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Ezekiel 42

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1 Derpå førte han mig ud i den indre forgård i nordlig retning, og han førte mig til Kamrene, som lå ud imod den afspærrede Plads og Bagbygningen, nogle på den ene Side, andre på den anden.

2 Længden var hundrede Alen og Bredden halvtredsindstyve.

3 Over for Portene, som hørte til den indre Forgård, og over for Stenbroen, som hørte til den ydre Forgård, var der Gang over for Gang i tre Stokværk.

4 Foran Kamrene var der en Forgang, ti Alen bred og hundrede Alen lang, og deres Døre vendte mod Nord.

5 De øvre Kamre var de snævreste, thi Gangen tog noget af deres Plads, så at de var mindre end de nederste og mellemste.

6 Thi de havde tre Stokværk og ingen Søjler svarende til den ydre Forgårds; derfor var de øverste snævrere end de nederste og mellemste.

7 Der løb en Mur udenfor langs Kamrene i etning af den ydre Forgård; foran Kamrene var dens Længde halvtredsindstyve Alen;

8 thi Kamrene, som lå ved den ydre Forgård, havde en samlet Længde af halvtredsindstyve Alen, og de lå over for hine, i alt hundrede Alen.

9 Neden for disse Kamre var indgangen på Østsiden, når man gik ind i dem fra den ydre Forgård,

10 ved Begyndelsen af den ydre Mur. Derpå førte han mig mod Syd; og der var også Kamre ud imod den afspærrede Plads og Bagbygningen

11 med en Gang foran; de så ud som Kamrene mod Nord; havde samme Længde og Bredde, og alle Udgange var her som hist, ligesom de var indrettet på samme Måde.

12 Men deres Døre vendte mod Syd..."

13 Og han sagde til mig: "Kamrene mod Nord og Syd, som ligger ud mod den afspærrede Plads, er de hellige Kamre, hvor Præsterne, der nærmer sig HE EN, skal spise det højhellige; der skal de gemme det højhellige, Afgrødeofrene, Syndofrene og Skyldofrene, thi Stedet er helligt;

14 og når Præsterne træder ind - de må ikke fra Helligdommen træde ud i den ydre Forgård - skal de der nedlægge deres Klæder, som de gør Tjeneste i, da de er hellige, og iføre sig andre Klæder; da først må de nærme sig det, der hører Folket til."

15 Da han var til Ende med at udmåle Templets Indre, førte han mig hen til den Port, hvis Forside vendte mod Øst, og målte til alle Sider;

16 han målte med Målestangen Østsiden; den var efter Målestangen 500 Alen; så vendte han sig og

17 målte med Målestangen Nordsiden til 500 Alen;

18 så vendte han sig og målte med Målestangen Sydsiden til 500 Alen;

19 og han vendte sig og målte med Målestangen Vestsiden til 500 Alen.

20 Til alle fire Sider målte han Pladsen; og der var en Mur rundt om, 500 Alen lang og 500 Alen bred, til at sætte Skel mellem det, som er helligt, og det, som ikke er helligt.

   


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861. 20:9 And they went up over the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. This symbolically means that, being roused up by followers of the dragon, these people scorned every truth in the church and attempted to destroy everything connected with the New Church and its fundamental doctrine regarding the Lord and life.

To go up over the breadth of the earth means, symbolically, to scorn every truth in the church, because going up over symbolically means to transcend and bypass, thus to scorn. And the breadth of the earth symbolizes the truth in the church, as will be seen below. To surround the camp of the saints means, symbolically, to besiege and try to destroy everything connected with the New Church, as will be seen in the number following next. And the beloved city symbolizes the doctrine of the New Church. That a city symbolizes a church's doctrine may be seen in nos. 194, 501, 502, 712 above. The city is called beloved because its doctrine teaches about the Lord and how to live, as it is the doctrine of the New Jerusalem that is meant here.

That this is the symbolic meaning of these words, no one can see except as a consequence of the Word's spiritual sense. For it cannot possibly enter a person's thought that the breadth of the earth symbolizes the truth in a church, that the camp of the saints symbolizes everything connected with the New Church, both its truths and its goods, and that the city symbolizes its doctrine. Lest the mind remain in a state of doubt, therefore, we must demonstrate what breadth and the camp of the saints symbolize in the spiritual sense, which will make it possible for one to see afterward that the meaning of these words is as we have said.

[2] The breadth of the earth symbolizes the truth in a church because the spiritual world has in it four zones - eastern, western, southern and northern - and the eastern and western zones form its longitude or length, while the southern and northern zones form its latitude or breadth. Moreover, because the inhabitants in the eastern and western zones are ones impelled by the goodness of love, and therefore the east and west symbolize goodness, so likewise does longitude or length. And because the inhabitants in the southern and northern zones are ones impelled by truths of wisdom, and therefore the south and north symbolize truth, so likewise does latitude or breadth. But for more on this subject, see the book Heaven and Hell (London, 1758), nos. 141-153.

That breadth symbolizes truth can be seen from the following passages in the Word:

You (Jehovah) have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in the broad place. (Psalms 31:8)

Out of distress I called on Yah; He answered me in the broad place. (Psalms 118:5)

(Jehovah) led me out into the broad place; He delivered me... (Psalms 18:19)

...I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and impetuous nation which marches into the breadths of the earth... (Habakkuk 1:6)

(The Assyrian) will pass through Judah, He will overflow and pass over..., and the spreading of his wings will fill the breadth... (Isaiah 8:8)

...Jehovah will pasture them like a lamb in broad pasture. (Hosea 4:16)

And so on elsewhere, as in Psalms 4:1; 66:12, Deuteronomy 33:20.

[3] Nothing else is meant by the breadth of the city New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:16). For since the New Jerusalem means the New Church, its breadth and length cannot symbolically mean its breadth and length, but its truth and goodness. These, indeed, are the measures of a church.

So also in Zechariah:

I said (to the angel), "Where are you going?" He said..., "To measure Jerusalem, to see how great its width is and how great its length." (Zechariah 2:2)

So likewise the breadth and length of the new temple and new earth in Ezekiel, chapters 40-47.

So, too, the length and breadth of the altar of burnt offering, of the Tabernacle, of the table of showbread, of the altar of incense, and of the ark within. So also the length and breadth of the temple in Jerusalem, and of many other things whose dimensions are given.

  
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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.