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Иезекииль 45

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1 Когда будете по жребию делить землю на уделы, тогда отделите священный участок Господу в двадцать пять тысяч тростей длины и десять тысяч ширины; да будет свято это место во всем объеме своем, кругом.

2 От него к святилищу отойдет четырехугольник по пятисот тростей кругом, и кругом него площадь в пятьдесят локтей.

3 Из этой меры отмерь двадцать пять тысяч тростей в длину и десять тысяч в ширину, где будет находиться святилище, Святое Святых.

4 Эта священная часть земли принадлежать будет священникам, служителям святилища, приступающим к служению Господу: это будет для них местом для домов и святынею для святилища.

5 Двадцать пять тысяч тростей длины и десять тысяч ширины будут принадлежатьлевитам, служителям храма, как их владение для обитания их.

6 И во владение городу дайте пять тысяч ширины и двадцать пять тысяч длины, против священного места, отделенного Господу; это принадлежать должновсему дому Израилеву.

7 И князю дайте долю по ту и другую сторону, как подле священного места, отделенного Господу ,так и подле городского владения, к западу с западной стороны и к востоку с восточной стороны, длиною наравне с одним из оных уделов от западного предела до восточного.

8 Это его земля, его владение в Израиле, чтобы князья Мои вперед не теснили народа Моегои чтобы предоставили землю дому Израилеву по коленам его.

9 Так говорит Господь Бог: довольно вам, князья Израилевы! отложите обиды и угнетения и творите суд и правду, перестаньте вытеснять народ Мой из владения его, говорит Господь Бог.

10 Да будут у вас правильные весы и правильная ефа и правильный бат.

11 Ефа и бат должны быть одинаковой меры, так чтобы бат вмещал в себе десятую часть хомера и ефа десятую часть хомера; мера их должна определяться по хомеру.

12 В сикле двадцать гер; а двадцать сиклей, двадцать пять сиклейи пятнадцать сиклей составлять будут у вас мину.

13 Вот дань, какую вы должны давать князю : шестую часть ефы отхомера пшеницы и шестую часть ефы от хомера ячменя;

14 постановление об елее: от кора елея десятую часть бата; десять батов составят хомер, потому что в хомере десять батов;

15 одну овцу от стада в двести овец с тучной пажити Израиля: все это для хлебного приношения и всесожжения, и благодарственной жертвы, в очищение их, говорит Господь Бог.

16 Весь народ земли обязывается делать сие приношение князю в Израиле.

17 А на обязанности князя будут лежать всесожжение и хлебное приношение, и возлияние впраздники и в новомесячия, и в субботы, во все торжества дома Израилева; он должен будет приносить жертву за грех и хлебное приношение, и всесожжение, и жертву благодарственную для очищения дома Израилева.

18 Так говорит Господь Бог: в первом месяце , в первый день месяца, возьми из стада волов тельца без порока, и очисти святилище.

19 Священник пусть возьмет крови от этой жертвы за грех и покропит ею на вереи храма и на четыре угла площадки у жертвенника и на вереи ворот внутреннего двора.

20 То же сделай и в седьмой день месяца за согрешающих умышленно и по простоте, и так очищайте храм.

21 В первом месяце , в четырнадцатый день месяца, должна быть у вас Пасха, праздник семидневный, когда должно есть опресноки.

22 В этот день князь за себя и за весь народ земли принесет тельца в жертву за грех.

23 И в эти семь дней праздника он должен приносить во всесожжение Господу каждый день по семи тельцов и по семи овнов без порока, и в жертву за грех каждый день по козлу из козьего стада.

24 Хлебного приношения он должен приносить по ефе на тельца и по ефе на овна и по гину елея на ефу.

25 В седьмом месяце , в пятнадцатый день месяца, в праздник, в течение семи дней он должен приносить то же: такую же жертву за грех, такое же всесожжение, и столько же хлебного приношения и столько же елея.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 861

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861. 20:9 And they went up over the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. This symbolically means that, being roused up by followers of the dragon, these people scorned every truth in the church and attempted to destroy everything connected with the New Church and its fundamental doctrine regarding the Lord and life.

To go up over the breadth of the earth means, symbolically, to scorn every truth in the church, because going up over symbolically means to transcend and bypass, thus to scorn. And the breadth of the earth symbolizes the truth in the church, as will be seen below. To surround the camp of the saints means, symbolically, to besiege and try to destroy everything connected with the New Church, as will be seen in the number following next. And the beloved city symbolizes the doctrine of the New Church. That a city symbolizes a church's doctrine may be seen in nos. 194, 501, 502, 712 above. The city is called beloved because its doctrine teaches about the Lord and how to live, as it is the doctrine of the New Jerusalem that is meant here.

That this is the symbolic meaning of these words, no one can see except as a consequence of the Word's spiritual sense. For it cannot possibly enter a person's thought that the breadth of the earth symbolizes the truth in a church, that the camp of the saints symbolizes everything connected with the New Church, both its truths and its goods, and that the city symbolizes its doctrine. Lest the mind remain in a state of doubt, therefore, we must demonstrate what breadth and the camp of the saints symbolize in the spiritual sense, which will make it possible for one to see afterward that the meaning of these words is as we have said.

[2] The breadth of the earth symbolizes the truth in a church because the spiritual world has in it four zones - eastern, western, southern and northern - and the eastern and western zones form its longitude or length, while the southern and northern zones form its latitude or breadth. Moreover, because the inhabitants in the eastern and western zones are ones impelled by the goodness of love, and therefore the east and west symbolize goodness, so likewise does longitude or length. And because the inhabitants in the southern and northern zones are ones impelled by truths of wisdom, and therefore the south and north symbolize truth, so likewise does latitude or breadth. But for more on this subject, see the book Heaven and Hell (London, 1758), nos. 141-153.

That breadth symbolizes truth can be seen from the following passages in the Word:

You (Jehovah) have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in the broad place. (Psalms 31:8)

Out of distress I called on Yah; He answered me in the broad place. (Psalms 118:5)

(Jehovah) led me out into the broad place; He delivered me... (Psalms 18:19)

...I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and impetuous nation which marches into the breadths of the earth... (Habakkuk 1:6)

(The Assyrian) will pass through Judah, He will overflow and pass over..., and the spreading of his wings will fill the breadth... (Isaiah 8:8)

...Jehovah will pasture them like a lamb in broad pasture. (Hosea 4:16)

And so on elsewhere, as in Psalms 4:1; 66:12, Deuteronomy 33:20.

[3] Nothing else is meant by the breadth of the city New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:16). For since the New Jerusalem means the New Church, its breadth and length cannot symbolically mean its breadth and length, but its truth and goodness. These, indeed, are the measures of a church.

So also in Zechariah:

I said (to the angel), "Where are you going?" He said..., "To measure Jerusalem, to see how great its width is and how great its length." (Zechariah 2:2)

So likewise the breadth and length of the new temple and new earth in Ezekiel, chapters 40-47.

So, too, the length and breadth of the altar of burnt offering, of the Tabernacle, of the table of showbread, of the altar of incense, and of the ark within. So also the length and breadth of the temple in Jerusalem, and of many other things whose dimensions are given.

  
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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.

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Psalms 18

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1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

3 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.

4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

5 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

6 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

8 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

13 Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

15 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

18 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

19 He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22 For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.

23 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

24 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

27 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

29 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

31 For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

32 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

33 He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.

34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

36 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

39 For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

41 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

45 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.

46 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

47 even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.

48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.

50 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.