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3 Mosebok 15

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1 Og Herren talte til Moses og Aron og sa:

2 Tal til Israels barn og si til dem: Når det går ut flod fra en manns legeme, da er han uren for sitt flods skyld.

3 Så lenge hans flod varer, er det således med hans urenhet: Enten hans legeme gir flodet fra sig eller holder det tilbake, i begge tilfelle er han uren.

4 Hvert leie som den som har flod, ligger på, skal være urent, og alt det han sitter på, skal være urent.

5 Den som rører ved hans leie, skal tvette sine klær og bade sig i vann og være uren til om aftenen.

6 Og den som setter sig på noget som den som har flod, sitter på, han skal tvette sine klær og bade sig i vann og være uren til om aftenen.

7 Og den som rører ved den sykes legeme, skal tvette sine klær og bade sig i vann og være uren til om aftenen.

8 Kommer den som har flod, til å spytte på en som er ren, da skal den han spyttet på, tvette sine klær og bade sig i vann og være uren til om aftenen.

9 Hver sal som den som har flod, rider på, skal være uren.

10 Enhver som rører ved noget av det han har under sig, skal være uren til om aftenen, og den som bærer det bort, skal tvette sine klær og bade sig i vann og være uren til om aftenen.

11 Og enhver som den som har flod, rører ved uten å ha skyllet sine hender i vann, skal tvette sine klær og bade sig i vann og være uren til om aftenen.

12 Og et lerkar som den som har flod, rører ved, skal brytes i stykker, og ethvert trekar skal skylles i vann.

13 Når den som har flod, blir ren for sitt flod, da skal han telle syv dager frem fra den dag han blev ren, og så tvette sine klær og bade sitt legeme i rinnende vann, så er han ren.

14 Og den åttende dag skal han ta to turtelduer eller to dueunger og komme for Herrens åsyn, til inngangen til sammenkomstens telt, og gi dem til presten.

15 Og presten skal ofre dem, den ene til syndoffer og den andre til brennoffer; og således skal presten gjøre soning for ham for Herrens åsyn og rense ham for hans flod.

16 Når det går sæd fra en mann, da skal han bade hele sitt legeme i vann og være uren til om aftenen.

17 Og ethvert klæsplagg og ethvert skinn som det kommer sæd på, skal tvettes i varm og være urent til om aftenen.

18 Og når en mann ligger hos en kvinne, og det går sæd fra ham, da skal de begge bade sig i vann og være urene til om aftenen.

19 Når en kvinne har flod, idet det flyter blod fra hennes legeme, da skal hun være uren i syv dager, og enhver som rører ved henne, skal være uren til om aftenen.

20 Alt hun ligger på mens hun således er uren, skal være urent, og alt hun sitter på, skal være urent.

21 Enhver som rører ved hennes leie, skal tvette sine klær og bade sig i vann og være uren til om aftenen.

22 Og enhver som rører ved noget hun sitter på, skal tvette sine klær og bade sig i vann og være uren til om aftenen.

23 Og dersom nogen rører ved noget som er på leiet eller på det hun sitter på, skal han være uren til om aftenen.

24 Og dersom en mann ligger hos henne, og hennes urenhet kommer på ham, så skal han være uren i syv dager, og ethvert leie han ligger på, skal være urent.

25 Når en kvinne har blodflod i mange dager, uten at det er hennes månedlige urenhets tid, eller hun har flod lenger enn sedvanlig i sin månedlige urenhets tid, da skal hun være uren alle de dager hennes urenhets flod varer, likesom i sin månedlige urenhets dager.

26 Ethvert leie hun ligger på alle de dager hennes flod varer, skal være urent, likesom hennes leie i hennes månedlige urenhet, og alt hun sitter på, skal være urent, likesom når hun har sin månedlige urenhet.

27 Enhver som rører ved det, skal være uren; han skal tvette sine klær og bade sig i vann og være uren til om aftenen.

28 Men når hun blir ren for sitt flod, da skal hun telle syv dager frem, og derefter skal hun være ren.

29 Og den åttende dag skal hun ta to turtelduer eller to dueunger og komme med dem til presten, til inngangen til sammenkomstens telt.

30 Og presten skal ofre den ene til syndoffer og den andre til brennoffer; og således skal presten gjøre soning for henne for Herrens åsyn og rense henne for hennes urenhets flod.

31 I skal skille Israels barn av med deres urenhet, forat de ikke skal i sin urenhet når de gjør mitt tabernakel urent, det som står midt iblandt dem.

32 Dette er loven om den som har flod, og om den fra hvem det går sæd, så han blir uren derved,

33 og om den kvinne som har sin månedlige urenhet, og om den som har flod, enten det er mann eller kvinne, og om den mann som ligger hos en uren kvinne.

   

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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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Arcana Coelestia # 3355

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3355. In the internal sense 'an earthquake' is an alteration of the state of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the earth' as the Church, dealt with in 566, 662, 1066, 1068, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 2928, and from the meaning of 'a quake' as an alteration of state, here an alteration as regards the things that constitute the Church, namely good and truth. This is also evident from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

It will happen, that he who is fleeing from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit, and he who is climbing out of the middle of the pit will be caught in the snare, for the floodgates from on high have been opened and the foundations of the earth have been made to tremble, the earth has been utterly shattered. The earth has been made to quake thoroughly, the earth staggers like a drunken man, it sways to and fro like a hut, and heavy upon it is its transgression, and it will fall and not rise again. And it will be on that day, that Jehovah will visit the host of the height on high and the kings of the ground on the ground. Isaiah 24:18-21.

Here it is quite evident that 'the earth' is the Church, for the subject is a Church whose 'foundations' are said to 'have been made to tremble', while the Church itself, having been 'shattered' and 'made to quake', 'staggers' and 'sways to and fro' when good and truth are not known any longer. 'The kings of the ground' are truths, in this case falsities, upon which visitation will take place. As regards 'kings' meaning truths and in the contrary sense falsities, see 1672, 2015, and as regards 'the ground' being similar in meaning to 'the earth', namely the Church, though there is a difference, see 566, 1068.

[2] In the same prophet,

I will make a man (homo) more rare than pure gold, and a man (homo) than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make heaven quake and the earth will quake out of its place, at the wrath of Jehovah Zebaoth and in the day of His fierce anger. Isaiah 13:12-13.

Here also, the subject being Judgement Day, 'the earth' plainly stands for the Church which is said to 'quake out of its place' when it undergoes a change of state - 'place' meaning state, see 1273-1275, 1377, 2625, 2837. In the same prophet,

Is this the man who, making the earth quake, making the kingdoms quake, makes the world into a wilderness and destroys its cities? Isaiah 14:16-17.

This refers to Lucifer. 'The earth' stands for the Church, which is said 'to quake' when it lays claim to all things as its own. For 'kingdoms' means the truths accepted by the Church, see 1672, 2547.

[3] In Ezekiel,

It will be on that day, that Gog will come over the land of Israel. My wrath will come up in My anger and in My zeal. In the fire of My wrath I will say, Surely on that day there will be a great earthquake on Israel's ground. Ezekiel 38:18-20.

'Gog' stands for external worship that has been separated from internal and so made idolatrous, 1151. 'Israel's land' or 'ground' stands for the spiritual Church, 'an earthquake' for an alteration of its state. In Joel,

The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled. The sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars withdrew their shining. Joel 2:10.

This also refers to Judgement Day. 'The earth quaked' stands for an altered state of the Church, 'the sun and moon' for the good of love and the truth of faith, 1529, 1530, 2441, 2495, which are said to be 'darkened' when goods and truths are not acknowledged any longer. 'The stars' stands for cognitions of good and truth, 2495, 2849. In David,

The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook and trembled because He was angered. Psalms 18:6-7.

'The earth trembled and quaked' stands for the Church when its state has become perverted.

[4] In John,

When he opened the sixth seal I looked again, and behold, a great earthquake took place, and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became like blood, and the stars in the sky fell to the earth. Revelation 6:12-13.

Here 'an earthquake', 'the sun', 'the moon', and 'the stars' have a similar meaning to that which they have above in Joel. In the same book,

At that hour a great earthquake took place, and a tenth part of the city fell, and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand people. 1 Revelation 11:13.

From all these places it is evident that 'an earthquake' means nothing other than an alteration of the state of the Church, and that 'the earth' has no other meaning in the internal sense than the Church. And since 'the earth' is the Church it is clear that 'the new heaven and the new earth' which are to take the place of the previous heaven and earth, Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; Revelation 21:1, means nothing other than a new Church, internal and external, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end).

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, seven thousand names of people

  
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