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1 Ðức Giê-hô-va phán cùng Môi-se rằng:

2 Hãy đem A-rôn cùng các con trai người, áo xống, dầu xức, con bò tơ làm của lễ chuộc tội, hai con chiên đực, và giỏ bánh không men;

3 rồi nhóm hiệp cả hội chúng tại cửa hội mạc.

4 Môi-se bèn làm y như lời Ðức Giê-hô-va phán dặn, hội chúng nhóm hiệp tại nơi cửa hội mạc.

5 Môi-se nói cùng hội chúng rằng: Ðây là các điều Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán dặn làm theo.

6 Ðoạn, Môi-se biểu A-rôn và các con trai người lại gần, rồi lấy nước rửa họ.

7 Người mặc áo lá trong cho A-rôn, cột đai lưng, mặc áo dài, mặc ê-phót và cột đai ê-phót.

8 Người cũng đeo bảng đeo ngực và gắn vào bảng u-rim và thu-mim,

9 đội cái mão lên đầu, phía trước mão buộc thẻ vàng, tức là tràng thánh, y như lời Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán dặn Môi-se.

10 Kế đó, Môi-se lấy dầu xức, xức cho đền tạm và các vật ở tại đó biệt riêng ra thánh,

11 rảy dầu bảy lần trên bàn thờ và xức dầu cho bàn thờ cùng các đồ phụ tùng của bàn thờ, cái thùng và chân thùng, đặng biệt riêng ra thánh.

12 Người cũng đổ dầu xức trên đầu A-rôn, xức cho người đặng biệt riêng ra thánh.

13 Ðoạn, Môi-se biểu các con trai A-rôn lại gần, mặc áo lá trong cho, cột đai, đội mão lên đầu, y như Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán dặn Môi-se.

14 Người biểu đem con bò tơ dùng làm của lễ chuộc tội lại gần, A-rôn và các con trai người nhận tay mình trên đầu nó.

15 Môi-se giết nó, lấy huyết, rồi dùng ngón tay bôi huyết trên chung quanh sừng của bàn thờ, làm cho bàn thờ nên thanh sạch; đoạn đổ huyết dưới chân bàn thờ; như vậy, người biệt bàn thờ riêng ra thánh, để làm lễ chuộc tội tại đó.

16 Người lấy hết thảy mỡ chài, tấm da mỏng bọc gan, hai trái cật với mỡ của hai trái cật, rồi đem xông trên bàn thờ.

17 Còn con bò, da, thịt và phẩn nó, thì người đem thiêu ở ngoài trại quân, y như Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán dặn Môi-se.

18 Người cũng biểu đem con chiên đực dùng làm của lễ thiêu lại gần, A-rôn và các con trai người nhận tay mình trên đầu nó;

19 rồi Môi-se giết nó và rưới huyết chung quanh trên bàn thờ;

20 đoạn sả thịt ra từ miếng, đem xông cái đầu, mấy miếng đó và mỡ.

21 Người lấy nước rửa bộ lòng và giò, rồi xông trọn con chiên đực trên bàn thờ; ấy là một của lễ thiêu có mùi thơm, tức một của lễ dùng lửa dâng cho Ðức Giê-hô-va, y như Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán dặn Môi-se.

22 Người cũng biểu đem con chiên đực thứ nhì lại gần, tức là con chiên đực về lễ phong chức; A-rôn và các con trai người nhận tay mình trên đầu con chiên đực đó.

23 Môi-se giết nó, lấy huyết bôi trên trái tai hữu của A-rôn, trên ngón cái của bàn tay mặt và trên ngón cái của bàn chân mặt.

24 Môi-se cũng biểu các con trai A-rôn đến gần, bôi huyết nơi trái tai hữu họ, trên ngón cái của bàn tay mặt và trên ngón cái của bàn chân mặt; đoạn, Môi-se rưới huyết chung quanh trên bàn thờ.

25 Kế đó, người lấy mỡ, đuôi, hết thảy mỡ chài, tấm da mỏng bọc gan, hai trái cật với mỡ của hai trái cật và cái giò hữu;

26 lại lấy trong giỏ bánh không men để trước mặt Ðức Giê-hô-va, một cái bánh nhỏ không men, một cái bánh nhỏ có dầu, và một cái bánh tráng, để mấy bánh đó trên những mỡ và giò hữu,

27 đoạn để hết thảy trong tay A-rôn và tay các con trai người; họ đưa qua đưa lại trước mặt Ðức Giê-hô-va.

28 Môi-se lấy các món đó khỏi tay họ, đem xông nơi bàn thờ tại trên của lễ thiêu; ấy là của lễ về sự phong chức có mùi thơm, tức là của lễ dùng lửa dâng cho Ðức Giê-hô-va.

29 Môi-se cũng lấy cái o của con chiên đực về lễ phong chức và đưa qua đưa lại trước mặt Ðức Giê-hô-va; ấy là phần thuộc về Môi-se, y như Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán dặn người.

30 Kế ấy, Môi-se lấy dầu xức và huyết trên bàn thờ rảy trên A-rôn và trên quần áo người, trên các con trai người và trên quần áo họ, biệt A-rôn và quần áo người, các con trai người và quần áo họ riêng ra thánh.

31 Ðoạn, Môi-se nói cùng A-rôn và các con trai người rằng: Các người hãy nấu thịt tại cửa hội mạc, và ăn tại đó với bánh ở trong giỏ về lễ phong chức, y như ta đã phán dặn rằng: A-rôn và các con trai người sẽ ăn thịt đó.

32 Nhưng các ngươi phải thiêu thịt và bánh còn dư lại.

33 Trong bảy ngày các ngươi không nên đi ra khỏi cửa hội mạc cho đến chừng nào những ngày phong chức mình được trọn rồi, vì việc phong chức các ngươi sẽ trải qua bảy ngày.

34 Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán dặn làm y như hôm nay người ta đã làm, để làm lễ chuộc tội cho các ngươi.

35 Vậy, hãy ở trọn ngày cả đêm tại cửa hội mạc trong bảy bữa, gìn giữ mạng lịnh của Ðức Giê-hô-va, hầu cho các ngươi khỏi thác, vì Ngài đã truyền dặn ta như vậy.

36 A-rôn và các con trai người làm mọi điều y như Ðức Giê-hô-va cậy Môi-se truyền dặn vậy.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 618

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618. And it shall make bitter thy belly, signifies that inwardly it was undelightful, because outwardly it was adulterated. This is evident from the signification of "to be bitter" or "bitterness," as meaning undelightful because of adulterated truth (of which presently); and from the signification of the "belly," as meaning what is interior. The "belly" means what is interior, because after this it is said that "in the mouth it was as honey, sweet," and the "mouth" means what is exterior, for what is taken in by the mouth is chewed and passed down into the belly, thus going from the exterior to the interior and entering into the viscera of man; but as to the signification of "belly" it shall be told presently. "Bitter" (or bitterness) signifies what is undelightful because of adulterated truth, and therefore "to make bitter" signifies to render undelightful, because what is sweet becomes bitter and thus undelightful by a mixture with something offensive; from this comes the bitterness of wormwood, gall, and myrrh. Now as "sweet" signifies what is delightful from the good of truth and the truth of good, so "bitter" signifies what is undelightful because of adulterated truth. What is undelightful thence is not perceived and felt as bitter by anyone in the natural world, but by the spirit and angel in the spiritual world; for every adulterated good of truth, when it is changed with them into taste, is clearly perceived as bitter. For spirits and angels equally with men have taste, but the taste of spirits and angels flows forth from a spiritual source, but that of men from a natural source; the taste of bitterness with spirits is from the adulterated truth of good, but with men it is from a mixture of what is sweet with what is offensive. John's sensation of bitterness was also from a spiritual origin, for he was in the spirit, otherwise he could not have eaten the little book. Adulterated truth means the truth of good applied to evil and mixed with its falsity, and this is done when the truths of the sense of the letter of the Word are applied to filthy loves, and are thus mixed with evils. This undelightfulness is what is here signified by the bitterness of the belly.

[2] It shall also be told briefly what is meant by what is interior in the Word, that is, the interiors of the Word. The interiors of the Word are the things contained in its internal or spiritual sense; these truths are genuine truths; to these the exterior truths of the Word correspond, which are the truths in the external or natural sense, called the sense of the letter and the literal sense. When the exterior things of the Word, or the truths in the sense of the letter or the literal sense of the Word, are falsified and adulterated, then the interior truths of the Word are falsified and adulterated; for this reason, when a man applies the Word in the sense of the letter to the evils of earthly loves, it becomes undelightful to angels, who are in the internal or spiritual sense of the Word, and this undelightfulness is like that of bitterness. From this it can be seen that "the little book would make bitter, and did make bitter, the belly," signifies that the Word was inwardly undelightful. This undelightfulness thus far spoken of is spiritual undelightfulness; but there is also a spiritual-natural undelightfulness that is also meant by this "bitterness," which is that the truth of doctrine inwardly gathered from the sense of the letter of the Word and called its literal sense, is undelightful to those who are in falsities of evil; for this relates to the understanding of the Word by the men of the church at its end, when they are for the most part in falsities from evil; and to such the falsities of evil, confirmed from the sense of the letter of the Word, are delightful, 1 but truths confirmed from the literal sense of the Word are undelightful. This, too, is signified by "the little book made bitter the belly, but in the mouth was like honey, sweet."

[3] That "bitter" signifies the truth of good adulterated can also be seen from the Word where "bitter" is mentioned, as in the following passages. In Isaiah:

Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe unto the mighty to drink wine, and to the men of strength to mingle strong drink (Isaiah 5:20, 22).

Evidently good and truth adulterated are here signified by "bitter," for it is said, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness," which signifies the adulteration of good and the falsification of truth; for good is adulterated when "good is called evil and when evil is called good," and truth is falsified when "darkness is put for light and light for darkness," "darkness" meaning falsities, and "light" truths. This makes clear that like things are signified by "putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter," also by "Woe unto the mighty to drink wine, and to the men of strength to mingle strong drink;" "the mighty to drink wine" signify those who adulterate the truth of the Word, and "the men of strength to mingle strong drink" signify those who falsify it, "wine" and "strong drink" meaning the truths of the Word, and "the mighty" and "men of strength" those who excel in ingenuity and skill in adulterating these.

[4] In the same:

The new wine shall mourn, the vine shall languish, all the glad in heart shall sigh. They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it (Isaiah 24:7, 9).

"The new wine that shall mourn," and "the vine that shall languish," signify the truth of the Word and of the church which has been lost, "new wine" signifying the truth of the Word, and the "vine" the truth of the doctrine of the church; "all the glad in heart shall sigh, and they shall not drink wine with a song," signifies that internal blessedness of mind and felicity of heart will perish because of the loss of the truth of spiritual good; "strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it," signifies the truth of good made undelightful by its falsification and adulteration.

[5] In Moses:

The waters in Marah, that they were unable to drink because of the bitterness, were healed by the wood that was cast into them (Exodus 15:23-25).

"The waters in Marah, that they were unable to drink because of their bitterness," represented truths adulterated, "waters" signifying truths, and "bitterness" adulteration. "Healing them by wood cast into them" represented the good of love and of life dispelling falsity and opening truth, and thus restoring it; for all truth is adulterated by the evil of life and of love, consequently it is opened and restored by the good of love and of life, because all truth is of good, and the good of love is like a fire, from which truth appears in light.

[6] The like is signified by:

The pottage into which the sons of the prophets cast the wild gourds or the bitter wild grapes, and which Elisha healed by casting in meal (2 Kings 4:38-41).

"The pottage into which they cast the bitter gourds" signifies the Word falsified; and the "meal" that was cast in, by which it was healed, signifies truth from good; for the truth that is from good dissipates the falsities from which is falsification.

[7] Because the sons of Jacob perverted all the truths of the Word, and by applying them to themselves and to earthly loves falsified and adulterated them, it is said of them in the song of Moses:

That their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah, and their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are of bitternesses (Deuteronomy 32:32).

A "vine" signifies the church in respect to truth, consequently also the truth of the church; and "the grapes" signify the goods therefrom, which are the goods of charity, and "clusters", the goods of faith; from which it is evident that "clusters of bitternesses" signify the goods of faith adulterated.

[8] In the same:

That the waters of the curse should be given to the wife accused by her husband of adultery, and if she was 2 guilty the waters would become bitternesses in her, and the belly would swell and the thigh fall away (Numbers 5:12-29).

The marriage of man and wife signifies the marriage of truth and good, for love truly conjugial descends from that spiritual marriage; therefore "adultery" signifies the conjunction of falsity and evil, and this was why "if she was guilty the waters became bitternesses," which signifies the adulteration of good; and as the "belly" signified conjugial love, in like manner as the womb, and also the thigh, so "the belly swelled and the thigh fell away," which signifies in the spiritual sense that the conjugial or conjugial love itself, spiritual and natural, had perished; "the womb" or "belly" signifying spiritual conjugial love, and the "thigh" natural conjugial love. From this it can be seen that "bitter" and "bitterness" signify in general the falsification and adulteration of truth and good, and that the various kinds of these are signified by "gall," "wormwood," "myrrh," "wild grapes," "wild gourds," and many others.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Latin has "undelightful," the context calls for "delightful."

2. Latin has "they were," the Hebrew "she was," cf. Arcana Coelestia 3021.

  
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Matthew 15

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1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

2 "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."

3 He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"

6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

8 'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"

10 He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand.

11 That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

12 Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"

13 But he answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.

14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

15 Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."

16 So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?

17 Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

21 Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.

22 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely demonized!"

23 But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."

24 But he answered, "I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

25 But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."

26 But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

27 But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

28 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that hour.

29 Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.

30 Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,

31 so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing--and they glorified the God of Israel.

32 Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."

33 The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"

34 Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."

35 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;

36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

37 They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

38 Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

39 Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.