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1 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises at kay Aaron, na sinasabi,

2 Ayusin ninyo ang bilang ng mga anak ni Coath, sa gitna ng mga anak ni Levi, ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang.

3 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang, lahat ng pumapasok sa paglilingkod, upang gumawa ng gawain sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

4 Ito ang paglilingkod ng mga anak ni Coath sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan, sa mga bagay na kabanalbanalan:

5 Pagka ang kampamento ay isusulong, ay papasok si Aaron sa loob, at ang kaniyang mga anak, at kanilang ibababa ang lambong ng tabing, at kanilang tatakpan niyaon ang kaban ng patotoo:

6 At kanilang ilalagay sa ibabaw ang isang takip na balat ng foka at kanilang lalatagan ang ibabaw ng isang kayong taganas na bughaw, at kanilang ilalagay ang mga pingga niyaon.

7 At sa ibabaw ng dulang ng tinapay na handog ay maglalatag sila ng isang kayong bughaw, at kanilang ilalagay sa ibabaw nito ang mga pinggan, at ang mga sandok, at ang mga mangkok, at ang mga tasa upang buhusan; at ang namamalaging tinapay ay malalagay sa ibabaw niyaon.

8 At kanilang lalatagan ang ibabaw ng mga yaon ng kayong pula, at kanilang tatakpan ito ng isang panakip na balat ng foka, at kanilang ilalagay ang mga pingga.

9 At kukuha sila ng isang kayong bughaw at kanilang tatakpan ang kandelerong pangtanglaw at ang mga ilawan, at ang mga gunting, at ang mga pinggan, at ang lahat ng sisidlan ng langis niyaon, na kanilang pinangangasiwaan:

10 At kanilang ilalagay, pati ang lahat ng kasangkapan niyaon sa loob ng isang takip na balat ng foka, at kanilang ilalagay sa ibabaw ng isang patungan.

11 At ang ibabaw ng dambanang ginto ay kanilang lalatagan ng isang kayong bughaw, at kanilang tatakpan ng isang panakip na balat ng foka, at kanilang ilalagay ang mga pingga niyaon:

12 At kanilang kukunin ang lahat ng mga kasangkapan na ukol sa pangangasiwa na ipinangangasiwa nila sa santuario, at kanilang ilalagay sa isang kayong bughaw, at kanilang tatakpan ng isang panakip na balat ng foka, at kanilang ipapatong sa patungan.

13 At kanilang aalisin ang mga abo sa dambana at kanilang lalatagan ng isang kayong kulay ube.

14 At kanilang ipapatong doon ang lahat ng mga kasangkapan na kanilang ipinangangasiwa sa palibot ng dambana, ang suuban at ang mga pangipit, at ang mga pala at ang mga mangkok, lahat ng mga kasangkapan ng dambana; at kanilang lalatagan ng isang panakip na balat ng foka, at kanilang ilalagay ang mga pingga niyaon.

15 At pagka si Aaron at ang kaniyang mga anak ay nakatapos na makapagtakip sa santuario at sa buong kasangkapan ng santuario, kailan ma't isusulong ang kampamento: ay magsisilapit pagkatapos ang mga anak ni Koath upang kanilang buhatin yaon: datapuwa't huwag silang hihipo sa santuario, baka sila'y mamatay. Ang mga bagay na ito ay siyang pasanin ng mga anak ni Coath sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

16 At ang magiging katungkulan ni Eleazar na anak ni Aaron na saserdote, ay ang langis sa ilawan, at ang mabangong kamangyan, at ang palaging handog na harina, at ang langis na pang-pahid, at ang pagiingat ng buong tabernakulo at ng lahat na nandoon, ang santuario at ang mga kasangkapan niyaon.

17 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises at kay Aaron, na sinasabi,

18 Huwag ninyong ihiwalay ang lipi ng mga angkan ng mga Coathita sa gitna ng mga Levita.

19 Kundi gawin ninyo sa kanila ang ganito, upang sila'y mabuhay at huwag mamatay, paglapit nila sa mga kabanalbanalang bagay: si Aaron at ang kaniyang mga anak ay paparoon at ituturo sa bawa't isa ang kanikaniyang paglilingkod at ang kanikaniyang pasanin:

20 Nguni't sila'y huwag magsisipasok upang tingnan ang santuario kahit sandali man, baka sila'y mamatay.

21 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises, na sinasabi,

22 Aayusin mo rin ang bilang ng mga anak ni Gerson, ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang ayon sa kanilang mga angkan;

23 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang ay bibilangin mo sila; yaong lahat na pumapasok na nangangasiwa sa paglilingkod upang gawin ang gawain sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

24 Ito ang paglilingkod ng mga angkan ng mga Gersonita, sa paglilingkod at sa pagdadala ng mga pasanin:

25 Dadalhin nila ang mga tabing ng tabernakulo, at ang tabernakulo ng kapisanan, ang takip niyaon, at ang panakip na balat ng foka na nasa ibabaw nito, at ang tabing sa pintuan ng tabernakulo ng kapisanan;

26 At ang mga tabing sa looban, at ang tabing sa pintuang-daan ng looban na nasa siping ng tabernakulo, at ng dambana, at ang mga tali ng mga yaon, at ang lahat ng kasangkapan sa kanilang paglilingkod at ang lahat na marapat na gawin sa mga yaon ay kanilang ipaglilingkod.

27 Mapapasa kapangyarihan ni Aaron at ng kaniyang mga anak ang buong paglilingkod ng mga anak ng mga Gersonita sa buong kanilang pasanin, at sa buong kanilang paglilingkod: at inyong ituturo sa kanila ang mga nauukol sa kanilang buong pasanin.

28 Ito ang paglilingkod ng mga angkan ng mga Gersonita sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan: at ang katungkulan nila ay mapapasa ilalim ng pamamahala ni Ithamar na anak ni Aaron na saserdote.

29 Tungkol sa mga anak ni Merari, ay bibilangin mo sila ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang;

30 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang na patanda hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang ay iyong bibilangin sila, lahat na pumapasok sa paglilingkod, upang gawin ang gawain sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

31 At ito ang katungkulan sa kanilang pasanin ayon sa buong paglilingkod nila sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan: ang mga tabla ng tabernakulo, at ang mga barakilan, at ang mga haligi, at ang mga tungtungan;

32 At ang mga haligi sa palibot ng looban, at ang mga tungtungan, at ang mga tulos, at ang mga tali pati ng lahat ng kasangkapan at ng buong paglilingkod: at ayon sa pangalan, ay ituturo mo sa kanila ang mga kasangkapan na katungkulan sa kanilang pasanin.

33 Ito ang paglilingkod ng mga angkan ng mga anak ni Merari ayon sa buong paglilingkod nila sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan, sa ilalim ng pamamahala ni Ithamar na anak ni Aaron na saserdote.

34 At binilang ni Moises at ni Aaron, at ng mga prinsipe ng kapisanan ang mga anak ng mga Coathita ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, at ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang,

35 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang na patanda hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang, ang bawa't isa na pumapasok sa paglilingkod, upang gumawa sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan;

36 At yaong nangabilang sa kanila ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ay dalawang libo at pitong daan at limangpu.

37 Ito ang nangabilang sa mga angkan ng mga Coathita, lahat ng nagsisipaglingkod sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan na binilang ni Moises at ni Aaron, ayon sa utos ng Panginoon sa pamamagitan ni Moises.

38 At yaong nangabilang sa mga anak ni Gerson, ang kanilang mga angkan, at ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang,

39 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang na patanda hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang, bawa't isa na pumapasok sa paglilingkod upang gumawa sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

40 Sa makatuwid baga'y ang nangabilang sa kanila, ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang, ay dalawang libo at anim na raan at tatlong pu.

41 Ito ang nangabilang sa mga angkan ng mga anak ni Gerson, sa lahat ng naglingkod sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan, na binilang ni Moises at ni Aaron, ayon sa utos ng Panginoon.

42 At ang nangabilang sa mga angkan ng mga anak ni Merari ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang.

43 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang na patanda hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang, bawa't isa na pumapasok sa paglilingkod, upang gumawa sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan,

44 Sa makatuwid baga'y yaong lahat na nangabilang sa kanila ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ay tatlong libo at dalawang daan.

45 Ito ang nangabilang sa mga angkan ng mga anak ni Merari na binilang ni Moises at ni Aaron, ayon sa utos ng Panginoon sa pamamagitan ni Moises.

46 Yaong lahat na nangabilang sa mga Levita, na binilang ni Moises at ni Aaron at ng mga prinsipe sa Israel, ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, at ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang,

47 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang na patanda hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang, bawa't isa na pumapasok upang gumawa ng gawang paglilingkod, at ng gawang pagdadala ng mga pasanin sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan,

48 Sa makatuwid baga'y yaong nangabilang sa kanila, ay walong libo at limang daan at walong pu.

49 Ayon sa utos ng Panginoon ay nangabilang sa pamamagitan ni Moises, bawa't isa ayon sa kaniyang paglilingkod, at ayon sa kaniyang pasanin: ganito niya binilang sila gaya ng iniutos ng Panginoon kay Moises.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #447

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447. Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million. (9:16) This symbolizes their reasonings concerning faith alone, with which they had filled the interiors of their minds, springing from nothing but an abundance of falsities accompanying evil.

Armies symbolize goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, evils and falsities - here falsities accompanying evil, as we will see presently. Horsemen symbolize reasonings concerning faith alone, because a horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word (no. 298) and also a destroyed understanding of the Word (nos. 305, 312, 320). Horsemen consequently symbolize reasonings based on a destroyed understanding of the Word - here reasonings concerning faith alone, because the subject is people caught up in that faith. Two hundred million does not mean two hundred million, but an abundance. The number two is used because two is said in application to goodness, and in an opposite sense, to evil (no. 322); and a hundred million, or ten thousand times ten thousand, is said in application to truths, and in an opposite sense, to falsities (no. 287).

It can be seen from this that the number of the army of horsemen being two hundred million symbolizes reasonings concerning faith alone, with which these people had filled the interiors of their minds, springing from nothing but an abundance of falsities accompanying evil.

[2] That armies in the Word symbolize the goods and truths of heaven and the church, and in an opposite sense, evils and falsities, can be seen from passages where the sun, moon and stars are called armies or hosts, and where the sun symbolizes the goodness of love, the moon the truth of faith, and stars concepts of goodness and truth, and the antithesis in an opposite sense (nos. 51, 53, 332, 413). All of these are called armies or hosts in the following passages:

Praise (Jehovah), all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you stars...! (Psalms 148:2-3)

My hands stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded. (Isaiah 45:12)

By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. (Psalms 33:6)

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. (Genesis 2:1)

(The male goat's horn) grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the ground... He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host... And the host was sent under the yoke for its transgression, (because) it cast truth to the ground... Then... a holy one said..., "How long will... the sanctuary and the host be trampled under foot?" (Daniel 8:10-14)

Jehovah has given forth His voice before His army. (Joel 2:11)

...(on the roofs of the houses) they have burned incense to all the host of heaven... (Jeremiah 19:13)

(Lest you bow down to and serve) the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the host of heaven... (Deuteronomy 4:19; cf. 17:3, Jeremiah 8:2)

So, too, Isaiah 13:4; 34:4; 40:26, Jeremiah 33:22, Zechariah 9:8, Revelation 19:14.

[3] Since the hosts of heaven symbolize the goods and truths of heaven and the church, therefore the Lord is called Jehovah Zebaoth, or Jehovah of Hosts. And therefore the ministry of the Levites was called military service (Numbers 4:3, 23, 30, 39).

Moreover, we read in the book of Psalms,

Bless Jehovah, all you His hosts, you ministers of His, who do His will. (Psalms 103:21)

Evils and falsities in the church are symbolically meant by the armies of the nations in Isaiah 34:2; and by the army of the king of the north with which he came against the king of the south, in Daniel 11:13, 15, 20. The king of the north is the falsity accompanying evil in the church, and the king of the south is the truth accompanying goodness in it.

The Lord says,

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its devastation is near. (Luke 21:20)

Jerusalem there symbolizes the church, and the armies symbolize the evils and falsities that will devastate it. The subject is the end of the age, which is the final period of the church.

Evils and falsities are symbolically meant by armies in Joel,

I will restore to you the years that the locust, the beetle grub, the locust's larva, and the caterpillar has eaten, My great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:25)

To be shown that the locust and the rest symbolize falsity of the lowest sort, see no. 424 above.

  
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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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Arcana Coelestia #10236

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10236. 'And its pedestal from bronze' means good on the last level of the natural, which is that of the senses. This is clear from the meaning of 'the pedestal' of the laver, containing the water for washing, as the last level of the natural degree, which is called the level of the senses; and from the meaning of 'bronze' as good, dealt with above in 10235. The reason why 'the pedestal' means the last level of the natural, which is called the external level of the senses, is that 'the laver' which is above means the natural degree, in which purification takes place, and therefore that which is below means that which occupies the lowest, that is, the last place, which is the external level of the senses within a person. The natural degree within a person has an external level, a middle level, and an internal level. The external level of the natural degree is that which comes in contact with the world and is called the external level of the senses; the internal level of the natural degree is that which comes in contact with the internal man residing in heaven; and the middle level of the natural degree links the two together, for where an external and an internal exist there must be a middle linking them together. The human mind has a natural degree containing external, middle, and internal levels, see 4009, 4570, 5118, 5126, 5649, 9215.

[2] Strictly speaking, the level of the senses forming the last and lowest of the natural degree should be taken to mean that which is called the flesh and perishes when a person dies, thus that which has enabled the person to function in the world, namely the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. It may be recognized that the senses exist on the ground-level so to speak of a person's life, forming the terminus and base on which it rests; for they open out directly onto the world, and through them the world comes in and heaven goes out. These senses the human being shares with animals. But an external aspect of the senses which the human being does not share so much with them, though still an external aspect of the senses, is the deposit in the human memory of impressions received from the world, consisting solely of worldly, bodily, earthly images. The person whose thought and reasoning are based on these alone and not on more internal ideas is called a sensory-minded person. This level of the senses remains with a person after death, though it becomes dormant. It is the external level of the senses that is meant, strictly speaking, by 'the pedestal'.

[3] The nature of this level of the senses was represented by the pedestals of the ten lavers which were placed next to the temple. These pedestals are described as follows,

Solomon made ten pedestals from bronze. Four cubits was the length of each pedestal, and four cubits the breadth; three cubits was the height. On the panels 1 which were between the frames there were lions, oxen, and cherubs, and on the frames in like manner above. In addition each pedestal had four wheels, and boards of bronze 2 ; but its four corners had shoulders 3 . Under a laver there were shoulders 3 of cast [bronze]. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel; their axles 4 , and their rims 5 , and their tires, and their spokes were all of cast [bronze]. After this manner he made the ten pedestals. They were all of one casting, one measure, one symmetry. Therefore he made ten lavers from bronze; each laver contained forty baths, four cubits was each laver. 1 Kings 7:27-39.

[4] Here representative objects serve to describe the nature of the external level of the senses in a person, and in particular protection provided by the Lord to prevent a person from entering from the sensory level of his mind, thus from the world, into things of heaven or the Church. To do so is contrary to Divine order. For the world cannot enter into heaven, but heaven can into the world, which happens when the Lord coming by way of heaven flows into a person by means of the Word and resides in him, and so enlightens, teaches, and leads him. The fact that entering from the world into the things of heaven is contrary to Divine order may be recognized from the consideration that those who enter into them from the sensory level of their mind, thus who do so from factual knowledge derived from the world, have no belief at all.

[5] Protection against this is meant by 'lions, oxen, and cherubs'. By 'lions' protection to prevent truths from entering is meant, for lions are truths in their power, 6367, 6369, and by 'oxen' protection to prevent forms of good from entering, for oxen are forms of good in their power, 2781. By 'cherubs' the Lord's protection against such an occurrence is meant, see 308, 9509; and by 'the shoulders' of which also mention is made power and resistance are meant, see 1085, 4931-4937, 9836. By 'the chariot-like wheels' the ability to be made wise when everything enters from heaven is meant, for in this way everything moves on according to order, 'chariot wheels' being the ability to move on, thus to learn, 8215, 9872, and chariots being doctrinal teachings which heaven and the Church possess, 5321, 8215.

[6] What a sensory-minded person is must again be stated briefly. A person is called sensory-minded whose thought is based solely on such ideas in the memory as are derived from the world and whose mind cannot be raised to more internal levels. Such is the situation with those in particular who have no belief at all in heaven or in the Deity because they do not see them; for they trust solely in the senses, and what they do not perceive through these is not thought by them to have any existence. Such people come near to having a mind no different from that of animals, which too are led solely by their external senses. They are still wily and clever in action and reasoning, but they do not see truth in its own light. In former times such people were referred to as serpents of the tree of knowledge. Most of the hellish crew are of that sort. But what a sensory-minded person is and what the sensory level of the mind is, see the places referred to in 9331(end), and also 9726, 9730, 9731, 9922(end), 9996; and what it is to be raised above or drawn away from the level of the senses, the places referred to in 9922(end).

[7] Good on the level of the senses, meant by 'a pedestal made from bronze', is an expression which denotes the pleasure and delight that influence thought and imagination based solely on such things as are earthly, bodily, and worldly. It is distinguishable from other kinds of delight by the fact that it sees no other purposes to be served apart from those indulging the self or benefiting the self. For the sensory-minded person is steeped in self-love and love of the world, and the delights that are his go with those loves. And since the loves of a sensory-minded person are such as these, it is evident that he is cleverer than others in reasoning and in doing things for the sake of gain and position. For his body is burning with the fire of that love, and that fire produces a light that is called natural illumination. And when this light flares into brightness the light of heaven which belongs to the interior man is altogether blotted out. So it is that because the things belonging to the light of heaven are in thick darkness they are said not to exist. It is different in the case of those whose actions are burning with the fire of heaven and whose thoughts are lit by the light from it. All this shows what should be understood by good on the level of the senses, meant by the pedestal of the laver made from bronze.

Fußnoten:

1. literally, enclosing pieces

2. The rare Hebrew word here is usually taken to mean axles.

3. i.e. supports

4. literally, hands

5. literally, backs

  
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