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1 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron, dicens :

2 Singuli per turmas, signa, atque vexilla, et domos cognationum suarum, castrametabuntur filii Israël, per gyrum tabernaculi fœderis.

3 Ad orientem Judas figet tentoria per turmas exercitus sui : eritque princeps filiorum ejus Nahasson filius Aminadab.

4 Et omnis de stirpe ejus summa pugnantium, septuaginta quatuor millia sexcenti.

5 Juxta eum castrametati sunt de tribu Issachar, quorum princeps fuit Nathanaël filius Suar.

6 Et omnis numerus pugnatorum ejus quinquaginta quatuor millia quadringenti.

7 In tribu Zabulon princeps fuit Eliab filius Helon.

8 Omnis de stirpe ejus exercitus pugnatorum, quinquaginta septem millia quadringenti.

9 Universi qui in castris Judæ enumerati sunt, fuerunt centum octoginta sex millia quadringenti : et per turmas suas primi egredientur.

10 In castris filiorum Ruben ad meridianam plagam erit princeps Elisur filius Sedeur.

11 Et cunctus exercitus pugnatorum ejus qui numerati sunt, quadraginta sex millia quingenti.

12 Juxta eum castrametati sunt de tribu Simeon : quorum princeps fuit Salamiel filius Surisaddai.

13 Et cunctus exercitus pugnatorum ejus qui numerati sunt, quinquaginta novem millia trecenti.

14 In tribu Gad princeps fuit Eliasaph filius Duel.

15 Et cunctus exercitus pugnatorum ejus, qui numerati sunt, quadraginta quinque millia sexcenti quinquaginta.

16 Omnes qui recensiti sunt in castris Ruben, centum quinquaginta millia et mille quadringenti quinquaginta per turmas suas : in secundo loco proficiscentur.

17 Levabitur autem tabernaculum testimonii per officia Levitarum, et turmas eorum : quomodo erigetur, ita et deponetur. Singuli per loca et ordines suos proficiscentur.

18 Ad occidentalem plagam erunt castra filiorum Ephraim, quorum princeps fuit Elisama filius Ammiud.

19 Cunctus exercitus pugnatorum ejus, qui numerati sunt, quadraginta millia quingenti.

20 Et cum eis tribus filiorum Manasse, quorum princeps fuit Gamaliel filius Phadassur.

21 Cunctusque exercitus pugnatorum ejus, qui numerati sunt, triginta duo millia ducenti.

22 In tribu filiorum Benjamin princeps fuit Abidan filius Gedeonis.

23 Et cunctus exercitus pugnatorum ejus, qui recensiti sunt, triginta quinque millia quadringenti.

24 Omnes qui numerati sunt in castris Ephraim, centum octo millia centum per turmas suas : tertii proficiscentur.

25 Ad aquilonis partem castrametati sunt filii Dan : quorum princeps fuit Ahiezer filius Ammisaddai.

26 Cunctus exercitus pugnatorum ejus, qui numerati sunt, sexaginta duo millia septingenti.

27 Juxta eum fixere tentoria de tribu Aser : quorum princeps fuit Phegiel filius Ochran.

28 Cunctus exercitus pugnatorum ejus, qui numerati sunt, quadraginta millia et mille quingenti.

29 De tribu filiorum Nephthali princeps fuit Ahira filius Enan.

30 Cunctus exercitus pugnatorum ejus, quinquaginta tria millia quadringenti.

31 Omnes qui numerati sunt in castris Dan, fuerunt centum quinquaginta septem millia sexcenti : et novissimi proficiscentur.

32 Hic numerus filiorum Israël, per domos cognationum suarum et turmas divisi exercitus, sexcenta tria millia quingenti quinquaginta.

33 Levitæ autem non sunt numerati inter filios Israël : sic enim præceperat Dominus Moysi.

34 Feceruntque filii Israël juxta omnia quæ mandaverat Dominus. Castrametati sunt per turmas suas, et profecti per familias ac domos patrum suorum.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 351

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351. Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed. This symbolizes wisdom springing from celestial love in those people who will be in the New Heaven and in the Lord's New Church.

In the highest sense Reuben symbolizes omniscience; in the spiritual sense, wisdom, intelligence and knowledge, also faith; and in the natural sense, sight. Here, however, Reuben symbolizes wisdom, because he comes after Judah, who symbolizes celestial love, and celestial love produces wisdom. For there is no love without its partner, which is knowledge, intelligence, or wisdom. The partner of natural love is knowledge; that of spiritual love is intelligence; and that of celestial love is wisdom.

[2] Reuben symbolizes these three because his name was derived from a word meaning to look or see, and natural sight spiritually is knowledge, spiritual sight is intelligence, and celestial sight is wisdom.

Reuben was also Jacob's firstborn, and therefore Israel called him "my might, the beginning of my strength, excellent in eminence and excellent in valor" (Genesis 49:3). Of such a character also is wisdom springing from celestial love.

Moreover, because by virtue of his primogeniture Reuben represented and so symbolized the wisdom possessed by people of the church, therefore he urged his brothers not to kill Joseph, and he grieved when he found Joseph not in the pit (Genesis 37:21-22, 29-30).

For the same reason his tribe camped on the south side of the Tabernacle, and the tribes camped on that side were called the Camp of Reuben (Numbers 2:10-16). The south, too, symbolizes wisdom springing from love. Consequently people in heaven who have that wisdom dwell toward the south (see the book Heaven and Hell, 148-150nos. ).

This wisdom is symbolized by Reuben in the prophetic utterance of Deborah and Barak:

Among the divisions of Reuben were great resolves of heart... Why do you sit among the packs, (Issachar,) to hear the rustling of the flocks? To listen to the divisions of Reuben (where there are) great searchings of heart? (Judges 5:15-16)

The divisions of Reuben are concepts of every kind, which have to do with wisdom.

[3] Because the tribes all symbolize their opposites as well, so too does the tribe of Reuben; and in an opposite sense he symbolizes wisdom divorced from love, and thus also faith divorced from charity. Therefore his father Israel cursed him (Genesis 49:3-4). And therefore he was deprived of his primogeniture (1 Chronicles 5:1; see no. 17 above). For the same reason, too, the tribe was given an inheritance in the Trans-Jordan and not in the land of Canaan. And Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph's sons, were acknowledged in the place of Reuben and Simeon (Genesis 48:5).

Nevertheless, he still retained the representation and consequent symbolism of wisdom.

  
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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.