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出埃及记 27

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1 你要用皂荚。这四方的,长五肘,宽五肘,肘。

2 要在坛的拐角上做个角,与坛接连一块,用铜把坛包裹。

3 要做,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。

4 要为坛做一个铜,在角上做个铜

5 安在四面的围腰板以,使达到的半腰。

6 又要用皂荚做杠,用铜包裹。

7 这杠要穿在两旁的子内,用以抬

8 要用板做坛,坛是空的,都照着在上指示你的样式作。

9 你要做帐幕的院子。院子的面要用捻的细麻做帷子,长肘。

10 帷子的子要二十根,带卯的铜座二十个。子上的钩子和杆子都要用子做。

11 面也当有帷子,长一肘,帷子的二十根,带卯的铜座二十个。子上的钩子和杆子都要用子做。

12 院子的西面当有帷子,宽五十肘,帷子的根,带卯的座个。

13 院子的东面要宽五十肘。

14 门这边的帷子要十五肘,帷子的根,带卯的座个。

15 门那边的帷子也要十五肘,帷子的根,带卯的座个。

16 院子的当有幔子,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,根,带卯的座个。

17 院子四围一切的子都要用杆连络,子上的钩子要用做,带卯的座要用铜做。

18 院子要长一肘,宽五十肘,五肘,帷子要用捻的细麻做,带卯的座要用铜做。

19 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。

20 你要吩咐以色列人,把那为点捣成的清橄榄拿来给你,使常常点着。

21 会幕中法柜前的幔外,亚伦和他的儿子,从晚上早晨,要在耶和华面前经理这。这要作以色列人世代永远的定例。

   

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9466. 'And violet' means the celestial love of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'violet' as the celestial love of truth, the reason why 'violet' has this meaning being that it is a celestial colour, and by this colour truth from a celestial origin is meant, that is, truth springing from the good of love to the Lord. This good predominates in the inmost heaven, revealing itself in the middle or second heaven as the colours purple and violet. The actual good reveals itself as purple, and the truth springing from it as violet. For when colours appear in the next life, and in heaven itself, they are most beautiful ones; and they all have their origin in goodness and truth. For the sphere of affections for goodness and truth is revealed to the eyes of angels and of spirits also by means of colours, specific things being revealed by means of objects variously coloured, and also to their nostrils by means of odours. For every celestial reality belonging to good or spiritual reality belonging to truth is represented in the lower heavens by means of the kinds of things that appear in the natural order, and by this means is revealed to the actual external senses of spirits and angels in those heavens. The reason why the spheres of affection for goodness and truth are revealed visually by means of colours is that colours are modifications of heavenly light, and so of intelligence and wisdom, see 4530, 4677, 4742, 4922.

[2] This now explains why the materials that were to be gathered together for the tabernacle and Aaron's garments included violet, purple, twice-dyed scarlet, and skins of red rams; for the tabernacle represented the Lord's heaven, the materials which were used to construct and cover it represented the celestial and spiritual realities that belong to goodness and truth, and Aaron's garments had a like representation, 9457. It explains why the veil within which the ark of the Testimony was placed was woven from violet, purple, twice-dyed scarlet, and fine linen thread, Exodus 26:31, as likewise was the covering for the door of the tent, Exodus 26:36, and the covering for the gate of the court as well, Exodus 27:16, and why the loops on the edge of the curtain were made of violet, Exodus 26:4. It also explains why the ephod was made of gold, violet, purple, twice-dyed scarlet, and linen thread woven together, as was the breastplate of judgement, Exodus 28:6, 15.

[3] 'Violet' means the celestial love of truth, and 'garments made of violet' cognitions or knowledge of truth present as a result of that love, in Ezekiel,

Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you an ensign; violet and purple from the islands of Elishah was your covering. They were your traders with choice wares, 1 with balls of violet, and embroidery, and with chests of precious garments. Ezekiel 27:7, 24.

This refers to Tyre, by which cognitions of truth and good are meant, 1201. Knowledge and understanding acquired from these is described by 'embroidered work from Egypt', and by 'violet and purple from the islands of Elishah'. 'Embroidered work from Egypt' is factual knowledge of truth, and 'violet and purple from the islands of Elishah' is an understanding of truth and good.

[4] In the same prophet,

Two women, the daughters of one mother, in their youth committed whoredom in Egypt - Oholah and Oholibah. Oholah committed whoredom under Me and doted on the Assyrians her neighbours - clothed in violet, governors and leaders, horsemen riding on horses. Ezekiel 23:2-6.

'Oholah' stands for Samaria, and 'Oholibah' for Jerusalem, Samaria in this instance being the corrupted spiritual Church. 'Committing whoredom in Egypt' means falsifying truths by means of factual knowledge, 'doting on the Assyrians her neighbours' stands for having a love of reasonings based on those falsifications, and 'clothed in violet' stands for ideas which look like truth springing from good because they are derived from the literal sense of the Word interpreted wrongly.

[5] Something similar occurs in Jeremiah,

Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the smith and of the hands of the molder. Their clothing is violet and purple. These are all the work of the wise. Jeremiah 10:9.

This refers to the idols of the house of Israel, by which false teachings, supported by distortions of the outward sense of the Word, are meant, 9424. 'The work of the smith and of the hands of the molder', and also 'these are all the work of the wise', stand for the fact that they are the product of self-intelligence. 'Silver from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz' stands for their seeming to outward appearance to be true and good because they are taken from the Word; and much the same is meant by 'violet and purple' of which their clothing consisted.

[6] In John,

I saw horses in the vision, and those seated on them had breastplates of fire and violet and brimstone, by whom a third part of mankind was killed. Revelation 9:17-18.

'Horses' and 'those seated on them' stand for a topsy-turvy and corrupted understanding of truth. 'Breastplates of fire, violet, and brimstone' stands for defence of falsities that arise from the evils of devilish kinds of love. In this instance therefore 'fire' stands for the hellish love of evil, and 'violet' for the hellish love of falsity. They are accordingly used in the contrary sense; for the majority of things in the Word also have a contrary meaning.

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1. literally, with perfections

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.