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synty 18

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1 Ja Herra näkyi hänelle Mamren lakeudella; jossa hän istui majan ovella, koska päivä oli palavimmallansa.

2 Koska hän silmänsä nosti ja näki, katso kolme miestä seisoivat hänen edessänsä: ja kuin hän näki heidät, juoksi hän heitä vastaan majan ovelta, ja kumarsi itsensä maahan.

3 Ja sanoi: Herra, jos minä olen armon löytänyt sinun edessäs, niin älä mene palvelias ohitse.

4 Ja sallikaat tuotaa vähä vettä pestäksenne teidän jalkanne, ja levätkäät teitänne puun alla.

5 Ja minä tuon teidän eteenne kappaleen leipää, virvottaaksenne teidän sydäntänne, ja sitte menkäät: sillä sentähden te poikkesitte teidän palvelianne tykö. Ja he sanoivat: tee niin kuin sinä olet puhunut.

6 Niin Abraham riensi majaan Saaran tykö, ja sanoi: riennä sinuas ja tuo kolme mittaa sämpyläjauhoja, sotke ja leivo kaltiaisia.

7 Ja Abraham juoksi karjan tykö: ja toi nuoren ja kauniin vasikan, ja antoi palveliallensa, joka riensi valmistamaan sitä.

8 Ja hän toi voita ja maitoa, ja vasikasta, jota hän valmistanut oli, ja pani heidän eteensä: ja hän seisoi heidän edessänsä puun alla ja he söivät.

9 Niin sanoivat he hänelle: kussa on Saara sinun emäntäs? hän vastasi: täällä majassa.

10 Ja hän sanoi: tosin minä palajan sinun tykös, liki tällä vuoden ajalla, ja katso, Saaralla emännälläs on poika. Ja Saara kuuli sen majan ovelle, joka oli hänen takanansa.

11 Mutta Abraham ja Saara olivat vanhat ja ijälliseksi joutuneet; niin että Saaralta olivat lakanneet vaimolliset menot.

12 Sentähden nauroi Saara itsellensä, ja sanoi: nyt koska minä vanha olen, antanenko minä itseni hekumaan? ja minun herrani on vanhentunut.

13 Ja Herra sanoi Abrahamille: miksi Saara nauroi, sanoen: pitäneeköstä todellakin minun synnyttämän, joka olen vanhaksi tullut?

14 Onko Herralle jotakin mahdotointa? Määrättyyn aikaan, koska minä palajan sinun tykös, tällä vuoden ajalla, niin Saaralla on poika.

15 Niin Saara kielsi, sanoen: en minä nauranut: sillä hän hämmästyi. Mutta hän sanoi: ei ole niin, sinä nauroit.

16 Silloin nousivat miehet sieltä, ja käänsivät heitänsä Sodomaan päin: ja Abraham meni heidän kanssansa, saattamaan heitä.

17 Ja Herra sanoi: kuinka minä salaan Abrahamilta, jota minä teen?

18 Että Abraham tulee suureksi ja väkeväksi kansaksi, ja kaikki kansat maan päällä pitää hänessä siunatuksi tuleman.

19 Sillä minä tunnen hänen, että hän käskee lapsiansa ja huonettansa hänen jälkeensä Herran tietä pitämään, ja tekemään hurskautta ja oikeutta: että Herra saattais Abrahamille kaikki, kuin hän hänelle luvannut on.

20 Ja Herra sanoi: Sodomassa ja Gomorrassa on suuri huuto, ja heidän syntinsä ovat sangen raskaat.

21 Minä astun nyt alas ja katson, jos he täydellisesti tehneet ovat huudon jälkeen, joka minun eteeni tullut on; taikka jos ei niin ole, että minä sen tietäisin.

22 Ja miehet käänsivät itsensä sieltä, ja menivät Sodomaan päin. Mutta Abraham jäi seisomaan vielä Herran eteen.

23 Ja Abraham astui hänen tykönsä, ja sanoi: hukutatkos myös vanhurskaan jumalattoman kanssa?

24 Jos kaupungissa olisi viisikymmentä vanhurskasta, hukuttaisitkos myös ne, ja et säästäisi sitä siaa viidenkymmenen vanhurskaan tähden, jotka siellä olisivat?

25 Pois se sinusta, ettäs sen tekisit, ja kuolettaisit vanhurskaan jumalattoman kanssa, ja että vanhurskaalle kävis niinkuin jumalattomallekin. Pois se sinusta: Eikö kaiken maailman tuomari oikein tuomitsisi?

26 Herra sanoi: jos minä löydän viisikymmentä vanhurskasta Sodoman kaupungissa; niin minä säästän kaiken sen paikan heidän tähtensä.

27 Abraham vastasi ja sanoi: katso, minä olen ruvennut puhumaan minun Herrani kanssa; ehkä minä tomu ja tuhka olen.

28 Mitämaks, jos oli vailla viisi niistä viidestäkymmenestä vanhurskaasta, kadottaisitkos viiden tähden koko kaupungin? ja hän sanoi: en kadota, jos minä löydän siellä viisiviidettäkymmentä.

29 Ja hän puhui vielä hänelle, ja sanoi: mitämaks, siinä löyttäisiin neljäkymmentä? ja hän sanoi: en tee minä neljänkymmenen tähden.

30 Abraham sanoi: älköön minun Herrani vihastuko, että minä vielä puhun: mitämaks, löyttäisiin siellä kolmekymmentä? ja hän sanoi: en minä tee, jos minä löydän siellä kolmekymmentä.

31 Ja hän sanoi taas: katso, minä olen ruvennut puhumaan minun Herrani kanssa: mitämaks, löyttäisiin siellä kaksikymmentä? ja hän sanoi: en kadota heitä kahdenkymmenen tähden.

32 Ja hän vielä sanoi: älköön minun Herrani vihastuko, jos minä ainoastansa tällä erällä puhu: mitämaks, siellä löyttäisiin kymmenen? ja hän sanoi: en kadota heitä kymmenen tähden.

33 Ja Herra meni pois sitte kuin hän oli Abrahamin kanssa puhunut: ja Abraham palasi kotiansa.

   


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2180. And took a son of an ox tender and good. That this signifies the celestial natural which the rational associated to itself, in order that it might conjoin itself with the perception from the Divine, is evident from the signification in the Word of a “bullock” or “son of an ox,” as being natural good. And as the Lord’s rational is treated of, it is called “tender” from the celestial-spiritual, or the truth of good; and “good” from the celestial itself, or good itself. In the genuine rational there is the affection of truth and the affection of good; but its chief thing [primarium] is the affection of truth (as before shown, n. 2072). Hence it is first called “tender,” and yet is called both “tender and good,” according to the usual practice in the Word, to indicate the marriage of good and truth (spoken of above, n. 2173).

[2] That a “bullock,” or “son of an ox,” signifies the celestial natural, or what is the same, natural good, is especially evident from the sacrifices, which were the principal representatives of worship in the Hebrew Church, and afterwards in the Jewish. Their sacrifices were made either from the herd or from the flock, thus from animals of various kinds that were clean, such as oxen, bullocks, he-goats, sheep, rams, she-goats, kids, and lambs; besides turtledoves and young pigeons, all of which animals signified internal things of worship, that is, things celestial and spiritual (n. 2165, 2177); the animals taken from the herd signifying celestial natural things, and those from the flock celestial rational things; and as both the natural and the rational things are more and more interior, and are various, therefore so many kinds and species of those animals were made use of in the sacrifices; as is also evident from its being prescribed what animals should be offered-in the burnt-offerings; in the sacrifices of various kinds, as in those that were daily, those of the Sabbaths and festivals, those that were voluntary, those for thanksgiving and vows, those expiatory of guilt and sin, those of purifying and cleansing, and those of inauguration-and also from their being expressly named, and how many of them should be used in each kind of sacrifice; which would never have been done unless each had signified some special thing. This is very evident from those passages where the sacrifices are treated of (as Exodus 29; Leviticus 1, 3, 4, 9, 16, 23; Numbers 7, 8, 15, 29). But this is not the place to set forth what each one signified. The case is similar in the Prophets where these animals are named, and from them it is evident that “bullocks” signified celestial natural things.

[3] That no other than heavenly things were signified, is also evident from the cherubs seen by Ezekiel, and from the animals before the throne seen by John. Concerning the cherubs the Prophet says:

The likeness of their faces was the face of a man, and they four had the face of a lion on the right side, and they four had the face of an ox on the left side, and they four had the face of an eagle (Ezekiel 1:10).

Concerning the four animals before the throne John says:

Around the throne were four animals; the first animal was like a lion, the second animal like a young bullock, the third animal had a face like a man, the fourth animal was like a flying eagle; saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come (Revelation 4:6-8).

Everyone can see that holy things were represented by the cherubs and by these animals, and also by the oxen and young bullocks in the sacrifices. In like manner in the prophecy of Moses concerning Joseph:

Let it come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him that was a Nazirite from his brethren. The firstling of his ox, honor is his; and his horns are the horns of the unicorn, with them he shall push the peoples together, to the ends of the earth (Deuteronomy 33:16-17).

None can understand these things unless it is known what an ox, a unicorn, horns, and other things signify in the internal sense.

[4] As regards sacrifices in general, they were indeed enjoined through Moses on the people of Israel, but the Most Ancient Church, that existed before the flood, knew nothing whatever about sacrifices; nor did it even come into their minds to worship the Lord by slaughtering animals. The Ancient Church, that existed after the flood, was likewise unacquainted with sacrifices. This church was indeed in representatives, but not in sacrifices. In fact sacrifices were first instituted in the following church, which was called the Hebrew Church, and from this spread to the nations, and from the same source they came to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and thus to the descendants of Jacob. That the nations were in a worship of sacrifices, was shown above (n. 1343); and that so were Jacob’s posterity before they went out of Egypt, thus before sacrifices were commanded by Moses upon Mount Sinai, is evident from what is said in Exodus 5:3; 10:25, 27; 18:12; 24:4-5; and especially from their idolatrous worship before the golden calf.

[5] Thus described in Moses:

Aaron built an altar before the calf, and Aaron made proclamation and said, Tomorrow is the feast of Jehovah. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat, and to drink, and rose up to play (Exodus 32:5-6).

This was done while Moses was upon Mount Sinai, and thus before the command concerning the altar and the sacrifices came to them. The command came on this account-that the worship of sacrifices had become idolatrous with them, as it had with the gentiles, and from this worship they could not be withdrawn, because they regarded it as the chief holy thing. For what has once been implanted from infancy as holy, especially if by fathers, and thus inrooted, the Lord never breaks, but bends, unless it is contrary to order itself. This is the reason why it was directed that sacrifices should be instituted in the way described in the books of Moses.

[6] That sacrifices were by no means acceptable to Jehovah, thus were merely permitted and tolerated for the reason just stated, is very evident in the Prophets, as we read in Jeremiah:

Thus saith Jehovah Zebaoth the God of Israel, Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh. I spoke not unto your fathers, and I commanded them not in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offering and sacrifice; but this word I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God (Jeremiah 7:21-23).

In David:

O Jehovah, sacrifice and offering Thou hast not willed, burnt-offering and sin-offering Thou hast not required. I have desired to do Thy will, O my God (Psalms 40:6, 8).

In the same:

Thou delightest not in sacrifice, that I should give it; burnt-offering Thou dost not accept. The sacrifices of God are a broken 1 spirit (Psalms 51:16-17).

In the same:

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds; sacrifice to God confession (Psalms 50:9, 13-14; 107:21-22; 116:17; Deuteronomy 23:19).

In Hosea:

I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings (Hos. 6:6).

Samuel said to Saul:

Hath Jehovah pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to hearken than the fat of rams (1 Samuel 15:22).

In Micah:

Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself to the high God? Shall I come before Him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old? Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself in walking with thy God (Micah 6:6-8).

[7] From all this it is now evident that sacrifices were not commanded, but permitted; also that nothing else was regarded in the sacrifices than what is internal; and that it was the internal, not the external, that was acceptable. On this account also, the Lord abrogated them, as was likewise foretold by Daniel in these words:

In the midst of the week shall He cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease (Daniel 9:27),

where the Lord’s advent is treated of. (See what is said concerning sacrifices in volume 1, n. 922-923, 1128, 1823.) As regards the “son of an ox” which Abraham “made” or prepared for the three men, the case is the same as with that animal in the sacrifices. That it had a like signification is evident also from his telling Sarah to take three measures of fine flour. Concerning the fine flour to a bullock, we read in Moses:

When ye be come into the land; when thou shalt make a son of an ox a burnt-offering or a sacrifice, in pronouncing publicly a vow, or peace-offerings unto Jehovah, thou shalt offer upon the son of an ox a meat offering of three tenths of fine flour, mingled with oil (Numbers 15:8-9), where it is in like manner “three,” here “three tenths,” and above, “three measures;” but to a ram there were to be only two tenths, and to a lamb one tenth (Numbers 15:4-6).

脚注:

1. Contritus; but infractus n. 9818.

  
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Exodus 29

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1 "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

3 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.

4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

5 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;

6 and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.

7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.

8 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.

9 You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

10 "You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

11 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

12 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

13 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

14 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.

15 "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

16 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.

17 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

19 "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

21 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

22 Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),

23 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.

24 You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

26 "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your portion.

27 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

28 and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering: and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.

29 "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

30 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

31 "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.

32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.

34 If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

35 "You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.

36 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.

37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

38 "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.

39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening:

40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.

43 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office.

45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

46 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.