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Бытие 8

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1 Тогда Богъ вспомнилъ о Ној, и о всјхъ звјряхъ, и о всемъ скотј, бывшихъ съ нимь въ ковчегј; и навелъ Богъ вјтеръ на землю, и воды остановились.

2 И закрылись источники бездны и окна небесныя, и пересталъ дождь съ неба.

3 И начали воды возвращаться съ земли, и шли обратно; и стали убывать воды по окончаніи ста пятидесяти дней.

4 Въ седьмомъ мјсяцј, въ семнадцатый день мјсяца, ковчегъ остановился на горахъ Араратскихъ.

5 Воды убывали до десятаго мјсяца; въ первый день десятаго мјсяца показалісь верхи горъ.

6 По прошествіи сорока дней, Ной открылъ сдјланное имъ окно у ковчега.

7 И выпустилъ ворона, который, вылетјвъ, отлеталъ и прилеталъ, пока осушилась земля отъ воды.

8 Потомъ выпустилъ отъ себя голубя, чтобы узнать, стекла ли вода съ лица земли.

9 Но голубь не нашелъ, гдј поставить ногу свою, и возвратился къ нему въ ковчегъ; ибо вода была еще по всей землј: и потому онъ простеръ руку свою, и взялъ его, и принялъ его въ ковчегъ.

10 И помедлилъ еще семь дней другихъ: и опять выпустилъ голубя изъ ковчега.

11 Голубь возвратился къ нему въ вечернее время; и вотъ, свјжій масличный листъ во рту у него: тогда Ной узналъ, что воды стекли съ земли.

12 Онъ помедлилъ еще семь дней, и выпустилъ голубя; и онъ уже не возвратился къ нему.

13 Шесть сотъ перваго года къ первому дню перваго мјсяца изсякла вода на землј: тогда Ной, открывъ кровлю ковчега, посмотрјлъ, и увидјлъ, что изсякли воды съ лица земли.

14 И во второмъ мјсяцј, къ двадцать седьмому дню мјсяца, осушилась земля.

15 И сказалъ Богъ Ною:

16 выйди изъ ковчега ты, и съ тобою жена твоя, и сыновья твои, и жены сыновъ твоихъ.

17 Выведи съ собою и всј животныя, которыя съ тобою, изъ всякой плоти, изъ птицъ, и изъ скота, и изъ всјхъ гадовъ пресмыкаюшихся по землј; пусть разойдутся онј по землј, и пусть плодятся и размножаются на землј.

18 И вышелъ Ной, и съ нимъ сыновья его, и жена его, и жены сыновъ его.

19 Всј звјри, и всј гады, и всј птицы, и все движущееся по землј, по породамъ своимъ, вышли изъ ковчега.

20 И создалъ Ной жертвенникъ Іеговј, и взялъ отъ всякаго скота чистаго, и изъ всјхъ птицъ чистыхъ, и принесъ всесожженія на жертвенникј.

21 И обонялъ Іегова благоуханіе успокоенія, и сказалъ Іегова въ сердцј Своемъ: отнынј Я уже не буду проклинать земли за человјка, потому что помышленія сердца человјческаго есть зло отъ юности его: и не буду болје поражать всего живущаго, какъ Я то сдјлалъ.

22 Впредь во всј дни земли сјяніе и жатва, холодъ и зной, лјто и зима, дни и ночи не пресјкутся.

   

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922. 'He took from every clean beast, and from every clean bird' means goods that stem from charity, and the truths of faith. This has been shown already; 'beast' means goods that stem from charity, 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 'bird' the truths of faith, 40, 776. Burnt offerings were made from cattle, from lambs and goats, and from turtle doves and young pigeons, Leviticus 1:2-17; Numbers 15:2-15; 28:1-end. These were clean beasts, each one of them meaning some particular heavenly quality. And because they meant these things in the Ancient Church, and in subsequent Churches represented them, it is clear that burnt offerings and sacrifices were nothing else than representatives that go with internal worship, and that when they had been divorced from internal worship they became idolatrous. This any mentally normal person can see, for what is an altar but merely something made of stone? And what is a burnt offering and a sacrifice but the slaughtering of an animal? For worship to be Divine it has to represent some heavenly quality which the worshippers know and acknowledge and from which they worship the One they are representing.

[2] Nobody except the person who does not wish to understand anything at all about the Lord can be ignorant of the fact that these things were representatives of the Lord. It is the internal things, namely charity and faith deriving from charity, through which the One who is being represented has to be seen, acknowledged, and believed, as is quite clear in the Prophets, for example in Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah Zebaoth, the God of Israel, Add your burnt offerings on to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. I did not speak with your fathers and I did not command them on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt on the matters of burnt offering and sacrifice. But this matter I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God. Jeremiah 7:21-23.

Hearing or obeying His voice is obeying the law, the whole of which focuses on the one command that men should love God above everything else and their neighbour as themselves, for on these depend the Law and the Prophets, Matthew 22:37-40; 7:12. In David,

O Jehovah, sacrifice and offering You have not desired; burnt offering and sin-sacrifice You host not sought. I have delighted to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart. 1 Psalms 40:6, 8.

[3] In Samuel, who said to Saul,

Has Jehovah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22.

What obeying His voice involves is apparent in Micah,

Shall I come before Jehovah with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with tens of thousands of rivers of oil? He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does Jehovah require of you but to carry out judgement and the love of mercy, and to humble yourself by walking with your God. Micah 6:6-8.

These are the things that burnt offerings and sacrifices of clean beasts and birds mean. In Amos,

Though you offer Me your burnt offerings and gifts, I will not accept them, and the peace offering of your fatted ones I will not look upon. Let judgement flow like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Amos 5:22, 24.

'Judgement' means truth, and 'righteousness' good. Both stem from charity and are the burnt offerings and sacrifices of the internal man. In Hosea,

I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6.

From all these quotations the nature of sacrifices and burnt offerings when charity and faith are not present is clear. It is also clear from them that because 'clean beasts and clean birds' meant the goods that stem from charity and faith they also represented them.

Fußnoten:

1. literally, in the midst of my viscera

  
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