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Ezekiel 46

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1 Thus says the Lord Jehovih*; The gate of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six work days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and in the day of the new·​·moon it shall be opened.

2 And the chief shall come·​·into the way of the porch of that gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall make his burnt·​·offering and his peace·​·offerings, and he shall worship by the threshold of the gate; then he shall go·​·forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

3 And the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of this gate before Jehovah on the Sabbaths and on the new·​·moons.

4 And the burnt·​·offering that the chief shall offer to Jehovah in the Sabbath day shall be six perfect lambs, and a perfect ram.

5 And the gift·​·offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the gift·​·offering for the lambs shall be the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

6 And in the day of the new·​·moon it shall be a son of the herd, a perfect bullock, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be perfect.

7 And he shall make a gift·​·offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as his hand shall obtain, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

8 And when the chief shall come, he shall go·​·in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go·​·out by the way of it.

9 But when the people of the land shall come·​·in before Jehovah in the solemn·​·occasions, he who comes·​·in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go·​·out by the way of the south gate; and he that comes·​·in by the way of the south gate shall go·​·out by the way of the north gate; he shall not return by way of the gate by which he came·​·in, but shall go·​·out on the gate opposite him.

10 And the chief in their midst, when they go·​·in, he shall go·​·in; and when they go·​·out, he shall go·​·out.

11 And in the festivals and in the solemnities the gift·​·offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

12 And when the chief shall make a freewill offering, a burnt·​·offering, or peace·​·offerings, a freewill offering to Jehovah, and shall open to him the gate that faces east, and shall make his burnt·​·offering and his peace·​·offerings, as he did on the Sabbath day; then he shall go·​·out, and after his going·​·out he shall shut the gate.

13 And a perfect lamb, the son of his year, thou shalt make as a burnt·​·offering for the day to Jehovah in the morning, in the morning thou shalt make it.

14 And thou shalt make a gift·​·offering for it every morning, the sixth of an ephah, and the third·​·part of a hin of oil, to temper with the flour; a continual gift·​·offering unto Jehovah of an eternal statute.

15 And they shall make the lamb, and the gift·​·offering, and the oil in the morning, in the morning a continual burnt·​·offering.

16 Thus says the Lord Jehovih; If the chief give a gift unto a man of his sons, the inheritance of it shall be to his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be for him to the year of liberty; and it shall return to the chief; but his inheritance shall surely be his sons’ for them.

18 And the chief shall not take from the inheritance of the people, to defraud them of their possession; but from his own possession shall he give· his sons ·for·​·an·​·inheritance; so·​·that they scatter not My people, a man from his possession.

19 And he brought me into the entryway, which was by the shoulder of the gate, into the holy rooms unto the priests, facing toward the north; and, behold, there was a place on the two flanks toward the sea*.

20 And he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall cook the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the gift·​·offering; that they bring· them not ·out to the outer court, to sanctify the people.

21 And he brought· me ·out to the outer court, and caused me to pass·​·by at the four edges of the court; and, behold, a court at the edge of a court, a court at the edge of a court.

22 In the four edges of the court there were courts joined, forty cubits in length and thirty in breadth; one measure for the four edges.

23 And there was a row all around in them, four with them all around, and cooking·​·places were made beneath the rows all around.

24 Then said he unto me, These are the houses of them that cook, where the ministers of the house shall cook the sacrifice of the people.

   


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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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