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1 Svake sedme godine opraštaj.

2 A opraštanje da biva ovako: kome je ko dužan šta, neka oprosti šta bi mogao tražiti od bližnjeg svog; neka ne traži od bližnjeg svog i od brata svog, jer je opraštanje Gospodnje oglašeno.

3 Od tuđina traži, ali šta bi imao u brata svog, ono neka mu oprosti ruka tvoja,

4 Da ne bi bilo siromaha među vama, jer će te obilno blagosloviti Gospod u zemlji koju ti Gospod Bog tvoj da u nasledstvo da je tvoja.

5 Samo ako dobro uzaslušaš glas Gospoda Boga svog gledajući da činiš sve ove zapovesti, koje ti ja zapovedam danas,

6 Blagosloviće te Gospod Bog tvoj, kao što ti je kazao, te ćeš davati u zajam mnogim narodima, a ni od koga nećeš uzimati u zajam, i vladaćeš mnogim narodima, a oni tobom neće vladati.

7 Ako bude u tebe koji siromah između braće tvoje u kome mestu tvom, u zemlji tvojoj, koju ti daje Gospod Bog tvoj, nemoj da ti se stvrdne srce tvoje i da stisneš ruku svoju bratu svom siromahu.

8 Nego otvori ruku svoju i pozajmi mu rado koliko mu god treba u potrebi njegovoj.

9 Čuvaj se da ne bude kakvo nevaljalstvo u srcu tvom, pa da kažeš: Blizu je sedma godina, godina oprosna; i da oko tvoje ne bude zlo prema bratu tvom siromahu, pa da mu ne daš, a on zato da vapije ka Gospodu na te, i bude ti greh.

10 Podaj mu, i neka ne žali srce tvoje kad mu daš; jer će za tu stvar blagosloviti tebe Gospod Bog tvoj u svakom poslu tvom i u svemu za šta se prihvatiš rukom svojom.

11 Jer neće biti bez siromaha u zemlji; zato ti zapovedam i kažem: otvaraj ruku svoju bratu svom, nevoljniku i siromahu svom u zemlji svojoj.

12 Ako ti se proda brat tvoj Jevrejin ili Jevrejka, neka ti služi šest godina, a sedme godine otpusti ga od sebe slobodnog.

13 A kad ga otpustiš od sebe slobodnog, nemoj ga otpustiti praznog.

14 Daruj ga čim između stoke svoje i s gumna svog i iz kace svoje; podaj mu čim te je blagoslovio Gospod Bog tvoj.

15 I opominji se da si bio rob u zemlji misirskoj i da te je izbavio Gospod Bog tvoj; zato ti ja zapovedam ovo danas.

16 Ako li ti kaže: Neću da idem od tebe, zato što te ljubi i dom tvoj, jer mu je dobro kod tebe,

17 Tada uzmi šilo i probuši mu uho na vratima, i biće ti sluga doveka; i sluškinji svojoj učini tako.

18 Nemoj da ti bude teško kad ga otpuštaš od sebe slobodna, jer je dvojinom onoliko koliko najamnik zaslužio u tebe za šest godina, da bi te blagoslovio Gospod Bog tvoj u svemu što radiš.

19 Sve prvence u stoci svojoj krupnoj i sitnoj što bude muško, posveti Gospodu Bogu svom; ne radi na prvencu od krave svoje, i ne striži prvenca od ovaca svojih.

20 Pred Gospodom Bogom svojim jedi ih ti i porodica tvoja svake godine na mestu koje izabere Gospod.

21 Ako li na njemu bude mana, ako bude hromo ili slepo, ili koja god zla mana bude na njemu, ne kolji ga Gospodu Bogu svom.

22 U svom mestu pojedi ga; i čist i nečist neka jede kao srnu i jelena.

23 Samo krv od njega ne jedi; prolij je na zemlju kao vodu.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 922

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922. 'He took from every clean beast, and from every clean bird' means goods that stem from charity, and the truths of faith. This has been shown already; 'beast' means goods that stem from charity, 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 'bird' the truths of faith, 40, 776. Burnt offerings were made from cattle, from lambs and goats, and from turtle doves and young pigeons, Leviticus 1:2-17; Numbers 15:2-15; 28:1-end. These were clean beasts, each one of them meaning some particular heavenly quality. And because they meant these things in the Ancient Church, and in subsequent Churches represented them, it is clear that burnt offerings and sacrifices were nothing else than representatives that go with internal worship, and that when they had been divorced from internal worship they became idolatrous. This any mentally normal person can see, for what is an altar but merely something made of stone? And what is a burnt offering and a sacrifice but the slaughtering of an animal? For worship to be Divine it has to represent some heavenly quality which the worshippers know and acknowledge and from which they worship the One they are representing.

[2] Nobody except the person who does not wish to understand anything at all about the Lord can be ignorant of the fact that these things were representatives of the Lord. It is the internal things, namely charity and faith deriving from charity, through which the One who is being represented has to be seen, acknowledged, and believed, as is quite clear in the Prophets, for example in Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah Zebaoth, the God of Israel, Add your burnt offerings on to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. I did not speak with your fathers and I did not command them on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt on the matters of burnt offering and sacrifice. But this matter I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God. Jeremiah 7:21-23.

Hearing or obeying His voice is obeying the law, the whole of which focuses on the one command that men should love God above everything else and their neighbour as themselves, for on these depend the Law and the Prophets, Matthew 22:37-40; 7:12. In David,

O Jehovah, sacrifice and offering You have not desired; burnt offering and sin-sacrifice You host not sought. I have delighted to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart. 1 Psalms 40:6, 8.

[3] In Samuel, who said to Saul,

Has Jehovah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22.

What obeying His voice involves is apparent in Micah,

Shall I come before Jehovah with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with tens of thousands of rivers of oil? He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does Jehovah require of you but to carry out judgement and the love of mercy, and to humble yourself by walking with your God. Micah 6:6-8.

These are the things that burnt offerings and sacrifices of clean beasts and birds mean. In Amos,

Though you offer Me your burnt offerings and gifts, I will not accept them, and the peace offering of your fatted ones I will not look upon. Let judgement flow like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Amos 5:22, 24.

'Judgement' means truth, and 'righteousness' good. Both stem from charity and are the burnt offerings and sacrifices of the internal man. In Hosea,

I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6.

From all these quotations the nature of sacrifices and burnt offerings when charity and faith are not present is clear. It is also clear from them that because 'clean beasts and clean birds' meant the goods that stem from charity and faith they also represented them.

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1. literally, in the midst of my viscera

  
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