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And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it be not rent.
Exodus 28:32
Arcana Coelestia # 9882
9882.. 'And you shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold' means a sphere of Divine Good, a sphere through which there is a joining to the higher part of heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'the breastplate' as a representative sign of heaven, dealt with in 9879; and from the meaning of 'two rings of gold' as a sphere of Divine Good, by which a joining together is accomplished, dealt with in 9498, 9501. The reason why it is a joining to the higher part of heaven is that this is what is meant by the requirement for the rings to be on the upper part of the breastplate; for from there the small chains were taken up to the sockets of gold on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod.
