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Levítico 7

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1 Asimismo ésta será la ley de la expiación de la culpa; será cosa santísima.

2 En el lugar donde degollaren el holocausto, degollarán la expiación de la culpa; y rociará su sangre en derredor sobre el altar.

3 Y de ella ofrecerá todo su sebo, la cola, y el sebo que cubre los intestinos.

4 Y los dos riñones, y el sebo que está sobre ellos, y el que está sobre los ijares; y con los riñones quitará el redaño de sobre el hígado.

5 Y el sacerdote hará de ello perfume sobre el altar en ofrenda encendida al SEÑOR; y ésta será expiación de la culpa.

6 Todo varón de entre los sacerdotes la comerá; será comida en el lugar santo; porque es cosa santísima.

7 Como la expiación por el pecado, así será la expiación de la culpa; una misma ley tendrán; será del sacerdote que habrá hecho la reconciliación con ella.

8 Y el sacerdote que ofreciere holocausto de alguno, el cuero del holocausto que ofreciere, será del sacerdote.

9 Asimismo todo presente que se cociere en horno, y todo el que fuere aderezado en sartén, o en cazuela, será del sacerdote que lo ofreciere.

10 Y todo presente amasado con aceite, y seco, será de todos los hijos de Aarón, tanto al uno como al otro.

11 Y ésta será la ley del sacrificio de la paz, que se ofrecerá al SEÑOR:

12 Si se ofreciere en hacimiento de gracias, ofrecerá por sacrificio de hacimiento de gracias tortas sin levadura amasadas con aceite, y hojaldres sin levadura untadas con aceite, y flor de harina frita en tortas amasadas con aceite.

13 Con tortas de pan leudo ofrecerá su ofrenda en el sacrificio de hacimiento de gracias de sus paz.

14 Y de toda la ofrenda presentará una parte por ofrenda elevada al SEÑOR, y será del sacerdote que rociare la sangre de los sacrificios de paz.

15 Mas la carne de su sacrificio de la paz para hacimiento de gracias, se comerá en el día que fuere ofrecida; no dejarán de ella nada para otro día.

16 Mas si el sacrificio de su ofrenda fuere voto, o voluntario, el día que ofreciere su sacrificio será comido; y lo que de él quedare, se comerá al día siguiente;

17 y lo que quedare para el tercer día de la carne del sacrificio, será quemado en el fuego.

18 Y si se comiere de la carne de su sacrificio de paz el tercer día, el que lo ofreciere no será acepto, ni le será imputado; abominación será, y la persona que de él comiere llevará su pecado.

19 Y la carne que tocare alguna cosa inmunda, no se comerá; al fuego será quemada; mas toda persona limpia comerá de esta carne.

20 Y la persona que comiere la carne del sacrificio de paz, el cual es del SEÑOR, estando inmunda, aquella persona será cortada de su pueblo.

21 Además, la persona que tocare alguna cosa inmunda, en inmundicia de hombre, o en animal inmundo, o en cualquiera abominación inmunda, y comiere de la carne del sacrificio de la paz, el cual es del SEÑOR, aquella persona será cortada de su pueblo.

22 Habló aún el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

23 Habla a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Ningún sebo de buey, ni de cordero, ni de cabra, comeréis.

24 El sebo de animal mortecino, y el sebo del que fue arrebatado de fieras , se aparejará para cualquiera otro uso, mas no lo comeréis.

25 Porque cualquiera que comiere sebo de animal, del cual se ofrece al SEÑOR ofrenda encendida, la persona que lo comiere, será cortada de su pueblo.

26 Además, ninguna sangre comeréis en todas vuestras habitaciones, así de aves como de bestias.

27 Cualquiera persona que comiere alguna sangre, la tal persona será cortada de su pueblo.

28 Habló más el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

29 Habla a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: El que ofreciere su sacrificio de paz al SEÑOR, traerá su ofrenda del sacrificio de su paz al SEÑOR;

30 sus manos traerán las ofrendas que se han de quemar al SEÑOR; traerá el sebo con el pecho; el pecho para mecerlo, como sacrificio de mecedura delante del SEÑOR;

31 y del sebo hará perfume el sacerdote en el altar, mas el pecho será de Aarón y de sus hijos.

32 Y daréis al sacerdote para ser elevada en ofrenda, la espaldilla derecha de los sacrificios de vuestra paz.

33 El que de los hijos de Aarón ofreciere la sangre de la paz, y el sebo, de él será en porción la espaldilla derecha;

34 porque he tomado de los hijos de Israel, de sus sacrificios de paz, el pecho de la mecedura, y la espaldilla de la apartadura, y lo he dado a Aarón el sacerdote y a sus hijos, por estatuto perpetuo de los hijos de Israel.

35 Esta es la unción de Aarón y la unción de sus hijos, de las ofrendas encendidas al SEÑOR, desde el día en que él los allegó para ser sacerdotes del SEÑOR;

36 las cuales porciones mandó El SEÑOR que les diesen, desde el día en que él los ungió de entre los hijos de Israel, por estatuto perpetuo por sus generaciones.

37 Esta es la ley del holocausto, del presente, de la expiación por el pecado, y de la expiación de la culpa, y de las consagraciones, y del sacrificio de la paz;

38 la cual mandó el SEÑOR a Moisés, en el monte de Sinaí, el día que mandó a los hijos de Israel que ofreciesen sus ofrendas al SEÑOR en el desierto de Sinaí.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9965

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9965. 'That they may not bear iniquity and die' means the elimination of the whole of worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'bearing the iniquity', when the subject is the priestly office of Aaron and his sons, as a removal or shifting away of falsities and evils with those who are governed by good derived from the Lord, dealt with above in 9937. But when it speaks of them 'bearing iniquity and dying' the elimination of the whole of worship is meant, see 9928; for the representative worship died because nothing of it appeared any longer in heaven. The situation in all this may become clear from what has been stated and shown above in 9959-9961. They also died when they did not act in accordance with the statutes, 1 as is evident from Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu, who were devoured by fire from heaven when they did not take the fire of the altar to burn incense but foreign 2 fire, Leviticus 10:1-2ff. 'The fire of the altar' represented God's love, thus love from the Lord, whereas 'foreign fire' represented love from hell. The elimination of worship was meant by their burning incense with this fire and their consequent death. For the meaning of 'fire' as love, see 5215, 6832, 7324, 7575, 7852.

[2] Many places in the Word state that they would bear iniquity when they did not do things in accordance with the statutes, and by this was meant damnation because sins had not been removed. Not that they themselves were condemned on account of disobeying the statutes. Rather by doing so they eliminated representative worship and in so doing represented the damnation of those who remain in their sins. For none are condemned because they fail in their performance of outward religious observances, only because of evils in the heart, thus because of failing in such observances as a result of evil in the heart. This is what 'bearing iniquity' means in the following places: In Moses,

If a soul sins and acts against any of Jehovah's commandments regarding what ought not to be done, 3 though he does not know it, yet he will be guilty and will bear his iniquity. Leviticus 5:17-18.

Here the retention of evils and consequent damnation should not be understood literally by 'bearing iniquity', although that is the spiritual meaning; for it says 'though he does not know it', implying that what the person has done does not spring from evil in the heart.

[3] In the same author,

If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, the one offering it will not be accepted. It is an abomination, and the soul that eats it will bear his iniquity, and will be cut off from his people. Leviticus 7:18; 19:7-8.

Here also 'bearing iniquity' means remaining in his sins and being as a result in a state of damnation. It does so not because the person ate some of his sacrifice on the third day, but because 'eating it on the third day' represented something abominable, namely an action leading to damnation. Thus 'bearing iniquity and being cut off from his people' represented the damnation of those who performed the abomination meant by that deed. Nevertheless there was no condemnation on account of his having eaten it, for interior evils that were represented are what condemn, not exterior actions in which those evils are not present.

[4] In the same author,

Every soul who eats a carcass 4 or that which has been torn, and does not wash his clothes and bathe his flesh shall bear his iniquity. Leviticus 17:15-16.

Since 'eating a carcass or that which has been torn' represented making evil or falsity one's own, the expression 'bearing iniquity' also has a representative meaning. In the same author,

If a man who is clean fails to keep the Passover, this soul shall be cut off from his people, because he did not bring the offering of Jehovah at its appointed time; he shall bear his sin. Numbers 9:13.

'The Passover' represented deliverance by the Lord from damnation, 7093 (end), 7867, 7995, 9286-9292; and 'the Passover supper' represented being joined to the Lord through the good of love, 7836, 7997, 8001. And since these things were represented it was decreed that anyone who did not keep the Passover should be cut off from his people and that he should bear his sin. The failure to keep it was not really so great a crime; rather it represented those who at heart refuse to accept the Lord and consequently deliverance from sins, and so who have no wish to be joined to Him through love. Thus it represented their damnation.

[5] In the same author,

The children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, or else they will bear iniquity and die. 5 Levites shall perform the work of the tent of meeting, and these shall bear the iniquity. Numbers 18:22-23.

The reason why the people would bear iniquity and die if they were to go near the tent of meeting to do the work there was that they would thereby eliminate the representative worship assigned to the function of the priests. The function of the priests or the priestly office represented the Lord's entire work of salvation, 9809; and this is why it says that the Levites, who also were priests, should bear the people's iniquity, by which expiation or atonement was meant, that is, removal from evils and falsities with those who are governed by good derived from the Lord alone, 9937. 'Bearing iniquity' means real damnation when this expression is used in reference to those who perform evil deeds because their heart is evil, such as those mentioned in Leviticus 20:17, 19-20; 24:15-16; Ezekiel 18:20; 23:49; and elsewhere.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. the laws of worship; see 8972.

2. i.e. unauthorized or profane

3. literally, and does one of [all] Jehovah's commandments [about] things which ought not to be done

4. i.e. an animal that had not been slaughtered but had died naturally

5. literally, to bear iniquity, dying

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