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Exodus 35

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1 Moses kaldte hele Israeliternes Menighed sammen og sagde til dem: Dette er, hvad HE EN har pålagt eder at gøre:

2 I seks Dage må der arbejdes, men på den syvende Dag skal I holde Helligdag, en fuldkommen Hviledag for HE EN. Enhver, der den Dag udfører noget Arbejde, skal lide Døden.

3 På Sabbatsdagen må I ikke gøre Ild i nogen af eders Boliger.

4 Derpå sagde Moses til hele Israeliternes Menighed: Dette er, hvad HE EN har påbudt:

5 I skal tage en Offerydelse til HE EN af, hvad I ejer. Enhver, som i sit Hjerte føler sig tilskyndet dertil, skal komme med det, HE ENs Offerydelse, Guld, Sølv, Kobber,

6 violet og rødt Purpurgatn, karmoisinrødt Garn, Byssus, Gedehår,

7 rødfarvede Væderskind, Tahasjskind, Akacietræ,

8 Olie til Lysestagen, vellugtende Stofer til Salveolien og øgelsen,

9 Sjohamsten og Ædelsten til Indfatning på Efoden og Brystskjoldet.

10 Og alle kunstforstandige Mænd iblandt eder skal komme og lave alt, hvad HE EN har påbudt:

11 Boligen med dens Teltdække og Dække, dens Kroge, Brædder, Tværstænger, Piller og Fodstykker,

12 Arken med Bærestængerne, Sonedækket og det indre Forhæng,

13 Bordet med dets Bærestænger og alt dets Tilbehør og Skuebrødene,

14 Lysestagen med dens Tilbehør, dens Lamper og Olien til Lysestagen,

15 øgelsealteret med dets Bærestænger, Salveolien og øgelsen. Forhænget til Boligens Indgang,

16 Brændofferalteret med Kobbergitteret, Bærestængerne og alt dets Tilbehør, Vandkummen med dens Fodstykke,

17 Forgårdens Omhæng, dens Piller og Fodstykker og Forhænget til Forgårdens Indgang,

18 Boligens og Forgårdens Pæle med eb,

19 Pragtklæderne til Tjenesten i Helligdommen, de hellige Klæder til Præsten Aron og hans Sønners Klæder til Brug ved Præstetjenesten.

20 Da forlod hele Israeliternes Menighed Moses.

21 Og enhver, som i sit Hjerte følte sig drevet dertil, og hvis Ånd tilskyndede ham, kom med HE ENs Offerydelse til Opførelsen af Åbenbaringsteltet og til alt Arbejdet derved og til de hellige Klæder.

22 De kom dermed, både Mænd og Kvinder; enhver, som i sit Hjerte følte sig tilskyndet dertil, kom med Spænder, Ørenringe, Fingerringe og Halssmykker, alle Hånde Guldsmykker. Og enhver, der vilde vie HE EN en Gave af Guld, kom dermed.

23 Og enhver, i hvis Eje der fandtes violet og rødt Purpurgarn, karmoisinrødt Garn, Byssus, Gedehår, rødfarvede Væderskind eller Tahasjskind, kom dermed.

24 Og enhver, der vilde give en Offerydelse af Sølv eller Kobber, kom med HE ENs Offerydelse. Og enhver, der ejede Akacietræ til alt Byggearbejdet, kom dermed.

25 Og alle kunstforstandige Kvinder spandt med egne Hænder og kom med deres Spind, violet og rødt Purpur, Karmoisin og Byssus.

26 Og alle Kvinder, som i Kraft af deres Kunstsnilde følte sig tilskyndede dertil i deres Hjerte, spandt Gedehårene.

27 Og Øversterne kom med Sjohamstenene og Ædelstenene til Indfatningen på Efoden og Brystskjoldet

28 og de vellugtende Stoffer og Olien til Lysestagen og til Salveolien og øgelsen.

29 Enhver Mand og Kvinde af Israeliterne, som i sit Hjerte følte sig tilskyndet til at bringe, hvad der krævedes til Udførelsen af alt det Arbejde, HE EN gennem Moses havde påbudt, bragte det som en frivillig Gave til HE EN.

30 Derpå sagde Moses til Israeliterne: Se, HE EN har kaldet Bezal'el, en Søn af Hurs Søn Uri, af Judas Stamme

31 og fyldt ham med Guds Ånd, med Kunstsnilde, Kløgt og Indsigt i alskens Arbejde

32 til at udtænke Kunstværker og til at arbejde i Guld, Sølv og Kobber

33 og med Udskæring af Sten til Indfatning og med Træskærerarbejde, kort sagt til at udføre alskens Kunstarbejde.

34 Og tillige har han givet både ham og Oholiab, Ahisamaks Søn, af Dans Stamme Gaver til at lære fra sig.

35 Han har fyldt dem med Kunstsnilde til at udføre alskens Udskæringsarbejde, Kunstvævning, broget Vævning af violet og rødt Purpurgarn, karmoisinrødt Garn og Byssus og almindelig Vævning, så de kan udføre alt Slags Arbejde og udtænke Kunstværker.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 10728

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10728. 'And said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded, to do them' means instruction regarding the major truth of the Church to which all others look back. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' as instruction, dealt with in the places referred to in 10280; and from the meaning of 'the words which Jehovah has commanded, to do them' as the major truth that must be fully obeyed. The reason why this is meant is that those words refer to the sabbath, which was the chief of all representative signs, and so means the major truth to which all others look back; for the representative signs in the Church among the Israelite nation were forms of truth on the last and lowest level of order. The situation with representative signs is that the objects which appear in the natural world, in its three kingdoms, compose the last and lowest level of Divine order; for all the realities of heaven, which are called spiritual and celestial, terminate in them. In all this lies the reason why a representative Church was established and why such things were commanded as would represent heaven fully, with every kind of truth and good existing there, on last and lowest levels. And the things which carried the representation were formed out of such objects as exist in the natural world - the tabernacle surrounded with curtains, the table in it on which the loaves of the Presence were laid, the lampstand and its lamps, the altar on which incense was offered, Aaron's garments and the breastplate consisting of precious stones, and other objects in addition to these. What such things represented has been shown in what has gone before.

  
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261. The Word is written by correspondences, and thus by representatives.

The Word, as to its literal sense, is written by mere correspondences, thus by such things as represent and signify spiritual things which relate to heaven and the church (n. 1404, 1408-1409, 1540, 1619, 1659, 1709, 1783, 2179, 2763, 2899). This was done for the sake of the internal sense, which is contained in every part (n. 2899). For the sake of heaven, since those who are in heaven do not understand the Word according to the sense of the letter, which is natural, but according to its internal sense, which is spiritual (n. 2899). The Lord spoke by correspondences, representatives, and significatives, because He spoke from the Divine (n. 9048, 9063, 9086, 10126, 10728). Thus the Lord spoke at the same time before the world and before heaven (n. 2533, 4807, 9048, 9063, 9086). The things which the Lord spoke filled the entire heaven (n. 4637). The historicals of the Word are representative, and the words significative (n. 1540, 1659, 1709, 1783, 2686). The Word could not be written in any other style, that by it there might be a communication and conjunction with the heavens (n. 2899, 6943, 9481). They who despise the Word on account of the apparent simplicity and rudeness of its style, and who fancy that they would receive the Word, if it were written in a different style, are in a great error (n. 8783). The mode and style of writing, which prevailed amongst the most ancient people, was by representatives and significatives (n. 605, 1756, 9942). The ancient wise men were delighted with the Word, because of the representatives and significatives therein, from experience (n. 2592-2593). If a man of the Most Ancient Church had read the Word, he would have seen the things which are in the internal sense clearly, and those which are in the external sense obscurely (n. 4493). The sons of Jacob were brought into the land of Canaan, because all the places in that land, from the most ancient times, were made representative (n. 1585, 3686, 4447, 5136, 6516). And thus that the Word might there be written, in which Word those places were to be mentioned for the sake of the internal sense (n. 3686, 4447, 5136, 6516). But nevertheless the Word was changed, for the sake of that nation, as to the external sense, but not as to the internal sense (n. 10453, 10461, 10603-10604). In order that it may be known what the correspondences and representatives in the Word are, and what is their quality, something shall also be said concerning them.

All things which correspond are likewise representative, and thereby significative, thus that correspondences and representatives are one (n. 2896-2897, 2973, 2987, 2989-2990, 3002, 3225). What correspondences and representations are, from experience and examples (n. 2763, 2987-3002, 3213-3226, 3337-3352, 3472-3485, 4218-4228, 9280). The knowledge of correspondences and representations was the chief science amongst the ancients (n. 3021, 3419, 4280, 4748, 4844, 4964, 4966, 6004, 7729, 10252). Especially with the Orientals (n. 5702, 6692, 7097, 7779, 9391, 10252, 10407); and in Egypt more than in other countries (n. 5702, 6692, 7097, 7779, 9391, 10407). Also among the Gentiles, as in Greece and other places (n. 2762, 7729). But at this day it is among the sciences which are lost, particularly in Europe (n. 2894-2895, 2994, 3630, 3632, 3747-3749, 4581, 4966, 10252). Nevertheless this science is more excellent than all other sciences, since without it the Word is not understood, nor the signification of the rites of the Jewish church, which are recorded in the Word; neither is it known what heaven is, nor what the spiritual is, nor in what manner spiritual influx takes place into what is natural, with many other things (n. 4280, and in the places above cited). All the things which appear before angels and spirits, are representatives, according to correspondences of such things as relate to love and faith (n. 1971, 3213-3226, 3449, 3475, 3485, 9481, 9574, 9576-9577). The heavens are full of representatives (n. 1521, 1532, 1619). Representatives are more beautiful, and more perfect, in proportion as they are more interiorly in the heavens (n. 3475). Representatives there are real appearances, being derived from the light of heaven, which is Divine truth, and which is the very essential of the existence of all things (n. 3485).

The reason why each and all things in the spiritual world are represented in the natural world, is because what is internal assumes a suitable clothing in what is external, whereby it makes itself visible and apparent (n. 6275, 6284, 6299). Thus the end assumes a suitable clothing, that it may exist as the cause in a lower sphere, and afterwards that it may exist as the effect in a sphere lower still; and when the end, by means of the cause, becomes the effect, it then becomes visible, or appears before the eyes (n. 5711). This may be illustrated by the influx of the soul into the body, whereby the soul assumes a clothing of such things in the body, as enable all the things which it thinks and wills, to appear and become visible; wherefore the thought, when it flows down into the body, is represented by gestures and actions which correspond thereto (n. 2988). The affections, which are of the mind, are manifestly represented in the face, by the variations of the countenance, so that they may be seen therein (n. 4791-4805, 5695). Hence it is evident, that each and all things in nature have in them a latent cause and end from the spiritual world (n. 3562, 5711). Since the things in nature are ultimate effects, which contain prior things (n. 4240, 4939, 5051, 6275, 6284, 6299, 9216). Internal things are represented, and external things represent (n. 4292).

Since all things in nature are representative of spiritual and celestial things, therefore, in ancient times, there were churches, wherein all the externals, which are rituals, were representative; wherefore those churches were called representative churches (n. 519, 521, 2896). The church founded with the sons of Israel was a representative church (n. 1003, 2179, 10149). All its rituals were external things, which represented the internal things of heaven and the church (n. 4288, 4874). Representatives of the church and of worship ceased when the Lord came into the world, because the Lord opened the internal things of the church, and because all the externals of the church in the highest sense regarded Him (n. 4832).

  
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