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1 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

2 'Räägi Iisraeli lastega ja ütle: Kui keegi kogemata patustab ja teeb mõne Issanda käsu vastu midagi, mida ei tohi teha, siis:

3 kui pattu teeb võitud preester, koormates rahvast süüga, siis ta peab patu pärast, mida ta on teinud, tooma ühe veatu noore härjavärsi Issandale patuohvriks.

4 Ta viigu härjavärss kogudusetelgi ukse juurde Issanda ette ja pangu oma käsi härjavärsi pea peale ning tapku härjavärss Issanda ees!

5 Ja võitud preester võtku härjavärsi veri ning viigu kogudusetelki!

6 Siis preester kastku oma sõrm verre ja tilgutagu verd Issanda ees seitse korda pühamu eesriide ees!

7 Ja preester määrigu verd Issanda ees kogudusetelgis oleva healõhnalise suitsutusohvri altari sarvedele ning valagu kõik härjavärsi veri põletusohvrialtari aluse kõrvale, mis on kogudusetelgi ukse juures!

8 Ja ta võtku ära kõik patuohvri härjavärsi rasv, sisikonda kattev rasv, kõik rasv, mis on sisikonna küljes,

9 mõlemad neerud ja rasv, mis on nende küljes nimmetel, ja maksarasv, mis ta eraldagu neerude juurest

10 samal viisil, nagu see eraldatakse tänuohvrihärjast; ja preester süüdaku see põlema põletusohvrialtaril!

11 Aga härjavärsi nahk ja kõik tema liha koos pea ja jalgadega, sisikond ja rupskid,

12 kogu ülejäänud härjavärss ta viigu väljapoole leeri ühte puhtasse paika, kuhu kallatakse tuhka, ja ta põletagu see tulega puude peal; seal, kuhu tuhk kallatakse, tuleb see põletada!

13 Ja kui kogu Iisraeli kogudus eksib, aga nõnda, et koguduse silma eest jääb varjatuks, et nad on teinud mõne Issanda käsu vastu midagi, mida ei tohi teha, ja saavad süüdlasteks,

14 ja patt, mida nad on teinud, saab ometi teatavaks, siis kogudus toogu üks noor härjavärss patuohvriks ja viigu see kogudusetelgi ette!

15 Koguduse vanemad pangu oma käed härjavärsi pea peale Issanda ees ja härjavärss tapetagu Issanda ees!

16 Ja võitud preester viigu härjavärsi veri kogudusetelki!

17 Preester kastku oma sõrm verre ja tilgutagu seitse korda Issanda ees, eesriide ees!

18 Ja ta määrigu verd altari sarvedele, mis on Issanda ees kogudusetelgis, aga kõik ülejäänud veri ta valagu põletusohvrialtari alusele, mis on kogudusetelgi ukse ees!

19 Ja ta eraldagu sellest kõik rasv ning süüdaku altaril põlema

20 ja talitagu härjavärsiga nõnda, nagu ta talitas patuohvri härjavärsiga; ta talitagu sellega selsamal viisil! Kui preester nõnda on neile lepitust toimetanud, siis antakse neile andeks.

21 Ta viigu härjavärss väljapoole leeri ja põletagu see ära, nõnda nagu ta põletas eelmise härjavärsi; see on koguduse patuohver!

22 Kui üks vürst patustab ja kogemata teeb Issanda, oma Jumala mõne käsu vastu midagi, mida ei tohi teha, ja saab süüdlaseks,

23 aga temale tehakse teatavaks ta patt, mida ta on teinud, siis ta viigu oma ohvrianniks üks veatu sikk!

24 Ta pangu oma käsi siku pea peale ja tapku see selles paigas, kus Issanda ees põletusohvrit tapetakse; see on patuohver!

25 Preester võtku sõrmega patuohvri verd ja määrigu põletusohvri altari sarvedele, aga ülejäänud veri ta valagu põletusohvri altari aluse kõrvale!

26 Ja ta süüdaku kõik selle rasv altaril põlema, nõnda nagu tänuohvri rasv; kui preester on tema ees lepitust teinud ta patu pärast, siis antakse temale andeks!

27 Kui keegi maa rahva seast kogemata patustab, tehes mõne Issanda käsu vastu midagi, mida ei tohi teha, ja saab süüdlaseks,

28 aga temale saab teatavaks ta patt, mida ta on teinud, siis ta toogu ohvrianniks üks veatu kits, emane loom, oma patu pärast, mida ta on teinud,

29 ja pangu oma käsi patuohvri pea peale ning tapku patuohver põletusohvri paigas!

30 Preester võtku sõrmega verd ja määrigu põletusohvri altari sarvedele, aga kõik ülejäänud veri ta valagu altari aluse kõrvale!

31 Ja ta võtku ära kõik rasv, nõnda nagu võetakse rasv tänuohvrist, ja preester süüdaku see altaril põlema meeldivaks lõhnaks Issandale! Kui preester nõnda on tema eest lepitust teinud, siis antakse temale andeks.

32 Aga kui ta toob oma patuohvrianniks lambatalle, siis ta toogu veatu emane loom

33 ja pangu oma käsi patuohvri pea peale ning tapku see patuohvriks paigas, kus põletusohvrit tapetakse!

34 Preester võtku sõrmega patuohvri verd ja määrigu põletusohvrialtari sarvedele, aga kõik ülejäänud veri ta valagu altari aluse kõrvale!

35 Ja ta võtku ära kõik selle rasv, nõnda nagu võetakse tänuohvri lambatalle rasv, ja preester süüdaku see altaril põlema Issanda tuleohvrite peal! Kui preester temale ta patu pärast, mida ta on teinud, on lepitust teinud, siis antakse temale andeks.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9938

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9938. 'Which the children of Israel shall sanctify, even in all their gifts of holy things' means acts of worship representative of removal from sins. This is clear from the meaning of 'gifts' - or presents, which among the Israelite and Jewish nation were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs - as the inner realities of acts of worship; for those realities were represented by these acts. The inner realities of worship are the fruits of love and faith; they are therefore pardonings of sins, that is, removals from them, since faith and love are the means by which the Lord moves sins away. For in the measure that the good of love and faith comes in, or what amounts to the same thing, heaven comes in, sins are removed, that is, hell is removed - the hell within the person as well as the hell outside him. From this it is evident what should be understood by the gifts which they made holy, that is, offered. The gifts were called holy, and giving or offering them was called sanctifying them, because they represented holy realities. For they were offered to expiate people, thus to remove them from their sins, which is accomplished by means of faith in and love to the Lord received from the Lord.

[2] Gifts and presents were said to be made to Jehovah, though Jehovah, that is, the Lord, is not the receiver of gifts or presents, but the giver of them, freely to everyone. Even so, His will is that they should come from a person as though they did so from that person himself, provided the person acknowledges that they do not actually come from him but from the Lord. For the Lord imparts a desire to do good because he loves it, and a desire to speak the truth because he believes it. The actual desire flows in from the Lord, yet appears to be inherent in the person and so to flow from the person. For whatever a person does out of love and desire for it, he does from his life, love being what composes anyone's life. From this it is evident that the things that are called gifts and presents made to the Lord by a person are essentially gifts and presents made to a person by the Lord, and that they are called gifts and presents on account of what they appear to be. All who are wise at heart recognize this appearance, but not so the simple. Yet their gifts and presents are acceptable, so far as they are made in ignorance that has innocence within it. Innocence is the good of love to God, and dwells within ignorance, especially with the wise at heart. Those who are wise at heart know, indeed perceive, that nothing whatever of the wisdom within themselves originates in themselves, but that the all of wisdom is attributable to the Lord, that is, the all of the good of love and the all of the truth of faith are attributable to Him, and that for this reason even with the wise innocence dwells in ignorance. From this it is evident that the acknowledgement of this matter, and especially the perception of it, constitutes the innocence of wisdom.

[3] The gifts offered in the Jewish Church, which were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs, were also spoken of as offerings made for the expiations of sins; for they were offered for the sake of being pardoned from sins, that is, being removed from them. Those who belonged to that Church also thought that sins were pardoned, indeed completely taken away, by means of these offerings; for it is said of people who have offered them that they will be pardoned, see Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 9:7; 15:15, 30. But they were unaware of the fact that their gifts represented more internal things, thus the kinds of things that are done by a person from love and faith received from the Lord; that these are what expiate, that is, remove sins; and that when they have been removed they appear to have been completely removed or banished, as has been shown above in the present paragraph and the one before it. The worship of that nation was representative, and so was external devoid of anything internal; and it was by means of this worship that heaven was joined to mankind, in those times, see the places referred to in 9320 (end), 9380.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #1071

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1071. That 'he drank wine' means that he wished to probe into matters of faith is clear from the meaning of 'wine'. 'A vineyard' or 'a vine', as has been shown, is the spiritual Church, or member of the spiritual Church. The grape, clusters, and bunches are its fruit, and these mean charity and what belongs to charity. Wine however means faith deriving from charity, and all things that belong to faith. Thus 'grape means the celestial aspect of that Church, and 'wine' the spiritual. The celestial, as often stated already, comprises the will, while the spiritual comprises the understanding. That 'he drank of the wine' means that he wished to probe into matters of faith, and to do so indeed by means of reasonings, is clear from the reason given why 'he was drunk', that is, sank into errors. Indeed the member of this Church did not possess any perception at all as the member of the Most Ancient Church had done. Instead he had to acquire knowledge of what good and truth were by learning about them from doctrinal matters concerning faith which had been gathered together and preserved from the perception that had existed in the Most Ancient Church. And these matters of doctrine constituted the Word of the Ancient Church. As with the Word, doctrinal matters concerning faith were in many instances such that, without perception, they could not be believed; for spiritual and celestial things infinitely transcend human comprehension, and this is why reasoning enters in. But the person who refuses to believe those things until he comprehends them is never able to believe, as often shown already. See what appears in 128, 130, 195, 196, 215, 232, 233.

[2] That 'grapes in the Word means charity and what belongs to charity, and that 'wine' means both faith deriving from charity and also matters of faith, becomes clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 1 He looked for it to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes. Isaiah 5:1-2, 4.

Here 'grapes' stands for charity and the fruits of charity. In Jeremiah,

I will surely gather them, says Jehovah; there will be no grapes on the vine nor figs on the fig tree. Jer, 8:13.

'Vine' stands for the spiritual Church, 'grapes' for charity. In Hosea,

Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel, like the first fruit on the fig tree, in the beginning, I saw your fathers. Hosea 9:10.

'Israel' stands for the Ancient Church, 'grape' for the fact that they were endowed with charity. These words are used in the contrary sense when 'Israel' stands for the sons of Jacob. In Micah,

There was no cluster to eat; my soul desired the first fruit. The holy man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. Micah 7:1-2.

'Cluster' stands for charity or that which is holy, 'first fruit' for faith or that which is upright.

[3] In Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it. Isaiah 65:8.

'Cluster' stands for charity, 'new wine' for goods that stem from charity, and truths deriving from these. In Moses,

He washes his clothing in wine, and His garment in the blood of grapes. Genesis 49:11.

This is a prophecy concerning the Lord. 'Wine' stands for that which is spiritual deriving from what is celestial, 'blood of grapes' for the celestial in respect to spiritual Churches. So 'grapes' stands for charity itself, 'wine' for faith itself. In John,

The angel said, Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the earth, for its grapes have ripened. Revelation 14:18.

This refers to the last times when there is no faith, that is, when there is no charity. For no faith exists other than that which inheres in charity, and in essence is charity itself. Consequently when it is said that there is no longer any faith, as in the last times, it means that there is no charity.

[4] As 'grapes' means charity, so 'wine' means faith deriving from charity, for wine is obtained from grapes. In addition to these and previous quotations concerning the vineyard and the vine, the following also make the point clear: In Isaiah,

Gladness and exaltation have been taken away from Carmel, and in the vineyards there is no singing, no joyful noise. No treader treads out wine in the presses; I have made the hedad 2 to cease. Isaiah 16:10.

This stands for the fact that the spiritual Church, meant by 'Carmel', has been vastated, 'none treading wine in the presses' for the fact that no longer are there any people who possess faith. In the same prophet,

The inhabitants of the earth will be scorched and few men left. The new wine will mourn, the vine will languish; they will not drink wine with singing, strong drink will be bitter to those drinking it; there will be an outcry in the streets over wine. Isaiah 24:6-7, 9, 11.

The vastated spiritual Church being the subject, 'wine' stands for truths of faith that are considered valueless. In Jeremiah,

They will say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they faint like one who has been run through in the streets of the city. Lamentations 2:12.

'Where is corn and wine?' means, Where is love and faith? 'Streets of the city' means truths here, as elsewhere in the Word. 'Those who have been run through in them' means that they do not know what the truths of faith are.

[5] In Amos,

I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel, and they will build the ruined cities and inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and drink their wine. Amos 9:14.

This refers to the spiritual Church, meant by Israel, to which 'planting vineyards and drinking wine' is attributed when it becomes a Church such as derives faith from charity. In Zephaniah,

They will build houses but not inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine. Zephaniah 1:13; Amos 5:11.

Here 'vineyard' and 'wine' stand for the contrary situation when the spiritual Church has been vastated. In Zechariah,

They will be like a mighty man of Ephraim, and their heart will rejoice as from wine, and their sons will see it and rejoice. Zechariah 10:7.

This refers to the house of Judah, that it would be such by virtue of the goods and truths of faith. In John the command not to do harm to oil and wine, Revelation 6:6, stands for doing no harm to what is celestial and spiritual, that is, to things of love and faith.

[6] In the Jewish Church, since 'wine' meant faith in the Lord, the libation of wine in the sacrifices also represented faith, as in Numbers 15:1-15; 28:11-15, 18-end; Numbers 29:7-end; Leviticus 23:12-13; Exodus 29:40. Hence the following is said in Hosea,

Threshing-floor and winepress will not feed them, and new wine will be deceptive in her. They will not dwell in Jehovah's land, but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat what is unclean: They will not pour libations of wine to Jehovah, they will not be pleasing to Him. Hosea 9:1-4.

This refers to Israel, or the spiritual Church, and to those people in it who pervert and defile holy things and the truths of faith by wishing to probe into them by means of knowledge and reasonings. 'Egypt' is knowledge, 'Assyria' reasoning, and 'Ephraim' one who engages in reasoning.

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1. literally, on a horn of a son of oil

2. A Hebrew word which is a shout of exaltation.

  
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