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Levitski Zakonik 24

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1 Još reče Gospod Mojsiju govoreći:

2 Zapovedi sinovima Izrailjevim neka ti donesu ulje maslinovo čisto, ceđeno, za videlo, da žišci gore vazda.

3 Pred zavesom svedočanstva u šatoru od sastanka Aron će ih nameštati da gore od večera do jutra Pred Gospodom vazda zakonom večnim od kolena do kolena.

4 Na svećnjak čisti nameštaće žiške pred Gospodom vazda.

5 I uzmi belog brašna, i ispeci dvanaest kolača, svaki kolač da bude od dve desetine efe.

6 I postavi ih u dva reda, po šest u jedan red, na čistom stolu pred Gospodom.

7 I na svaki red metni kada čistog, da bude za svaki hleb spomen, žrtva ognjena Gospodu.

8 Svake subote neka ih postavlja sveštenik pred Gospodom vazda uzimajući od sinova Izrailjevih zakonom večnim.

9 I biće Aronovi i sinova njegovih, koji će jesti na mestu svetom, jer im je svetinja nad svetinjama od ognjenih žrtava Gospodnjih zakonom večnim.

10 A izađe sin jedne Izrailjke, kome je otac bio Misirac, među sinove Izrailjeve, i svadi se u logoru sin žene Izrailjke s nekim Izrailjcem.

11 I psujući sin žene Izrailjke pohuli na ime Božije, te ga dovedoše k Mojsiju; a mati mu beše po imenu Salomita, kći Davrijina, od plemena Danovog.

12 I metnuše ga u zatvor dokle im se kaže šta će činiti s njim po reči Gospodnjoj.

13 A Gospod reče Mojsiju govoreći:

14 Izvedi tog psovača napolje iz logora, i neka svi koji su čuli metnu ruke svoje na glavu njegovu, i neka ga sav narod zaspe kamenjem.

15 A sinovima Izrailjevim kaži i reci: Ko bi god pohulio Boga svog, nosiće greh svoj.

16 Ko bi ružio ime Gospodnje, da se pogubi, sav narod da ga zaspe kamenjem; i došljak i domorodac koji bi ružio ime Gospodnje, da se pogubi.

17 I ko ubije čoveka, da se pogubi.

18 A ko ubije živinče, neka vrati drugo, živinče za živinče.

19 I ko rani bližnjeg svog, kako učini tako da mu bude:

20 Ulom za ulom, oko za oko, zub za zub; kako ošteti telo čoveku, onako da mu se učini.

21 Ko ubije živinče, da vrati drugo; ali ko ubije čoveka, da se pogubi.

22 Zakon da vam je jedan, došljaku da bude kao i rođenom u zemlji. Jer sam ja Gospod Bog vaš.

23 I Mojsije kaza sinovima Izrailjevim, a oni izvedoše psovača napolje iz logora, i zasuše ga kamenjem; i učiniše sinovi Izrailjevi kako Gospod zapovedi Mojsiju.

   

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468. And his feet like pillars of fire. This symbolizes the Lord's Divinity on the natural plane in respect to His Divine love, which sustains all things.

This, too, is apparent, from the explanation in no. 49 above, where it is said of the Son of Man that "His feet were like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace."

The angel's feet looked like pillars of fire because the Lord's Divinity on the natural plane - which fundamentally is the Divine humanity that He took on in the world - supports His Divinity from eternity, as the body does the soul, and likewise as the Word's natural meaning supports its spiritual and celestial meanings, on which subject see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 27-49. To be shown that feet symbolize something natural, see no. 49, and a pillar something that supports, no. 191.

Fire symbolizes love because spiritual fire is nothing else. Therefore it is customary in worship to pray that heavenly fire, that is to say, heavenly love, may kindle the worshipers' hearts. People know that there is a correspondence between fire and love from the fact that a person grows warm with love, and cold with its loss. Nothing else produces vital warmth but love, in both senses. The origin of these correspondences is owing to the existence of two suns, one in the heavens, which is pure love, and the other in the world, which is nothing but fire. This, too, is the reason for the correspondence between all spiritual and natural things.

[2] Since fire symbolizes Divine love, therefore on Mount Horeb Jehovah appeared to Moses in a bush on fire (Exodus 3:1-3). Moreover He descended upon Mount Sinai in fire (Deuteronomy 4:36). For this reason, too, the seven lamps of the lampstand in the Tabernacle were lit every evening, so as to burn before Jehovah (Leviticus 24:2-4). For the same reason fire burned continually on the altar and was not extinguished (Leviticus 6:13), and the priests took fire from the altar in their censers and burned incense (Leviticus 16:12-13).

Therefore Jehovah went before the children of Israel by night in a pillar of fire (Exodus 13:21-22). Fire from heaven consumed the burnt offerings on the altar, as a sign of His being well pleased (Leviticus 9:24, 1 Kings 18:38). The burnt offerings were called offerings by fire to Jehovah, and offerings by fire for a restful aroma to Jehovah (Exodus 29:18; Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17; 2:2, 9-11; 3:5, 16; 4:35; 5:12; 7:30; 21:6; Numbers 28:2; Deuteronomy 18:1).

Therefore in the book of Revelation the Lord's eyes looked like a flame of fire (Revelation 1:14; 2:18; 19:12, cf. Daniel 10:5-6). And seven lamps of fire burned before the throne (Revelation 4:5).

It is apparent from this what lamps containing oil and lamps without oil symbolize (Matthew 25:1-11). The oil means fire, and thus love.

And so on in many other places.

In an opposite sense fire symbolizes hellish love, and this is plain from so many passages in the Word that it would be impossible to cite them all because of their number. See something on the subject in the book Heaven and Hell, published in London, nos. 566-575.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.