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Sakarias 2

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1 Og jeg løftet mine øine op og fikk se fire horn.

2 Da spurte jeg engelen som talte med mig: Hvad er dette? Og han sa til mig: Dette er de horn som har adspredt Juda, Israel og Jerusalem.

3 Så lot Herren mig se fire smeder.

4 Da spurte jeg: Hvad kommer disse her for? Han svarte: Hornene har adspredt Juda, således at ingen vågde å løfte sitt hode, og nu er disse kommet for å forferde dem og slå av hornene på de hedningefolk som har løftet horn mot Juda land for å adsprede det.

5 løftet jeg mine øine op og fikk se en mann som hadde en målesnor i sin hånd.

6 Jeg spurte ham: Hvor skal du hen? Han svarte: Jeg skal til Jerusalem for å utmåle det og se hvor bredt og hvor langt det skal være.

7 Da kom engelen som talte med mig, frem, og en annen engel kom imot ham.

8 Og han sa til ham: Spring avsted og si til den unge mann der: Jerusalem skal ligge fritt og åpent på grunn av den mengde mennesker og fe som skal finnes der.

9 Og jeg, sier Herren, vil være en ildmur rundt omkring det, og jeg vil åpenbare min herlighet der.

10 Hør! Hør! Fly bort fra Nordens land, sier Herren; for jeg har spredt eder for himmelens fire vinder, sier Herren.

11 Hør! Sion, berg dig unda, du som bor hos Babels datter!

12 For så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: For sin æres skyld har han sendt mig til hedningefolkene som plyndret eder; for den som rører ved eder, rører ved hans øiesten;

13 for se, jeg løfter min hånd mot dem, og de skal bli et rov for dem som nu træler for dem; og I skal kjenne at Herren, hærskarenes Gud, har sendt mig.

14 Fryd dig storlig og gled dig, du Sions datter! For se, jeg kommer og vil bo hos dig, sier Herren.

15 Og mange hedningefolk skal gi sig til Herren på den dag og bli mitt folk; og jeg vil bo hos dig, og du skal kjenne at Herren, hærskarenes Gud, har sendt mig til dig.

16 Og Herren skal ta Juda til eie som sin del på den hellige jordbunn; og han skal ennu en gang utvelge Jerusalem.

17 Vær stille, alt kjød, for Herrens åsyn! For han har reist sig og er gått ut av sin hellige bolig.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9487

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9487. 'Two cubits and a half shall be its length' means all so far as good is concerned. This is clear from the meaning of 'two and a half' as much and as what is complete, and as all when this number has reference to something Divine (the reason why 'two and a half' means much and what is complete is that this number is similar in meaning to five, ten, a hundred, and a thousand, since twice two and a half makes five, twice five makes ten, and ten times ten makes a hundred; for doubles and multiples have a similar meaning to the simple numbers of which they are the products, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973. For the meaning of 'five' as much and completeness, see 5708, 5956, 9102; likewise 'ten', 3107, 4638; also 'a hundred', 2636, 4400; and a thousand, 2575, 8715. So it is that when these numbers are used in reference to something Divine they mean all); and from the meaning of 'length' as good, dealt with in 1613, 8898.

[2] To say that 'length' in the Word means good and 'breadth' truth may seem to be like nonsense; nevertheless this is indeed what they mean. The reason why they do so is that all things without exception in the Word mean realities such as belong to heaven and to the Church, and so such as are connected with the good of love and with the truth of faith. No spatial dimensions such as 'length' and 'breadth' imply can be attributed to these; but instead of spatial dimensions the state of their essential being (esse), which is a state of good, and the resulting state of manifestation (existere), which is a state of truth, can be attributed to them. Furthermore in heaven spatial dimensions are appearances produced by those states, 4882, 9440. From all this it becomes clear that spiritual realities are meant by the measurements and dimensions given in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel, where a new temple and a new land are the subject. They are consequently meant here in Exodus, where the ark, the dwelling-place, the court, the tables there, and the altars are the subject. Such realities are in a similar way meant where the temple in Jerusalem is the subject, also when it says that the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven was square, its breadth being as great as its length, Revelation 21:16; Zechariah 2:1-2. For 'Jerusalem' means a new Church, the character of its good being meant by the measurement of its length, and the character of its truth by that of its breadth.

[3] The fact that 'breadth' or 'broad place' means truth is plainly evident in David,

In distress I called on Jah; He answered me in a broad place. Psalms 118:5.

In the same author,

You have made my feet stand in a broad place. Psalms 31:8.

In Isaiah,

The outstretchings of Asshur's wings will fill the breadth of the land. Isaiah 8:8.

In Habakkuk,

I am rousing the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, marching 1 into the breadths of the earth. Habakkuk 1:6.

'Marching into the breadths of the earth', when said of the Chaldeans, means destroying the truths of faith.

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1. literally, walking

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