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1 Farai poi il tabernacolo di dieci teli di lino fino ritorto, di filo color violaceo, porporino e scarlatto, con dei cherubini artisticamente lavorati.

2 La lunghezza d’ogni telo sarà di ventotto cubiti, e la larghezza d’ogni telo di quattro cubiti; tutti i teli saranno d’una stessa misura.

3 Cinque teli saranno uniti assieme, e gli altri cinque teli saran pure uniti assieme.

4 Farai de’ nastri di color violaceo all’orlo del telo ch’è all’estremità della prima serie; e lo stesso farai all’orlo del telo ch’è all’estremità della seconda serie.

5 Metterai cinquanta nastri al primo telo, e metterai cinquanta nastri all’orlo del telo ch’è all’estremità della seconda serie di teli: i nastri si corrisponderanno l’uno all’altro.

6 E farai cinquanta fermagli d’oro, e unirai i teli l’uno all’altro mediante i fermagli, perché il tabernacolo formi un tutto.

7 Farai pure dei teli di pel di capra, per servir da tenda per coprire il tabernacolo: di questi teli ne farai undici.

8 La lunghezza d’ogni telo sarà di trenta cubiti, e la larghezza d’ogni telo, di quattro cubiti; gli undici teli avranno la stessa misura.

9 Unirai assieme, da sé, cinque di questi teli, e unirai da sé gli altri sei, e addoppierai il sesto sulla parte anteriore della tenda.

10 E metterai cinquanta nastri all’orlo del telo ch’è all’estremità della prima serie, e cinquanta nastri all’orlo del telo ch’è all’estremità della seconda serie di teli.

11 E farai cinquanta fermagli di rame, e farai entrare i fermagli nei nastri e unirai così la tenda, in modo che formi un tutto.

12 Quanto alla parte che rimane di soprappiù dei teli della tenda, la metà del telo di soprappiù ricadrà sulla parte posteriore del tabernacolo;

13 e il cubito da una parte e il cubito dall’altra parte che saranno di soprappiù nella lunghezza dei teli della tenda, ricadranno sui due iati del tabernacolo, di qua e di là, per coprirlo.

14 Farai pure per la tenda una coperta di pelli di montone tinte di rosso, e sopra questa un’altra coperta di pelli di delfino.

15 Farai per il tabernacolo delle assi di legno d’acacia, messe per ritto.

16 La lunghezza d’un’asse sarà di dieci cubiti, e la larghezza d’un’asse, di un cubito e mezzo.

17 Ogni asse avrà due incastri paralleli; farai così per tutte le assi del tabernacolo.

18 Farai dunque le assi per il tabernacolo: venti assi dal lato meridionale, verso il sud.

19 Metterai quaranta basi d’argento sotto le venti assi: due basi sotto ciascun’asse per i suoi due incastri.

20 E farai venti assi per il secondo lato dei tabernacolo, il lato di nord,

21 e le oro quaranta basi d’argento: due basi sotto ciascun’asse.

22 E per la parte posteriore del tabernacolo, verso occidente, farai sei assi.

23 Farai pure due assi per gli angoli del tabernacolo, dalla parte posteriore.

24 Queste saranno doppie dal basso in su, e al tempo stesso formeranno un tutto fino in cima, fino al primo anello. Così sarà per ambedue le assi, che saranno ai due angoli.

25 Vi saranno dunque otto assi, con le loro basi d’argento: sedici basi: due basi sotto ciascun’asse.

26 Farai anche delle traverse di legno d’acacia: cinque, per le assi di un lato del tabernacolo;

27 cinque traverse per le assi dell’altro lato del tabernacolo, e cinque traverse per le assi della parte posteriore del tabernacolo, a occidente.

28 La traversa di mezzo, in mezzo alle assi, passera da una parte all’altra.

29 E rivestirai d’oro le assi, e farai d’oro i loro anelli per i quali passeranno le traverse, e rivestirai d’oro le traverse.

30 Erigerai il tabernacolo secondo la forma esatta che te n’è stata mostrata sul monte.

31 Farai un velo di filo violaceo, porporino, scarlatto, e di lino fino ritorto con de’ cherubini artisticamente lavorati,

32 e lo sospenderai a quattro colonne di acacia, rivestite d’oro, che avranno i chiodi d’oro e poseranno su basi d’argento.

33 Metterai il velo sotto i fermagli; e quivi, al di là del velo, introdurrai l’arca della testimonianza; quel velo sarà per voi la separazione del luogo santo dal santissimo.

34 E metterai il propiziatorio sull’arca della testimonianza nel luogo santissimo.

35 E metterai la tavola fuori del velo, e il candelabro dirimpetto alla tavola dal lato meridionale del tabernacolo; e metterai la tavola dal lato di settentrione.

36 Farai pure per l’ingresso della tenda una portiera di filo violaceo, porporino, scarlatto, e di lino fino ritorto, in lavoro di ricamo.

37 E farai cinque colonne di acacia per sospendervi la portiera; le rivestirai d’oro, e avranno i chiodi d’oro e tu fonderai per esse cinque basi di rame.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9650

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9650. 'And their forty bases [made] from silver' means complete support received through truth in the external parts as well, as above in 9643.

  
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9643. 'And forty bases of silver' means complete support received through truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'forty' as completeness, dealt with in 9437; from the meaning of 'bases' as support, since bases serve as supports; and from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2954, 5658, 6112, 6914, 6917, 7999. The bases were made from silver and the boards overlaid with gold because good is meant by 'the boards', 9634, and truth by 'the bases', and good possesses power and on this account lends support through truth. As regards good, that it possesses power through truth, see 6344, 6423, 9327, 9410, and that 'gold' means good and 'silver' truth, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917, 8932, 9490, 9510. Good possesses power through truth because truth gives shape to good, which means that good also possesses specific quality; for outward shape exists where specific quality does so. The good can then be a real influence among things, in one way or another. So it is that the ability resides potentially in good, but that this cannot be exercised except through truth. Ability so exercised is actual power, consequently power that provides support.

[2] Bases also correspond to a person's feet and soles of the feet; in general they correspond to the bones, which lend support to all the fleshy parts in the body. By the feet and likewise the bones truth that provides support is meant, and by the fleshy parts in the body good which supports itself by means of truth.

All things on the natural level resemble the human form, and carry the same meaning as the parts of it they resemble, see 9496.

'Flesh' means good, 3813, 6968, 7850, 9127.

'Feet' means the natural, thus truth that has power from good within it, 5327, 5328.

'Body' means good, 6135.

'Bones' means truth that provides support, 3812 (end), 8005.

[3] So it is also that by 'foundations', which are a general base, the truth of faith and faith itself are meant, as becomes clear from places in the Word where 'foundations' are mentioned, for example in Isaiah,

Do you not know, do you not hear, do you not understand the foundations of the earth? Isaiah 40:21.

A person unacquainted with what 'the foundations' and what 'the earth' mean inevitably takes 'the foundations of the earth' here to denote the inner depths of the planet, even though he may realize, if he stops to think about it, that something other than them is meant; for what meaning can knowing, hearing, and understanding the foundations of the earth have? From this it becomes clear that by 'the foundations of the earth' such things as have to do with the Church are meant. The fact that 'the earth' in the Word means the Church is plainly evident from places in the Word where 'the earth' is mentioned, see those quoted in 9325. And the fact that its foundations are the truths of faith, for these truths serve the Church as foundations, becomes clearer still from the following places: In David,

They do not acknowledge, neither do they understand; they walk in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are unstable. Psalms 82:5.

It is not the foundations of the earth that are unstable but, as is self-evident, it is the truths of the Church with those who neither acknowledge nor understand them and walk in darkness. In the same author,

The earth quaked and trembled, and the foundations of the mountains shook and quaked. Psalms 18:7.

'The mountains' are forms of the good of love, 795, 4210, 6435, 8327, their 'foundations' are the truths of faith. In Isaiah,

The floodgates from on high have been opened, and the foundations of the earth have been shaken. Isaiah 24:18.

Since 'the foundations' means the truth of faith, and 'city' doctrine based on it, therefore also the Word speaks of 'the foundations of the city' when the truth of doctrine is meant. For the meaning of 'city' as doctrinal teachings based on truth, see 402, 2449, 2943, 3216, 4492, 4493.

[4] This goes to show what the meaning is of 'the foundations of the city, the holy Jerusalem' in John,

The wall of the city, the holy Jerusalem, had twelve foundations, and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of precious stone. Revelation 21:14, 19-20.

A person unacquainted with what 'the holy Jerusalem', 'the city', 'the wall', 'the foundations', and 'the twelve apostles' mean cannot see any arcanum at all that lies within this description. Nevertheless 'the holy Jerusalem' means the Lord's New Church which will take the place of the one that is ours at the present day; 1 'the city' doctrinal teachings; 'the wall' the truth protecting and defending, and 'its foundations' the truths of faith; and 'the twelve apostles' all forms of the good of love and the truths of faith in their entirety. From this it becomes clear why it says that there will be twelve foundations, adorned with every kind of precious stone; for 'precious stone' means the truth of faith springing from the good of love, 114, 3858, 6640, 9476, and 'the twelve apostles' all aspects of love and faith in their entirety, 3488, 3858 (end), 6397.

[5] From all this it is evident what is meant by 'the foundations' in those verses in John and also by 'the foundations' in Isaiah,

Behold, I am arranging your stones with antimony, and will lay your foundations in sapphires. Isaiah 54:11.

'Sapphires' are interior truths, 9407. In the same prophet,

Jehovah will strike Asshur with a rod. At that time every stroke 2 will be that of the rod of the foundation on which Jehovah will cause [him] to rest. Isaiah 30:31-32.

'The rod of the foundation' is the power of truth. For the meaning of 'the rod' as power, see 4013, 4015, 4876, 4936, 6947, 7011, 7026. And in Jeremiah,

They shall not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations. Jeremiah 51:26.

'A stone for foundations' stands for the truths of faith.

[6] In Job,

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. 3 Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Onto what [were] its bases [fastened]? Or who laid its corner-stone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God bellowed? Job 38:4-7.

A person unacquainted with what 'the earth', 'its measures', and 'its bases' mean in the internal sense, and also what 'corner-stone', 'morning stars', and 'the sons of God' mean, sees no arcanum at all in this description. He will suppose that the actual earth, and also the foundations, measures, bases, and corner-stone of it are what is meant. Nor will he have any idea at all of what is meant by 'the morning stars sang' and 'the sons of God bellowed'. But a person will pass from darkness to light if he knows that 'the earth' is the Church, 'its foundations' are the truth of faith, 'its measures' the state of good and truth, 'its bases' the actual truths that provide support, 'the corner-stone' the power of truth, 'the morning stars' cognitions or knowledge of good and of truth springing from good, and 'the sons of God' God's truths. These sons are said 'to bellow' when they come into existence, those stars 'to sing' when they rise.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The Latin volume in which these words appear was published in 1756.

2. literally, every passage or going across

3. literally, if you know intelligence

  
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