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Hesekiel 43

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1 Sitten hän kuljetti minut portille-sille portille, joka antoi itää kohden.

2 Ja katso: Israelin Jumalan kunnia tuli idästä päin. Sen kohina oli niinkuin paljojen vetten kohina, ja maa kirkastui hänen kunniastansa.

3 Ja näky, jonka minä näin, oli samanlainen kuin se näky, jonka olin nähnyt tullessani hävittämään kaupunkia; samanlaiset olivat näyt kuin se näky, jonka olin nähnyt Kebar-joen varrella. Niin minä lankesin kasvoilleni.

4 Ja Herran kunnia kulki temppeliin sen portin kautta, jonka etupuoli oli itää kohden.

5 Ja henki nosti minut ja vei minut sisempään esipihaan. Ja katso: Herran kunnia täytti temppelin.

6 Ja minä kuulin jonkun puhuttelevan minua temppelistä; mutta mies seisoi minun vieressäni.

7 Se ääni sanoi minulle: "Ihmislapsi, tämä on minun valtaistuimeni sija ja minun jalkapohjaini sija, jossa minä tahdon asua israelilaisten keskellä iankaikkisesti. Ja Israelin heimo ei ole enää saastuttava minun pyhää nimeäni-eivät he eivätkä heidän kuninkaansa-haureudellansa, kuninkaittensa ruumiilla ja uhrikukkuloillansa.

8 Kun he asettivat kynnyksensä minun kynnykseni ääreen, ovenpielensä minun ovenpielteni ääreen, niin että muuri vain oli minun ja heidän välillään, niin he saastuttivat minun pyhän nimeni kauhistuksillansa, joita harjoittivat, ja minä lopetin heidät vihassani.

9 Nyt he vievät haureutensa ja kuninkaittensa ruumiit kauas minusta, ja minä asun heidän keskellänsä iankaikkisesti.

10 Sinä, ihmislapsi, saata Israelin heimolle sanoma tästä temppelistä, että he häpeäisivät rikkomuksiansa; ja he mitatkoot sen sopusuhtaisuuden.

11 Ja jos he häpeävät kaikkea, mitä ovat tehneet, niin tee heille tiettäväksi temppelin muoto sekä sen sisustus, uloskäytävät, sisäänkäytävät, kaikki muodot, kaikki säädökset, kaikki muodot ja kaikki lait; kirjoita ne heidän silmiensä eteen, että he ottaisivat vaarin sen koko muodosta ja kaikista säädöksistä ja tekisivät niiden mukaan.

12 Tämä on temppelin laki: sen koko alue vuoren laella yltympäri on korkeastipyhä. Katso, tämä on temppelin laki."

13 Ja nämä olivat alttarin mitat kyynärissä, kyynärään luettuna kyynärä ja kämmenenleveys: sen alusta oli kyynärän korkuinen ja kyynärän levyinen, ja sen reunusta ympäri sen laidan oli yhden vaaksan mittainen. Tämä oli alttarin koroke.

14 Alustasta, joka oli maassa, alimmalle välireunalle: kaksi kyynärää sekä leveyttä yksi kyynärä; ja pienemmältä välireunalta suuremmalle välireunalle: neljä kyynärää sekä leveyttä kyynärä.

15 Jumalan lieteen oli neljä kyynärää, ja Jumalan liedestä ylöspäin olivat ne neljä sarvea.

16 Jumalan lieden pituus oli kaksitoista kyynärää ja leveys kaksitoista, niin että sen neljästä sivusta tuli neliö.

17 Välireunan pituus oli neljätoista kyynärää ja leveys neljätoista, sen neljältä sivulta. Sitä ympäröivä reunusta oli puolikyynäräinen, ja sen alusta oli kyynäräinen ympärinsä. Ja sen portaat olivat itäisellä puolella.

18 Ja hän sanoi minulle: "Ihmislapsi, näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Nämä ovat alttaria koskevat säädökset: Sinä päivänä, jona se on saatu tehdyksi, niin että voidaan sillä uhrata polttouhria ja vihmoa sille verta,

19 anna papeille, leeviläisille, jotka ovat Saadokin jälkeläisiä ja saavat minua lähestyä palvellaksensa minua, sanoo Herra, Herra, mullikka syntiuhriksi.

20 Ota sen verta ja sivele alttarin neljään sarveen ja välireunan neljään kulmaan ja reunustaan yltympäri; niin on sinun puhdistettava se ja toimitettava sen sovitus.

21 Ota sitten syntiuhri-mullikka ja polta se säädetyssä, temppelille kuuluvassa paikassa, pyhäkön ulkopuolella.

22 Tuo toisena päivänä virheetön kauris syntiuhriksi; alttari on puhdistettava, samoin kuin se puhdistettiin mullikalla.

23 Suoritettuasi loppuun puhdistuksen tuo virheetön mullikka ja virheetön oinas pikkukarjasta.

24 Tuo ne Herran eteen, ja papit heittäkööt niiden päälle suolaa ja uhratkoot ne polttouhriksi Herralle.

25 Uhraa joka päivä, seitsemänä päivänä, syntiuhri-kauris; myös on uhrattava mullikka ja oinas pikkukarjasta, virheettömät.

26 Seitsemänä päivänä toimitettakoon alttarin sovitus ja puhdistettakoon ja vihittäköön se.

27 Niiden päivien kuluttua papit kahdeksantena päivänä ja aina edelleen uhratkoot alttarilla polttouhrejansa ja yhteysuhrejansa. Ja niin minä teihin mielistyn, sanoo Herra, Herra."

   

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9659. 'And there shall be eight boards and their bases [made] from silver' means support in every respect from good and through truth that springs from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'eight' as what is so in every respect, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'boards' as good that lends support, dealt with in 9634; and from the meaning of 'bases [made] from silver' as support provided through truth from good, dealt with in 9643.

[2] 'Eight' means in every respect because this number has the same meaning as two and four, being the product of these when multiplied together. 'Two' and 'four' mean being joined together, completely so, 5194, 8423, 8877, and consequently also mean what is complete, 9103, and therefore what is so in every respect; for what exists in completeness does so in every respect. Another reason why 'eight' means what exists in completeness and in every respect is that since 'a week' means a whole period from beginning to end, 2044, 3845, 'the eighth day' means a complete state, from which a new beginning then commences. This explains why males had to be circumcised on the eighth day, Genesis 17:12; 21:4, for circumcision was a sign of purification from foul kinds of love by means of the truth of faith, 2039, 2046 (end), 2799, 3412, 3413, 4462. The foreskin corresponded to the defilement of good by those kinds of love, 4462, 7045, 7225, and the knife of flint with which circumcision was carried out was a sign of the truth of faith by means of which purification was accomplished, 2039 (end), 2046 (end), 2799, 7044.

[3] What exists in completeness and in every respect is also meant by 'eight' following 'seven' in Micah,

When Asshur comes into our land and treads our palaces we will set up over him seven shepherds and eight princes of men (homo), and they will feed 1 the land of Asshur with the sword; and he will deliver [us] from Asshur. Micah 5:5-6.

'Asshur' stands for reasoning on the basis of one's own intelligence about the Church's forms of good and its truths. Deliverance totally or in every respect from consequent falsity is meant by 'eight princes of men' who will bring destruction, 'princes of men' being the leading truths that rise out of good.

[4] The fact that 'eight' means completeness and in every respect is also clear from an experience I had involving the admission and reception of some communities into heaven, about which see 2130. I saw as many as twelve communities received first, and after them as many as eight more; for people admitted and received into heaven are those who have been purified from earthly things, that is, from all love of them, and have gone on to receive instruction. The number eight on that occasion was a sign of that which was complete.

[5] 'Eight' has a similar meaning elsewhere in the Word, for example where it says that the portico of the gateway was 'eight cubits' long from the house, and that there were 'eight steps' up to the house, in Ezekiel 40:9, 31, 41. The description there is of the new house, by which the Lord's New Church is meant, truths leading to good and from good back to truths being meant by 'the portico' and 'the steps'.

[6] Anyone who does not know that spiritual realities or real things are implied by the numbers used in the Word cannot possibly see any such reality nor thus anything holy in the measures and numbers where the tabernacle, Solomon's temple, and after these the new house, new temple, and new land in Ezekiel, are described, when yet not a syllable in the Word is devoid of spiritual meaning. Let all who have intelligence weigh up in their mind what the measures and numbers in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel really mean, also the measures and numbers in John, at Revelation 21:17, where it says that the angel measured the wall of the new Jerusalem, a hundred and forty-four cubits, and that this measure was that of a man (homo), that is, of an angel, and also in the following, besides many other places,

Let him who has intelligence reckon the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man (homo), that is, its number is six hundred and sixty-six. Revelation 13:18.

For more about all numbers in the Word, that they mean spiritual realities or real things, see 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 5291, 5335, 5708, 6175, 7973, and places where the specific meaning of certain numbers has been shown.

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Arcana Coelestia # 1988

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1988. 'Abram was a son of ninety-nine years' means the period of time before the Lord fully joined the Internal Man to the Rational Man. This is clear from the meaning of 'nine' when thought of as one less than ten, or what amounts to the same, of 'ninety-nine' when thought of as one less than a hundred; for when Isaac was born to him Abram was a hundred years old. The nature of the internal sense of the Word is made especially clear by the numbers that are used, as it is by the names. Any numbers whatever, as also any names, that are mentioned in the Word mean real things; for nothing ever exists in the Word that does not have that which is Divine within it, that is, which does not have an internal sense within it. How remote this sense is from the sense of the letter is especially evident from the names and numbers, for in heaven they pay no attention whatever to names and numbers but to things meant by the names or numbers. For example, whenever the number seven occurs, holiness instantly suggests itself to angels instead of the number seven, for 'seven' means holiness from the fact that the celestial man is the seventh day or the sabbath, and so the Lord's rest, 84-87, 395, 433, 716, 881. The same applies to all other numbers, for example, to the number twelve. Whenever twelve occurs the idea of everything belonging to faith suggests itself to angels, for the reason that the twelve tribes of Israel meant everything belonging to faith, 577. That numbers mean real things in the Word has been shown in Volume One; see 482, 487, 488, 493, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 893.

[2] It is similar with the number 'ninety-nine'. That this number means the period of time before the Lord fully joined the Internal Man to the Rational Man is clear from the meaning of 'a hundred years', Abram's age when Isaac was born to him, for Isaac represents and means the Lord's Rational Man which was joined to His Internal, that is, to the Divine. In the Word 'a hundred' has the same meaning as ten, for that number is the product of ten multiplied by ten, and 'ten' means remnants, as shown in Volume One, in 576. For what remnants residing with man are, see 468, 530, 561, 660, 1050, and for what remnants residing with the Lord were, 1906. These arcana cannot be explained any further, but anyone can find out for himself once he has acquainted himself with what remnants are - for nowadays what they are is not known - provided it is realized that by remnants residing with the Lord are meant the Divine Goods which He acquired to Himself by His own power, and by which He united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence.

[3] These considerations show what is meant by 'ninety-nine'. Being one less than a hundred, that number means the period of time before the Lord fully joined the Internal Man to the Rational Man. 'Ishmael' represented the first rational with the Lord, the nature of which has been shown adequately enough above in the previous chapter. But 'Isaac' represents the Lord's Divine Rational, as will be clear later on. Anyone may see that an arcanum is embodied within the following circumstance: Abram having remained such a long time in the land of Canaan - twenty-four years now, ten before Ishmael's birth, and thirteen after - and not as yet having had a son by Sarai his wife, he then first received the promise of a son, when he had now reached ninety-nine and would be a hundred when this son was born. The arcanum is that by means of these experiences he might represent the union of the Lord's Divine Essence with His Human Essence, and in fact of His Internal Man, which was Jehovah, with His Rational.

  
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