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Ezekielis 46

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1 Taip sako Viešpats Dievas: “Vidinio kiemo vartai rytų pusėje bus uždaryti šešias darbo dienas, bet sabato ir jauno mėnulio dieną jie bus atidaryti.

2 Kunigaikštis įeis pro išorinių vartų prieangį ir sustos prie vartų. Kunigas aukos jo deginamąją ir padėkos auką. Jis, pagarbinęs prie vartų, išeis, bet vartai liks atdari iki vakaro.

3 Tauta taip pat pagarbins prie vartų įėjimo sabatais ir jauno mėnulio dienomis Viešpaties akivaizdoje.

4 Kunigaikščio deginamoji auka sabato dieną turi būti šeši sveiki ėriukai ir vienas sveikas avinas.

5 Duonos auka bus viena efa miltų prie avino, o prie ėriukų­kiek jis galės duoti, ir hinas aliejaus prie kiekvienos efos.

6 Jauno mėnulio dieną jis aukos sveiką jauną veršį, šešis ėriukus ir vieną aviną.

7 Jo duonos auka bus po vieną efą miltų prie veršio ir avino, o prie ėriukų­kiek jis duos savo ranka, ir hinas aliejaus prie kiekvienos efos.

8 Kunigaikštis įeis pro vartų prieangį ir tuo pačiu keliu išeis.

9 Kai tauta švenčių metu ateis pagarbinti Viešpaties, tada atėję pro šiaurinius vartus turi išeiti pro pietų pusės vartus, įėję pro pietų pusės vartus turi išeiti pro šiaurinius vartus. Niekas teneišeina pro tuos pačius vartus, pro kuriuos įėjo, bet pro vartus priešingoje pusėje.

10 Kunigaikštis turi būti su jais­ įeiti, kai jie įeina, ir išeiti, kai jie išeina.

11 Švenčių ir iškilmių dieną duonos auka turi būti efa miltų prie kiekvieno veršio ir avino, o prie ėriukų­kiek jis gali duoti, ir vienas hinas aliejaus prie kiekvienos efos.

12 Jei kunigaikštis laisva valia aukos Viešpačiui deginamąją ar padėkos auką, jam bus atidaryti vartai rytų pusėje. Jis įeis ir aukos deginamąją ir padėkos auką kaip per sabatą. Jam išėjus, vartus uždarys.

13 Kiekvieną dieną jis turi parūpinti deginamajai aukai Viešpačiui sveiką metinį avinėlį ir jį aukoti kiekvieną rytą.

14 Jis turi parūpinti kiekvieną rytą duonos aukai šeštą dalį efos miltų ir trečdalį hino aliejaus ir juos sumaišyti. Tai bus duonos auka Viešpačiui. Toks yra amžinas įstatymas apie aukas.

15 Avinėlis, duonos auka ir aliejus bus nuolatinė deginamoji auka kiekvieną rytą”.

16 Taip sako Viešpats Dievas: “Jei kunigaikštis vienam savo sūnų duos dalį iš savo paveldo, tai ji bus jo sūnaus paveldėta nuosavybė.

17 Jei jis dovanos savo tarnui dalį iš savo paveldo, tai priklausys tarnui iki laisvės metų, o po to sugrįš kunigaikščiui. Tik kunigaikščio sūnums priklausys paveldas.

18 Kunigaikštis neturi teisės atimti iš žmonių jų paveldo arba prievarta juos pašalinti iš jų nuosavybės. Jo sūnūs paveldės tik tėvo nuosavybę, kad niekas iš mano tautos nebūtų nuvarytas nuo savo nuosavybės”.

19 Jis įvedė mane pro įėjimą šalia vartų į šventyklos kambarius, skirtus kunigams šiaurės pusėje. Vakarų pusėje, pačiame gale pamačiau vietą.

20 Tada jis tarė: “Šioje vietoje kunigai virs aukas už nuodėmes bei kaltes ir keps duonos auką, kad neišneštų jų į išorinį kiemą ir nepašventintų žmonių”.

21 Po to jis išvedė mane į išorinį kiemą ir vedė į visus keturis kiemo kampus. Kiekviename kiemo kampe buvo po kiemą,

22 keturiasdešimties uolekčių ilgio ir trisdešimties uolekčių pločio. Visi keturi buvo vienodo dydžio

23 ir apvesti mūrine siena, o po siena buvo židiniai.

24 Tada jis tarė: “Tai virtuvės, kuriose šventyklos tarnai virs tautos aukas”.

   

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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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Ezekiel 40

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1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.

2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.

7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

12 The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

13 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.

14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.

15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

16 And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.

17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.

18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.

20 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.

21 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.

23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.

24 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.

25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.

27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.

28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

30 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.

31 And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.

32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.

33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;

36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.

41 Four tables were on this side, and Four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.

42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

43 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.

45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.

46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.

47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.

48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.