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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 # 6767

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6767. 'Do you intend to kill me . . .' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith ... This is clear from the meaning of 'killing' as destroying, dealt with below; and from the meaning of a Hebrew man, to whom 'me' refers here, as one who belongs to the Church. Faith too is accordingly meant, for faith goes together with the Church, and the two are so bound up with each other that a person who destroys the faith present with someone destroys the Church with him. This is also 'to kill him', for by taking faith away he takes spiritual life away, the life that remains being a life that is called death. From this it is evident that 'Do you intend to kill me?' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith?

[2] The fact that 'killing' is taking away spiritual life is evident from many places in the Word, as in Jeremiah,

Drag them away like sheep for the slaughter, and destine them to the day of killing. How long will the land mourn and the plant of every field wither, on account of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds will be devoured. Jeremiah 12:3-4.

'The day of killing' stands for the time that the Church is laid waste, when there is no longer any faith because there is no charity. 'The land which will mourn' stands for the Church; 'the plant of every field' stands for all the facts known to the Church that hold truth within them; 'the beasts and the birds will be devoured' stands for the fact that forms of good and truths will be destroyed. For the meaning of 'the land' as the Church, see 566, 662, 1067, 1262, 1413, 1607, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 2928, 3755, 4447, 4535, 5577. The meaning of 'the plant' as factual knowledge holding truth within it is clear from places in the Word where plant is mentioned. And for the meaning of 'the field' as that which is of the Church, see 2971, 3710, 3766, of 'the beasts' as affections for good, thus forms of good, 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 719, 1823, 2179, 2180, 3218, 3519, 5198, and of 'the birds' as affections for truth, 5149. From all this one may recognize what the meaning of these words is, and also that the spiritual sense is present in every detail there. Anyone can see that without the inner meaning there could be no understanding of what 'the day of killing' is, or of what is described by the details 'will the land mourn', 'the plant of every field wither, on account of the wickedness of those who dwell in it', and 'the beasts and the birds will be devoured'.

[3] In Zechariah,

Thus said Jehovah my God, Feed the sheep for killing, whose owners kill them. Zechariah 11:4-5.

'The sheep for killing' plainly stands for people whose faith is destroyed by those who are their owners. In Ezekiel,

You have desecrated Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for crusts of bread, to kill souls that ought not to die, and to keep alive souls that ought not to live. Ezekiel 13:19.

Here also 'killing' plainly stands for destroying spiritual life, that is, charity and faith. In Isaiah,

What will you do on the day of visitation and vastation? They will fall beneath the bound and beneath the killed. Isaiah 10:3-4.

Here 'the killed' stands for those who are in hell, thus for those immersed in evils and falsities.

[4] In the same prophet,

You are cast out from your sepulchre like an abominable branch, [like] a garment of the killed, [like] those pierced with the sword. You will not be united with them in the sepulchre, for you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. Isaiah 14:19-20.

'The killed' stands for those who have been deprived of spiritual life; 'you have killed your people' stands for his destruction of forms of the truth and good of faith. In John,

The thief does not come except in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that they may have life. John 10:10.

'Killing' stands for destroying the life of faith, and therefore it says, 'I have come in order that they may have life'. In Mark,

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his children, and the children will rise up against parents and kill them. Mark 13:12.

This refers to the last days of the Church when there is no longer any charity and therefore no faith either. 'Brother', 'children', and 'parents' in the internal sense are the Church's forms of good and its truths; and 'killing' is destroying them.

[5] Because one who had been 'killed' meant a person who had been deprived of spiritual life, and 'the field' meant the Church, it had therefore been decreed in the representative church that if anyone on the surface of the field touched somebody who had been pierced with the sword, or who had been killed, he would be unclean for seven days, Numbers 19:16. 'Slain with the sword' means truth wiped out by falsity, see 4507; for 'the sword' is falsity that wipes out truth, 2799, 4499, 653. It was likewise decreed that if anyone was found killed in the land which was their inheritance, lying on the field, and it was not known who had killed him, the elders and judges were to measure the distances to the cities which were round about. Having found out by doing this which was the nearest city, they were to take a heifer and break its neck at a fast-flowing river, and to do many other things, Deuteronomy 21:1-10.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3488

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3488. The fact that these words spoken by the Lord and recorded in the gospel describe the second state of the perversion of the Church is evident from their internal sense, which is as follows,

All these are the beginning of sorrows means the things that have already happened, that is to say, the things that belong to the first state of the perversion of the Church, which, as has been stated, takes place when people cease to know any longer what goodness is and what truth is and start to argue with one another about them, with the result that falsities, and consequently heresies arise. The fact that such things perverted the Church before very many centuries had gone by is evident from the consideration that the Church in the Christian world became divided, and that its divisions were the result of opinions concerning goodness and truth; so that the Church began to be perverted a long way back in the past.

[2] At that time they will deliver you up to affliction, and will kill you means that goodness and truth will perish, at first through 'affliction'- that is, through perversion - and then through men 'killing' them, that is, through denial. For 'killing', when used in reference to goodness and truth, means that these are not being accepted, and thus that people deny them, see 3387, 3395. 'You' - the apostles - means all things of faith in their entirety, and so means the good of faith as well as the truth of faith; for the twelve apostles meant those things, see 577, 2089, 2129, 2130 (end), 3272, 3354. Here it is quite evident that they have that meaning, for the subject is not the preaching of the apostles but the close of the age.

[3] And you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake means contempt for and loathing of everything to do with goodness and truth. 'Hating' is holding in contempt and loathing, for these are manifestations of hatred. 'By all nations' means by persons under the influence of evil, for 'nations' refers to these, see 1259, 1260, 1849, 1868, 2588 (end). 'For My name's sake' is for the Lord's sake, and so for the sake of everything that comes from Him - 'the Lord's name' being everything in its entirety by which He is worshipped, and so everything belonging to His Church, see 2724, 3006.

[4] At that time many will stumble, and betray one another, and hate one another means hostility on account of those things. 'Many will stumble' means the hostility in itself - the Lord's Human being that against which the hostility is directed. That this will be a cause of offence or a stumbling-block is foretold in various places in the Word. 'Betray one another' is hostility towards one another arising out of falsity conflicting with truth. 'And hate one another' is hostility towards one another arising out of evil conflicting with good.

[5] And many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray means declarations of falsity - 'false prophets' meaning teachers of falsities, thus false doctrine, see 2534. 'And will lead many astray' means that there will be things that are the issue of that doctrine.

[6] And because iniquity is multiplied the charity of many will grow cold means charity together with faith breathing its last. 'Because iniquity is multiplied' means in keeping with falsities of faith. 'The charity of many will grow cold' means charity breathing its last; for the two - charity and faith - go together side by side. Where there is no faith there is no charity; and where there is no charity there is no faith. Charity however is that which receives faith, and the absence of charity is that which rejects faith. This is the origin of all falsity and of all evil.

[7] But he who endures to the end will be saved means the salvation of those who have charity. 'He who endures to the end' is the person who does not allow himself to be led astray, and so does not yield in times of temptation.

[8] And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all nations means that the Christian world will be the first to come to know it. 'Will be preached' means that it will come to be known. 'This gospel of the kingdom' is this truth, that it really is so - 'gospel' being pronouncement, 'the kingdom' truth, for 'the kingdom' means truth, see 1672, 2547. 'In the whole inhabited earth' is the Christian world, 'the earth' being that region where the Church, and so the Christian world, is, see 662, 1066, 1068, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 2928, 3355. Here the Church is called 'the inhabited earth' from the life of faith, that is, from the good that dwells in truth, for 'inhabiting' in the internal sense is living, and 'inhabitants' are the goods that dwell in truth, 1293, 2268, 2451, 2712, 3384. 'As a testimony' means to ensure that they know, and to prevent them pretending that they do not know. 'To all nations' means to the evil, 1259, 1260, 1849, 1868, 2588. For when people are under the influence of falsity and evil they no longer know what truth is or what good is; indeed they believe that falsity is truth, that evil is good, and vice versa. When the Church reaches this state, at that point the end will come. The words that follow next, to be explained in the Lord's Divine mercy in the preliminary section of the next chapter of Genesis, deal with that state of the Church which is called 'the abomination of desolation', which is the third state.

  
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