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Leviticus 23

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1 Mluvil opět Hospodin Mojžíšovi, řka:

2 Mluv k synům Izraelským a rci jim: Slavnosti Hospodinovy, kteréž nazývati budete shromáždění svatá, tyto jsou slavnosti mé:

3 Šest dní dělati budete, dne pak sedmého sobota odpočinutí jest, shromáždění svaté bude. Žádného díla nedělejte, nebo jest sobota Hospodinova, ve všech příbytcích vašich.

4 Protož tyto jsou slavnosti Hospodinovy, shromáždění svatá, kteréž slaviti budete v časy jich určité:

5 Měsíce prvního, čtrnáctého dne téhož Měsíce u večer bude Fáze Hospodinovo.

6 A patnáctého dne téhož měsíce svátek přesnic bude Hospodinu; za sedm dní přesné chleby jísti budete.

7 Dne prvního sbor svatý míti budete; žádného díla robotného nebudete dělati.

8 Ale obětovati budete obět ohnivou Hospodinu za sedm dní. Dne také sedmého sbor svatý bude; žádného díla robotného nebudete dělati.

9 I mluvil Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, řka:

10 Mluv k synům Izraelským a rci jim: Když vejdete do země, kterouž já dávám vám, a žíti budete obilí její, tedy přinesete snopek prvotiny žně vaší k knězi.

11 Kterýž obraceti bude sem i tam snopek ten před Hospodinem, aby byl příjemnou obětí za vás; nazejtří po sobotě obraceti jej bude kněz.

12 Kterého dne obraceti budete snopek ten, téhož zabijete beránka ročního bez poškvrny v obět zápalnou Hospodinu.

13 Též i obět suchou jeho, dvě desetiny mouky bělné olejem zadělané, v obět ohnivou Hospodinu u vůni příjemnou, a mokrou obět jeho, vína čtvrtý díl míry hin.

14 Chleba pak, ani pražmy, ani zrní vymnutého nebudete jísti, až právě do toho dne, když obětovati budete obět Bohu svému. Ustanovení to věčné bude v pronárodech vašich, ve všech příbytcích vašich.

15 Počtete sobě také od prvního dne po sobotě, ode dne, v němž jste obětovali snopek sem i tam obracení, (plných sedm téhodnů ať jest),

16 Až do prvního dne po sedmém téhodni, sečtete padesáte dní, a tehdy obětovati budete novou obět suchou Hospodinu.

17 Z příbytků svých přinesete chleby sem i tam obracení, dva bochníky ze dvou desetin mouky bělné budou; kvašené je upečete, prvotiny jsou Hospodinu.

18 A s tím chlebem obětovati budete sedm beránků ročních bez vady, a volka mladého jednoho, a skopce dva; obět zápalná budou Hospodinu, s obětmi svými suchými i mokrými, obět ohnivá vůně spokojující Hospodina.

19 Zabijete také kozla jednoho za hřích, a dva beránky roční k oběti pokojné.

20 I bude je kněz sem i tam obraceti s chleby prvotin v obět sem i tam obracení před Hospodinem, i s těmi dvěma beránky; a budou svaté věci Hospodinu, a dostanou se knězi.

21 I vyhlásíte v ten den slavnost, shromáždění svaté míti budete, žádného díla robotného nebudete dělati. Ustanovení to bude věčné ve všech příbytcích vašich, v pronárodech vašich.

22 A když budete žíti obilé krajiny vaší, nesežneš všeho až do konce pole svého, a pozůstalých klasů po žni své nebudeš sbírati; chudému a příchozímu zanecháš jich: Já jsem Hospodin Bůh váš.

23 Mluvil ještě Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, řka:

24 Mluv synům Izraelským takto: Měsíce sedmého, v první den téhož Měsíce, budete míti odpočinutí, památku troubení, shromáždění svaté držíce.

25 Žádného díla robotného nebudete dělati, a budete obětovati obět ohnivou Hospodinu.

26 Mluvil také Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, řka:

27 Desátý pak den každého měsíce sedmého den očišťování jest. Shromáždění svaté míti budete, a ponižovati budete životů svých, a obětovati obět ohnivou Hospodinu.

28 Žádného díla nebudete dělati v ten den; nebo den očišťování jest, k očišťování vás před Hospodinem Bohem vaším.

29 A všeliká duše, kteráž by neponižovala se toho dne, vyhlazena bude z lidu svého.

30 Kdož by koli dílo nějaké dělal toho dne, zatratím člověka toho z lidu jeho.

31 Žádného díla nedělejte. Ustanovení to bude věčné v pronárodech vašich, ve všech příbytcích vašich.

32 Sobotu odpočinutí míti budete, když ponižovati budete duší svých, devátého dne téhož měsíce u večer; od večera až do druhého večera držeti budete sobotu svou.

33 Mluvil také Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, řka:

34 Mluv synům Izraelským a rci: Každého patnáctého dne měsíce sedmého slavnost stánků za sedm dní bude Hospodinu.

35 Dne prvního shromáždění svaté bude; žádného díla robotného nebudete dělati.

36 Za sedm dní obětovati budete obět ohnivou Hospodinu. Dne osmého shromáždění svaté míti budete, a obětovati budete obět ohnivou Hospodinu; svátek jest, žádného díla robotného nebudete dělati.

37 To jsou slavnosti Hospodinovy, kteréž slaviti budete, mívajíce shromáždění svatá, abyste v nich obětovali obět ohnivou Hospodinu, zápal, obět suchou, obět pokojnou, a oběti mokré, jedno každé ve dni svém,

38 Kromě sobot Hospodinových, a kromě darů vašich, i všech slibů vašich a kromě všech dobrovolných obětí vašich, kteréž dávati budete Hospodinu.

39 A však dne patnáctého toho měsíce sedmého, když byste shromáždili úrody země, světiti budete svátek Hospodinův za sedm dní. Dne prvního odpočinutí bude, tolikéž dne osmého bude odpočinutí.

40 A naberouce sobě dne prvního ovoce z stromů krásných, a ratolestí palmových, a větvoví z stromů hustých, a vrbí od potoku, veseliti se budete před Hospodinem Bohem svým za sedm dní.

41 A tak držeti budete ten svátek Hospodinův za sedm dní každého roku. Ustanovení to bude věčné v pronárodech vašich; každého měsíce sedmého slaviti jej budete.

42 V staních zůstanete za sedm dní. Kdožkoli doma zrozený jest v Izraeli, v staních zůstávati budete,

43 Aby věděli potomci vaši, že jsem choval v staních syny Izraelské, když jsem je vyvedl z země Egyptské: Já Hospodin Bůh váš.

44 I oznámil Mojžíš slavnosti Hospodinovy synům Izraelským.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10303

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10303. 'And you shall beat some of it very fine' means the arrangement of truths into their own series. This is clear from the meaning of 'beating very small' - when it refers to the frankincense and spices, by which levels of truth are meant - as the arrangement of truths into their own series; for much the same is meant by 'beating' as by 'grinding', though 'grinding' is used in reference to wheat, barley, and spelt, whereas 'beating' is used in reference to oil, frankincense, and spices.

[2] What is meant specifically by 'beating' and 'grinding' no one can know without knowledge of what a person is like when the different kinds of good and truth meant by wheat, barley, flour, fine flour, oil, frankincense, and spices have been arranged into order for the uses they are to serve. For 'grinding' and 'beating' mean arranging them so that they may serve a use. When 'grinding' has reference to different kinds of good, which are meant by 'wheat' or 'barley', it means the way that good is arranged and brought forward in the form of truths, and its application in this form to one use or another. Good furthermore never presents itself within useful services except through truths; for good is arranged into order in the form of truths and in this way acquires specific quality. Unless it has been arranged in the form of truths good has no specific quality; and when it is arranged in the form of truths it is arranged into series, depending on the item under discussion, in accord with the use that item serves. The good enters those items as an affection belonging to love, and this gives rise to what is enjoyable, lovely, and pleasing. Something similar is meant here by 'beating very fine', for 'pure frankincense' means spiritual good, 10296, and the kinds of truth that are arranged into order by the good are the spices stacte, onycha, and galbanum, 10292-10294.

[3] What being arranged into series is must also be stated briefly. Truths are said to have been arranged into series when they have been arranged in accordance with the form of heaven, which consists of angelic communities. The character of that form is clear from the correspondence of all the members, internal organs, and other organs of the human being with the Grand Man, which is heaven. Regarding that correspondence, see in the places referred to in 10030(end). Within those members and organs all the individual parts are arranged into series and into series of series. Fibres and vessels form them, as is well known to those who are acquainted from anatomy with the weavings and interweavings of the more internal constituents of the body. The truths from good present in a person are arranged into similar series.

[4] So it is that a person who has been regenerated is heaven in its smallest form, corresponding to the Grand Man; and that the person's truth and good make him wholly and completely what he is.

A person who has been regenerated is heaven in its smallest form, see in the places referred to 9279.

His truth and his good constitute a person, 10298 above.

The truths with regenerate people have been arranged into series in accord with the arrangement in which angelic communities exist, 5339, 5343, 5530.

The series into which the truths with those who are good have been arranged, and the series into which the falsities with those who are evil have been arranged are meant in the Word by 'sheafs' and 'bundles', as in Leviticus 23:9-15; Psalms 126:6; 129:7; Amos 2:13; Micah 4:12; Jeremiah 9:22; Zechariah 12:6; Matthew 13:30.

[5] When therefore it is evident what 'beating' and 'grinding' mean one can know the meaning in the internal sense of the description stating that the children of Israel ground the manna in mills or beat it in mortars, and made it into cakes, Numbers 11:8. 'The manna' was a sign of celestial and spiritual good, 8464, and 'grinding' and 'beating' arranging it to serve useful purposes; for whatever is mentioned in the Word is a sign of the kinds of realities that exist in heaven and in the Church. Every detail there has an inner meaning. One can also know the meaning when it says that they should not take as a pledge the mill or the milling stone, for anyone who does so takes the [person's] soul as a pledge, Deuteronomy 24:6. 'The mill' and 'the milling stone' mean that which prepares good so that it may be applicable to one use or another. 'Barley' too and 'wheat' mean good, and 'flour' and 'fine flour' truths; and its own truths are the means by which good is applied to any such use, as stated above.

[6] From all this it may be seen what 'mill', 'millstone', and 'sitting at the mill' mean in the following places: In Matthew,

At that time two women will be grinding; one will be taken, the other left. Matthew 24:41.

In the same gospel,

Whoever causes one of these little ones believing in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if an ass's millstone 1 were hung onto his neck and he were plunged into the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6; Mark 9:42.

In the Book of Revelation,

A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus will Babylon be thrown down with violence; no sound of a mill will be heard in it any more. Revelation 18:21-22.

In Jeremiah,

I will take away from them the voice of joy, the sound of mills, and the light of the lamp. Jeremiah 25:10.

And in Isaiah,

O daughter of Babel, sit on the ground; without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. Take a mill and grind flour. Isaiah 47:1-2.

Even as 'mill' and 'grinding' in the good sense mean application to good purposes, so in the contrary sense they mean application to evil ones. Consequently when Babel and Chaldea are the subject they mean the application [of what is good and true] in favour of their own loves, which are self-love and love of the world; for with them 'barley' and 'wheat' mean adulterated good, and 'flour' the resulting falsified truth. The profanation of goodness and truth through applying them to those loves is also meant by the action of Moses when he ground up the golden calf into tiny pieces, sprinkled them on the water coming down from Mount Sinai, and made the children of Israel drink it, Exodus 32:20; Deuteronomy 9:21.

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1. i.e. the upper, rotating stone of an ass-driven mill

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2177

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2177. That 'meal of fine flour' means the spiritual and celestial ingredients [of the rational] which were present at that time with the Lord, and 'cakes' the same when both had been joined together, is quite clear from the sacrifices of the representative Church and from the minchah presented at the same time, which consisted of fine flour mixed with oil and made into cakes. Representative worship consisted primarily in burnt offerings and sacrifices. What these represented has been stated above where 'bread' was the subject, in 2165, namely the celestial things of the Lord's kingdom in heaven and of the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church, and also the things of the Lord's kingdom or Church as it exists with every individual, and in general everything that is in essence love and charity, since these are celestial entities. In those times all the sacrifices were called 'bread'. Along with those sacrifices a minchah was included - which, as has been stated, consisted of fine flour mixed with oil to which also incense was added - and also a wine-offering.

[2] What these latter represented becomes clear too, namely things similar to those represented by sacrifices but of a lower order, thus the things which belong to the spiritual Church, and also those which belong to the external Church. It may become clear to anyone that such things would never have been prescribed unless they had represented Divine things, and also that each one represented some specific thing. For unless they had represented Divine things they would have been no different from similar things found among gentiles, among whom also there were sacrifices, minchahs, libations, and incense, as well as perpetual fires and many other things which had come down to them from the Ancient Church, especially from the Hebrew Church. But because they were separated from the internal, that is, the Divine things represented by them, those external forms of worship were nothing but idolatrous, as they also came to be among the Jews, who likewise sank into all kinds of idolatry. From this it may become clear to anyone that heavenly arcana were present within every form of ritual, especially so within the sacrifices and every detail of them.

[3] As regards the minchah, the nature of it and how it was to be made into cakes is described in a whole chapter in Moses - in Leviticus 2; also Numbers 15, and elsewhere. The law regarding the minchah is described in Leviticus in the following words,

Fire shall be kept burning unceasingly on the altar; it shall not be put out. And this is the law of the minchah: Aaron's sons shall bring it before Jehovah to the front of the altar, and he shall take up from it a fistful of fine flour of the minchah and of the oil of it and all the frankincense which is on the minchah, and he shall burn it on the altar; it is an odour of rest for a memorial to Jehovah. And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. Unleavened bread shall be eaten in a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting shall they eat it. It shall not be cooked leavened; I have given it as their portion from My fire-offerings; it is most holy. Leviticus 6:13-17.

[4] The fire which was to be kept burning unceasingly on the altar represented the Lord's love, that is, His mercy, which is constant and eternal. 'Fire' in the Word means love, see 934, and therefore 'the fire-offerings made for an odour of rest' means the good pleasure which the Lord takes in those things that belong to love and charity. That 'odour' means good pleasure, that is, that which is pleasing, see 925, 1519. Their 'taking a fistful' represented their being required to love with all their soul or strength, for 'the hand' or 'the palm' of the hand means power, as shown in 878, from which 'the fist' also means the same. 'The fine flour together with the oil and the frankincense' represented all things of charity - 'fine flour' the spiritual ingredient of it, 'oil' the celestial, and 'frankincense' that which was in this manner pleasing. That 'fine flour' represents the spiritual ingredient is evident from what has just been stated and from what is stated below. That 'oil' represents the celestial ingredient, or the good or charity, see 886, and that 'frankincense' on account of its odour represents that which is pleasing and acceptable, 925.

[5] Its being 'unleavened bread' or not fermented means that it was to be genuine, thus something offered from genuineness of heart and having no uncleanness. The eating of the rest by Aaron and his sons represented man's reciprocation and his making it his own, and thus represented conjunction by means of love and charity; and it is for this reason that they were commanded to eat it 'in a holy place'. Hence it is called something most holy. These were the things which were represented by the minchah. It was also the way in which the representatives themselves were perceived in heaven; and when the member of the Church understood them in the same way his ideas were like the perception which the angels possess, so that he was in the Lord's kingdom in heaven even though he was on earth.

[6] For more about the minchah - what it was to consist of in any particular kind of sacrifice; the way in which it was to be baked into cakes; what kind was to be offered by those who were being cleansed, and also what kinds on other occasions (all of which would take too long to introduce and explain here) - see what is said about it in Exodus 29:39-41; Leviticus 5:11-13; 6:16-17, 19-21; 10:12-13; 23:10-13, 6, 17; Numbers 5:15 and following verses; 6:15-17, 19-20; 7: in various places; 28:5, 8, 9, 12-13, 20-21, 28-29; 29:3-4, 9-10, 14-15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 37

[7] 'Fine flour made into cakes' had in general the same representation as bread, namely the celestial ingredient of love, while 'meals represented its spiritual ingredient, as becomes clear in the places indicated above. The loaves which were called 'the bread of the Presence' or 'the shewbread' consisted of fine flour, which was made into cakes and placed on the table to provide an unceasing representation of the Lord's love, that is, of His mercy, towards the whole human race, and man's reciprocation. These loaves are spoken of in Moses as follows,

You shall take fine pour and bake it into twelve cakes; two-tenths [of an ephah] shall there be in one cake And you shall place them in two rows, six in a row, on the clean table before Jehovah. And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, and it shall be bread serving as a memorial, a fire-offering to Jehovah. Every sabbath day [Aaron] shall set it out in order before Jehovah continually; it is from the children of Israel as an eternal covenant. And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is to him the most holy of fire-offerings to Jehovah, by an eternal statute. Leviticus 24:5-9.

Every item and smallest detail mentioned here represented the holiness of love and charity, 'fine flour' having the same representation as meal of fine flour, namely that which is celestial and that which is spiritual that goes with it, and 'cake' the two when joined together.

[8] From this it is clear what the holiness of the Word is to those who possess heavenly ideas, and indeed what holiness was present within this particular representative observance, on account of which it is called 'most holy'. It is also clear how devoid of holiness the Word is to those who imagine that it does not have anything heavenly within it and who keep solely to externals. Exemplifying the latter are those who in the present verse under consideration perceive 'the meal' to be merely meal, 'the fine flour' merely fine flour, and 'the cake' merely a cake, and who imagine that these things have been stated without each one that is mentioned embodying something of the Divine within it. Their attitude is similar to that of those who imagine that the bread and wine of the Holy Supper are no more than a certain religious observance that does not have anything holy within it. Yet in fact it possesses such holiness that the minds of men are linked by means of it to the minds of those in heaven, when from an internal affection they think that the bread and wine mean the Lord's love and man's reciprocation, and by virtue of that interior thought and affection they abide in holiness.

[9] Much the same was implied by the requirement that when the children of Israel entered the land they were to present as a heave-offering to Jehovah a cake made from the first of their dough, Numbers 15:20. The fact that such things are meant is also evident in the Prophets, from' among whom for the moment let this one place in Ezekiel be introduced here,

You were adorned with gold and silver, and your raiment was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became exceedingly beautiful, and attained to a kingdom. Ezekiel 16:13.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which is meant the Church, which Church in its earliest days bore an appearance such as this, that is to say, the Ancient Church, which is described by means of raiment and many other adornments. Its affections for truth and good are also described by 'the fine flour, honey, and oil'. It may become clear to anyone that all these details mean in the internal sense something altogether different from what they do in the sense of the letter. And the same applies to Abraham's saying to Sarah, 'Take quickly three measures of meal of fine flour, knead it, and make cakes'. That 'three' means things that are holy has been shown already in 720, 901.

  
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