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你要用皂荚木做坛。这坛要四方的，长五肘，宽五肘，高三肘。
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要做盆，收去坛上的灰，又做铲子、盘子、肉锸子、火鼎；坛上一切的器具都用铜做。
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你要做帐幕的院子。院子的南面要用捻的细麻做帷子，长一百肘。
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帷子的柱子要二十根，带卯的铜座二十个。柱子上的钩子和杆子都要用银子做。
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北面也当有帷子，长一百肘，帷子的柱子二十根，带卯的铜座二十个。柱子上的钩子和杆子都要用银子做。
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院子的西面当有帷子，宽五十肘，帷子的柱子十根，带卯的座十个。
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门那边的帷子也要十五肘，帷子的柱子三根，带卯的座三个。
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院子的门当有幔子，长二十肘，要拿蓝色、紫色、朱红色线，和捻的细麻，用绣花的手工织成，柱子四根，带卯的座四个。
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院子四围一切的柱子都要用银杆连络，柱子上的钩子要用银做，带卯的座要用铜做。
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院子要长一百肘，宽五十肘，高五肘，帷子要用捻的细麻做，带卯的座要用铜做。
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帐幕各样用处的器具，并帐幕一切的橛子，和院子里一切的橛子，都要用铜做。
322. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill. This symbolizes the destruction of all good in the church.
Since death means the extinction of a person's spiritual life, and hell his damnation, it follows that to kill here means to destroy the life of a person's soul. The life of the soul is spiritual life.
A fourth of the earth means, symbolically, all good in the church. The earth is the church (no. 285).
That a fourth means all good can be known only by someone who knows what numbers in the Word symbolize. The numbers two and four are said in application to goods, and they symbolize those goods. And the numbers three and six are said in application to truths, and they symbolize those truths. Thus a fourth part, or simply a fourth, symbolizes all good, while a third part, or simply a third, symbolizes all truth. Therefore to kill a fourth of the earth here means, symbolically, to destroy all good in the church.
Clearly he who sat on the pale horse was not given the power to kill a fourth part of the habitable earth.
[2] In addition, the number four in the Word symbolizes the union of goodness and truth.
That the number four has these symbolic meanings can, indeed, be confirmed from the Word, as by the four living creatures or cherubim in Ezekiel 1,3, 10; by the four chariots between two mountains in Zechariah 6:1; by the four horns in Zechariah 1:18ff.; by the four horns of the altar in Exodus 27:1-8, and Revelation 9:13; and by the four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, in Revelation 7:1 (cf. Matthew 24:31). It can be confirmed, too, by the "visiting the iniquity to the third and fourth generation" in Numbers 14:18, and by the third and fourth generation mentioned elsewhere. By these passages in the Word and more, I say, one can confirm that the number four is said in application to goods, and that they symbolize those goods, and also the conjunction of goodness and truth. But because it would take a lengthy explanation of these passages to make this apparent, it is enough to briefly state that this is the meaning that the number four and a fourth part have in heaven.
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