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Leviticus 5

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1 Kui keegi teeb pattu sellega, et ta kuuleb avalikku needmist ja on tunnistajaks, olles seda ise näinud või muidu saanud teada, aga ei teata sellest, siis ta kannab oma patusüüd;

2 või kui keegi puudutab mõnda roojast asja, olgu see roojase metslooma raibe või roojase karilooma raibe või roojase roomaja raibe, ilma et ta oleks sellest teadlik, siis on ta saanud roojaseks ja süüdlaseks;

3 või kui ta puudutab inimese rooja, ükskõik missugust rooja, mis teeb roojaseks, ja ei ole sellest teadlik, aga pärast saab teadlikuks, siis ta jääb süüdlaseks;

4 või kui keegi vannub mõtlematult, suuga lobisedes, kurjaks või heaks, nagu inimene iganes võib mõtlematult vanduda, aga pärast saab teadlikuks ja jääb süüdlaseks mõnes neist asjust:

5 kui ta siis jääb süüdlaseks mõnes neist asjust, siis ta peab tunnistama, millega ta on pattu teinud!

6 Ja ta peab tooma Issandale hüvituseks oma patu pärast, mida ta on teinud, ühe emase looma, utetalle või kitse, patuohvriks; ja preester toimetagu tema eest lepitust ta patu pärast!

7 Aga kui ta jõud ei luba tuua lammastest või kitsedest, siis ta toogu Issandale süüohvriks selle eest, millega ta on pattu teinud, kaks turteltuvi või kaks muud tuvi: üks patuohvriks ja teine põletusohvriks!

8 Ta viigu need preestrile, kes peab esimesena ohverdama patuohvriks määratu: ta näpistagu pea ära kukla tagant, jättes aga küljest eraldamata,

9 ja tilgutagu patuohvri verd altari seina peale; ülejäänud veri aga pigistatagu altari aluse kõrvale; see on patuohver!

10 Siis ta valmistagu teine seatud viisil põletusohvriks! Kui preester nõnda on tema eest lepitust toimetanud ta patu pärast, mida ta on teinud, siis antakse temale andeks.

11 Aga kui ta jõud ei luba kahte turteltuvi või kahte muud tuvi, siis ta toogu ohvrianniks oma patu eest kaks toopi peent jahu patuohvriks; aga ta ärgu valagu selle peale õli ja ärgu pangu sinna viirukit, sest see on patuohver!

12 Ta viigu see preestrile ja preester võtku sellest kamalutäis mälestusohvriks ning süüdaku altaril põlema Issanda tuleohvri peal; see on patuohver!

13 Kui preester on tema eest lepitust teinud ta patu pärast, mida ta mõnes neist asjust on teinud, siis antakse temale andeks. Ja preestrile kuulugu seesama osa mis roaohvristki!'

14 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

15 'Kui keegi ei ole hoolas ja kogemata patustab Issanda pühade asjade vastu, siis ta peab enese hüvituseks tooma Issandale ühe veatu jäära oma karjast sinu hindamise kohaselt mõne hõbeseekli väärtuses, püha seekli järgi, kui süüohvri.

16 Ja mis ta pühadest asjadest on kõrvaldanud, selle ta peab tasuma ja lisama sellele veel viiendiku ning andma preestrile! Kui preester tema eest on lepitust toimetanud süüohvri jääraga, siis ta saab andeks.

17 Ja kui keegi patustab ning teeb, ilma et ta sellest teadlik oleks, mõne Issanda käsu vastu midagi, mida ei tohi teha, siis ta jääb ometi süüdlaseks ja kannab oma patusüüd:

18 ta toogu üks veatu jäär oma karjast sinu hindamise kohaselt preestri kätte! Kui preester on tema eest lepitust toimetanud ta eksimuse pärast, mis ta on teinud, ilma et ta ise oleks teadlik olnud, siis antakse temale andeks.

19 See on süüohver: ta on ju ikkagi saanud süüdlaseks Issanda ees.'

   

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Arcana Coelestia #10038

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10038. 'You shall burn with fire outside the camp' means that those things must be banished to hell and be consumed by the evils of self-love. This is clear from the meaning of 'burning with fire' as consuming by means of the evils of self-love, for 'burning' means consuming or devouring and 'fire' the evil of self-love (for these meanings of 'burning' and 'fire', see 1297, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141, 9434); and from the meaning of 'the camp' as heaven and the Church, and in the contrary sense the place where heaven and the Church do not exist, thus where hell exists, dealt with below. The reason why 'being burned with fire' means being consumed by the evils of self-love is that that love consumes every good or truth of faith. Scarcely anyone at the present day knows that self-love does this, nor consequently that this love constitutes hell with a person and that it is what should be understood by hell-fire.

[2] There are two fires of life that exist with a person; one is self-love, the other is love to God. Those in whom self-love predominates cannot be governed by love to God, for those loves are opposites. They are opposites because self-love gives rise to all evils, which are contempt for others in comparison with self, enmity towards those who do not treat oneself favourably, and in the end to hatred, vengeance, brutality, and cruelty; and these evils act in total opposition to Divine influx, consequently annihilate truths and forms of the good of faith and charity, these being the things that flow in from the Lord. Anybody who stops to reflect may know that everyone's love is the fire of his life - for without love there is no life, and the character of the love determines that of the life - and therefore that self-love gives rise to evils of every kind, doing so in the measure that he has only himself in view, that is, self-love reigns in him. The worst kind of self-love is the love of dominion over others for selfish reasons, that is, the love of possessing dominion solely for the sake of position and gain. Those in whom that love predominates may, it is true, make profession of faith and charity, but they do so with their lips, not with their heart; indeed the worst among them look on the things that belong to faith and charity, thus the holy things of the Church, as means to their own ends. But self-love and all the different types of it, also the evils that gush out of it, and the condition of the selfish in the next life, must in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated in detail somewhere else. They have been referred to here to enable people to know what 'being burned with fire outside the camp' means.

[3] The fact that 'the camp' where the children of Israel were encamped represented heaven and the Church, and therefore that 'outside the camp' represented the place where heaven and the Church did not exist, thus where hell was, becomes clear from those places in the Word which mention the camp and the encampment of the children of Israel in the wilderness, such as the following in Moses,

The children of Israel shall camp, [every] man by his own camp, and [every] man by his own standard, according to their armies. And the Levites shall camp around the dwelling-place of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. Numbers 1:52-53; 2:2.

In addition, Numbers 2:1-end says that the tribes of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun encamped to the east; the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; and the tribes of Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north. But the Levites were in the middle of their camps. The like applied when they set out on their journeys, Numbers 2:17; 10:1-end. The reason why their encampments were arranged in that kind of order was so that they might represent heaven and the Church, 9320 (end). Moreover the tribes according to which the children of Israel set up their camps represented all the forms of good and all the truths in their entirety that belonged to heaven and the Church, 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335, 6337, 6397, 6640, 7836, 7891, 7996, 7997. This explains why it says that Jehovah dwells in the middle of the camps, Numbers 5:3, and that He walks in the middle of them and they will therefore be holy, Deuteronomy 23:14, and why, in the prophecy uttered by Balaam, when he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, How good are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your dwelling-places, O Israel! Numbers 24:2-3, 5.

[4] Since heaven and the Church was represented by the camp it follows that 'outside the camp' meant the place where neither heaven nor the Church existed, thus where hell was. That is why everyone who was unclean and also anyone who was guilty was sent out there, as may be recognized from the following,

You shall send out of the camp everyone who is leprous, and everyone suffering a discharge, and everyone unclean on account of a soul 1 . Whether they are male or female 2 you shall send them outside the camp, so that they may not defile the camps, in the middle of which Jehovah dwells. Numbers 5:2-3; Leviticus 13:45-46.

A man who is not clean by reason of an accident in the night shall go outside the camp and not come into the middle of the camp. When he has washed himself with water and the sun has set he shall enter the camp. There shall be a space for you outside the camp where you may go out, and you shall cover your excrement by means of a spade 3 , since Jehovah walks in the middle of the camp. Therefore the camp shall be holy. Deuteronomy 23:10-14.

And the stoning of people was done outside the camp, Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:35-36.

From all this it is now clear that 'you shall burn with fire the flesh, skin, and dung of the young bull, outside the camp' means that evils, meant by these things, must be banished to hell.

[5] The same thing as was represented by the camp and the area outside it was also represented by the land of Canaan and the lands around it after that land had been divided up as inheritances among the children of Israel. This is why in the Word 'the land of Canaan' or simply 'the land' means heaven and the Church, and 'the children of Israel' those who are in heaven and the Church. For the meaning of 'the land' as heaven and the Church, see the places referred to in 9325; and for that of 'the children of Israel' as those who are there, 9340.

Fusnotat:

1. i.e. unclean through contact with a dead body

2. literally, From male even to female

3. literally, peg or nail

  
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Arcana Coelestia #6397

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6397. 'Will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that it is one of the truths in general which the tribes of Israel represent. This is clear from the meaning of 'judging' as truth exercising its proper function, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'people' as those governed by truth, dealt with in 1259, 1260, 2928, 3295, 3581, 4619, at this point those guided by truth but not as yet by good, since they are Dan, that is, the people of Dan, 6396; and from the representation of 'the tribes of Israel' as all truths and forms of good in general, dealt with in 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335. Consequently 'will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that the truth which 'Dan' represents is one of the general truths that 'the tribes of Israel' represent. The reason why 'judging his people' means truth exercising its proper function is that all truths in general are represented by 'the tribes of Israel', as may become clear from the paragraphs referred to above; and since truths are what act as judges, 'judging his people' means truth exercising its proper function.

[2] In the Word one reads the description that the twenty-four elders will sit on thrones and judge nations and peoples, and that the twelve apostles will similarly sit on thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. A person with no knowledge of the internal sense of the Word will think that precisely that is going to happen. But how those descriptions should be understood becomes clear when one knows from the internal sense what 'the twenty-four elders', 'the twelve apostles', and also 'thrones' mean, namely all truths in their entirety, in accordance with which judgement is effected. The same goes for one's understanding here of 'judging his people as one of the tribes of Israel'. The meaning is not that these or any other elders among them will act as judges, but that the actual truths meant by them, therefore the Lord alone since every truth comes forth from Him, will do so. The reference to the twenty-four elders who will sit on thrones and act as judges occurs in John as follows,

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders seated, clad in white garments, who had crowns of gold on their heads. Revelation 4:4; 11:16.

In the same book,

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgement was given to them. Revelation 20:4.

The reference to the twelve apostles occurs in Matthew,

Jesus said, You who have followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew 19:28.

And in Luke,

I bestow on you, just as My father bestowed on Me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Luke 21:29-30.

Here neither the twenty-four elders nor the twelve apostles are what are really meant but all truths and forms of good in general, as may be recognized from the consideration that nobody, not even any angel, can judge anyone; for no one except the Lord alone can know what a person is or ever will be like interiorly. With regard to the twelve apostles, that they had a similar meaning to the twelve tribes, which was all truths and forms of good in their entirety, see 2129, 2553, 3488, 3858 (end). From all this it is now evident that 'Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel' means that the truth represented by 'Dan' is one of the general truths by means of which judgement is effected.

  
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