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Levítico第8章

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1 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

2 Toma a Aarón y a sus hijos con él, y las vestimentas, y el aceite de la unción, y el novillo de la expiación, y los dos carneros, y el canastillo de los ázimos;

3 y reúne toda la congregación a la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio.

4 Hizo, pues, Moisés como el SEÑOR le mandó, y se reunió la congregación a la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio.

5 Y dijo Moisés a la congregación: Esto es lo que el SEÑOR ha mandado hacer.

6 Entonces Moisés hizo llegar a Aarón y a sus hijos, y los lavó con agua.

7 Y puso sobre él la túnica, y le ciñó con el cinto; le vistió después el manto, y puso sobre él el efod, y lo ciñó con el cinto del efod, y lo ajustó con él.

8 Luego le puso encima el pectoral, y puso en el pectoral el Urim y el Tumim.

9 Después puso la mitra sobre su cabeza; y sobre la mitra delante de su rostro puso la plancha de oro, la corona de la santidad; como El SEÑOR había mandado a Moisés.

10 Y tomó Moisés el aceite de la unción, y ungió el tabernáculo, y todas las cosas que estaban en él, y las santificó.

11 Y roció de él sobre el altar siete veces, y ungió el altar y todos sus vasos, y la fuente y su basa, para santificarlos.

12 Y derramó del aceite de la unción sobre la cabeza de Aarón, y lo ungió para santificarlo.

13 Después Moisés hizo llegar los hijos de Aarón, y les vistió las túnicas, y los ciñó con cintos, y les ajustó los chapeos (tiaras), como el SEÑOR lo había mandado a Moisés.

14 Hizo luego llegar el novillo de la expiación, y Aarón y sus hijos pusieron sus manos sobre la cabeza del novillo de la expiación,

15 y lo degolló; y Moisés tomó la sangre, y puso con su dedo sobre los cuernos del altar alrededor, y expió el altar; y echó la demás sangre al cimiento del altar, y lo santificó para reconciliar sobre él.

16 Después tomó todo el sebo que estaba sobre los intestinos, y el redaño del hígado, y los dos riñones, y el sebo de ellos, e hizo Moisés perfume sobre el altar.

17 Mas el novillo, y su cuero, y su carne, y su estiércol, lo quemó con fuego fuera del real; como el SEÑOR lo había mandado a Moisés.

18 Después hizo llegar el carnero del holocausto, y Aarón y sus hijos pusieron sus manos sobre la cabeza del carnero;

19 y lo degolló; y roció Moisés la sangre sobre el altar en derredor.

20 Y cortó el carnero en sus piezas; y Moisés hizo perfume de la cabeza, y las piezas, y el sebo.

21 Lavó luego con agua los intestinos y las piernas, y quemó Moisés todo el carnero sobre el altar; holocausto en olor muy aceptable, ofrenda encendida al SEÑOR; como el SEÑOR lo había mandado a Moisés.

22 Después hizo llegar el otro carnero, el carnero de las consagraciones, y Aarón y sus hijos pusieron sus manos sobre la cabeza del carnero;

23 y lo degolló; y tomó Moisés de su sangre, y puso sobre la ternilla de la oreja derecha de Aarón, y sobre el dedo pulgar de su mano derecha, y sobre el dedo pulgar de su pie derecho.

24 Hizo llegar luego los hijos de Aarón, y puso Moisés de la sangre sobre la ternilla de sus orejas derechas, y sobre los pulgares de sus manos derechas, y sobre los pulgares de sus pies derechos; y roció Moisés la sangre sobre el altar en derredor;

25 y después tomó el sebo, y la cola, y todo el sebo que estaba sobre los intestinos, y el redaño del hígado, y los dos riñones, y el sebo de ellos, y la espaldilla derecha;

26 y del canastillo de los ázimos, que estaba delante del SEÑOR, tomó una torta sin levadura, y una torta de pan de aceite, y una lasaña, y lo puso con el sebo y con la espaldilla derecha;

27 y lo puso todo en las manos de Aarón, y en las manos de sus hijos, y lo hizo mecer en ofrenda de mecedura delante del SEÑOR.

28 Después tomó aquellas cosas Moisés de las manos de ellos, e hizo perfume en el altar sobre el holocausto; son las consagraciones en olor muy aceptable, ofrenda encendida al SEÑOR.

29 Y tomó Moisés el pecho, y lo meció, en ofrenda de mecedura delante del SEÑOR; del carnero de las consagraciones aquella fue la parte de Moisés; como el SEÑOR lo había mandado a Moisés.

30 Luego tomó Moisés del aceite de la unción, y de la sangre que estaba sobre el altar, y roció sobre Aarón, y sobre sus vestiduras, y sobre sus hijos, y sobre las vestiduras de sus hijos con él; y santificó a Aarón, y sus vestiduras, y a sus hijos, y las vestiduras de sus hijos con él.

31 Y dijo Moisés a Aarón y a sus hijos: Comed la carne a la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio; y comedla allí con el pan que está en el canastillo de las consagraciones, según yo he mandado, diciendo: Aarón y sus hijos la comerán.

32 Y lo que sobrare de la carne y del pan, habéis de quemarlo al fuego.

33 De la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio no saldréis en siete días, hasta el día que se cumplieren los días de vuestras consagraciones; porque por siete días seréis consagrados.

34 De la manera que hoy se ha hecho, mandó hacer el SEÑOR para expiaros.

35 A la puerta, pues, del tabernáculo del testimonio estaréis día y noche por siete días, y guardaréis la ordenanza delante del SEÑOR, para que no muráis; porque así me ha sido mandado.

36 Y Aarón y sus hijos hicieron todas las cosas que mandó el SEÑOR por mano de Moisés.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#716

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716. 'Sevens of each' means that they are holy. This is clear from what has been stated already in 84-87 about the seventh day or sabbath. That is to say, the Lord is the Seventh Day and from Him derives every celestial Church or man, and indeed, the celestial itself which, because it is the Lord's alone, is most holy. Consequently seven in the Word means holy; indeed in the internal sense, as here, absolutely nothing is obtained from the number itself. For people who possess the internal sense, as angels and angelic spirits do, have no concept at all of what a number is, and so do not know what seven is. Therefore the idea that they were to take seven pairs of all the clean beasts, or that the ratio of the good to the evil was to be seven to two, is not at all the meaning here. Rather it is this: Things of the will with which this member of the Church was supplied were the goods which are holy, through which, as stated already, he was capable of being regenerated.

[2] That 'seven' means that which is holy, or things that are holy, becomes clear from the rituals in the representative Church, where the number seven occurs time and again, for example, being sprinkled seven times with blood and oil, as in Leviticus,

Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the Tabernacle and everything that was in it and made them holy. And he sprinkled some of it over the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels to make them holy. Leviticus 8:10-11.

Here 'seven times' would be utterly devoid of meaning if that which is holy was not being represented in this way. 'Oil' there means the holiness of love. And elsewhere in Leviticus, when Aaron entered the Holy Place,

He shall take some of the blood of the young bull, and shall sprinkle it with his finger over the face 1 of the mercy-seat towards the east, and he shall sprinkle the face 1 of the mercy-seat seven times with some of the blood with his finger.

Similarly with the altar,

He shall sprinkle over it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and shall cleanse it, and make it holy. Leviticus 16:14, 19.

Here every single detail means the Lord Himself, and therefore the holiness of love - that is to say, 'the blood' and also 'the mercy-seat', 'the altar' too, 'the east in which direction the blood was to be sprinkled', and so 'seven' as well, all mean the Lord.

[3] In sacrifices it is similar, about which the following is said in Leviticus,

If a soul has sinned inadvertently, and if the anointed priest has sinned, thus making the people guilty, he shall slaughter the young bull in Jehovah's presence. And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times in Jehovah's presence towards the veil of the Holy Place. Leviticus 4:2-4, 6.

Here similarly 'seven' means that which is holy, for the subject is atonement, and therefore the Lord, since atonement is the Lord's alone. Similar instructions were also given concerning the cleansing of leprosy, about which the following is said in Leviticus,

[Taking some] of the bird's blood, the cedar-wood, the double-dyed scarlet, and the hyssop, the priest shall sprinkle over the one who is to be cleansed from leprosy seven times, and shall cleanse him. In a similar way some of the oil which is in his left palm, seven times in Jehovah's presence. In a similar way in a house where there is leprosy, [he shall take some] of the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the double-dyed scarlet, and shall sprinkle some of the bird's blood seven times. Leviticus 14:6-7, 27, 51.

Anyone may see that here cedar-wood, double-dyed scarlet, hyssop, oil, and blood of a bird, and so the number seven, would be utterly meaningless if things that are holy were not being represented by them. If you take away from them holy things, what is left is something dead, or something unholy and idolatrous. When however they do mean holy things the worship they contain in that case is a Divine worship which is internal and simply represented by things that are external. The Jews however were incapable of knowing what these meant; and neither does anyone today know what cedar-wood, hyssop, double-dyed scarlet, and the bird all mean. Yet if only they had been willing to think that these did embody holy things which they did not actually know, and so had worshipped the Lord - who was the Messiah to come who would heal them from their leprosy, that is, from profaning what is holy - they could have been saved. For people who do think and believe in this manner straightaway receive instruction in the next life, if they desire it, as to what every single detail represented.

[4] Similarly where 'the red heifer' is the subject it is said that the priest was to take some of its blood on his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood towards the face 1 of the tent of meeting seven times, Numbers 19:4. Because 'the seventh day' or sabbath meant the Lord, and from Him meant the celestial man and the celestial itself, the seventh day in the Jewish Church was the holiest of all its religious observances. For this reason there was a sabbath year 2 every seventh year, Leviticus 25:4. Also a jubilee was to be proclaimed after seven sabbaths of years, that is, after seven times seven years, Leviticus 25:8-9. In the highest sense the number seven means the Lord, and from this the holiness of love. This becomes clear also from the golden lampstand with its seven lamps, mentioned in Exodus 25:31-33, 37; 37:17-19, 23; Numbers 8:2-3; Zechariah 4:2. And in John it is spoken of as follows,

Seven golden lampstands; in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man. Revelation 1:12-13.

Here it is absolutely clear that 'a lampstand with seven lamps' means the Lord, and that 'the lamps' are the holy things of love, which comprise celestial things, which also is why there were seven of them.

[5] In the same author,

From the throne there were coming forth seven fiery torches burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. Revelation 4:5.

Here 'the seven torches which came forth from the Lord's throne' are seven lamps. The same applies to the number seven when it occurs in the Prophets, as in Isaiah,

The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, on the day when Jehovah will bind up the hurt of His people. Isaiah 30:26.

Here 'sevenfold light as the light of seven days' does not at all mean sevenfold but the holiness of love meant by the sun. See also what has been stated and shown already at Genesis 4:15 concerning the number seven. From these quotations it is also quite clear that all numbers used in the Word never have a numerical value [in the internal sense], as has also been shown already at Genesis 6:3.

脚注:

1. literally, the faces

2. literally, sabbath of a sabbath

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Genesis第6章

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1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

9 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

22 Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.