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That burnt-offerings taken in the complex (Complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts) signify; representative worship. This is evident in the Prophets, as in David:-- "Jehovah will send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; He will remember all thy offerings, and accept as fat thy burnt-offering." (Ps. 20:2, 3) In Isaiah:-- "Whoso keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, them will I bring in to My holy mountain; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon Mine altar." (Isaiah 56:6, 7), where burnt-offerings and sacrifices denote all worship; 1. Burnt-offerings is a worship from love, 2. Sacrifices worship is based on, or imitating from faith. As is usual in the Prophets, internal things are here described by external. 3. Bullock, Calf The signification of bullocks, is the good of innocence and of charity in the external or natural man. That beasts that were sacrificed signified the quality of the good and truth from which was the worship, (AC 922, 1823, 2180, 3519). That gentle and useful beasts signify the celestial things of the good of love, and the spiritual things of the truth of faith, and that on this account they were employed in the sacrifices, (AC 9280). That a bullock signifies the good of innocence and of charity in the external or natural man, is because animals of the herd signified affections of good and truth in the external or natural man, and those of the flock, affections of good and truth in the internal or spiritual man (AC 2566, 5913, 6048, 8937, 9135). The animals of the flock were lambs, she-goats, sheep, rams, he-goats; and those of the herd were oxen, bullocks, and calves. Lambs and sheep signified the good of innocence and of charity in the internal or spiritual man; consequently calves and bullocks, being of a more tender age than oxen, signified the like in the external or natural man. Author: E. Swedenborg (1688-1772). Design: I.J. Thompson, Feb 2002. www.BibleMeanings.info |
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Spiritual Meaning of Burnt offerings:
