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1 Y Moisés hizo juntar toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel, y les dijo: Estas son las cosas que el SEÑOR ha mandado que hagáis.

2 Seis días se hará obra, mas el día séptimo os será santo, sábado de reposo al SEÑOR; cualquiera que en él hiciere obra, morirá.

3 No encenderéis fuego en todas vuestras moradas en el día del sábado.

4 Y habló Moisés a toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Esto es lo que el SEÑOR ha mandado, diciendo:

5 Tomad de entre vosotros ofrenda para el SEÑOR; todo generoso de corazón la traerá al SEÑOR: oro, plata, bronce;

6 cárdeno, púrpura, carmesí, lino fino, pelo de cabras;

7 cueros rojos de carneros, cueros de tejones, madera de cedro;

8 aceite para la luminaria, especias aromáticas para el aceite de la unción y para el incienso aromático;

9 y piedras de ónice, y piedras de engaste para el efod, y para el pectoral.

10 Y todo sabio de corazón de entre vosotros, vendrá y hará todas las cosas que el SEÑOR ha mandado:

11 El tabernáculo, su tienda, y su cubierta, y sus anillos, y sus tablas, sus barras, sus columnas, y sus basas;

12 el arca, y sus varas, la cubierta, y el velo de la tienda;

13 la mesa, y sus varas, y todos sus vasos, y el pan de la proposición.

14 El candelero de la luminaria, y sus vasos, y sus candilejas, y el aceite para la luminaria;

15 y el altar del incienso, y sus varas, y el aceite de la unción, y el incienso aromático, y la cortina de la puerta, para la entrada del tabernáculo.

16 El altar del holocausto, y su enrejado de bronce, y sus varas, y todos sus vasos, y la fuente con su basa;

17 las cortinas del atrio, sus columnas, y sus basas, y la cortina de la puerta del atrio;

18 las estacas del tabernáculo, y las estacas del atrio, y sus cuerdas;

19 las vestiduras del servicio para ministrar en el santuario; es a saber , las santas vestiduras de Aarón el sacerdote, y las vestiduras de sus hijos para servir en el sacerdocio.

20 Y salió toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel de delante de Moisés.

21 Y vino todo varón a quien su corazón estimuló, y todo aquel a quien su espíritu le dio voluntad, y trajeron ofrenda al SEÑOR para la obra del tabernáculo del testimonio, y para toda su obra, y para las santas vestiduras.

22 Y vinieron así hombres como mujeres, todo voluntario de corazón, y trajeron cadenas y zarcillos, anillos y brazaletes, y toda joya de oro; y cualquiera ofrecía ofrenda de oro al SEÑOR.

23 Todo hombre que se hallaba con cárdeno, o púrpura, o carmesí, o lino fino, o pelo de cabras, o cueros rojos de carneros, o cueros de tejones, lo traía.

24 Cualquiera que ofrecía ofrenda de plata o de bronce, traía al SEÑOR la ofrenda; y todo el que se hallaba con madera de cedro, la traía para toda la obra del servicio.

25 Además todas las mujeres sabias de corazón hilaban con sus manos, y traían lo que habían hilado: cárdeno, o púrpura, o carmesí, o lino fino.

26 Y todas las mujeres cuyo corazón las levantó en sabiduría, hilaron pelos de cabras.

27 Y los príncipes trajeron piedras de ónice, y las piedras de los engastes para el efod y el pectoral;

28 y la especia aromática y aceite, para la luminaria, y para el aceite de la unción, y para el perfume aromático.

29 De los hijos de Israel, así hombres como mujeres, todos los que tuvieron corazón voluntario para traer para toda la obra, que el SEÑOR había mandado por medio de Moisés que hiciesen, trajeron ofrenda voluntaria al SEÑOR.

30 Y dijo Moisés a los hijos de Israel: Mirad, el SEÑOR ha nombrado a Bezaleel hijo de Uri, hijo de Hur, de la tribu de Judá;

31 y lo ha llenado del Espíritu de Dios, en sabiduría, en inteligencia, y en ciencia, y en todo artificio,

32 para proyectar inventos, para obrar en oro, y en plata, y en bronce,

33 y en obra de pedrería para engastar, y en obra de madera, para trabajar en toda invención ingeniosa.

34 Y ha puesto en su corazón para que pueda enseñar, así él como Aholiab hijo de Ahisamac, de la tribu de Dan.

35 Y los ha llenado de sabiduría de corazón, para que hagan toda obra de artificio, y de invención, y de recamado en cárdeno, y en púrpura, y en carmesí, y en lino fino, y en telar; para que hagan toda labor, e inventen todo diseño.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9470

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9470. 'And wool of she-goats' means the good from this, that is to say, from the good of mutual love. The reason why 'wool of she-goats' means this good is that 'a she-goat' means the good of innocence in the external or natural man, 3519, 7840, and therefore 'wool' means the truth belonging to that good. However, since not truth but good is meant, the original language does not actually say 'wool of she-goats', only 'she-goats', as is also the case in other places, such as in the following words in Exodus,

All the skilled 1 women brought what they had spun, violet, purple, twice-dyed scarlet, [and] fine linen thread; and all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun she-goats. Exodus 35:25-26.

'Spinning she-goats' stands for producing things woven from the wool of she-goats.

[2] The fact that 'wool' means truth from a celestial origin, which in itself is good, is clear from places in the Word where the actual word is used, as in Hosea,

[Their mother has committed whoredom.] She said, I will go after my lovers, those giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen. Therefore I will return and take back My grain in its season, and I will snatch away My wool and My linen. Hosea 2:5, 9.

This refers to a corrupted Church, meant here by 'mother'. 'The lovers' with whom she is said to have committed whoredom are those who pervert forms of good and truths. 'Bread' and 'water' mean internal forms of the good of love, and the internal truths of faith; 'wool' and 'flax' mean external ones.

[3] In Daniel,

I saw until thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days was seated. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool. Daniel 7:9.

This refers to the Church laid waste so far as every truth of faith was concerned, and then restored by the Lord, its having been completely laid waste being meant in the words 'thrones were placed'. 'The Ancient of Days' is the Lord in respect of celestial good as this existed in the Most Ancient Church, which was a celestial Church. In the Word that good is called 'ancient', its external truth being meant by clothing which was 'white as snow', and its external good by hair of the head which was 'like pure wool'. Similar words occur in John,

... in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man. His head and hair were white, like white wool, like snow. Revelation 1:13-14.

[4] This kind of truth, being in itself good because it is the outward form of celestial good, is again meant by 'wool' in Ezekiel,

Damascus was your merchant in the wine of Helbon and the wool of Zachar. 2 Ezekiel 27:18.

And in Isaiah,

Though your sins are like twice-dyed, they will be as white as snow. Though they are as red as scarlet, they will be as wool. Isaiah 1:18.

[5] Because Aaron's garments represented the kinds of realities that belong to the Lord's spiritual kingdom, thus the spiritual realities that belong to truth, his 'holy garments' were made of linen and not of wool. For 'linen' is spiritual truth, whereas 'wool' is celestial truth, which in comparison is good. On this account it says in Ezekiel,

The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, when they enter the gates of the inner court they shall put on the linen garments, and no wool shall come upon them. The linen turbans shall be on their heads, the linen undergarments shall be over their loins. Ezekiel 44:17-18.

The fact that Aaron's garments were made not of wool but of linen is clear from Leviticus 16:4, 32.

[6] From all this it becomes clear that 'linen' means spiritual truth, which is the truth of the good of faith, whereas 'wool' means celestial truth, which is the truth of the good of love. And since those endued with the latter kind of truth cannot be endued with the former, because the two are as different as the light of the sun is from the light of the stars, it was laid down that no one should wear a garment made of wool and linen mixed together, Deuteronomy 22:10-11. The fact that between what is celestial and what is spiritual there is such a difference, and that both cannot be together in one and the same person, see the places referred to in 9277.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, wise

2. The Hebrew word which Swedenborg, following the Latin version of Sebastian Schmidt, renders Zachar is not usually considered to be a proper name.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 4005

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4005. 'And he removed on that day the variegated and spotted he-goats' means that the truths of good that were interspersed among and mingled with the evils and falsities belonging to the good meant by 'Laban' were singled out. This is clear from the meaning of 'removing' as singling out; from the meaning of 'he-goats' as the truths of good, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'variegated' as those which were interspersed among and mingled with evils, also dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'spotted' as those which were interspersed among and mingled with falsities, dealt with above. 'He-goats' are mentioned here and then 'she-goats' after them because 'he-goats' means the truths of good and 'she-goats' the goods of truth. For the nature of the difference between the two, see above in 3995.

[2] In the Word a careful distinction is made between the males and the females, as is evident from the sacrifices and the burnt offerings in which it was explicitly laid down whether a male lamb was to be offered or a ewe-lamb, a she-goat or a he-goat, a sheep or a ram, and so on. From these it becomes clear that one thing was meant by a male, another by a female. In general a male means truth and a female good. Here therefore 'he-goats' is used to mean the truths of good, and 'she-goats', mentioned immediately after, to mean the forms of good which are coupled with those truths. And this difference between males and females also explains why it is said that he removed the variegated he-goats but not, as in the reference to the she-goats, the speckled ones; for 'variegated' means truth interspersed among and mingled with evils, whereas 'speckled' means good interspersed among and mingled with them, dealt with above in 3993. Truth mingled with evils belongs specifically to the understanding, but good mingled with evils specifically to the will. This is how the two differ from each other. And they come from the good meant by 'Laban', as is evident from the fact that the he-goats and the she-goats were taken from Laban's flock. For 'a flock' in the Word means good and truth, or what amounts to the same, those in whom good and truth are present, and so those who belong to the Lord's Church.

[3] This arcanum is unable to be explained any further because it cannot become clear except to a mind that has been taught about truths and goods, and at the same time has been enlightened. Indeed one has to know what the truths of good are and what the kinds of good originating in these are, as well as the fact that from the one kind of good represented here by Laban so many varying forms of it can be singled out. Nor do people who are unaware of these matters know that each kind of good includes countless forms of it, so many indeed that these can hardly be arranged into general divisions by even the most knowledgeable mind. For there are forms of good which are acquired by means of truths, truths which are born from those forms of good, and forms of good acquired in turn by means of these truths. There are truths born from forms of good, which also exist in a connected series. Then there are forms of good mingled with evils, and truths with falsities, dealt with above in 3993, the minglings and mutual modifications of which are so varying and manifold that they exceed many millions. These are also made various by all the states of life through which people pass, and these states of life in general by the time of life which those people have reached, in particular by whatever affections reign in them. From all this one can comprehend to some extent that so many varying things were able to be singled out from 'Laban' good, some of which were joined to the truths meant by the sons of Jacob, and some left behind from which others were derived. But as has been stated, these matters are of such a nature that they cannot be understood unless the mind has been taught about goods and truths and has at the same time been enlightened.

  
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