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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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In Exodus 13:21, this signifies a state of illumination tempered by the obscurity of truth, and a state of obscurity tempered by illumination from good. (Arcana Coelestia 8106, 8108)

In Revelation 10:1, this signifies that the Lord's Divine Natural, which in itself is the Divine Humanity which He took in the world, sustains and supports His Eternal Divinity as the body does the soul, and as the natural sense of the Word does its spiritual and celestial senses; for feet signifies the natural, pillars signify support, and fire, the Divine Love. (Apocalypse Revealed 468)

In Exodus 26:32, this signifies what supports heaven and the church, namely the goods of love and of faith from the Lord. (Arcana Coelestia 9674)

(Odkazy: Exodus 8, 8:21, 21)

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Arcana Coelestia # 8106

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8106. 'During the daytime in a pillar of cloud' means that when there was a state of enlightenment, this was moderated by a dimming of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'during the daytime' or 'in the day' as in a state of enlightenment, for the times of day - morning, midday, evening, and night - correspond to degrees of enlightenment in the next life, that is, of intelligence and wisdom, 5672, 5962, 6110, so that 'the day' is a state of enlightenment or clear perception, and 'the night' a state of unenlightenment or dimmed perception, 7680; and from the meaning of 'cloud' as a dimming of truth, since a cloud takes away the brilliance of the light from the sun and also moderates it.

[2] Various places in the Word say that Jehovah appeared in a cloud, that He was clothed with a cloud, or that 'clouds were under His feet'. In those places 'cloud' is used to mean a dimming of truth; in particular the literal sense of the Word is meant, for in comparison with the internal sense the literal sense is a dimmed presentation of truth, see the Preface to Genesis 18, and also 4391, 5922, 6343, 6752. This was meant by 'the cloud' when the Lord appeared in glory to Peter, James, and John, Luke 9:34; when He appeared to the people from Mount Sinai, and to Moses when he went in to Him there, Exodus 19:9; 20:21; 24:15-18; 34:5. The same was also meant by what the Lord declared so many times, that He would come in the clouds of heaven, Matthew 24:30; 26:63-64; Mark 13:26; 14:61-62; Luke 21:27.

[3] The literal sense of the Word is called 'a cloud' because the internal sense, which is called 'the glory', cannot be understood by anyone unless he has been regenerated and therefore enlightened. If the internal sense of the Word, or God's truth in its glory, were to appear in front of someone who has not been regenerated it would be like thick darkness in which he would see absolutely nothing, and also would leave him blind, that is, with no belief at all.

From all this one may see what the description 'a cloud during the daytime' means, namely a dimming of truth and, when it has reference to the Word, the literal sense.

[4] The expressions 'in a pillar of cloud' and 'in a pillar of fire' are used because 'a pillar' means a load-bearing support, as in Jeremiah 1:18; Psalms 75:3; Revelation 3:12; Job 9:6; and it is used to refer to the natural level, since the natural level is a kind of support or pedestal for the spiritual level. For the spiritual level terminates at the natural level and rests on it. This explains why the feet of an angel coming down from heaven looked like pillars of fire, Revelation 10:1; for the natural level is meant by 'feet', 2162, 3147, 3761, 3986, 4280, 4938-4952, 5327, 5328.

  
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