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1 IGUALMENTE hizo el altar del holocausto de madera de Sittim: su longitud de cinco codos, y su anchura de otros cinco codos, cuadrado, y de tres codos de altura.

2 E hízole sus cuernos á sus cuatro esquinas, los cuales eran de la misma pieza, y cubriólo de metal.

3 Hizo asimismo todos los vasos del altar: calderas, y tenazas, y tazones, y garfios, y palas: todos sus vasos hizo de metal.

4 E hizo para el altar el enrejado de metal, de hechura de red, que puso en su cerco por debajo hasta el medio del altar.

5 Hizo también cuatro anillos de fundición á los cuatro cabos del enrejado de metal, para meter las varas.

6 E hizo las varas de madera de Sittim, y cubriólas de metal.

7 Y metió las varas por los anillos á los lados del altar, para llevarlo con ellas: hueco lo hizo, de tablas.

8 También hizo la fuente de metal, con su basa de metal, de los espejos de las que velaban á la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio.

9 Hizo asimismo el atrio; á la parte austral del mediodía las cortinas del atrio eran de cien codos, de lino torcido:

10 Sus columnas veinte, con sus veinte basas de metal: los capiteles de las columnas y sus molduras, de plata.

11 Y á la parte del aquilón cortinas de cien codos: sus columnas veinte, con sus veinte basas de metal; los capiteles de las columnas y sus molduras, de plata.

12 A la parte del occidente cortinas de cincuenta codos: sus columnas diez, y sus diez basas; los capiteles de las columnas y sus molduras, de plata.

13 Y á la parte oriental, al levante, cortinas de cincuenta codos:

14 Al un lado cortinas de quince codos, sus tres columnas, y sus tres basas;

15 Al otro lado, de la una parte y de la otra de la puerta del atrio, cortinas de á quince codos, sus tres columnas, y sus tres basas.

16 Todas las cortinas del atrio alrededor eran de lino torcido.

17 Y las basas de las columnas eran de metal; los capiteles de las columnas y sus molduras, de plata; asimismo las cubiertas de las cabezas de ellas, de plata: y todas las columnas del atrio tenían molduras de plata.

18 Y el pabellón de la puerta del atrio fue de obra de recamado, de jacinto, y púrpura, y carmesí, y lino torcido: la longitud de veinte codos, y la altura en el ancho de cinco codos, conforme á las cortinas del atrio.

19 Y sus columnas fueron cuatro con sus cuatro basas de metal: y sus capiteles de plata; y las cubiertas de los capiteles de ellas y sus molduras, de plata.

20 Y todas las estacas del tabernáculo y del atrio alrededor fueron de metal.

21 Estas son las cuentas del tabernáculo, del tabernáculo del testimonio, lo que fué contado de orden de Moisés por mano de Ithamar, hijo de Aarón sacerdote, para el ministerio de los Levitas.

22 Y Bezaleel, hijo de Uri, hijo de Hur, de la tribu de Judá, hizo todas las cosas que Jehová mandó á Moisés.

23 Y con él estaba Aholiab, hijo de Ahisamac, de la tribu de Dan, artífice, y diseñador, y recamador en jacinto, y púrpura, y carmesí, y lino fino.

24 Todo el oro empleado en la obra, en toda la obra del santuario, el cual fué oro de ofrenda, fué veintinueve talentos, y setecientos y treinta siclos, según el siclo del santuario.

25 Y la plata de los contados de la congregación fué cien talentos, y mil setecientos setenta y cinco siclos, según el siclo del santuario:

26 Medio por cabeza, medio siclo, según el siclo del santuario, á todos los que pasaron por cuenta de edad de veinte años y arriba, que fueron seiscientos tres mil quinientos cincuenta.

27 Hubo además cien talentos de plata para hacer de fundición las basas del santuario y las basas del velo: en cien basas cien talentos, á talento por basa.

28 Y de los mil setecientos setenta y cinco siclos hizo los capiteles de las columnas, y cubrió los capiteles de ellas, y las ciñó.

29 Y el metal de la ofrenda fue setenta talentos, y dos mil cuatrocientos siclos;

30 Del cual hizo las basas de la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio, y el altar de metal, y su enrejado de metal, y todos los vasos del altar.

31 Y las basas del atrio alrededor, y las basas de la puerta del atrio, y todas las estacas del tabernáculo, y todas las estacas del atrio alrededor.

   

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2 También hizo un mar de fundición, el cual tenía diez codos del un borde al otro, enteramente redondo: su altura era de cinco codos, y una línea de treinta codos lo ceñía alrededor.

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9688. 'The work of an embroiderer' means things that belong to factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'the work of an embroiderer', or embroidery, as factual knowledge. A large number of places in the Word speak of that which has been embroidered and of embroidery, and in every case factual knowledge is meant by it. The reason for this goes back to representatives in the next life; there garments embroidered in various ways are seen, and by these garments truths on the level of factual knowledge are meant.

[2] Truths on the level of factual knowledge differ from those on the level of the understanding in the same way as outward things differ from inward ones, or as the natural level with a person differs from the spiritual. Facts serve the understanding as objects from which it may deduce truths; for the power of understanding is the internal or spiritual man's power of sight, and known facts are its objects in the external or natural man. These facts are meant by 'the work of an embroiderer' whereas that power of understanding is meant by 'the work of a designer', 9598, for designing is a function of the understanding, and embroidering a function of the knowledge and skill employed by the understanding. This explains why the objects within the dwelling-place, which were signs meaning inner realities, were the work of a designer, such as the curtains that formed it, verse 1, and the veil between the holy place and the holy of holies, verse 31. But the objects which were signs meaning outer realities were the work of an embroiderer, such as the screen in place of a tent door, and the screen in place of a gate of the court, Exodus 38:18, and also the girdle, Exodus 39:29, 'the girdle' being what is external linking everything internal, 'the court' being the lowest part of heaven, and 'the tent door' the place where there is an exit from the middle heaven into the lowest.

[3] The fact that 'embroidery' and that which has been 'embroidered' mean factual knowledge belonging to the external or natural man is clear from the following places in the Word: In Ezekiel,

Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail; violet and purple from the islands of Elishah was your covering. Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks; [they exchanged for your wares] chrysoprase and purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen. The merchants of Sheba [came] with balls of violet and with embroidered work. Ezekiel 27:7, 16, 24.

This refers to Tyre, by which those in possession of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good are meant, and in the abstract sense those cognitions themselves, 1201. 'Fine linen with embroidery' means truth on the level of factual knowledge, for 'fine linen' means truth from a celestial origin, 5319, 9469, and 'embroidery' is factual knowledge. This also is the reason why it says that it came from Egypt - for 'Egypt' means factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 2588, 4749, 4964, 4966, 5700, 5702, 6004, 6015, 6125, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, 6750, 7779 (end), 9391 - and also from Syria and from Sheba, since cognitions of truth and good are meant by 'Syria', 1232, 1234, 3051, 3249, 3664, 3680, 4112, and in like manner by 'Sheba', 1171, 3240. Cognitions of truth and good constitute the Church's factual knowledge. Anybody endowed with the ability to think intelligently and weigh things up can see that in these verses from Ezekiel one should not understand embroidery, fine linen, violet, or purple, but that these commodities mean things such as are worthy of mention in the Word, namely spiritual realities that belong to heaven and the Church.

[4] In the same prophet,

All the princes of the sea will step down from upon their thrones, and will cast away their robes and will strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with tremblings. Ezekiel 26:16.

This too refers to Tyre. 'The princes of the sea' are the first and foremost known facts, which are called dogmas, 'princes' meaning things which are first and foremost, see 1482, 2089, 5044, and 'the sea' factual knowledge in general 28, 2850. 'Robes' are external truths, 'embroidered' are truths on the level of factual knowledge, which too are external ones. For the meaning of 'garments' as truths, 2576, 4545, 4763, 5248, 5319, 5954, 6914, 6917, 6918, 9093, 9158, 9212, 9216.

[5] In the same prophet,

I clothed you with embroidered cloth, and shod you with badger; I swathed you in fine linen and covered you with silk. Thus were you adorned with gold and silver; and your garments were fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. But you took your embroidered garments and covered the images, with which you committed whoredom. 1 Ezekiel 16:10, 13, 18.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which the Church is meant. 'Embroidered garments' stands for truths on the level of factual knowledge. 'Covering the images, with which she committed whoredom' stands for giving strength to falsities, for 'committing whoredom' means perverting truths by bringing them into contact with falsities or with evils. Is there anyone who cannot see that since these verses describe Jerusalem 'fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth' are not used to mean fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth? Yet what they really mean the Christian world does not seek to know, because it supposes that heavenly and spiritual matters in the Word reside in its literal sense; the more internal contents of the Word it calls mystical, but has no interest in them.

[6] In the same prophet,

A great eagle with great wings, with long pinions, full of feathers, 2 which had embroidery ... Ezekiel 17:3.

This refers to the house of Israel, which means the spiritual Church; and this Church is called 'an eagle' by virtue of its perception of truth, 3901, 8764, 'which had embroidery' standing for its possession of factual knowledge. In David,

All glorious is the king's daughter within, in her clothing with gold interweavings; in an embroidered [robe] she will be led to the king. Psalms 45:13-14.

'The king's daughter' stands for an affection for truth, 'an embroidered [robe]' for factual knowledge of truth. In the Book of Judges,

Will they not divide the spoil, ... the spoil of colours for Sisera, the spoil of colours of embroidered work, embroiderers' colour - on the necks of the spoil? 3 Judges 5:30.

In this verse, which is part of the Song of Deborah and Barak, 'embroidered [work]' stands for factual knowledge belonging to the natural man.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Here verse 18 of Ezekiel 16 has become confused with the preceding verse 17.

2. literally, A great eagle, great with wings, long with pinions, and full with feathers,

3. The meaning in the Hebrew of this verse is very obscure. The Latin rendering by Sebastian Schmidt, which Swedenborg relies on here, is literal and equally difficult to make sense of.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.