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2 Mose 38

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1 Und er machte den Brandopferaltar 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 Ringe 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 Ringe, 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: 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, 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, 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 und Kunstweber und Buntwirker in blauem und rotem Purpur und Karmesin und Byssus: -

24 Alles Gold, das zum Werke verwendet wurde an dem ganzen Werke des Heiligtums, das Gold des Webopfers, betrug neunundzwanzig Talente und siebenhundertdreißig Sekel, nach dem Sekel des Heiligtums.

25 Und das Silber von den Gemusterten der Gemeinde betrug hundert Talente und tausend siebenhundertfünfundsiebzig 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 sechshundert dreitausend fünfhundertfünfzig Mann.

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

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

29 Und das Erz des Webopfers betrug siebzig Talente und zweitausendvierhundert 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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Arcana Coelestia # 9688

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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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Arcana Coelestia # 7779

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7779. 'From Pharaoh's firstborn who is to sit on his throne' means falsified truths of faith that occupy the first place. This is clear from the meaning of 'firstborn' as faith, dealt with in 352, 2435, 6344, 7035; from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as factual knowledge in general perverting the Church's truths, dealt with in 6015, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, so that 'Pharaoh's firstborn' is faith consisting of such truths, that is, faith consisting of falsified truths of faith; and from the meaning of 'throne' as the rule of truth, and in the contrary sense the rule of falsity, dealt with in 5313. The fact that 'Pharaoh's firstborn who is to sit on his throne' means falsified truths of faith that occupy the first place is evident from the use of the words 'even to the firstborn of the servant-girl who is behind the mill', which mean falsified truths of faith that occupy the very last place; besides which the king's son means that which is primary since the king is the head.

[2] Falsified truths occupying the first place are those which are taken to be essential truths, such as these: Faith saves a person irrespective of the life he has been leading; it saves a person in the final hour of his life; he is at that point pure and free from sins, which means that these are removed in an instant like dirt on the hands by water. Those falsified truths posit that faith does exist without charity, that so far as a person's salvation is concerned it does not matter what kind of life he leads, and also that a person who is a devil can become an angel of God in an instant. Such notions and others like them are the falsified truths occupying the first place; those that are immediately derived from them occupy the second place; and those which are remotely derived from them occupy the last place. For every truth has a long wide-ranging sequence of derivations, some of which are in a direct line from it, some at an angle, while those that merely touch on that truth stand on the outermost edges.

[3] The fact that such notions and others like them are falsified truths of faith is very plain to see. Does anyone who thinks properly not know that the life of faith makes a person spiritual, not faith except to the extent that it has been integrated into his life? A person's life is his love, and what he loves, that he wills and intends; and what he wills and intends, that he does. This is the essential nature (esse) of the person, not what he knows, or what he thinks but does not will. That essential nature of a person cannot possibly be changed into a different one by his thinking about mediation and salvation, only by new birth, which is being effected throughout a large part of his life. For he must be conceived, be born, and mature anew; and this is not effected by thinking and speaking, but by willing and acting.

[4] These matters have been stated because 'Pharaoh's firstborn' and 'the firstborn of the Egyptians' mean faith separated from charity, which - as has been shown in what has gone before - is not faith but the knowledge of such things as constitute faith. The reason why 'the firstborn of the Egyptians' represented that kind of faith is that the Egyptians, more than all others who constituted the representative Church after the time of the Flood, possessed a knowledge of the religious observances of the Church, 4749, 4964, 4966, 6004. At that time all ceremonies were representative of spiritual realities in heaven. The Egyptians had a greater knowledge of these than all others had; but in course of time they began to love merely their knowledge of them. They now began to think, as one finds at the present day, that the Church consisted entirely in knowing the kinds of things that have to do with the Church, and no longer in a charitable life. Thus they turned the whole order of the Church upside down; and once this had been turned upside down truths which are called the truths of faith were inevitably falsified. For if truths are applied in ways contrary to Divine order - as happens when they are applied to evils, or in the case of the Egyptians to acts of magic - they are no longer truths with those people but acquire from the evils to which they are applied the nature of falsities.

[5] Let the calf-worship among Egyptians serve to illustrate this. They knew what a calf represented, namely the good of charity. As long as they knew this and had this in mind, then when they saw calves, or when they prepared calves at charitable feasts, such as the ancients held, or later on when calves were used in sacrifices, they thought in a way that was sane and at the same time in company with the angels in heaven since a calf is for them the good of charity. But when they began to make calves of gold, place them in their temples, and worship them, they thought in an insane manner and at the same time in company with the hells. In that way they turned a true representative into a false one.

  
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