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1 Ja Herra puhui Moosekselle sanoen:

2 "Katso, minä olen nimeltään kutsunut Besalelin, Uurin pojan, Huurin pojanpojan, Juudan sukukunnasta;

3 ja minä olen täyttänyt hänet Jumalan hengellä, taidollisuudella, ymmärryksellä, tiedolla ja kaikkinaisella kätevyydellä

4 sommittelemaan taidokkaita teoksia ja valmistamaan niitä kullasta, hopeasta ja vaskesta,

5 hiomaan ja kiinnittämään kiviä ja veistämään puuta, tekemään kaikkinaisia töitä.

6 Ja katso, minä olen antanut hänelle apulaiseksi Oholiabin, Ahisamakin pojan, Daanin sukukunnasta, ja olen antanut kaikkien taidollisten sydämeen taidollisuuden tehdä kaikki, mitä minä olen sinun käskenyt teettää:

7 ilmestysmajan, lain arkin, armoistuimen sen päälle, kaiken majan kaluston,

8 pöydän kaluinensa, aitokultaisen seitsenhaaraisen lampun kaikkine kaluinensa, suitsutusalttarin,

9 polttouhrialttarin kaikkine kaluinensa, altaan jalustoineen,

10 virkapuvut ja pappi Aaronin muut pyhät vaatteet sekä hänen poikiensa pappispuvut,

11 voiteluöljyn ja hyvänhajuisen suitsukkeen pyhäkköä varten. He tehkööt kaiken niin, kuin minä olen sinulle käskyn antanut."

12 Ja Herra puhui Moosekselle sanoen:

13 "Puhu israelilaisille ja sano: Pitäkää minun sapattini, sillä se on merkkinä meidän välillämme, minun ja teidän, sukupolvesta sukupolveen, tietääksenne, että minä olen Herra, joka pyhitän teidät.

14 Siis pitäkää sapatti, sillä se on teille pyhä. Joka sen rikkoo, rangaistakoon kuolemalla; sillä kuka ikinä silloin työtä tekee, hävitettäköön kansastansa.

15 Kuusi päivää tehtäköön työtä, mutta seitsemäntenä päivänä on sapatti, levon päivä, Herralle pyhitetty. Kuka ikinä tekee työtä sapatinpäivänä, rangaistakoon kuolemalla.

16 Ja pitäkööt israelilaiset sapatin, niin että he viettävät sapattia sukupolvesta sukupolveen ikuisena liittona.

17 Se on oleva ikuinen merkki minun ja israelilaisten välillä; sillä kuutena päivänä Herra teki taivaan ja maan, mutta seitsemäntenä päivänä hän lepäsi ja hengähti."

18 Ja kun hän oli lakannut puhumasta Mooseksen kanssa Siinain vuorella, antoi hän hänelle kaksi laintaulua, kivitaulua, joitten kirjoitus oli Jumalan sormella kirjoitettu.

   

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10239. 'And Aaron and his sons shall wash in it' means a representative sign of the purification and regeneration of a person by the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'washing' as purification, dealt with above in 10237; from the representation of 'Aaron' as the Lord in respect of Divine Celestial Good, dealt with in 9806, 10068; and from the representation of 'Aaron's sons' as the Lord in respect of Divine Spiritual Good, dealt with in 9807, 10068. From these places it is evident that 'Aaron and his sons shall wash in it' means a representative sign of the purification of a person by the Lord. The reason why a representative sign of regeneration as well is meant is that regeneration as well was represented by washing, that is to say, washing the whole body, which was called baptizing. And baptizing or baptism is the sign of regeneration, see 4255, 9088.

[2] But regeneration is different from purification in that regeneration comes first and purification afterwards. None can be purified from evils and falsities except those who are undergoing regeneration and after they have been regenerated. One who has not been regenerated is, it is true, led away from evils so far as he allows, but he is not purified from them; he is all the time impure. The person who has been regenerated is different; day by day he is being made purer. This is how the Lord's words addressed to Peter should be understood,

He who has been washed has no need except to wash his feet, so that the whole person is clean. John 13:10.

'He who has been washed' means one who has been regenerated.

[3] The fact that the word 'baptizing' was used to denote the total washing of things is clear in Mark 7:4 1 , and to denote washing the whole body, in Matthew 3:13-16; Mark 1:9-10; and also 2 Kings 5:10, 14. The Jordan - in which washings, which were baptizings, took place, Matthew 3:6, 13; Mark 1:5; 2 Kings 5:10, 14 - meant the natural, 1585, 4255. Baptismal washing also means temptation, Matthew 20:22-23; it does so because all regeneration is accomplished by means of temptations, 5036, 5773, 8351, 8958, 8959ff.

[4] It must also be stated briefly here why it was that the Lord, when He was in the world, was Himself willing to be baptized, when yet baptism is the sign of a person's regeneration by Him. The reason was that the baptizing of the Lord Himself was a sign of the glorification of His Humanity. Anything in the Word that means a person's regeneration also means the glorification of the Human within the Lord; for a person's regeneration is an image of the Lord's glorification, 3138, 3212, 3296, 3490, 4402, 5688. This is why the Lord, when He allowed John to baptize Him, said,

Thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all the righteousness of God 2 . Matthew 3:15.

'Fulfilling all the righteousness of God' means subduing the hells, restoring them and the heavens to order, by His own power, and at the same time glorifying His Human. All this was accomplished by means of the temptations which the Lord allowed Himself to undergo, thus by means of the conflicts with the hells which He underwent repeatedly, even to the last on the Cross. These things constituted the righteousness which the Lord fulfilled, see 9486, 9715, 9809, 10019, 10152. The like is also meant by references to the fulfillment of all things written in the Law and the Prophets concerning the Lord, Luke 18:31; 22:37; 24:44, and by the Lord's declaration that He had come to fulfill all of the law, Matthew 5:17-18.

[5] A person unacquainted with the arcana within the Word thinks that the Lord became righteousness through His fulfillment of everything in the law, and that by this fulfillment He freed the human race from the yoke of the law, and so from damnation. But that is not what these words mean. Rather their meaning is that He became righteousness through His subduing of the hells, restoration of the heavens to order, and glorification of His Human. For by this glorification He filled Himself with power, in order that by His Divine Human He could keep the hells in subjection forever, maintain the heavens in order, and so regenerate a person, that is, deliver him from the hells and save him.

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1. i.e. the Greek verb used in that verse is baptizein, which implies total immersion in water.

2. Here Swedenborg is following the Latin version of Sebastian Schmidt. There is nothing in the Greek to support the addition of God.

  
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