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1 モーセに言われた、

2 イスラエルの人々に告げて、わたしのためにささげ物を携えてこさせなさい。すべて、から喜んでする者から、わたしにささげる物を受け取りなさい。

3 あなたがたが彼らから受け取るべきささげ物はこれである。すなわち金、、青銅、

4 糸、紫糸、緋糸、亜麻の撚糸、やぎの毛糸、

5 あかね染の雄羊の皮、じゅごんの皮、アカシヤ材、

6 ともし、注ぎ香ばしい薫香のための香料

7 縞めのう、エポデと胸当にはめる宝

8 また、彼らにわたしのために聖所を造らせなさい。わたしが彼らのうちに住むためである。

9 すべてあなたに示す幕屋の型および、そのもろもろの器の型に従って、これを造らなければならない。

10 彼らはアカシヤ材で箱を造らなければならない。長さは二キュビト半、幅は一キュビト半、高さは一キュビト半。

11 あなたは純金でこれをおおわなければならない。すなわち内外ともにこれをおおい、その上の周囲に金の飾り縁を造らなければならない。

12 また金の環つを鋳て、そのすみに取り付けなければならない。すなわちつの環をこちら側に、つの環をあちら側に付けなければならない。

13 またアカシヤ材のさおを造り、金でこれをおおわなければならない。

14 そしてそのさおを箱の側面の環に通し、それで箱をかつがなければならない。

15 さおは箱の環に差して置き、それを抜き放してはならない。

16 そしてその箱に、わたしがあなたに与えるあかしの板を納めなければならない。

17 また純金の贖罪所を造らなければならない。長さは二キュビト半、幅は一キュビト半。

18 またつの金のケルビムを造らなければならない。これを打物造りとし、贖罪所の両端に置かなければならない。

19 一つのケルブをこの端に、一つのケルブをかの端に造り、ケルビムを贖罪所の一部としてその両端に造らなければならない。

20 ケルビムを高く伸べ、そのをもって贖罪所をおおい、は互にむかい合い、ケルビムは贖罪所にむかわなければならない。

21 あなたは贖罪所を箱の上に置き、箱の中にはわたしが授けるあかしの板を納めなければならない。

22 その所でわたしはあなたに会い、贖罪所の上から、あかしの箱の上にあるつのケルビムの間から、イスラエルの人々のために、わたしが命じようとするもろもろの事を、あなたに語るであろう。

23 あなたはまたアカシヤ材の机を造らなければならない。長さは二キュビト、幅は一キュビト、高さは一キュビト半。

24 純金でこれをおおい、周囲に金の飾り縁を造り、

25 またその周囲に手幅の棧を造り、その棧の周囲に金の飾り縁を造らなければならない。

26 また、そのために金の環つを造り、そのつののすみか所にその環を取り付けなければならない。

27 環は棧のわきに付けて、机をかつぐさおを入れる所としなければならない。

28 またアカシヤ材のさおを造り、金でこれをおおい、それをもって、机をかつがなければならない。

29 また、その皿、乳香を盛る杯および灌祭を注ぐための瓶と鉢を造り、これらは純金で造らなければならない。

30 そして机の上には供えのパンを置いて、常にわたしのにあるようにしなければならない。

31 また純金の燭台を造らなければならない。燭台は打物造りとし、その台、幹、萼、節、を一つに連ならせなければならない。

32 またつの枝をそのわきから出させ、燭台つの枝をこの側から、燭台つの枝をかの側から出させなければならない。

33 あめんどうのの形をしたつの萼が、それぞれ節とをもって一つのにあり、また、あめんどうのの形をしたつの萼が、それぞれ節とをもってほかのにあるようにし、燭台から出るつのを、みなそのようにしなければならない。

34 また、燭台の幹には、あめんどうのの形をしたつの萼を付け、その萼にはそれぞれ節とをもたせなさい。

35 すなわちつの枝の下に一つの節を取り付け、次のつの枝の下に一つの節を取り付け、更に次のつの枝の下に一つの節を取り付け、燭台の幹から出るつの枝に、みなそのようにしなければならない。

36 それらの節と枝を一つに連ね、ことごとく純金の打物造りにしなければならない。

37 また、それのともしび皿を七つ造り、そのともしび皿に火をともして、その方を照させなければならない。

38 その芯切りばさみと、芯取り皿は純金で造らなければならない。

39 すなわち純金一タラントで燭台と、これらのもろもろの器とが造られなければならない。

40 そしてあなたがで示された型に従い、注意してこれを造らなければならない。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9481

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9481. 'In accordance with all that I show you, the pattern of the dwelling-place' means a representative of heaven where the Lord is. This is clear from the meaning of 'the pattern of the dwelling-place' as a representative of heaven; for 'the pattern' means a representative, and 'the dwelling-place' means heaven. The reason why 'the pattern' means a representative is that Divine realities in heaven are also manifested in visible shapes, which are representatives. For the meaning of 'the dwelling-place' as heaven where the Lord is, see 8269, 8309. What the representatives that appear in heaven are like is clear in the prophets, for example in John's Book of Revelation, in which he describes lampstands, Chapter 1:12ff; a throne with twenty-four thrones around it, and four living creatures before the throne, Chapter 4:2ff; a book sealed with seven seals, Chapter 5; horses going out when the seals were opened, Chapter 6; angels who are clothed in various ways and have bowls, Chapters 9, 10, 15, 16; a white horse, Chapter 19; and at length a new Jerusalem, its walls, gates, foundations, height, breadth, and length, Chapters 21, 22. Similar sights are also described by other prophets.

[2] All those sights are representatives such as appear unceasingly in heaven before angels' eyes, manifesting in visible shapes the Divine celestial realities that belong to the good of love and the Divine spiritual realities that belong to the good of faith. Such realities taken all together were represented by the tabernacle and its contents, that is, the ark itself, the table on which loaves were laid, the altar of incense, the lampstand, and everything else. Therefore when these objects, being outward forms of Divine celestial and spiritual realities, were beheld by the people while they were engaged in holy acts of worship, such realities as were represented by those objects were brought to notice in heaven. These, as stated above, were the Divine celestial realities that belong to the good of love to the Lord and the Divine spiritual realities that belong to the good of faith in the Lord. All the representatives of that Church had that kind of effect in heaven. It should be realized that a person always has spirits and angels present with him and that a person cannot live without them. It should likewise be realized that through them the person is linked to the Lord, and that in this way the human race, and heaven too, is kept in being. From this one can see what purpose was served by the representatives and also the ritual observances of the Church established among the Israelite nation. One can also see what purpose is served by the Word, in which all things mentioned in the sense of the letter correspond to Divine realities that exist in heaven, thus in which all the objects mentioned are representative and all the words used carry a spiritual meaning. This is what brings about the linking of a person to heaven, and through heaven to the Lord. Without that link the person would have no life whatever, for without being linked to the actual Essential Being (Esse) of life, from which the Coming-into-Being (Existere) of life emanates, no one has life.

[3] But these considerations are unintelligible to those who think that life exists essentially in a person himself and that a person lives without spirits or angels, thus without influx from the Divine by way of heaven. But in actual fact anything that is not linked to the Divine perishes and ceases to exist. Indeed nothing can ever come into being without that which is prior to itself, thus without the Divine, who is the First and is self-existent Being (Esse) or Jehovah; nor consequently can it remain in being, for remaining in being is constant coming-into-being. Because 'the dwelling-place' means heaven where the Lord is, it also means the good of love and faith, since these compose heaven; and because all good comes from the Lord, and heaven is called heaven by virtue of its love to and faith in the Lord, 'the dwelling-place' also means in the highest sense the Lord, as is evident in Isaiah 63:15; Jeremiah 25:30; Ezekiel 37:26-27; Psalms 26:8; 43:3; 90:1; 91:9; Exodus 15:13; Deuteronomy 12:5, 11; and other places. From this it is clear that the tabernacle was called Jehovah's sanctuary and dwelling-place for the reason that it represented the realities mentioned above.

  
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Revelation 9

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1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

3 Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.

5 They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.

6 In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.

8 They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

9 They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.

10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."

12 The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.

13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

14 saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"

15 The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.

16 The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them.

17 Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.

18 By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.

19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.

20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.

21 They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.