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Leviticus 10

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1 En de zonen van Aaron, Nadab en Abihu, namen een ieder zijn wierookvat, en deden vuur daarin, en legden reukwerk daarop, en brachten vreemd vuur voor het aangezicht des HEEREN, hetwelk hij hen niet geboden had.

2 Toen ging een vuur uit van het aangezicht des HEEREN, en verteerde hen; en zij stierven voor het aangezicht des HEEREN.

3 En Mozes zeide tot Aaron: Dat is het, wat de HEERE gesproken heeft, zeggende: In degenen, die tot Mij naderen, zal Ik geheiligd worden, en voor het aangezicht van al het volk zal Ik verheerlijkt worden. Doch Aaron zweeg stil.

4 En Mozes riep Misael en Elzafan, de zonen van Uzziel, de oom van Aaron, en zeide tot hen: Treedt toe, draagt uw broederen weg, van voor het heiligdom tot buiten het leger.

5 Toen traden zij toe, en droegen hen, in hun rokken, tot buiten het leger, gelijk als Mozes gesproken had.

6 En Mozes zeide tot Aaron, en tot Eleazar, en tot Ithamar, zijn zonen: Gij zult uw hoofden niet ontbloten, noch uw klederen verscheuren, opdat gij niet sterft, en grote toorn over de ganse vergadering kome; maar uw broederen, het ganse huis van Israel, zullen dezen brand, dien de HEERE aan gestoken heeft, bewenen.

7 Gij zult ook uit de deur van de tent der samenkomst niet uitgaan, opdat gij niet sterft; want de zalfolie des HEEREN is op u. En zij deden naar het woord van Mozes.

8 En de HEERE sprak tot Aaron, zeggende:

9 Wijn en sterken drank zult gij niet drinken, gij, noch uw zonen met u, als gij gaan zult in de tent der samenkomst, opdat gij niet sterft; het zij een eeuwige inzetting onder uw geslachten;

10 En om onderscheid te maken tussen het heilige en tussen het onheilige, en tussen het onreine en tussen het reine;

11 En om den kinderen Israels te leren al de inzettingen, die de HEERE door den dienst van Mozes tot hen gesproken heeft.

12 En Mozes sprak tot Aaron, en tot Eleazar, en tot Ithamar, zijn overgebleven zonen: Neemt het spijsoffer, dat van de vuurofferen des HEEREN overgebleven is, en eet hetzelve ongezuurd bij het altaar; want het is een heiligheid der heiligheden.

13 Daarom zult gij dat eten in de heilige plaats, dewijl het uw bescheiden deel en het bescheiden deel uwer zonen uit des HEEREN vuurofferen is; want alzo is mij geboden.

14 Ook de beweegborst en den hefschouder zult gij in een reine plaats eten, gij, en uw zonen, en uw dochteren met u; want tot uw bescheiden deel, en uwer zonen bescheiden deel, zijn zij uit de dankofferen der kinderen Israels gegeven.

15 Den hefschouder en de beweegborst zullen zij nevens de vuurofferen des vets toebrengen, om ten beweegoffer voor het aangezicht des HEEREN te bewegen; hetwelk, voor u en uw zonen met u, tot een eeuwige inzetting zijn zal, gelijk als de HEERE geboden heeft.

16 En Mozes zocht zeer naarstiglijk den bok des zondoffers; en ziet, hij was verbrand. Dies was hij op Eleazar en op Ithamar, de overgebleven zonen van Aaron, zeer toornig, zeggende:

17 Waarom hebt gij dat zondoffer niet gegeten in de heilige plaats? Want het is een heiligheid der heiligheden, en Hij heeft u dat gegeven, opdat gij de ongerechtigheid der vergadering zoudt dragen, om over die verzoening te doen voor het aangezicht des HEEREN.

18 Ziet, deszelfs bloed is niet binnen in het heiligdom gedragen; gij moest dat ganselijk gegeten hebben in het heiligdom, gelijk als ik geboden heb.

19 Toen sprak Aaron tot Mozes: Zie, heden hebben zij hun zondoffer en hun brandoffer voor het aangezicht des HEEREN geofferd, en zulke dingen zijn mij wedervaren; en had ik heden het zondoffer gegeten, zou dat goed geweest zijn in de ogen des HEEREN?

20 Als Mozes dit hoorde, zo was het goed in zijn ogen.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #496

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496. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with the fire of the altar. This signifies the conjunction of celestial and spiritual love, as is evident from the signification of a censer, which denotes spiritual good (see above, n. 491); therefore also, spiritual love, since all good is of love; and from the signification of fire of the altar, as denoting celestial love, for fire signifies in the Word love in both senses, that is, celestial love and infernal love. The fire of the altar signifies celestial love, because the altar of burnt-offering, upon which was the fire, was the chief representative of the worship of the Lord from that love, as may be seen above (n. 490). And because this love of the Lord is perpetual, it was therefore appointed that fire should be kept burning continually upon the altar, and that they should take of that fire in the censers, and burn incense, which was done to represent the conjunction of celestial love with spiritual love.

[2] That the fire burned continually upon the altar, is plain in Moses:

"The fire upon the altar shall be kept burning thereon; it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt-offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace-offerings. The fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually, it shall not go out" (Leviticus 6:12, 13).

This represented that the Lord's Divine Love is perpetual and eternal.

[3] That they were to take of the fire of the altar in censers and burn incense is also seen in Moses:

"And" Aaron "shall take burning coals of fire from off the altar before Jehovah in a censer, and he shall put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah" (Leviticus 16:12, 13).

And Aaron took fire from off the altar, and "put incense thereon and made an expiation for the people" (Num. 16:46, 47).

This represented, that all propitiation and expiation were from the Divine Love of the Lord; likewise that every thing is heard and received by the Lord in which that love is. The ascending of the smoke of the incense represented also hearing and reception.

[4] And because Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and their company, took fire from the altar and burned incense, and consequently sanctified their censers, therefore, after they had been swallowed up by the earth, it was commanded that their censers, which were of brass, should be taken up, and that after the fire had been scattered abroad, they should be beaten out into plates to cover the altar (Num. 16:36-39). This also represented the sanctity of the Lord's Divine Love. And because the incenses derived their sanctity from the fire of the altar, therefore offerings of incense from strange fire were profane; wherefore Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, were consumed by fire from heaven, because they offered incense from strange fire (Leviticus 10:1, 2). Incense from strange fire represented worship from love other than the Divine, and worship from any other love is profane.

[5] These passages are adduced to shew, that the fire of the altar signifies the Divine Love of the Lord, and this love in heaven is called celestial Divine Love and spiritual Divine Love; celestial Divine Love in the celestial kingdom of the Lord, and spiritual Divine Love in the spiritual kingdom of the Lord. All the heavens are distinguished into two kingdoms, the celestial kingdom and the spiritual kingdom; celestial Divine Love makes the celestial kingdom, and spiritual Divine Love the spiritual kingdom. That all the heavens are distinguished into those two kingdoms, may be seen in the work concerning Heaven and Hell 20-28); and that those two loves make those two kingdoms, or all the heavens (n. 13-19). It must, however, be understood, that the Divine Love of the Lord in the heavens is called celestial and spiritual from its reception by the angels, and not from any division in itself; also, that spiritual love exists from celestial love, as an effect from its efficient cause, and as truth exists from good; for the good of spiritual love in its essence is the truth of the good of celestial love. Hence it is that those two kingdoms are conjoined, and form one in the sight of the Lord. These observations are made for those who love to search into things of an interior nature. That fire signifies love in both senses, will be seen confirmed from the Word in what follows.

  
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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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Apocalypse Explained #491

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491. Having a golden censer.- This signifies the conjunction of celestial good with spiritual good, and thus the conjunction of the higher heavens, as is evident from the signification of a censer, which denotes worship from spiritual good, for that worship was represented by the incense from the censers, as may be seen above (n. 324). To have a golden censer signifies the conjunction of celestial good with spiritual good, because the angel standing at the altar had the censer, and by the altar is signified worship from celestial good, and by the golden censer, spiritual good from celestial good; gold also signifies celestial good. The censers which were in use amongst the Jewish and Israelitish nation were of brass, and the offerings of incense from those censers represented worship from spiritual good, and at the same time conjunction with natural good, for brass signifies natural good. Here therefore the golden censer signifies the conjunction of celestial good with spiritual good. The reason why the conjunction of the two higher heavens is also signified, is that the good of the inmost heaven is celestial good, and the good of the middle heaven spiritual good. When, therefore, the conjunction of those goods is referred to, the conjunction of the heavens is also understood, because good is that which makes heaven. Celestial good is the good of love to the Lord, and makes the highest or inmost heaven, and spiritual good is the good of love towards the neighbour, and makes the heaven below that, and this is called the second and middle heaven.

[2] That frankincense signifies in the Word spiritual good, and similarly the censer which contained it, the thing containing being assumed for what is contained, is evident from the following passages.

In Isaiah:

"I have not made thee to serve with a meat-offering, nor wearied thee with frankincense" (43:23).

Both the meat-offering and frankincense are mentioned, because the meat-offering, which was bread made of fine flour, signifies celestial good, wherefore frankincense signifies spiritual good. The reason why both are named is, that in every part of the Word there is the marriage of good and truth; that is to say, where good is treated of, truth is also treated of; and spiritual good in its essence is truth. From these things it is evident, that frankincense denotes spiritual good, or the truth of celestial good. This is further evident from other passages in which meat-offering and frankincense are mentioned; as in Isaiah:

"Causing the meat-offering to ascend, offering incense" (66:3).

[3] So again, in Jeremiah:

"They offered burnt-offering and sacrifice, and meat-offering, and frankincense" (17:26).

Burnt-offering also signifies worship from the good of celestial love, and sacrifice, worship from the good of spiritual love. These two goods are also signified by meat-offering and frankincense. Similarly meat-offering and incense, for incense consisted chiefly of frankincense.

In Malachi it is said,

"In every place incense, and a pure meat-offering is offered unto my name" (1:11).

In David:

"My prayers have been accepted before thee [as] incense; the lifting up of my hands [as] the meat-offering of the evening" (141:2).

Therefore oil was poured upon the meat-offering, and frankincense was put thereon (Leviticus 2:1, 2, 15). This was done in order that the meat-offering might represent the conjunction of celestial good and spiritual good, for the oil signified celestial good, and the frankincense spiritual good.

[4] Therefore frankincense was also put upon the bread of faces in the tabernacle (Leviticus 24:7), and this was done on account of the conjunction of both kinds of good; for the bread signified celestial good, and the frankincense, spiritual good; wherefore, when the frankincense was put on the bread, the conjunction of both was represented. In order to represent the conjunction of celestial good and spiritual good, a table was set in the tabernacle for the bread, and on the other side the altar for the offerings of incense was placed.

[5] Where meat-offering and frankincense are not named, oil and frankincense are mentioned, and gold and frankincense; for oil and gold, like the meat-offering, signify celestial good. Oil and incense are mentioned together in Ezekiel:

"Thou didst take mine oil and mine incense, and didst set before them" (16:18).

Gold and frankincense are mentioned in Isaiah:

"All they from Shebah shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense; and they shall proclaim the praises of Jehovah" (60:6).

The wise men from the east, who came to the new-born Christ, opened their treasures and "presented gifts, gold, frankincense and myrrh" (Matthew 2:11).

Gold signified celestial good; frankincense, spiritual good; and myrrh, natural good thence; thus the three goods of the three heavens. From these things the signification of the angel seen at the altar having a golden censer is now evident. For the altar was representative of celestial good, and the censer of spiritual good, and both together were representative of the conjunction of celestial good with spiritual good, or, what is the same thing, of the conjunction of the higher heavens, or of the heaven of the celestial angels with the heaven of the spiritual angels.

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