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1 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle ja Aaronille, sanoen:

2 Puhukaat Israelin lapsille, ja sanokaat heille: koska miehellä on lihansa juoksu, on hän saastainen.

3 Ja silloin on hän saastainen siitä juoksusta, koska hänen lihansa juoksee taikka tulee tukituksi siitä vuotamisesta; niin se on saastaisuus.

4 Jokainen vuode, jossa hän lepää, jolla on juoksu, on saastainen, ja kaikki se, jonka päällä hän istuu, saastutetaan.

5 Ja se, joka sattuu hänen vuoteesensa, pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman hänensä vedellä, ja pitää oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

6 Se joka istuu sillä istuimella millä hän on istunut, jolla juoksu on, hänen pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oelman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

7 Se joka sattuu hänen lihaansa, hän peskään vaatteensa, ja viruttakaan hänensä vedellä, ja olkaan saastainen ehtoosen asti.

8 Jos hän sylkee puhtaan päälle, niin se pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman hänensä vedellä, ja oleman saastainen ehtoosen asti.

9 Ja koko se satula, jolla hän ajaa, pitää oleman saastainen.

10 Ja se joka sattuu johonkuhun siihen, joka hänen allansa on ollut, pitää saastaisen oleman ehtoosen asti, ja joka niitä kantaa, pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

11 Ja johonka hän, jolla juoksu on, tarttuu, ennen kuin hän kätensä pesee vedellä, sen pitää vaatteensa pesemän ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

12 Jos hän tarttuu saviseen astiaan, se pitää rikottaman; mutta puu-astia pitää vedellä virutettaman.

13 Ja tultuansa puhtaaksi lihansa juoksusta, pitää hänen lukeman seitsemän päivää puhdistuksestansa, ja pitää pesemän vaatteensa, niin myös viruttaman itsensä juoksevalla vedellä, niin hän on puhdas.

14 Ja kahdeksantena päivänä pitää hänen ottaman parin mettisiä, eli kaksi kyhkyläisen poikaa, ja pitää tuoman Herran eteen seurakunnan majan ovella, ja antaman ne papille.

15 Ja papin pitää ne uhraaman, yhden rikosuhriksi, ja toisen polttouhriksi, ja sovittaman hänen Herran edessä hänen juoksustansa.

16 Koska miehestä siemen vuotaa unessa, hänen pitää pesemän koko ruumiinsa vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

17 Ja kaikki vaate, ja kaikki nahka, joka senkaltaisella siemenellä tahrattu on, pitää pestämän vedellä, ja oleman saastainen ehtoosen asti.

18 Ja vaimo, jonka tykönä senkaltainen mies makaa, jolla on siemenen juoksu, heidän pitää pesemän itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaiset ehtoosen asti.

19 Koska vaimolla on lihansa veren juoksu, pitää hänen erinänsä oleman seitsemän päivää, ja joka häneen sattuu, sen pitää saastaisen oleman ehtoosen asti.

20 Ja kaikki jonka päälllä hän lepää, niinkauvan kuin hän erinänsä on, pitää oleman saastainen, ja kaikki, jonka päällä hän istuu, pitää oleman saastainen.

21 Ja se, joka hänen vuoteesensa sattuu, pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

22 Ja joka tarttuu johonkuhun, jonka päällä hän on istunut, hänen pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

23 Jos jotakin osaa olla sen vuoteessa, eli istuimella, kussa hän istuu, ja joku siihen tarttuu, hänen pitää oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

24 Ja jos joku mies leväten lepää hänen tykönänsä, siihen aikaa kuin hänen aikansa tulee, hänen pitää oleman saastaisen seitsemän päivää, ja koko hänen vuoteensa, jossa hän levännyt on, pitää oleman saastaisen.

25 Jos jonkun vaimon veren juoksu vuotaa kauvan aikaa, ei vaivoin niinkauvan kuin aika on, mutta myös ylitse sen ajan, hänen pitää oleman saastaisen niinkauvan kuin se vuotaa, niinkuin hänen oikialla vuotonsa ajalla.

26 Kaikki vuode, kussa hän lepää, niinkauvan kuin hän vuotaa, pitää oleman niinkuin oikian vuotonsa ajan vuode. Ja kaikki istuin, jonka päällä hän istuu, pitää oleman saastainen, niinkuin se hänen oikiana vuotamisensa aikana on saastainen.

27 Se joka rupee johonkuhun niihin, hänen pitää oleman saastaisen, ja pitää pesemän vaatteensa, ja viruttaman itsensä vedellä, ja oleman saastaisen ehtoosen asti.

28 Koska hän on puhdas vuotamisesta, niin hänen pitää lukeman seitsemän päivää, ja sitte hänen pitää oleman puhtaan.

29 Mutta kahdeksantena päivänä pitää hänen ottaman parin mettisiä eli kaksi kyhkyläisen poikaa, ja viemän papille, seurakunnan majan oven edessä.

30 Ja papin pitää uhraaman yhden rikosuhriksi, ja toisen polttouhriksi, ja sovittaman hänen Herran edessä saastaisuutensa juoksusta.

31 Niin teidän pitää eroittaman Israelin lapsia heidän saastaisuudestansa, ettei he kuolisi saastaisuudessa, koska he minun majani saastuttavat, joka heidän seassansa on.

32 Tämä on sääty vuotamisesta, ja siitä, jolta (unessa) siemen vuotaa, niin että hän siitä tulee saastaiseksi,

33 Ja siitä, jolla on veren juoksu, ja siitä, jolla joku vuotaminen on, miehestä eli vaimosta: ja koska mies lepää saastaisen tykönä.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #10208

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10208. 'And Aaron shall make expiation on its horns' means purification from evils by means of the truths of faith which spring from the good of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'making expiation' as purifying from evils, dealt with in 9506; from the representation of 'Aaron' as the Lord in respect of Divine Good, and in respect of the work of salvation, dealt with in 9806, 9946, 10017; and from the meaning of 'horns' as powers, dealt with in 10182, and also outer levels, 10186. The reason why purification by means of the truths of faith which spring from the good of love is meant is that expiation was made by means of blood, and 'blood' means the truth of faith emanating from the good of love, 4735, 7317, 7326, 7846, 7850, 7877, 9127, 9393, 10026, 10033, 10047; and all purification from evils is accomplished by means of the truths of faith that spring from the good of love, 2799, 5954(end), 7044, 7918, 9088. The fact that expiations were made by the blood on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and the altar of incense is clear in Leviticus 4:3, 7, 18, 25, 30, 34; 16:18.

[2] The altars were expiated in this way because holy things were polluted by the sins of the people. The people represented the Church; therefore those places which were the Church's, called its sanctuaries, such as the altar and the tent, together with their contents, were defiled whenever those people were guilty of sin; for those sanctuaries were places belonging to the Church. This is also made clear in Moses,

You shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, in order that they may not die in their uncleanness when they pollute My dwelling-place which is in their midst. Leviticus 15:31.

And in another place,

Aaron shall expiate the holy place from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. Thus shall he expiate the holy sanctuary, and the tent of meeting, and the altar. Leviticus 16:16, 33.

[3] The implications of all this are that those things which are called the holy things of the Church are not holy unless they are received with holy respect; for unless they are received with that respect what is Divine does not flow into them. Anything holy that exists with people is holy only by virtue of what is Divine flowing into it; sacred shrines for example, the altars there, and the bread and wine for the Holy Supper are made holy solely by the presence of the Lord. Therefore if the Lord is unable to be present there on account of the people's sins, those things have no holiness because they lack what is Divine. Furthermore the holy things of the Church are rendered unholy by sins because sins take what is Divine away from them.

[4] This then is the reason why sanctuaries are said to have been polluted by the uncleanness of the people and why those places therefore had to be expiated annually. The reason why the expiations were made with blood on the horns of the altars and not on the altars themselves was that the horns were the extremities of them, and nothing of a person has been purified unless the extremities or what is outermost has been purified. For inner things flow into those that are outermost, but the state of the outermost conditions the inflow. Consequently if what is outermost has been perverted the things within become perverted; for when those inner things flow into outermost ones, the recipient forms into which they descend are conditioned by the state in which the outermost things exist. The situation is like that when the eye is in bad condition; the power of sight which comes from within sees things only as that eye-condition will allow. Or it is like that when the arms are in bad shape; the powers which come from within exert themselves only as that condition will allow. Consequently if the natural man has been perverted the spiritual lacks the opportunity to function properly within the natural man, and this is why the spiritual or internal man is closed.

[5] But see what has been shown already on these matters, namely the following;

If a person is to be purified the natural or external man must be purified, see the places referred to in 9325(end).

This is because the path that all influx takes is from the internal to the external, and not vice versa, 5119, 6322.

For it is on the natural level within a person that influx from the spiritual world reaches its destination, 5651.

The outward aspects of a person have been formed to serve the inward, 5947, 9216, 9828.

Thus the external man must be altogether subject to the internal, 5786, 6275, 6284, 6299.

This is because the internal man is in heaven and the external man is in the world, 3167, 10156.

And the external man by himself or left to himself alone acts contrary to the internal, 3913, 3928.

In addition to all this, see 9701-9709 stating what the internal man is and what the external man is.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #3518

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3518. 'Go now to the flock' means to homeborn natural good that has not been joined to the Divine Rational. This is clear from the meaning of 'the flock' as good, dealt with in 343, 415, 1565, here natural good since the words are addressed to Jacob. Indeed homeborn good is meant since it was homebred, whereas the field from which Esau, who means the good of the natural, 3500, 3508, was to obtain his venison, means good that was not homeborn. In other places in the Word 'the flock' is used to refer to the good of the rational; but in such cases 'the herd' is used to refer to the good of the natural, see 2566. homeborn natural good is the good which a person possesses from his parents or is the good that he is born with, which is quite distinct and separate from the good of the natural which flows in from the Lord. What natural good is, and its essential nature, see 3470, 3471. To distinguish one from the other therefore, the first good is called the good of the natural, but the second natural good. What is more, everyone receives homeborn good both from father and from mother; and these are distinct from each other. Good received from the father is interior, that from the mother exterior. In the Lord's case these two forms of good were quite distinct and separate, for the Good which He had from the Father was Divine, whereas that which He had from the mother was polluted with hereditary evil. That Good within the Natural which the Lord had from the Father was His very own since it was His life itself; and this Good is represented by 'Esau'. But the natural good which the Lord possessed from the mother, being polluted with hereditary evil, was by its very nature evil; and it is this good that is meant by the description 'homeborn good'. Yet in spite of being thus polluted, homeborn good was nevertheless of service in the reformation of the natural. But once it had rendered its service it was cast away.

[2] With everyone who is being regenerated something similar takes place. The good which a person receives from the Lord as a new Father is interior, but the good he possesses from parents is exterior. The good which he receives from the Lord is called spiritual good, whereas that which he possesses from parents is called natural good. The latter good - that which he possesses from parents - is of service first of all in the reformation of him, for it is through that good, serving as joy and delight, that facts, and after that cognitions of truth, are brought in. But once it has served as the means to effect that purpose it is separated, and spiritual good comes to the fore and manifests itself. This becomes clear from much experience, merely for example from the fact that when a child first starts to learn he is moved by a desire for knowing, not initially on account of any end in view that is seen by himself but because of some innate joy and delight and because of other incentives. Later on, as he grows up, he is moved by a desire for knowing on account of some end he has in view - excelling others, that is, his rivals. Later still he is so moved on account of some worldly end. But when about to be regenerated his desire for knowing stems from the delight and pleasantness of truth, and when undergoing regeneration, which takes place in adult years, from a love of truth, and later on from a love of good. The ends in view which had existed previously, and their delights, are now separated little by little, to be replaced by interior good which comes from the Lord and manifests itself in his affection. From this it is evident that previous delights, which seemed in outward appearance to be forms of good, have served as means. Consecutive series of means such as these occur unceasingly.

[3] Such series may be compared to a tree, which at the initial stage or the start of spring decks its branches with leaves, and after that as that stage or spring advances it adorns them with blossom. Then, around summertime, it produces the elementary signs of its fruit, which go on to develop into the fruit itself; and at length within the fruit it produces seeds, in which are contained new trees like itself - potentially a whole garden, which becomes a reality if those seeds are planted. Such are the comparisons existing in the natural world. They are also representatives, for the whole natural order is a theatre representative of the Lord's kingdom in heaven, and therefore of the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church, and consequently of the Lord's kingdom with every regenerate person. From all this it is evident how natural or homeborn good, despite being a merely external and indeed worldly delight, may be of service as the means for producing the good of the natural which may join itself to the good of the rational and so become regenerate or spiritual good, that is, good which comes from the Lord. These are the things which are represented and meant in this chapter by Esau and Jacob.

  
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