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出埃及記 36

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1 比撒列和亞何利亞伯,並一切裡有智慧的,就是蒙耶和華賜智慧聰明、叫他知道所各樣使用之工的,都要照耶和華所吩咐的做工。

2 耶和華賜他裡有智慧、而且受感前來做這工的,摩西把他們和比撒列並亞何利亞伯一同召來。

3 這些人就從摩西收了以色列人為做所並所使用之工所拿來的禮物。百姓每早晨還把甘心獻的禮物拿來。

4 凡做所一切工的智慧各都離開他所作的工,

5 來對摩西:百姓為耶和華吩咐使用之工所拿來的,富富有餘。

6 摩西傳命,他們就在全中宣告說:無論女,不必再為所拿甚麼禮物來。這樣才攔住百姓不再拿禮物來。

7 因為他們所有的材料夠做一切當做的物,而且有

8 他們中間,凡裡有智慧做工的,用幅幔子做帳幕。這幔子是比撒列用撚的細麻和藍色紫色、朱紅色線製造的,並用巧匠的手工繡上基路伯

9 每幅幔子長二十肘,寬肘,都是樣的尺寸。

10 他使這五幅幔子幅幅相連,又使那五幅幔子幅幅相連;

11 在這相連的幔子末幅邊上做藍色的鈕扣,在那相連的幔子末幅邊上也照樣做;

12 在這相連的幔子上做五十個鈕扣,在那相連的幔子上也做五十個鈕扣,都是兩兩相對;

13 又做五十鉤,使幔子相連。這才成了個帳幕。

14 他用山羊毛織十一幅幔子,作為帳幕以上的罩棚。

15 每幅幔子長三十肘,寬肘;十幅幔子都是樣的尺寸。

16 他把五幅幔子連成一幅,又把幅幔子連成一幅;

17 在這相連的幔子末幅邊上做五十個鈕扣,在那相連的幔子末幅邊上也做五十個鈕扣;

18 又做五十個銅鉤,使罩棚連成個;

19 並用染紅的公羊皮做罩棚的蓋,再用海狗做一層罩棚上的頂蓋。

20 他用皂莢做帳幕的豎板。

21 每塊長肘,寬肘半;

22 每塊有兩榫相對。帳幕切的板是這樣做。

23 帳幕的面做板二十塊。

24 在這二十塊板底又做四十個帶卯的座:兩卯接這塊板上的兩榫,兩卯接那塊板上的兩榫。

25 帳幕的第二面,就是面,也做板二十

26 和帶卯的四十個:這板底有兩卯,那板底也有兩卯。

27 帳幕的後面,就是西面,做板塊。

28 帳幕後面的拐角做板兩塊。

29 板的半截是雙的,上半截是整的,直到第子;在帳幕的兩個拐角上是這樣做。

30 塊板和十六個帶卯的座,每塊板底有兩卯。

31 他用皂莢做閂:為帳幕這面的板做五閂,

32 為帳幕那面的板做五閂,又為帳幕後面的板做五閂,

33 使板腰間的中閂從這一頭通到那一頭。

34 子將板包裹,又做板上的套閂;閂也用子包裹。

35 他用藍色紫色、朱紅色線,和撚的細麻織幔子,以巧匠的手工繡上基路伯

36 為幔子做根皂莢木子,用包裹,子上有鉤,又為子鑄了個帶卯的座。

37 藍色紫色、朱紅色線,和撚的細麻,用繡花的手工織帳幕的簾;

38 又為簾子做五根子和子上的鉤子,用子把頂和子上的杆子包裹。子有五個帶卯的座,是銅的。

   

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9509. 'And you shall make two cherubs' means that there is no admission or access to the Lord except through the good of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'cherubs' as watchfulness and providence, guarding against access to the Lord except through the good of love. Since this was meant by the cherubs, they were placed over the mercy-seat that was over the ark; and they were for the same reason made from solid gold. For 'the ark' means heaven where the Lord is, 9485, and 'gold' means the good of love, 9490. The reason why there is no access to the Lord except through the good of love is that love is spiritual togetherness, and all good belongs to love. Those therefore who are governed by the good of love to the Lord are brought to Him in heaven, because they have been joined together with Him. So too are those who are governed by the good of love towards the neighbour; for the neighbour is the good of a fellow-citizen, the good of one's country, the good of the Church, the good of the whole of the Lord's kingdom, and in the highest sense the Lord Himself since He is the source of that good present with a person.

[2] There are two states that a person passes through while being regenerated, one of which follows the other. The first is a state during which he is led by means of the truths of faith to the good of love; the other is one in which he is governed by the good of love, and when governed by it he is in heaven with the Lord. From this it is evident that this good is heaven itself present with the person, that good being the Lord present with him because its source is the Lord. Regarding these two states that a person who is being regenerated passes through, one of which follows the other, see 7923, 7992, 8505, 8506, 8510, 8512, 8516, 8643, 8648, 8658, 8685, 8690, 8701, 9224, 9227, 9230, 9274; and the fact that a person comes into heaven when governed by good, that is, when led by the Lord by means of good, 8516, 8539, 8722, 8772, 9139.

[3] It is clear from places in the Word where 'cherubs' are mentioned that they mean watchfulness and providence, guarding against access to the Lord or to heaven except through the good of love, that is, except by those governed by the good of love, and also guarding against any harm being done to the good from the Lord which is present in heaven and with a person, as for instance in Genesis,

And He expelled the man, and away from the east towards the garden of Eden He caused the cherubs to dwell, and the flame of a sword turning itself this way and that to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:24.

Here it is self-evident that things which serve as guards are meant by 'the cherubs', since it says 'to guard the way to the tree of life'. 'The tree of life' is the good of love, which comes from the Lord and for that reason is the Lord; and it is guarded by the prevention of any access except through the good of love.

[4] It is thought that the Lord is accessible through the truths of faith. But there can be no access to Him, nor even to heaven, through those truths if they have been separated from the good of love. As soon as separated truths wish to enter, heaven, which is the way to the Lord, is closed. And since truth cannot enter by itself unless it has good within it, and by virtue of this has come to consist of good, neither can understanding do so, still less factual knowledge, if separated from good desired by the will.

[5] Because watchfulness and providence guarding against access to the Lord, or for that reason to heaven, except through the good of love is meant by 'the cherubs', the Word says that Jehovah is seated on the cherubs, also rides and dwells upon the cherubs, as in David,

Turn Your ears, O Shepherd of Israel; You who are seated upon the cherubs, shine forth. Psalms 80:1.

In the same author,

Jehovah will reign, the peoples will be shaken. He is seated on the cherubs. Psalms 99:1.

In the same author,

Jehovah rode on a cherub, and flew. Psalms 18:10.

And in Isaiah,

Jehovah Zebaoth is dwelling on the cherubs. Isaiah 37:16.

For the same reasons there were cherubs upon the curtains of the dwelling-place, and upon the veil, Exodus 26:1, 31; 36:35; they were also upon the walls of the temple round about and upon the doors there, 1 Kings 6:23-29, 31-35, and similarly in the new temple, as described in Ezekiel 41:18-20. The presence of the cherubs on the curtains of the dwelling-place, on the veil, on the walls of the temple, and on the doors there, was a sign of the Lord's watchfulness, guarding against access to Divine Holiness except through the good of love; and the presence of the cherubs over the ark was a sign that no one should gain access to the Lord Himself except through that good. This also explains why the cherubs were made from solid gold, and in the Jerusalem temple from olive wood; for 'gold' and 'olive oil' mean the good of love.

[6] That watchfulness and providence of the Lord is described in Ezekiel by 'the four living creatures', each of which had four faces, under the throne where the Lord was, Ezekiel 1:1-end; 10:1-end, and also in John by 'four living creatures' around the throne where the Lord was, 10:Revelation 4:6-10; 5:6, 8-9, 14. By 'the four living creatures' is meant the good, varying in appearance, which emanates from the Lord, and which watches and guards against the letting in of anything other than the good of love to the Lord and the good of love towards the neighbour. By 'the throne' on which the Lord was seated heaven is meant, 5313.

  
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