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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.

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Ezekiel 44

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1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.

2 Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

3 As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face.

5 Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.

6 You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.

8 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.

9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

10 But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.

13 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

14 Yet will I make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.

15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:

16 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.

17 It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

18 They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their waists; they shall not clothe themselves with [anything that causes] sweat.

19 When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.

20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

24 In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.

25 They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

27 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Yahweh.

28 They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.

29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

30 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.