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Exodus 38

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1 Ja ta tegi akaatsiapuust põletusohvrialtari, viis küünart pika ja viis küünart laia, neljanurgelise ja kolm küünart kõrge.

2 Ta tegi selle neljale nurgale sarved; sarved olid sellega ühest tükist; ja ta kardas selle vasega.

3 Ta tegi kõik altari riistad, tuhanõud, labidad, piserdusnõud, hargid ja sütepannid; kõik selle riistad ta tegi vasest.

4 Ta tegi altarile võrestiku, võrgukujulise töö vasest, ääre alla, altpoolt vaadates poole altarini.

5 Ta valas neli rõngast vaskvõrestiku neljale nurgale kangide asemeiks.

6 Ta tegi akaatsiapuust kandekangid ja kardas need vasega.

7 Ta pistis kandekangid rõngastesse altari külgedel; ta tegi selle laudadest õõnsakujulisena.

8 Ja ta tegi vaskpesemisnõu ja selle vaskjala nende teenistuses olevate naiste peeglitest, kes teenisid kogudusetelgi ukse juures.

9 Ja ta tegi õue: lõunapoolses küljes, keskpäeva pool, oli õuel sada küünart korrutatud linasest lõimest eesriideid,

10 nende kakskümmend sammast ja kakskümmend vaskjalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

11 Nõndasamuti oli põhjapoolses küljes sada küünart eesriideid, nende kakskümmend sammast ja kakskümmend vaskjalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

12 Läänepoolses küljes oli viiskümmend küünart eesriideid, nende kümme sammast ja kümme jalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

13 Idapoolses küljes, päikesetõusu pool, oli viiskümmend küünart eesriideid:

14 ühel pool oli viisteist küünart eesriideid, nende kolm sammast ja kolm jalga,

15 samuti oli teisel pool; ühel ja teisel pool õueväravat oli võrdselt viisteist küünart eesriideid, nende kolm sammast ja kolm jalga.

16 Kõik eesriided ümber õue olid korrutatud linasest lõimest.

17 Sammaste jalad olid vasest, sammaste haagid ja põrgad hõbedast, nende nupud hõbedaga karratud; kõigil õue sammastel olid hõbepõrgad.

18 Õuevärava kate oli kirjatud töö sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest lõngast ning korrutatud linasest lõimest, kakskümmend küünart pikk, laiusele vastavalt viis küünart kõrge, nagu muud õue eesriided.

19 Nende neli sammast ja neli jalga olid vasest, nende haagid hõbedast, nende nuppude kard ja põrgad samuti hõbedast.

20 Kõik elamu ja ümber oleva õue vaiad olid vasest.

21 See on elamu, tunnistuselamu kulude arvestus, mis tehti Moosese käsul; selle tegid leviidid preester Aaroni poja Iitamari juhatusel:

22 Betsaleel, Huuri poja Uuri poeg Juuda suguharust on valmistanud kõik, milleks Issand oli Moosesele käsu andnud,

23 ja koos temaga Oholiab, Ahisamaki poeg Daani suguharust, kui sepp ning osav kuduja ja kangakirjaja sinist, purpurpunast ja helepunast lõnga ning linast lõime kasutades.

24 Kõike kulda, mis oli kõigutusohvri kuld, mida tööks tarvitati kõigi pühamu tööde juures, oli kakskümmend üheksa talenti ja seitsesada kolmkümmend seeklit püha seekli järgi.

25 Ja hõbedat neilt, kes koguduse hulgast olid ära loetud, oli sada talenti ja tuhat seitsesada seitsekümmend viis seeklit püha seekli järgi,

26 üks beka pea kohta, see on pool seeklit püha seekli järgi kõigilt, kes astusid äraloetute hulka, kahekümneaastased ja üle selle, kuuesaja kolme tuhande viiesaja viiekümnelt.

27 See sada talenti hõbedat oli pühamu jalgade ja eesriide jalgade valamiseks, sada talenti sajaks jalaks, talent iga jala jaoks.

28 Aga sellest tuhande seitsmesaja seitsmekümne viiest seeklist tegi ta sammastele haagid, kardas nende nupud ja valmistas põrgad.

29 Kõigutusohvri vaske oli seitsekümmend talenti ja kaks tuhat nelisada seeklit.

30 Sellest tehti kogudusetelgi ukse jalad, vaskaltar ja selle küljes olev vaskvõrestik, kõik altari riistad,

31 ümberringi oleva õue jalad, õuevärava jalad, kõik telgi vaiad ja kõik ümberringi oleva õue vaiad.

   

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In most places in the Word, "ten" represents "all," or in some cases "many" or "much." The Ten Commandments represent all the guidance we get from the Lord in life; the ten horns on the beast of Revelation represent all power of falsity; the ten virgins with lamps in Matthew 25 represent all people of the church.

Yet in other places, ten, or especially a "tenth," signifies representing remnants, or tiny scraps of goodness preserved for the future. These can be the remnants of a church -- a few good people that can be built up into a new church. Or they can be tiny subconscious memories of love and joy which the Lord stores in each of us in early childhood, feelings He can use later to draw us toward a life of goodness and affection.

These two meanings seem nearly opposite, but they're actually not. Love is whole and indivisible, so that the tiniest feeling buried inside someone contains all the elements of the love it can become. In a similar way, a remnant of a church that has preserved that church's knowledge has everything it needs to grow into a new church. In a sense, then, those remnants are indeed "all," they're just a version of "all" that is still in a state of potential.

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9688. 'The work of an embroiderer' means things that belong to factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'the work of an embroiderer', or embroidery, as factual knowledge. A large number of places in the Word speak of that which has been embroidered and of embroidery, and in every case factual knowledge is meant by it. The reason for this goes back to representatives in the next life; there garments embroidered in various ways are seen, and by these garments truths on the level of factual knowledge are meant.

[2] Truths on the level of factual knowledge differ from those on the level of the understanding in the same way as outward things differ from inward ones, or as the natural level with a person differs from the spiritual. Facts serve the understanding as objects from which it may deduce truths; for the power of understanding is the internal or spiritual man's power of sight, and known facts are its objects in the external or natural man. These facts are meant by 'the work of an embroiderer' whereas that power of understanding is meant by 'the work of a designer', 9598, for designing is a function of the understanding, and embroidering a function of the knowledge and skill employed by the understanding. This explains why the objects within the dwelling-place, which were signs meaning inner realities, were the work of a designer, such as the curtains that formed it, verse 1, and the veil between the holy place and the holy of holies, verse 31. But the objects which were signs meaning outer realities were the work of an embroiderer, such as the screen in place of a tent door, and the screen in place of a gate of the court, Exodus 38:18, and also the girdle, Exodus 39:29, 'the girdle' being what is external linking everything internal, 'the court' being the lowest part of heaven, and 'the tent door' the place where there is an exit from the middle heaven into the lowest.

[3] The fact that 'embroidery' and that which has been 'embroidered' mean factual knowledge belonging to the external or natural man is clear from the following places in the Word: In Ezekiel,

Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail; violet and purple from the islands of Elishah was your covering. Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks; [they exchanged for your wares] chrysoprase and purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen. The merchants of Sheba [came] with balls of violet and with embroidered work. Ezekiel 27:7, 16, 24.

This refers to Tyre, by which those in possession of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good are meant, and in the abstract sense those cognitions themselves, 1201. 'Fine linen with embroidery' means truth on the level of factual knowledge, for 'fine linen' means truth from a celestial origin, 5319, 9469, and 'embroidery' is factual knowledge. This also is the reason why it says that it came from Egypt - for 'Egypt' means factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 2588, 4749, 4964, 4966, 5700, 5702, 6004, 6015, 6125, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, 6750, 7779 (end), 9391 - and also from Syria and from Sheba, since cognitions of truth and good are meant by 'Syria', 1232, 1234, 3051, 3249, 3664, 3680, 4112, and in like manner by 'Sheba', 1171, 3240. Cognitions of truth and good constitute the Church's factual knowledge. Anybody endowed with the ability to think intelligently and weigh things up can see that in these verses from Ezekiel one should not understand embroidery, fine linen, violet, or purple, but that these commodities mean things such as are worthy of mention in the Word, namely spiritual realities that belong to heaven and the Church.

[4] In the same prophet,

All the princes of the sea will step down from upon their thrones, and will cast away their robes and will strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with tremblings. Ezekiel 26:16.

This too refers to Tyre. 'The princes of the sea' are the first and foremost known facts, which are called dogmas, 'princes' meaning things which are first and foremost, see 1482, 2089, 5044, and 'the sea' factual knowledge in general 28, 2850. 'Robes' are external truths, 'embroidered' are truths on the level of factual knowledge, which too are external ones. For the meaning of 'garments' as truths, 2576, 4545, 4763, 5248, 5319, 5954, 6914, 6917, 6918, 9093, 9158, 9212, 9216.

[5] In the same prophet,

I clothed you with embroidered cloth, and shod you with badger; I swathed you in fine linen and covered you with silk. Thus were you adorned with gold and silver; and your garments were fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. But you took your embroidered garments and covered the images, with which you committed whoredom. 1 Ezekiel 16:10, 13, 18.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which the Church is meant. 'Embroidered garments' stands for truths on the level of factual knowledge. 'Covering the images, with which she committed whoredom' stands for giving strength to falsities, for 'committing whoredom' means perverting truths by bringing them into contact with falsities or with evils. Is there anyone who cannot see that since these verses describe Jerusalem 'fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth' are not used to mean fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth? Yet what they really mean the Christian world does not seek to know, because it supposes that heavenly and spiritual matters in the Word reside in its literal sense; the more internal contents of the Word it calls mystical, but has no interest in them.

[6] In the same prophet,

A great eagle with great wings, with long pinions, full of feathers, 2 which had embroidery ... Ezekiel 17:3.

This refers to the house of Israel, which means the spiritual Church; and this Church is called 'an eagle' by virtue of its perception of truth, 3901, 8764, 'which had embroidery' standing for its possession of factual knowledge. In David,

All glorious is the king's daughter within, in her clothing with gold interweavings; in an embroidered [robe] she will be led to the king. Psalms 45:13-14.

'The king's daughter' stands for an affection for truth, 'an embroidered [robe]' for factual knowledge of truth. In the Book of Judges,

Will they not divide the spoil, ... the spoil of colours for Sisera, the spoil of colours of embroidered work, embroiderers' colour - on the necks of the spoil? 3 Judges 5:30.

In this verse, which is part of the Song of Deborah and Barak, 'embroidered [work]' stands for factual knowledge belonging to the natural man.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Here verse 18 of Ezekiel 16 has become confused with the preceding verse 17.

2. literally, A great eagle, great with wings, long with pinions, and full with feathers,

3. The meaning in the Hebrew of this verse is very obscure. The Latin rendering by Sebastian Schmidt, which Swedenborg relies on here, is literal and equally difficult to make sense of.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.