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1 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

2 объяви сынам Израилевым и скажи им о праздниках Господних, в которыедолжно созывать священные собрания. Вот праздники Мои:

3 шесть дней можно делать дела, а в седьмой день суббота покоя, священное собрание; никакого дела не делайте; это суббота Господня во всех жилищах ваших.

4 Вот праздники Господни, священные собрания, которые вы должны созывать в свое время:

5 в первый месяц, в четырнадцатый день месяца вечером Пасха Господня;

6 и в пятнадцатый день того же месяца праздник опресноков Господу; семь дней ешьте опресноки;

7 в первый день да будет у вас священное собрание; никакой работы не работайте;

8 и в течение семи дней приносите жертвы Господу; в седьмой деньтакже священное собрание; никакой работы не работайте.

9 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

10 объяви сынам Израилевым и скажи им: когда придете в землю, которую Я даю вам, и будете жать на ней жатву, то принесите первый сноп жатвы вашей к священнику;

11 он вознесет этот сноп пред Господом, чтобы вам приобрести благоволение; на другой день праздника вознесет его священник;

12 и в день возношения снопа принесите во всесожжение Господу агнца однолетнего, без порока,

13 и с ним хлебного приношения две десятых части ефы пшеничной муки, смешанной с елеем, в жертву Господу, в приятное благоухание, и возлияния к нему четверть гина вина;

14 никакого нового хлеба, ни сушеных зерен, ни зерен сырых не ешьте до того дня, в который принесете приношения Богу вашему: это вечное постановление в роды ваши во всех жилищах ваших.

15 Отсчитайте себе от первого дня после праздника, от того дня, в которыйприносите сноп потрясания, семь полных недель,

16 до первого дня после седьмой недели отсчитайтепятьдесят дней, и тогда принесите новое хлебное приношение Господу:

17 от жилищ ваших приносите два хлеба возношения, которые должны состоять из двух десятых частей ефы пшеничной муки и должны быть испечены кислые, как первый плод Господу;

18 вместе с хлебами представьте семь агнцев без порока, однолетних, и из крупного скота одного тельца и двух овнов; да будет это во всесожжение Господу, и хлебное приношение и возлияние к ним, в жертву, в приятноеблагоухание Господу.

19 Приготовьте также из стада коз одного козла в жертву за грех и двух однолетних агнцев в жертву мирную.

20 священник должен принести это, потрясая пред Господом, вместе с потрясаемыми хлебами первого плода и с двумя агнцами, и это будет святынею Господу; священнику, который приносит, это принадлежит ;

21 и созывайте народ в сей день, священное собрание да будет у вас, никакой работы не работайте: это постановление вечное во всех жилищах ваших в роды ваши.

22 Когда будете жать жатву на земле вашей, не дожинай до края поля твоего, когда жнешь, и оставшегося от жатвы твоей не подбирай; бедному и пришельцу оставь это. Я Господь, Бог ваш.

23 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

24 скажи сынам Израилевым: в седьмой месяц, в первый день месяца да будет у вас покой, праздник труб, священное собрание.

25 никакой работы не работайте и приносите жертву Господу.

26 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

27 также в девятый день седьмого месяца сего, день очищения, да будет у вас священное собрание; смиряйте души ваши и приносите жертву Господу;

28 никакого дела не делайте в день сей, ибо это день очищения, дабы очистить вас пред лицем Господа, Бога вашего;

29 а всякая душа, которая не смирит себя в этот день, истребится из народа своего;

30 и если какая душа будет делать какое-нибудь дело в день сей, Я истреблю ту душу из народа ее;

31 никакого дела не делайте: это постановление вечное в роды ваши, во всех жилищахваших;

32 это для вас суббота покоя, и смиряйте души ваши, с вечера девятого дня месяца; от вечера до вечера празднуйте субботу вашу.

33 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

34 скажи сынам Израилевым: с пятнадцатого дня того же седьмого месяца праздник кущей, семь дней Господу;

35 в первый день священное собрание, никакой работы не работайте;

36 в течение семи дней приносите жертву Господу; в восьмой день священное собрание да будет у вас, и приносите жертву Господу: это отдание праздника, никакой работы не работайте.

37 Вот праздники Господни, в которые должно созывать священные собрания, чтобы приносить в жертву Господу всесожжение, хлебное приношение, заколаемые жертвы ивозлияния, каждое в свой день,

38 кроме суббот Господних и кроме даров ваших, и кроме всех обетов ваших и кроме всего приносимого по усердию вашему,что вы даете Господу.

39 А в пятнадцатый день седьмого месяца, когда вы собираете произведения земли, празднуйте праздник Господень семь дней: в первый день покой и в восьмой день покой;

40 в первый день возьмите себе ветви красивых дерев, ветви пальмовые и ветви дерев широколиственных и верб речных, и веселитесь предГосподом Богом вашим семь дней;

41 и празднуйте этот праздник Господень семь дней в году: это постановление вечное в роды ваши; в седьмой месяц празднуйте его;

42 в кущах живите семь дней; всякий туземец Израильтянин должен жить в кущах,

43 чтобы знали роды ваши, что в кущах поселил Я сынов Израилевых,когда вывел их из земли Египетской. Я Господь, Бог ваш.

44 И объявил Моисей сынам Израилевым о праздниках Господних.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2165

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2165. That 'I will take a piece of bread' means something heavenly or celestial to go with [that something natural] is clear from the meaning of 'bread' as that which is celestial, dealt with already in 276, 680, 681, 1798. The reason 'bread' here means that which is celestial is that bread means all food in general, and so in the internal sense all heavenly or celestial food. What celestial food is has been stated in Volume One, in 56-58, 680, 681, 1480, 1695. That 'bread' means all food in general becomes clear from the following places in the Word: One reads of Joseph telling the man in charge of his house to bring the men, that is, his brothers, into the house, and then to slaughter what needed to be slaughtered and made ready. And after that, when these things had been made ready and the men were to eat them, he said, Set on bread, Genesis 43:16, 31, by which he meant that the table was to be made ready by them. Thus 'bread' stood for all the food that made up the entire meal. Regarding Jethro one reads that Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God, Exodus 18:12. Here also 'bread' stands for all the food that made up the entire meal. And regarding Manoah, in the Book of Judges,

Manoah said to the angel of Jehovah, Let us now detain you, and let us make ready a kid before you. And the angel of Jehovah said to Manoah, If you detain me I will not eat your bread. Judges 13:15-16.

Here 'bread' stands for the kid. When Jonathan ate from the honeycomb the people told him that Saul had commanded the people with an oath, saying,

Cursed be the man who eats bread this day. 1 Samuel 14:27-28.

Here 'bread' stands for all food. Elsewhere, regarding Saul,

When Saul sat down to eat bread he said to Jonathan, Why has not the son of Jesse come either yesterday or today, to bread? 1 Samuel 20:24, 27.

This stands for coming to the table, where there was food of every kind. Regarding David who said to Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son,

You will eat bread at my table always. 2 Samuel 9:7, 10.

Similarly regarding Evil-Merodach who said that Jehoiachin the king of Judah was to eat bread with him always, all the days of his life, 2 Kings 25:29. Regarding Solomon the following is said,

Solomon's bread for each day was thirty cors 1 of fine flour, sixty cors of meal, ten fatted oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides harts and wild she-goats and roebucks and fatted fowl. 1 Kings 4:22-23.

Here 'bread' plainly stands for all the provisions that are mentioned.

[2] Since then 'bread' means every kind of food in general it consequently means in the internal sense all those things that are called heavenly or celestial foods. This becomes even clearer still from the burnt offerings and sacrifices that were made of lambs, sheep, 2 she-goats, kids, he-goats, young bulls, and oxen, which are referred to by the single expression bread offered by fire to Jehovah, as is quite clear from the following places in Moses where the various sacrifices are dealt with and which, it says, the priest was to burn on the altar as the bread offered by fire to Jehovah for an odour of rest, Leviticus 3:11, 16. All those sacrifices and burnt offerings were called such. In the same book,

The sons of Aaron shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, for it is the fire-offerings to Jehovah, the bread of their God, that they offer. You shall sanctify him, for it is the bread of your God that he offers. No man of Aaron's seed who has a blemish in himself shall approach to offer the bread of his God. Leviticus 21:6, 8, 17, 21.

Here also sacrifices and burnt offerings are referred to as 'bread', as they are also in Leviticus 22:25. Elsewhere in the same author,

Command the children of Israel, and say to them, My gift, My bread, for fire-offerings of an odour of rest, you shall take care to offer to Me at their appointed times. Numbers 28:2.

Here also 'bread' stands for all the sacrifices that are mentioned in that chapter. In Malachi,

Offering polluted bread on My altar. Malachi 1:7.

This also has regard to sacrifices. The consecrated parts of the sacrifices which they ate were called 'bread' as well, as is clear from these words in Moses,

The person who has touched anything unclean shall not eat any of the consecrated offerings, but he shall surely bathe his flesh in water, and when the sun has set he will be clean. And afterwards he shall eat of the consecrated offerings, because it is his bread. Leviticus 22:6-7.

[3] Burnt offerings and sacrifices in the Jewish Church represented nothing else than the heavenly things of the Lord's kingdom in heaven, and of the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church. They also represented the things of the Lord's kingdom or Church as it exists with every individual; and in general they represented all those things that are composed of love and charity, for those things are celestial or of heaven. In addition each type of sacrifice represented some specific thing. In those times all of the sacrifices were called 'bread', and therefore when the sacrifices were abolished and other things serving for external worship took their place, the use of bread and wine was commanded.

[4] From all this it is now clear what is meant by that 'bread', namely that it means all those things which were represented in the sacrifices, and thus in the internal sense means the Lord Himself. And because 'bread' there means the Lord Himself it means love itself towards the whole human race and what belongs to love. It also means man's reciprocal love to the Lord and towards the neighbour. Thus the bread now commanded means all celestial things, and wine accordingly all spiritual things, as the Lord also explicitly teaches in John,

They said, Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, It was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. They said to Him, Lord, give us this bread always. Jesus said to them, I am the Bread of life he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst. John 6:31-35.

And in the same chapter,

Truly I say to you, He who believes in Me has eternal life. I am the Bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the Bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living Bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this Bread he will live for ever. John 6:47-51.

[5] Now because this 'Bread' is the Lord it exists within the celestial things of love which are the Lord's, for the Lord is the celestial itself, because He is love itself, that is, mercy itself. This being so, 'bread' also means everything celestial, that is, all the love and charity existing with a person, for these are derived from the Lord. People who are devoid of love and charity therefore do not have the Lord within them, and so are not endowed with the forms of good and of happiness which are meant in the internal sense by 'bread'. This external symbol [of love and charity] was commanded because the worship of the majority of the human race is external, and therefore without some external symbol scarcely anything holy would exist among them. Consequently when they lead lives of love to the Lord and of charity towards the neighbour, that which is internal exists with them even though they do not know that such love and charity constitute the inner core of worship. Thus in their external worship they are confirmed in the kinds of good which are meant by 'the bread'.

[6] In the Prophets as well 'bread' means the celestial things of love, as in Isaiah 3:1, 7; 30:23; 33:15-16; 55:2; 58:7-8; Lamentations 5:9; Ezekiel 4:16-17; 5:16; 14:13; Amos 4:6; 8:11; Psalms 105:16. Those things are in a similar way meant by 'the loaves of the Presence' on the table, referred to in Leviticus 24:5-9; Exodus 25:30; 40:23; Numbers 4:7; 1 Kings 7:48.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. A cor, or a homer, was a Hebrew measure of about 6 bushels or 220 litres.

2. The Latin has a word meaning oxen (boves), but comparison with other places where Swedenborg gives the same list of animals suggests that he intended sheep (oves).

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