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3 Mose 6

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1 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

2 Gebiete Aaron und seinen Söhnen und sprich: Dies ist das Gesetz des Brandopfers. Dieses, das Brandopfer, soll auf seiner Feuerstelle sein, auf dem Altar, die ganze Nacht bis an den Morgen; und das Feuer des Altars soll auf demselben in Brand erhalten werden.

3 Und der Priester soll sein leinenes Kleid anziehen, und soll seine leinenen Beinkleider anziehen über sein Fleisch; und er soll die Fettasche abheben, wozu das Feuer das Brandopfer auf dem Altar verzehrt hat, und soll sie neben den Altar schütten. (W. setzen)

4 Und er soll seine Kleider ausziehen und andere Kleider anlegen und die Fettasche hinaustragen außerhalb des Lagers an einen reinen Ort.

5 Und das Feuer auf dem Altar soll auf demselben in Brand erhalten werden, es soll nicht erlöschen; und der Priester soll Holz auf ihm (d. h. dem Feuer) anzünden, Morgen für Morgen, und das Brandopfer auf ihm zurichten, und die Fettstücke der Friedensopfer auf ihm räuchern.

6 Ein beständiges Feuer soll auf dem Altar in Brand erhalten werden, es soll nicht erlöschen.

7 Und dies ist das Gesetz des Speisopfers: Einer der Söhne Aarons soll es vor Jehova darbringen vor dem Altar.

8 Und er soll davon seine Hand voll nehmen, (Eig. abheben) vom Feinmehl des Speisopfers und von dessen Öl, und allen Weihrauch, der auf dem Speisopfer ist, und es auf dem Altar räuchern: es ist ein lieblicher Geruch, sein (nämlich des Opfers; vergl. Kap. 2,2) Gedächtnisteil für Jehova.

9 Und das Übrige davon sollen Aaron und seine Söhne essen; ungesäuert soll es gegessen werden an heiligem Orte; im Vorhofe des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft sollen sie es essen.

10 Es soll nicht gesäuert gebacken werden; als ihren Anteil habe ich es ihnen gegeben von meinen Feueropfern: hochheilig ist es, wie das Sündopfer und wie das Schuldopfer.

11 Alles Männliche unter den Kindern Aarons soll es essen: ein für ewig Bestimmtes bei euren Geschlechtern von den Feueropfern Jehovas. Alles, was sie anrührt, wird heilig sein.

12 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

13 Dies ist die Opfergabe Aarons und seiner Söhne, welche sie Jehova darbringen sollen an dem Tage, da er gesalbt wird: Ein zehntel Epha Feinmehl als beständiges Speisopfer, die Hälfte davon am Morgen und die Hälfte davon am Abend.

14 Es soll in der Pfanne mit Öl bereitet werden, eingerührt mit Öl sollst du es bringen; gebackene Speisopferstücke sollst du darbringen als einen lieblichen Geruch dem Jehova.

15 Und der Priester, der unter seinen Söhnen an seiner Statt gesalbt wird, soll es opfern; eine ewige Satzung: es soll dem Jehova ganz geräuchert werden.

16 Und jedes Speisopfer des Priesters soll ein Ganzopfer (ein Opfer, das ganz verbrannt wurde) sein; es soll nicht gegessen werden.

17 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

18 ede zu Aaron und zu seinen Söhnen und sprich: Dies ist das Gesetz des Sündopfers. An dem Orte, wo das Brandopfer geschlachtet wird, soll das Sündopfer geschlachtet werden vor Jehova: hochheilig ist es.

19 Der Priester, der es als Sündopfer opfert, soll es essen; an heiligem Orte soll es gegessen werden, im Vorhofe des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft.

20 Alles, was sein Fleisch anrührt, wird heilig sein; und wenn von seinem Blute auf ein Kleid spritzt-das, worauf es spritzt, sollst du waschen an heiligem Orte.

21 Und das irdene Gefäß, in welchem es gekocht wird, soll zerbrochen werden, und wenn es in einem ehernen Gefäß gekocht wird, so soll dieses gescheuert und mit Wasser gespült werden.

22 Alles Männliche unter den Priestern soll es essen: hochheilig ist es.

23 Aber alles Sündopfer, von dessen Blut in das Zelt der Zusammenkunft gebracht wird, um im Heiligtum Sühnung zu tun, soll nicht gegessen werden; es soll mit Feuer verbrannt werden.

   

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #10133

Studere hoc loco

  
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10133. 'A continual [offering]' means within all Divine worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'continual', when it refers to such things as belong to Divine worship, as all and within all. For the subject is purification from evils and falsities by means of the good of innocence, this good being meant by 'lambs' and purification from evils and consequent falsities by a burnt offering of them. This is called 'continual' because it must be present in all Divine worship. Therefore also the offering was presented twice each day, in the morning and in the evening; and offerings made morning and evening served in general to represent all worship and what must be present within all worship. The good of innocence must be in all good, and consequently in all truth, if they are to be goodness and truth that have life from the Divine within them, and so it must be within all worship. For all worship, to be worship, must spring from the good of love and from the truths of faith.

All of the Church's and of heaven's good has innocence within it, and without that innocence good is not good, nor therefore is worship worship, see 2736, 2780, 6013, 7840, 7887, 9262.

What innocence is, 3994, 4001, 4797, 5236, 6107, 6765, 7902, 9262, 9936, and the places referred to in 10021 (end).

[2] 'Continual' means all and within all - that is to say, the all of worship, and within all worship - because it is a term that has a temporal connotation and in heaven, where the Word is understood not in the natural but in the spiritual sense, people have no notions of time. Instead of periods of time they perceive the kinds of things that are states. By 'continual' at this point therefore they perceive a perpetual state within worship, thus the all of worship and within all worship. The same applies to all other terms in the Word which have temporal connotations, such as yesterday, today, tomorrow, two days, three days, daily, a week, a month, a year, also times of day and seasons of the year - morning, midday, evening, night, spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Therefore if the spiritual sense of the Word is to be understood, any idea of a period of time acquired from its natural sense, any idea of a place as well, indeed any idea of an actual person must be set aside, and states of things must be conceived of instead. From this it may be seen how perfect the Word is in its internal sense, and so how perfect is the perception of it by the angels in heaven, consequently how much more excellent angels' wisdom and understanding are than the understanding and wisdom of people in the world, who think with solely natural vision focused on the completely finite things of this world and planet. Regarding periods of time in heaven, that they are states, see 1274, 1382, 2625, 2788, 2837, 3254, 3356, 3404, 3827, 4814, 4882, 4901, 4916, 6110, 7218, 7381, 8070; and regarding what states are, 4850.

[3] From all this it is evident what the continual burnt offering of lambs means, and so what 'continual' and 'continually' mean elsewhere, as in the commands that 'the fire shall burn continually on the altar', Leviticus 6:13, and that 'the continual bread shall be on the table', Numbers 4:7. 'The fire' there and 'the bread' mean the good of love received from the Lord and offered back to Him. For 'the fire', that it has this meaning, see 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324, 7852, 10055; and also for 'the bread', 2165, 2177, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976, 9323, 9545. In those places as well 'continual' means in addition that this good must be present in all worship; and the fact that the same good is the source from which the truth of faith must shine, as if from its fire, is meant by the decree that they were to cause a lamp to go up 1 continually, Exodus 27:20, 'a lamp' being the truth and good of faith, see 9548, 9783.

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1. i.e. to burn

  
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from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #6849

Studere hoc loco

  
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6849. 'For he was afraid to look at God' means for fear that they should suffer harm from the presence of the Divine itself. This is clear from the meaning of 'being afraid' as for fear that they, interior things, should suffer harm (for this was the reason for his fear); and from the meaning of 'looking at God' as the presence of the Divine itself. For the only way in which the Lord can make Himself present before a person is through the persons inner seeing, through seeing Him with the eye of faith that belongs to charity. If the Lord does manifest Himself in an outward visible form to someone, it is still the inner levels of mind that are affected, for the Divine reaches into the deepest parts of him. With regard to the meaning here, that interior things should not suffer harm from the presence of the Divine itself, and that therefore they were to be protected, the situation is this: The Divine itself is pure love, and pure love is like a fire hotter than the fire of the sun in this world. Consequently if Divine Love in its purity were to flow into any angel, spirit, or man, he would be completely destroyed, which is why so many times in the Word Jehovah or the Lord is called a consuming fire. To ensure therefore that the angels in heaven suffer no harm from the flow of heat from the Lord as the sun, each of them is veiled with a kind of thin cloud suited to the individual, which moderates the heat flowing in from that sun.

[2] The truth that without this form of preservation everyone would be destroyed by the presence of the Divine had been well known to the ancients, which was why they were afraid of seeing God, as is clear in the Book of Judges,

Gideon saw that he was the angel of Jehovah, therefore Gideon said, O Lord Jehovah! Inasmuch as I have seen the angel of Jehovah face to face. And Jehovah said to him, Peace be to you; do not fear, for you will not die. Judges 6:12, 23.

In the same book,

Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, for we have seen God. Judges 13:22.

And in the Book of Exodus,

Jehovah said to Moses, You cannot see My face, for no man will see My face and live. Exodus 33:20.

[3] When therefore Moses was allowed to see God, he was placed in a cleft of the rock, Exodus 33:22, which represented the dimness of his faith, and the clouds that hid and protected him. How dangerous it can be for angels to be beheld by the Divine without being covered by a cloud is made very clear by the fact that when angels look at any spirit who is governed by evil he seems to change into something resembling a lifeless object, as I have often been allowed to see. The reason why this happens is that when the angels look at someone there is cast in his direction the light and heat of heaven, and the truth of faith and the good of love with them, which - when these penetrate - virtually deprive the evil of life.

[4] If this is what happens when angels look at them, what would happen if the Lord did so? This explains why the hells are utterly remote from heaven, and why those who are there wish to be remote, for if they are not they suffer dreadful torment. This makes plain the meaning of the following words, They will say to the mountains and rocks, Rush down on us and hide us from the face of Him who is seated on the throne. Revelation 6:16; Luke 23:30; Hosea 10:8.

[5] Thus the presence of the Divine itself is such that no angel can bear it unless he is protected by a cloud which tempers and moderates the rays of light and the heat from that sun. From this one may recognize plainly that the Lord's Human is Divine, for if it were not Divine it could never have become so united to the Divine itself, called the Father, that they are one, according to the Lord's words in John 14:10 and following verses, and elsewhere. For that which is to receive the Divine in this way must be wholly Divine; what was not Divine from such a union would be plainly reduced to nothing. Let me use a comparison. Can anything be thrown into the fire of the sun and not be destroyed, unless it is similar in nature to the sun? So, can anyone enter the intense heat of infinite love unless he has in him the heat of the same kind of love, consequently unless he is none other than the Lord? The truth that the Father is within Him and that the Father does not show Himself except within His Divine Human is clear from the Lord's words in John,

Nobody has ever seen God; the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has made Him known. John 1:18.

And elsewhere in the same gospel,

You have never heard His voice nor seen His shape. John 5:37.

  
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