491. The same things are signified by “sons” and “daughters” in this chapter (verses 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 26, 30), but such as is the church, such are the “sons and daughters” that is, such are the goods and truths; the truths and goods here spoken of are such as were distinctly perceived, because they are predicated of the Most Ancient Church, the principal and parent of all the other and succeeding churches.
Arcana Coelestia #9805
9805. THE INTERNAL SENSE
Verses 1-2 And you, cause Aaron your brother to come near to you, and his sons with him, from the midst of the children of Israel, so that they may serve Me in the priestly office - Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron. And you shall make holy garments 1 for Aaron your brother, for glorious adornment. 2
'And you, cause Aaron your brother to come near to you' means the joining of Divine Truth to Divine Good within the Lord's Divine Human. 'And his sons' means Divine Truth emanating from Divine Good. 'From the midst of the children of Israel' means in heaven and in the Church. 'So that they may serve Me in the priestly office' means that which is representative of the Lord. 'Aaron' means in respect of the Divine Celestial. 'Nadab and Abihu' means in respect of the Divine Spiritual that springs from it. 'Eleazar and Ithamar' means in respect of the Divine Natural. 'The sons of Aaron' means things which emanate from the Divine Celestial. 'And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother' means a representative sign of the spiritual kingdom lying adjacent to the celestial kingdom. 'For glorious adornment' means in order to display Divine Truth as it exists in its inward form and its outward form in the spiritual kingdom lying adjacent to the celestial kingdom.
Footnotes:
Numbers 31:19-24
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"Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
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As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves."
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Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
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however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
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You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."
