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Ezechiel 45

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1 Když pak ujmete zemi v dědictví, obětovati budete obět Hospodinu, díl svatýzemě, zdélí pětmecítma tisíc loket, zšíří pak deset tisíc, a budeť svatý po všem pomezí svém vůkol.

2 Z něhož bude místo svaté pět set zdélí, a pět set zšíří, čtyřhrané vůkol, a ať má padesáte loket prostranství vůkol.

3 Z toho pak odměření odměříš dýlku pětmecítma tisíc loket, a šířku deset tisíc, aby na něm byla svatyně, i svatyně svatých.

4 Díl ten země svatý jest. Kněží služebníků při svatyni býti má, těch, kteříž přistupují, aby přisluhovali Hospodinu, aby měli místo pro domy i místo svaté pro svatyni.

5 Těch pak pětmecítma tisíc loket dýlka a deset tisíc šířka ať jest také Levítům, služebníkům domu, jim k držení dvadceti komůrek.

6 Místo pak k vystavení na něm města oddělíte pět tisíc loket na šíř, a na dýl pětmecítma tisíc, naproti oběti místa svatého; bude pro všecken dům Izraelský.

7 Knížeti pak s obou stran té oběti místa svatého, i položení města před oběti místa svatého, a před položením města od strany západní díl k západu, a po straně východní díl k východu, dlouhost pak naproti každému z těch dílů od pomezí západního ku pomezí východnímu.

8 To bude míti za vládařství v Izraeli, a nebudou více utiskati knížata má lidu mého, ale rozdadí zemi domu Izraelskému po pokoleních jejich.

9 Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Dostitě již, ó knížata Izraelská, nátisk a zhoubu odložte, a soud a spravedlnost konejte, sejměte těžké roboty vaše s lidu mého, praví Panovník Hospodin.

10 Váhu spravedlivou a efi spravedlivou i bát spravedlivý míti budete.

11 Efi i bát v jednu míru ať jest, aby chomer bral v se deset bátů, efi pak desátý díl chomeru; podlé chomeru ať jest míra.

12 Lot dvadceti peněz; dvadceti lotů, pětmecítma lotů, a patnácte lotů libra bude vám.

13 Tato pak obět pozdvižení bude, kterouž obětovati budete: Šestý díl efi z chomeru pšenice, též Šestý díl efi dáte z chomeru ječmene.

14 Nařízení pak o oleji (bát jest míra oleje): Desátý díl bátu z míry chomeru, desíti bátů; nebo deset bátů jest chomer.

15 A dobytče jedno ze dvou set bravů z dobrých pastvišť Izraelských, k oběti suché a zápalné a k obětem pokojným, k očištění vás, praví Panovník Hospodin.

16 Všecken lid té země, i s knížetem Izraelským zavázán bude k té oběti zhůru pozdvižení.

17 Nebo kníže povinen bude zápaly, a suché i mokré oběti, v svátky a na novměsíce, i v soboty, na všecky slavnosti domu Izraelského; on obětovati bude za hřích, i obět suchou i zápalnou, i oběti pokojné, aby se očištění dálo za dům Izraelský.

18 Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Prvního měsíce, prvního dne vezmeš volka mladého bez poškvrny, kterýmž očistíš svatyni.

19 I nabéře kněz krve té oběti za hřích, a pomaže veřejí domu, a čtyř rohů toho přepásání na oltáři, i veřeje brány síně vnitřní.

20 Takž také učiní sedmého dne téhož měsíce, za každého pobloudilého i za hloupého. Tak očistíte dům.

21 Prvního měsíce, čtrnáctého dne, budete míti Fáze, svátek sedmi dnů, chlebové přesní jísti se budou.

22 A bude obětovati kníže v ten den za sebe i za všecken lid té země volka za hřích.

23 A po sedm dní svátku obětovati bude zápal Hospodinu, sedm volků a sedm skopců bez poškvrny na den, po těch sedm dní, a za hřích kozla na den.

24 A obět suchou, efi na volka a efi na skopce, připraví též oleje hin na efi.

25 Sedmého měsíce, patnáctého dne, v svátek tolikéž obětovati bude po sedm dní, jakož za hřích, tak zápal, tak obět suchou i olej.

   

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52. Jehovah Himself, that is, the Lord, spoke the Word through the prophets. Regarding the prophets, we read that they were in a state of vision, and that Jehovah spoke with them.

When they were in a state of vision, they were not present in their body, but in their spirit, and in that state they saw things of the kind found in heaven. But when Jehovah spoke with them, they were then present in their body and heard Jehovah speaking.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be clearly distinguished. In a state of vision the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body closed; and they then seemed to themselves to be conveyed from place to place, their body not moving from where it was.

Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel were at times in this state, and so was John when he was writing the book of Revelation. We are also told then that they were in a state of vision or in the spirit. Ezekiel, indeed, says:

The spirit took me up and returned me in a vision (of God) by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. (So) the vision that I had seen went up from me. (Ezekiel 11:24, cf. 11:1)

He says that the spirit lifted him up, and that he heard behind him an earthquake, and other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between the earth and heaven, and brought him in the visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.).

It was in a vision of God, or in the spirit, therefore, that he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1,10). And also a new earth and a new temple, and an angel measuring them (as described in chapters 40-48). He says that he was then in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit then lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

The same experience befell Zechariah when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.); when he saw four horns, and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18, 2:1ff.); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.); when he saw a lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.); when he saw a flying scroll and an ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6); and when he saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:3), and when he saw battles of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). We read that he saw these things in a state of vision (Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13, 8:2, 10:1, 7-8); and that the angel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision and spoke with him (Daniel 9:21-22).

The same experience befell John when he was writing the book of Revelation, who says that he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day (Revelation 1:10); that he was carried away in the spirit into the wilderness (Revelation 17:3), and in the spirit onto a high mountain (Revelation 21:10); that in a vision he saw horses (Revelation 9:17). And elsewhere that he saw the things he described, thus seeing them in the spirit or in a vision (Revelation 1:12, 4:1, 5:1, 6:1, and so on in each of the following chapters).

  
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Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.

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Revelation 21

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1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."

5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

6 He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

7 He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride."

10 He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it was a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

12 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

13 On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

15 He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.

16 The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand Twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.

17 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

18 The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.

19 The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.

21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.

23 The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

24 The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

25 Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

26 and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.

27 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.