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Levítico 3

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1 Se a oferta de alguém for sacrifício pacífico: se a fizer de gado vacum, seja macho ou fêmea, oferecê-la-á sem defeito diante do Senhor;

2 porá a mão sobre a cabeça da sua oferta e a imolará à porta da tenda da revelação; e os filhos de Arão, os sacerdotes, espargirão o sangue sobre o altar em redor.

3 Então, do sacrifício de oferta pacífica, fará uma oferta queimada ao Senhor; a gordura que cobre a fressura, sim, toda a gordura que está sobre ela,

4 os dois rins e a gordura que está sobre eles, e a que está junto aos lombos, e o redenho que está sobre o fígado, juntamente com os rins, ele os tirará.

5 E os filhos de Arão queimarão isso sobre o altar, em cima do holocausto que está sobre a lenha no fogo; é oferta queimada, de cheiro suave ao Senhor.

6 E se a sua oferta por sacrifício pacífico ao Senhor for de gado miúdo, seja macho ou fêmea, sem defeito o oferecerá.

7 Se oferecer um cordeiro por sua oferta, oferecê-lo-á perante o Senhor;

8 e porá a mão sobre a cabeça da sua oferta, e a imolará diante da tenda da revelação; e os filhos de Arão espargirão o sangue sobre o altar em redor.

9 Então, do sacrifício de oferta pacífica, fará uma oferta queimada ao Senhor; a gordura da oferta, a cauda gorda inteira, tirá-la-á junto ao espinhaço; e a gordura que cobre a fressura, sim, toda a gordura que está sobre ela,

10 os dois rins e a gordura que está sobre eles, e a que está junto aos lombos, e o redenho que está sobre o fígado, juntamente com os rins, tirá-los-á.

11 E o sacerdote queimará isso sobre o altar; é o alimento da oferta queimada ao Senhor.

12 E se a sua oferta for uma cabra, perante o Senhor a oferecerá;

13 e lhe porá a mão sobre a cabeça, e a imolará diante da tenda da revelação; e os filhos de Arão espargirão o sangue da cabra sobre o altar em redor.

14 Depois oferecerá dela a sua oferta, isto é, uma oferta queimada ao Senhor; a gordura que cobre a fressura, sim, toda a gordura que está sobre ela,

15 os dois rins e a gordura que está sobre eles, e a que está junto aos lombos, e o redenho que está sobre o fígado, juntamente com os rins, tirá-los-á.

16 E o sacerdote queimará isso sobre o altar; é o alimento da oferta queimada, de cheiro suave. Toda a gordura pertencerá ao Senhor.

17 Estatuto perpétuo, pelas vossas gerações, em todas as vossas habitações, será isto: nenhuma gordura nem sangue algum comereis.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 366

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366. That they should kill one another. That this signifies the falsification or extinction of truths, is manifest from the signification of killing, as denoting to extinguish truths; for by killing in the Word is signified to kill spiritually, or to kill the spiritual part of man or his soul, which is to extinguish truths. The reason why it also denotes to falsify, is, because when truths are falsified, they are also extinguished; for by falsification a different understanding of them is arrived at, and truth is truth according to the understanding of any one concerning it; for the love and the principle which have rule in man, draw and apply all things to them, even truths themselves; wherefore, when the love is evil, or the principle false, then the truths are infected with the evil of the love, or the falsity of the principle, and so are extinguished; this therefore is what is here signified by, "that they should kill one another." That this takes place when there is no good with man, and especially when there is no good in the doctrine of his church, is manifest from the preceding words, where it is said: "When he had opened the second seal, there went out a red horse; and it was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth"; by which is signified a second state of the church, when the understanding of the Word is destroyed as to good, whence divisions arise in the church (concerning which see above, n. 361, 364, 365).

[2] That the understanding of the Word, or, what is the same, the understanding of truth, is destroyed when there is no good with man, that is, where there is no love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour, may be seen above (n. 365); for good in man, or what is the same, love in him, is the fire of his life, and truth in him, or the faith of truth, is the light thence; therefore according to the quality of the good or the quality of the love in him, such is the truth, or the faith of truth in him. Hence it is evident that if man is in evil, or in an evil love, he cannot be in the truth, or in the faith of truth; for the quality of the light which issues from that fire, is light to those who are in hell, which is a fatuous light, like the light from burning coals, which light is turned into mere darkness from the light flowing in from heaven. Such also is the light called natural light (lumen) with the evil, when they reason against the things of the church.

[3] That they should falsify truths and thereby extinguish them, is also meant by the Lord's words in Matthew:

Jesus said to the disciples, "The brother shall deliver up the brother, the father the son; the children shall rise up against the parents, and cause them to be put to death" (10:21).

And in Luke:

"Ye shall be betrayed by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death" (21:16).

By parents, brethren, children, [kinsfolk,] and friends, are not meant here parents, brethren, children, kinsfolk, friends, nor by disciples are meant disciples, but the goods and truths of the church, also evils and falsities; and that evils will extinguish goods, and falsities truths. (That such things are signified by these names, see the Arcana Coelestia 10490.)

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.