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Exodus 27

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1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.

5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:

10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

15 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

18 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9494

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9494. And put them upon the four corners thereof. That this signifies stability is evident from the signification of “corners,” as being strength and stability. That “corners” have this signification is because in the corners there is the greatest resistance, and also the binding together of the whole. As a “corner” denotes strength and stability, such as is that of Divine truth from Divine good, therefore the Lord is called “the cornerstone” in David:

The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner (Psalms 118:22; Matthew 21:42).

Out of Judah shall come forth the cornerstone, out of him the nail, and out of him the war-bow (Zech. 10:4).

The Lord Jehovih layeth in Zion a tried stone, a precious corner of sure foundation (Isaiah 28:16); where in like manner a “corner” denotes the stability of the doctrine that is from the truth which is from good.

[2] In Jeremiah:

They shall not take from thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone of foundations (Jeremiah 51:26).

As by “corners” is signified stability, therefore horns were placed upon the four corners of the altar, of which we read in Moses:

Thou shalt make the horns of the altar upon the four corners; out of itself shall its horns be (Exodus 27:2).

(That “horns” denote the power of truth from good, thus strength and stability see n. 2832, 9081)

[3] By “corners” are signified strength and power also in Jeremiah:

A fire is gone forth out of Heshbon which hath devoured the corners of Moab (Jeremiah 48:45).

There shall arise a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall bruise the corners of Moab (Numbers 24:17).

“Moab,” whose power was to be “destroyed,” denotes those who adulterate the goods of the church (n. 2468); their “corners” denote the powers of falsity from adulterated goods. As “corners” denote power and strength, therefore they who are not in the power of truth from good are called “corners cut off” (Jeremiah 9:26; 25:23). (What is signified by “corners” when the quarters of the world, or the winds, are meant by them, see below, n. 9642)

  
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