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1 Fizeram também de azul, púrpura e carmesim as vestes, finamente tecidas, para ministrar no lugar santo, e fizeram as vestes sagradas para Arão, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

2 Assim se fez o éfode de ouro, azul, púrpura, carmesim e linho fino torcido;

3 bateram o ouro em lâminas delgadas, as quais cortaram em fios, para entretecê-lo no azul, na púrpura, no carmesim e no linho fino, em obra de desenhista;

4 fizeram-lhe ombreiras que se uniam; assim pelos seus dois cantos superiores foi ele unido.

5 E o cinto da obra esmerada do éfode, que estava sobre ele, formava com ele uma só peça e era de obra semelhante, de ouro, azul, púrpura, carmesim e linho fino torcido, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

6 Também prepararam as pedras de berilo, engastadas em ouro, lavradas como a gravura de um selo, com os nomes dos filhos de Israel;

7 as quais puseram sobre as ombreiras do éfode para servirem de pedras de memorial para os filhos de Israel, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

8 Fez-se também o peitoral de obra de desenhista, semelhante à obra do éfode, de ouro, azul, púrpura, carmesim e linho fino torcido.

9 Quadrado e duplo fizeram o peitoral; o seu comprimento era de um palmo, e a sua largura de um palmo, sendo ele dobrado. f

10 E engastaram nele quatro fileiras de pedras: a primeira delas era de um sárdio, um topázio e uma esmeralda;

11 a segunda fileira era de uma granada, uma safira e um ônix;

12 a terceira fileira era de um jacinto, uma ágata e uma ametista;

13 e a quarta fileira era de uma crisólita, um berilo e um jaspe; eram elas engastadas nos seus engastes de ouro.

14 Estas pedras, pois, eram doze, segundo os nomes dos filhos de Israel; eram semelhantes a gravuras de selo, cada uma com o nome de uma das doze tribos.

15 Também fizeram sobre o peitoral cadeiazinhas, semelhantes a cordas, obra de trança, de ouro puro.

16 Fizeram também dois engastes de ouro e duas argolas de ouro, e fixaram as duas argolas nas duas extremidades do peitoral.

17 E meteram as duas cadeiazinhas de trança de ouro nas duas argolas, nas extremidades do peitoral.

18 E as outras duas pontas das duas cadeiazinhas de trança meteram nos dois engastes, e as puseram sobre as ombreiras do éfode, na parte dianteira dele.

19 Fizeram outras duas argolas de ouro, que puseram nas duas extremidades do peitoral, na sua borda que estava junto ao éfode por dentro.

20 Fizeram mais duas argolas de ouro, que puseram nas duas ombreiras do éfode, debaixo, na parte dianteira dele, junto à sua costura, acima do cinto de obra esmerada do éfode.

21 E ligaram o peitoral, pelas suas argolas, às argolas do éfode por meio de um cordão azul, para que estivesse sobre o cinto de obra esmerada do éfode, e o peitoral não se separasse do éfode, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

22 Fez-se também o manto do éfode de obra tecida, todo de azul,

23 e a abertura do manto no meio dele, como a abertura de cota de malha; esta abertura tinha um debrum em volta, para que não se rompesse.

24 Nas abas do manto fizeram romãs de azul, púrpura e carmesim, de fio torcido.

25 Fizeram também campainhas de ouro puro, pondo as campainhas nas abas do manto ao redor, entremeadas com as romãs;

26 uma campainha e uma romã, outra campainha e outra romã, nas abas do manto ao redor, para uso no ministério, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

27 Fizeram também as túnicas de linho fino, de obra tecida, para Arão e para seus filhos,

28 e a mitra de linho fino, e o ornato das tiaras de linho fino, e os calções de linho fino torcido,

29 e o cinto de linho fino torcido, e de azul, púrpura e carmesim, obra de bordador, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

30 Fizeram também, de ouro puro, a lâmina da coroa sagrada, e nela gravaram uma inscrição como a gravura de um selo: SANTO AO SENHOR.

31 E a ela ataram um cordão azul, para prendê-la à parte superior da mitra, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

32 Assim se acabou toda a obra do tabernáculo da tenda da revelação; e os filhos de Israel fizeram conforme tudo o que o Senhor ordenara a Moisés; assim o fizeram.

33 Depois trouxeram a Moisés o tabernáculo, a tenda e todos os seus utensílios, os seus colchetes, as suas tábuas, os seus travessões, as suas colunas e as suas bases;

34 e a cobertura de peles de carneiros tintas de vermelho, e a cobertura de peles de golfinhos, e o véu do reposteiro;

35 a arca do testemunho com os seus varais, e o propiciatório;

36 a mesa com todos os seus utensílios, e os pães da proposição;

37 o candelabro puro com suas lâmpadas todas em ordem, com todos os seus utensílios, e o azeite para a luz;

38 também o altar de ouro, o óleo da unção e o incenso aromático, e o reposteiro para a porta da tenda;

39 o altar de bronze e o seu crivo de bronze, os seus varais, e todos os seus utensílios; a pia e a sua base;

40 as cortinas do átrio, as suas colunas e as suas bases, e o reposteiro para a porta do átrio, as suas cordas e as suas estacas, e todos os utensílios do serviço do tabernáculo, para a tenda da revelação;

41 as vestes finamente tecidas para uso no ministério no lugar santo, e as vestes sagradas para Arão, o sacerdote, e as vestes para seus filhos, para administrarem o sacerdócio.

42 Conforme tudo o que o Senhor ordenara a Moisés, assim fizeram os filhos de Israel toda a obra.

43 Viu, pois, Moisés toda a obra, e eis que a tinham feito; como o Senhor ordenara, assim a fizeram; então Moisés os abençoou.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 39

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39. And all the tribes of the earth shall wail over him. That this signifies that the falsities of the church will resist, is evident from the signification of wailing, as denoting to lament, to grieve, to be indignant, to be angry, to be averse from, thus also to resist; and from the signification of tribes, as denoting all truths and goods in the aggregate, and, in the opposite sense, all falsities and evils in the aggregate, concerning which we shall speak in what follows; and from the signification of the earth, as being the church (on which see above, n. 29). By all the tribes of the earth, therefore, is signified the whole church, and by their wailing over Him, is signified that truths and goods are no more, because falsities and evils are about to dominate and resist. For what the state of the church will be at its end is treated of in general in this verse, when there will be no longer any faith because no charity; that is, that the Lord will then reveal Himself, and that all will acknowledge Him who are in truths from good, and that those also shall see Him who are in falsities from evil, but that the falsities of the church will resist. (That the Apocalypse does not treat of the successive states of the church, but of its last state, or when it is at its end, may be seen above, n. 5; and that its end is when there is no faith because no charity, may be seen in the small work, The Last Judgment 33-39, and following numbers. When there is no faith because no charity, then falsities from evil reign, which offer opposition to truths from good.)

[2] Tribes are often mentioned in the Word, because the Israelitish people were divided into twelve tribes; and he who is ignorant of the internal sense of the Word supposes, that by tribes are meant the tribes of Israel; nevertheless, by tribes are not meant tribes, nor is Israel meant by Israel; but tribes mean all those who are in truths from good, and Israel means the church of the Lord. He who does not know this, will easily accept the common belief that the children of Israel were chosen before all others on the whole earth, and also that they will be introduced at last into the land of Canaan. Indeed, he will believe that heaven will consist chiefly of them; although, by the names of those tribes in the Word they are not meant, but those who are in truths from good, that is, those who belong to the church; by the twelve tribes, all, and by each one of them, some special truth and good pertaining to those who belong to the church.

[3] These things being understood, it is evident what is meant by these words in the Apocalypse:

"I heard the number of them which were sealed; and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the sons of Israel. Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Asher were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Naphtali were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasseh were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zebulun were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand" (7:4-8).

In this passage those who belonged to the Israelitish nation are not meant, but all those, however many they may be, who are in truths from good; for all these are sealed for heaven. The numbers one hundred and forty-four thousand and twelve thousand, also signify all, and each tribe signifies all those who are in that truth or good which is signified by its name.

(As may be evident from what is shown in Arcana Coelestia in regard to the following: what good and truth are signified by Judah, n. 3881, 6363; what by Reuben, n. 3861, 3866, 4605, 4731, 4734, 4761, 6342-6345; what by Gad, n. 3934, 3935; what by Asher, n. 3938, 3939, 6408; what by Naphtali, n. 3927, 3928 what by Manasseh, n. 3969, 5354, 6222, 6231, 6238, 6267, 6296 what by Simeon, n. 3869-3872, 4197, 4502, 4503, 5482, 5626, 5630; what by Levi, n. 3875, 3877, 4497, 4502, 4503; what by Issachar, n. 3956, 3957; what by Zebulun, n. 3960, 3961, 6383; what by Joseph, n. 3969, 3971, 4669, 6417; and what by Benjamin, n. 3969, 4592, 5411, 5413, 5443, 5639, 5686, 5688, 5689, 6440.

That all numbers in the Word signify things, see n. 482, 487, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175, 9488, 9659, 10217, 10253.

That twelve signifies all, and all things as to truths from good, see n. 577, 2089, 2129, 2130, 3272, 3858, 3913; also, the numbers 72, 144, 12,000, 144,000, because they arise from the number 12 by multiplication, n. 7973.

That numbers multiplied signify the same as the simple numbers from which they are produced by multiplication, see n. 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973.)

[4] He who does not know that numbers signify things, what the numbers twelve, one hundred and forty-four, and twelve thousand signify, and also what tribes and apostles signify, cannot know what is signified by those passages in the Apocalypse, where it is said, that the holy city, New Jerusalem,

"had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written which are the names of the twelve tribes of Israel; and the wall had twelve foundations, in which were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The wall was a hundred and forty and four cubits, and the length and the breadth of the city twelve thousand furlongs" (21:12, 14, 16, 17).

The signification of all these things may be seen explained in the little work, The New Jerusalem and its Doctrine, n. 1; where it is shown, that by Jerusalem is signified the church as to doctrine; by the wall, its truths of defence; by the gates, introductory truths; by the foundations, the knowledges upon which doctrine is founded; by twelve angels, and by twelve tribes, all truths and goods collectively; the same by the twelve apostles; and by the numbers twelve, one hundred and forty-four, and twelve thousand, all things and all persons.

[5] Moreover, he who knows that such things are signified by the twelve tribes may see the mystery involved in the names of the twelve tribes being engraved upon the precious stones of the Urim and Thummim, and also the signification of the breast-plate (Exodus 28:21; 39:10-15). (This arcanum may be seen unfolded in Arcana Coelestia 3858, 6335, 6640, 9863, 9865, 9873, 9874, 9905.) He may also see what is the signification of the twelve apostles sitting upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28), namely, that the Lord alone will judge every one by truths from good (n. 2129, 6397); also what things are meant by the predictions of Israel the father, concerning his sons (Gen. 49); and also the meaning of many other passages in the Word where the tribes are mentioned (as in Isaiah 19:13; 49:6; 63:17; Jeremiah 10:16; Ezekiel 48:1, and following verses; Psalm 122:3-5; Deuteronomy 32:8; Numbers 24:2; Apoc. 5:9; 7:4-9; 11:9; 13:7; 14:6; and elsewhere).

[6] And again, the meaning of the Lord's words about the consummation of the age and His coming, may be seen:

"After the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and much glory" (Matthew 14:29, 30).

(These words may be seen explained in detail in the work, Heaven and Hell 1; and in the following passages in Arcana Coelestia, where it is shown that the twelve tribes of Israel represented, and thence signified, all truths and goods collectively, thus all things of faith and love, n. 3858, 3926, 4060, 6335; that similar things are signified by the twelve apostles, n. 2129, 3354, 3488, 3858, 6397; and that they have various significations according to the order in which they are named, n. 3862, 3926, 3939, 4603, 6337, 6640, 10335.)

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Arcana Coelestia # 9873

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9873. All this now makes clear what the twelve precious stones in the breastplate of judgement served to mean, namely all the kinds of good and truth of heaven in their proper order. Heaven is divided into two kingdoms, the celestial and the spiritual. The good of the celestial kingdom was represented by the first two rows, which were on the right side of the breastplate, and the good of the spiritual kingdom by the next two rows, which were on the left side. The internal good of the celestial kingdom is the good of love to the Lord; this is the good that is meant by the celestial love of good. The external good of the celestial kingdom however is the good of mutual love; this is the good that is meant by the celestial love of truth. But the internal good of the spiritual kingdom is the good of charity towards the neighbour; this is the good that is meant by the spiritual love of good. And the external good of the spiritual kingdom is the good of faith; this is the good that is meant by the spiritual love of truth. These kinds of good and truth in this order constitute the heavens, see 9468, 9473, 9680, 9683, 9780.

[2] From this it is now evident what the twelve stones, which were called the Urim and Thummim, represented. But in what way the Divine Truths which were answers were made known by means of them will be stated below in 9905. The fact that the good of love occupied the first place there and the truth of faith the last is clear from the first stone's being a ruby and the last's being a jasper, thus from the first stone's being red in colour, and the last's being white, both of them translucent. For the meaning of 'red' as the good of love, see 3300, 9467; and for that of 'white' as the truth of faith, 3301, 3993, 4007, 5319.

[3] Much the same as is meant by the stones in the breastplate was also meant by the materials used in weaving the ephod. The ephod was woven from violet, purple, twice-dyed scarlet, and fine linen, as is evident from verse 6 of the present chapter, and 'violet' meant the truth of celestial love, 'purple' the good of celestial love, 'twice-dyed scarlet' the good of spiritual love, and 'fine linen' the truth of spiritual love, 9833. The reason why much the same was meant is that 'the ephod' meant heaven on last and outermost levels, in the same way as 'the breastplate' does, 9824. But the kinds of good and truth are listed in a different order there, because 'the ephod' meant the spiritual heaven, whereas 'the breastplate' means all heaven from first to last. And since the dwelling-place along with the tent also represented heaven, 9457, 9481, 9485, 9615, the material from which its curtains and veils were woven were likewise violet, purple, double-dyed scarlet, and fine twined linen, see the previous Chapters, 26:1, 31, 36; 27:16, and 9466-9469.

[4] In addition it should be recognized that in the general sense SAPPHIRE means the external part of the celestial kingdom and SHOHAM the external part of the spiritual kingdom. And because these two stones had this meaning they were the middle stones belonging to the secondary rows, that is to say, the sapphire was the middle stone in the second row, and the shoham the middle stone in the fourth row. The stones belonging to the second row meant the external good of the celestial kingdom, which has been called the celestial love of truth, and the stones belonging to the fourth row meant the external good of the spiritual kingdom, which has been called the spiritual love of truth, see what has been stated about them above in this paragraph 9873.

[5] The fact that 'sapphire' means the external part of the celestial kingdom is evident from places in the Word where it is mentioned, such as in the Book of Exodus,

Seventy of the elders saw the God of Israel, and under His feet there was so to speak a work of sapphire, and it was like the substance of the sky for clearness. Exodus 24:10.

The external part of the celestial kingdom is so described, because the words 'under His feet', meaning what is external, are used, and where 'the God of Israel', who is the Lord, is, there heaven is. In Isaiah,

O afflicted one and storm-tossed, and receiving no comfort! Behold, I am arranging your stones with antimony, and will lay your foundations in sapphires. Isaiah 54:11.

The subject in this chapter is the celestial kingdom. The foundations which will be laid in sapphires, are the external things there; for foundations lie underneath.

[6] In Jeremiah,

Her Nazirites were brighter than snow, they were whiter than milk. Their bones 1 were ruddier than pearls, 2 polished like sapphires. 3 Lamentations 4:7.

Nazirites represented the celestial man, which is why it says 'polished like sapphires', 'polished' referring to what is external. In Ezekiel,

Above the expanse that was above the heads of the cherubs, in appearance like a sapphire stone, there was the likeness of a throne, and above the likeness of a throne there was the appearance of a man (homo) sitting upon it. Ezekiel 1:26; 10:1.

Here also 'sapphire' is used to describe the external part of the celestial kingdom; for what is above the expanse or round about is outside, that which is inmost being the one 'sitting upon a throne'.

[7] Just as sapphire stone means the external part of the celestial kingdom, so shoham stone means the external part of the spiritual kingdom. Therefore also this was the stone which was placed on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod with the names of the sons of Israel inscribed on them, which are dealt with in verses 9-14 of the present chapter; for the ephod represented the external part of the spiritual kingdom, 9824. Since shoham and sapphire in the general sense meant the external parts of two heavens, they were placed in the middle of the sets of three stones forming the second and fourth rows, as stated above. For the middle includes the whole, as is also true of the robe, which in the general sense has represented the spiritual kingdom, because it comes in the middle, as shown above in 9825. Because those two stones include everything meant by all the other stones in those rows, it says in Job,

Wisdom cannot be compared with the gold of Ophir, with the precious shoham and the sapphire. Job 28:16.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. bodies

2. In other places Swedenborg has rubies or gem stones.

3. literally, sapphires their polishing

  
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