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Leviticus 10

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1 Aarono sūnūs Nadabas ir Abihuvas ėmė smilkytuvus, įsidėjo ugnies bei smilkalų ir aukojo Viešpačiui svetimą ugnį, ko Jis jiems nebuvo įsakęs.

2 Tada išsiveržusi iš Viešpaties ugnis juodu prarijo; jie mirė Viešpaties akivaizdoje.

3 Mozė tarė Aaronui: “Taip kalbėjo Viešpats: ‘Pasirodysiu šventas tuose, kurie prie manęs artinasi, ir būsiu pašlovintas visos tautos akivaizdoje’ ”. Tai girdėdamas, Aaronas tylėjo.

4 Mozė, pasišaukęs Aarono dėdės Uzielio sūnus Mišaelį ir Elcafaną, jiems tarė: “Eikite, paimkite jūsų brolius iš šventyklos ir išneškite juos už stovyklos”.

5 Juodu priėję paėmė juos, apvilktus drobinėmis jupomis, ir išnešė laukan, kaip jiems buvo liepta.

6 Mozė sakė Aaronui ir jo sūnums Eleazarui ir Itamarui: “Nenudenkite savo galvų ir neperplėškite drabužių, kad kartais nemirtumėte ir bausmė nekristų visiems izraelitams. Jūsų broliai ir visi izraelitai teaprauda sudeginimą, kurį Viešpats siuntė.

7 Jūs nesitraukite nuo palapinės, kad nežūtumėte, kadangi esate patepti šventu aliejumi”. Jie darė visa, ką Mozė įsakė.

8 Po to Viešpats tarė Aaronui:

9 “Tu ir tavo sūnūs vyno ir stipraus gėrimo negerkite, eidami Susitikimo palapinėn, kad nemirtumėte; tai yra amžinas įsakymas visoms jūsų kartoms,

10 kad skirtumėte, kas šventa ir nešventa, kas švaru ir kas nešvaru,

11 ir galėtumėte mokyti izraelitus visų mano įstatymų, kuriuos daviau per Mozę”.

12 Mozė kalbėjo Aaronui ir likusiems sūnums Eleazarui bei Itamarui: “Imkite aukos dalį, kuri lieka iš duonos aukos Viešpačiui, ir ją neraugintą valgykite prie aukuro, nes ji šventa.

13 Valgykite šventoje vietoje, kas tau ir tavo sūnums duota iš aukų Viešpačiui, nes taip man įsakyta;

14 taip pat krūtinę, kuri buvo siūbuota, ir aukos petį valgykite nesuteptoje vietoje tu, tavo sūnūs ir dukterys, nes tai duota tau ir tavo vaikams iš izraelitų padėkos aukų.

15 Petys ir krūtinė, kurie buvo atnešti su aukos taukais ir siūbuojami Viešpaties akivaizdoje, priklauso tau. Tai amžinas Viešpaties duotas įstatymas”.

16 Mozė stropiai ieškojo ožio, kuris buvo aukotas už nuodėmę, ir rado jį sudegintą. Jis, supykęs ant abiejų Aarono sūnų Eleazaro ir Itamaro, paklausė:

17 “Kodėl nesuvalgėte šventoje vietoje aukos už nuodėmę, kurią Dievas jums atidavė, kad pašalintumėte tautos kaltes ir atliktumėte sutaikinimą už juos Viešpaties akivaizdoje?

18 Aukos kraujas nebuvo įneštas į šventyklą, jūs turėjote ją valgyti šventoje vietoje, kaip man įsakyta”.

19 Aaronas atsakė: “Šiandien jie aukojo auką už nuodėmę ir deginamąją auką Viešpaties akivaizdoje, ir man taip atsitiko. Jei aš Šiandien valgyčiau auką už nuodėmę, ar tai būtų priimtina Viešpačiui?”

20 Tai girdėdamas, Mozė priėmė pasiteisinimą.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2187

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2187. 'And they ate' means communication in this manner. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being communicated, and also being joined together, as is also evident from the Word. The injunction that Aaron, and his sons the Levites, and also the people were to eat the consecrated elements of the sacrifices in a holy place meant nothing other than the communication, conjunction, and making one's own, as stated above in 2177, at the point where Leviticus 6:16-17, is referred to. For it was celestial and spiritual food that was meant by the consecrated elements, and thus making that food their own by eating those elements. These consecrated elements were those parts of the sacrifices which were not burned on the altar but were eaten either by the priests or by the people who brought the offering, as becomes clear from very many places where the sacrifices are the subject. The consecrated elements that were to be eaten by the priests are referred to in Exodus 29:32-33; Leviticus 6:16, 26; 7:6, 15-16, 18; 8:31; 10:12-13; Numbers 18:9-11; and those to be eaten by the people, in Leviticus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 12:27; 27:7; and elsewhere. And that those who were unclean were not to eat of them is referred to in Leviticus 7:19-21; 22:4-7. These ritual feasts took place in a holy place near the altar, either at the gate or in the court outside the tent. And they meant nothing else than the communication, conjunction, and making of celestial goods one's own, for those feasts represented celestial food. For what celestial food is, see 56-58, 680, 681, 1480, 1695. And all those consecrated elements were called 'bread', for the meaning of which see above in 2165. Something similar was represented by Aaron and his sons eating the loaves of the presence, or the shewbread, in a holy place, Leviticus 24:9.

[2] The reason for the law given to the Nazirite that during the days of his Naziriteship he was forbidden to eat anything that is produced from the grape - from which wine is made - from pips even to skin, Numbers 6:4, is that the Nazirite represented the celestial man, and the celestial man is such as is not willing even to mention spiritual things, see Volume One, in 202, 337, 880 (end), 1647. And because 'wine' and 'the grape', and also whatever came from the grape, meant that which is spiritual, the Nazirite was therefore forbidden to eat of them, that is, to have any communication with spiritual things, to join himself to them, or to make them his own.

[3] Something similar is meant by 'eating' in Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on that which is not bread, and your labour on that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:1-2.

And also what is said in John,

To him who conquers I will grant to eat from the tree of life which is in the middle of the Paradise of God. Revelation 2:7.

'The tree of life' is the celestial itself, and in the highest sense it is the Lord Himself since He is the source of everything celestial, that is, of all love and charity. Thus 'eating from the tree of life' is the same as feeding on the Lord; and 'feeding on the Lord' is being endowed with love and charity, thus with those things that belong to heavenly life, as the Lord Himself declares in John,

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live for ever. He who feeds on Me will live through Me. John 6:51, 57. But they said, This is a hard saying. Jesus said however, The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:60, 63.

From this it is evident what is meant by 'eating' in the Holy Supper, Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20 - having communication, being joined together, and making one's own.

[4] From this it is also plain what is meant by the Lord's statement that

Many will come from the east and from the west and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Matthew 8:11.

The Lord did not mean that they were going to feast with these three in the kingdom of God but that they were to enjoy the celestial goods meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That is to say, they were to enjoy the inmost celestial goods of love, meant by -Abraham'; also a lower type of goods, which are intermediate, as those are which belong to the rational, meant by 'Isaac'; and a still lower type of goods which are celestial-natural, such as occur in the first heaven, meant by 'Jacob'. These are the things which constitute the internal sense of these words. That such things are meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, see 1893, and wherever else they are the subject. For whether one speaks of enjoying those celestial things, or whether one speaks of enjoying the Lord, whom they represent, it amounts to the same since the Lord is the source of all those things, and the Lord is their All in all.

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