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Hesekiel 45

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1 Wenn ihr nun das Land durchs Los austeilet, so sollt ihr ein Hebopfer vom Lande absondern, das dem HERRN heilig sein soll, fünfundzwanzigtausend (Ruten) lang und zehntausend breit. Der Platz soll heilig sein, soweit er reicht.

2 Und von diesem sollen zum Heiligtum kommen je fünfhundert (Ruten) ins Gevierte und dazu ein freier Raum umher fünfzig Ellen.

3 Und auf demselben Platz, der fünfundzwanzigtausend Ruten lang und zehntausend breit ist, soll das Heiligtum stehen und das Allerheiligste.

4 Das übrige aber vom geheiligten Lande soll den Priestern gehören, die im Heiligtum dienen und vor den HERRN treten, ihm zu dienen, daß sie Raum zu Häusern haben, und soll auch heilig sein.

5 Aber die Leviten, so vor dem Hause dienen, sollen auch fünfundzwanzigtausend (Ruten) lang und zehntausend breit haben zu ihrem Teil zu zwanzig Kammern.

6 Und der Stadt sollt ihr auch einen Platz lassen für das ganze Haus Israel, fünftausend (Ruten) breit und fünfundzwanzigtausend lang, neben dem abgesonderten Platz des Heiligtums.

7 Dem Fürsten aber sollt ihr auch einen Platz geben zu beiden Seiten zwischen dem Platz der Priester und zwischen dem Platz der Stadt, gegen Abend und gegen Morgen; und sollen beide gegen Morgen und gegen Abend gleich lang sein.

8 Das soll sein eigen Teil sein in Israel, damit meine Fürsten nicht mehr meinem Volk das Ihre nehmen, sondern sollen das Land dem Hause Israel lassen für ihre Stämme.

9 Denn so spricht der HERR HERR: Ihr habt es lange genug gemacht, ihr Fürsten Israels; laßt ab vom Frevel und Gewalt und tut, was recht und gut ist, und tut ab von meinem Volk euer Austreiben, spricht der HERR HERR.

10 Ihr sollt recht Gewicht und rechte Scheffel und recht Maß haben.

11 Epha und Bath sollen gleich sein, daß ein Bath das zehnte Teil vom Homer habe und das Epha auch das zehnte Teil vom Homer; denn nach dem Homer soll man sie beide messen.

12 Aber ein Sekel soll zwanzig Gera haben; und eine Mina macht zwanzig Sekel, fünfundzwanzig Sekel und fünfzehn Sekel.

13 Das soll nun das Hebopfer sein, das ihr heben sollt, nämlich das sechste Teil eines Epha von einem Homer Weizen und das sechste Teil eines Epha von einem Homer Gerste.

14 Und vom Öl sollt ihr geben einen Bath, nämlich je den zehnten Bath vom Kor und den zehnten vom Homer; denn zehn Bath machen einen Homer.

15 Und je ein Lamm von zweihundert Schafen aus der Herde auf der Weide Israels zum Speisopfer und Brandopfer und Dankopfer, zur Versöhnung für sie, spricht der HERR HERR.

16 Alles Volk im Lande soll solch Hebopfer zum Fürsten in Israel bringen.

17 Und der Fürst soll sein Brandopfer, Speisopfer und Trankopfer opfern auf die Feste, Neumonden und Sabbate und auf alle hohen Feste des Hauses Israel, dazu Sündopfer und Speisopfer, Brandopfer und Dankopfer tun zur Versöhnung für das Haus Israel.

18 So spricht der HERR HERR: Am ersten Tage des ersten Monden sollst du nehmen einen jungen Farren, der ohne Wandel sei, und das Heiligtum entsündigen.

19 Und der Priester soll von dem Blut des Sündopfers nehmen und die Pfosten am Hause damit besprengen und die vier Ecken des Absatzes am Altar samt den Pfosten am Tor des innern Vorhofs.

20 Also sollst du auch tun am siebenten Tage des Monden, wo jemand geirret hat oder verführet ist, daß ihr das Haus entsündiget.

21 Am vierzehnten Tage des ersten Monden sollt ihr das Passah halten und sieben Tage feiern und ungesäuert Brot essen.

22 Und am selbigen Tage soll der Fürst für sich und für alles Volk im Lande einen Farren zum Sündopfer opfern.

23 Aber die sieben Tage des Festes soll er dem HERRN täglich ein Brandopfer tun, je sieben Farren und sieben Widder, die ohne Wandel seien, und je einen Ziegenbock zum Sündopfer.

24 Zum Speisopfer aber soll er je ein Epha zu einem Farren und ein Epha einem Widder opfern und je ein Hin Öls zu einem Epha.

25 Am fünfzehnten Tage des siebenten Monden soll er sieben Tage nacheinander feiern, gleichwie jene sieben Tage, und ebenso halten mit Sündopfer, Brandopfer, Speisopfer samt dem Öl.

   

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4482. 'Behold, the land is broad and spacious before them' means extension, that is to say, of truth which is the truth of doctrine. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land' as the Church, dealt with just above in 4480, and from the meaning of 'broad and spacious' as extension as regards truths, and so as regards those taught by doctrine. When in the Word the measurements of something are given, it is not those measurements that are meant in the internal sense but the essential characteristics of a state that is being described. For measurements involve spatial dimensions and in the next life there are no intervals of space, as there are no periods of time, but states which correspond to these, see 2625, 2837, 3356, 3387, 3404, 4321. That being so, lengths, breadths, and heights, which are spatial measurements, mean the aspects of a state - length meaning holiness, height good, and breadth truth, see 650, 1613, 3433, 3434. This then is why 'the land is broad and spacious' means the extension of truth which is the truth of doctrine within the Church.

[2] Anyone who does not know of the existence of anything spiritual in the Word other than that which stands out in the literal sense is bound to be amazed by the statement that 'the land is broad and specious' means the extension of truth which is the truth of doctrine within the Church. But the truth of this statement may be established from places where 'breadth' is mentioned in the Word, as in Isaiah,

Asshur will go through Judah, it will deluge it and pass through and will reach even to the neck; and the outstretchings of its wings will fill the breadth of the land. Isaiah 8:8.

In David,

O Jehovah, You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have made my feet stand in a broad place. Psalms 31:8.

In the same author,

Out of my distress I called on Jah; He answered me in a broad place. Psalms 118:5.

In Habakkuk,

I am rousing the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, marching' into the breadths of the earth. Habakkuk 1:6.

'Breadths' here means nothing other than the truth of the Church.

[3] The reason why breadth has this meaning is that in the spiritual world, that is, in heaven, the Lord is the centre of all, for He is the Sun there. Those in a state of good are more interior, their exact position towards the middle being determined by the character and the amount of the good present in them. This is why 'height' is used in reference to good. Those who are in a similar degree of good are also in a similar degree of truth, and so dwell so to speak at the same distance from the centre, or one might say, dwell on the same contour; and this is why 'breadth' is used in reference to truths. Therefore when a person reads the Word the angels present with him do not understand by 'breadth' anything other than truths. When in the Historical sections, for example, the ark, the altar, the temple, and the spaces outside cities are referred to, states of good and truth are perceived by the dimensions indicating the lengths, breadths, and heights of these. The same is so with the new earth, new Jerusalem, and new Temple - described in Chapters 40-47 of Ezekiel - by which heaven and a new Church are meant, as may be seen from the detailed descriptions in those chapters. So also in John where it is said of the New Jerusalem that it will be foursquare, 'its length being as great as its breadth', Revelation 21:16.

[4] Things which in the spiritual world are interior are described as those that are higher, while those that are exterior are described by those that are lower, 2148, for while in the world, no one can conceive of interior things and exterior ones in any other way, for the reason that he dwells within space and time, and things that belong to space and time have entered in among the ideas comprising his thought and have conditioned the majority of these. From this it is also evident that expressions which give the spatial measurements of things such as the height, length, and breadth of them, are in the spiritual sense expressions used to indicate the magnitude of affections for good and affections for truth.

  
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Ezekiel 47

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1 He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; and behold, there ran out waters on the right side.

3 When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.

4 Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters], waters that were to the waist.

5 Afterward he measured one thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.

6 He said to me, Son of man, have you seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.

7 Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

8 Then he said to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.

9 It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.

10 It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

11 But the miry places of it, and its marshes, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

12 By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.

13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.

14 You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.

15 This shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;

16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

17 The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

18 The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

19 The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea. This is the south side southward.

20 The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.

21 So you shall divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel.

22 It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

23 It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.