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Ezechiel 46

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1 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Porta atrii interioris, quæ respicit ad orientem, erit clausa sex diebus in quibus opus fit : die autem sabbati aperietur, sed in die calendarum aperietur.

2 Et intrabit princeps per viam vestibuli portæ deforis, et stabit in limine portæ : et facient sacerdotes holocaustum ejus, et pacifica ejus : et adorabit super limen portæ, et egredietur : porta autem non claudetur usque ad vesperam.

3 Et adorabit populus terræ ad ostium portæ illius in sabbatis et in calendis coram Domino.

4 Holocaustum autem hoc offeret princeps Domino : in die sabbati, sex agnos immaculatos, et arietem immaculatum,

5 et sacrificium ephi per arietem, in agnis autem sacrificium quod dederit manus ejus, et olei hin per singula ephi.

6 In die autem calendarum vitulum de armento immaculatum, et sex agni et arietes immaculati erunt.

7 Et ephi per vitulum, ephi quoque per arietem faciet sacrificium : de agnis autem, sicut invenerit manus ejus, et olei hin per singula ephi.

8 Cumque ingressurus est princeps, per viam vestibuli portæ ingrediatur, et per eamdem viam exeat.

9 Et cum intrabit populus terræ in conspectu Domini in solemnitatibus, qui ingreditur per portam aquilonis, ut adoret, egrediatur per viam portæ meridianæ : porro qui ingreditur per viam portæ meridianæ, egrediatur per viam portæ aquilonis. Non revertetur per viam portæ per quam ingressus est, sed e regione illius egredietur.

10 Princeps autem in medio eorum, cum ingredientibus indredietur, et cum egredientibus egredietur.

11 Et in nundinis, et in solemnitatibus, erit sacrificium ephi per vitulum, et ephi per arietem : agnis autem erit sacrificium sicut invenerit manus ejus, et olei hin per singula ephi.

12 Cum autem fecerit princeps spontaneum holocaustum, aut pacifica voluntaria Domino, aperietur ei porta quæ respicit ad orientem, et faciet holocaustum suum et pacifica sua, sicut fieri solet in die sabbati : et egredietur, claudeturque porta postquam exierit.

13 Et agnum ejusdem anni immaculatum faciet holocaustum quotidie Domino : semper mane faciet illud.

14 Et faciet sacrificium super eo cata mane mane sextam partem ephi, et de oleo tertiam partem hin, ut misceatur similæ : sacrificium Domino legitimum, juge atque perpetuum.

15 Faciet agnum, et sacrificium, et oleum cata mane mane, holocaustum sempiternum.

16 Hæc dicit Dominuis Deus : Si dederit princeps donum alicui de filiis suis, hæreditas ejus filiorum suorum erit : possidebunt eam hæreditarie.

17 Si autem dederit legatum de hæreditate sua uni servorum suorum, erit illius usque ad annum remissionis, et revertetur ad principem : hæreditas autem ejus filiis ejus erit.

18 Et non accipiet princeps de hæreditate populi per violentiam, et de possessione eorum : sed de possessione sua hæreditatem dabit filiis suis, ut non dispergatur populus meus unusquisque a possessione sua.

19 Et introduxit me per ingressum qui erat ex latere portæ, in gazophylacia sanctuarii ad sacerdotes, quæ respiciebant ad aquilonem : et erat ibi locus vergens ad occidentem.

20 Et dixit ad me : Iste est locus ubi coquent sacerdotes pro peccato et pro delicto, ubi coquent sacrificium, ut non efferant in atrium exterius, et sanctificetur populus.

21 Et eduxit me in atrium exterius, et circumduxit me per quatuor angulos atrii : et ecce atriolum erat in angulo atrii, atriola singula per angulos atrii.

22 In quatuor angulis atrii atriola disposita, quadraginta cubitorum per longum, et triginta per latum : mensuræ unius quatuor erant.

23 Et paries per circuitum ambiens quatuor atriola : et culinæ fabricatæ erant subter porticus per gyrum.

24 Et dixit ad me : Hæc est domus culinarum, in qua coquent ministri domus Domini victimas populi.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 7839

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7839. 'The son of a year it shall be to you' means a complete state. This is clear from the meaning of 'the son' as truth, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 1803, 1813, 3373, 3704; and from the meaning of 'a year' as a whole period from start to finish, dealt with in 2906, and so a complete state. What a complete state is must be explained. The expression 'complete state' is used when good is such that it lacks nothing it needs for receiving the inflow of innocence. The truths of faith when they have been joined to the good of charity cause good to be such; for spiritual good receives its specific quality from the truths of faith. This is how to understand what a complete state is, meant by 'the son of a year'. But the state is not complete when truths have not as yet brought a specific quality to good, enabling it to receive a corresponding state of innocence. That complete state begins to exist when people look from good towards truths; it is not yet complete while they are looking from truths towards good. The second of these is the state of those undergoing regeneration, whereas the first is that of those who have been regenerated. Those undergoing regeneration are guided by truth that leads to good, those who have been regenerated by truth that springs from good; that is, the former live in obedience to truth, the latter are led by an affection to do it. The former are therefore members of the external Church, whereas the latter are members of the internal. Since 'the son of a year' meant a complete state, the command occurs so many times for a lamb or a kid, the son of a year, to be sacrificed, as in Exodus 29:38; Leviticus 9:3; 12:6; 14:10; 23:12, 18-19; Numbers 6:12; 7:15ff, 87-88; 15:27; 28:9, 11; and where the new temple is the subject in Ezekiel,

The prince shall make 1 a burnt offering of a lamb, a perfect, year-old lamb, 2 daily, to Jehovah; each morning he shall make 1 it. Ezekiel 46:13.

Here 'the new temple' is used to mean the Lord's spiritual kingdom. 'The prince' is those who know genuine truths and are led by them to good; 'a burnt offering of a lamb' is worship of the Lord that springs from the good of innocence; and 'year-old' means a complete state.

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1. The Hebrew means You shall make. But earlier verses in Ezekiel 46 refer to the prince.

2. literally, a perfect son of a year

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.