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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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10109. And they shall eat those things wherein expiation was made. That this signifies the appropriation of good with those who are purified from evils and the falsities thence derived, is evident from the signification of “eating,” as being appropriation (see above, n. 10106); and from the signification of “expiated,” as being that which has been purified from evils and the falsities thence derived (n. 9506). It is said “purified from evils and the falsities thence derived,” because there are falsities, and also truths, with those who are in evil; and likewise falsities and truths with those who are in good; the falsities with those who are in evil are falsities of evil, and the truths with them are truths falsified, which are dead; but the falsities with those who are in good are accepted as truths, for they are rendered mild by good, and are applied to good uses; and the truths with such persons are truths of good, which are living. (Concerning both kinds of falsity and truth, see what was shown in n. 2243, 2408, 2863, 4736, 4822, 6359, 7272, 7437, 7574, 7577, 8051, 8137, 8138, 8149, 8298, 8311, 8318, 9258, 9298)

[2] As by “eating holy things wherein expiation was made” is signified the appropriation of good with those who have been purified from evils and the falsities thence derived, it was therefore strictly forbidden that any unclean person should eat of them, for by “uncleanness” is signified defilement from evils and the falsities thence derived. For the case herein is that so long as a man is in evils and in the falsities thence derived, it is impossible for any good to be appropriated to him, for evil ascends from hell, and good descends from heaven; and where hell is, there heaven cannot be, because they are diametrically opposite. In order therefore that heaven, that is, good from heaven, may have room, hell must be removed, that is, evil from hell; from which it can be seen that good cannot possibly be appropriated to man so long as he is in evil. By the appropriation of good is meant the implantation of good in the will, for good cannot be said to be appropriated to man until it becomes of his will, because the will of man is the man himself, and his understanding is only so far the man as it partakes of the will. For that which is of the will belongs to the man’s love, and from this to his life, because that which a man wills he loves and also calls good, and moreover when it is done, he feels it as good. The case is otherwise with those things which are of the understanding, and not at the same time of the will. Be it also known that by the appropriation of good with man is meant only the capability to receive good from the Lord, with which capability he is endowed by regeneration; hence the good with a man is not the man’s, but is the Lord’s with him, and the man is held in it so far as he suffers himself to be withheld from evils. As good cannot be appropriated, that is, communicated to man, so long as he is in evil, it was therefore forbidden that any unclean person should eat the flesh and bread of the sacrifice, for by such an eating was represented the appropriation of good, as has been said above.

[3] That the unclean were forbidden under penalty of death to eat of the sanctified things, is evident in Moses:

Everyone that is clean shall eat of the flesh; but the soul that should eat of the flesh of the sacrifices, having his uncleanness upon him, shall be cut off from his peoples. The soul that hath touched any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any unclean creeping thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the eucharistic sacrifice, shall be cut off from the peoples (Leviticus 7:19-21).

All these external uncleannesses represented internal uncleannesses, which are evils pertaining to man, and such evils as are of his will, appropriated by actual life.

[4] This is further described in another passage in Moses:

Whatsoever man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or suffereth from an issue, shall not eat of the holy things even until he has been cleansed. Whoso hath touched anything unclean on account of soul, the man from whom hath gone forth seed of copulation, or the man who hath touched any creeping thing, with which he is defiled, or a man with whom he may himself be defiled in respect to all his uncleanness, the soul which hath touched it shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things; but when he hath washed his flesh with water, and the sun hath set, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because this is his bread. No stranger shall eat of the holy thing; a lodger of the priest, or a hireling, shall not eat of the holy thing. If a priest shall buy a soul with the purchase of his silver, he can eat of it; and he that is born of his house, they shall eat of his bread. When a priest’s daughter shall have married a strange man, she shall not eat of the uplifting of holy things. But if a priest’s daughter shall have become a widow, or divorced, and she hath no seed, and so shall have returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s bread (Leviticus 22:4-13).

That all these things are significative of interior things is very manifest, thus that they involve the communication and appropriation of holy things with those who are in a state for receiving. That “no stranger should eat” signifies those within the church who do not acknowledge the Lord, thus who are not in the truths and goods of the church; that “a lodger and a hireling should not be allowed to eat,” signified those who are in natural good without the good of faith, and also those who do what is good for the sake of recompense; that those who were “bought with silver” and “born in the house” should eat, signified those who are converted, and who are in the truth and good of the church from faith and love; that “a priest’s daughter married to a strange man should not eat” signified that the holy things of the church cannot be appropriated to the good which has not been conjoined with the truths of the church; but that “a widow and one that is divorced, if she had no seed, should eat,” signified the appropriation of good after those things have been removed which are not of the church, if from their conjunction nothing has been hatched or born which has been made a matter of faith. That these things are signified is plain from the internal sense of the particulars.

[5] That hereditary evils do not hinder the appropriation of good is also described in Moses:

Every man of the seed of Aaron in whom is a blemish, let him not come near to offer the bread of God; a man blind, lame, mutilated, or very tall, he who hath a fracture of foot or of hand, is hump-backed, bruised, confused of eye, scurfy, warty, or bruised in the testicle, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. But he shall eat the bread of the holies of holies and of the holy things (Leviticus 21:17-23);

by these words, as before said, are signified hereditary evils, and some specific evil by each of them. That such men should not offer bread nor come near the altar as priests, was because these blemishes-that is, these evils-thus stood forth before the people, and those things which stood forth fell into a kind of representation, as did not those which lay hidden. For although the priest, the Levite, or the people, were unclean as to their interiors, they were nevertheless called clean, and were also believed to be holy, provided they outwardly appeared washed and clean.

  
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