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Ezekijel 40

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1 Godine dvadeset i pete za našega izgnanstva, početkom godine, prvoga mjeseca, desetoga dana, a četrnaest godina otkako pade Grad, upravo onoga dana spusti se na me ruka Jahvina.

2 I odvede me u božanskom viđenju u zemlju Izraelovu te me postavi na veoma visoku goru: Na njoj, s južne strane, bijaše nešto kao sazidan grad.

3 Povede me onamo, i gle: čovjek, sjajan kao mjed, stajaše na vratima, s lanenim užetom i mjeračkom trskom u ruci.

4 I taj mi čovjek reče: "Sine čovječji, gledaj svojim očima i slušaj svojim ušima, popamti sve što ću ti pokazati, jer si doveden ovamo da ti pokažem. Objavi domu Izraelovu sve što ovdje vidiš."

5 I gle, zdanje sve uokolo opasano zidom. Čovjek držaše u ruci mjeračku trsku od šest lakata, a svaki lakat bijaše za jedan dlan duži od običnoga lakta. On izmjeri zdanje. Širina: jedna trska, visina: jedna trska.

6 Zatim pođe k vratima što bijahu okrenuta k istoku. Uspe se uza stepenice i izmjeri prag vrata. Širina: jedna trska.

7 A svaka klijet jednu trsku dugačka i jednu trsku široka. Između klijeti: pet lakata. Prag vrata sa strane njihova trijema, iznutra, jedna trska.

8 Izmjeri trijem vrata iznutra: bijaše osam lakata širok,

9 a njegovi polustupovi dva lakta. Trijem vrata bijaše s nutarnje strane.

10 Na svakoj strani istočnih vrata bijahu po tri klijeti. I sve tri bijahu iste mjere. Tako i polustupovi: s obje strane bijahu iste mjere.

11 Zatim izmjeri vrata: bijahu deset lakata široka i trinaest lakata visoka.

12 Pred klijetima bijaše s jedne i s druge strane ograda od jednog lakta. Svaka klijet: šest lakata s jedne i šest lakata s druge strane.

13 A zatim izmjeri vrata od stražnje strane jedne klijeti do stražnje strane nasuprotne klijeti, u širinu: bijaše dvadeset i pet lakata; otvor pred otvorom.

14 Izmjeri i trijem: dvadeset lakata. Predvorje bijaše sve uokolo trijema vrata.

15 Od ulaznog pročelja vrata do nasuprotne strane njihova trijema bijaše pedeset lakata.

16 Na klijetima i njihovim dovracima, s unutrašnje strane sve uokolo, a tako i u trijemu, bijahu prozori s rešetkama. Takvi su prozori bili iznutra, sve naokolo, a na polustupovima palme.

17 Zatim me povede u vanjsko predvorje Doma. I gle, sve oko predvorja prostorije i pločnik. Trideset prostorija na pločniku.

18 Pločnik bijaše sa svake strane vrata i odgovaraše razini vrata. To je donji pločnik.

19 On izmjeri širinu predvorja od donjih vrata do unutrašnjega predvorja, s vanjske strane: sto lakata na istok i na sjever.

20 Sjevernim vratima vanjskoga predvorja izmjeri širinu i dužinu.

21 I ta su imala po tri klijeti sa svake strane, a stupovi im i trijemovi istih mjera kao u prvih vrata: pedeset lakata u dužinu i dvadeset i pet lakata u širinu.

22 Prozori im, trijemovi i palme bijahu iste mjere kao na istočnim vratima, a na prilazu im sedam stepenica; trijem im bijaše s unutrašnje strane.

23 Unutrašnje predvorje imaše vrata što bijahu nasuprot sjevernim vratima; kao i istočna. On izmjeri: između jednih i drugih vrata bijaše sto lakata.

24 Zatim me povede na jug, i gle: i ondje vrata. Izmjeri ondje klijeti, polustupove i trijemove: bijahu iste mjere.

25 Ona, kao i njihovi trijemovi, imahu sve uokolo prozore što bijahu kao i oni prvi. Dužina je i tu iznosila pedeset lakata, a širina dvadeset i pet.

26 K vratima je vodilo sedam stuba; trijem im je bio s unutrašnje strane, a na stupovima imahu po jednu palmu sa svake strane.

27 Unutrašnje predvorje imaše jedna vrata i s južne strane. On izmjeri: od tih vrata do južnih vrata - sto lakata.

28 Zatim me na južna vrata uvede u unutrašnje predvorje. I izmjeri južna vrata: bijahu istih mjera.

29 Klijeti, stupovi i trijemovi bijahu istih mjera. Vrata i njihov trijem imahu svud unaokolo prozore. Pedeset lakata bijaše tu u dužinu, dvadeset i pet lakata u širinu.

30 A sve uokolo trijemovi: dvadeset i pet lakata dugi, a pet lakata široki.

31 Trijemovi su se pružili prema vanjskom predvorju. Na polustupovima njihovim palme, a stubište im je imalo osam stuba.

32 Zatim me povede k istočnim vratima unutrašnjega predvorja. I izmjeri vrata: bijahu istih mjera.

33 Klijeti im, polustupovi i trijemovi bijahu također istih mjera. Vrata i njihov trijem imahu svud naokolo prozore. U dužinu bješe pedeset lakata, u širinu dvadeset i pet.

34 Trijem im se pružao prema vanjskom predvorju. Na njihovim polustupovima s ove i s one strane bijahu palme. Stubište im imaše osam stuba.

35 Zatim me povede k sjevernim vratima. I izmjeri ih: bijahu istih mjera.

36 Klijeti im, polustupovi i trijemovi bijahu također istih mjera. Vrata i njihov trijem imahu svud uokolo prozore. Pedeset je lakata tu bilo u dužinu, a dvadeset i pet u širinu.

37 Trijem je sezao do vanjskoga predvorja. Na polustupovima s ove i one strane bijahu palme. Stubište imaše osam stuba.

38 Uz trijemove vrata bijaše prostor s posebnim ulazom. Ondje su se ispirale žrtve paljenice.

39 U trijemu vrata s jedne i s druge strane bijahu po dva stola za klanje paljenicÄa, okajnicÄa i naknadnicÄa.

40 I s vanjske strane onomu tko ulazi na ulaz sjevernih vrata bijahu dva stola; i s druge strane, prema trijemu vrata, dva stola.

41 Četiri stola, dakle, s jedne, a Četiri stola s druge strane vrata: u svemu osam stolova, na kojima se klahu žrtve.

42 Osim toga, četiri stola za paljenice, od klesanoga kamena. Bili su po lakat i pol široki i lakat visoki. Na njima je stajao pribor za klanje žrtava paljenica i klanica.

43 Stolovi bijahu sve uokolo obrubljeni žljebićima od jednoga dlana, zavrnutima unutra. Na stolove se stavljalo žrtveno meso.

44 Zatim me povede u unutrašnje predvorje. U unutrašnjem predvorju bijahu dvije prostorije: jedna bijaše sa strane sjevernih vrata, okrenuta prema jugu, a druga sa strane južnih vrata, okrenuta prema sjeveru.

45 I on mi reče: "Ta prostorija što je okrenuta na jug određena je za svećenike koji obavljaju službu u Domu.

46 A prostorija što je okrenuta na sjever jest za svećenike koji obavljaju službu na žrtveniku. To su sinovi Sadokovi, oni između sinova Levijevih koji smiju prići k Jahvi da mu služe!"

47 On izmjeri predvorje. Dužina: sto lakata, širina: sto lakata; bijaše četverouglasto. Pred Domom stajaše žrtvenik.

48 A zatim me povede k trijemu. Izmjeri polustupove trijema: bijaše pet lakata na jednoj i pet lakata na drugoj strani. Vrata bijahu široka tri lakta s jedne i tri lakta s druge strane.

49 Trijem bijaše dugačak dvadeset lakata, a širok dvanaest lakata. Deset je stepenica vodilo onamo. Na dovratnicima s jedne i s druge strane stajaše po jedan stup.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 7601

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7601. 'And the flax' means the truth of the exterior natural. This is clear from the meaning of' the flax' as truth, but the truth of the exterior natural, dealt with below. The natural is exterior and interior, see 4570, 5118, 5497, 5649, and therefore the truth and good there are interior and exterior, 3293, 3294. The truth and good of the exterior natural are meant by 'the flax and the barley', and the good and truth of the interior natural by 'the wheat and the spelt'.

[2] This verse and the next deal with the truths and forms of good that were destroyed and laid waste, and the forms of good and truths that were not destroyed or laid waste. Thus they deal with the truths and forms of good that were stored away and placed in safe keeping for [future] use, and those which were not stored away and placed in safe keeping. For when those who are evil undergo vastation, that is, when they are being separated from truths and forms of good and are left with their own evils and falsities, those truths and forms of good that are present in the exterior natural - where they have become linked to falsities and evils - are what are laid waste. These truths and forms of good look downwards and cannot for that reason be safely stored away, as will be seen below in 7604, 7607. But the truths and forms of good of the interior natural are not laid waste but are taken to an even more interior position, where they are held in safe keeping for [future] use. Communication between the interior natural and the exterior is then closed to such an extent that no good or truth at all can pass from there into the exterior natural, apart from just a general kind of communication of them which enables those people to engage in reasoning and put together arguments to lend support to falsities and evils. Those forms of good and truths that are placed in safe keeping are meant in the Word by 'the remnant', dealt with in 468, 530, 560, 561, 576, 661, 798, 1738, 1906, 2284, 5135, 5342, 5344, 5897-5899, 6156, 7556. These then are the things which the two present verses deal with and which are meant by 'the flax and the barley were struck; for the barley was a ripening ear, and the flax a stem', and by 'the wheat and the spelt were not struck because they were hidden'.

[3] The meaning of 'flax' or 'linen' as truth has its origin in representatives in heaven. In heaven those who are guided by the truth of the natural are seen clothed in white, like the whiteness of linen. The actual truth of the natural is also represented there as fabric made from the finer kind of flaxen threads. These threads have the appearance of silken ones, and clothing made from them has a similar appearance - brilliant, wonderfully translucent, and soft - if the truth represented in that way is rooted in good. But on the other hand those threads which look flaxen do not have a translucent, brilliant, or soft appearance, but a hard and brittle appearance, though they are still white, if the truth that is represented in that way is not rooted in good.

[4] From all this one may now recognize what is meant when it says that the angels whom people saw appeared in garments of flax or linen, such as those referred to in John,

Out of the temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues, clothed in linen, white and splendid, and girded around their breasts with golden girdles. Revelation 15:6.

In Daniel,

I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a man clothed in linen whose loins were girded with gold of Uphaz. Daniel 10:5.

In Ezekiel,

Behold, six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, each with a weapon of dispersion in his hand. But one man in the midst of them was clothed in linen and had a writer's inkhorn at his side. 1 Ezekiel 9:2.

More is said about this angel [clothed in linen] in verses 3 and 4 of the same chapter and in Chapter 10:2-7. The same prophet also says, in reference to the angel who measured the new temple, that he had a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, Ezekiel 40:ff. Also, the angels who were seen in the Lord's tomb appeared clothed in white, splendid and flashing like lightning, Matthew 28:3; Mark 16:5; Luke 14:4; John 20:11-12.

[5] Since 'linen' or 'flax' meant the truth of the exterior natural, and the exterior natural is what clothes things more internal, that truth is what was represented by the linen garments with which angels were seen to be clothed. It is also meant by the linen garments worn by Aaron whenever he ministered in the Holy Place, spoken of in Moses as follows, When Aaron comes into the Holy Place, he shall put on the holy linen tunic, and gird himself with a linen sash, and place the linen turban on himself. These are holy garments. Leviticus 16:3-4.

Similarly in Ezekiel,

The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, when they enter the gates of the inner court they shall put on the linen garments, and no wool shall come upon them. When they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within, the linen turbans shall be on their heads, the linen under garments shall be over their loins. Ezekiel 44:17-18.

This is referring to the new temple and the New Jerusalem, which mean the Lord's kingdom. For the same reason also the priests wore linen ephods, 1 Samuel 22:18; when the boy Samuel ministered before the Lord he wore a linen ephod, 1 Samuel 1:18; and David too wore a linen ephod when the ark was brought into his city, 2 Samuel 6:14.

[6] From all this one can also see why the Lord girded Himself with a linen towel when He washed the disciples' feet, and wiped their feet with the linen towel with which He was girded, John 13:4-5. Washing of the feet was a sign of purification from sins, which is accomplished by the truths of faith, since these teach a person how he ought to live.

[7] 'Linen' means truth in the following places too: In Jeremiah,

Jehovah said to the prophet, Go, buy yourself a linen girdle, and place it over your loins; but you are not to pass it through water. Take the girdle, and arise, go away to the Euphrates, and hide it in the cleft of a rock. At the end of many days, when he took the girdle from where he had hidden it, behold, the girdle was spoiled; it was profitable for nothing. Jeremiah 13:1-7.

'The linen girdle over the loins' represented truth arising from good, as it is in the beginning when the Church is established by the Lord, and as it becomes subsequently, when around the end it is has become spoiled and profitable for nothing. In Isaiah,

Those that make linen out of silk threads, and the weavers of curtains, will blush. Isaiah 19:9.

This refers to Egypt. 'Making linen out of silk threads' stands for counterfeiting truths.

[8] In Moses,

You shall not plough with an ox and an ass together. You shall not put on a mingled garment made of wool and linen together. Deuteronomy 22:10-11.

'Ox' means the good of the natural, 'ass' its truth; and much the same is meant by 'wool and linen'. Their being forbidden to plough with an ox and ass together or to put on a mingled garment made of wool and linen together meant that they were forbidden to be in two states at the same time, that is to say, in a state of good from which they looked to truth and at the same time in a state of truth from which they looked to good. These prohibitions embody much the same as those declared by the Lord in Matthew,

Let him who is on the roof of the house not go down to take anything out of his house; and let him who is in the field not turn back to get his clothing. Matthew 24:17-18.

Regarding these prohibitions see 3652 (end). For those who look from good to truth are in the inner part of heaven, whereas those who look from truth to good are in the outer part. The latter look from the world towards heaven, the former from heaven towards the world. Consequently they are in a kind of inverse ratio to each other, and therefore if they were put together the one would destroy the other.

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1. literally, on his loins

  
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