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3 Mosebok 14

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1 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

2 Dette er loven om den spedalske, når han skal renses: Han skal føres til presten;

3 og presten skal gå utenfor leiren, og når da presten ser på ham og finner at han er helbredet for sin spedalskhet,

4 da skal presten befale at det for den som lar sig rense, skal tas to levende rene fugler og sedertre og karmosinrød ull og isop,

5 og la dem slakte den ene fugl over et lerkar som er fylt med rinnende vann.

6 Så skal han ta den levende fugl og sedertreet og den karmosinrøde ull og isopen og dyppe dem sammen med den levende fugl i blodet av den fugl som er slaktet over det rinnende vann,

7 og sprenge syv ganger på den som lar sig rense for spedalskhet, og således rense ham, og den levende fugl skal han la flyve sin vei bortover marken.

8 Og den som lar sig rense, skal tvette sine klær og rake av alt sitt hår og bade sig i vann, så er han ren, og derefter kan han gå inn i leiren; men han skal holde sig utenfor sitt telt i syv dager.

9 Den syvende dag skal han rake av alt sitt hår, både sitt hodehår og sitt skjegg og sine øienbryn - alt sitt hår skal han rake av, og han skal tvette sine klær og bade sitt legeme i vann, så er han ren.

10 Den åttende dag skal han ta to værlam uten lyte og et årsgammelt hunlam uten lyte og til matoffer tre tiendedeler av en efa fint mel, blandet med olje, og så en log* olje. / {* et mål for flytende varer.}

11 Og presten som forestår renselsen, skal stille den mann som lar sig rense, og de ting han skal ofre, frem for Herrens åsyn, ved inngangen til sammenkomstens telt.

12 Så skal presten ta det ene værlam og bære det frem til skyldoffer sammen med den tilhørende log olje, og han skal svinge dem for Herrens åsyn.

13 Værlammet skal slaktes på det sted hvor syndofferet og brennofferet blir slaktet, på det hellige sted; for likesom syndofferet, således hører også skyldofferet presten til, det er høihellig.

14 Så skal presten ta av skyldofferets blod og stryke på den høire ørelapp på den som lar sig rense, og på hans høire tommelfinger og på hans høire stortå.

15 Og presten skal ta av den tilhørende log olje og helle i sin venstre hånd

16 og så dyppe sin høire pekefinger i oljen som han har i sin venstre hånd, og sprenge av oljen med sin finger syv ganger for Herrens åsyn.

17 Og av resten av oljen som er i hans hånd, skal presten stryke noget på den høire ørelapp på den som lar sig rense, og på hans høire tommelfinger og på hans høire stortå, ovenpå blodet av skyldofferet.

18 Og det som enda er tilovers av oljen som presten har i sin hånd, skal han helle på hodet på den som lar sig rense. Og således skal presten gjøre soning for ham for Herrens åsyn.

19 Så skal presten ofre syndofferet og gjøre soning for den som lar sig rense for sin urenhet; og derefter skal han slakte brennofferet.

20 Og presten skal ofre brennofferet og matofferet på alteret og således gjøre soning for ham, så er han ren.

21 Men er det en fattig mann, som ikke har råd til så meget, da skal han ta et værlam til skyldoffer - det skal svinges til soning for ham - og en tiendedel av en efa fint mel, blandet med olje, til matoffer, og en log olje

22 og to turtelduer eller to dueunger, efter som han har råd til; den ene skal være til syndoffer, og den andre til brennoffer.

23 På den åttende dag av sin renselse skal han bære dette frem til presten, til inngangen til sammenkomstens telt, for Herrens åsyn.

24 Og presten skal ta skyldofferlammet og den tilhørende log olje og svinge dem for Herrens åsyn.

25 Og de skal slakte skyldofferlammet, og presten skal ta av skyldofferets blod og stryke på den høire ørelapp på den som lar sig rense, og på hans høire tommelfinger og på hans høire stortå.

26 Så skal presten helle av oljen i sin venstre hånd,

27 og med sin høire pekefinger skal han sprenge syv ganger for Herrens åsyn av oljen som han har i sin venstre hånd.

28 Så skal presten stryke noget av oljen som han har i sin hånd, på den høire ørelapp på den som lar sig rense, og på hans høire tommelfinger og på hans høire stortå, ovenpå det sted hvor blodet av skyldofferet er.

29 Og det som enda er tilovers av oljen som presten har i sin hånd, skal han helle på hodet på den som lar sig rense, for å gjøre soning for ham for Herrens åsyn.

30 Så skal han ofre den ene av turtelduene eller av dueungene - det som han har råd til -

31 som syndoffer og den andre som brennoffer sammen med matofferet; og presten skal gjøre soning for den som lar sig rense, for Herrens åsyn.

32 Dette er loven om den som lider av spedalskhet, men ikke har råd til å ofre meget når han skal renses.

33 Og Herren talte til Moses og Aron og sa:

34 Når I kommer inn i Kana'ans land, som jeg gir eder til eiendom, og jeg lar spedalskhet komme på noget hus i det land I får i eie,

35 da skal den som eier huset, gå og melde det til presten og si: Det ser ut for mig som det er kommet spedalskhet på huset.

36 Så skal presten la huset rydde, før han selv kommer for å se på flekkene, så ikke alt det som er i huset, skal bli urent; og derefter skal han komme og se på huset.

37 Dersom han da, når han ser på flekkene, finner at flekkene på husets vegger viser sig som grønnlige eller rødlige fordypninger som synes å ligge dypere enn veggen,

38 da skal han gå ut av huset til husets dør, og han skal stenge huset og holde det tillåst i syv dager.

39 Den syvende dag skal presten komme igjen, og når han da ser på det og finner at flekkene har bredt sig ut på husets vegger,

40 da skal han la de stener som flekkene er på, brytes ut og kastes utenfor byen, på et urent sted.

41 Derefter skal huset skrapes innvendig rundt omkring, og det støv som er skrapet av, skal kastes utenfor byen, på et urent sted.

42 Så skal de ta andre stener og sette dem inn istedenfor de gamle stener, og de skal ta nytt ler og overstryke huset med.

43 Bryter flekkene ut igjen på huset efterat stenene er tatt ut og huset skrapet og overstrøket,

44 da skal presten komme og se på det, og dersom han da finner at flekkene har bredt sig ut på huset, da er det ondartet spedalskhet på huset; det er urent.

45 Og da skal de rive huset ned, både stener og treverket og alt leret, og føre det utenfor byen, til et urent sted.

46 Den som går inn i huset i hele den tid det holdes tillåst, skal være uren til om aftenen,

47 og den som ligger i huset, skal tvette sine klær, og den som eter i huset, skal tvette sine klær.

48 Men dersom presten, når han kommer og ser på det, finner at flekkene ikke har bredt sig ut på huset efterat det er blitt overstrøket, da skal han si huset rent; for da er ondet borte.

49 Så skal han, forat huset kan bli renset, ta to fugler og sedertre og karmosinrød ull og isop.

50 Den ene fugl skal han slakte over et lerkar som er fylt med rinnende vann,

51 og så skal han ta sedertreet og isopen og den karmosinrøde ull og den levende fugl og dyppe dem i blodet av den fugl som er slaktet, og i det rinnende vann og sprenge på huset syv ganger.

52 Og han skal rense huset med fuglens blod og med det rinnende vann og med den levende fugl og med sedertreet og med isopen og med den karmosinrøde ull

53 og så la den levende fugl flyve utenfor byen, bortover marken; således skal han gjøre soning for huset, så det blir rent.

54 Dette er loven om alle slags spedalskhet og om skurv

55 og om spedalskhetklær og på hus

56 og om knuter i huden og om utslett og om lyse flekker på huden -

57 til oplysning om når noget er urent, og når det er rent. Dette er loven om spedalskhet.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10137

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10137. 'And a drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine' means spiritual truth, the amount needed for a joining together. This is clear from the meaning of 'wine' as truth, dealt with in 1071, 1798, 6377, at this point spiritual truth answering to the spiritual good derived from celestial good, meant by 'fine flour mixed with oil', dealt with immediately above in 10136 (where good is the subject in the Word, so too is truth, and indeed the truth belonging to the same class as the good. This is so because every single thing in heaven and also in the world has connection with good or with truth, and with both if it is to have any real existence, since good without truth is not good and truth without good is not truth, see the places referred to in 9263, 9314. This explains why when a minchah, which consisted of bread, was offered, so was a drink offering, which consisted of wine, in much the same way as in the Holy Supper. So it is that 'a drink offering of wine' is used here to mean the truth that answers to the good meant by a minchah, dealt with immediately above); and from the meaning of 'a quarter of a hin' as the amount needed for a joining together, dealt with immediately above in 10136.

[2] Everyone may see that not merely bread and wine should be understood by a minchah, which consisted of bread, and a drink offering, which consisted of wine, but something that belongs to the Church and to heaven, thus spiritual and celestial things, which are heaven's and the Church's. If this had not been so what would have been the point of putting the bread and wine on the fire on the altar? How could this have been pleasing to Jehovah, or how could it have been, as it says, an odour of rest to Him? How could it have expiated a person? Anyone who thinks reverently about the Word cannot imagine how an action so earthly could be pleasing to Jehovah unless something Divine on a deeper, more internal level was contained in it. The person who believes that the Word is Divine and spiritual throughout ought to believe completely that every detail there has some heavenly arcanum concealed within it. But the reason why no one up to now has known just where such an arcanum lies is that no one has known that an internal sense, which is spiritual and Divine, exists within every detail there. Nor has anyone known that angels are present with each person, perceiving his thoughts and understanding the Word in a spiritual manner when he reads it; that then through them a holy influence from the Lord reaches him; and that therefore through those angels heaven is linked to the person, to whom the Lord is linked by means of the heavens. It is for this reason that the kind of Word just described has been given to mankind, that Word being the sole means by which the Lord can provide for his salvation.

[3] The fact that 'minchah', consisting of bread, means the good of love and that 'drink offering', consisting of wine, means the good of faith, and that this is what the angels see in them, becomes clear from all those places in the Word which make reference to a minchah or a drink offering, such as these verses in Joel,

The minchah has been cut off, and the drink offering, from the house of Jehovah; the priests have been mourning, the ministers of Jehovah. The field has been devastated, the land has been mourning because the grain has been devastated, the new wine has dried up, the oil languishes. The vine has dried up and the fig tree languishes. Wail, O ministers of the altar, because the minchah and the drink offering have been withheld from the house of your God. For the day of Jehovah is near, and comes as destruction from Shaddai. Joel 1:9-15.

This refers to the final period of the Church, when the good of love and truth of faith are not present there any longer, meant by 'the day of Jehovah is near, and comes as destruction from Shaddai'.

[4] From this it is evident that by the minchah and drink offering which have been cut off from the house of Jehovah, the field which has been devastated, the land which mourns, the grain which too has been devastated, the new wine which has dried up, the oil which languishes, and the vine and fig which do so, such things as belong to the Church and to heaven are meant. It is the internal sense however that shows what it is they mean. From that sense it is evident that 'the field' means the Church as regards its reception of truth, see 3766, 4982, 7502, 7571, 9295; 'the land' the Church as regards [its reception of] good, see the places referred to in 9325; 'the grain' all the good that the Church has, 5295, 5410, 5959; 'the new wine' all the truth that the Church has, 3580; 'the oil' the good of love, 4582, 4638, 9780; 'the vine' the spiritual Church's interior good, 5113, 6376, 9277; and 'the fig' its exterior good, 217, 4231, 5113. From all this it is evident that 'the minchah' and 'the drink offering' mean worship springing from the good of love and from the good of faith.

[5] In Malachi,

I will not accept a minchah from your hands. For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, great is the name of Jehovah among the nations; and in every place [there will be] incense, offered to My name, and a pure minchah. Malachi 1:10-11.

It is evident that a minchah should not be understood here either by 'a minchah', nor incense by 'incense', since the subject is the Church among the gentile nations, among whom there was no minchah. For it says, 'From the rising of the sun to its setting, great is the name of Jehovah among the nations; and in every place [there will be] a pure minchah and incense', 'incense' meaning adoration springing from the good of faith, see 9475.

[6] Something similar occurs in David,

My prayers are acceptable, [as] incense before You, the lifting up of my hands, [as] the evening minchah. Psalms 141:2.

'The evening minchah' means the good of love in the external man.

[7] In Isaiah,

You inflamed yourselves among the gods under every green tree. You have also poured out a drink offering to them; you have presented a gift 1 . You offer the king a gift in oil, and multiply your perfumes; and you debase yourself even to hell. Isaiah 57:5-6, 9.

This refers to worship based on evils and falsities which come from hell. 'The gods' in the internal sense are falsities, for although those who worshipped other gods called them by name, nevertheless falsities arising from evils were what they worshipped. Regarding the gods of the foreigner in the Word, that falsities are meant by them, see 4402(end), 8941. '[Every] green tree' means every perception, recognition, and corroboration of falsity, 2722, 2972, 4552, 7692, 'green' implying a sensory apprehension, 7691. 'Inflaming oneself' means worship that is passionate, for 'the fire' that causes such fervour is love in both senses, 5215, 6832, 7575. 'Pouring out a drink offering' is worship springing from the falsities of evil; 'offering the king a gift in oil' is the worship of Satan springing from evils, 'a gift in oil' being a minchah, and 'multiplying perfumes' is multiplying offerings of incense, by which acts of adoration are meant, 9475. Therefore it also says that he debases himself even to hell.

[8]From these considerations it becomes clear that 'a minchah', which consisted of bread, and 'a drink offering', which consisted of wine, mean things such as belong to the Church and to heaven, namely heavenly food and drink, in the same way as the bread and wine in the Holy Supper do - for the reason given above, that heaven may join itself to a person through the Word, consequently that the Lord may do so through heaven by means of the Word. Since the Divine presence in the Word consists in such things it nourishes the minds not only of people in the world but also of angels and causes heaven and the world to be one.

[9] From this it also becomes clear that all the things without exception which have been stated and commanded in the Word regarding the minchah and drink offering, or bread and wine, contain Divine arcana within them. This is so for example with the requirement that a minchah should consist of fine flour which had oil and also frankincense on it, that it should be altogether salted, and that it should be unleavened or without yeast. Then there is the requirement that there was to be one set of proportions for the mixture when a lamb was sacrificed, another when it was a ram, another when it was a young bull, and yet another in guilt- and sin-sacrifices, while the proportions in other sacrifices were different again. The proportion of wine in the drink offering varied in a similar way. Unless these specific requirements had embodied the arcana of heaven no such things would ever have been commanded in connection with the various forms of worship.

[10] To enable these different requirements to be seen alongside one another, let them be set out here in their own order, as contained in the eucharistic sacrifices and burnt offerings, in Numbers 15:4-12; 28:9-12, 20-21, 28-29; 29:3-4, 9-10, 14-15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 37,

For each lamb there was a minchah consisting of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil; and the wine for the drink offering was a quarter of a hin.

For each ram there was a minchah consisting of two tenths [of an ephah] of fine flour, and a third of a hin of oil; and a third of a hin of wine for the drink offering.

For each young bull there was a minchah consisting of three tenths [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with oil, a half of a hin; and half of a hin of wine for the drink offering.

The reason why the proportions of fine flour, oil, and wine for a lamb should be different from those for a ram or for a young bull was that a lamb meant the inmost good of innocence, a ram the middle good of innocence, and a young bull the lowest or external good of innocence. For there are three heavens - the inmost, the middle, and the lowest - and therefore also there are three degrees of the good of innocence. The increase of it from first to last is meant by the increase in the proportions of fine flour, oil, and wine. It should be remembered that the good of innocence is the very soul of heaven, because that good alone is the recipient of the love, charity, and faith which constitute the heavens.

'A lamb' means the inmost good of innocence, see 3994, 10132.

'A ram' means the middle or interior good of innocence, 10042.

'A young bull' means the lowest or external good of innocence, 9391, 9990.

[11] In sacrifices for thanksgiving (confessio) however there was a minchah consisting of unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, cakes made of fried flour and mixed with oil, and in addition leavened bread cakes, Leviticus 7:11-12; and in guilt- and sin-sacrifices there was a minchah consisting of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, but without oil or frankincense on top of it, Leviticus 5:11. The reason why no oil or frankincense should be put on top of the minchah composing a sin- or guilt-sacrifice was that 'oil' is a sign of the good of love and 'frankincense' a sign of the truth which goes with that good, and a sin- or a guilt-sacrifice is a sign of purification and expiation from evils and the falsities arising from them, which therefore were not to be mingled with good or the truth springing from it.

[12] In addition to these there were the minchah of Aaron and his sons on the day they were going to be anointed, see Leviticus 6:20-22; the minchah of the firstfruits of the harvest, Leviticus 2:14-15; 23:10, 12-13, 17; the minchah of the Nazirite, Numbers 6:13-21]; the minchah of jealousy, Numbers 5:11-31]; the minchah of one cleansed from leprosy, Leviticus 14:1-32]; and also the minchah baked in an oven, the minchah prepared in a pan, and the minchah cooked in a pot, Leviticus 2:4-7. There was was to be no yeast in a minchah, nor any honey; and the minchah had to be fully salted, Leviticus 2:11, 13. The reason why there should be no yeast in a minchah, nor any honey, was that in the spiritual sense 'yeast' means falsity arising from evil, and 'honey' external delight very much mixed with the delight belonging to love of the world, which also causes fermentation in heavenly forms of good and truths and subsequent disintegration of them. And the reason why they should be fully salted was that 'salt' was a sign of truth desiring good and so joining the two together.

'Yeast' means falsity arising from evil, see 2342, 7906, 8051, 9992.

'Honey' means external delight, thus such delight belonging to love in both senses, 5620.

'Salt' means truth desiring good, 9207.

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1. literally, you have caused a gift to go up/ascend

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2718

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2718. 'A wife from the land of Egypt' means the affection for knowledge, which the member of the spiritual Church possesses. This is clear from the meaning of 'a wife' as affection or good, dealt with in 915, 2517, and from the meaning of 'Egypt' as knowledge, dealt with in 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462. In this verse the member of the spiritual Church is described so far as the nature of his good, that is, the essence of his life, is concerned - that the good residing with him is obscure, but that it is brightened with light from the Lord's Divine Human. From that brightening of it the affection for truth arises in the rational part of his mind, and the affection for knowledge in the natural part. The reason the affection for good such as resides within the celestial man cannot arise in the spiritual man, but instead the affection for truth, is that the good residing with him is implanted in the understanding part of his mind, and is obscure compared with the celestial man's good, as shown in 2715. From this good no other type of affection can be generated and derived within his rational than the affection for truth, and through this affection for truth the affection for knowledge within the natural. No other truth is meant in this case than that which the person believes to be the truth, even though it may not in itself be the truth. Nor is knowledge used to mean such knowledge as the learned possess but all factual knowledge with which a person can be taught from what he experiences or hears in everyday life, from doctrine, and from the Word. It is the affection for such truth and knowledge that exists within the member of the spiritual Church.

[2] So that it may be known what is meant by the affection for truth existing with someone and what by the affection for good, let a brief statement be made regarding them. Those with the affection for truth think about, question, and discuss whether a thing is true, whether it is so. And when they are convinced it is true, or is so, they think about, question, and discuss what it is. Thus they remain rooted on the doorstep and cannot be admitted into wisdom until they no longer have any doubts. Those however with whom the affection for good exists know and perceive that the thing is so from the good itself governing them. Thus they do not remain on the doorstep but are in a room inside, having been admitted into wisdom.

[3] Take as an example the consideration that it is a celestial gift to think and to act from an affection for good, or from good. Those with whom the affection for truth exists discuss whether this is so, whether such a gift can exist, and what it may be. And so long as they are turning over doubts about it they are unable to be admitted. But those with the affection for good do not discuss or turn doubts over but assert that the thing is true and are for that reason admitted. For those with whom the affection for good exists, that is, those who are celestial, start off where those with the affection for truth, that is, those who are spiritual, come to a halt, so that the furthest point reached by the latter is the starting point for the former. That being so, those who are celestial are given to know, recognize, and perceive that affections for good are countless - as numerous as the communities in heaven - and that they are all joined together by the Lord into a heavenly form so as to constitute one human being so to speak. They are also given to define by perception the genus and species to which each affection belongs.

[4] Or take this example: All delight, blessedness, and happiness belong wholly to love, but the nature of the love determines that of the delight, blessedness, and happiness. The spiritual man fixes his mind on the question whether this is true and whether delight, blessedness, and happiness may not spring from some other source, such as from mixing with others, talking to others, meditation, or learning, and also whether they reside in possessions, position, reputation, and the glory resulting from these. As long as he is asking such questions he does not confirm himself in the truth that none of these accomplishes anything, only the affection born of love which is present within them and making them what they are. The celestial man however does not remain rooted in such preliminary questionings but immediately asserts that the thing is true. Consequently he is interested in the end in view and the realization of this, that is, he is governed by the very affections born of love which are countless, and in each one of which there are things beyond description, involving variations of delight, blessedness, and happiness that have no end.

[5] Take as a further example the consideration that the neighbour is to be loved for the good that resides with him. Those with whom the affection for truth exists think, question, and discuss whether this is true, that is, whether it is so. They ask what the neighbour is, what good is; but they go no further than this, and therefore they shut the door to wisdom against themselves. Those however with the affection for good assert that the thing is so and do not consequently shut the door against themselves but enter in and so come to know, recognize, and perceive from good who is pre-eminently the neighbour, also in what degree he is the neighbour, and that everyone in differing ways is the neighbour. Thus they perceive things beyond description, over and above what is known to those with the affection solely for truth.

[6] Take as yet another example the truth that a person who loves the neighbour for the good within him loves the Lord. Those with the affection for truth question whether this is so. And if they are told that anyone who loves the neighbour for the good within him loves the good, and that - since all good comes from the Lord and the Lord is present in good - when anyone loves good he also loves the Lord from whom that good comes and in which He is present, they then question whether that too is so. They also ask what loving good is, as well as what good is, and whether the Lord is present more so in good than in truth. As long as they remain rooted in such questionings they cannot get even a distant view of wisdom. But those with the affection for good know from perception that the thing is so and immediately behold the whole field of wisdom leading right on to the Lord.

[7] From these examples it may become clear why in comparison with those who have the affection for good, that is, with those who are celestial, obscurity exists with those who have the affection for truth, that is, with those who are spiritual Nevertheless the latter are able to pass from obscurity into light, provided that they are willing to adopt the affirmative attitude that all good belongs to love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour; also that love and charity constitute spiritual conjunction, and that these are the source of all blessedness and happiness, thus that heavenly life consists in the good belonging to love received from the Lord, but not in the truth of faith separated from it.

  
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