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Exode 31

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1 L'Eternel parla à Moïse, et dit:

2 Sache que j'ai choisi Betsaleel, fils d'Uri, fils de Hur, de la tribu de Juda.

3 Je l'ai rempli de l'Esprit de Dieu, de sagesse, d'intelligence, et de savoir pour toutes sortes d'ouvrages,

4 je l'ai rendu capable de faire des inventions, de travailler l'or, l'argent et l'airain,

5 de graver les pierres à enchâsser, de travailler le bois, et d'exécuter toutes sortes d'ouvrages.

6 Et voici, je lui ai donné pour aide Oholiab, fils d'Ahisamac, de la tribu de Dan. J'ai mis de l'intelligence dans l'esprit de tous ceux qui sont habiles, pour qu'ils fassent tout ce que je t'ai ordonné:

7 la tente d'assignation, l'arche du témoignage, le propitiatoire qui sera dessus, et tous les ustensiles de la tente;

8 la table et ses ustensiles, le chandelier d'or pur et tous ses ustensiles, l'autel des parfums;

9 l'autel des holocaustes et tous ses ustensiles, la cuve avec sa base;

10 les vêtements d'office, les vêtements sacrés pour le sacrificateur Aaron, les vêtements de ses fils pour les fonctions du sacerdoce;

11 l'huile d'onction, et le parfum odoriférant pour le sanctuaire. Ils se conformeront à tous les ordres que j'ai donnés.

12 L'Eternel parla à Moïse, et dit:

13 Parle aux enfants d'Israël, et dis-leur: Vous ne manquerez pas d'observer mes sabbats, car ce sera entre moi et vous, et parmi vos descendants, un signe auquel on connaîtra que je suis l'Eternel qui vous sanctifie.

14 Vous observerez le sabbat, car il sera pour vous une chose sainte. Celui qui le profanera, sera puni de mort; celui qui fera quelque ouvrage ce jour-là, sera retranché du milieu de son peuple.

15 On travaillera six jours; mais le septième jour est le sabbat, le jour du repos, consacré à l'Eternel. Celui qui fera quelque ouvrage le jour du sabbat, sera puni de mort.

16 Les enfants d'Israël observeront le sabbat, en le célébrant, eux et leurs descendants, comme une alliance perpétuelle.

17 Ce sera entre moi et les enfants d'Israël un signe qui devra durer à perpétuité; car en six jours l'Eternel a fait les cieux et la terre, et le septième jour il a cessé son oeuvre et il s'est reposé.

18 Lorsque l'Eternel eut achevé de parler à Moïse sur la montagne de Sinaï, il lui donna les deux tables du témoignage, tables de pierre, écrites du doigt de Dieu.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 1186

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1186. "And no craftsman of whatsoever craft shall be found in thee any more."- That this signifies no longer any wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge (scientia), is evident from the signification of craftsman of whatsoever craft, as denoting all that pertains to the understanding, consequently wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge (scientia); for these belong to the understanding, wisdom being the inmost, intelligence the middle, and knowledge (scientia) the ultimate thereof. The reason why these things are signified by the craftsmen of whatsoever craft is, that they are endowments of the understanding, and such endowments are signified by crafts. Since these are signified by crafts, therefore in those parts of the Word where the construction of the tabernacle is described and also the garments of Aaron which were of gold, purple, crimson (purpura), scarlet double-dyed, and fine twined linen, it is said that they were to be the work of the craftsman, and elsewhere the work of the designer (Exodus 26:1, 31; 28:6; 39:8; and other passages). By those things, now mentioned, of which they are made, are signified such things as pertain to wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge (scientia); it is therefore said of Bezeleel and Oholiab, the craftsmen who made them, that "they were filled with wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge (scientia)" (Exodus 31:3, and following verses; 36:1, 2, and following verses).

[2] That a craftsman signifies intelligence from man's proprium is plain in Hosea:

"They make to themselves a molten image of their silver, and idols in their intelligence, all of it the work of the craftsmen" (13:2).

A molten image and an idol signify worship according to doctrine which is from [man's] own intelligence; silver signifies falsity from which such doctrine is formed, it is therefore said, that in their intelligence they make themselves an idol, all of it the work of the craftsmen.

Similarly in Isaiah:

"The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and forgeth silver chains, he seeketh a wise craftsman" (40:19, 20);

and in Jeremiah:

"Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman, and of the hands of the founder, purple (hyacinthinum) and clothing, all the whole work of wise men" (10:3, 9).

Here and in several other passages the nature of man's own intelligence is described by idols, sculptured things and molten images, as may be seen above (n. 587, 827).

[3] Continuation.- The end, middle causes, and effects are called also the principal end, the intermediate ends, and the ultimate end. These latter are called ends, because the principal end, which is everything in them - both their esse and soul - produces them. The principal end is the love of man's will, the intermediate ends are subordinate loves, and the ultimate end is the love of the will, existing, as it were, in its effigy. Since the principal end is the love of the will, it follows that the intermediate ends, because they are subordinate loves, are foreseen, provided, and produced through the understanding, and that the ultimate end is the use foreseen, provided, and produced by the love of the will through the understanding, for everything that love produces is use. It is necessary for this to be stated in order that the assertion just made may be understood, namely, that eminence and opulence may be blessings, and also that they may also be curses.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.