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1 HE EN talede til Moses og Aron og sagde:

2 Optag blandt Leviterne Tallet på Kehatiterne efter deres Slægter, efter deres Fædrenehuse,

3 fra Trediveårsalderen og opefter til Halvtredsårsalderen, alle, der skal gøre Tjeneste med' at udføre Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet.

4 Kehatiternes Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet skal være med de højhellige Ting.

5 Når Lejren bryder op, skal Aron og hans Sønner gå ind og tage det indre Forhæng ned og tildække Vidnesbyrdets Ark dermed;

6 ovenover skal de lægge et Dække af Tahasjskind og derover igen brede et ensfarvet violet Purpurklæde; derpå skal de stikke Bærestængerne ind.

7 Og over Skuebrødsbordet skal de brede et violet Purpurklæde og stille Fadene, Kanderne, Skålene og Krukkerne til Drikofferet derpå, og Brødet, som stadig skal ligge fremme, skal ligge derpå;

8 ovenover skal de brede et karmoisinrødt Klæde og dække dette til med et Dække af Tahasjskind; derpå skal de stikke Bærestængerne ind.

9 Så skal de tage et violet Purpurklæde og dermed tildække Lysestagen, dens Lamper, Sakse, Bakker og alle Oliekrukkerne, de Ting, som bruges ved Betjeningen deraf,

10 og de skal lægge den med alt dens Tilbehør i et Dække af Tahasjskind og så lægge det på Bærebøren.

11 Over Guldalteret skal de ligeledes brede et violet Purpurklæde og dække dette til med et Dække af Tahasjskind; derpå skal de stikke Bærestængerne ind.

12 Og de skal tage alle edskaber, som bruges ved Tjenesten i Helligdommen, og lægge dem i et violet Purpurklæde og dække dem til med et Dække af Tahasjskind og lægge dem på Bærebøren.

13 Fremdeles skal de rense Alteret for Aske og brede et rødt Purpurklæde derover

14 og på det lægge alle edskaberne, som bruges til Tjenesten derved, Panderne, Gaflerne, Skovlene og Skålene, alle Alterets edskaber, og derover skal de brede et Dække af Tahasjskind; derpå skal de stikke Bærestængerne ind.

15 Når så ved Lejrens Opbrud Aron og hans Sønner er færdige med at tilhylle de hellige Ting og alle de hellige edskaber, skal Kehatiterne træde til og bære dem; men de må ikke røre ved de hellige Ting; thi gør de det, skal de . Det er, hvad Kehatiterne skal bære af Åbenbaringsteltet.

16 Med Eleazar, Præsten Arons Søn, påhviler Tilsynet med Olien til Lysestagen, den vellugtende øgelse, det daglige Afgrødeoffer og Salveolien og desuden Tilsynet med hele Boligen og alt, hvad der er deri af hellige Ting og deres Tilbehør.

17 HE EN talede til Moses og Aron og sagde:

18 Sørg for, at Kehatiternes Slægters Stamme ikke udryddes af Leviternes Midte!

19 Således skal I forholde eder med dem, for at de kan blive i Live og undgå Døden, når de nærmer sig de højhellige Ting: Aron og hans Sønner skal træde til og anvise hver enkelt af dem, hvad han skal gøre, og hvad han skal bære,

20 for at de ikke et eneste Øjeblik skal komme til at se de hellige Ting; thi gør de det, skal de .

21 HE EN talede til Moses og sagde:

22 Optag også Tallet på Gersoniterne efter deres Fædrenehuse, efter deres Slægter;

23 fra Trediveårsalderen og opefter til Halvtredsårsalderen skal du mønstre dem, alle, der skal gøre Tjeneste med at udføre Arbejdet ved Åbenbaringsteltet.

24 Dette er Gersoniternes Arbejde, hvad de skal gøre, og hvad de skal bære

25 De skal bære Boligens Tæpper, Åbenbaringsteltet med dets Dække og Dækket af Tahasjskind ovenover, Forhænget til Åbenbaringsteltets Indgang,

26 Forgårdens Omhæng og Forhænget for Indgangen til Forgården, der er rundt om Boligen og Alteret, dens Teltreb og alle edskaber, som hører til Arbejdet derved; og alt, hvad der skal gøres derved, skal de udføre.

27 Efter Arons og hans Sønners Bud skal Gersoniterne udføre deres Arbejde både med det, de skal bære, og med det, de skal gøre; og I skal anvise dem alt, hvad de skal bære, Stykke for Stykke.

28 Det er det Arbejde, Gersoniternes Sønners Slægter skal have ved Åbenbaringsteltet, og de skal varetage det under Itamars, Præsten Arons Søns, Tilsyn.

29 Merariterne skal du mønstre efter deres Slægter, efter deres Fædrenehuse;

30 fra Trediveårsalderen og opefter til Halvtredsårsalderen skal du mønstre dem, alle, som skal gøre Tjeneste med at udføre Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet.

31 Dette er, hvad der påhviler dem at bære, alt, hvad der hører til deres Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet: Boligens Brædder, dens Tværstænger, Piller og Fodstykker,

32 Pillerne til Forgården, som er rundt om den, med Fodstykker, Pæle og eb, alle tilhørende edskaber og alt, hvad der hører til Arbejdet derved; Stykke for Stykke skal I anvise dem alle de Ting, det påhviler dem at bære.

33 Det er det Arbejde, der påhviler Merariternes Slægter, alt, hvad der hører til deres Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet, under Itamars, Præsten Arons Søns, Tilsyn.

34 Så mønstrede Moses og Aron og Menighedens Øverster Kehatiternes Sønner efter deres Slægter, efter deres Fædrenehuse,

35 fra Trediveårsalderen og opefter til Halvtredsårsalderen, alle, som skulde gøre Tjeneste med at udføre Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet,

36 og de, der mønstredes af dem efter deres Slægter, udgjorde 2750.

37 Det var dem, som mønstredes af Kehatiternes Slægter, alle dem, der skulde udføre Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet, som Moses og Aron mønstrede efter HE ENs Bud ved Moses.

38 De, der mønstredes af Gersoniterne efter deres Slægter, efter deres Fædrenehuse,

39 fra Trediveårsalderen og opefter til Halvtredsårsalderen, alle, som skulde gøre Tjeneste med at udføre Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet,

40 de, der mønstredes af dem efter deres Slægter, efter deres Fædrenehuse, udgjorde 2630.

41 Det var dem, som mønstredes af Gersoniternes Slægter, alle dem, der skulde udføre Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet, som Moses og Aron mønstrede efter HE ENs Bud.

42 De, der mønstredes af Merariternes Slægter efter deres Slægter, efter deres Fædrenehuse,

43 fra Trediveårsalderen og opefter til Halvtredsårsalderen, alle, som skulde gøre Tjeneste med at udføre Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet,

44 de, der mønstredes af dem efter deres Slægter, udgjorde 3200.

45 Det var dem, som mønstredes af Merariternes Slægter, som Moses og Aron mønstrede efter HE ENs Bud ved Moses.

46 Alle, som mønstredes, som Moses og Aron og Israels Øverster mønstrede af Leviterne efter deres Slægter, efter deres Fædrenehuse,

47 fra Trediveårsalderen og opefter til Halvtreds års alderen, alle, som skulde udføre Arbejde ved Åbenbaringsteltet både med hvad der skulde gøres, og hvad der skulde bæres,

48 de, der mønstredes af dem, udgjorde 8580.

49 Efter HE ENs Bud ved Moses anviste man hver enkelt af dem, hvad han skulde gøre eller bære; det blev dem anvist, som HE EN havde pålagt Moses.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 9468

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9468. 'And twice-dyed scarlet' means mutual love. This is clear from the meaning of 'scarlet' and 'twice-dyed' as celestial truth, which is the same thing as the good of mutual love. There are two kingdoms into which the angelic heaven is divided, the celestial kingdom and the spiritual kingdom. In both there is an internal and an external, the internal in the celestial kingdom being the good of love to the Lord and the external the good of mutual love. This external good is what 'twice-dyed scarlet' serves to mean, 'scarlet' the actual good and 'twice-dyed' its truth. But in the spiritual kingdom the internal is the good of charity towards the neighbour and the external the good of obedience that is the product of faith. 'Twice-dyed scarlet' means the good of mutual love and its truth on account of its appearance in the next life; for when the sphere of that good and truth is revealed visually in the lowest heaven it appears there as the colour scarlet. For what comes down from the celestial heaven and appears on a lower level begins as flaming red but is turned into scarlet on the lower level by the whiteness of light in the middle heaven through which it passes. This explains why twice-dyed scarlet was to be used among the other colours on the curtains of the dwelling-place, Exodus 26:1, on the veil before the ark, Exodus 26:31, on the screen to the door of the tent, Exodus 26:36, on the screen to the gate of the court, Exodus 27:16, on the ephod, Exodus 28:6, on the belt, Exodus 28:8, on the breastplate of judgement, Exodus 28:15, and on the hem of the robe of the ephod, Exodus 28:33.

[2] The fact that 'twice-dyed scarlet' means the good of mutual love, which is the external good of the celestial kingdom or Church, is evident from the consideration that over the table where the loaves of the Presence were laid a twice-dyed scarlet cloth was to be spread, which was then to be covered with a covering of badger skin, Numbers 4:8. The inmost things of the celestial kingdom or Church were meant by what lay on the table, chiefly the loaves, but more external things by its coverings. This also accounts for the order in which the materials that were to be gathered together are listed, that is to say, the inmost things, which were the violet and the purple, are mentioned first; the more external things, which were the twice-dyed scarlet, the fine linen, and the wool of she-goats, are mentioned secondly; and the completely external things, which were the skins of red rams and the skins of badgers, are mentioned last. The like applies everywhere else in what follows.

[3] Since external celestial good and its truth is meant by 'twice-dyed scarlet', this colour is used to portray the outward sense of the Word and teachings derived from it. The reason for this is that the Word is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good, appearing as flaming light in the inmost heaven and as brilliantly white light in the middle heaven.

[4] The Word and teachings derived from the Word are portrayed in this way in the second Book of Samuel,

David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan, and entitled it, To teach the children of Judah the bow. Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul who clothed you in twice-dyed delicately, 1 who placed an ornament of gold on your apparel. 2 Samuel 1:17-18, 24.

'Clothing in twice-dyed' stands for providing with truths that go with the good of mutual love, thus with truths from a celestial origin. This prophetic utterance refers to teachings about faith separated from teachings about love and charity; that is to say, it refers to truths which are snuffed out by such a separation but are then restored by those teachings about love and charity. For by 'the Philistines', who killed Saul and Jonathan, are meant those who champion teachings about faith separated from teachings about love and charity, 3412, 3413, 8093, 8096, 8099, 8313; and 'teaching the children of Judah the bow' means providing those who are governed by the good of love and charity with the truths that compose religious teachings.

'The children of Judah' are those governed by the good of love, see 3654, 3881, 5583, 5603, 5782, 5794, 5833, 6363.

'The bow' is teachings that send out the truth, 2686, 2709.

[5] In Jeremiah,

You who have therefore been laid waste, what will you do? If you clothe yourself in twice-dyed, if you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, in vain will you make yourself beautiful. Jeremiah 4:30.

This refers to the Church when it has been laid waste. 'Clothing oneself in twice-dyed and decking oneself with ornaments of gold' means pointing out the truths of doctrine from a celestial origin and the good ways to live, consequently pointing out truths and aspects of good derived from the Word. Something similar occurs in the same prophet,

Those who ate delicacies are desolate 2 in the streets; those brought up in scarlet have embraced the dunghill. Lamentations 4:5.

'Being brought up in scarlet' stands for receiving instruction since early childhood in the good of mutual love derived from the Word.

[6] Because those things contained in the outward sense of the Word appear in heaven as the colour scarlet, for the reason stated above, people who use the outward sense of the Word to substantiate falsities arising from the evils of selfish and worldly love, thus ideas contrary to truths and forms of the good of love to the Lord and of mutual love, are said to be clothed in purple and scarlet. For their externals, being from the Word, display such an appearance; but their internals are profane. Such things are meant by 'scarlet' in John,

I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names. She was clothed in purple and scarlet. Revelation 17:3-4.

This refers to Babylon, which means a religion in which the holy things of the Word are made profane by the use of them to support false ideas that favour the devilish kinds of love, which are self-love and love of the world, and so to exercise control in heaven and on earth. Like things are also meant in another part of the same book, [where it is called,]

The great city, which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and covered 3 with gold and precious stones and pearls. Revelation 18:16.

Therefore also fine linen, purple, and scarlet are listed among Babylon's wares in Revelation 18:12.

[7] Since the outward aspect of the Word appears in heaven as the colour scarlet, and since there is an influx from heaven into the human memory, in which the things derived from the Word appear in that shade of colour, scarlet was used with objects that served as a reminder of something, as in Moses,

The children of Israel shall make for themselves a fringe on the hems of garments, and they shall put on the fringe of the hem a violet 4 thread, that by means of it they might remember all the commandments of Jehovah and do them. 5 Numbers 15:38-39.

[8] For the same reason also it was customary in ancient times, when meaningful signs were in common use, to tie on a scarlet thread as the memorial or reminder of something, as one reads about Tamar's son Zerah, 6 on whose hand the midwife tied a twice-dyed thread, Genesis 38:28, 30, and about the prostitute Rahab, who tied a scarlet thread on the window, so that the spies would remember the promise, Joshua 2:18, 21.

[9] Since a person cannot be released from evils and falsities except by means of the truths and forms of good that reside with the person from the Word, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop were used in cleansings from leprosy, Leviticus 14:4-7, 49-52. For 'leprosy' means truth when it has been rendered profane, and so has been falsified, 6963, and 'being cleansed' means being released from those ills by means of truths and forms of good which are derived from the Word. Scarlet was in like manner used in the preparation of the water of separation and expiation involving the red cow, Numbers 19:6; the water of separation and expiation served as well to mean purification and release from evils and falsities by means of truths and forms of good that are derived from the Word.

[10] As the majority of things in the Word can have a contrary meaning, so too can 'twice-dyed' and 'scarlet'. Then they mean falsities and evils, which are the opposites of those truths and forms of good, as in Isaiah,

Though your sins are like twice-dyed, they will be as white as snow. Though they are as red as scarlet, they will be like wool. Isaiah 1:18.

The same applies to 'red', 'blood', 'flame', and 'fire'. In the true sense they mean forms of the good of love and faith, but in the contrary sense the evils which are their opposites.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, with delight

2. literally, have been laid waste

3. literally, gilded

4. In the first Latin edition and in his rough draft Swedenborg uses the word which has been rendered scarlet in the present paragraph. But the Hebrew word is that which has been rendered violet above in 9466.

5. Most of this quotation is really a paraphrase of the Hebrew.

6. The Latin says Perez.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3412

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3412. 'All the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up' means that people who possessed knowledge of cognitions did not wish to know interior truths that came from the Divine and so effaced them. This is clear from the meaning of 'wells' as truths, dealt with in 2702, 3096, here interior truths coming from the Divine since the wells, which mean truths, are said to have been dug by 'his father's servants in the days of Abraham his father' - 'Abraham' representing the Lord's Divine itself, 2011, 2833, 2836, 3251, 3305 (end); from the meaning of 'stopping up' as not wishing to know and so effacing; and from the representation of 'the Philistines' as people who possess no more than a knowledge of cognitions, dealt with in 1197, 1198.

[2] The subject at this point is the appearances of truth that belong to the lower degree, which are able to exist with those who possess a knowledge of cognitions and whom 'the Philistines' are used to mean here. With regard to the interior truths that come from the Divine and are effaced by those called the Philistines, the position is that in the Ancient Church and after it the name Philistines was used for those who gave little thought to life and very much to doctrine, and who in course of time even rejected matters of life and acknowledged matters of faith - which faith was separated from life - as being the essential element of the Church. As a consequence they attached no importance at all to matters of doctrine concerning charity which in the Ancient Church constituted the all of doctrine, and so they effaced it. Instead they proclaimed matters of doctrine concerning faith and centred the whole of their religion in these. And since in this way they departed from the life of charity, that is, from charity as the sum and substance of life, they more than all others were called 'the uncircumcised'. For by 'the uncircumcised' were meant all in whom charity was not present, no matter how much doctrine they knew, 2049 (end).

[3] Because such people departed from charity they also removed themselves from wisdom and intelligence, for no one can have a wise and intelligent discernment of what truth is unless good, that is, charity, reigns in him. Indeed all truth originates in good and has regard to good, so that anyone who is devoid of good is unable to have an intelligent discernment of truth, and does not even wish to know it. When such people in the next life are far away from heaven, light bright as snow is sometimes seen to be with them. But that light is like the light in wintertime which, being devoid of warmth, is unproductive. This also explains why, when such persons draw near to heaven, their light is converted into utter darkness, and their minds into something akin to that darkness, which is stupidity. From these considerations it may now be seen what is meant by the statement that people who possessed no more than a knowledge of cognitions did not wish to know interior truths that came from the Divine and so effaced them.

  
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