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1 Le huitième jour, Moïse appela Aaron et ses fils, et les anciens d'Israël.

2 Il dit à Aaron: Prends un jeune veau pour le sacrifice d'expiation, et un bélier pour l'holocauste, l'un et l'autre sans défaut, et sacrifie-les devant l'Eternel.

3 Tu parleras aux enfants d'Israël, et tu diras: Prenez un bouc, pour le sacrifice d'expiation, un veau et un agneau, âgés d'un an et sans défaut, pour l'holocauste;

4 un boeuf et un bélier, pour le sacrifice d'actions de grâces, afin de les sacrifier devant l'Eternel; et une offrande pétrie à l'huile. Car aujourd'hui l'Eternel vous apparaîtra.

5 Ils amenèrent devant la tente d'assignation ce que Moïse avait ordonné; et toute l'assemblée s'approcha, et se tint devant l'Eternel.

6 Moïse dit: Vous ferez ce que l'Eternel a ordonné; et la gloire de l'Eternel vous apparaîtra.

7 Moïse dit à Aaron: Approche-toi de l'autel; offre ton sacrifice d'expiation et ton holocauste, et fais l'expiation pour toi et pour le peuple; offre aussi le sacrifice du peuple, et fais l'expiation pour lui, comme l'Eternel l'a ordonné.

8 Aaron s'approcha de l'autel, et il égorgea le veau pour son sacrifice d'expiation.

9 Les fils d'Aaron lui présentèrent le sang; il trempa son doigt dans le sang, en mit sur les cornes de l'autel, et répandit le sang au pied de l'autel.

10 Il brûla sur l'autel la graisse, les rognons, et le grand lobe du foie de la victime expiatoire, comme l'Eternel l'avait ordonné à Moïse.

11 Mais il brûla au feu hors du camp la chair et la peau.

12 Il égorgea l'holocauste. Les fils d'Aaron lui présentèrent le sang, et il le répandit sur l'autel tout autour.

13 Ils lui présentèrent l'holocauste coupé par morceaux, avec la tête, et il les brûla sur l'autel.

14 Il lava les entrailles et les jambes, et il les brûla sur l'autel, par dessus l'holocauste.

15 Ensuite, il offrit le sacrifice du peuple. Il prit le bouc pour le sacrifice expiatoire du peuple, il l'égorgea, et l'offrit en expiation, comme la première victime.

16 Il offrit l'holocauste, et le sacrifia, d'après les règles établies.

17 Il présenta l'offrande, en prit une poignée, et la brûla sur l'autel, outre l'holocauste du matin.

18 Il égorgea le boeuf et le bélier, en sacrifice d'actions de grâces pour le peuple. Les fils d'Aaron lui présentèrent le sang, et il le répandit sur l'autel tout autour.

19 Ils lui présentèrent la graisse du boeuf et du bélier, la queue, la graisse qui couvre les entrailles, les rognons, et le grand lobe du foie;

20 ils mirent les graisses sur les poitrines, et il brûla les graisses sur l'autel.

21 Aaron agita de côté et d'autre devant l'Eternel les poitrines et l'épaule droite, comme Moïse l'avait ordonné.

22 Aaron leva ses mains vers le peuple, et il le bénit. Puis il descendit, après avoir offert le sacrifice d'expiation, l'holocauste et le sacrifice d'actions de grâces.

23 Moïse et Aaron entrèrent dans la tente d'assignation. Lorsqu'ils en sortirent, ils bénirent le peuple. Et la gloire de l'Eternel apparut à tout le peuple.

24 Le feu sortit de devant l'Eternel, et consuma sur l'autel l'holocauste et les graisses. Tout le peuple le vit; et ils poussèrent des cris de joie, et se jetèrent sur leur face.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 748

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748. "And eat her flesh and burn her with fire." This symbolically means that Protestants will with hatred condemn and destroy in themselves the evils and falsities inherent in the Roman Catholic religion, and will renounce the religion itself and expunge it in themselves.

This is said of Protestants, who will deal thus with the harlot, that is, with the Roman Catholic religion. To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, about which we will say more below. And to burn her with fire means, symbolically, to renounce that religion as profane and expunge it in themselves.

This is what burning with fire means because the penalty for profaning something holy was burning. Therefore, according to Divine law, people who profaned the name of Jehovah by worshiping other gods were burned with fire - they and all their belongings (Deuteronomy 13:12-18). Therefore Moses burned with fire the golden calf that the children of Israel were profanely worshiping (Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 9:21). Moreover, because two of Aaron's sons profaned holy things, they were consumed by fire from heaven (Leviticus 10:1-6). Nor is anything else symbolized by the fire and pyre in Tophet but the fire of hell, which awaits those who profane holy things (Isaiah 30:33, Jeremiah 7:11, 31-32; 19:5-6, 2 Kings 23:10), for there the people worshiped Molech with a heinous sacrifice. 1

[2] Since the fourth beast in Daniel 7 symbolizes a religion that profanes the Word and consequently the sanctities of the church (no. 717), therefore we are told that it was burned with fire (Daniel 7:11).

Now, because it is profane worship to worship a person instead of the Lord, we are accordingly told here that they burnt the harlot with fire, which symbolically means that they renounced the religion itself and expunged it in themselves.

To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, because that is the symbolic meaning of eating her flesh. For flesh symbolizes the inherent characteristics of a thing which relate to goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, to evils and falsities, and to eat means, symbolically, to consume, thus to destroy.

That flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, which in itself is evil, is clear from the following passages:

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. (John 6:63)

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)

As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to be children of God...: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh... (John 1:12-13)

(God) remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again. (Psalms 78:39)

The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. (Isaiah 31:3)

(Jerusalem) committed harlotry with the Egyptians..., great of flesh. (Ezekiel 16:26)

Jesus... said to (Peter), ."..flesh and blood has not revealed this to you...." (Matthew 16:17)

Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm... (Jeremiah 17:5)

[3] Because flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, and people who hate others attack their personal character with the intention of destroying it, therefore to eat the flesh has also this symbolic meaning, as in the following passages:

Let the dying die, and the cut off be cut off. Those that are left eat each other's flesh. (Zechariah 11:9)

They shall devour Israel with the whole mouth... Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm - Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh. (Isaiah 9:12, 20-21)

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh... (Isaiah 49:26)

...everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend... (Jeremiah 19:9)

To eat the flesh of sons and daughters (Jeremiah 19:9, Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:53) means, symbolically, to destroy truths and goods in oneself, for sons symbolize truths, and daughters goods, as may be seen in nos. 139, 543, 545, 612[1-4] above.

Moreover, in the Word we find reference to "all flesh," and this symbolically means all mankind (Genesis 6:12-13, 17, 19).

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1. The heinous sacrifice consisted of "passing infants through the fire to Molech," by burning them alive on a sacrificial altar. Vestiges of this worship have been found elsewhere, as far as northern Africa. Tophet was a site in the valley of Hinnom at the foot of Mount Zion on the south side. Because of the nature of its worship, the valley of Hinnon (Ge' Hinnom = Gehenna) became synonymous with Hades or hell.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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