'The tent,' as in Exodus 26:14, represented the three heavens, and so the celestial and spiritual parts of the Lord's kingdom.

A 'Tent' signifies the celestial and holy aspects of love, because in ancient times people performed holy worship in their tents.

When they began to profane tents with profane worship, the tabernacle was built, and later the temple. This is why the tabernacle and the temple signify the same as 'tent.'

A holy man was therefore called a tent, a tabernacle, and a temple of the Lord. In the highest sense, the Lord regarding His human essence, is a tent, a tabernacle, and a temple. Every celestial person is called these things, and so every thing celestial and holy has acquired these names.

This is why the feast of tabernacles was instituted, when they gathered in the produce of the earth, as a remembrance of those earlier holy times, and it was ordained, that at this feast they should live in tabernacles, like the most ancient people, as in Leviticus 23:39-44, Deuteronomy 16:13, and Hosea 12:9.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 414)

2141. The Lord's perception was this, that the human race was immersed in evil and falsity, Sodom being self-love and the consequent desire to exercise control from evil, Gomorrah to do so from falsity, verses 16, 20. This could not be concealed from the Lord in that state because He is the means and He is the source of all salvation, verses 17-19; that is to say, they would be visited when their wickedness had reached its peak, verses 20-21. While that perception existed with Him, verse 22, He interceded on their behalf - first on behalf of those with whom truths were both present and filled with goods, who are meant by 'the fifty', verses 23-26; then on behalf of those with whom less good was present but was nevertheless joined to truths, who are meant by 'the forty-five', verses 27-28; after that on behalf of those who were undergoing temptations, who are meant by 'the forty', verse 29; and also on behalf of those who have been involved in some conflicts with evils, who are meant by 'the thirty', verse 30; following these on behalf of those with whom states existed of affection for good, which were from some other source, who are meant by 'the twenty', verse 31; and finally on behalf of those with whom states of affection for truth existed, who are meant by 'the ten', verse 32. And each time the reply came back that they were to be saved, verses 26, 28-32. When all this was completed the Lord returned to His previous state of perception, verse 33. These are the arcana in this chapter in the internal sense, which are not evident from the letter.