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Levítico 6

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1 Y HABLO Jehová á Moisés, diciendo:

2 Cuando una persona pecare, é hiciere prevaricación contra Jehová, y negare á su prójimo lo encomendado ó dejado en su mano, ó bien robare, ó calumniare á su prójimo;

3 O sea que hallando lo perdido, después lo negare, y jurare en falso, en alguna de todas aquellas cosas en que suele pecar el hombre:

4 Entonces será que, puesto habrá pecado y ofendido, restituirá aquello que robó, ó por el daño de la calumnia, ó el depósito que se le encomendó, ó lo perdido que halló,

5 O todo aquello sobre que hubiere jurado falsamente; lo restituirá, pues, por entero, y añadirá á ello la quinta parte, que ha de pagar á aquel á quien pertenece en el día de su expiación.

6 Y por su expiación traerá á Jehová un carnero sin tacha de los rebaños, conforme á tu estimación, al sacerdote para la expiación.

7 Y el sacerdote hará expiación por él delante de Jehová, y obtendrá perdón de cualquiera de todas las cosas en que suele ofender.

8 Habló aún Jehová á Moisés, diciendo:

9 Manda á Aarón y á sus hijos diciendo: Esta es la ley del holocausto: (es holocausto, porque se quema sobre el altar toda la noche hasta la mañana, y el fuego del altar arderá en él:)

10 El sacerdote se pondrá su vestimenta de lino, y se vestirá pañetes de lino sobre su carne; y cuando el fuego hubiere consumido el holocausto, apartará él las cenizas de sobre el altar, y pondrálas junto al altar.

11 Después se desnudará de sus vestimentas, y se pondrá otras vestiduras, y sacará las cenizas fuera del real al lugar limpio.

12 Y el fuego encendido sobre el altar no ha de apagarse, sino que el sacerdote pondrá en él leña cada mañana, y acomodará sobre él el holocausto, y quemará sobre él los sebos de las paces.

13 El fuego ha de arder continuamente en el altar; no se apagará.

14 Y esta es la ley del presente: Han de ofrecerlo los hijos de Aarón delante de Jehová, delante del altar.

15 Y tomará de él un puñado de la flor de harina del presente, y de su aceite, y todo el incienso que está sobre el presente, y harálo arder sobre el altar por memoria, en olor suavísimo á Jehová.

16 Y el sobrante de ella lo comerán Aarón y sus hijos: sin levadura se comerá en el lugar santo; en el atrio del tabernáculo del testimonio lo comerán.

17 No se cocerá con levadura: helo dado á ellos por su porción de mis ofrendas encendidas; es cosa santísima, como la expiación por el pecado, y como la expiación por la culpa.

18 Todos los varones de los hijos de Aarón comerán de ella. Estatuto perpetuo será para vuestras generaciones tocante á las ofrendas encendidas de Jehová: toda cosa que tocare en ellas será santificada.

19 Y habló Jehová á Moisés, diciendo:

20 Esta es la ofrenda de Aarón y de sus hijos, que ofrecerán á Jehová el día que serán ungidos: la décima parte de un epha de flor de harina, presente perpetuo, la mitad á la mañana y la mitad á la tarde.

21 En sartén se aderezará con aceite; frita la traerás, y los pedazos cocidos del presente ofrecerás á Jehová en olor de suavidad.

22 Y el sacerdote que en lugar de Aarón fuere ungido de entre sus hijos, hará la ofrenda; estatuto perpetuo de Jehová: toda ella será quemada.

23 Y todo presente de sacerdote será enteramente quemado; no se comerá.

24 Y habló Jehová á Moisés, diciendo:

25 Habla á Aarón y á sus hijos, diciendo: Esta es la ley de la expiación: en el lugar donde será degollado el holocausto, será degollada la expiación por el pecado delante de Jehová: es cosa santísima.

26 El sacerdote que la ofreciere por expiación, la comerá: en el lugar santo será comida, en el atrio del tabernáculo del testimonio.

27 Todo lo que en su carne tocare, será santificado; y si cayere de su sangre sobre el vestido, lavarás aquello sobre que cayere, en el lugar santo.

28 Y la vasija de barro en que fuere cocida, será quebrada: y si fuere cocida en vasija de metal, será fregada y lavada con agua.

29 Todo varón de entre los sacerdotes la comerá: es cosa santísima.

30 Mas no se comerá de expiación alguna, de cuya sangre se metiere en el tabernáculo del testimonio para reconciliar en el santuario: al fuego será quemada.

   

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468. And his feet like pillars of fire. This symbolizes the Lord's Divinity on the natural plane in respect to His Divine love, which sustains all things.

This, too, is apparent, from the explanation in no. 49 above, where it is said of the Son of Man that "His feet were like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace."

The angel's feet looked like pillars of fire because the Lord's Divinity on the natural plane - which fundamentally is the Divine humanity that He took on in the world - supports His Divinity from eternity, as the body does the soul, and likewise as the Word's natural meaning supports its spiritual and celestial meanings, on which subject see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 27-49. To be shown that feet symbolize something natural, see no. 49, and a pillar something that supports, no. 191.

Fire symbolizes love because spiritual fire is nothing else. Therefore it is customary in worship to pray that heavenly fire, that is to say, heavenly love, may kindle the worshipers' hearts. People know that there is a correspondence between fire and love from the fact that a person grows warm with love, and cold with its loss. Nothing else produces vital warmth but love, in both senses. The origin of these correspondences is owing to the existence of two suns, one in the heavens, which is pure love, and the other in the world, which is nothing but fire. This, too, is the reason for the correspondence between all spiritual and natural things.

[2] Since fire symbolizes Divine love, therefore on Mount Horeb Jehovah appeared to Moses in a bush on fire (Exodus 3:1-3). Moreover He descended upon Mount Sinai in fire (Deuteronomy 4:36). For this reason, too, the seven lamps of the lampstand in the Tabernacle were lit every evening, so as to burn before Jehovah (Leviticus 24:2-4). For the same reason fire burned continually on the altar and was not extinguished (Leviticus 6:13), and the priests took fire from the altar in their censers and burned incense (Leviticus 16:12-13).

Therefore Jehovah went before the children of Israel by night in a pillar of fire (Exodus 13:21-22). Fire from heaven consumed the burnt offerings on the altar, as a sign of His being well pleased (Leviticus 9:24, 1 Kings 18:38). The burnt offerings were called offerings by fire to Jehovah, and offerings by fire for a restful aroma to Jehovah (Exodus 29:18; Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17; 2:2, 9-11; 3:5, 16; 4:35; 5:12; 7:30; 21:6; Numbers 28:2; Deuteronomy 18:1).

Therefore in the book of Revelation the Lord's eyes looked like a flame of fire (Revelation 1:14; 2:18; 19:12, cf. Daniel 10:5-6). And seven lamps of fire burned before the throne (Revelation 4:5).

It is apparent from this what lamps containing oil and lamps without oil symbolize (Matthew 25:1-11). The oil means fire, and thus love.

And so on in many other places.

In an opposite sense fire symbolizes hellish love, and this is plain from so many passages in the Word that it would be impossible to cite them all because of their number. See something on the subject in the book Heaven and Hell, published in London, nos. 566-575.

  
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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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Exodus 4

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1 Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"

2 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."

3 He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He Put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

5 "That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."

6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

7 He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He Put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

8 "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."

10 Moses said to Yahweh, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."

11 Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?

12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."

13 He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."

14 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

16 He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "go in peace."

19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.

21 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

22 You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

23 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

24 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

26 So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

27 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.

28 Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.