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Leviticus 8

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1 I mluvil Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, řka:

2 Vezmi Arona a syny jeho s ním, i roucha jejich a olej pomazání, též volka k oběti za hřích, a dva skopce, a koš s přesnými chleby,

3 A shromažď všecko množství ke dveřím stánku úmluvy.

4 I učinil Mojžíš, jakž přikázal jemu Hospodin, a shromáždilo se všecko množství ke dveřím stánku úmluvy.

5 Tedy řekl Mojžíš tomu množství: Totoť jest to slovo, kteréž přikázal vykonati Hospodin.

6 A rozkázav přistoupiti Mojžíš Aronovi a synům jeho, umyl je vodou.

7 A oblékl jej v sukni a přepásal ho pasem, a oděv ho pláštěm, dal náramenník svrchu na něj, a připásal jej pasem náramenníka a otáhl ho jím.

8 A vložil na něj náprsník, do něhožto dal urim a thumim.

9 Potom vstavil čepici na hlavu jeho; a dal na čepici jeho po předu plech zlatý, korunu svatou, jakož přikázal Hospodin Mojžíšovi.

10 Vzal také Mojžíš olej pomazání a pomazal příbytku i všech věcí, kteréž byly v něm, a posvětil jich.

11 A pokropil jím oltáře sedmkrát, a pomazal oltáře i všeho nádobí jeho, též umyvadla i s podstavkem jeho, aby to všecko posvěceno bylo.

12 Vlil také oleje pomazání na hlavu Aronovu, a pomazal ho ku posvěcení jeho.

13 Rozkázal také Mojžíš přistoupiti synům Aronovým, a zobláčel je v sukně, a opásal je pasem, a vstavil na ně klobouky, jakož byl přikázal Hospodin jemu.

14 A přivedl volka k oběti za hřích, i položil Aron a synové jeho ruce své na hlavu volka oběti za hřích.

15 I zabil jej a vzal krev jeho, a pomazal rohů oltáře vůkol prstem svým, a tak očistil oltář. Ostatek pak krve vylil k spodku oltáře a posvětil ho k očišťování na něm.

16 Vzal také všecken tuk, kterýž byl na střevách, a branici s jater a obě ledvinky i tuk jejich, a pálil to Mojžíš na oltáři.

17 Volka pak toho i kůži jeho, i maso jeho, i lejna jeho spálil ohněm vně za stany, jakož byl přikázal Hospodin Mojžíšovi.

18 Potom přivedl skopce oběti zápalné, a položil Aron i synové jeho ruce své na hlavu toho skopce.

19 I zabil jej, a pokropil Mojžíš krví oltáře po vrchu vůkol.

20 Skopce také rozsekal na kusy jeho, a pálil Mojžíš hlavu, kusy i tuk.

21 Střeva pak a nohy vymyl vodou, a tak spálil Mojžíš všeho skopce na oltáři. I byl zápal u vůni líbeznou, obět ohnivá Hospodinu, jakož přikázal Hospodin Mojžíšovi.

22 Rozkázal také přivésti skopce druhého, skopce posvěcení, a položil Aron i synové jeho ruce své na hlavu skopce.

23 I zabil jej, a vzav Mojžíš krve jeho, pomazal jí konce pravého ucha Aronova a palce ruky jeho pravé, i palce nohy jeho pravé.

24 Tolikéž synům Aronovým rozkázav přistoupiti, pomazal kraje ucha jejich pravého a palce ruky jejich pravé, též palce nohy jejich pravé, a vykropil krev na oltář svrchu vůkol.

25 Potom vzal tuk a ocas i všecken tuk přikrývající droby a branici s jater, též obě dvě ledvinky i tuk jejich i plece pravé.

26 Také z koše přesných chlebů, kteříž byli před Hospodinem, vzal jeden koláč přesný a jeden pecník chleba s olejem a jeden oplatek, a položil to s tukem a s plecem pravým.

27 A dal to všecko v ruce Aronovy a v ruce synů jeho, rozkázav obraceti sem i tam v obět obracení před Hospodinem.

28 Potom vzav z rukou jejich, pálil to na oltáři v zápal. Posvěcení toto jest u vůni rozkošnou, obět ohnivá Hospodinu.

29 Vzal také Mojžíš hrudí a obracel je sem i tam v obět obracení před Hospodinem;a z skopce posvěcení dostal se Mojžíšovi díl, jakož mu byl přikázal Hospodin.

30 Vzal také Mojžíš oleje pomazání a krve, kteráž byla na oltáři, a pokropil Arona i roucha jeho, též synů Aronových a roucha jejich s ním. A tak posvětil Arona i roucha jeho, též synů jeho i roucha jejich s ním.

31 I řekl Mojžíš Aronovi a synům jeho: Vařte to maso u dveří stánku úmluvy, a jezte je tu, i chléb, kterýž jest v koši posvěcení, jakož jsem přikázal, řka: Aron a synové jeho jísti budou je.

32 Což by pak zůstalo masa i chleba toho, ohněm to spálíte.

33 A ze dveří stánku úmluvy za sedm dní nevycházejte až do dne, v kterémž by se vyplnili dnové svěcení vašeho; nebo za sedm dní posvěcovány budou ruce vaše.

34 Jakož se stalo dnešní den, tak přikázal Hospodin činiti k očištění vašemu.

35 Protož u dveří stánku úmluvy zůstanete ve dne i v noci za sedm dní, a ostříhati budete nařízení Hospodinova, abyste nezemřeli; nebo tak mi jest přikázáno.

36 Učinil tedy Aron i synové jeho všecky věci, kteréž přikázal Hospodin skrze Mojžíše.

   

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #9229

Studere hoc loco

  
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9229. 'And men of holiness shall you be to Me' means a state of life then composed of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'men of holiness' as those who are led by the Lord, for the Divine which emanates from the Lord is holiness itself, 6788, 7499, 8127 (end), 8302, 8806. Consequently those who receive that emanation in faith and also in love are called holy ones. Anyone who imagines that a person is holy from any other source, or that anything present with a person is holy apart from that which comes and is received from the Lord is very much mistaken; for that which is the person's own, and is called his proprium, is evil.

The human proprium is nothing but evil, see 210, 215, 694, 874-876, 987, 1047, 4328, 5660, 5786, 8480, 8944.

To the extent that a person can be withheld from his proprium, the Lord can be present with him, and therefore to the same extent holiness resides with him, 1023, 1044, 1581, 2256, 2388, 2406, 2411, 8206, 8393, 8988 (end), 9014.

[2] The truth that the Lord is the Only Holy One, and that nothing is holy except that which emanates from the Lord, and so that which a person receives from the Lord, is evident from everywhere in the Word, as in John,

I make Myself holy, that they also may be made holy in the truth. John 17:19.

'Making Himself holy' means making Himself Divine by His own power. Consequently those who receive Divine Truth emanating from the Lord in faith and life are said to be 'made holy in the truth'.

[3] This also explains why after the Resurrection, when the Lord spoke to the disciples, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit, John 20:22. 'Breathing on (or into)' was a sign that represented the imparting of life through faith and love, as also in Genesis,

Jehovah breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man (homo) became a living soul. Genesis 2:7.

Other examples like this may be seen elsewhere, such as Psalms 33:6; 104:29-30; Job 32:8; 33:4; John 3:8. Therefore also the Word is said to be inspired because it comes from the Lord, and those who wrote the Word have been called 'inspired'. Breathing, and so breathing on or inspiring, corresponds to the life of faith, see 97, 1119, 1120, 3883-3896. This explains why the term spirit in the Word is derived from the word for wind, and holiness from the Lord is called Jehovah's wind, 8286, and why the Holy Spirit is the holiness emanating from the Lord, 3704, 4673 (end), 5307, 6788, 6982, 6993, 8127 (end), 8302, 9199.

[4] So also it says in John 1:33 that the Lord baptizes with the Holy Spirit, and in Luke 3:16 that He baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 'Baptizing' in the internal sense means regenerating, 4255, 5120 (end), 9088; 'baptizing with the Holy Spirit' means regenerating by means of the good of faith; and 'baptizing with fire' means regenerating by means of the good of love, 'fire' being the good of love, see 934, 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324. In John,

Who is not going to fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. Revelation 15:4.

In Luke the angel telling Mary about the Lord said,

That which is holy will be born from you. Luke 1:35.

And in Daniel,

I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and behold, a vigilant and holy one came down from heaven. Daniel 4:13.

In these places 'that which is holy' and 'a holy one' stand for the Lord.

[5] Because the Lord alone is holy He is called in the Old Testament the Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer, the Saviour, and the Regenerator, as in Isaiah 1:4; 5:19, 24; 10:20; 12:6; 17:7; 29:19; 30:11-12, 15; 31:1; 37:23; 41:14, 16, 20; 43:3, 14; 45:11; 47:4; 48:17; 49:7; 54:5; 55:5; 60:9, 14; Jeremiah 50:29; 51:5; Ezekiel 39:7; Psalms 71:22; 78:41; 89:18. This is why the Lord in heaven, and consequently heaven itself, is called the dwelling-place of holiness, Jeremiah 25:30; 31:23; 1 Isaiah 63:15; the sanctuary, 2 Ezekiel 11:16; 24:21; and also the mountain of holiness, Psalms 3:4. It is also why the middle of the tent [of meeting], where the ark containing the law was, was called The Holy of Holies, Exodus 26:33-34; for the law in the ark in the middle of the tent [of meeting], represented the Lord in respect of the Word. For the law is the Word, 6752, 7463.

[6] All this shows why it is that the angels are called holy in Matthew 25:31; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; Psalms 149:1; Daniel 8:13; also the prophets, Luke 1:70; and the apostles too, Revelation 18:20. Not that they are holy by their own virtue but that the Lord, who alone is holy and the only source of holiness, makes them so. For truths are meant by 'the angels', because they are those who receive truth from the Lord, 1925, 4085, 4295, 4402, 7268, 7873, 8192, 8301; teachings which present the truth that comes through the Word from the Lord are meant by 'the prophets', 2534, 7269; and all the truths and forms of the good of faith in their entirety which come from the Lord are meant by 'the apostles', 3488, 3858 (end), 6397.

[7] Consecrations 3 among the Israelite and Jewish people took place in order that the Lord who alone was holy might be represented, and in order that holiness, which He alone is the source of, might be represented. This is the reason for the consecration of Aaron and his sons, Exodus 29:1ff; Leviticus 8:10-11, 13, 30; the consecration of their garments, Exodus 29:21ff; the consecration of the altar in order that it might be most holy, 4 Exodus 29:37ff; the consecration of the tent of meeting, the ark of the Testimony, the table, all the vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering and its vessels, and the laver and its base, Exodus 30:26ff.

[8] The truth that the Lord is the real Holiness that was represented is evident also from the Lord's words in Matthew when they are seen in the internal sense,

Fools and blind! Which of the two is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold holy? And which of the two is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? Matthew 23:17-19.

'The temple' represented the Lord Himself, and so did 'the altar', while 'the gold' was a sign of the good that comes from the Lord, and 'the gift' or a sacrifice was a sign of things constituting faith and charity that come from the Lord.

The Lord was represented by 'the temple', see 2777, 3720, and by 'the altar', 2777, 2811, 4489, 8935, 8940. 'Gold' was a sign of good that comes from the Lord, 1551, 1552, 5658, and 'a sacrifice' a sign of worship springing from faith and charity that come from the Lord, 922, 923, 2805, 2807, 2830, 6905, 8680, 8682, 8936.

[9] From all this it is now evident why it is that the children of Israel were called a holy people in Deuteronomy 26:19 and elsewhere, or as in the present verse men of holiness. That is to say, they were so called because every single aspect of their worship represented Divine realities that are the Lord's, and celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom and Church. On this account they were called holy in a representative sense; they themselves were not holy on that account, because representatives had regard to the holy things that were represented, not to the person who represented them, see 665, 1097 (end), 1361, 3147, 3881 (end), 4208, 4281, 4288, 4293, 4307, 4444, 4500, 6304, 7048, 7439, 8588, 8788, 8806.

[10] On that account also was Jerusalem called holy, and Zion the mountain of holiness in Zechariah 8:3 and elsewhere, as well as in Matthew,

And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of dead holy ones were raised; and coming out of their tombs after the Lord's resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. Matthew 27:52-53.

Here Jerusalem is called 'the holy city', when in fact, quite to the contrary, it was unholy because the Lord was crucified there at that time, for which reason it is called 'Sodom and Egypt' in John,

Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Revelation 11:8.

Yet it is called holy, because it means the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 402, 2117, 3654. The appearance of 'dead holy ones' there, an event witnessed by some in vision, was a sign of the salvation of people who belonged to the spiritual Church, and of the raising of those people to the Holy Jerusalem, which is heaven - the people who had been kept up to that time on the lower earth, spoken of in 6854, 6914, 7091, 7828, 7932, 8049, 8054, 8159, 8321.

V:

1Jeremiah 31:23 refers to a dwelling-place of righteousness [and] mountain of holiness, to be exact

2. i.e. an especially holy place

3. i.e. dedicating persons or things to holy functions or purposes

4. literally, the holiness of holinesses

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Psalms 105

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1 Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

2 Sing to him, Sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

3 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

4 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

6 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

7 He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

8 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

9 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

10 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

11 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"

12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

13 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

14 He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

15 "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"

16 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

18 They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

19 until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh's word proved him true.

20 The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

22 to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

23 Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

24 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

26 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

27 They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.

29 He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

30 Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.

31 He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

32 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

33 He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

35 ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.

36 He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.

37 He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

39 He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

40 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

42 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

43 He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.

44 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

45 that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!