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4 Mose第19章

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1 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und zu Aaron und sprach:

2 Dies ist die Satzung des Gesetzes, das Jehova geboten hat, indem er sprach: ede zu den Kindern Israel, daß sie dir eine rote junge Kuh bringen, ohne Fehl, an der kein Gebrechen, auf welche kein Joch gekommen ist;

3 und ihr sollt sie Eleasar, dem Priester, geben, und er soll sie vor das Lager hinausführen, und man soll sie vor ihm schlachten.

4 Und Eleasar, der Priester, nehme von ihrem Blute mit seinem Finger und sprenge von ihrem Blute siebenmal gegen die Vorderseite des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft hin.

5 Und man soll die junge Kuh vor seinen Augen verbrennen: ihre Haut und ihr Fleisch und ihr Blut samt ihrem Mist soll man verbrennen.

6 Und der Priester soll Cedernholz und Ysop und Karmesin nehmen und es mitten in den Brand der jungen Kuh werfen.

7 Und der Priester soll seine Kleider waschen und sein Fleisch im Wasser baden, und danach soll er in das Lager gehen; und der Priester wird unrein sein bis an den Abend.

8 Und der sie verbrennt, soll seine Kleider mit Wasser waschen und sein Fleisch im Wasser baden, und er wird unrein sein bis an den Abend.

9 Und ein reiner Mann soll die Asche der jungen Kuh sammeln und sie außerhalb des Lagers an einen reinen Ort schütten, (Eig. niederlegen) und sie soll für die Gemeinde der Kinder Israel aufbewahrt werden zum Wasser der einigung; es ist eine Entsündigung.

10 Und der die Asche der jungen Kuh gesammelt hat, soll seine Kleider waschen, und er wird unrein sein bis an den Abend. Und es soll den Kindern Israel und dem Fremdling, der in ihrer Mitte weilt, zur ewigen Satzung sein.

11 Wer einen Toten anrührt, irgend eine Leiche eines Menschen, der wird sieben Tage unrein sein.

12 Selbiger soll sich am dritten Tage damit entsündigen, und am siebten Tage wird er rein sein; und wenn er sich nicht entsündigt am dritten Tage, so wird er am siebten Tage nicht rein sein.

13 Jeder, der einen Toten anrührt, die Leiche irgend eines Menschen, der gestorben ist, und sich nicht entsündigt, hat die Wohnung Jehovas verunreinigt; und selbige Seele soll ausgerottet werden aus Israel. Weil das Wasser der einigung nicht auf ihn gesprengt wurde, ist er unrein; seine Unreinigkeit ist noch an ihm.

14 Dies ist das Gesetz, wenn ein Mensch im Zelte stirbt: Jeder, der ins Zelt geht, und jeder, der im Zelte ist, wird sieben Tage unrein sein.

15 Und jedes offene Gefäß, auf dem kein festgebundener Deckel ist, wird unrein sein. -

16 Und jeder, der auf freiem Felde einen mit dem Schwerte Erschlagenen oder einen Gestorbenen oder das Gebein eines Menschen oder ein Grab anrührt, wird sieben Tage unrein sein.

17 Und man soll für den Unreinen von dem Staube des zur Entsündigung Verbrannten nehmen und lebendiges Wasser darauf tun in ein Gefäß;

18 und ein reiner Mann soll Ysop nehmen und ihn in das Wasser tauchen, und soll auf das Zelt sprengen und auf alle Geräte und auf die Personen, die daselbst sind, und auf den, der das Gebein oder den Erschlagenen oder den Gestorbenen oder das Grab angerührt hat.

19 Und zwar soll der eine auf den Unreinen sprengen am dritten Tage und am siebten Tage, und ihn am siebten Tage entsündigen; und er soll seine Kleider waschen und sich im Wasser baden, und am Abend wird er rein sein. -

20 Und wenn jemand unrein wird, und sich nicht entsündigt, selbige Seele soll ausgerottet werden aus der Mitte der Versammlung; denn er hat das Heiligtum Jehovas verunreinigt: das Wasser der einigung ist nicht auf ihn gesprengt worden, er ist unrein.

21 Und es soll ihnen zur ewigen Satzung sein. Und wer das Wasser der einigung sprengt, soll seine Kleider waschen; und wer das Wasser der einigung anrührt, wird unrein sein bis an den Abend.

22 Und alles, was der Unreine anrührt, wird unrein sein; und wer (W. die Seele, die) ihn anrührt, wird unrein sein bis an den Abend.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#6767

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6767. Sayest thou to kill me? That this signifies “wouldest thou destroy my faith?” is evident from the signification of “killing,” as being to destroy (of which below); and from the signification of a “Hebrew man,” here meant by “me,” as being one who is of the church, thus also faith, for faith is of the church, and these two things are so united that he who destroys faith with anyone, destroys the church with him. This also is “killing” him, for he who takes away faith, takes away spiritual life, the life which remains being that which is called “death.” Hence it is evident that by, “Sayest thou to kill me?” is signified “wouldest thou destroy my faith?”

[2] That “to kill” denotes to take away spiritual life, is clear from many passages in the Word, as in Jeremiah:

Drag them away as a sheep for the slaughter, and devote them for the day of killing. How long shall the land mourn and the herb of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the bird will be consumed (Jeremiah 12:3-4);

“the day of killing” denotes the time of the vastation of the church, when there is no longer any faith, because no charity; “the land which shall mourn” denotes the church; “the herb of every field” denotes every true memory-knowledge of the church; “the beasts and the bird will be consumed” denotes that goods and truths will be so. (That the “land” is the church, see n. 566, 662, 1067, 1262, 1413, 1607, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 2928, 3355, 4335, 4447, 5577; that “herb” is true memory-knowledge is evident from the passages in the Word where “herb” is mentioned; that “field” is that which is of the church, n. 2971, 3310, 3766; that “beasts” are affections of good, thus goods, n. 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 719, 1823, 2179, 2180, 3218, 3519, 5198; and “birds” affections of truth, n. 5149.) Hence it can be seen what is the meaning of the above words, and also that there is a spiritual sense in every detail. Everyone can see that without an interior sense it could not be understood what is meant by “a day of killing,” by “the earth mourning,” by “every herb of the field withering for the wickedness of those who dwell therein,” and by “the beasts and the bird being consumed.”

[3] In Zechariah:

Thus said Jehovah my God, Feed the sheep of killing, which their possessors kill (Zech. 11:4-5); where “the sheep of killing” plainly denotes those whose faith the possessors destroy.

In Ezekiel:

Thou hast profaned Me with My people, for handfuls of barley, and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls which ought not to die, and to keep the souls alive which ought not to live (Ezekiel 13:19);

here also “to kill” plainly denotes to destroy spiritual life, that is, faith and charity.

In Isaiah:

What will ye do in the day of visitation and of vastation? Beneath the bound, and beneath the killed shall they fall (Isaiah 10:3-4); where the “killed” denote those who are in hell, thus who are in evils and falsities.

[4] Again:

Thou art cast out of thy sepulchre like an abominable shoot, the raiment of the killed, of one pierced with the sword. Thou shalt not be united with them in the grave, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast killed thy people (Isaiah 14:19-20);

“the killed” denote those who are deprived of spiritual life; “thou hast killed thy people” denotes that he has destroyed the truths and goods of faith.

In John:

The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life (John 10:10);

“to kill” denotes to destroy the life of faith, and therefore it is said, “I am come that they may have life.”

In Mark:

The brother shall deliver the brother to death, and the father the children, and children shall rise up against their parents and shall kill them (Mark 13:12); speaking of the last times of the church, when there is no longer any charity, and therefore not any faith; “brother,” “children,” and “parents,” in the internal sense, are the goods and truths of the church, and “to kill” is to destroy them.

[5] As by “one killed” was signified one deprived of spiritual life, and by “field” the church, therefore it was a statute in the representative church, that

If anyone touched on the surface of a field anyone pierced with a sword, or killed, he should be unclean seven days (Numbers 19:16).

That “one pierced with a sword” is truth extinguished by falsity, see above, n. 4503, for “sword” denotes falsity which extinguishes truth, n. 2799, 4499, 6353.

In like manner this was a statute: If anyone was found killed in the land of inheritance, upon a field, and it should not be known who had killed him, the elders and judges were to measure between the cities round about, and having thus found the nearest city, they were to take a calf and were to head it by a running stream; besides other particulars (Deuteronomy 21:1-10).

  
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Arcana Coelestia#3355

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3355. That in the internal sense an “earthquake” signifies a change in the state of the church, is evident from the signification of “earth,” as being the church (n. 566, 662, 1066, 1067, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 2928); and from the signification of “quaking,” or movement, as being a change of state; here, as to the things of the church, namely, in respect to good and truth. The same is also evident from other passages in the Word, as in Isaiah:

It shall come to pass that he who fleeth from the voice of the dread shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for the cataracts from on high were opened, and the foundations of the earth were shaken; in breaking the earth is broken; in moving the earth is moved; reeling the earth reeleth like a drunken man, and sways to and fro like a hut; and the transgression thereof is heavy upon it; and it shall fall and not rise again. And it shall come to pass in that day that Jehovah shall visit upon the army of the height on high, and upon the kings of the ground upon the ground (Isaiah 24:18-21).

That in this passage the “earth” is the church, is plainly evident; for it is the church that is treated of, whose foundations are said to be “shaken,” and itself to be “broken and moved, and to reel and sway to and fro,” when good and truth are no longer known. The “kings of the ground” are truths; here, falsities, upon which there will be visitation. (That “kings” are truths, and in the opposite sense falsities, see above, n. 1672, 2015; and that “ground,” like “earth,” denotes the church, but with a difference, n. 566, 1068.)

[2] Again:

I will make a man more rare than fine gold, and a man than the gold of Ophir; therefore I will shake the heaven, and the earth shall be shaken out of her place; in the indignation of Jehovah of Armies, and in the day of the wrath of His anger (Isaiah 13:12-13);

speaking of the day of judgment; and in this passage also “earth” clearly denotes the church, which is said to be “shaken out of its place,” when it is changed as to state. (That “place” is state may be seen above, n. 1273-1275, 1377, 2625, 2837) Again:

Is this the man that shaketh the earth, that shaketh kingdoms, that maketh the world as a wilderness, and destroyeth the cities thereof? (Isaiah 14:16-17);

speaking of Lucifer; the “earth” denotes the church, which he is said to “shake” when man attributes to himself all things of it. (That “kingdoms” are the truths of the church may be seen above, n. 1672, 2547)

[3] In Ezekiel:

It shall come to pass in that day, when Gog cometh upon the land of Israel, that My wrath shall rise in Mine anger; in My zeal and in the fire of My indignation I will speak, Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake upon the ground of Israel (Ezekiel 38:18-20);

“Gog” denotes external worship separate from internal, and thus become idolatrous (n. 1151); the “earth” and the “ground of Israel” denote the spiritual church; the “earthquake,” a change in its state.

In Joel:

The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled, the sun and the moon became black, and the stars withdrew their brightness (Joel 2:10); where also the subject is the day of the Last Judgment the “earth quaking” denotes a changed state of the church; the “sun and moon,” the good of love and its truth (n. 1599, 1530, 2441, 2495), which are said to “become black,” when goods and truths are no longer acknowledged; the “stars” denote the knowledges of good and truth (n. 2495, 2849).

In David:

The earth was shaken and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and were shaken, because He was wroth (Psalms 18:7).

The “earth shaken and quaking” denotes the state of the church become perverted.

[4] In John:

And I beheld when he opened the sixth seal, and lo there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth (Revelation 6:12-13); where the “earthquake, sun, moon, and stars” have a like signification as above in Joel. Again:

In that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed in the earthquake names of men seven thousand (Revelation 11:13).

From all these passages it is evident that an “earthquake” is nothing else than a change in the state of the church; and that in the internal sense the “earth” is nothing else than the church; and as the “earth” is the church, it is evident that by the “new heaven and new earth,” which were to succeed in place of the former (Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; Revelation 21:1), there is signified nothing else than a new church internal and external (n. 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118).

  
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