102. And for My name's sake hast toiled, is the acknowledgment of the Lord and of the knowledges of truth that have respect to Him. This is evident from the signification of "the name" of Jehovah, or of the Lord, as being, in the highest sense, His Divine Human (See Arcana Coelestia 2628, 6887), and in a relative sense, all things of love and faith by which the Lord is worshiped, because these are things Divine that proceed from His Divine Human (n. 2724, 3006, 6674, 9310). This is evident also from the signification of "toiling," as being to strive with mind and zeal that these things may be known and acknowledged; for this is signified by "toiling" when it is said of those who apply themselves to the knowledges of truth and good. From this it follows that "for My name's sake hast toiled" signifies the acknowledgment of the Lord, and of the knowledges that have respect to Him. The knowledges that have respect to the Lord are all things that are of love and faith. In many passages of the Word it is said, "for the sake of Jehovah's name," "for the sake of the Lord's name," "for the sake of the name of Jesus Christ," that "the name of God should be sanctified," and the like. Those whose thoughts do not go beyond the sense of the letter suppose that the name alone is meant; but what is meant is not the name, but everything whereby the Lord is worshiped; and all of this has relation to love and faith. Therefore by "the Lord's name" in the Word all things of love and of faith by which He is worshiped are meant; here the acknowledgment of the Lord and of the knowledges of truth that have respect to Him, because this is said to those who are only zealous about knowledges.

[2] That "Jehovah's name" or the "Lord's name" does not mean the name itself, but all things of love and faith, is from the spiritual world. There the names used on the earth are not uttered; but the names of the persons who are spoken of are formed from the idea of all things known about them combined into a single word. In this way names in the spiritual world are expressed; consequently names there, like all the other things, are spiritual The names "Lord" and "Jesus Christ," even, are not uttered there as on the earth, but in place of those names a name is formed from the idea of all things known and believed respecting Him; and this idea is made up of all things of love to Him and faith in Him. This is because these in the complex are the Lord in them; for the Lord is in everyone in the goods of love and of faith that are from Him. As this is so, the quality of everyone there, in respect to love to the Lord and faith in the Lord, is immediately known if he only utters "Lord" or "Jesus Christ" by a spiritual expression or spiritual name; and for the same reason also, those who are not in any love to Him or faith in Him are unable to speak His name, that is, to form any spiritual name of Him. From this it is now clear why by the "name" of Jehovah, of the Lord, or of Jesus Christ, name is not meant in the Word, but everything of love and of faith whereby He is worshiped.

[3] Lest, therefore, the opinion that is entertained by many should prevail, that the mere name Jesus Christ, without love to Him or faith in Him, thus without the knowledges by which love and faith exist, contributes something to salvation, I will introduce some passages from the Word in which the expressions "for His name's sake" and "in His name" are used, from which those who think more deeply may see that name alone is not meant:

Jesus said, Ye shall be hated of all for My name's sake (Matthew 10:22, 24:9, 10).

Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them (Matthew 18:20).

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become sons of God; even to them that believe in His name (John 1:12).

When Jesus was in Jerusalem many believed in His name (John 2:23).

He that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God (John 3:17, 18).

These are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in His name (John 20:31).

Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord (Matthew 21:9; 23:39; Luke 13:35; 19:35).

Everyone that hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for My name's sake, shall receive a hundred-fold, and eternal life (Matthew 19:29).

(What is here signified by "houses, brethren, sisters, father, mother, wife, children, and fields," which are to be left for the name of the Lord, see Arcana Coelestia 10490.)

Jesus said, Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that I will do (John 14:13, 14);

"to ask in My name" is to ask from love and faith.

Many shall come in My name, saying, I am He; go ye not therefore after them (Luke 21:8; Mark 13:6);

"to come in My name" and "to say that I am He" is to proclaim falsities and to say that they are truths, and thus to lead astray. The like is signified by saying that they are the Christ, when they are not, in Matthew:

Many shall come in My name, saying, I am the Christ, and shall lead many astray (Matthew 24:5, 11, 23-27);

for by "Jesus" is meant the Lord in respect to Divine good; and by "Christ" the Lord in respect to Divine truth (Arcana Coelestia 3004-3005, 3009, 5502), and by not being Christ, truth not Divine, but falsity.

[4] The "name of the Lord," in the New Testament means the like as the "name of Jehovah" in the Old, because the Lord there is Jehovah.

Thus in Isaiah:

And in that day shall ye say, Confess ye to Jehovah, call upon His name (Isaiah 12:4).

In the same:

O Jehovah, we have waited for Thee; to Thy name and to Thy memorial is the desire of our soul. By Thee will we make mention of Thy name (Isaiah 26:8, 13).

In the same:

From the rising of the sun shall My name be called upon (Isaiah 41:25).

In Malachi:

From the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same My name is great among the nations; and in every place incense is offered unto My name; for My name is great among the nations (Malachi 1:11).

In Isaiah:

Everyone that is called by My name I have created for My glory, I have formed him (Isaiah 43:7).

In Micah:

All peoples walk in the name of their god, and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God (Micah 4:5).

In Moses:

Thou shalt not take the name of thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that hath taken His name in vain (Deuteronomy 5:11).

In the same:

Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi, that they should minister and bless in the name of Jehovah (Deuteronomy 10:8).

In the same:

They shall worship Jehovah in one place, where He shall place His name (Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, 13, 14, 18, 26; 16:2, 6, 11, 15, 16).

"Where He shall place His name" means where there shall be worship from the good of love and the truths of faith. This was done at Jerusalem; and therefore by "Jerusalem" the church in respect to doctrine and worship is signified (See in the small work on The New Jerusalem and its Doctrine 6).

[5] Since by the "name of Jehovah" or the "name of the Lord" is signified in the spiritual sense all worship from the good of love and the truths of faith, therefore in the highest sense by "name of Jehovah" is meant the Lord in respect to the Divine Human, for the reason that from His Divine Human everything of love and of faith proceeds. That by "name of Jehovah," in the highest sense, the Lord is meant, is evident in John:

Jesus said, Father, glorify Thy name. There came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have both glorified and will glorify again (John 12:28).

In Isaiah:

I will give thee for a covenant to the people, for a light of the nations. I am Jehovah, this is My name, and My glory will I not give to another (Isaiah 42:6, 8);

the coming of the Lord is here treated of.

In Jeremiah:

Behold the days come that I will raise unto David a righteous shoot, and He shall reign as King, and this is His name, by which they shall call Him, Jehovah, our righteousness (Jeremiah 23:5, 6).

From this it is clear what is meant in the Lord's prayer by the words:

Hallowed be Thy name (Matthew 6:9);

namely, that the Divine Human of the Lord is to be accounted holy, and to be worshiped.

[6] As this is meant by "the name of the Lord," the meaning of the following passages can be seen.

In John:

The shepherd of the sheep calleth his own sheep by their name (John 10:3).

In Luke:

Rejoice that your names are written in heaven (Luke 10:20).

And in Revelation:

Thou hast a few names in Sardis (Revelation 3:4).

He who does not know what "name" signifies in the Word cannot possibly know how these words are to be understood, in Matthew:

He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous one in the name of a righteous one shall receive a righteous one's reward; and whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] in the name of a disciple only, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward (Matthew 10:41, 42).

"To receive a prophet in the name of a prophet," "a righteous one in the name of a righteous one," and "to give drink in the name of a disciple," signifies to love truth for the sake of truth, good for the sake of good, and to exercise charity from the faith of truth; for by "prophet" is signified truth, by "righteous one" is signified good, and by "disciple" good from truth; and "to give to drink of cold [water]" is to exercise charity from obedience; "in the name" of these is for the sake of what they are, thus for their sake. Who could ever understand these things unless he knew what "name" signifies?

[7] To love and to do truth for the sake of truth, and good for the sake of good, is to have affection for truth and good for their sake, and not for the sake of one's own reputation, honor, or gain. Such affection of truth and good is a truly spiritual affection; but the affection of truth and good for the sake of one's own reputation, honor, or gain, is a merely natural affection. And as those who love truth and good for the sake of truth and good, or because they are truth and good, are in the spiritual affection of truth and good, therefore it is said that they shall receive "a prophet's reward" and "a righteous one's reward;" which means that they are in the spiritual affection of truth and good, and this affection has reward in itself, because it has heaven in itself. (That the happiness of heaven is in the affection of loving and doing truth and good, without regard to reward as an end, thus for the sake of truth and good, see Arcana Coelestia 6388, 6478, 9174, 9984. That "prophet" signifies one who teaches truth, thus also, in the abstract, truth that is taught, see n. 2534, 7269. That a "righteous one" signifies the good of love to the Lord, n. 2235, 9857. That "disciple" signifies good from truth, which is the good of charity, n. 2129, 3354, 3488, 3858, 6397. That "to give drink" is to instruct in the goods and truths of faith, and thus to exercise charity, n. Arcana Coelestia 3069, 3772, 4017, 4018, 8562, 9412; and that "name" signifies the quality of a thing, n. 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 2009, 3237; hence "the name of Jehovah," or "the name of the Lord," signifies every quality by which He is worshiped, n. Arcana Coelestia 2724[1-3], 3006, 6674, 9310).

9985. Exodus 29

1. And this is the word ¹ which you shall do to them to sanctify them to serve Me in the priestly office: Take one young bull, a son of the herd, and two rams without defect ² ,

2. And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil; of fine wheat flour you shall make them.

3. And you shall put them in one basket and bring ³ them in the basket, and the young bull and the two rams.

4. And Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water.

5. And you shall take the garments, and clothe Aaron with the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate; and you shall gird him with the girdle of the ephod.

6. And you shall put the turban on his head, and put the crown of holiness on the turban.

7. And you shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head, and anoint him.

8. And you shall bring ³ his sons, and clothe them with tunics.

9. And you shall gird them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headdresses on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs by the statute of an age ⁴ ; and you shall fill the hand ⁵ of Aaron and the hand of his sons.

10. And you shall bring ³ the young bull, before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the young bull.

11. And you shall slaughter the young bull before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting.

12. And you shall take some of the blood of the young bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

13. And you shall take all the fat covering the intestines, and the omentum over the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them; and you shall burn [them on] the altar.

14. And the flesh of the young bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin [offering].

15. And you shall take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the ram's head.

16. And you shall slaughter the ram, and take its blood and sprinkle it over the altar round about.

17. And you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its intestines and its legs, and put them on top of its pieces and of its head.

18. And you shall burn the whole ram on the altar ⁶ . It is a burnt offering to Jehovah; it is an odour of rest, a fire offering to Jehovah.

19. And you shall take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the ram's head.

20. And you shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot; and you shall sprinkle the blood over the altar round about.

21. And you shall take some of the blood which is on the altar, and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it over Aaron and over his garments, and over his sons and over the garments of his sons with him; and he and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and the garments of his sons with him.

22. And you shall take the fat of the ram, and the tail, and the fat covering the intestines, and the omentum on the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right flank - for it is the ram of fillings [of the hand] -

23. And one loaf of bread, and one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread which is before Jehovah.

24. And you shall put all these on Aaron's palms and on the palms of his sons, and you shall wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah.

25. And you shall take them from their hands and burn [them on] the altar with ⁷ the burnt offering, for an odour of rest before Jehovah; it is a fire offering to Jehovah.

26. And you shall take the breast of the ram of fillings [of the hand], which is Aaron's, and wave it as a wave offering before Jehovah; and it shall be the portion for you.

27. And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the flank of the heave offering - that which has been waved and that which has been heaved up - from the ram of fillings [of the hand], from that which is for Aaron and from that which is for his sons.

28. And it shall be for Aaron and his sons by the statute of an age ⁴ from among the children of Israel; for it is a heave offering, and it shall be a heave offering from among the children of Israel from their peace-offering sacrifices, their heave offering to Jehovah.

29. And the holy garments which are Aaron's shall be for his sons after him, to anoint [them] in them, and to fill their hand in them.

30. For seven days shall the priest coming after him, one of his sons ⁸ , put them on - he who will enter the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

31. And you shall take the ram of fillings [of the hand] and boil its flesh in a holy place.

32. And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread which is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.

33. And they shall eat those things containing what has been expiated, to fill their hand, to sanctify them; and a stranger shall not eat them, because they are something holy.

34. And if anything of the flesh of fillings [of the hand], and of the bread, is left until the morning, you shall burn what is left with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

35. And thus you shall do to Aaron and his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; seven days you shall fill their hand.

36. And a young bull of sin [offering] you shall offer daily at ⁹ propitiations. And you shall cleanse from sin on the altar when you make propitiation on it; and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.

37. Seven days you shall make propitiation on the altar, and sanctify it. And the altar shall be the holy of holies ¹⁰ ; everyone touching the altar will be sanctified.

38. And this is what you shall offer on the altar: Two lambs, the sons of a year, ¹¹ each day - a continual [offering].

39. You shall offer one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb between the evenings,

40. And a tenth [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with beaten oil, a quarter of a hin, and a drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine, for the first lamb.

41. And you shall offer the second lamb between the evenings; according to the morning minchah and according to its drink offering you shall do for it, for an odour of rest, a fire offering to Jehovah,

42. A continual burnt offering throughout ¹² your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.

43. And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and it will be sanctified in My glory.

44. And I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I will sanctify, to serve Me in the priestly office.

45. And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I will be their God.

46. And they will recognize that I am Jehovah their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell in their midst; I am Jehovah their God.

CONTENTS

The subject in the internal sense of this chapter is the glorification of the Lord's Human, which is meant by the consecration of Aaron and his sons to the priestly office.

Фусноте:

144. As to 'calling by name' meaning recognizing their nature, it must be realized that the ancients understood nothing else by 'a name than the essential nature of a real thing, and by 'seeing and calling them by name' recognizing the nature of such. This was why they gave their sons and daughters names in keeping with the things that were meant by them; for there was something unique to every name, as a means of knowing the origin and nature of those children, as will also be seen later on where, in the Lord's Divine mercy, the twelve sons of Jacob are dealt with. Since therefore a name embodied a person's origin and nature nothing else was meant by 'calling by name'. This manner of speaking was customary among them; but anyone who does not understand is sure to wonder whether they do have these meanings.