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Ezequiel 44

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1 Y me tornó hacia la puerta de afuera del Santuario, la cual mira hacia el oriente; y estaba cerrada.

2 Y me dijo el SEÑOR: Esta puerta estará cerrada; no se abrirá, ni entrará por ella hombre, porque el SEÑOR Dios de Israel entró por ella; y será cerrada.

3 Para el príncipe: el príncipe, él se sentará en ella para comer pan delante del SEÑOR; por el camino de la entrada de la puerta entrará, y por el camino de ella saldrá.

4 Y me llevó hacia la puerta del norte por delante de la Casa, y miré, y he aquí, la Gloria del SEÑOR había llenado la Casa del SEÑOR; y caí sobre mi rostro.

5 Y me dijo el SEÑOR: Hijo de hombre, pon tu corazón, y mira con tus ojos, y oye con tus oídos todo lo que yo hablo contigo sobre todas las ordenanzas de la Casa del SEÑOR, y de todas sus leyes; y pon tu corazón a las entradas de la Casa, y a todas las salidas del Santuario.

6 Y dirás a la rebelde, a la Casa de Israel: Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Basta ya de todas vuestras abominaciones, oh Casa de Israel.

7 De haber vosotros traído extranjeros, incircuncisos de corazón e incircuncisos de carne, para estar en mi Santuario, para contaminar mi Casa; de haber ofrecido mi pan, la grosura y la sangre; y quebrantaron mi pacto por todas vuestras abominaciones;

8 y no guardasteis el ordenamiento de mis santificaciones, sino que os pusisteis guardas de mi ordenanza en mi Santuario para vosotros mismos.

9 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Ningún hijo de extranjero, incircunciso de corazón e incircunciso de carne, entrará en mi Santuario, de todos los hijos de extranjeros que están entre los hijos de Israel.

10 Y los levitas que se apartaron lejos de mí cuando Israel erró, el cual se desvió de mí en pos de sus ídolos, llevarán su iniquidad.

11 Y serán ministros en mi Santuario, porteros a las puertas de la Casa, y sirvientes en la Casa; ellos matarán el holocausto y la víctima al pueblo, y ellos estarán delante de ellos para servirles.

12 Por cuanto les sirvieron delante de sus ídolos, y fueron a la Casa de Israel por tropezadero de maldad; por tanto, yo alcé mi mano acerca de ellos, dijo el Señor DIOS, que llevarán su iniquidad.

13 No se acercarán a mí para servirme como sacerdotes, ni se llegarán a ninguna de mis santificaciones; a mis cosas santísimas; sino que llevarán su vergüenza, y sus abominaciones que hicieron.

14 Les pondré, pues, por guardas encargados de la custodia de la casa para todo su servicio, y para todo lo que en ella haya de hacerse.

15 Mas los sacerdotes levitas, hijos de Sadoc, que guardaron el ordenamiento de mi Santuario, cuando los hijos de Israel se desviaron de mí, ellos se acercarán a mí para ministrarme, y delante de mí estarán para ofrecerme la grosura y la sangre, dijo el Señor DIOS.

16 Ellos entrarán en mi Santuario, y ellos se acercarán a mi mesa para ministrarme, y guardarán mi ordenamiento.

17 Y será que cuando entraren por las puertas del atrio interior, se vestirán de vestimentas de lino; no asentará sobre ellos lana, cuando ministraren en las puertas del atrio de adentro, y en el interior.

18 Chapeos de lino tendrán en sus cabezas, y pañetes de lino en sus lomos; no se ceñirán para sudar.

19 Y cuando salieren al atrio de afuera, al atrio de afuera al pueblo, se desnudarán de sus vestimentas con que ministraron, y las dejarán en las cámaras del Santuario, y se vestirán de otros vestidos; así no santificarán el pueblo con sus vestimentas.

20 Y no raparán su cabeza, ni dejarán crecer el cabello; sino que lo recortarán solamente.

21 Y ninguno de los sacerdotes beberá vino cuando hubieren de entrar en el atrio interior.

22 Ni viuda, ni repudiada se tomarán por mujeres; sino que tomarán vírgenes del linaje de la Casa de Israel, o viuda que fuere viuda de sacerdote.

23 Y enseñarán a mi pueblo a hacer diferencia entre lo santo y lo profano, y les enseñarán a discernir entre lo limpio y lo no limpio.

24 Y en el pleito ellos estarán para juzgar; por mis derechos lo juzgarán; y mis leyes y mis decretos guardarán en todas mis solemnidades, y santificarán mis sábados.

25 Y a hombre muerto no entrará el sacerdote para contaminarse; mas sobre padre, o madre, o hijo, o hija, hermano, o hermana que no haya tenido marido, sí podrán contaminarse.

26 Y después de su purificación, le contarán siete días.

27 Y el día que entrare al Santuario, al atrio de adentro, para ministrar en el Santuario, ofrecerá su expiación, dijo el Señor DIOS.

28 Y esto será a ellos por heredad; yo seré su heredad; y no les daréis posesión en Israel; yo soy su posesión.

29 El presente, y el sacrificio por la expiación, y por el pecado, comerán; y toda cosa dedicada a Dios en Israel, será de ellos.

30 Y las primicias de todos los primeros frutos de todo, y toda ofrenda de todo lo que se ofreciere de todas vuestras ofrendas, será de los sacerdotes; daréis asimismo las primicias de todas vuestras masas al sacerdote, para que haga reposar la bendición en vuestras casas.

31 Ninguna cosa mortecina, ni desgarrada, así de aves como de animales, comerán los sacerdotes.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #7600

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

7600. Verses 31-end And the flax and the barley were struck; for the barley was a ripening ear, and the flax a stem. 1 And the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they were hidden. 2 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, from the city, and spread out his palms towards Jehovah; and the voices' and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the voices 3 had ceased; and he continued to sin, and made his heart stubborn, he and his servants. And Pharaoh's heart was made unyielding, and he did not send the children of Israel away, as Jehovah had spoken through the hand of Moses.

'And the flax' means the truth of the exterior natural. 'And the barley' means its good. 'Were struck' means that they were destroyed. 'For the barley was a ripening ear, and the flax a stem' means that that good and truth were conspicuous and looked downwards. 'And the wheat and the spelt' means the good of the interior natural and its truth. 'Were not struck' means that they were not destroyed. 'For they were hidden' means because they were not conspicuous and because they turned in an inward direction. 'And Moses went out from Pharaoh, from the city' means a separation from them. 'And spread out his palms towards Jehovah' means intercession. 'And the voices and the hail ceased' means the end of that state. 'And the rain was not poured on the earth' means that those falsities no longer made their appearance. 'And Pharaoh saw' means a discernment. 'That the rain and the hail and the voices had ceased' means that it was the end of that state. 'And he continued to sin' means a departure still further away. 'And made his heart stubborn, he and his servants' means obstinacy. 'And Pharaoh's heart was made unyielding' means that evil was the cause of their obstinate behaviour. 'And he did not send the children of Israel away' means so that they did not leave. 'As Jehovah had spoken' means as accorded with what had been foretold. 'Through the hand of Moses' means by means of the law from God.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. i.e. the pods were formed on the culms or stems

2. i.e. had not yet begun to mature

3. i.e. claps of thunder

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

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Arcana Coelestia #3652

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3652. The internal sense of these words is as follows:

When therefore you see the abomination of desolation means when the Church has undergone vastation, which is the situation when the Lord is acknowledged no longer, and therefore when there is no love of Him nor any belief in Him; also when there is no longer any charity towards the neighbour nor consequently any belief in what is good and true. When these conditions exist in the Church, or rather in the area where the Word is, that is to say, in the thoughts of the heart though not in the doctrine on the lips, it is a case of desolation, and the circumstances that have just been mentioned constitute 'the abomination of that desolation'. Consequently 'when you see the abomination of desolation' means when anyone witnesses such conditions. And what he is to do when he does witness them follows in verses 16-18.

[2] Spoken of by the prophet Daniel means, in the internal sense, spoken of by the Prophets, for when any prophet is mentioned by name in the Word it is not simply that prophet who is meant but the whole prophetical part of the Word, the reason being that names do not ever come through into heaven, 1876, 1888. Even so, one prophet does not have the same meaning as another. For what Moses, Elijah and Elisha mean, see the Preface to Chapter 18, and 2762. By 'Daniel' however is meant every prophetical statement concerning the Lord's coming and the state of the Church, in this case its final state. Much reference is made in the Prophets to vastation, and by the reference to it here in Daniel is meant in the sense of the letter the vastation of the Jewish and Israelitish Church, but in the internal sense the vastation of the Church in general, and thus also the vastation of it which is now at hand.

[3] Standing in the holy place means a vastation involving everything that forms part of what is good and true. 'The holy place' is a state of love and faith, for by 'a place' in the internal sense is meant a state, see 2625, 2837, 3356, 3387. The 'holy' element of that state consists in the good of love and in the truth of faith grounded in this. Nothing else is meant in the Word by the expression 'holy', for goodness and truth originate in the Lord, who is Holiness itself or the Sanctuary.

Let him who is reading this take note means that these matters are to be thoroughly understood by those within the Church, especially by those who have love and faith, to whom the present words refer.

[4] Then let those who are in Judea flee into the mountains means that members of the Church are to fix their attention solely on the Lord and so on love to Him and on charity towards the neighbour. For 'Judea' means the Church, as will be shown below, while 'a mountain' means the Lord Himself but 'the mountains' love to Him and charity towards the neighbour, see 795, 796, 1430, 2722. According to the sense of the letter when Jerusalem was besieged, as was done by the Romans, they were not to resort to that city but to go onto the mountains, according to the following in Luke,

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its devastation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee onto the mountains, and let those who are in the midst of it 1 depart, but those who are out in the country let them not enter it. Luke 21:20-21.

[5] The same applies to this reference to Jerusalem; that is to say, in the sense of the letter it is the city of Jerusalem that is meant, but in the internal sense the Lord's Church, see 402, 2117. For every single thing mentioned in the Word concerning the Jewish and Israelitish people is representative of the Lord's kingdom in heaven and of the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church, as has been shown often. Consequently nowhere in the internal sense is 'Jerusalem' used to mean Jerusalem, or 'Judea' to mean Judea. But every single thing so mentioned was such that by means of it the celestial and spiritual things of the Lord's kingdom were able to be represented. It was for the sake of what they represented that the events which have been recorded took place. Thus the Word was able to be written in such a way that it lay both within the mental grasp of people reading it, and within the understanding of angels who were present with them. This was also the reason why the Lord spoke in a similar way. Indeed if He had spoken in any other way it would not have come within the mental grasp of those reading it, especially at that time, nor simultaneously within the angels' power of understanding. Thus it would not have been accepted by man, nor understood by angels.

[6] Let him who is on the roof of the house not go down to take anything out of his house means that those in whom the good of charity is present should not therefore resort to matters of doctrine concerning faith. 'The roof of the house' in the Word means a person's higher state, and so his state as regards good, whereas what is below means a person's lower state, and so his state as regards truth. For what 'house' is, see 710, 1708, 2233, 2331, 3142, 3538. With regard to the state of a member of the Church, while he is undergoing regeneration he is at that time learning truth for the sake of good; for he possesses an affection for truth for the sake of that good. But once he has been regenerated truth and good are the basis of his actions. Once he has reached this state he ought not to go back to the previous state, for if he did he would then reason from truth about the good which is present with him and in so doing would pervert his present state. For all reasoning does and must come to an end when a person's state is one in which he wills what is true and good, for in that case the will and therefore conscience are the source of his thought and action, and not the understanding, as it had been previously. If he went back to the understanding as the source of his thought and action he would encounter temptations in which he would go under. These are the considerations meant by the statement 'let him who is on the roof of the house not go down to take anything out of his house'.

[7] And let him who is in the field not turn back to get his clothing (or tunic) means that neither should those in whom good that resides in truth is present forsake such good and resort to doctrine concerning truth. 'The field' in the Word means this state of man as regards good; for what 'field' means, see 368, 2971, 3196, 3310, 3317, 3500, 3508. And 'clothing' or tunic means that which clothes good, namely doctrine concerning truth, such being like clothing for good; for 'clothing' has that meaning, see 297, 1073, 2576, 3301. Anyone may see that deeper things lie concealed in these words than are visible in the letter; for the Lord Himself spoke them.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. i.e. Jerusalem

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