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Levítico 17

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1 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

2 Fala a Arão e aos seus filhos, e a s todos os filhos de Israel, e dize-lhes: Isto é o que o Senhor tem ordenado:

3 Qualquer homem da casa de Israel que imolar boi, ou cordeiro, ou cabra, no arraial, ou fora do arraial,

4 e não o trouxer à porta da tenda da revelação, para o oferecer como oferta ao Senhor diante do tabernáculo do Senhor, a esse homem será imputado o sangue; derramou sangue, pelo que será extirpado do seu povo;

5 a fim de que os filhos de Israel tragam os seus sacrifícios, que oferecem no campo, isto é, a fim de que os tragam ao Senhor, à porta da tenda da revelação, ao sacerdote, e os ofereçam por sacrifícios de ofertas, pacíficas ao Senhor.

6 E o sacerdote espargirá o sangue sobre o altar do Senhor, à porta da tenda da revelação, e queimará a gordura por cheiro suave ao Senhor.

7 E nunca mais oferecerão os seus sacrifícios aos sátiros, após os quais eles se prostituem; isso lhes será por estatuto perpétuo pelas suas gerações.

8 Dir-lhes-ás pois: Qualquer homem da casa de Israel, ou dos estrangeiros que entre vós peregrinam, que oferecer holocausto ou sacrifício,

9 e não o trouxer à porta da tenda da revelação, para oferecê-lo ao Senhor, esse homem será extirpado do seu povo.

10 Também, qualquer homem da casa de Israel, ou dos estrangeiros que peregrinam entre eles, que comer algum sangue, contra aquela alma porei o meu rosto, e a extirparei do seu povo.

11 Porque a vida da carne está no sangue; pelo que vo-lo tenho dado sobre o altar, para fazer expiação pelas vossas almas; porquanto é o sangue que faz expiação, em virtude da vida.

12 Portanto tenho dito aos filhos de Israel: Nenhum de vós comerá sangue; nem o estrangeiro que peregrina entre vós comerá sangue.

13 Também, qualquer homem dos filhos de Israel, ou dos estrangeiros que peregrinam entre eles, que apanhar caça de fera ou de ave que se pode comer, derramará o sangue dela e o cobrirá com pó.

14 Pois, quanto à vida de toda a carne, o seu sangue é uma e a mesma coisa com a sua vida; por isso eu disse aos filhos de Israel: Não comereis o sangue de nenhuma carne, porque a vida de toda a carne é o seu sangue; qualquer que o comer será extirpado.

15 E todo homem, quer natural quer estrangeiro, que comer do que morre por si ou do que é dilacerado por feras, lavará as suas vestes, e se banhará em água, e será imundo até a tarde; depois será limpo.

16 Mas, se não as lavar, nem banhar o seu corpo, levará sobre si a sua iniquidade

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #395

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395. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. (8:5) This symbolizes spiritual love, containing celestial love, and its influx into the lower regions where those people were who were caught up in a faith divorced from charity.

A censer, just like incense, symbolizes worship springing from a spiritual love. This is apparent from what we have already shown, and from the fact that in the Word, a container has the same symbolism as what it contains, even as a cup and plate have the same symbolism as wine and food (Matthew 23:25-26, Luke 22:20, and elsewhere).

Fire from the altar of burnt offering symbolizes Divinely given celestial love, because that altar symbolized worship springing from that love (see no. 392 above). And fire in the highest sense symbolizes Divine love (no. 494).

Spiritual love, or charity, takes its essence from celestial love, or love toward the Lord. Apart from that love, spiritual love or charity has in it no vitality, for spirit and life have no other origin than the Lord.

This was represented in the Israelite Church by their taking fire for their censers and burning incense only from the altar of burnt offering, as can be seen in the books of Moses (Leviticus 16:12-13).

It was also a statute, therefore, that fire burn continually on the altar of burnt offering and not go out (Leviticus 6:13). The reason was that the fire of that altar symbolized the Lord's Divine love, and thus love toward the Lord.

Throwing the censer to the earth symbolizes an influx into lower regions.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Apocalypse Revealed #494

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494. And if anyone wants to harm them, fire will proceed from their mouth and devour their enemies. (11:5) This symbolically means that anyone who wishes to destroy these two essential elements perishes from a hellish love.

To want to harm the two witnesses means, symbolically, to wish to destroy the two essential elements of the New Church, namely, an acknowledgment of the Lord as being God of heaven and earth even as to His humanity, and a life in accordance with the Ten Commandments. To be shown that these are the two witnesses, see no. 490 above.

Fire's proceeding from their mouth means, symbolically, that hellish love will do so; and its devouring their enemies means, symbolically, that those who harm them will perish because of it. Here, however, it is not to be supposed that fire will issue from the mouth of the witnesses, but that it will do so from people who wish to destroy these two essential elements of the New Church, meant by the two witnesses (no. 490). The fire is the fire of hell; for people who do not live according to the Ten Commandments, and who do not turn to God, their Savior and Redeemer, cannot help but be caught up in a hellish love and perish.

[2] The case is the same as elsewhere in the Word where we are told that Jehovah sends fire that consumes the wicked, or that Jehovah does other things like that out of the fire of His wrath, anger, or fury, which mean not that they come from Jehovah, but that they do so from the hellish love of the wicked.

We read of instances like that in the Word because that is how they appear, and the Word in its literal sense was composed in terms of appearances and things that correspond.

Since we are told that fire proceeded from their mouth, and this means that it originated from people caught up in a hellish love, we will cite some passages where fire is said to issue from Jehovah:

The breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, will consume it. (Isaiah 30:33)

Smoke went up from His nostrils, and fire from His mouth...; coals were kindled by it. (Psalms 18:8)

(I will) pour out on them... the wrath of My anger; for all the earth shall be devoured in the fire of My zeal. (Zephaniah 3:8)

...behold, Jehovah will come with fire... for retribution in the wrath of His anger, and His rebuke in flames of fire. (Isaiah 66:15)

You will be visited by Jehovah... with the flame of devouring fire. (Isaiah 29:6, cf. 30:30)

And so on in many places elsewhere.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.