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2 Mose 38

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1 Und er machte den Brandopferaltar (S. Kap. 27,1) von Akazienholz: fünf Ellen seine Länge, und fünf Ellen seine Breite, quadratförmig, und drei Ellen seine Höhe;

2 und er machte seine Hörner an seine vier Ecken; aus ihm waren seine Hörner; und er überzog ihn mit Erz.

3 Und er machte alle die Geräte des Altars: die Töpfe und die Schaufeln und die Sprengschalen, die Gabeln und die Kohlenpfannen; alle seine Geräte machte er von Erz.

4 Und er machte dem Altar ein Gitter von Netzwerk aus Erz, unter seiner Einfassung, unterwärts, bis zu seiner Hälfte.

5 Und er goß vier inge an die vier Ecken des ehernen Gitters als Behälter für die Stangen.

6 Und er machte die Stangen von Akazienholz und überzog sie mit Erz.

7 Und er brachte die Stangen in die inge, an die Seiten des Altars, um ihn mit denselben zu tragen; hohl, von Brettern machte er ihn.

8 Und er machte das Becken von Erz und sein Gestell von Erz, von den Spiegeln der sich scharenden Weiber, die sich scharten am Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft.

9 Und er machte den Vorhof: (S. Kap. 27,9) an der Mittagseite, südwärts, die Umhänge des Vorhofs von gezwirntem Byssus, hundert Ellen;

10 ihre zwanzig Säulen und ihre zwanzig Füße von Erz, die Haken der Säulen und ihre Bindestäbe von Silber.

11 Und an der Nordseite hundert Ellen; ihre zwanzig Säulen und ihre zwanzig Füße von Erz, die Haken der Säulen und ihre Bindestäbe von Silber.

12 Und an der Westseite fünfzig Ellen Umhänge; ihre zehn Säulen und ihre zehn Füße, die Haken der Säulen und ihre Bindestäbe von Silber.

13 Und an der Ostseite gegen Aufgang, fünfzig Ellen:

14 fünfzehn Ellen Umhänge auf der einen Seite, (S. die Anm. zu Kap. 27,14) ihre drei Säulen und ihre drei Füße;

15 und auf der anderen Seite-diesseit und jenseit vom Tore des Vorhofs-fünfzehn Ellen Umhänge, ihre drei Säulen und ihre drei Füße.

16 Alle Umhänge des Vorhofs ringsum waren von gezwirntem Byssus;

17 und die Füße der Säulen von Erz, die Haken der Säulen und ihre Bindestäbe von Silber und der Überzug ihrer Köpfe von Silber; und die Säulen des Vorhofs waren alle mit Bindestäben von Silber versehen.

18 Und den Vorhang vom Tore des Vorhofs machte er in Buntwirkerarbeit, von blauem und rotem Purpur und Karmesin und gezwirntem Byssus; und zwar zwanzig Ellen die Länge; und die Höhe, in der Breite, (d. h. des ganzen gewebten Stückes; W. die Höhe in Breite) fünf Ellen, gerade wie die Umhänge des Vorhofs;

19 und ihre vier Säulen und ihre vier Füße waren von Erz, ihre Haken von Silber und der Überzug ihrer Köpfe und ihre Bindestäbe von Silber.

20 Und alle Pflöcke zur Wohnung und zum Vorhof ringsum waren von Erz.

21 Dies ist die Berechnung der Wohnung, der Wohnung des Zeugnisses, die berechnet wurde auf Befehl Moses, durch den Dienst der Leviten unter der Hand Ithamars, des Sohnes Aarons, des Priesters; -

22 und Bezaleel, der Sohn Uris, des Sohnes Hurs, vom Stamme Juda, machte alles, was Jehova dem Mose geboten hatte;

23 und mit ihm Oholiab, der Sohn Achisamaks, vom Stamme Dan, ein Künstler (O. ein Stein- und Holzschneider) und Kunstweber und Buntwirker in blauem und rotem Purpur und Karmesin und Byssus: -

24 Alles Gold, das zum Werke verwendet (O. verarbeitet) wurde an dem ganzen Werke des Heiligtums, das Gold des Webopfers, betrug 29 Talente (ein Talent= 3.000 Sekel) und 730 Sekel, nach dem Sekel des Heiligtums.

25 Und das Silber von den Gemusterten der Gemeinde betrug 100 Talente und 1775 Sekel, nach dem Sekel des Heiligtums:

26 ein Beka auf den Kopf, die Hälfte eines Sekels, nach dem Sekel des Heiligtums, von einem jeden, der zu den Gemusterten überging, von zwanzig Jahren und darüber, von 603550 Mann.

27 Und die 100 Talente Silber waren zum Gießen der Füße des Heiligtums und der Füße des Vorhanges, 100 Füße auf 100 Talente, ein Talent auf einen Fuß.

28 Und von den 1775 Sekeln machte er die Haken für die Säulen und überzog ihre Köpfe und verband sie mit Stäben.

29 Und das Erz des Webopfers betrug 70 Talente und 2400 Sekel.

30 Und er machte daraus die Füße vom Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft und den ehernen Altar und sein ehernes Gitter und alle Geräte des Altars;

31 und die Füße des Vorhofs ringsum und die Füße vom Tore des Vorhofs und alle Pflöcke der Wohnung und alle Pflöcke des Vorhofs ringsum.

   

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9394. 'And put it in bowls' means present with a person, in the things forming his memory. This is clear from the meaning of 'bowls' as the things which form the memory. The reason why 'bowls' are things forming the memory is that vessels in general mean known facts, 1469, 1496, 3068, 3079, and known facts are nothing other than things forming the memory. Consequently 'bowls' here are the kinds of things forming the memory which hold within themselves God's truths, meant in general by 'blood'. What known facts are in relation to the truths and forms of the good of life with a person must be stated briefly. All the things which are learned and stored in the memory, from where they can be called forth before the sight of the understanding, are called known facts. In themselves they are things which constitute the understanding part of the natural or external man. Since known facts include items of knowledge concerning inner realities, or cognitions, they serve the sight of the internal or rational man as a sort of mirror. For they then become things that can be seen by the internal man, just as fields full of plants, flowers, and various kinds of crops and trees, or as gardens adorned with various things growing there for use and to delight the senses, are accustomed to be seen in the material world by the external man. But internal sight, which is the understanding, sees in the fields or gardens of things forming the memory only those which are in keeping with the loves that govern a person, and which are also in agreement with the chief ideas he loves.

[2] Those therefore who are governed by self-love and love of the world see only such things as agree with those loves. They call them truths and also by means of illusions and appearances make them like truths. And they go on to see such things as accord with the chief ideas they have adopted and love because they themselves are the author of them. From this it is evident that known facts and cognitions, which are the things forming the memory, serve people governed by those two loves as the means to lend support to falsities against truths and evils against forms of good, and so as the means to destroy the Church's truths and forms of good. So it is that the learned who are like this are less sane than simple people; privately they reject the existence of God, providence, heaven, hell, life after death, and the truths of faith. This is transparently evident from the learned of the present-day European world who are in the next life, where a huge number of them are atheists at heart. For in the next life people's hearts speak and not their lips. From all this it is now clear what use it is to which cognitions and known facts are put by those whose thoughts are ruled by delights belonging to self-love and love of the world.

[3] But it is altogether different with those who are governed by delights belonging to heavenly loves, which are love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour. Because they are guided in their thinking by the Lord through heaven, they see and select in the fields and gardens of the things forming their memory only those which are in agreement with the delights belonging to those loves and which are in agreement with their Church's teachings that they love. For these people the things that form the memory are like the paradise gardens of heaven; they are also represented and in the Word are meant by paradise gardens, see 3220.

[4] Furthermore it should be recognized that when known facts or things in the memory become part of a person's life they fade from his exterior memory, in the same way as other things normally do when continual practice or habit makes them spontaneous and instinctive so to speak - the way he carries himself and acts, the things he speaks, contemplates, and intends, and in general all his thoughts and affections. But no other facts become part of the person's life except those which enter into and give form to the delights that belong to his loves, thus those which enter his will. On these matters see what has been stated and shown in 8853-8858; and regarding the exterior memory, which belongs to the body, and the interior memory, which belongs to its spirit, 2469-2494.

[5] The reason why known facts are vessels, and in the Word are meant by every type of vessel, such as bowls, cups, waterpots, and the like, is that each known fact is a kind of general container holding particular and specific truths that accord with their general container. Such general containers in the Word have been arranged into series and so to speak into bundles; and these bundles and series have in turn been so set in order that they resemble the form that heaven takes, thus are set in order from most specific truths to most general ones. An idea of such series can be gained from the series and bundles of muscular tissue in the human body. Each bundle there consists of a number of motor fibres, and each motor fibre consists of blood vessels and nerve fibres. Each bundle of muscular tissue too, which taken as a whole is called a muscle, is enveloped in its own outer covering which sets it apart from others; and the same is so for the smaller bundles within, called motor fibres. Yet all the muscles and motor fibres within them, which are present in the whole body, have been so set in order that they may co-ordinate with one another to act in whatever way the will pleases; and they do so in a manner that surpasses all understanding. The situation is similar with known facts in the memory. These in a similar way are aroused and made to act by that which is the delight of a person's love, that is, of his will, but through the instrumentality of the understanding part. What has become part of a person's life, that is, what has become part of his will or love, is that which arouses them. For the inner man always has these things in his field of vision and takes delight in them to the extent that they are in agreement with his loves. And whatever enters fully into those loves, becoming spontaneous and so to speak instinctive, fades from the external memory but remains ingrained in the internal memory from which it can never be blotted out. This is how known facts become part of life.

[6] From all this it is also evident that known facts are as it were the vessels that belong to the interior man's life, and that this is why known facts are meant by various types of vessels, and in the present instance by 'bowls'. The same is meant by 'vessels' and 'bowls' in Isaiah,

I will fasten him like a peg in a sure place, so that he may be a throne of glory to his father's house; and on him they may hang all the glory of the house of his father, sons, and grandsons, every small vessel - from the vessels of bowls even to all the vessels of stringed instruments. Isaiah 22:23-24.

This refers in the internal and representative sense to the Lord's Divine Human, declaring that all truths and forms of good from first to last come through Him and from Him. Factual knowledge of truth of a celestial type is meant by 'the vessels of bowls', and factual knowledge of truth of a spiritual type by 'the vessels of stringed instruments'. And in Zechariah,

On that day there will be on the horses' bells, Holiness to Jehovah. And the pots in the house of Jehovah will be as the bowls before the altar. Zechariah 14:20.

'The horses' bells' stands for factual knowledge of truth which comes from an enlightened understanding, 2761, 2762, 5321; and 'the bowls before the altar' stands for factual knowledge of good. Similar knowledge is meant by 'the bowls of the altar' at Exodus 27:3; 38:3.

  
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