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Levitski Zakonik 3

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1 Kad ko prinosi žrtvu zahvalnu, ako od goveda prinosi, muško ili žensko neka prinese zdravo pred Gospodom.

2 I neka metne ruku svoju na glavu žrtvi svojoj, i neka je sveštenik zakolje na vratima šatora od sastanka, i krvlju njenom neka sinovi Aronovi, sveštenici pokrope oltar odozgo unaokolo.

3 Potom neka sveštenik prinese od žrtve zahvalne ono što se pali Gospodu, salo što pokriva creva i sve salo što je na njima;

4 I oba bubrega i salo što je na njima i na slabinama, i mrežicu što je na jetri, neka je izvadi s bubrezima.

5 I neka to zapale sinovi Aronovi na oltaru zajedno sa žrtvom paljenicom, koja bude na drvima na ognju. To je žrtva ognjena na ugodni miris Gospodu.

6 Ako li od sitne stoke prinosi na žrtvu zahvalnu Gospodu, muško ili žensko neka prinese zdravo.

7 Ako prinosi jagnje na žrtvu, neka ga prinese pred Gospodom;

8 I neka metne ruku svoju na glavu žrtvi svojoj, i neka je zakolje pred šatorom od sastanka; i neka pokrope sinovi Aronovi krvlju njenom oltar odozgo unaokolo.

9 Potom neka sveštenik prinese od žrtve zahvalne ono što se pali Gospodu, salo, ceo rep do leđa, salo što pokriva creva i sve salo što je na crevima;

10 I oba bubrega i salo što je na njima i na slabinama, i mrežicu na jetri, s bubrezima neka je izvadi;

11 I neka zapali sveštenik na oltaru; to je jelo od žrtve ognjene Gospodu.

12 Ako li prinosi kozu, neka je prinese pred Gospodom.

13 I neka joj metne ruku svoju na glavu, i neka je zakolje pred šatorom od sastanka, i neka sinovi Aronovi pokrope krvlju njenom oltar odozgo unaokolo.

14 Potom neka sveštenik prinese od nje na žrtvu što se pali Gospodu, salo što pokriva creva i sve salo što je na crevima,

15 I oba bubrega, i salo što je na njima i na slabinama, i mrežicu na jetri, s bubrezima neka je izvadi;

16 I neka zapali sveštenik na oltaru; to je jelo od žrtve ognjene za ugodni miris. Sve je salo Gospodnje.

17 Večan zakon neka vam bude od kolena do kolena u svim stanovima vašim: da ne jedete salo ni krv.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #468

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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.