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Izlazak 38

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1 Od bagremova drva napravi žrtvenik za žrtve paljenice, pet lakata dug, pet lakata širok - u četvorinu - a tri lakta visok.

2 Na njegova četiri ugla načini mu četiri roga. Rogovi su bili u jednom komadu s njim. Onda ga obloži tučem.

3 A načini i sav pribor za žrtvenik: lonce, strugače, kotliće, viljuške i kadionike; sav mu je ovaj pribor načinio od tuča.

4 Za žrtvenik zatim načini rešetku u obliku mrežice od tuča ispod izbočine; zahvaćala mu je do sredine.

5 Salije četiri koluta na četiri ugla tučane rešetke da služe kao kvake za motke.

6 Motke načini od bagremova drva pa ih obloži tučem.

7 Onda provuče motke kroz kolutove na objema stranama žrtvenika da se na njima nosi. Napravio ga je šuplja - od dasaka.

8 A zatim, od zrcala žena koje su posluživale na vratima Šatora sastanka, načini tučani umivaonik i tučani stalak za nj.

9 Onda načini dvorište. Na južnoj strani dvorišta bijahu zavjese od prepredenog lana, stotinu lakata duge.

10 Njihovih dvadeset stupova sa dvadeset podnožja bilo je od tuča, dok su kuke na stupovima i njihove šipke bile od srebra.

11 Od stotinu lakata bile su zavjese i sa sjeverne strane. Njihovih dvadeset stupova sa dvadeset podnožja bilo je od tuča, dok su kuke na stupovima i njihove šipke bile od srebra.

12 Sa zapadne strane bijahu zavjese od pedeset lakata, sa deset stupova i deset njihovih podnožja. Kuke su na stupovima i njihove šipke bile od srebra.

13 Sprijeda, s istoka, zavjese od pedeset lakata.

14 S jedne strane vrata zavjese su bile petnaest lakata, sa tri stupca i njihova tri podnožja.

15 Tako i s druge strane - dakle, na obje strane dvorišnih vrata - bile su zavjese od petnaest lakata, sa tri stupca i njihova tri podnožja.

16 Sve su zavjese oko dvorišta bile od prepredenog lana.

17 Podnožja za stupove bila su od tuča, a kuke na stupovima i njihove šipke od srebra. Vrhovi stupova bili su srebrom obloženi. Sve šipke na dvorišnim stupovima bijahu od srebra.

18 Zavjesa na dvorišnim vratima - izvezena - bila je od ljubičastog, crvenog i tamnocrvenog prediva i prepredenog lana. Dvadeset je lakata bila duga; visoka, po širini, pet lakata kao i dvorišne zavjese.

19 Bila su četiri njihova stupa sa četiri podnožja od tuča. Kuke na stupovima bile su od srebra. Vrhovi stupova bili su srebrom obloženi, a njihove šipke bile su srebrne.

20 Svi kočići unutar Prebivališta bili su od tuča.

21 To je popis stvari za Prebivalište - Prebivalište Svjedočanstva, koji je sastavljen na zapovijed Mojsijevu trudom levita pod vodstvom Itamara, sina svećenika Arona.

22 Besalel, Urijev sin, iz koljena Hurova od plemena Judina napravio je sve što je Jahve Mojsiju naredio.

23 S njim je bio Oholiab, sin Ahisamakov, iz plemena Danova, rezbar, krojač i vezilac za ljubičasto, crveno i tamnocrveno predivo i prepredeni lan.

24 Sve zlato što je utrošeno u radove oko Svetišta - zlato posvećeno prinosom - iznosilo je: dvadeset i devet talenata i sedam stotina trideset šekela u hramskim šekelima.

25 A srebro, sabrano prigodom upisivanja zajednice -

26 to jest beku po glavi, odnosno pola šekela prema hramskom šekelu, od svakoga koji je bio upisan, od dvadeset godina pa naprijed - iznosilo je: stotinu talenata i tisuću sedam stotina sedamdeset i pet šekela u hramskim šekelima. Bilo je upisanih: šest stotina tri tisuće i petsto pedeset.

27 Stotinu talenata srebra otišlo je za salijevanje podnožja Svetištu i zavjesi: sto podnožja od sto talenata - talenat za podnožje.

28 A od tisuću sedam stotina sedamdeset i pet šekela načinio je kuke za stupove, obložio njihove vrhove i napravio šipke za njih.

29 Tuč od žrtve prikaznice iznosio je sedamdeset talenata i dvije tisuće četiri stotine šekela.

30 Od njega je načinio: podnožja za ulaz u Šator sastanka, žrtvenik od tuča s njegovom tučanom rešetkom i sav pribor za žrtvenik;

31 dalje, podnožja oko dvorišta, podnožja za dvorišni ulaz; sve kočiće za Prebivalište i sve kočiće oko dvorišta.

   

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Gold means good, and just as gold was the most precious metal known to ancient mankind so it represents the good of the highest and wisest of the angels. These angels foremostly love the Lord, and because they do they act from that love at all times. So the things they do are from love or as the writings for the new church often say, their acts are "goods of love". This is what gold represents. As soon as God planted the garden of Eden, He created a river in it, to water it. This river went out and branched into four, the first branch mentioned, Pishon, encompassed the "…land of Havilah, where there is gold… and the gold…is good". Another mention of gold comes in Exodus where the Lord is telling Moses how to make the Tabernacle. If you pay attention you will see that inside the tabernacle the main thing you see is gold, the boards of the wall are covered with it and all the furniture is either wood covered completely with gold, or is made of solid gold. Then at the end of the Word the holy city descends from God and it is made of gold, "gold like unto clear glass" good of love that can be clearly and completely understood. And it has its river. This is a promise from the Lord that we can come into a state similar to that of the garden of Eden, if we follow Him so as to come into love for Him, and act from that love.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 814

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814. 19:8 And it was granted her to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright. This symbolically means that those who will belong to the Lord's New Church are being instructed through the Word by the Lord in truths that are genuine and pure.

Being granted to her means to the wife, who symbolizes the Lord's New Church, namely, the New Jerusalem, as in no. 813 just above. To be arrayed means, symbolically, to be instructed in truths, inasmuch as garments symbolize truths (no. 166), and white garments genuine truths (no. 212). Fine linen, clean and bright, symbolically means glistening as a result of goodness, and pure as a result of truths. And because there is no pure truth from any other source than from the Lord through the Word, therefore this, too, is symbolically meant.

The fine linen is said to be clean and bright because cleanliness symbolizes something that is free of evil, thus something that glistens as a result of goodness, and brightness symbolizes something that is free of falsity, thus something pure as a result of truth.

Fine linen, or something made of fine linen, symbolizes genuine truth also in the following passages:

I clothed you (O Jerusalem) in embroidered cloth..., I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk... Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk... (Ezekiel 16:10, 13)

Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail. (Ezekiel 27:7)

The latter is said of Tyre, which symbolizes the church in respect to concepts of truth and goodness.

The hosts in heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:14)

Pharaoh's clothing Joseph "in garments of fine linen" (Genesis 41:42) has the same symbolic meaning.

Truth from the Word in their possession, though not internalized by them, is symbolized by the fine linen in Babylon in Revelation 18:12, 16, and by that possessed by the rich man in Luke 16:19.

Fine linen is also called cotton, so that this, too, symbolizes genuine truth, in the following:

You shall make (for Aaron) a checkered tunic of cotton, and you shall make the turban of cotton... (Exodus 28:39)

They made tunics of cotton... for Aaron and his sons... (Exodus 39:27)

You shall make the tabernacle... cotton interwoven with blue, purple, and scarlet double-dyed. (Exodus 26:1, cf. 36:8)

You shall make... hangings for the court of woven cotton... (Exodus 27:9, cf. 27:18; 38:9)

Also the screen... of the court...(with) woven cotton. (Exodus 38:18)

  
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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.