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Ezekijel 47

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1 Zatim me odvede natrag k vratima Doma. I gle: voda izvirala ispod praga Doma, prema istoku - jer pročelje Doma bijaše prema istoku - i voda otjecaše ispod desne strane Doma, južno od žrtvenika.

2 Zatim me izvede na sjeverna vrata i provede me uokolo vanjskim putem k vanjskim vratima koja gledaju na istok. I gle, voda izvirala s desne strane.

3 Čovjek pođe prema istoku s užetom u ruci, izmjeri tisuću lakata i prevede me preko vode, a voda mi sezaše do gležanja.

4 Ondje opet izmjeri tisuću lakata i provede me preko vode, a voda bijaše do koljena. I opet izmjeri tisuću lakata i prevede me preko vode što bijaše do bokova.

5 Opet izmjeri tisuću lakata, ali ondje bijaše potok koji ne mogoh prijeći jer je voda nabujala te je trebalo plivati: bijaše to potok koji se ne može prijeći.

6 I upita me: "Vidiš li, sine čovječji?" I odvede me natrag, na obalu potoka.

7 I kad se vratih, gle, na obali s obje strane mnoga stabla.

8 I reče mi: "Ova voda teče u istočni kraj, spušta se u Arabu i teče u more; a kad se u more izlije, vode mu ozdrave.

9 I kuda god potok protječe, sve živo što se miče oživi; i bit će vrlo mnogo riba, jer kamo god dođe ova voda, sve ozdravi i oživi - kuda god protječe ovaj potok.

10 I ribari će ribariti duž mora: od En Gedija do En Eglajima sušit će se mreže; i bit će vrlo mnogo svakovrsnih riba kao u Velikom moru.

11 A močvare onoga mora i njegove bare neće ozdraviti: bit će za sol.

12 Duž potoka na obje strane rast će svakovrsne voćke: lišće im neće otpadati i s njih neće nestajati ploda; svakog će mjeseca roditi novim plodom jer im voda dotječe iz Svetišta. Plod će njihov biti za jelo, a lišće za lijek'.

13 Ovako govori Jahve Gospod: 'Ovo su granice u kojima ćete podijeliti zemlju u baštinu među dvanaest plemena Izraelovih - Josipu dva dijela.

14 Svakom će od vas pripasti podjednako od zemlje koju se zakleh dati vašim ocima, a vama će pripasti u baštinu.

15 Ovo su, dakle, granice zemlje: na sjeveru, od Velikoga mora put Hetlona do Ulaza u Hamat: Sedad,

16 Berota, Sibrajim, između kraja damaščanskog i hamatskoga, i Haser Enon, prema granici hauranskoj.

17 Granica će se, dakle, protezati od mora do Haser Enona, kojemu je na sjeveru kraj damaščanski i hamatski - sjeverna strana.

18 Istočna strana: između Haurana i Damaska, između Gileada i zemlje izraelske, pa Jordanom kao granicom prema istočnomu moru do Tamara - istočna strana.

19 Južna strana: prema jugu od Tamara do Meripskih voda i Kadeša pa potokom prema Velikomu moru - južna strana, prema jugu.

20 A zapadna strana: granica je Veliko more pa do nadomak Ulaza u Hamat - zapadna strana.

21 Tu zemlju razdijelite među sobom po plemenima Izraelovim.

22 Razdijelit ćete je ždrijebom u baštinu između sebe i između došljaka koji žive među vama i koji među vama djecu narodiše: i njih ćete smatrati domorocima među Izraelovim sinovima, da i oni dobiju ždrijebom baštinu među Izraelovim sinovima.

23 Svakome tom došljaku dodijelite baštinu u plemenu u kojem živi - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

   

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197. This is why places and spaces in the Word (and everything that involves space) mean matters that involve state - distances, for instance, and nearness and remoteness, paths, journeys, emigrations, miles, stadia, plains, fields, gardens, cities, streets, motion, various kinds of measurement, length, breadth, height, and depth, and countless other things - for so many things that enter our thought from our world derive something from space and time.

[2] I should like only to highlight what length, breadth, and height mean in the Word. In this world we call something long and broad if it is long and broad spatially, and the same holds true for "high." In heaven, though, where thinking does not involve space, people understand length as a state of good and breadth as a state of truth, while height is their difference in regard to level (discussed above in 38). The reason these three dimensions are understood in this way is that length in heaven is from east to west, which is where people live who are in the good of love. Breadth in heaven is from south to north, where people live who are in truth because of what is good (see above, 148); and height in heaven applies to both in regard to their level. This is why qualities of this sort are meant in the Word by length and breadth and height as in Ezekiel 40-48, where the measurements are given of the new temple and the new earth, with its courts, rooms, doors, gates, windows, and surroundings, referring to the new church and the good and true things that are in it. So too all the measurements elsewhere.

[3] The New Jerusalem is similarly described in Revelation, as follows:

The city was laid out foursquare, its length the same as its breadth; and [the angel] measured the city with the reed at twelve thousand stadia; the length and breadth and height were equal. (Revelation 21:16)

Here the New Jerusalem means a new church, so its measurements mean attributes of that church, length referring to the good of its love, breadth to the truth that derives from that good, and height to both the good and the true in respect to their level. Twelve thousand stadia means everything good and true taken together. Otherwise, what would be the point of having its height be twelve thousand stadia like its length and its breadth?

We can see in David that breadth in the Word means truth:

Jehovah, you have not left me in the grasp of my enemy's hand; you have made my feet stand in a broad place. (Psalms 31:8)

I called on Jah from my constraint; he answered me in a broad place. (Psalms 118:5)

There are other passages as well; for example, Isaiah 8:8 and Habakkuk 1:6. It also holds true elsewhere.

  
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