum, vitulum pro peccato, duos arietes, canistrum cum azymis :

3 et congregabis omnem cœtum ad ostium tabernaculi.

4 Fecit Moyses ut Dominus imperaverat. Congregataque omni turba ante fores tabernaculi,

5 ait : Iste est sermo, quem jussit Dominus fieri.

6 Statimque obtulit Aaron et filios ejus. Cumque lavisset eos,

7 vestivit pontificem subucula linea, accingens eum balteo, et induens eum tunica hyacinthina, et desuper humerale imposuit,

8 quod astringens cingulo aptavit rationali, in quo erat Doctrina et Veritas.

9 Cidari quoque texit caput : et super eam, contra frontem, posuit laminam auream consecratam in sanctificatione, sicut præceperat ei Dominus.

10 Tulit et unctionis oleum, quo linivit tabernaculum cum omni supellectili sua.

11 Cumque sanctificans aspersisset altare septem vicibus, unxit illud, et omnia vasa ejus, labrumque cum basi sua sanctificavit oleo.

12 Quod fundens super caput Aaron, unxit eum, et consecravit :

13 filios quoque ejus oblatos vestivit tunicis lineis, et cinxit balteis, imposuitque mitras, ut jusserat Dominus.

14 Obtulit et vitulum pro peccato : cumque super caput ejus posuisset Aaron et filii ejus manus suas,

15 immolavit eum, hauriens sanguinem, et tincto digito, tetigit cornua altaris per gyrum : quo expiato et sanctificato, fudit reliquum sanguinem ad fundamenta ejus.

16 Adipem vero qui erat super vitalia, et reticulum jecoris, duosque renunculos, cum arvinulis suis, adolevit super altare :

17 vitulum cum pelle, et carnibus, et fimo, cremans extra castra, sicut præceperat Dominus.

18 Obtulit et arietem in holocaustum : super cujus caput cum imposuissent Aaron et filii ejus manus suas,

19 immolavit eum, et fudit sanguinem ejus per circuitum altaris.

20 Ipsumque arietem in frusta concidens, caput ejus, et artus, et adipem adolevit igni,

21 lotis prius intestinis et pedibus : totumque simul arietem incendit super altare, eo quod esset holocaustum suavissimi odoris Domino, sicut præceperat ei.

22 Obtulit et arietem secundum in consecratione sacerdotum, posueruntque super caput ejus Aaron et filii ejus manus suas :

23 quem cum immolasset Moyses, sumens de sanguine ejus, tetigit extremum auriculæ dextræ Aaron, et pollicem manus ejus dextræ, similiter et pedis.

24 Obtulit et filios Aaron : cumque de sanguine arietis immolati tetigisset extremum auriculæ singulorum dextræ, et pollices manus ac pedis dextri, reliquum fudit super altare per circuitum :

25 adipem vero, et caudam, omnemque pinguedinem quæ operit intestina, reticulumque jecoris, et duos renes cum adipibus suis et armo dextro separavit.

26 Tollens autem de canistro azymorum, quod erat coram Domino, panem absque fermento, et collyridam conspersam oleo, laganumque, posuit super adipes, et armum dextrum,

27 tradens simul omnia Aaron et filiis ejus. Qui postquam levaverunt ea coram Domino,

28 rursum suscepta de manibus eorum, adolevit super altare holocausti, eo quod consecrationis esset oblatio, in odorem suavitatis, sacrificii Domino.

29 Tulitque pectusculum, elevans illud coram Domino, de ariete consecrationis in partem suam, sicut præceperat ei Dominus.

30 Assumensque unguentum, et sanguinem qui erat in altari, aspersit super Aaron et vestimenta ejus, et super filios illius ac vestes eorum.

31 Cumque sanctificasset eos in vestitu suo, præcepit eis, dicens : Coquite carnes ante fores tabernaculi, et ibi comedite eas ; panes quoque consecrationis edite, qui positi sunt in canistro, sicut præcepit mihi Dominus, dicens : Aaron et filii ejus comedent eos :

32 quidquid autem reliquum fuerit de carne et panibus, ignis absumet.

33 De ostio quoque tabernaculi non exibitis septem diebus, usque ad diem quo complebitur tempus consecrationis vestræ ; septem enim diebus finitur consecratio :

34 sicut et impræsentiarum factum est, ut ritus sacrificii compleretur.

35 Die ac nocte manebitis in tabernaculo observantes custodias Domini, ne moriamini : sic enim mihi præceptum est.

36 Feceruntque Aaron et filii ejus cuncta quæ locutus est Dominus per manum Moysi.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 438

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438. They had tails like scorpions. (9:10) This symbolizes the Word's truths falsified, by which they induce a mental numbness.

A tail symbolizes the last extension of the head, because the brain extends through the spinal column into the tail. Consequently the head and the tail are united as their first and last elements. Consequently, when the head symbolizes a justifying and saving faith alone, the tail symbolizes in summary all its proofs, and as these are taken from the Word, it symbolizes the Word's truths falsified.

Everyone who assumes some principle of religion on the basis of on his own intelligence and puts it at the head of the rest, also takes proof passages from the Word and puts them at the tail, thus inducing a mental numbness in others and so doing them injury. That is why we are told that "they had tails like scorpions," and next, that "there were stings in their tails," and that "their power was to hurt men." For a scorpion symbolizes a persuasiveness that induces a numbness in the intellect (no. 425).

To be assured that the tail is an extension of the brain through the spinal column to its final point, ask any anatomist and he will tell you. Or look at a dog or some other fierce animal that has a tail, and if you treat it kindly and make yourself agreeable to it, you will see its stiffened back soften and its tail move in a corresponding manner. But on the other hand, if you annoy it, its backbone stiffens.

[2] The primary tenet of the intellect that is assumed as a principle is symbolized by the head, and its final expression by the tail, also in the following passages:

...He will cut off head and tail from Israel... The elder and honorable man is the head; but the prophet who teaches lies is the tail. (Isaiah 9:14-15)

There will not be any work for Egypt that the head or tail... may do. (Isaiah 19:15)

Nothing else is symbolized by the dragon's seven heads and the tail by which it drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth, in Revelation 12:3-4; and also by the tails like serpents, having heads, with which they do harm, in verse 19 of this chapter.

Since the tail symbolizes the final element, and the final element embraces all the rest, therefore Jehovah said to Moses,

"...take (the serpent) by the tail." And he... caught it, and it became a rod... (Exodus 4:3-4)

The priests were also commanded therefore to remove the whole tail close to the backbone and to sacrifice it with the fat on the entrails, the kidneys, the intestines, and the liver (Leviticus 3:9-11; 8:25; 9:19, Exodus 29:22).

To be shown that the final element contains and embraces all the prior ones, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 38 65, and Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom, nos. 209-216 217-222.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.