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1 Надав и Авиуд, сыны Аароновы, взяли каждый свою кадильницу, и положили в них огня, и вложили в него курений, и принесли пред Господа огонь чуждый, которого Он не велел им;

2 и вышел огонь от Господа и сжег их, и умерли они пред лицем Господним.

3 И сказал Моисей Аарону: вот о чем говорил Господь, когда сказал: в приближающихся ко Мне освящусь и пред всем народом прославлюсь. Аарон молчал.

4 И позвал Моисей Мисаила и Елцафана, сынов Узиила, дяди Ааронова, и сказал им: пойдите, вынесите братьев ваших из святилища за стан.

5 И пошли и вынесли их в хитонах их за стан, как сказал Моисей.

6 Аарону же и Елеазару и Ифамару, сынам его, Моисей сказал: голов вашихне обнажайте и одежд ваших не раздирайте, чтобы вам не умереть и не навести гнева на все общество; но братья ваши, весь дом Израилев, могут плакать о сожженных, которых сожег Господь,

7 и из дверей скинии собрания не выходите, чтобы не умереть вам, ибо на вас елей помазания Господня. И сделали по слову Моисея.

8 И сказал Господь Аарону, говоря:

9 вина и крепких напитков не пей ты и сыны твои с тобою, когда входите в скинию собрания, чтобы не умереть. Это вечное постановление в роды ваши,

10 чтобы вы могли отличать священное от несвященного и нечистое от чистого,

11 и научать сынов Израилевых всем уставам, которые изрек им Господь чрез Моисея.

12 И сказал Моисей Аарону и Елеазару и Ифамару, оставшимся сынам его: возьмите приношение хлебное, оставшееся от жертв Господних, и ешьте его пресное у жертвенника, ибо это великая святыня;

13 и ешьте его на святом месте, ибо это участок твой и участок сынов твоих из жертв Господних: так мне повелено от Господа ;

14 и грудь потрясания и плечо возношения ешьте на чистом месте, тыи сыновья твои и дочери твои с тобою, ибо это дано в участок тебе и в участок сынам твоим из мирных жертв сынов Израилевых;

15 плечо возношения и грудь потрясания должны они приносить с жертвами тука, потрясая пред лицем Господним, и да будет это вечным участком тебе и сыновьям твоим с тобою, как повелел Господь.

16 И козла жертвы за грех искал Моисей, и вот, он сожжен. И разгневался на Елеазара и Ифамара, оставшихся сынов Аароновых, и сказал:

17 почему вы не ели жертвы за грех на святом месте? ибо она святыня великая, и она дана вам, чтобы снимать грехи с общества и очищать их пред Господом;

18 вот, кровь ее не внесена внутрь святилища, а вы должны были есть ее на святом месте, как повелено мне.

19 Аарон сказал Моисею: вот, сегодня принесли они жертву свою за грех и всесожжение свое пред Господом, и это случилось со мною; если я сегодня съем жертву за грех, будет ли это угодно Господу?

20 И услышал Моисей и одобрил.

   

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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.