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1 Szóla azután az Úr Mózesnek és Áronnak, mondván:

2 Ez a törvény rendelése, a melyet parancsolt az Úr, mondván: Szólj Izráel fiainak, hogy hozzanak hozzád egy veres tehenet, épet, a melyben ne legyen hiba, a melynek nyakán iga nem volt.

3 És adjátok azt Eleázárnak, a papnak, és õ vitesse ki azt a táboron kivül, és öljék meg azt õ elõtte.

4 És vegyen Eleázár, a pap annak vérébõl az õ újjával, és hintsen a gyülekezet sátorának eleje felé annak vérébõl hétszer.

5 Azután égessék meg azt a tehenet az õ szemei elõtt; annak bõrét, húsát, és vérét a ganéjával együtt égessék meg.

6 Akkor vegyen a pap czédrusfát, izsópot és karmazsint, és vesse a tehénnek égõ részei közé.

7 És mossa meg a pap az õ ruháit, az õ testét is mossa le vízzel, és azután menjen be a táborba, és tisztátalan legyen a pap estvéig.

8 Az is, a ki megégeti azt, mossa meg az õ ruháit vízzel, és az õ testét is mossa le vízzel, és tisztátalan legyen estvéig.

9 Valamely tiszta ember pedig szedje fel annak a tehénnek hamvát, és helyezze el azt a táboron kivûl tiszta helyre, hogy legyen az Izráel fiai gyülekezetének szolgálatára a tisztulásnak vizéhez; bûnért való áldozat ez.

10 És az, a ki felszedi a tehénnek hamvát, mossa meg az õ ruháit, és tisztátalan legyen estvéig; és legyen ez Izráel fiainak és a köztök tartózkodó jövevénynek örök rendelésül.

11 A ki illeti akármely embernek a holttestét, és tisztátalanná lesz hét napig:

12 Az olyan tisztítsa meg magát azzal a vízzel harmadnapon és hetednapon, [és] tiszta lesz; ha pedig nem tisztítja meg magát harmadnapon és hetednapon, akkor nem lesz tiszta.

13 Valaki holtat illet, bármely embert a ki megholt, és meg nem tisztítja magát, az megfertézteti az Úrnak hajlékát; és irtassék ki az a lélek Izráelbõl mivelhogy tisztulásnak vize nem hintetett õ reá, tisztátalan lesz; még rajta van az õ tisztátalansága.

14 Ez legyen a törvény, mikor valaki sátorban hal meg. Mindaz, a ki bemegy a sátorba, és mindaz, a ki ott van a sátorban, tisztátalan legyen hét napig.

15 Minden nyitott edény is, a melyen nincs lezárható fedél, tisztátalan.

16 És mindaz, a ki illet a mezõn fegyverrel megöletettet, vagy megholtat, vagy emberi csontot, vagy sírt, tisztátalan legyen hét napig.

17 És vegyenek a tisztátalanért a bûnért való megégetett áldozatnak hamvából, és töltse[nek] arra élõ vizet edénybe.

18 Valamely tiszta ember pedig vegyen izsópot, és mártsa azt vízbe, és hintse meg a sátort és minden edényt, és minden embert, a kik ott lesznek; és azt is, a ki a csontot, vagy a megöltet, vagy a megholtat, vagy a koporsót illette.

19 Hintse pedig meg a tiszta a tisztátalant harmadnapon és hetednapon, és tisztítsa meg õt hetednapon; azután mossa meg az õ ruháit, mossa le magát is vízzel, és tiszta lesz estve.

20 Ha pedig valaki tisztátalanná lesz, és nem tisztítja meg magát, az a lélek irtassék ki a község közûl; mivelhogy az Úrnak szenthelyét megfertéztette, a tisztulásnak vize nem hintetett õ reá, tisztátalan az.

21 Ez legyen õ nálok örök rendelésül: mind az, a ki hinti a tisztulásnak vizét, mossa meg az õ ruháit; mind az, a ki illeti a tisztulásnak vizét, tisztátalan legyen estvéig.

22 És valamit illet a tisztátalan, tisztátalan legyen az; és az a lélek is, a ki illeti azt, tisztátalan legyen estvéig.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6766

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6766. 'And he said, Who set you up as a man-prince and a judge over us?' means a perception that he was not yet so advanced into the truths of the Church 1 that he could settle disagreements within the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'he said' as a perception, dealt with often; from the meaning of 'a man-prince' as one who has a command of primary truths, thus who is more enlightened than others in teachings about the truth (for that is what was meant in the representative Church by 'a prince') and therefore 'who set you up as a man-prince?' means that he was not yet so advanced into the truths of the Church (for the meaning of 'prince' as those who have a command of primary truths, see 5044); and from the meaning of 'a judge' as one who settles disputes or disagreements. Here they are disagreements within the Church because it is a quarrel between 'two Hebrew men', by whom those belonging to the Church are meant.

[2] In the highest sense the subject has been the beginnings of the law of God within the Lord's Human; and now it is the development of that law. But in the internal sense the subject here is the development of Divine Truth as it exists with the person who is being regenerated. Its development is such that at first the person can distinguish falsity from truth, for the truth he has enables him to see falsity since it is the opposite of the truth. But he cannot at that early stage settle between one truth of faith and another within the Church. To be able to do this he must make further advances; for a person's enlightenment increases gradually. This is clearly recognizable from those who are in adolescent years and at the start of manhood. They think that the teachings of their Church are the absolute truth, and these they use to distinguish falsities. But they are not yet able to reconcile matters of faith within the Church when these disagree with one another; that ability comes in a sequence of stages. This being so, the person to whom that ability can be given must also be someone who is rather more mature in years, someone in whom the more internal levels of the understanding have been enlightened.

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1. The Latin means the truths of faith; but cp what appears a few lines below and also in 6754.

  
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4535. The preliminary sections of previous chapters - Chapter 26 onwards - explained what the Lord foretold about His Coming or THE CLOSE OF THE AGE. Frequently in those sections it has been shown that His Coming or the Close of the Age means the last period of the Church, which in the Word is called the Last Judgement. Those who do not look beyond the literal sense cannot know of the Last Judgement as anything else than the destruction of the world, the particular source for such an idea being the Book of Revelation. There it is said that [John] saw 'a new heaven and a new earth, for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away; and there was no more sea', and in addition that he saw 'the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven', Revelation 21:1-2. Prophetical utterances in Isaiah, where similar predictions occur, are also a source of the same idea,

Behold, I am creating new heavens and a new earth; therefore the former things will not be remembered or come to mind. 1 Be glad and rejoice for ever in the things I am creating; behold, I will create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. Isaiah 65:17-18; 66:22.

[2] Those who do not look beyond the literal sense cannot conceive of anything else than this - that the whole sky together with this planet will be annihilated, and then the dead - for the first time - will rise again and dwell in the new heaven and on the new earth. But these places in the Word should not be understood in that way, as may be recognized from other places in the Word where the heavens and the earth are referred to. Those who have any belief in an internal sense can see plainly that 'a new heaven' and 'a new earth' are used to mean a new Church which takes over when the previous one passes away, 1733, 1850, 3355 (end), and that 'heaven' is the internal aspect of that new Church and 'earth' the external aspect of it.

[3] This last period of the previous Church and the first of the new one are also called the Close of the Age, about which the Lord has spoken in Matthew 24. They are called also His Coming, for at that time the Lord departs from the previous Church and comes to the new. The description of that period as the Close of the Age may also be seen from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

On that day a remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the God of power. For though your people Israel will be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of it will return. The close has been determined, overflowing with righteousness, for the Lord Jehovih Zebaoth is bringing the whole earth to its close and to its determined end. Isaiah 10:20-23.

In the same prophet,

Now do not be derisive, lest your punishments increase, for a close and a cutting off I have heard from the Lord Jehovih Zebaoth over the whole earth. Isaiah 28:22.

In Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah, The whole earth will be a waste, yet I will not bring it to a close. Jeremiah 4:27.

In Zephaniah,

I will bring men into distress, and they will go as the blind, because they have sinned against Jehovah; and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. For Jehovah will bring to a close, indeed to a hasty one, all the inhabitants of the earth. Zephaniah 1:17-18.

From each detail stated here it is evident that 'a close' means the last period of the Church and 'the earth' the Church itself.

[4] The reason why 'the earth (or land)' means the Church is that the land of Canaan was the land where the Church had existed since most ancient times, and later on where among the descendants of Jacob a representative of the Church existed. When this land is said to have been 'brought to a close' it is not the nation dwelling there that is meant but the holiness of worship which existed with the nation where the Church was. For the Word is spiritual; but the actual land is not spiritual, nor is the nation dwelling in it, only that which constitutes the Church there. For evidence that the land of Canaan was the land where the Church had existed from most ancient times, see 567, 3686, 4447, 4454, 4516, 4517; and this explains why 'the land' or 'the earth' in the Word means the Church, 566, 662, 1066, 1067, 1262, 3355, 4447. From all this one may see what is meant in Isaiah by 'bringing the whole earth to a close', and in Zephaniah by 'bringing all the inhabitants of the earth to a hasty one'. It is well known that the Jewish nation which inhabited that land was not 'brought to a close' but that the holiness of worship among them was.

[5] This meaning of 'the close' is even clearer in Daniel,

Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city to bring transgression to a close and to seal up sins and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. In the middle of the week he will cause sacrifice and offering to cease. At length upon the bird of desolations will come desolation; until a close and a cutting off will it drop upon the devastation. Daniel 9:24, 27.

[6] From this one may now see that the close of the age - about which the disciples were asking when they said to the Lord 'What will be the sign of Your coming and of the close of the age?' Matthew 24:3 - does not mean anything else than the final period of the Church. The same is also meant by the Lord's words, which are the very last in the same gospel,

Jesus said to the disciples, Teaching them to observe 2 all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you at all times 3 even to the close of the age. Matthew 28:20.

The reason why the Lord said that He would be with the disciples even to the close of the age is that the Lord's twelve disciples are similar in meaning to the twelve tribes of Israel. That is to say, they mean all things of love and faith, and therefore all things of the Church, see 3354, 3488, 3858, as do the twelve tribes, 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060. The fact that the Church reaches its close when no charity exists there any longer, nor consequently any faith, has been shown several times already; and that within the Church at the present day, called the Christian Church, scarcely any trace of charity or consequently of faith survives there; and that the close of the age is accordingly now at hand, will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown further on.

Фусноте:

1. literally, come up upon the heart

2. Reading servare (to observe) for the imperative servate (observe)

3. literally, I am with you all the days

  
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