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Mooseksen kirja 21

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1 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: puhu papeille Aaronin pojille ja sano heille: papin ei pidä itsiänsä saastuttaman yhdessäkään kuolleessa kansastansa;

2 Vaan hänen suvussansa, joka on hänen lähimmäisensä: niinkuin hänen äitinsä, isänsä, poikansa, tyttärensä ja veljensä,

3 Ja sisarensa, joka neitsy on, joka hänen tykönänsä on, ja ei yhdenkään miehen emäntänä ollut ole: niissä mhtaa hän saastuttaa itsensä.

4 Ei hänen pidä saastuttaman itsiänsä, että hän on esimies kansassansa, ettei hän itsiänsä halventaisi.

5 Ei heidän pidä paljaaksi ajeleman päälakiansa, eli keritsemään partansa vieriä, eikä ihoonsa merkkejä leikkaaman.

6 Heidän pitää Jumalallensa pyhät oleman, ja ei häpäisemän Jumalansa nimeä; sillä he uhraavat Herran tuliuhria, Jumalansa leipää; sentähden pitää heidän oleman pyhät.

7 Ei heidän pidä naiman porttoa, eli muilta maattua, eli mieheltänsä hyljättyä ottaman; sillä hän on pyhä Jumalallensa.

8 Sentähden pitää sinun pyhittämän hänen, että hän uhraa sinun Jumalas leipää: hänen pitää oleman sinulle pyhän; sillä minä Herra olen pyhä, joka teidät pyhitän.

9 Jos papin tytär rupee salavuoteiseksi, se pitää tulessa poltettaman; sillä hän on häväissyt isänsä.

10 Joka ylimmäinen pappi on veljeinsä seassa, jonka pään päälle voidellusöljy vuodatettu, ja käsi täytetty on, että hän vaatteesen puetetaan: ei pidä sen paljastaman päätänsä, ja ei leikkaaman rikki vaatettansa.

11 Ja ei yhdenkään kuolleen tykö tuleman, ja ei saastuttaman itsiänsä isässänsä eli äidissänsä.

12 Ei hänen pidä lähtemän pyhästä, ettei hän saastuttaisi Jumalansa pyhää; sillä hänen Jumalansa voidellusöljyn kruunu on hänen päällänsä. Minä olen Herra.

13 Hänen pitää ottaman neitseen emännäksensä,

14 Ja ei leskeä, eli hyljättyä, eli maattua, taikka porttoa pidä hänen ottaman. Mutta neitosen omasta kansastansa pitää hänen ottaman emännäksensä,

15 Ettei hän saastuttaisi siementänsä kansansa seassa; sillä minä olen Herra, joka hänen pyhitän.

16 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

17 Puhu Aaronille ja sano: jos joku virhe on jossakussa sinun siemenessäs teidän suvussanne, ei pidä sen lähestymän uhraamaan Jumalansa leipää.

18 Sillä ei kenenkään, jossa joku virhe on, pidä käymän edes: jos hän on sokia, eli ontuva, vajava eli liiallinen jäsenistä,

19 Eli virheellinen jalasta eli kädestä,

20 Taikka ryhäselkä, eli pienukainen, eli karsoi, eli pisamainen, taikka rupinen, eli rivinoma rauhaisista:

21 Jos jossakin papin Aaronin siemenessä virhe on, ei sen pidä lähestymän uhraamaan Herran tuliuhria; sillä hänellä on virhe, sentähden ei pidä hänen lähestymän Jumalansa leipää uhraamaan.

22 Kuitenkin pitää hänen syömän Jumalansa leivästä, sekä siitä pyhästä, että kaikkein pyhimmästä.

23 Mutta ei hänen pidä kuitenkaan tuleman esiripun tykö, eikä lähestymän alttaria, että hänessä on virhe, ettei hän saastuttaisi minun pyhääni; sillä minä olen Herra, joka heidät pyhitän.

24 Ja Moses sanoi (nämät) Aaronille, ja hänen pojillensa, ja kaikille Israelin lapsille.

   


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Das Obras de Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia # 6854

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6854. 'And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians' means that He would stoop down to them to release them from the power of false factual knowledge, which tries to destroy the truths of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming down' as stooping down, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'to deliver' as to release, for one who releases people from falsities delivers or sets them free; from the meaning of 'the hand' as the power, dealt with in 878, 3387, 3563, 4931-4937, 5544; and from the meaning of 'the Egyptians' as false factual knowledge, which is opposed to the Church's truths, dealt with in 6651, 6679, 6683, and so which tries to destroy them. As regards the Lord's coming down, the situation is that the Lord is said to come or stoop down when He comes to judgement, 1311, and also when He comes down to lower things, in this instance to those belonging to the spiritual Church, who are meant by 'the children of Israel'. For the subject in the internal sense is the way in which those people are molested by falsities, at which time they undergo temptations, and the way in which after that they are set free in order that they may be led into heaven.

[2] But the contents of the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow hold an even deeper mystery which the Church does not yet know about and which must therefore be disclosed. Those who are termed spiritual are people for whom only the understanding part of their mind, not the will part, can be regenerated. In the understanding part of their mind the Lord therefore implants a new will, a will which conforms to the teachings that compose the faith of their Church. These people, that is to say, spiritual ones such as these, were saved solely by the Lord's Coming into the world. The reason why is that the Divine passing through heaven, which was the Divine Human before the Lord's Coming, could not reach them; for to be sure the teachings of their Church were for the most part not truths, and consequently the good in their will was not good either, 6427. Since those people could be saved solely by the Lord's Coming, they could not be raised into heaven before then. They were therefore kept in the meantime on the lower earth, in places there which in the Word are called 'pits'. This lower earth was besieged on every side by the hells where there were falsities, by which they were molested greatly during that time. In spite of this however the Lord protected them. But after the Lord came into the world and made the Human within Himself Divine, He set free those who were in the pits there and raised them to heaven. From these He also formed the spiritual heaven which is the second heaven. This is what is meant by the Lord's descent into the lower parts 1 and by His deliverance of those who had been bound.

[3] This is the even deeper mystery that is described in the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow. See what has been shown already regarding those who are spiritual,

The spiritual are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned, 2708, 2715, 2718, 2831, 2849, 2935, 2937, 3241, 3833, 6289.

Their obscurity is lightened by the Lord's Divine Human, 2716, 4402.

Because they are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned they are under strong attack from the hells; but the Lord is constantly protecting them, 6419.

Those who are spiritual cannot have the will part of their mind regenerated, only the understanding part; and there the Lord forms a new will, 863, 875, 895, 927, 918, 1023, 1043, 1044, 2156, 4328, 4493, 5113.

The spiritual were saved by the Lord's Coming into the world, 2833, 2834, 3969.

[4] Various places in the prophetical part of the Word mention 'the bound' or 'the bound in the pit' and the fact that the Lord delivered them. The bound' should be taken to mean specifically those spoken of just above, as in Isaiah,

I Jehovah have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, because I will guard you, and give you to be a covenant of the people, 2 a light of the nations, to open the blind eyes, to bring the bound out of prison, out of the dungeon-house those who sit in darkness. Isaiah 42:6-7.

In the same prophet,

I have guarded you, and I have given you as covenant of the people - to restore the land; to share out the devastated inheritances; to say to the bound, Go out; to those who are in darkness, Reveal yourselves. They will feed along the ways, and on all slopes will their pasture be. Isaiah 49:8-9.

This plainly refers to the Lord. 'The bound' stands in particular for those who were held back on the lower earth until the Lord's Coming, when they were raised up to heaven, and in general for all who are governed by good, yet are held back as though bound by falsities, from which however they wish to break away.

[5] In Zechariah,

Through the blood of your covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit. Zechariah 9:11.

In Isaiah,

They will surely be gathered together, the bound ones in the pit, and they will be shut up in the dungeon; after a multitude of days they will be visited. Isaiah 24:21.

'The bound ones in the pit' stands for the same people. And in addition to these places the same meaning can be seen from the following words in Isaiah,

Jehovah has anointed Me to bring good tidings to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the broken in heart; to preach liberty to captives, to those who are bound, to him who is blind; to proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure. Isaiah 61:1-2.

And elsewhere,

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; those dwelling in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shone out. Isaiah 9:2.

Notas de rodapé:

1. i.e. hell

2. 'The Latin means for the people but the Hebrew means of the people, which Swedenborg has in some other places where he quotes this verse.

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