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Levítico 22

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1 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

2 Di a Aarón y a sus hijos, que se abstengan de las santificaciones de los hijos de Israel, y que no ensucien mi santo nombre en lo que ellos me santifican. Yo soy el SEÑOR.

3 Diles: Todo varón de toda vuestra simiente en vuestras generaciones que llegare a las santificaciones, que los hijos de Israel santifican al SEÑOR, teniendo inmundicia sobre sí, de delante de mí será cortada su alma. Yo soy el SEÑOR.

4 Cualquier varón de la simiente de Aarón que fuere leproso, o padeciere flujo de simiente, no comerá de las santificaciones hasta que esté limpio; y el que tocare cualquiera cosa inmunda de mortecino, o el varón del cual hubiere salido derramamiento de semen;

5 o el varón que hubiere tocado cualquier reptil, por el cual será inmundo, u hombre por el cual venga a ser inmundo, conforme a cualquiera inmundicia suya;

6 la persona que lo tocare, será inmunda hasta la tarde, y no comerá de las santificaciones, antes que haya lavado su carne con agua.

7 Y cuando el sol se pusiere, será purificado; y después comerá de las santificaciones, porque su pan es.

8 Mortecino ni despedazado por fiera no comerá, para contaminarse en ello. Yo soy el SEÑOR.

9 Guarden, pues, mi observancia, y no lleven pecado por ello, y mueran por ello cuando la profanaren. Yo soy el SEÑOR que los santifico.

10 Ningún extraño comerá santificación; el huésped del sacerdote, ni el jornalero, no comerá santificación.

11 Mas el sacerdote, cuando comprare persona de su dinero, ésta comerá de ella, y el nacido en su casa; éstos comerán de su pan.

12 Pero la hija del sacerdote, cuando se casare con varón extraño, ella no comerá de la apartadura de las santificaciones.

13 Mas si la hija del sacerdote fuere viuda, o repudiada, y no tuviere prole, y se hubiere vuelto a la casa de su padre, como en su juventud, comerá del pan de su padre; pero ningún extraño coma de él.

14 Y el que por yerro comiere santificación, añadirá a ella su quinto, y lo dará al sacerdote con la ofrenda que comió.

15 No contaminarán, pues, las santificaciones de los hijos de Israel, las cuales apartan para el SEÑOR;

16 ni les harán llevar la iniquidad del pecado, comiendo las santificaciones de ellos. Porque yo el SEÑOR soy el que los santifico.

17 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

18 Habla a Aarón y a sus hijos, y a todos los hijos de Israel, y diles: Cualquier varón de la Casa de Israel, o de los extranjeros en Israel, que ofreciere su ofrenda por todos sus votos, y por todas sus ofrendas voluntarias, que ofrecieren al SEÑOR en holocausto;

19 de vuestra voluntad ofreceréis macho sin defecto de entre las vacas, de entre los corderos, o de entre las cabras.

20 Ninguna cosa en que haya falta ofreceréis, porque no será acepto por vosotros.

21 Asimismo, cuando alguno ofreciere sacrificio de paz al SEÑOR para presentar voto, u ofreciendo voluntariamente, de vacas o de ovejas, sin tacha será acepto.

22 Ciego, o perniquebrado, o mutilado, o verrugoso, o sarnoso o roñoso, no ofreceréis éstos al SEÑOR, ni de ellos pondréis ofrenda encendida sobre el altar del SEÑOR.

23 Buey o carnero que tenga de más o de menos, podrás ofrecer por ofrenda voluntaria; mas por voto no será acepto.

24 Herido o magullado, roto o cortado, no ofreceréis al SEÑOR, ni en vuestra tierra lo haréis.

25 Y de mano de hijo de extranjero no ofreceréis el pan de vuestro Dios de todas estas cosas; porque su corrupción está en ellas; hay en ellas falta, no se os aceptarán.

26 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

27 El buey, o el cordero, o la cabra, cuando naciere, siete días estará mamando de su madre; mas desde el octavo día en adelante será acepto para ofrenda de sacrificio encendido al SEÑOR.

28 Y sea buey o carnero, no degollaréis en un día a él y a su hijo.

29 Y cuando ofreciereis sacrificio de acción de gracias al SEÑOR, de vuestra voluntad lo sacrificaréis.

30 En el mismo día se comerá; no dejaréis de él para otro día. Yo soy el SEÑOR.

31 Guardad pues mis mandamientos, y ponedlos por obra. Yo soy el SEÑOR.

32 Y no ensuciéis mi santo nombre, y yo me santificaré en medio de los hijos de Israel. Yo soy el SEÑOR que os santifico;

33 que os saqué de la tierra de Egipto, para ser vuestro Dios. Yo soy el SEÑOR.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5828

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5828. 'And I said, He has surely been torn to pieces' means a perception that it was destroyed by evils and falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' as perception, dealt with often; and from the meaning of 'being torn to pieces as being destroyed by evils and internal good represented by 'Joseph' was destroyed, 5805. 'Being torn to pieces' has this meaning because no other kind of tearing to pieces takes place in the spiritual world than that of good by evils and falsities. It is the same with death and anything having to do with death, by which is meant in the spiritual sense not natural death but spiritual death, which is damnation. No other kind of death occurs in the spiritual world. So too with 'a tearing to pieces'. This does not mean in the spiritual sense the kind of tearing to pieces that wild animals engage in, but the tearing to pieces of good by evils and falsities. Also, in the spiritual sense, 'wild animals that tear to pieces' means evil desires and derivative false ideas; and such ideas are also represented in the next life by wild animals.

[2] The good which constantly comes from the Lord to a person is destroyed by nothing other than evils and derivative falsities, and by falsities and consequent evils. For as soon as that constantly inflowing good, coming by way of the internal man, reaches the external or natural man it encounters evil and falsity, which - acting like wild animals - employ various methods to tear apart and annihilate that good. For that reason the inflow of good by way of the internal man is blocked and halted, and the interior mind through which the inflow comes is consequently closed. Only as much of what is spiritual is allowed through as will enable the natural man to reason and speak, though he does so in terms that are solely earthly, bodily, and worldly, either in opposition to what is good and true, or else in keeping with such but in a false or deceitful way.

[3] It is a universal law that an inflow adjusts itself to the outflow, and if the outflow is blocked, so is the inflow. Through the internal man there is an inflow of good and truth from the Lord, and through the external there should be an outflow, an outflow into life, that is, in the exercise of charity. As long as that outflow is taking place the inflow from heaven, that is, from the Lord by way of heaven, is continuous. If however no outflow takes place but something stands in the way in the external or natural man, namely evil and falsity which tear the inflowing good to pieces and annihilate it, it follows from the universal law mentioned above that the inflow adjusts itself to the outflow. All this being so, the inflow of good holds itself back and accordingly closes the internal through which the inflow comes; and that closing of it leads to stupidity in spiritual matters, which is so great that the person who is like this neither knows nor wishes to know anything at all about eternal life. At length he becomes so senseless that he raises falsity as an obstacle to truth, calling falsities truths and truths falsities, and raises evil as an obstacle to good, regarding evils as forms of good and forms of good as evils. In this way he tears good completely to pieces.

[4] The word 'torn' occurs in various places in the Word, the proper meaning of which is falsities that arise from evils, while that which is destroyed by evils is called 'a carcass'. When however the expression 'torn' is used by itself, both ideas are meant since the one includes the meaning carried by the other. It is different when the one is referred to together with the other, because in that case a distinction is being made. Since what had been torn meant in the spiritual sense what had been destroyed by falsities arising from evils, people were forbidden in the representative Church to eat anything torn. They would never have been forbidden to eat it if that spiritual evil had not been meant in heaven. Apart from this, what evil could have lain in eating flesh torn by a wild animal?

[5] Regarding their not eating anything torn the following is stated in Moses,

The fat of a carcass and the fat of that which has been torn may be put to any use, provided that you do not eat it at all. Leviticus 7:24.

In the same author,

He shall not eat a carcass or that which has been torn, to be defiled by it. I am Jehovah. Leviticus 12:8.

In the same author,

You shall be men who are sanctified to Me; therefore you shall not eat flesh torn in the field, you shall throw it to the dogs. Exodus 21:31.

In Ezekiel,

Ah Lord Jehovih! The prophet says, Behold, my soul has not been polluted, and from my youth even till now I have not eaten any carcass or that which has been torn, so that abominable flesh has not come into my mouth. Ezekiel 4:14.

From these quotations it is evident that it was an abomination to eat what had been torn, not because it had been torn but because a tearing to pieces of good by falsities arising from evils was meant, 'a carcass' on the other hand being the death of good caused by evils.

[6] A tearing to pieces of good by falsities and evils is also meant in the internal sense of the following places in David,

The wicked is like a lion, he desires to tear, and like a young lion who sits in hiding-places. Psalms 17:12.

Elsewhere,

They opened their mouth against me - a lion tearing and roaring. Psalms 22:13.

And in yet another place,

Lest like a lion they seize my soul, tearing it to pieces and there is none to deliver. Psalms 7:1.

'A lion' stands for those who lay waste the Church. Above, where Joseph was the subject - at the point where he was sold by his brothers, and his tunic, which had been dipped in blood, was sent to his father - his father too said at that time,

My son's tunic! An evil wild animal has devoured him; Joseph has been torn to pieces. Genesis 37:33.

'His having been torn to pieces' means being scattered by falsities arising from evils, see 4777.

  
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