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Levítico 6

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1 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

2 Cuando una persona pecare, e hiciere prevaricación contra el SEÑOR, y negare a su prójimo lo encomendado o dejado en su mano, o bien robare, o calumniare a su prójimo;

3 o sea que hallando lo perdido, después lo negare, y jurare en falso, en alguna de todas aquellas cosas en que suele pecar el hombre;

4 entonces será que cuando se expiare y reconciliare, restituirá aquello que robó, o por el daño de la calumnia, o el depósito que se le encomendó, o lo perdido que halló,

5 o todo aquello sobre que hubiere jurado falsamente; lo restituirá, pues, por entero, y añadirá a ello la quinta parte, para aquel a quien pertenece, y pagará el día de su expiación.

6 Y por su expiación traerá al SEÑOR un carnero sin tacha de los rebaños, conforme a tu estimación, al sacerdote para la expiación.

7 Y el sacerdote lo reconciliará delante del SEÑOR, y tendrá perdón de cualquiera de todas las cosas, en que suele ofender.

8 Habló aún el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

9 Manda a Aarón y a sus hijos diciendo: Esta es la ley del holocausto: (es holocausto, porque se quema sobre el altar toda la noche hasta la mañana, y el fuego del altar ardirá en él:)

10 El sacerdote se pondrá su vestimenta de lino, y se vestirá pañetes de lino sobre su carne; y cuando el fuego hubiere consumido el holocausto, él apartará las cenizas de sobre el altar, y las pondrá junto al altar.

11 Después se desnudará de sus vestimentas, y se pondrá otras vestiduras, y sacará las cenizas fuera del real al lugar limpio.

12 Y el fuego encendido sobre el altar no se apagará, sino que el sacerdote pondrá en él leña cada mañana, y acomodará sobre él el holocausto, y quemará sobre él los sebos de la paz.

13 El fuego ardirá continuamente en el altar; no se apagará.

14 Y ésta es la ley del presente: Lo ofrecerán los hijos de Aarón delante del SEÑOR, delante del altar.

15 Y tomará de él un puñado de la flor de harina del presente, y de su aceite, y todo el incienso que estará sobre el presente, y hará perfume sobre el altar en olor de reposo al SEÑOR por memoria.

16 Y el sobrante de ella lo comerán Aarón y sus hijos; sin levadura se comerá en el lugar santo; en el atrio del tabernáculo del testimonio lo comerán.

17 No se cocerá con levadura; lo he dado a ellos por su porción de mis ofrendas encendidas; es cosa santísima, como la expiación del pecado, y como la expiación de la culpa.

18 Todos los varones de los hijos de Aarón comerán de ella. Estatuto perpetuo será para vuestras generaciones tocante a las ofrendas encendidas del SEÑOR; toda cosa que tocare en ellas será santificada.

19 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

20 Esta será la ofrenda de Aarón y de sus hijos, que ofrecerán al SEÑOR el día que serán ungidos: la décima parte de un efa de flor de harina, presente perpetuo, la mitad a la mañana y la mitad a la tarde.

21 En sartén se aderezará con aceite; frita la traerás, y los pedazos cocidos del presente ofrecerás al SEÑOR en olor muy aceptable.

22 Y el sacerdote ungido en su lugar, de entre sus hijos, hará la ofrenda ; estatuto perpetuo del SEÑOR: toda se quemará en perfume.

23 Y todo presente de sacerdote será enteramente quemado; no se comerá.

24 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

25 Habla a Aarón y a sus hijos, diciendo: Esta será la ley de la expiación del pecado ; en el lugar donde será degollado el holocausto, será degollada la expiación por el pecado delante del SEÑOR; porque es cosa santísima.

26 El sacerdote que la ofreciere por expiación, la comerá; en el lugar santo será comida, en el atrio del tabernáculo del testimonio.

27 Todo lo que en su carne tocare, será santificado; y si cayere de su sangre sobre el vestido, lavarás aquello sobre que cayere, en el lugar santo.

28 Y el vaso de barro en que fuere cocida, será quebrado; y si fuere cocida en vaso de bronce, será fregado y lavado con agua.

29 Todo varón de entre los sacerdotes la comerá: es cosa santísima.

30 Mas no se comerá de expiación alguna, de cuya sangre se metiere en el tabernáculo del testimonio para reconciliar en el santuario: al fuego será quemada.

   

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1159. And all things fat and splendid have departed from thee.- That this signifies that all goods and truths, and things auspicious and magnificent, which they have persuaded themselves, they would be able to acquire by means of that religion, are changed into the contrary, is evident from the signification of fat things, which denote goods and auspicious things therefrom, of which we shall speak presently; and from the signification of things splendid, which denote truths and things magnificent therefrom. The reason why this is the signification of things splendid, is, that splendour is the result of light, and the light of heaven is Divine Truth or Divine Wisdom, which is the cause of all things in the heavens shining with a splendour unknown in the world. It may be compared with the brilliancy of a diamond turned to the sun, but the splendour seen in heaven far exceeds this, just as the light of heaven exceeds the light of the world, the difference between which is so great, that while it may be illustrated by comparisons, yet it cannot be described. All the magnificent things of heaven, exist from that light, and these chiefly consist of forms corresponding to wisdom, which are such that in the world they can neither be pictured nor described. For in them art itself is in its art, and science is in its wisdom, consequently they are of ineffable beauty. It is evident from these facts why things splendid signify truths and thence things magnificent.

[2] The reason why fat things signify goods and auspicious things therefrom, is, that the fat is the best part of flesh, and that it is like oil, which signifies the good of love. That fatness signifies good and those things that belong to it, thus happiness and joys, is clear from the following passages in the Word.

In Isaiah:

"Attending attend unto me, eat ye good, that your soul may be delighted in fatness" (55:2).

To eat good signifies to appropriate good to themselves; thence by delighting in fatness is signified to be in a state of happiness and blessedness.

In Jeremiah:

"I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with good" (31:14).

Here also fatness signifies happiness and blessing from the good of love.

In David:

"My soul shall be satisfied with fat and fatness, and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips" (Psalm 63:5).

The soul being satisfied with fat and fatness, signifies to be filled with the good of love and with joy therefrom. To praise with joyful lips signifies to worship by means of truths which gladden the mind.

Again:

"Thy houses shall be filled with fatness, and thou shalt cause them to drink of the stream of delights" (Psalm 36:8).

The fatness with which the houses shall be filled, signifies the good of love, and happiness therefrom, houses denoting things pertaining to the mind. The river of the delights, of which they shall drink, signifies intelligence and happiness therefrom.

[3] In Isaiah:

"In this mountain shall Jehovah Zebaoth make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow and of wine on the lees well refined" (25:6).

These things are said concerning the state of those who would acknowledge and adore the Lord. By that mountain is signified a new church from them; by the feast of fat things, of fat things full of marrow, is signified good both natural and spiritual with joy of heart; and by the lees, lees well refined, are signified truths from that good with the happiness therefrom.

In the same prophet:

"Jehovah shall give the rain of thy seed, with which thou shalt sow the earth, and bread of the produce of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous" (30:23).

The rain of seed signifies the multiplication of truth; and bread of produce the fructification of good. By fat and plenteous is signified good and truth with all its satisfaction and happiness.

In David:

"As yet they shall have increase in old age, they shall be fat and green, to show that Jehovah is right" (Psalm 92:14, 15).

To be fat and green signifies to be in goods and truths of doctrine.

Again:

"Jehovah shall remember all thy offerings and shall make fat thy burnt offering" (Psalm 20:3).

By offerings and burnt offering is signified worship, and by making it fat is signified that it is from the good of love.

The signification of fatness in Ezekiel 34:3; Genesis 27:39, and elsewhere is similar. Because fat and fatness signify the good of love, and because all worship, which is truly worship, must be from the good of love, therefore it was a law that all the fat in the sacrifices should be burnt upon the altar (Exodus 29:13, 22; Leviticus 1:8; 3:3-16; 4:8-35; 7:3, 4, 30, 31; 17:6; Numbers 18:17, 18); for the sacrifices and burnt offerings signified worship.

[4] Since the Jews and Israelites were only in external worship, and not at the same time in internal worship, and not therefore in any good of love, or in any good of charity and faith, they were therefore prohibited from eating fat and blood, and it was a law that if they ate these, they should be cut off (Leviticus 3:17; 7:23, 25). But to those who are in internal worship, and thence in external worship - as those will be who shall belong to the Lord's New Church - it is said, that they shall eat fat to fulness, and drink blood to drunkenness (ebrietas) (Ezekiel 39:19). Fat there signifies all the good of heaven and of the church, and blood all the truth of these. In the opposite sense the fat ones signify those who loathe good and who utterly despise and reject it (Deuteronomy 32:15; Jeremiah 5:28; 50:11; Psalm 17:10; 20:4; 68:31; 119:70; and elsewhere).

[5] Continuation.- Such, however, is not the lot of those who are continually evil, for these are in hell according to the loves of their life. There they think, and from their thought, speak, although they utter falsities; they also will, and, from their will they act, although their actions are evil. They appear, moreover to one another as men, although in the light of heaven they are of a monstrous form. It is therefore evident, why it is in accordance with a law of order relating to reformation, and called a law of Divine Providence, that a man is admitted into the truths of faith and the goods of love, only so far as he can be withheld from evils and kept in goods to the end of his life and that it is better that he should be always evil, than that he should be good and afterwards evil; for in this case he becomes profane. The Lord, who both provides and foresees all things, for this reason conceals the operations of His Providence, and to such a degree that man scarcely knows whether there is any providence at all. He permits him rather to attribute ordinary events to prudence, and contingencies to fortune, and even to ascribe many things to nature, rather than that, through any striking and manifest signs of the Divine Providence and Presence, he should plunge unreasonably into the midst of holy things in which he would not remain. The Lord also permits similar things in accordance with other laws of His Providence, namely, that man should enjoy freedom, and that in all that he does he should act according to reason, thus entirely as if from himself. For it is better that he should ascribe the operations of the Divine Providence to prudence and fortune, than that he should acknowledge them, and still live as a devil. From these facts it is evident that the laws of permission, which are numerous, proceed from the laws of Providence.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.