Doctrine of the Lord #8
8. The Statement That the Lord Fulfilled All of the Law Means That He Fulfilled All of the Word
Many people today believe that, when it is said of the Lord that He fulfilled the Law, it means that He fulfilled all the commandments of the Decalogue, and that in so doing He became righteousness and at the same time justified people in the world by that belief.
Nevertheless, that is not the meaning. Rather the meaning is that He fulfilled everything written about Him in the Law and the Prophets, that is, throughout Holy Scripture, because it has Him alone as its subject, as we said in the previous section.
The reason many people have believed otherwise is that they have not searched the scriptures and seen what is meant by the Law there.
In a strict sense the Law there means the ten commandments of the Decalogue. In a broader sense it means everything written by Moses in his five books. And in the broadest sense it means the whole of the Word.
That the Law in a strict sense means the Ten Commandments of the Decalogue is something people know.
Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.
Leviticus 7:1-11
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"'This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy.
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In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar.
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He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,
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and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away;
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and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering.
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Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
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"'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
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The priest who offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.
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Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's who offers it.
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Every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, one as well as another.
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"'This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh.
