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Levitico 14

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1 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises, na sinasabi,

2 Ito ang magiging kautusan tungkol sa may ketong, sa kaarawan ng kaniyang paglilinis, siya'y dadalhin sa saserdote:

3 At ang saserdote ay lalabas sa kampamento; at titingnan ng saserdote, at, narito, kung ang salot na ketong ay gumaling sa may ketong;

4 Ay ipagutos nga ng saserdote na ikuha siya na lilinisin, ng dalawang ibong malinis na buhay, at kahoy na cedro, at grana, at hisopo;

5 At ipaguutos ng saserdote, na patayin ang isa sa mga ibon, sa isang sisidlang lupa sa ibabaw ng tubig na umaagos.

6 Tungkol sa ibong buhay, ay kaniyang kukunin at ang kahoy na cedro, at ang grana at ang hisopo, at babasain pati ng ibong buhay, sa dugo ng ibong pinatay sa ibabaw ng tubig na umaagos:

7 At iwiwisik niya na makapito doon sa kaniya na lilinisin sa ketong, at ipakikilalang malinis, at pawawalan ang ibong buhay sa kalawakan ng parang.

8 At siya na lilinisin ay maglalaba ng kaniyang mga suot, at magaahit ng lahat niyang buhok, at maliligo sa tubig; at magiging malinis: at pagkatapos ay papasok sa kampamento, datapuwa't tatahan sa labas ng kaniyang tolda na pitong araw.

9 At mangyayaring sa ikapitong araw, ay muling magaahit ng lahat niyang buhok, sa kaniyang ulo, at sa kaniyang baba, at sa kaniyang kilay, na anopa't aahitin niya ang lahat niyang buhok; at kaniyang lalabhan ang kaniyang mga suot, at kaniyang paliliguan ang kaniyang laman sa tubig, at magiging malinis.

10 At sa ikawalong araw ay kukuha siya ng dalawang korderong lalake na walang kapintasan, at ng isang korderong babae ng unang taon na walang kapintasan, at ng isang handog na harina na tatlong ikasangpung bahagi ng isang epa ng mainam na harina na hinaluan ng langis, at ng isang log na langis.

11 At ihaharap ang taong lilinisin ng saserdoteng naglilinis sa kaniya, at gayon din ang mga bagay na yaon, sa harap ng Panginoon, sa pintuan ng tabernakulo ng kapisanan:

12 At kukuha ang saserdote ng isa sa mga korderong lalake at ihahandog na pinakahandog sa pagkakasala, at ng log ng langis, at aalugin na pinakahandog na inalog sa harap ng Panginoon:

13 At papatayin ang korderong lalake sa pinagpapatayan ng handog dahil sa kasalanan at ng handog na susunugin, sa dako ng santuario: sapagka't kung paanong ang handog dahil sa kasalanan ay sa saserdote, gayon din ang handog dahil sa pagkakasala; bagay ngang kabanalbanalan:

14 At ang saserdote ay kukuha sa dugo ng handog dahil sa pagkakasala, at ilalagay ng saserdote sa pingol ng kanang tainga niyaong lilinisin, at sa daliring hinlalaki ng kaniyang kanang kamay, at sa daliring hinlalaki ng kaniyang kanang paa;

15 At kukuha ang saserdote sa log ng langis, at ibubuhos sa ibabaw ng palad ng kaniyang kaliwang kamay:

16 At itutubog ng saserdote ang kanang daliri niya sa langis na nasa kaniyang kaliwang kamay, at magwiwisik siyang makapito ng langis ng kaniyang daliri sa harap ng Panginoon:

17 At sa lumabis sa langis na nasa kaniyang kamay, ay maglalagay ang saserdote sa ibabaw ng pingol ng kanang tainga niyaong lilinisin, at sa daliring hinlalaki ng kaniyang kanang kamay at sa daliring hinlalaki ng kaniyang kanang paa, sa ibabaw ng dugo ng dahil sa pagkakasala:

18 At ang labis sa langis na nasa kamay ng saserdote, ay ilalagay nito sa ulo niyaong lilinisin: at itutubos sa kaniya ng saserdote sa harap ng Panginoon.

19 At ihahandog ng saserdote ang handog dahil sa kasalanan, at itutubos sa kaniya, na lilinisin dahil sa kaniyang karumihan; at pagkatapos ay papatayin ang handog na susunugin:

20 At ihahandog ng saserdote ang handog na susunugin at ang handog na harina sa ibabaw ng dambana: at itutubos sa kaniya ng saserdote, at siya'y magiging malinis.

21 At kung siya'y dukha at ang kaniyang kaya ay hindi aabot, ay kukuha nga siya ng isang korderong lalake na handog dahil sa pagkakasala, na aalugin upang itubos sa kaniya, at ng ikasampung bahagi ng isang epa na mainam na harina, na hinaluan ng langis na pinakahandog na harina, at ng isang log ng langis;

22 At ng dalawang batobato o ng dalawang inakay ng kalapati, kung alin ang aabutin ng kaniyang kaya; at ang isa'y magiging handog dahil sa kasalanan, at ang isa'y handog na susunugin.

23 At sa ikawalong araw ay kaniyang dadalhin sa saserdote sa pintuan ng tabernakulo ng kapisanan upang gamitin sa kaniyang paglilinis sa harap ng Panginoon.

24 At kukunin ng saserdote ang korderong handog dahil sa pagkakasala at ang log ng langis, at aalugin ng saserdote na pinakahandog na inalog sa harap ng Panginoon.

25 At kaniyang papatayin ang korderong handog dahil sa pagkakasala, at kukuha ang saserdote ng dugo ng handog dahil sa pagkakasala, at ilalagay sa pingol ng kanang tainga niyaong lilinisin, at sa daliring hinlalaki ng kaniyang kanang kamay, at sa daliring hinlalaki ng kaniyang kanang paa:

26 At magbubuhos ang saserdote ng langis sa ibabaw ng palad ng kaniyang kaliwang kamay:

27 At makapitong magwiwisik ang saserdote ng kaniyang kanang daliri, ng langis na nasa kaniyang kaliwang kamay, sa harap ng Panginoon:

28 At maglalagay ang saserdote ng langis na nasa kaniyang kamay, sa pingol ng kanang tainga niyaong lilinisin, at sa daliring hinlalaki ng kaniyang kanang kamay, at sa daliring hinlalaki ng kaniyang kanang paa, sa ibabaw ng pinaglagyan ng dugong handog dahil sa pagkakasala:

29 At ang labis ng langis na nasa kamay ng saserdote ay ilalagay niya sa ulo niyaong lilinisin, upang itubos sa kaniya sa harap ng Panginoon.

30 At kaniyang ihahandog ang isa sa mga batobato o sa mga inakay ng kalapati, kung alin ang kaniyang kaya;

31 Kung alin ang abutin ng kaniyang kaya, na ang isa'y handog dahil sa kasalanan, at ang isa'y handog na susunugin, pati ng handog na harina: at itutubos ng saserdote doon sa malilinis sa harap ng Panginoon.

32 Ito ang kautusan tungkol sa may salot na ketong, na ang kaniyang kaya ay hindi abot sa nauukol sa kaniyang paglilinis.

33 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises at kay Aaron, na sinasabi,

34 Pagka kayo'y nakapasok na sa lupain ng Canaan, na ibibigay kong pag-aari sa inyo, at ako'y naglagay ng salot na ketong sa alin mang bahay sa lupain ninyong inaari;

35 Ay yayaon ang may-ari ng bahay at magbibigay alam sa saserdote, na sasabihin, Tila mandin mayroong parang salot sa bahay:

36 At ipaguutos ng saserdote na alisan ng laman ang bahay bago pumasok ang saserdote na kilalanin ang tila salot, upang ang lahat na nasa bahay ay huwag mahawa: at pagkatapos ay papasok ang saserdote upang tingnan ang bahay:

37 At titingnan ang salot, at kung makita ngang ang tila salot ay nasa mga panig ng bahay na may ukit na namemerde, o namumula at tila malalim kaysa panig;

38 Ay lalabas nga ang saserdote sa bahay hanggang sa pintuan ng bahay at ipasasara ang bahay na pitong araw:

39 At babalik ang saserdote sa ikapitong araw, at titingnan: at, narito, kung makita ngang kumalat ang salot sa mga panig ng bahay;

40 Ay ipaguutos nga ng saserdote na bunutin ang mga batong kinaroonan ng tila salot at ipatatapon sa labas ng bayan sa dakong karumaldumal:

41 At ipakakayas ang palibot ng loob ng bahay, at ang argamasang inalis na kinayas ay itatapon sa labas ng bayan sa dakong karumaldumal:

42 At magsisikuha ng ibang mga bato, at ihahalili sa mga batong yaon, at magsisikuha ng ibang argamasa at siyang ihahaplos sa mga panig ng bahay.

43 At kung muling bumalik ang tila salot, at sumibol sa bahay, pagkatapos na mabunot ang mga bato; at pagkatapos makayas ang bahay, at pagkatapos na mahaplusan ng argamasa;

44 Ay papasok nga ang saserdote at titingnan, at, narito, kung makita ngang ang salot ay kumalat sa bahay ay ketong na nakakahawa sa bahay; ito'y karumaldumal.

45 At gigibain niya ang bahay na yaon, ang mga bato at ang mga kahoy, at ang lahat ng argamasa ng bahay; ay dadalhin sa labas ng bayan sa dakong karumaldumal.

46 Bukod dito'y ang pumasok sa bahay na yaon ng buong panahong nasasara ay magiging karumaldumal hanggang sa hapon.

47 At ang mahiga sa bahay na yaon ay maglalaba ng kaniyang mga suot; at ang kumain sa bahay na yaon ay maglalaba ng kaniyang mga suot.

48 At kung papasok ang saserdote, at, narito, kung hindi nga kumalat ang salot sa bahay, pagkatapos na nahaplusan ng argamasa; ay ipakikilala nga ng saserdote na malinis ang bahay, sapagka't gumaling sa salot.

49 At upang linisin ang bahay ay kukuha ng dalawang ibon, at ng kahoy na cedro, at ng grana, at ng hisopo:

50 At papatayin ang isa sa mga ibon sa isang sisidlang lupa sa ibabaw ng tubig na umaagos:

51 At kukunin niya ang kahoy na cedro, at ang hisopo, at ang grana, at ang ibong buhay, at babasain sa dugo ng ibong pinatay, at sa tubig na umaagos, at wiwisikang makapito ang bahay:

52 At kaniyang lilinisin ng dugo ng ibon ang bahay at ng agos ng tubig, at ng ibong buhay at ng kahoy na cedro, at ng hisopo, at ng grana:

53 Datapuwa't pawawalan ang ibong buhay sa labas ng bayan, sa kalawakan ng parang: gayon tutubusin ang bahay: at magiging malinis.

54 Ito ang kautusan tungkol sa sarisaring salot na ketong at sa tina,

55 At sa ketong ng suot, at ng bahay.

56 At sa pamamaga at sa langib, at sa pantal na makintab:

57 Upang ituro kung kailan karumaldumal, at kung kailan malinis: ito ang kautusan tungkol sa ketong.

   

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506. The fourth experience. 1

I saw in the spiritual world two flocks, one of goats, the other of sheep. I wondered who they were, since I knew that when animals are seen in the spiritual world, they are not animals, but correspondences of the affections and from these the thoughts of those who are there. So I went nearer, and as I approached, the likenesses of animals disappeared, and I saw human beings in their place. It became clear that those who made up the flock of goats were those who had convinced themselves of the doctrine of justification by faith alone, and those who made up the flock of sheep were those who believed that charity and faith are one, just as good and truth are one.

[2] Then I spoke with those who had appeared like goats and said: 'Why have you met together?' Most were clergy who had prided themselves on their reputation for learning, because they knew the secrets of justification by faith alone.

They said that they had met together to hold a council, because they had heard that Paul's statement that man is justified by faith without the deeds prescribed by the law (Romans 3:28) had not been properly understood. For by faith there Paul did not mean the faith of the present-day church, in three Divine persons from eternity, but faith in the Lord God, the Saviour Jesus Christ. By the deeds prescribed by the law he did not mean the deeds prescribed by the law of the Ten Commandments, but those prescribed for the Jews by the law of Moses. Thus from those few words people had come to two monstrously false conclusions by incorrect interpretation: that faith meant the faith of the present-day church, and the deeds meant those prescribed by the Ten Commandments. 'Paul did not mean these,' they said, 'but those prescribed by the law of Moses which were intended for the Jews; and this is clearly established from his saying to Peter, whom he criticised for following Jewish practices, although he knew that no one is justified by the deeds prescribed by the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ (Galatians 2:14-16).' The faith of Jesus Christ is faith in Him and from Him, see above 338. Because by the deeds prescribed by the law Paul understood the deeds prescribed by the law of Moses, he made a distinction between the law of faith and the law of deeds, and between Jews and gentiles, or between circumcision and lack of circumcision. Circumcision means the Jews, as everywhere else. And he ends with these words:

Are we then abolishing the law by faith? By no means, we are reinforcing the law, Romans 3:27-31.

(He says all this in a single passage.) He also says in the preceding chapter:

It is not those who hear the law who will be justified by God, but those who keep it, Romans 2:13.

He says elsewhere that God will repay each according to his deeds (Romans 2:6), and:

We must all be put on show before the tribunal of Christ, so that each may be rewarded for his bodily acts, whether good or ill. 2 Corinthians 5:10.

There are many more passages showing that Paul rejected faith without good deeds, just as much as James did (James 2:17-26).

[3] Further evidence that Paul meant the deeds prescribed by the law of Moses for the Jews can be drawn from the fact that all the statutes for the Jews are called in the writings of Moses the law, and so these are the deeds prescribed by the law; e.g.:

This is the law of the grain offering, Leviticus 6:14, 18ff.

This is the law of the burnt-offering, the grain-offering, the sin-sacrifice, the guilt-sacrifice and the consecration, Leviticus 7:37, This is the law of beast and bird, Leviticus 11:46ff.

This is the law for one who bears a child, a son or a daughter, Leviticus 12:7.

This is the law for a leprous disease, Leviticus 13:59; 14:2, 32, 54, 57 This is the law of the person with a discharge, Leviticus 15:32.

This is the law in cases of jealousy, Numbers 5:29-30.

This is the law for the Nazirite, Numbers 6:13, 21.

This is the law of cleansing, Numbers 19:14.

This is the law concerning the red cow, Numbers 19:2.

The law for the king, Deuteronomy 17:15-19.

In fact, the whole book of Moses is called 'the Book of the Law' (Deuteronomy 31:9, 11-12, 26; also Luke 2:22; 24:44; John 1:45; 7:22-23; 8:5). They went on to say that they had seen in the writings of Paul that the Law of the Ten Commandments was to be observed in living and to be fulfilled by charity (Romans 13:8-11). He also says that there are three things, faith, hope and charity, and that the greatest of these is charity (1 Corinthians 13:13). So it is clear he did not put faith first. They said that these subjects were what they had been summoned to debate.

[4] However, not to disturb them, I went away; and then again they looked at a distance like goats, sometimes lying down and sometimes standing. But they turned their backs on the flock of sheep. When they were debating, they seemed to be lying down, but standing up when they reached a conclusion. But I kept my gaze fixed on their horns, and was surprised to notice that at one time the horns on their foreheads appeared to point forwards and upwards, at another time curving away towards their backs and eventually pointing completely the other way. Then they suddenly turned to face the flock of sheep, but they still looked like goats. So I went up to them again and asked: 'What are you doing now?' They replied that they had reached the conclusion that faith alone produces the good deeds of charity, as a tree produces fruit.

Then a clap of thunder was heard, and a flash of lightning was seen coming from above. Following this an angel appeared, standing between the two flocks, who shouted to the flock of sheep: 'Do not listen to them. They have not abandoned their former faith, which is that faith alone brings justification and salvation, and the practice of charity plays no part. Neither is faith a tree; it is man who is the tree. Repent and look to the Lord, and you will have faith; before doing that, the faith you have is not a faith with any life in it.'

Then the goats whose horns were curved backwards wanted to join the sheep. But the angel who stood between them divided the sheep into two flocks. He told those on the left: 'Go and join the goats; but I warn you, the wolf will come and seize them, and you with them.'

[5] After the two flocks of sheep had been separated, and those on the left had heard the angel's threatening words, they looked at one another and said: 'Let us talk with our former companions.' Then the left-hand flock spoke to the right-hand one and said: 'Why have you abandoned our shepherds 2 ? Are not faith and charity one, as a tree and its fruit are one? The tree extends through its branches into the fruit; if you break a piece off a branch which forms the connection between the tree and its fruit, the fruit will be lost, won't it, and together with the fruit all the seed which might grow into a new tree? Ask our priests if that isn't so.'

So they asked the priests, and they looked around at the rest, who were winking at them to get them to say that they had made a good point. After this they replied: 'You have made a good point, but as regards the extension of faith into good deeds, like that of a tree into its fruit, we know many secrets, but this is not the occasion to divulge them. The chain or thread which links faith and charity has many knots on it, and only we, the priests, are able to undo them.'

[6] Then one of the priests, who belonged to the right-hand flock of sheep, got up and said: 'Their answer to you was Yes, but to their own party No, for they do not think as they speak.' 'How then do they think?' the others asked; 'Don't they think as they teach?'

'No,' he replied, 'they think that every good of charity, what is called a good deed, which a person does for the sake of salvation and everlasting life, is not in the least good, because by doing the deed himself the person wants to save himself, claiming for himself the righteousness and merit of the one Saviour. They think that this is true of every good deed in which a person is aware of his volition. They hold therefore that there is no link at all between faith and charity, not even that faith is retained and preserved by good deeds.'

[7] But those who belonged to the left-hand flock said: 'You are telling lies to accuse them. Don't they preach charity and its deeds, what they call the deeds of faith, openly in our hearing?'

'You do not understand their sermons,' he replied; only a clergyman who is present can grasp and understand them. What they have in mind is merely moral charity, and its social and political good deeds.

They call these the good deeds of faith, but they are certainly not. For an atheist can do them just as well and in the same guise. They say therefore with one voice that no one is saved by any deeds, but by faith alone. Let us take a comparison to illustrate this. They say that an apple-tree produces apples, but that if a person does good for the sake of salvation, just as the tree by a continuous extension of itself produces apples, then the apples are rotten inside and full of maggots. They say too that a vine produces grapes, but if a person were to do spiritual good deeds as a vine makes grapes, he would make bitter grapes.'

[8] Then they asked: 'What for them are the good deeds of charity, those that are the fruits of faith?'

He replied that perhaps they lurk out of sight somewhere near faith, but are not attached to it. 'They are,' he said, 'like a person's shadow, which follows behind him when he is looking towards the sun, and which he cannot see unless he turns around. Or rather I might say that they are like horses' tails, which in many places are docked nowadays, because people say: "What use are they? They serve no purpose, and if they remain attached to the horse, they easily get dirty."'

On hearing this someone in the left-hand flock of sheep became indignant and said: 'There certainly must be some link, else how could they be called the deeds of faith? Possibly the good deeds of charity are introduced by God into what a person does of his own will by some influence; let us say, by some affection, some afflatus, inspiration, urging and excitation of the will, some silent perception in thought, leading to exhortation, contrition and so to conscience, and thus leading to compulsion, obedience to the Ten Commandments and the Word, either like a child or like a wise man, or by some other means resembling these. How else could they call them the fruits of faith?'

To this the priest replied that they could not. 'And,' he said, 'if they do say that something like this happens, they still stuff their sermons full of words which prove that it is not from faith. There are still others who teach that such things occur but only as signs of faith, not as bonds linking it with charity. There are some, however, who have devised a theory of linking by means of the Word.'

Then they said, 'Isn't this how a link is made?' But he answered, 'That is not what they think, but they imagine it happens just by listening to the Word. For they claim that man's whole rational and voluntary faculty is in matters to do with faith impure and merit-seeking, since in spiritual matters a person cannot understand or will anything, work or co-operate, any more than a stick.'

[9] However one, on hearing that man was believed to be like this in all matters to do with faith and salvation, said: 'I heard someone saying: "I have planted a vineyard. Now I shall drink wine until I am drunk." But another man asked: "Surely you will drink wine out of your goblet by the use of your right hand?" "No," he said, "I shall drink out of an invisible goblet by means of an invisible hand." "Then," said the other man, "you certainly won't get drunk."'

A little later the same man said: 'Please listen to me. I tell you, drink the wine which comes from understanding the Word. Don't you know that the Lord is the Word? Is not the Word from the Lord? Is He not thus in it? If therefore you do good from the Word, are you not doing it from the Lord, in accordance with His words and His will? If you then look to the Lord, He will also guide and teach you, and you will do it of yourselves from the Lord. Can anyone who does something at a king's behest, in accordance with his words and his instructions, say: "I am doing this in accordance with my own words or instructions, and of my own will."'

[10] After this he turned to the clergy and said: 'You ministers of God, do not lead the flock astray.' On hearing this the majority of the left-hand flock went away and joined the right-hand flock.

Then some of the clergy began saying: 'We have heard things we never heard before. But we are shepherds, and we shall not abandon the sheep.' So they went away with them, saying: 'This man has uttered a true saying. How can anyone say "I do this of myself" when he does it in accordance with the Word, so at the Lord's behest, in accordance with His words and His will? Can anyone who does something at a king's behest, in accordance with his words and his will, say: "I am doing this of myself"? We now see it was by Divine providence that the link between faith and good deeds, which is recognised by the members of the church, was not discovered. It could not be, because it could not exist; for there was no faith in the Lord, who is the Word, and so there was not either any faith coming from the Word.'

But the rest of the priests, who belonged to the flock of goats, went off waving their hats and shouting: 'Faith alone, faith alone, long live faith alone.'

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. This passage is repeated with modifications from Apocalypse Revealed 417.

2. The Latin word means both shepherd and pastor.

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