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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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Arcana Coelestia # 3272

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3272. 'Twelve princes of their peoples' means all the first and foremost features of that spiritual Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'twelve' as all things of faith and so of the Church, dealt with in 577, 2089, 2129 (end), 2130 (end); from the meaning of 'princes' as first and foremost features, dealt with in 1482, 2089; and from the meaning of 'peoples' as those who are governed by truths, dealt with in 1259, 1260, and so those who belong to the spiritual Church, for they are said to be those with whom truths predominate. The fact that all numbers in the Word mean real things becomes quite clear from the number twelve which occurs so many times. Whenever that number is used in the Word it means all things. For example, the twelve tribes in the Old Testament and the twelve apostles in the New mean all things of faith, and so all things of the Church. Here 'twelve princes' accordingly means all the first and foremost features of that Church which are represented by just so many sons of Ishmael.

[2] That the number twelve means those things becomes clear from what has been introduced in the places mentioned above, as well as from the following in the Word: In John,

I heard the number of the sealed out of every tribe of Israel - twelve thousand sealed out of the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand sealed out of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand sealed out of the tribe of Gad, and so on. Revelation 7:4-6, and following verses.

Here 'twelve thousand sealed out of every tribe' means nothing else than that everyone who receives faith, that is, who receives the good that accompanies it, is saved. In the same book,

A woman encircled with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Revelation 12:1.

'A woman' stands for the Church, 252, 253, 'the sun' for celestial love, 'the moon' for spiritual love, 30-38, 1529, 1530, 2441, 2495. 'Twelve stars' stands for all things of faith - 'stars' being cognitions of good and truth, which are matters of faith, 2495, 2849.

[3] In the same book,

The holy city New Jerusalem, having twelve gates, and above the gates twelve angels, and names written which are those of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. He measured the city with the measuring rod, twelve thousand stadia. And he measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits (twelve twelves), which is the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Revelation 21:12, 14, 16-17, 21.

Here nothing else is meant by the holy city than the Lord's spiritual kingdom, and by the gates, wall, and foundations the things that constitute charity and faith, all of which things are meant by the frequently mentioned number twelve. The fact that neither the twelve tribes nor the twelve apostles are meant literally may be recognized by anyone. In the same book,

In the middle of its street, and of the river, on this side and on that, was the tree of life bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit each month. Revelation 22:2.

'Twelve fruits' means all things of charity.

[4] In Matthew,

Jesus said, Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on His throne of glory, will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew 19:28.

Here 'the apostles' is not used to mean the apostles, nor 'thrones' to mean thrones, nor 'tribes' tribes, but matters of faith in their entirety, see 2129. Furthermore when the twelve tribes are referred to in the Old Testament Word they mean all things of the Church. The same applies to the twelve stones set according to the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, in the Urim and Thummim, Exodus 28:21; to the twelve loaves of the presence that were laid out on the table, Leviticus 24:5-6; and so on with every other reference to twelve. Also the names themselves of the twelve sons of Jacob or Israel contain all things of faith, as will be seen in the Lord's Divine mercy in Chapters 29, 30 below.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 30

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30. Verses 14-17 And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to make a distinction between the day and the night; and they will be for signs, and for set times, and for days and years. And they will be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light upon the earth; and it was so. And God made the two great lights, the greater light to have dominion over the day, and the lesser light to have dominion over the night; and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.

No one can have an adequate understanding of what 'the great lights' are unless he knows what the underlying essence of faith is and how it develops in people who are being created anew. The very essence and life of faith is the Lord alone. In fact it is impossible for anyone who does not believe in the Lord to have life, as He Himself has said in John,

He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not believe in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God will rest upon him. John 3:36.

[2] With people who are being created anew faith develops as follows: First of all they have no life, for life does not exist in anything evil and false but in what is good and true. Then they start to receive life from the Lord by means of faith - first by faith existing in the memory, which is factual faith, then by faith existing in the understanding, which is conceptual faith, and after this by faith existing in the heart, which is loving or saving faith. Factual faith and conceptual faith are represented in verses 3-13 by the inanimate, but faith made alive by means of love is represented in verses 20-25 by the animate. Consequently this is the first point at which love and faith deriving from it, which are called 'lights', are dealt with. Love is 'the greater light which has dominion over the day', and faith deriving from love is 'the lesser light which has dominion over the night'. And because they ought to make one the verb in the phrase 'let there be lights 'is singular and not plural.

[3] Love and faith have their place in the internal man as warmth and light do in the external, bodily man, and for this reason love and faith are represented by warmth and light. Therefore it is said that 'the lights' were set in the expanse of the heavens, that is, in the internal man - the greater light in his will and the lesser in his understanding. Yet they make their appearances in the will and understanding only as sunlight does in the objects it strikes. To the Lord alone belongs the mercy which moves the will with love and the understanding with truth or faith.

  
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