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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 # 906

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906. Its length is as great as its breadth. This symbolically means that goodness and truth in the New Church are united, like essence and form.

The length of the city Jerusalem symbolizes the church's goodness, and its breadth symbolizes the church's truth. That the breadth of a thing symbolizes truth is something we showed from the Word in no. 861 above.

The length of a thing symbolizes goodness, here the goodness of the church, for the same reason that breadth symbolizes truth. The reason is that the sweep of heaven from east to west is meant by length, and the sweep of heaven from south to north by breadth, and angels who dwell in the eastern and western zones in heaven are impelled by the goodness of love, while angels who dwell in the southern and northern zones in heaven are impelled by truths of wisdom, as may be seen in no. 901 above.

[2] It is the same with the church on earth, for everyone impelled by the church's goods and truths from the Word is associated with angels in heaven, and he dwells with them in the interiors of his mind - those impelled by the goodness of love in the eastern and western zones of heaven, and those impelled by truths of wisdom in the southern and northern zones of heaven. No one is aware of this, indeed, but everyone nevertheless goes to his place after death.

This, then, is the reason that length, when describing the church, symbolizes its goodness, and breadth its truth. Obviously length and breadth cannot be used to describe the church, but they can be to describe a city which symbolizes the church.

The symbolic meaning is that goodness and truth in the New Church are united, like essence and form, because we are told that its length is as great as its breadth, and, as we said, its length symbolizes the church's goodness, and its breadth its truth.

They are united like essence and form, because truth gives formal expression to goodness, and goodness is the essence of truth, and the essence and the form are united.

  
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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.