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Levitico 3

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1 At kung ang kanilang alay ay haing mga handog tungkol sa kapayapaan; kung ang ihahandog niya ay sa bakahan maging lalake o babae, ay ihahandog niya na walang kapintasan sa harap ng Panginoon.

2 At kaniyang ipapatong ang kamay niya sa ulo ng kaniyang alay, at papatayin sa pintuan ng tabernakulo ng kapisanan: at iwiwisik ng mga anak ni Aaron, na mga saserdote, ang dugo sa ibabaw ng dambana, sa palibot.

3 At kaniyang ihahandog hinggil sa haing mga handog tungkol sa kapayapaan, na pinakahandog sa Panginoon na pinaraan sa apoy; ang tabang nakatatakip ng lamang loob at lahat ng tabang nasa ibabaw ng lamang loob,

4 At ang dalawang bato at ang tabang nasa ibabaw ng mga yaon, ang nasa siping ng mga balakang, at ang lamad na nasa ibabaw ng atay ay kaniyang aalisin na kalakip ng mga bato.

5 At susunugin ng mga anak ni Aaron sa dambana, sa ibabaw ng handog na susunugin na nasa ibabaw ng kahoy na nakapatong sa apoy; handog ngang pinaraan sa apoy, na pinakamasarap na amoy sa Panginoon.

6 At kung ang kaniyang alay sa Panginoon na pinakahaing mga handog tungkol sa kapayapaan ay kinuha sa kawan; maging lalake o babae, ay ihahandog niya na walang kapintasan.

7 Kung isang kordero ang kaniyang ihahandog na pinakaalay niya, ay ihahandog nga niya sa harap ng Panginoon:

8 At kaniyang ipapatong ang kamay niya sa ulo ng kaniyang alay, at papatayin sa harap ng tabernakulo ng kapisanan: at iwiwisik ng mga anak ni Aaron ang dugo niyaon sa ibabaw ng dambana sa palibot.

9 At kaniyang ihahandog hinggil sa hain na mga handog tungkol sa kapayapaan ay isang handog sa Panginoon na pinaraan sa apoy; ang taba niyaon, ang buong matabang buntot, ay aalisin niya sa siping ng gulugod; at ang tabang nakatatakip ng lamang loob, at ang lahat ng tabang nasa ibabaw ng lamang loob.

10 At ang dalawang bato, at ang tabang nasa ibabaw niyaon, na malapit sa mga balakang, at ang lamad na nasa ibabaw ng atay, ay aalisin niya na kalakip ng mga bato.

11 At susunugin ng saserdote sa ibabaw ng dambana: pagkaing handog nga sa Panginoon na pinaraan sa apoy.

12 At kung kambing ang kaniyang alay ay ihahandog nga niya sa harap ng Panginoon:

13 At ipapatong niya ang kaniyang kamay sa ulo niyaon, at papatayin yaon sa harap ng tabernakulo ng kapisanan: at iwiwisik ng mga anak ni Aaron ang dugo sa ibabaw ng dambana sa palibot.

14 At ang ihahandog niya roon na kaniyang alay, na pinakahandog sa Panginoon, na pinaraan sa apoy; ang tabang nakatatakip ng lamang loob, lahat ng tabang nasa ibabaw ng lamang loob,

15 At ang dalawang bato, at ang tabang nasa ibabaw, na malapit sa mga balakang, at ang lamad na nasa ibabaw ng atay, ay aalisin niya na kalakip ng mga bato.

16 At mga susunugin ng saserdote sa ibabaw ng dambana; pagkaing handog nga na pinaraan sa apoy na pinakamasarap na amoy: lahat ng taba ay sa Panginoon.

17 Magiging palatuntunang palagi sa buong panahon ng inyong lahi, sa lahat ng inyong tahanan na hindi kayo kakain ng taba ni dugo man.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #330

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330. Out of every tribe and tongue. That this signifies from all those who are in truths as to doctrine and as to life, is clear from the signification of a tribe, as denoting all truths and goods in the aggregate (concerning which see above, n. 39); for those things are signified by the twelve tribes, and hence by every tribe is signified something of truth and good, therefore by out of every tribe is signified from all those who are in any kind of truth and good; and from the signification of tongue as denoting the doctrine of life and faith. That tribes signify all truths and goods in the aggregate, will be shown more fully in its proper article below. Similarly, that tongue signifies the doctrine of life and faith, thus religion. (Those [passages] only shall be adduced here that are shown in the Arcana Coelestia concerning the signification of the tribes, namely, the twelve tribes of Israel represented, and thence signified, all truths and goods in the aggregate, n. 3858, 3926, 4060, 6335; similarly the twelve apostles of the Lord the like, n. 2129, 3354, 3488, 6397. There were twelve, because twelve signifies all, n. 577, 2089, 2129, 2130, 3272, 3858, 3913. Because the twelve tribes represented, and thence signified, all truths and goods in the aggregate, therefore they represented heaven and the church, n. 6337, 6637, 7836, 7891, 7996. The twelve tribes signify various things according to the order in which they are named, and thus also all things of heaven and the church with variety, n. 3862, 3926, 3939, 4603 et seq., 6337, 6640, 10335; therefore, replies could be given and were given by the Urim and Thummim, on which the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were engraven in precious stones, n. 3858, 6335, 6640, 9863, 9865, 9873, 9874, 9905.)

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Arcana Coelestia #9865

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9865. 'A ruby, a topaz, a carbuncle' means the celestial love of good. This is clear from the meaning of these stones as the good of celestial love, celestial love being love to the Lord, received from the Lord. Those stones mean that love on account of their red and flaming colour; for 'red' means love, 3300, and so does 'flaming', 3222, 6832, 7620-7622, 9570. But here celestial love is meant because those stones are in the first row; and those in the first row correspond to the realities that exist in the inmost heaven, where celestial love, which is love to the Lord, reigns. Since the twelve stones in the breastplate represented all the truths that spring from good they also represented the whole of heaven; for heaven is heaven by virtue of the Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good, the angels there who constitute heaven being recipients of that Truth. So it is that the three stones which are in the first row represent the inmost heaven, consequently the love that reigns there, which is called the celestial love of good and celestial love of truth. The stones in the first row represent the celestial love of good, those in the second row the celestial love of truth. These stones represent that love, as has been stated, on account of their colour; for what precious stones represent is determined by their colours.

[2] In heaven colours of indescribable beauty appear; for they are modifications of heavenly light, and heavenly light is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord. From this it is evident that colours present themselves there in accord with variations of goodness and truth; thus they are modifications of the light emanating from the Lord, through the angels. The light emanating from the Lord appears in the inmost heaven as a flame; therefore the colours resulting from it are red and flashing. But the same light appears in the middle heaven as a brilliantly white light; therefore the colours resulting from it are brilliant, and to the extent that they have good within them they are gleaming. This explains why there are two basic colours to which all others are related, namely the colour red and the colour white; and the colour red is representative of good, while the colour white is representative of truth, see 9467.

[3] From all this it is now clear why it was that stones of so many colours were set in rows in the breastplate, namely in order that they might represent all the forms of good and the truths that exist in heaven in their proper order, and consequently represent the whole of heaven. The reason why the stones in the first row - a ruby, a topaz, and a carbuncle - represented the celestial love of good is that they are different hues of red. Furthermore the noun used in the original language for 'a ruby', the first in the row, is derived from a word that means 'redness'; and that for 'a carbuncle', the third in the row, is derived from a word meaning 'flashing', as if from fire. But as for the derivation of 'a topaz', the middle one in the row, this is unknown, though it very probably comes from something describing a red and flaming colour. This may be why in Job something similar is said of a topaz as is said of gold,

With wisdom the topaz of Ethiopia will not compete, it cannot be valued in pure gold. Job 28:19.

'Gold' too means the good of love, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917, 8932, 9490, 9510.

  
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