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1 Farás também o altar de madeira de acácia; de cinco côvados será o comprimento, de cinco côvados a largura (será quadrado o altar), e de três côvados a altura.

2 E farás as suas pontas nos seus quatro cantos; as suas pontas formarão uma só peça com o altar; e o cobrirás de bronze.

3 Far-lhe-ás também os cinzeiros, para recolher a sua cinza, e as pás, e as bacias, e os garfos e os braseiros; todos os seus utensílios farás de bronze.

4 Far-lhe-ás também um crivo de bronze em forma de rede, e farás para esta rede quatro argolas de bronze nos seus quatro cantos,

5 e a porás em baixo da borda em volta do altar, de maneira que a rede chegue até o meio do altar.

6 Farás também varais para o altar, varais de madeira de acácia, e os cobrirás de bronze.

7 Os varais serão metidos nas argolas, e estarão de um e de outro lado do altar, quando for levado.

8 èco, de tábuas, o farás; como se te mostrou no monte, assim o farão.

9 Farás também o átrio do tabernáculo. No lado que dá para o sul o átrio terá cortinas de linho fino torcido, de cem côvados de comprimento.

10 As suas colunas serão vinte, e vinte as suas bases, todas de bronze; os colchetes das colunas e as suas faixas serão de prata.

11 Assim também ao longo do lado do norte haverá cortinas de cem côvados de comprimento, e serão vinte as suas colunas e vinte as bases destas, todas de bronze; os colchetes das colunas e as suas faixas serão de prata.

12 E na largura do átrio do lado do ocidente haverá cortinas de cinqüenta côvados; serão dez as suas colunas, e dez as bases destas.

13 Semelhantemente a largura do átrio do lado que dá para o nascente será de cinqüenta côvados.

14 As cortinas para um lado da porta serão de quinze côvados; três serão as suas colunas, e três as bases destas.

15 E de quinze côvados serão as cortinas para o outro lado; as suas colunas serão três, e três as bases destas.

16 Também à porta do átrio haverá um reposteiro de vinte côvados, de azul, púrpura, carmesim, e linho fino torcido, obra de bordador; as suas colunas serão quatro, e quatro as bases destas.

17 Todas as colunas do átrio ao redor serão cingidas de faixas de prata; os seus colchetes serão de prata, porém as suas bases de bronze.

18 O comprimento do átrio será de cem côvados, e a largura, por toda a extensão, de cinqüenta, e a altura de cinco côvados; as cortinas serão de linho fino torcido; e as bases das colunas de bronze.

19 Todos os utensílios do tabernáculo em todo o seu serviço, e todas as suas estacas, e todas as estacas do átrio, serão de bronze.

20 Ordenarás aos filhos de Israel que te tragam azeite puro de oliveiras, batido, para o candeeiro, para manter uma lâmpada acesa continuamente.

21 Na tenda da revelação, fora do véu que está diante do testemunho, Arão e seus filhos a conservarão em ordem, desde a tarde até pela manhã, perante o Senhor; este será um estatuto perpétuo para os filhos de Israel pelas suas gerações.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 493

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493. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. (11:4) This symbolizes love and intelligence, or charity and faith, both of which people have in them from the Lord.

An olive tree symbolizes love and charity, as explained below. And a lampstand symbolizes enlightenment in truths (no. 43), thus intelligence and faith, inasmuch as intelligence comes from an enlightenment in truths, and faith in turn from this. To stand before God means, symbolically, to hear and do what He has commanded (no. 366). Here, therefore, it means that these two characteristics in them come from the Lord who is God of the earth, that is, in people who possess the two essential elements of the New Church, as described above. It is apparent from this that the statement that the two witnesses were the two olive trees and two lampstands means, symbolically, that they were love and intelligence, or charity and faith. For these two form the church - love and charity forming its life, and intelligence and faith its doctrine.

[2] An olive tree symbolizes love and charity because the olive tree symbolizes the celestial church, and thus an olive, being its fruit, symbolizes celestial love, which is love toward the Lord. Because of this, that love is symbolized also by olive oil, with which all the holy accouterments of the church were anointed. The oil called holy oil 1 was extracted from olives and mixed with spices (Exodus 30:23-24). Olive oil was also used to light the lamps of the lampstand in the Tabernacle every evening (Exodus 27:20, Leviticus 24:2).

The olive tree and olives have similar symbolic meanings in Zechariah:

Two olive trees were by (the lampstand), one at the right of the bowl, the other at its left..., (and) two olive berries... These are the two offspring of the olive tree, which stand before the Lord of the whole earth. (Zechariah 4:3, 11-12, 14)

In the book of Psalms:

I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. (Psalms 52:8)

And in Jeremiah:

Jehovah called your name, Green Olive Tree, lovely, of beautiful fruit. (Jeremiah 11:16-17)

And so on elsewhere.

[3] Since Jerusalem symbolized the church, therefore many things in it and about it also symbolized such things as are connected with the church. Near it, too, was the Mount of Olives, and it symbolized Divine love, which is why Jesus "was during the days in the temple teaching, and at night He went out and spent the night on the Mount of Olives?" (Luke 21:37, cf. 22:39, John 8:1). It is also why Jesus spoke with His disciples on that mountain regarding the end of the age and His coming then (Matthew 24:3ff., Mark 13:3ff.). It was also from that mountain that He went to Jerusalem and suffered the cross (Matthew 21:1; 26:30, Mark 11:1; 14:26, Luke 19:29, 37). Moreover, this accorded with the prediction in Zechariah:

In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. (Zechariah 14:4)

Because the olive tree symbolized the celestial component of the church, therefore the cherubim inside the Temple at Jerusalem were made of olive wood, and so, too, were the doors to the inner sanctuary, and the doorposts (1 Kings 6:23-33).

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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.