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2 Mosebok 38

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1 Så gjorde han brennoffer-alteret av akasietre, fem alen langt og fem alen bredt, firkantet, og tre alen høit.

2 Og han gjorde et horn på hvert av dets fire hjørner, og hornene var i ett med alteret; og han klædde det med kobber.

3 Derefter gjorde han alle de redskaper som hørte til alteret, bøttene og ildskuffene og skålene til å sprenge blod med, kjøttgaflene og fyrfatene; alle disse redskaper gjorde han av kobber.

4 Til alteret gjorde han et gitter, et nettverk av kobber, og han satte det under dets avsats nedentil, så det rakk til midt på alteret.

5 Og han støpte fire ringer til de fire hjørner av kobber-gitteret til å stikke stengene i.

6 Stengene gjorde han av akasietre og klædde dem med kobber.

7 Og han stakk stengene inn i ringene på alterets sider, så det kunde bæres på dem; alteret gjorde han av bord, så det var hult.

8 Siden gjorde han karet og dets fotstykke av kobber og brukte dertil speil* som tilhørte de kvinner som gjorde tjeneste ved inngangen til sammenkomstens telt. / {* kobberspeil.}

9 Så gjorde han forgården: På den side som vendte mot syd, gjorde han omhengene til forgården av fint, tvunnet lingarn, hundre alen lange,

10 de tyve stolper dertil og de tyve fotstykker til dem av kobber og hakene på stolpene og stengene til dem av sølv.

11 På den nordre side gjorde han også omheng, hundre alen lange, de tyve stolper dertil og de tyve fotstykker til dem av kobber og hakene på stolpene og stengene til dem av sølv.

12 På den vestre side gjorde han omheng på femti alen, de ti stolper dertil og de ti fotstykker til dem, hakene på stolpene og stengene til dem av sølv.

13 Og på forsiden, mot øst, gjorde han også omheng på femti alen,

14 femten alen på den ene kant, de tre stolper dertil og de tre fotstykker til dem,

15 og femten alen på den andre kant, de tre stolper dertil og de tre fotstykker til dem, så det blev likt på begge sider av forgårdens port.

16 Alle forgårdens omheng helt rundt var av fint, tvunnet lingarn.

17 Fotstykkene til stolpene var av kobber; hakene på stolpene og stengene til dem var av sølv, og stolpehodene var klædd med sølv. Alle disse stolper i forgården var sammenbundet med stenger av sølv.

18 Forhenget til forgårdens port var i utsydd arbeid av blå og purpurrød og karmosinrød ull og fint, tvunnet lingarn, tyve alen langt og fem alen høit efter vevens bredde, i likhet med forgårdens omheng.

19 De fire stolper dertil og de fire fotstykker til dem var av kobber; hakene på dem var av sølv; stolpehodene var klædd med sølv, og stengene til dem var av sølv.

20 Alle pluggene til tabernaklet og til forgården helt rundt var av kobber.

21 Her følger regnskapet over hvad som gikk med til tabernaklet, vidnesbyrdets telt - for Moses bød levittene å regne det over, og Itamar, sønn av Aron, presten, forestod utregningen.

22 Men Besalel, sønn av Uri, Hurs sønn, av Juda stamme, var den som gjorde alt det Herren hadde befalt Moses,

23 og sammen med ham Oholiab, Akisamaks sønn, av Dans stamme, som var kyndig i utskjæring og i kunstvevning og utsyning med blå og purpurrød og karmosinrød ull og med fint lingarn - :

24 Alt det gull som blev brukt til arbeidet med å gjøre hele helligdommen ferdig, det vidde gul, var ni og tyve talenter og syv hundre og tretti sekel efter helligdommens vekt.

25 Og sølvet som blev gitt av dem i menigheten som var mønstret, var hundre talenter og ett tusen, syv hundre og fem og sytti sekel efter helligdommens vekt,

26 en beka eller en halv sekel efter helligdommens vekt for hver enkelt som blev optatt blandt de mønstrede, fra tyveårsalderen og opover, og det var seks hundre og tre tusen, fem hundre og femti mann.

27 De hundre talenter sølv blev brukt til å støpe fotstykkene til helligdommen og fotstykkene til forhenget, hundre fotstykker av de hundre talenter, en talent til hvert fotstykke.

28 Og de tusen, syv hundre og fem og sytti sekel brukte de til hakene på stolpene, til å klæ stolpehodene og til å sammenbinde dem med stenger.

29 Det vidde kobber var sytti talenter og to tusen og fire hundre sekel.

30 Av det gjorde de fotstykkene ved inngangen til sammenkomstens telt og kobber-alteret og kobber-gitteret som hørte til, og alle alterets redskaper

31 og fotstykkene til forgården rundt omkring og fotstykkene ved forgårdens port og alle pluggene til tabernaklet og alle pluggene til forgården rundt omkring.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8408

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8408. 'When we sat by a pot of flesh' means a life according to their own pleasure, and such as they craved for. This is clear from the meaning of 'a pot' as a container of good, and in the contrary sense a container of evil, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'flesh' as the heavenly proprium, thus good, and in the contrary sense as the proprium that is man's own, thus evil, also dealt with below. 1 And since 'flesh' means the proprium, 'sitting by a pot of flesh' means a life according to one's own pleasure, and such as one craves for; for that is the life of the proprium. The reason why 'a pot' means a container of good, and in the contrary sense a container of evil, is that 'the flesh' cooked in it means good and in the contrary sense evil. And having these meanings 'a pot' also means the bodily level or the natural level of the human mind, since these are containers of good or of evil. This being so, it is used in a general sense to mean a person, and in an even more general sense to mean a people or a city; and when 'a pot' is used to mean these, 'flesh' means the good or the evil that is in them, as in Ezekiel,

... the men who think iniquity and give wicked counsel in this city, saying, [The time] is not near; [the city] itself is the pot, we are the flesh. Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovih, Your slain whom you have placed in the midst of it, 2 they are the flesh, but it is the pot. Ezekiel 11:2-3, 7.

Here 'the pot' stands for the city or the people there, and 'the flesh' for evil, since 'the slain', who are called 'the flesh', are those among whom goodness and truth have been wiped out, 4503.

[2] In the same prophet,

Tell a parable against the house of rebellion, and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Put on the pot, put it on, and also pour [water into it gather] the pieces into it - every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice of the bones. The Lord Jehovih said, Woe to the city of blood, 3 to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out of it! Ezekiel 24:3-6.

Here 'the pot' stands for the city or the people there, among whom there exists the evil that results when good is profaned. The good or flesh there is 'the thigh and the shoulder'; the evil is 'the scum' coming from it, and good when profaned is the scum remaining, which also accounts for the city's being called 'the city of blood'.

[3] In Jeremiah,

Jehovah said to Jeremiah, What do you see? I said, A puffed out pot do I see, its face towards the north. Then Jehovah said, From the north evil will be opened over all the inhabitants of the land. Jeremiah 1:11-14.

'A puffed-out pot' stands for a people whom falsities have taken possession of, and 'the north' for the sensory and bodily levels of the human mind, from which evil pours out. The subject here is the end of the Church, when what belongs to the external and therefore to sensory and bodily levels, together with falsity and evil, has dominion; for the Lord's Church moves in a series of stages from what is internal to what is external, at which point it breathes its last.

[4] In Zechariah,

On that day there will be on the horses' bells, Holiness to Jehovah. And the pots in the house of Jehovah will be as the bowls before the altar. And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holiness to Jehovah Zebaoth; and all offering sacrifice will come, and take from them, and cook in them. Zechariah 14:20-21.

The subject here is the salvation of faithful believers, faithful believers being 'the pots', which they are called because they receive good from the Lord; and because they receive that good every 'pot' is said to be 'holiness to Jehovah'. 'The bells of the horses, with Holiness on them' are truths in agreement with good. Since 'pots' are recipients and containers of good, they like all the other vessels for the altar were made of bronze, Exodus 38:3; for 'bronze' means the good of the natural, 425, 1551.

[5] In addition to this 'the pot' may mean religious teachings because these hold the Church's good and truth within them. Such teachings are meant by 'the pot' in which at Elisha's command a soup was boiled for the sons of the prophets, described as follows in the second Book of Kings,

Elisha came again to Gilgal, when there was a famine in the land. When the sons of the prophets were sitting before him he said to his servant, Put on a great pot, and boil a soup for the sons of the prophets. One of them went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, and gathered from it wild gourds, and cut them up into the pot of soup. While they were eating of the soup they cried out, There is death in the pot, O man of God! But he said that they should bring flour, which he threw into the pot, and said, Pour out for the people and let them eat. Then there was not anything bad in the pot. 2 Kings 4:38-41.

It should be recognized that all Divine miracles have to do with things connected with the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 7337, 8364, and that 'Elisha' represents the Word of the Lord, 2762, and 'prophets' teachings derived from it, 2534, 7269. From this one may see what thing connected with the Church was represented by this miracle, which was that if the Church's good has been falsified it is made good again by means of truth from the Word. 'A famine' is a lack of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good; 'the pot' is religious teachings; 'soup' is the good of the Jewish Church's outward religious observances; 'gourds from a wild vine' is falsification; and 'flour' is truth from the Word, 2177, used to make good again that which has been falsified, meant by 'death in the pot'. The reason why 'pots' means containers of good is that they were included among the utensils in which food was prepared, and 'food', every kind of it, means such things as nourish the soul, that is, affections for good and truth, 681, 1480, 3114, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5340, 5342, 5576, 5410, 5915.

Fußnoten:

1. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes proprium as A distinctive characteristic; the essential nature, selfhood. It is a Latin word meaning 'one's own (thing)'. Swedenborg uses it in the specialized sense of 'what is of the self.'

2. i.e. the city

3. literally, bloods

  
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Arcana Coelestia #5147

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5147. There was some of every kind of food for Pharaoh' means full of celestial good for nourishing the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'food' as celestial good, dealt with below; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as the interior natural, dealt with in 5080, 5095, and also the natural in general, since the interior natural and the exterior natural make one when they correspond. And because food exists to provide nourishment, 'every kind of food for Pharaoh' means full of celestial good for nourishing the natural. It is said that this food was in the highest basket, meaning that the inmost degree of the will was full of celestial good. For good from the Lord flows in by way of the inmost degree in a person; and from there it passes degree by degree, so to speak down a flight of steps, to what is more exterior. For in relation to other degrees the inmost one exists in the most perfect state, and can therefore receive good from the Lord directly, in a way the lower ones cannot. If these were to receive good from the Lord directly, they would either obscure it or pervert it, since they are less perfect in comparison with the inmost degree.

[2] As regards the influx of celestial good from the Lord and the reception of it, it should be recognized that the will part of the human mind is the receiver of good and the understanding part is the receiver of truth. The understanding part cannot possibly receive truth so as to make this its own unless at the same time the will part receives good; and vice versa. For one flows as a result into the other and disposes that other to be receptive. All that constitutes the understanding may be compared to forms which are constantly varying, and all that constitutes the will may be compared to the harmonies resulting from those variations. Consequently truths may be compared to variations, and forms of good may be compared to the delights which those variations bring. And this being pre-eminently the case with truths and forms of good it is evident that one cannot exist without the other, as well as that one cannot be brought forth except by means of the other.

[3] The reason 'food' means celestial good is that angels' food consists in nothing else than forms of the good of love and charity, and that these serve to enliven angels and to rejuvenate them. Especially when they are expressed in action or practice do those forms of good cause angels to feel rejuvenated, for they are the desires they have; for it is a well known fact that when a person's desires are expressed in action he feels rejuvenated and enlivened. Those desires also nourish a person's spirit when material food supplies nourishment to his body, as may be recognized from the fact that when no delight is taken in food it is not very nutritious, but when delight is taken in it, it is nutritious. The delight taken in food is what opens the meatus or channels which serve to convey it into the blood, whereas the opposite closes them. Among angels those delights are forms of the good of love and charity, and from this one may deduce that these are spiritual kinds of food which correspond to earthly ones. Also, just as forms of good are meant by different kinds of food, so truths are meant by 'drink'.

[4] In the Word 'food' is mentioned in many places, yet someone unacquainted with the internal sense will inevitably suppose that in those places ordinary food is meant. In fact spiritual food is meant, as in Jeremiah,

All the people groan as they search for bread. They have given their desirable things for food to restore the soul. Lamentations 1:11.

In Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Isaiah 55:1.

In Joel,

The day of Jehovah is near, and as destruction from the thunderbolt-hurler will it come. [s not the food cut off before our eyes, gladness and joy from the house of our God? The grains have rotted under their clods, the storehouses have been laid waste, the granaries have been destroyed, because the grain has failed. Joel 1:15-17.

In David,

Our storehouses are full, yielding food and still more food; our flocks are thousands, and ten thousands in our streets. There is no outcry in our streets. Blessed are the people for whom it is thus. Psalms 144:13-15.

In the same author,

They all look to You, that You may give them their food in due season. You give to them - they gather it up; You open Your hand - they are satisfied with good. Psalms 104:27-28.

[5] In these places celestial and spiritual food is meant in the internal sense when material food is referred to in the sense of the letter. From this one may see how the interior features of the Word and its exterior features correspond to one another, that is, how what belongs inwardly to its spirit and what belongs to its letter do so; so that while man understands those things according to the sense of the letter, the angels present with him understand the same things according to the spiritual sense. The Word has been written in such a way that it may serve not only the human race but heaven also, and for this reason all expressions are used to mean heavenly realities, and every matter described there is representative of these realities. This is so with the Word even to the tiniest jot.

[6] Furthermore the Lord Himself explicitly teaches that good is meant in the spiritual sense by 'food': In John,

Do not labour for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. John 6:27.

In the same gospel,

My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink. John 6:55.

'Flesh' means Divine Good, 3813, and 'blood' Divine Truth, 4735. And in the same gospel,

Jesus said to the disciples, I have food to eat of which you do not know. The disciples said to one another, Has anyone brought Him [anything] to eat? Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. John 4:33-34.

'Doing the will of the Father and finishing His work' means Divine Good when expressed in actions or practice, which in the genuine sense is 'food', as stated above.

  
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