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1 众支派按名所得之地记在下面:从头,由希特伦往哈马口,到大马色地界上的哈萨以难。边靠着哈马地(各支派的地都有东西的边界),是但的分。

2 挨着但的地界,从东到西,是亚设的分。

3 挨着亚设的地界,从东到西,是拿弗他利的分。

4 挨着拿弗他利的地界,从东到西,是玛拿西分。

5 挨着玛拿西的地界,从东到西,是以法莲分。

6 挨着以法莲的地界,从东到西,是流便的分。

7 挨着流便的地界,从东到西,是犹大分。

8 挨着犹大的地界,从东到西,必有你们所当献的供地,宽二万五肘。从东界到西界,长短与各分之地相同,圣地当在其中。

9 你们献与耶和华的供地要长二万五肘,宽一万肘。

10 供地要归与祭司长二万五肘,西宽一万肘,东宽一万肘,长二万五肘。耶和华的地当在其中。

11 这地要归与撒督的子孙中成为祭司,就是那守我所吩咐的。当以色列人走迷的时候,他们不像那些利未人走迷了。

12 这要归与他们为供,是全中至的。供挨着利未人的界。

13 利未人所得的地要长二万五肘,宽一万肘,与祭司的地界相等,都长二万五肘,宽一万肘。

14 不可,不可换,初熟之物也不可归与别人,因为是归耶和华的。

15 这二万五肘前面所剩下五肘宽之地要作俗用,作为造城盖房郊野之地。城要在当中。

16 城的尺寸乃是如此:肘,肘,东面肘,西面肘。

17 城必有郊野,向北五十肘,向南五十肘,向东二五十肘,向西二五十肘。

18 靠着供地的馀地,东长一万肘,西长一万肘,要与供地相等;其中的土产要作城内工人的食物。

19 所有以色列支派中,在城内做工的,都要耕种这地。

20 你们所献的供地连归城之地,是方的:长二万五肘,宽二万五肘。

21 供地连归城之地,两边的馀地要归与王。供地东边,南北二万五肘,东至东界,西边南北二万五肘,西至西界,与各分之地相同,都要归王。供地和殿的地要在其中,

22 并且利未人之地,与归城之地的东西两边延长之地(这两地在王地中间),就是在犹大和便雅悯两界中间,要归与王。

23 论到其馀的支派,从东到西,是便雅悯的分。

24 挨着便雅悯的地界,从东到西,是西缅分。

25 挨着西缅的地界,从东到西,是以萨迦的分。

26 挨着以萨迦的地界,从东到西,是西布伦的分。

27 挨着西布伦的地界,从东到西,是迦得的分。

28 迦得地的界是从他玛到米利巴加低斯的水,延到埃及小,直到

29 这就是你们要拈阄分给以色列支派为业之,乃是他们各支派所得之分。这是耶和华的。

30 城的肘。出城之处如下;

31 城的各要按以色列支派的名字面有为流便犹大为利未

32 东面肘,有为约瑟为便雅悯为但

33 肘,有西缅为以萨迦为西布伦

34 西面肘,有为迦得为亚设为拿弗他利

35 城四围共一万八肘。从此以後,这城的名字必称为耶和华的所在。

   

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'Length' symbolizes the goodness of the church for the same reason that 'breadth' symbolizes truth. This is because 'length' indicates the sweep of heaven from east to west, and 'breadth' means the sweep of heaven from south to north. Angels who dwell in the eastern and western zones in heaven are in the goodness of love, while angels who dwell in the southern and northern zones in heaven are in truths of wisdom. The same is true with the church on earth, for everyone who is in the church's goods and truths from the Word is associated with angels in heaven, and each person dwells with them in the interiors of their mind -- people in the goodness of love in the eastern and western zones of heaven, and people who are in truths of wisdom in the southern and northern zones of heaven. No one is aware of this, but everyone goes to his place after death.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 906)


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Apocalypse Revealed # 191

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191. "'I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God.'" This symbolically means that the truths they possess, springing from goodness derived from the Lord, sustain the Lord's church in heaven.

A temple symbolizes the church, and the temple of My God symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven. It is apparent from this that a pillar symbolizes what sustains and stabilizes the church, and that is the Divine truth in the Word.

In the highest sense, a temple symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, particularly in respect to Divine truth. In a representative sense, however, a temple symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, and so also the Lord's church in the world.

That a temple in the highest sense symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, and particularly in respect to Divine truth, is apparent from the following passages:

(Jesus said to the Jews,) "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." ...He was speaking of the temple of His body. (John 2:19, 21)

I saw no temple in (the New Jerusalem), for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. (Revelation 21:22)

Behold..., the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire. (Malachi 3:1)

I will bow myself toward Your holy temple... (Psalms 138:2)

...I will look again toward Your holy temple... And my prayer went to You, to Your holy temple. (Jonah 2:4, 7)

Jehovah is in His holy temple. (Habakkuk 2:20)

The holy temple of Jehovah or of the Lord is His Divine humanity, for it is to this that people bow, look to, and pray, and not to the temple merely, as the temple is not, in itself, holy. It is called a holy temple, because holiness is predicated of Divine truth (no. 173).

"The temple that sanctifies the gold" in Matthew 23:16-17 means nothing else than the Lord's Divine humanity.

[2] That a temple in a representative sense symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, is apparent from the following passages:

(The) voice (of Jehovah) from the temple...! (Isaiah 66:6)

...a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven... (Revelation 16:17)

The temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. (Revelation 11:19)

...the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. And out of the temple came the seven angels... And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God... (Revelation 15:5-6, 8)

I called upon Jehovah, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple... (Psalms 18:6)

I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and His skirts filled the temple. (Isaiah 6:1)

[3] That a temple symbolizes the church in the world is apparent from these passages:

Our holy... temple... has become a conflagration... (Isaiah 64:11)

I will shake all nations..., that I may fill this house with glory... The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former... (Haggai 2:7, 9)

The new temple in Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48 describes a church to be established by the Lord. A church is also meant in Revelation 11:1 by the temple that the angel measured. So likewise elsewhere, as in Isaiah 44:28, Jeremiah 7:2-4, 9-11, Zechariah 8:9.

...the disciples (of Jesus) came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, ."..Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left... upon another, that shall not be demolished." (Matthew 24:1-2)

The temple here symbolizes the church today; and its demolition means, symbolically, that not one stone would be left upon another. This symbolizes the end of that church, when not any truth would remain. For when the disciples spoke with the Lord about the temple, the Lord foretold the consecutive states of this church, even to its last one, or the end of the age; and the end of the age means the final period of the church, which is the one that exists today. This was represented by the destruction of that temple to its foundations.

[4] A temple has these three symbolic meanings, namely the Lord, the church in heaven, and the church in the world. Because these three are bound up together, they cannot be separated. Consequently one cannot be meant without the other. Therefore anyone who divorces the church in the world from the church in heaven, or the one or the other from the Lord, is without the truth.

The temple here means the church in heaven, because reference to the church in the world follows after this (no. 194).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.