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Ezekiel 47

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1 And he returned me unto the entrance of the house; and, behold, waters went·​·out from under the threshold of the house eastward; for the face of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came·​·down from under from the right wing of the house, at the south side of the altar.

2 And he brought· me ·out of the way of the gate northward, and turned· me ·around the way outside to the gate outside by the way facing east; and, behold, there ran·​·out waters from the right wing.

3 When the man went·​·out eastward, and a line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he made me cross·​·through in the waters; the waters were to the ankles.

4 And he measured a thousand, and made me pass·​·through the waters; the waters were to the knees. And he measured a thousand, and made me pass·​·through; the waters were to the loins.

5 And he measured a thousand, and it was a brook that I was· not ·able to pass·​·through; for the waters were risen·​·up, waters of swimming, a brook that he did not pass·​·through.

6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? And he made me go and return to the lip of the brook.

7 And when I had returned, behold, at the lip of the brook were very many trees on this side and on that.

8 And he said to me, These waters went·​·out toward the east boundary, and go·​·down upon the desert, and come toward the sea; to the sea they are brought·​·out, and the waters shall be healed.

9 And it shall be, that every soul that is alive, which crawls, whithersoever the brooks shall come, shall live; and there shall be very many fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the brook comes.

10 And it shall be, that the fishers shall stand on it from En-gedi and even·​·to Eneglaim; they shall be a place for spreading nets; their fish shall be according·​·to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.

11 But the quagmires of it and the marshes of it shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

12 And by the brook on its lip, on this side and on that side, shall come·​·up every tree for food; its leaf shall not fade, and its fruit shall not be finished; it shall renew· its ·firstfruits according·​·to its months, for its waters, they go·​·out from the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.

13 Thus says the Lord Jehovih*; This shall be the border, by which you shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two regions.

14 And you shall inherit it, a man as his brother; for which I lifted My hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.

15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north quarter, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go·​·in to Zedad;

16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is toward the border of Hauran.

17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north quarter.

18 And the east quarter you shall measure from between Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border by the eastern sea. And this is the east quarter.

19 And the south quarter southward, from Tamar even·​·to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the brook to the great sea. And this is the south quarter southward.

20 And the west quarter shall be the great sea from the border, until one comes up·​·against Hamath. This is the west quarter.

21 And you shall part this land to yourselves for the tribes of Israel.

22 And it shall be, that you shall allot it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the sojourners that sojourn in your midst, which shall beget sons in your midst; and they shall be to you as natives among the sons of Israel; they shall allot an inheritance with you in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

23 And it shall be, that in the tribe where the sojourner sojourns, shall you give him his inheritance, says the Lord Jehovih.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 4482

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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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