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1 Farás um altar para queimar o incenso; de madeira de acácia o farás.

2 O seu comprimento será de um côvado, e a sua largura de um côvado; será quadrado; e de dois côvados será a sua altura; as suas pontas formarão uma só peça com ele.

3 De ouro puro o cobrirás, tanto a face superior como as suas paredes ao redor, e as suas pontas; e lhe farás uma moldura de ouro ao redor.

4 Também lhe farás duas argolas de ouro debaixo da sua moldura; nos dois cantos de ambos os lados as farás; e elas servirão de lugares para os varais com que o altar será levado.

5 Farás também os varais de madeira de acácia e os cobrirás de ouro.

6 E porás o altar diante do véu que está junto à arca do testemunho, diante do propiciatório, que se acha sobre o testemunho, onde eu virei a ti.

7 E Arão queimará sobre ele o incenso das especiarias; cada manhã, quando puser em ordem as lâmpadas, o queimará.

8 Também quando acender as lâmpadas à tardinha, o queimará; este será incenso perpétuo perante o Senhor pelas vossas gerações.

9 Não oferecereis sobre ele incenso estranho, nem holocausto, nem oferta de cereais; nem tampouco derramareis sobre ele ofertas de libação.

10 E uma vez no ano Arão fará expiação sobre as pontas do altar; com o sangue do sacrifício de expiação de pecado, fará expiação sobre ele uma vez no ano pelas vossas gerações; santíssimo é ao Senhor.

11 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

12 Quando fizeres o alistamento dos filhos de Israel para sua enumeração, cada um deles dará ao Senhor o resgate da sua alma, quando os alistares; para que não haja entre eles praga alguma por ocasião do alistamento.

13 Dará cada um, ao ser alistado, meio siclo, segundo o siclo do santuário (este siclo é de vinte jeiras); meio siclo é a oferta ao Senhor.

14 Todo aquele que for alistado, de vinte anos para cima, dará a oferta do Senhor.

15 O rico não dará mais, nem o pobre dará menos do que o meio siclo, quando derem a oferta do Senhor, para fazerdes expiação por vossas almas.

16 E tomarás o dinheiro da expiação dos filhos de Israel, e o designarás para o serviço da tenda da revelação, para que sirva de memorial a favor dos filhos de Israel diante do Senhor, para fazerdes expiação por vossas almas.

17 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

18 Farás também uma pia de bronze com a sua base de bronze, para lavatório; e a porás entre a tenda da revelação e o altar, e nela deitarás água,

19 com a qual Arão e seus filhos lavarão as mãos e os pés;

20 quando entrarem na tenda da revelação lavar-se-ão com água, para que não morram, ou quando se chegarem ao altar para ministrar, para fazer oferta queimada ao Senhor.

21 Lavarão, pois, as mãos e os pés, para que não morram; e isto lhes será por estatuto perpétuo a ele e à sua descendência pelas suas gerações.

22 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

23 Também toma das principais especiarias, da mais pura mirra quinhentos siclos, de canela aromática a metade, a saber, duzentos e cinqüenta siclos, de cálamo aromático duzentos e cinqüenta siclos,

24 de cássia quinhentos siclos, segundo o siclo do santuário, e de azeite de oliveiras um him.

25 Disto farás um óleo sagrado para as unções, um perfume composto segundo a arte do perfumista; este será o óleo sagrado para as unções.

26 Com ele ungirás a tenda da revelação, a arca do testemunho,

27 a mesa com todos os seus utensílios, o candelabro com os seus utensílios, o altar de incenso,

28 a altar do holocausto com todos os seus utensílios, o altar de incenso,

29 Assim santificarás estas coisas, para que sejam santíssimas; tudo o que as tocar será santo.

30 Também ungirás a Arão e seus filhos, e os santificarás para me administrarem o sacerdócio.

31 E falarás aos filhos de Israel, dizendo: Este me será o óleo sagrado para as unções por todas as vossas gerações.

32 Não se ungirá com ele carne de homem; nem fareis outro de semelhante composição; sagrado é, e para vós será sagrado.

33 O homem que compuser um perfume como este, ou que com ele ungir a um estranho, será extirpado do seu povo.

34 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés: Toma especiarias aromáticas: estoraque, e ônica, e gálbano, especiarias aromáticas com incenso puro; de cada uma delas tomarás peso igual;

35 e disto farás incenso, um perfume segundo a arte do perfumista, temperado com sal, puro e santo;

36 e uma parte dele reduzirás a pó e o porás diante do testemunho, na tenda da revelação onde eu virei a ti; coisa santíssimá vos será.

37 Ora, o incenso que fareis conforme essa composição, não o fareis para vós mesmos; santo vos será para o Senhor.

38 O homem que fizer tal como este para o cheirar, será extirpado do seu povo.

   

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10182. 'Its horns shall be of one piece with it' means the powers of truth derived from the good of love and charity. This is clear from the meaning of 'horns' as the powers of truth, dealt with in 2832, 9719-9721. The reason why derived from the good of love and charity is meant is that all the power which truth possesses comes from that good. Therefore also the horns continued from the altar itself or were of one piece with it; for this altar was representative of the Lord, of His hearing and receiving everything of worship that springs from love and charity, 10177.

[2] The statement that all the power which truth possesses comes from the good of love is unintelligible to those who have only a material idea of power, and therefore the nature of that power must be described. In the heavens all power is derived from Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good. This is the source of the power angels possess, for angels are recipients of Divine Truth from the Lord, 1752, 4295, 8192. By means of the power which they receive from that source they protect a person by removing the hells from him; for a single angel is stronger than a thousand who come from hell. This power is what Peter's keys serve to mean, though Peter, who in the same place is referred to as a rock, means the Lord in respect of the truth of faith springing from the good of love, see Preface to Genesis 22, and 3750, 4738, 6000, 6073(end), 6344(end), 10087, 'the Rock' being the Lord in respect of the truth of faith, 8581.

[3] The power that Divine Truth possesses is also meant by 'the voice of Jehovah' in David,

The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters; the voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars; the voice of Jehovah strikes a flame of fire; the voice of Jehovah causes the wilderness to shake; the voice of Jehovah strips the forests bare; Jehovah gives strength to His people. Psalms 29:3-5, 7-9, 11.

'The voice of Jehovah' is the Divine Truth emanating from His Divine Good, see 9926.

[4] The power that Divine Truth possesses is also meant by 'the Word' in John,

All things were made through the Word, and without Him nothing was made that was made. John 1:3.

'The Word' is the Divine Truth emanating from Divine Good, see 9987. Therefore also the Lord, when He was in the world, first made Himself Divine Truth, which is also meant in John 1:14 by the Word became flesh. The Lord made Himself Divine Truth then to the end that He might fight against all the hells and overcome them, and in so doing might restore all things to order there, and at the same time in the heavens, 9715, 9809, 10019, 10152.

[5] The fact that truths springing from good possess all power, while on the other hand falsities arising from evil have no power, is very well known in the next life. For this reason the evil who come there from the world have their belief, which is no more than persuasion, and also their knowledge of any truth, taken away from them. This then leaves them with the falsities belonging to their evil.

[6] The statement that truths springing from good possess such power is unintelligible to those who have the idea that truth or a belief in truth is no more than mental activity, when yet a person's mental activity, under the control of his will, constitutes all the strength which the body has; and if the Lord were to instill it through His Divine Truth into that body the person would possess the strength of Samson. But yet it is the Lord's good pleasure to impart strength to a person through faith springing from love in the things that belong to his spirit and that contribute to eternal life.

[7] From all this one may see what should be understood by the power of truth springing from good, the power meant by 'the horns' of both the altar of burnt offering and the altar of incense. That this power is meant by 'the horns' is clear from places in the Word where 'horns' are mentioned, as in Ezekiel,

On that day I will make a horn grow up for the house of Israel. Ezekiel 29:21.

In Amos,

Have we not by our own strength taken horns for ourselves? Amos 6:13.

In the first Book of Samuel,

Jehovah will give strength to His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed. 1 Samuel 2:10.

In David,

Jehovah has exalted the horn of His people. Psalms 148:14.

In the same author,

All the horns of the wicked I will cut off; the horns of the righteous will be exalted. Psalms 75:10.

In Jeremiah,

The Lord has cut down in His very fierce anger 1 the whole horn of Israel. And He has exalted the horn of your foes. Lamentations 2:3, 17.

In Ezekiel,

You push with side and shoulder, and butt with your horns all the weak sheep, until you have scattered them abroad. Ezekiel 34:21.

In Zechariah,

I saw four horns. The angel said, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. The smiths have come to cast down the horns of the nations lifting up their horn against the land of Judah. Zechariah 1:18-21.

In Moses,

His horns are unicorn horns 2 . With these he will strike the peoples together to the ends of the earth. Deuteronomy 33:17.

In these places it is self-evident that power is meant by 'horns', and indeed power in both senses, that is to say, of truth directed against falsity and of falsity directed against truth; for the state of the Church is the subject in the internal sense of every one of these places.

[8] Something similar occurs in Amos,

On that day I will visit the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar will be cut away and fall to the ground. Amos 3:14.

'The altars of Bethel' and 'the horns of the altar' mean the evils and falsities destroying the Church's goodness and truth, regarding which it says that they 'will be cut away'.

[9] From all this one may see what should be understood by 'the horns' mentioned so frequently by Daniel, and by John in the Book of Revelation. Daniel describes the beast which had ten horns and also a horn speaking, Daniel 7:8, 11, 20; and he says that the horn was making war with the saints and prevailing, until the Ancient of Days 3 came, Daniel 7:11, 21-22, 24. He also speaks about the horns of the ram and the horns of the he-goat, which they used to make war against each other, Daniel 8:3-21. And John mentions that the dragon had ten horns, Revelation 12:3, as did the beast coming up out of the sea, Revelation 13:1, and also the scarlet beast, Revelation 17:12. In this verse it is also stated that the ten horns are ten kings; and the same words occur in Daniel 7:24. By 'kings' in the Word truths are meant, and in the contrary sense falsities, see 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148.

[10] It is because 'horn' means truth in its power, or in the contrary sense falsity destroying truth, that speech is attributed to a horn in Revelation 9:13; Daniel 7:8; Psalms 22:21.

[11] The anointing of kings with oil from a horn, 1 Samuel 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39, represented truth springing from good, in its power; for truths in their power are meant by 'horns', good by 'oil', and those who are guided by truths springing from good by 'kings'. For the meaning of 'oil' as good, see 886, 9780; and for that of 'kings' as those who are guided by truths springing from good, thus - in the abstract sense - as truths springing from good, 6148. So it is also that in Psalms 132:17 a horn is said to bud, because all spiritual budding is that of truth springing from good. Therefore also in former times they made [imitations of] budding horns.

All power belongs to good and is exercised through truth, or what amounts to the same thing, belongs to truth springing from good, see the places referred to in 10019.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, in the fierceness of His anger

2. i.e. horns that are high and powerful, like the horn of a unicorn

3. The Latin means the Son of Man but the original Aramaic means the Ancient of Days, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes these verses.

  
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