Arcana Coelestia # 3400
3400. That “guilt” denotes the blame or imputation of sin and of transgression against good and truth, is evident from the passages of the Word where “guilt” is mentioned and also described, as in Isaiah:
It pleased Jehovah to bruise Him, and He hath made Him weak; if thou shalt make His soul guilt, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the will of Jehovah shall prosper through His hand (Isaiah 53:10); where the Lord is treated of; to “make His soul guilt” denotes sin imputed to Him, thus blame by those who hated Him; and not that in Himself He contracted anything of sin, that He should take it away.
In Ezekiel:
Thou art become guilty through thy blood that thou hast shed, and art defiled in thine idols which thou hast made (Ezekiel 22:4); where “shedding blood” signifies offering violence to good (n. 374, 376, 1005), whence comes guilt.
In David:
They that hate the righteous shall have guilt; Jehovah redeemeth the soul of His servants and none of them that trust in Him shall have guilt (Psalms 34:21-22).
Thus “guilt” denotes all sin which remains; its separation by good from the Lord is “redemption,” which was also represented by the expiation made by the priest when they offered the sacrifice of guilt; as we read in Leviticus 6:1-26; 7:1-10; 19:20-22; Numbers 5:1-8; where also the kinds of guilt are enumerated, which are as follows: hearing the voice of cursing and not declaring it; touching anything unclean; swearing to do evil; sinning by mistake concerning the holy things of Jehovah; doing any of those things which are forbidden by the commandments; refusing to a neighbor that which was to be kept for him; finding what has been lost, and denying it and swearing to a lie; lying with a woman that is a bondmaid betrothed to a man, not redeemed, neither made free; and all sins committed against a man by committing a trespass against Jehovah.
Leviticus 7:1-10
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"'This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy.
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In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar.
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He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,
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and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away;
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and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering.
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Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
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"'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
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The priest who offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.
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Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's who offers it.
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Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
