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1 И говорилъ Іегова Моисею и сказалъ:

2 смотри Я назначаю именно Веселіила, сына Уріева, сына Хурова, изъ колјна Іудина.

3 И Я исполнилъ его Духомъ Божіимъ, мудростію и разумјніемъ, и вјдјніемъ для всякаго дјла,

4 искусствомъ изобрјтать, работать изъ золота и серебра и мјди,

5 и рјзать камни для вставливанія, и рјзать дерево для всякаго дјла.

6 И вотъ, Я присовокупляю къ нему Аголіава, сыва Ахисамахова изъ колјна Данова, и въ сердце всякаго мудраго сердцемъ влагаю мудрость, дабы они сдјлали все, что Я повелјлъ тебј:

7 скинію собранія, и ковчегъ откровеніа, и очистилище, которое должно быть на немъ, и всј принадлежности скиніи,

8 и столъ и принадлежности его, и свјтильвикъ чистый и всј принадлежности его, и жертвенникъ куренія,

9 и жертвенникъ всесожженія и всј принадлежности его, и умывальницу, и основаніе ея,

10 и одежды служебныя, и одежды священныя Аарону священнику, и одежды сынамъ его, для священнослуженія;

11 и елей помазанія, и куреніе благовонное для святилища: все такъ, какъ Я повелјлъ тебј, они сдјлаютъ.

12 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею сими словами:

13 ты же скажи сынамъ Израилевымъ такъ: впрочемъ субботы мои соблюдайте; ибо это - знаменіе между Мною и вами въ роды ваши; дабы вы знали, что Я Іегова, освящающій васъ.

14 И соблюдайте субботу; ибо она свята для васъ: осквернившій ее да будетъ преданъ смерти: ибо кто бы въ нее ни дјлалъ дјло, истребится та душа изъ среды народа своего.

15 Шесть дней пусть дјлаютъ дјло; а въ день седьмый суббота покоя, посвященная Іеговј: всякій, дјлающій дјло въ день субботный, преданъ будетъ смерти.

16 Итакъ сыны Израилевы должны хранить субботу, празднуя субботу въ роды свои, по завјту вјчному.

17 Это - знаменіе между Мною и сынами Израилевыми на вјки; потому что въ шесть дней Іегова сотворилъ небо и землю, а въ день седьмый покоился и отдыхалъ.

18 Когда же онъ пересталъ говорить съ Моисеемъ на горј Синај; тогда далъ ему двј скрижали откровенія, скрижали каменныя, на которыхъ было написано перстомъ Божіимъ.

   

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Divine Love and Wisdom # 383

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383. Since our discernment corresponds to our lungs, and our thinking therefore to their breathing, "soul" and "spirit" in the Word mean discernment, as in "you shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart and your whole soul" (Matthew 22:35 [22:37]), or "God will give a new heart and a new spirit" (Ezekiel 36:26; Psalms 51:12-13 [51:10]). I have already explained [378-381] that the heart means the love of our volition, so soul and spirit mean the wisdom of our discernment.

You may see in Teachings for the New Jerusalem on the Lord 50-51 that the spirit of God, also called the Holy Spirit, means divine wisdom and therefore divine truth, the means of our enlightenment.

This is why "the Lord breathed on the disciples and said, 'Receive the Holy Spirit'" (John 20:22). This is also why it says, "Jehovah God breathed the breath of life into Adam's nostrils, and he became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7), and why God said to the prophet, "Prophesy over the spirit and say to the wind, 'Come, spirit, from the four winds and breathe upon these who have been slain, so that they may live'" (Ezekiel 37:9). There are similar statements elsewhere as well. It is why the Lord is called the spirit of the nostrils and also the breath of life.

Since our breathing comes through our nostrils, they are used to mean perception. An intelligent person is referred to as "keen-scented," and a dense person as "dull-scented." This is also why in Hebrew and in some other languages, "spirit" and "wind" are expressed by the same word. In fact, the word "spirit" is derived from [a root that means] breathing; so when people die we speak of their "breathing their last." This is also why people believe that a spirit is a wind or something airy, like the breath that issues from our lungs, and believe the same of the soul as well.

We can tell from this that "loving God with the whole heart and with the whole soul" means with all our love and all our discernment, and that "giving a new heart and a new spirit" means a new volition and a new discernment.

It is because the spirit means discernment that it says of Bezaleel that "he was filled with the spirit of wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge" (Exodus 31:3) and of Joshua that "he was filled with the spirit of wisdom" (Deuteronomy 34:9), and that Nebuchadnezzar said of Daniel that "a superlative spirit, one of knowledge and intelligence and wisdom was in him" (Daniel 6:5 [5:11-12, 14]), and why it says in Isaiah that "those who are wandering in spirit will know intelligence" (Isaiah 29:24). Similar statements may be found in many other places.

  
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