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1 またアカシヤ材で燔祭の祭壇を造った。長さ五キュビト、幅五キュビトの四角で、高さキュビトである。

2 そのすみの上に、その一部とし、それのを造り、青銅で祭壇をおおった。

3 また祭壇のもろもろの器、すなわち、つぼ、十能、鉢、肉叉、火皿を造った。そのすべての器を青銅で造った。

4 また祭壇のために、青銅の網細工の格子を造り、これを祭壇の出張りの下に取りつけて、祭壇の高さの半ばに達するようにした。

5 また青銅の格子のすみのために、環つを鋳て、さおを通す所とした。

6 アカシヤ材で、そのさおを造り、青銅でこれをおおい、

7 そのさおを祭壇の両側にある環に通して、それをかつぐようにした。祭壇は板をもって、空洞に造った。

8 また洗盤と、その台を青銅で造った。すなわち会見の幕屋の入口で務をなす女たちの鏡をもって造った。

9 また庭を造った。その側のためにキュビトの亜麻の撚糸の庭のあげばりを設けた。

10 その二十、その二十の座は青銅で、そのの鉤と桁はとした。

11 また側のためにもキュビトのあげばりを設けた。その二十、その二十の座は青銅で、そのの鉤と桁はとした。

12 また西側のために、五十キュビトのあげばりを設けた。その、その座もで、そのの鉤と桁はとした。

13 また東側のためにも、五十キュビトのあげばりを設けた。

14 その一方に十五キュビトのあげばりを設けた。そのつ、その座もつ。

15 また他の一方にも、同じようにした。すなわち庭ののこなたかなたともに、十五キュビトのあげばりを設けた。そのつ、その座もつ。

16 庭の周囲のあげばりはみな亜麻の撚糸である。

17 の座は青銅、の鉤と桁とはのおおいもである。庭のはみなの桁で連ねた。

18 庭ののとばりは糸、紫糸、緋糸、亜麻の撚糸で、色とりどりに織ったものであった。長さ二十キュビト、幅なる高さは五キュビトで、庭のあげばりと等しかった。

19 そのつ、その座もつで、ともに青銅。その鉤はのおおいと桁はである。

20 ただし、幕屋および、その周囲の庭の釘はみな青銅であった。

21 幕屋、すなわちあかしの幕屋に用いた物の総計は次のとおりである。すなわちモーセの命に従い、祭司アロンのイタマルがレビびとを用いて量ったものである。

22 ユダ部族に属するホルのなるウリのベザレルは、モーセ命じられた事をことごとくした。

23 ダン部族に属するアヒサマクのアホリアブは彼と共にあって彫刻、浮き織をなし、また糸、紫糸、緋糸、亜麻糸で、縫取りをする者であった。

24 聖所のもろもろの工作に用いたすべての金、すなわち、ささげ物なる金は聖所のシケルで、二十タラント七三十シケルであった。

25 会衆のうちの数えられた者のささげたは聖所のシケルで、タラント十五シケルであった。

26 これはひとり当り一ベカ、すなわち聖所のシケルの半シケルであって、すべて二十歳以上で数えられた者が十万五十人であったからである。

27 聖所の座と垂幕の座とを鋳るために用いたタラントであった。すなわち座につきタラント、一座につき一タラントである。

28 また七十五シケルでの鉤を造り、またをおおい、のために桁を造った。

29 ささげ物なる青銅は七十タラント二シケルであった。

30 これを用いて会見の幕屋の入口の座、青銅の祭壇と、それにつく青銅の格子、および祭壇のもろもろの器を造った。

31 また庭の周囲の座、庭のの座、および幕屋のもろもろの釘と、庭の周囲のもろもろの釘を造った。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 814

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814. 19:8 And it was granted her to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright. This symbolically means that those who will belong to the Lord's New Church are being instructed through the Word by the Lord in truths that are genuine and pure.

Being granted to her means to the wife, who symbolizes the Lord's New Church, namely, the New Jerusalem, as in no. 813 just above. To be arrayed means, symbolically, to be instructed in truths, inasmuch as garments symbolize truths (no. 166), and white garments genuine truths (no. 212). Fine linen, clean and bright, symbolically means glistening as a result of goodness, and pure as a result of truths. And because there is no pure truth from any other source than from the Lord through the Word, therefore this, too, is symbolically meant.

The fine linen is said to be clean and bright because cleanliness symbolizes something that is free of evil, thus something that glistens as a result of goodness, and brightness symbolizes something that is free of falsity, thus something pure as a result of truth.

Fine linen, or something made of fine linen, symbolizes genuine truth also in the following passages:

I clothed you (O Jerusalem) in embroidered cloth..., I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk... Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk... (Ezekiel 16:10, 13)

Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail. (Ezekiel 27:7)

The latter is said of Tyre, which symbolizes the church in respect to concepts of truth and goodness.

The hosts in heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:14)

Pharaoh's clothing Joseph "in garments of fine linen" (Genesis 41:42) has the same symbolic meaning.

Truth from the Word in their possession, though not internalized by them, is symbolized by the fine linen in Babylon in Revelation 18:12, 16, and by that possessed by the rich man in Luke 16:19.

Fine linen is also called cotton, so that this, too, symbolizes genuine truth, in the following:

You shall make (for Aaron) a checkered tunic of cotton, and you shall make the turban of cotton... (Exodus 28:39)

They made tunics of cotton... for Aaron and his sons... (Exodus 39:27)

You shall make the tabernacle... cotton interwoven with blue, purple, and scarlet double-dyed. (Exodus 26:1, cf. 36:8)

You shall make... hangings for the court of woven cotton... (Exodus 27:9, cf. 27:18; 38:9)

Also the screen... of the court...(with) woven cotton. (Exodus 38:18)

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Moses

  

At the inmost level, the story of Moses -- like all of the Bible -- is about the Lord and his spiritual development during his human life as Jesus. Moses's role represents establishing forms of worship and to make the people obedient. As such, his primary representation is "the Law of God," the rules God gave the people of Israel to follow in order to represent spiritual things. This can be interpreted narrowly as the Ten Commandments, more broadly as the books of Moses, or most broadly as the entire Bible. Fittingly, his spiritual meaning is complex and important, and evolves throughout the course of his life. To understand it, it helps to understand the meaning of the events in which he was involved. At a more basic level, Moses's story deals with the establishment of the third church to serve as a container of knowledge of the Lord. The first such church -- the Most Ancient Church, represented by Adam and centered on love of the Lord -- had fallen prey to human pride and was destroyed. The second -- the Ancient Church, represented by Noah and the generations that followed him -- was centered on love of the neighbor, wisdom from the Lord and knowledge of the correspondences between natural and spiritual things. It fell prey to the pride of intelligence, however -- represented by the Tower of Babel -- and at the time of Moses was in scattered pockets that were sliding into idolatry. On an external level, of course, Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt through 40 years in the wilderness to the border of the homeland God had promised them. Along the way, he established and codified their religious system, and oversaw the creation of its most holy objects. Those rules and the forms of worship they created were given as containers for deeper ideas about the Lord, deeper truth, and at some points -- especially when he was first leading his people away from Egypt, a time before the rules had been written down -- Moses takes on the deeper representation of Divine Truth itself, truth from the Lord. At other times -- especially after Mount Sinai -- he has a less exalted meaning, representing the people of Israel themselves due to his position as their leader. Through Moses the Lord established a third church, one more external than its predecessors but one that could preserve knowledge of the Lord and could, through worship that represented spiritual things, make it possible for the Bible to be written and passed to future generations.