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Hesekiel 27

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1 Ja minulle tuli tämä Herran sana:

2 "Sinä, ihmislapsi! Viritä itkuvirsi Tyyrosta

3 ja sano Tyyrolle, joka asuu meren porteilla ja käy kauppaa kansojen kanssa, monilukuisilla saarilla: Näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Tyyro, sinä sanot: 'Minä olen kauneuden täydellisyys!'

4 Meren sydämessä on sinun alueesi, rakentajasi tekivät sinun kauneutesi täydelliseksi,

5 Senirin kypresseistä he rakensivat sinuun kaiken, mikä laudoista on, ottivat Libanonin setrin tehdäkseen sinuun maston,

6 tekivät Baasanin tammista airosi, kantesi tekivät norsunluusta ja Kittiläis-saarten hopeakuusesta.

7 Kirjaeltua Egyptin pellavaa oli purjeesi, ja se oli sinulla lippuna. Katoksesi oli punasinistä ja purppuranpunaista Elisa-saarten kangasta.

8 Siidonin ja Arvadin asukkaat olivat sinulla soutajina; omat viisaasi, Tyyro, olivat sinussa-he olivat laivureinasi.

9 Gebalin vanhimmat ja viisaat olivat sinussa vuotokohtain korjaajina. Meren kaikki laivat merimiehineen olivat sinussa tavaroitasi vaihtamassa.

10 Persia ja Luud ja Puut olivat sotajoukossasi, sinun sotureinasi. He ripustivat sinuun kypäreitä ja kilpiä; ne sinua koristivat.

11 Arvadilaiset ja muu sotajoukkosi olivat muureillasi yltympäri ja gammadilaiset torneissasi. He ripustivat varustuksensa sinun muureillesi yltympäri; ne tekivät sinun kauneutesi täydelliseksi.

12 Tarsis oli kauppatuttusi sinun kaikkinaisten rikkauksiesi runsauden takia: hopealla, raudalla, tinalla ja lyijyllä he maksoivat sinun tavarasi.

13 Jaavan, Tuubal ja Mesek kävivät kauppaa sinun kanssasi: orjilla ja vaskikaluilla he maksoivat sinun vaihtotavarasi.

14 Toogarman heimo maksoi sinun tavarasi hevosilla, sotaratsuilla ja muuleilla.

15 Dedanilaiset kävivät kauppaa sinun kanssasi. Monilukuiset saaret olivat kauppatuttujasi, sinun käskysi alaisia; norsunhampaita ja mustaa puuta ne toivat sinulle verona.

16 Aram oli kauppatuttusi sinun tuotteittesi runsauden takia: rubiineilla, punapurppuralla, kirjaellulla kankaalla, valkopellavalla, koralleilla ja jaspiksella he maksoivat sinun tavarasi.

17 Juuda ja Israelin maa kävivät kauppaa sinun kanssasi: Minnitin nisulla, leivoksilla, hunajalla, öljyllä ja balsamilla he maksoivat sinun vaihtotavarasi.

18 Damasko oli kauppatuttusi sinun tuotteittesi runsauden ja kaikkinaisten rikkauksiesi runsauden takia: Helbonin viiniä ja Saharin villoja.

19 Vedan ja Jaavan maksoivat sinun tavarasi kehruuteoksilla; taottua rautaa, kassiaa ja kalmoruokoa tuli sinulle vaihtotavarana.

20 Dedan kävi kauppaa sinun kanssasi ratsastussatulain loimilla.

21 Arabia ja kaikki Keedarin ruhtinaat olivat kauppatuttaviasi, sinun käskysi alaisia: lampaita, oinaita ja vuohipukkeja he sinulle kauppasivat.

22 Saban ja Raman kauppiaat kävivät kauppaa sinun kanssasi: kaikkinaisilla parhailla balsameilla, kaikilla kalliilla kivillä ja kullalla he maksoivat sinun tavarasi.

23 Haaran ja Kanne ja Eden, Saban kauppiaat, Assur ja Kilmad kävivät kauppaa sinun kanssasi;

24 he kävivät kanssasi kauppaa sinun markkinoillasi kauniilla vaatteilla, punasinisillä ja kirjaelluilla vaipoilla, kirjavakuteisilla matoilla ja punotuilla, kestävillä köysillä.

25 Tarsiin-laivat kuljettivat sinun vaihtotavaroitasi. Niin sinä tulit täpötäyteen ja ylen raskaaseen lastiin merten sydämessä.

26 Soutajasi veivät sinut suurille vesille. -Itätuuli särkee sinut merten sydämessä.

27 Sinun rikkautesi, tavarasi, vaihtotavarasi, merimiehesi ja laivurisi, vuotokohtaisi korjaajat, tavaranvaihtajasi ja kaikki sotamiehesi, jotka ovat sinussa ja koko suuressa joukossasi, joka sinun keskelläsi on, vaipuvat merten sydämeen sinun kukistumisesi päivänä.

28 Laivuriesi parkunan äänestä vapisevat tantereet.

29 Alas haaksistansa astuvat kaikki aironpitelijät, merimiehet ja kaikki meren laivurit astuvat maihin,

30 huutavat sinun tähtesi suurella äänellä ja parkuvat haikeasti, heittävät tomua päänsä päälle ja vieriskelevät tuhassa.

31 He ajelevat sinun tähtesi päänsä paljaaksi, kääriytyvät säkkeihin ja itkevät sinun tähtesi, mieli murheellisena, valittaen haikeasti.

32 He valittaessaan virittävät sinusta itkuvirren ja laulavat sinusta: 'Kuka oli Tyyron vertainen, hänen, joka nyt on niin hiljaa keskellä merta?

33 Kun sinun tavarasi saapuivat meriltä, ravitsit sinä monet kansat. Rikkauksiesi ja vaihtotavaraisi runsaudella sinä teit rikkaiksi maan kuninkaat.

34 Nyt, kun jouduit haaksirikkoon, pois meriltä, vetten syvyyksiin, vaipuivat sinun mukanasi sinne vaihtotavarasi ja koko sinun suuri joukkosi.'

35 Sinun tähtesi tyrmistyvät kaikki saarten asukkaat, ja heidän kuninkaansa ovat kauhun vallassa, vavistus kasvoillansa. 27:

36 Sinulle viheltävät kauppatutut kansojen joukossa. Kauhuksi olet sinä tullut, eikä sinua enää ole, hamaan ikiaikoihin asti."

   

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10254. 'And sweet-smelling cinnamon' means the perception of and affection for natural truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'sweet-smelling cinnamon' as the perception of and affection for natural truth, which is the interior truth of the external man. A person has life on a sensory level and life on a natural level. Both belong to the external man, but the life on the sensory level is exterior, deriving its truths from objects that exist on the planet and in the body, whereas the life on the natural level is interior, deriving its truths from the causes of which those objects are the effects. The life of the internal man is in like manner exterior and interior. The exterior derives its truths from those things that exist in the lowest parts of heaven, whereas the interior derives them from those things that exist in the interior parts of heaven. These truths within the internal man are meant by the fragrances which follow.

[2] The reason why 'sweet-smelling cinnamon' means the perception of and affection for truth is that 'a sweet smell' means a pleasing perception. A pleasing perception arises from the affection belonging to love, for if perception has any other origin it does not bring any pleasure.

All odours mean perception, see 3577, 4626, 4748.

Pleasing odours mean the perception of truth arising from good, 1514, 1517-1519, 4628, 10054, thus from the affection belonging to love.

The spheres belonging to perceptions are converted among spirits and angels into odours, 4626.

[3] In addition it should be recognized that all the sweet-smelling substances from which the anointing oil was prepared belong to the celestial group, that is, to things of the celestial kingdom, whereas the sweet-smelling substances from which the incense was made belong to the spiritual group, that is, to things of the spiritual kingdom. This also is why in the original language the term that is used to denote the spices from which the anointing oil was prepared is different and has a different root from the term used to denote the spices from which the incense was made. For in the Word there are particular terms which serve to express things of the celestial kingdom and particular terms that serve to express those of the spiritual kingdom; and there are others common to both. But to know which of these is which, one must recognize that heaven is divided into two kingdoms, as is the Church, and that the dominant essential in the celestial kingdom is the good of love to the Lord, whereas in the spiritual kingdom it is the good of charity towards the neighbour. How these differ from each other, see in the places referred to in 9277.

[4] The fact that the spice named here means the perception of and affection for celestial truth is clear in Isaiah,

Instead of spice 1 there will be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a falling apart, and instead of well-set hair 2 , baldness. Isaiah 3:24.

This refers to the daughters of Zion, by whom the celestial Church is meant, at this point when it has been perverted. Therefore the word used for spice is the same as that in the present verse in Exodus. 'Instead of spice there will be rottenness' means that instead of the perception of and affection for truth springing from good, and of the life these bring with them, there will be a perception of and affection for falsity arising from evil, which holds no life at all within it.

[5] In Ezekiel,

The traders of Sheba and Raamah, traders with the best of every spice, and with [every] precious stone, and gold, ... Ezekiel 27:22.

These things were said in reference to Tyre, by which cognitions or knowledge of goodness and truth within the Church are meant, 'Sheba and Raamah' meaning those with whom cognitions of celestial things exist.

[6] The like is meant where the queen of Sheba is referred to in the first Book of Kings,

The queen of Sheba gave Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very large quantity of spices, and precious stones. No quantity of spices such as this came ever again. 1 Kings 10:10.

'Sheba' means primarily those with whom cognitions of celestial things exist, see 1171, 3240.

From all this it is evident that these spices from which the anointing oil was prepared mean the perception of and affection for truth such as exist with those who are in the Lord's celestial kingdom.

[7] The reason why the sweet-smelling substances used in the preparation of the anointing oil - which were myrrh of the highest quality, sweet-smelling cinnamon, sweet-smelling calamus, and cassia - belong to the celestial group, that is, to things of the Lord's celestial kingdom, is that the anointing oil was the sign of the Divine Good of Divine Love within the Lord, which in heaven is His Divine Celestial. For this meaning of 'the anointing oil', see 9954, 10019.

Бележки под линия:

1. i.e. the odour or perfume from it

2. literally, instead of the work of plaited [hair]

  
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Exodus 30

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1 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

2 Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.

4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.

5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.

10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."

11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

12 "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.

13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

14 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."

17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

18 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.

20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."

22 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

23 "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;

24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.

25 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony,

27 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,

28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.

29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.

31 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.

32 It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you.

33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"

34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight;

35 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:

36 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.

37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.

38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."