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Izlazak 40

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1 I Gospod reče Mojsiju govoreći:

2 Prvi dan prvog meseca podigni šator, šator od sastanka,

3 I metni onde kovčeg od svedočanstva, i zakloni ga zavesom.

4 I unesi sto, i uredi šta treba urediti na njemu; unesi i svećnjak, i zapali žiške na njemu.

5 I namesti zlatni oltar kadioni pred kovčegom od svedočanstva; i obesi zaves na vratima od šatora.

6 I metni oltar za žrtvu paljenicu pred vrata šatoru, šatoru od sastanka,

7 I metni umivaonicu između šatora od sastanka i oltara, i u nju nalij vode.

8 I podigni trem unaokolo, i metni zaves na vrata od trema.

9 I uzmi ulje pomazanja, i pomaži šator i sve što je u njemu, i osveti ga i sve sprave njegove, i biće svet.

10 Pomaži i oltar za žrtvu paljenicu i sve sprave njegove, te ćeš osvetiti oltar, i oltar će biti svetinja nad svetinjom.

11 Pomaži i umivaonicu i podnožje njeno, i osveti je.

12 I kaži Aronu i sinovima njegovim da pristupe na vrata šatora od sastanka, i umij ih vodom;

13 I obuci Arona u svete haljine i pomaži ga i osveštaj ga, da mi vrši službu svešteničku.

14 I sinovima njegovim zapovedi neka mi pristupe, i obuci im košulje.

15 I pomaži ih, kao što pomažeš oca njihovog, da mi vrše službu svešteničku; i pomazanje njihovo biće im, za večno sveštenstvo od kolena do kolena.

16 I učini Mojsije sve, kako mu zapovedi Gospod tako učini.

17 I podiže se šator druge godine prvog meseca prvi dan.

18 I Mojsije podiže šator, i podmetnu mu stopice, i namesti daske, i povuče prevornice, i ispravi stupove.

19 Pa razape naslon nad šator, i metnu pokrivač na naslon ozgo, kao što beše zapovedio Gospod Mojsiju.

20 I uzevši svedočanstvo metnu ga u kovčeg, i provuče poluge na kovčegu, i metnu zaklopac ozgo na kovčeg.

21 I unese kovčeg u šator, i obesi zaves, te zakloni kovčeg sa svedočanstvom, kao što beše zapovedio Gospod Mojsiju.

22 I namesti sto u šatoru od sastanka na severnu stranu šatora pred zavesom,

23 I postavi na njemu hleb pred Gospodom kao što beše zapovedio Gospod Mojsiju.

24 I namesti svećnjak u šatoru od sastanka, prema stolu na južnu stranu šatora.

25 I zapali žiške na njemu pred Gospodom, kao što beše zapovedio Gospod Mojsiju.

26 I namesti oltar zlatni u šatoru od svedočanstva pred zavesom.

27 I pokadi na njemu kadom mirisnim, kao što beše zapovedio Gospod Mojsiju.

28 I obesi zaves na vrata od šatora.

29 I oltar za žrtvu paljenicu namesti na vrata od šatora, šatora od sastanka, i prinese na njemu žrtvu paljenicu, i dar, kao što beše zapovedio Gospod Mojsiju.

30 I metnu umivaonicu između šatora od sastanka i oltara, i nali u nju vode za umivanje.

31 I praše iz nje ruke i noge svoje Mojsije i Aron i sinovi njegovi.

32 Kad ulažahu u šator od svedočanstva i kad pristupahu k oltaru, umivahu se najpre, kao što beše zapovedio Gospod Mojsiju.

33 I podiže trem oko šatora i oltara, i metnu zaves na vrata tremu. Tako svrši Mojsije posao taj.

34 Tada oblak pokri šator od sastanka, i napuni se šator slave Gospodnje.

35 I ne mogaše Mojsije ući u šator od sastanka, jer beše na njemu oblak, i slave Gospodnje beše pun šator.

36 A kad se podizaše oblak sa šatora, tada polažahu sinovi Izrailjevi, dokle god putovahu.

37 A kad se ne podizaše oblak, onda ni oni ne polažahu do dana kad se podiže.

38 Jer oblak Gospodnji beše na šatoru danju, a noću oganj beše na njemu pred očima svega doma Izrailjevog, dokle god putovahu.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 904

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904. 21:15 And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. This symbolically means that to people who possess the goodness of love, the Lord grants a faculty for understanding and knowing the nature of the Lord's New Church as regards its doctrine and its introductory truths, and as regards the Word from which they are drawn.

He who spoke with me symbolizes the Lord speaking from heaven, because it was an angel speaking, one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls mentioned in verse 9, who means the Lord speaking from heaven (no. 895). A reed symbolizes a power or ability springing from the goodness of love - a reed symbolizing power or ability (no. 485), and gold the goodness of love (nos. 211, 726). To measure means, symbolically, to learn the character of a thing, thus to understand and know it (no. 486). The city, the holy Jerusalem, symbolizes the church in respect to its doctrine (nos. 879, 880). Its gates symbolize concepts of truth and goodness from the Word's literal sense, which are truths and goods owing to the spiritual life in them (no. 899). And the wall symbolizes the Word in its literal sense from which the doctrine and concepts come (no. 898).

It is apparent from this that "he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall," symbolically means that to people who possess the goodness of love, the Lord grants a faculty for understanding and knowing the nature of the Lord's New Church as regards its doctrine and its introductory truths, and as regards the Word from which they are drawn.

[2] These symbolic meanings cannot be seen at all in the literal sense, for one sees in it only that an angel speaking with John had a gold reed with which to measure the city and its gates and wall. But even so, that these words contain another meaning, a spiritual meaning, is clearly apparent from the fact that the city Jerusalem does not mean a real city, but the church. Consequently everything said about Jerusalem as a city symbolizes such things as have to do with the church, and everything having to do with the church is, in itself, spiritual.

Such a spiritual meaning is present also in what is said in chapter 11 above, where we are told the following:

I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood by, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there." (Revelation 11:1)

A similar spiritual meaning is present, too, in everything that the angel measured with a reed in Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48. Also in these verses in Zechariah:

I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what its width is and what its length." (Zechariah 2:1-2)

Indeed, such a spiritual meaning is present in everything connected with the Tabernacle and in everything connected with the Temple in Jerusalem, whose measurements we are told, and also in the measurements themselves. And yet nothing of this can be seen in the literal sense.

  
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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.