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Hesekiel 41

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1 Und er führte mich hinein in den Tempel und maß die Pfeiler an den Wänden; die waren zu jeder Seite sechs Ellen breit, soweit das Haus war.

2 Und die Tür war zehn Ellen weit; aber die Wände zu beiden Seiten an der Tür waren jede fünf Ellen breit. Und er maß den Raum im Tempel; der hatte vierzig Ellen in die Länge und zwanzig Ellen in die Breite.

3 Und er ging inwendig hinein und maß die Pfeiler der Tür zwei Ellen; und die Tür hatte sechs Ellen, und die Breite zu beiden Seiten an der Tür je sieben Ellen.

4 Und er maß zwanzig Ellen in die Breite am Tempel. Und er sprach zu mir: Dies ist das Allerheiligste.

5 Und er maß die Wand des Hauses sechs Ellen dick. Daran waren Gänge allenthalben herum, geteilt in Gemächer, die waren allenthalben vier Ellen weit.

6 Und derselben Gemächer waren je dreißig, dreimal übereinander, und reichten bis auf die Wand des Hauses, an der die Gänge waren allenthalben herum, und wurden also festgehalten, daß sie in des Hauses Wand nicht eingriffen.

7 Und die Gänge rings um das Haus her mit ihren Gemächern waren umso weiter, je höher sie lagen; und aus dem untern ging man in den mittleren und aus dem mittleren in den obersten.

8 Und ich sah am Hause eine Erhöhung ringsumher als Grundlage der Gänge, die hatte eine volle Rute von sechs Ellen bis an den Rand.

9 Und die Breite der Wand außen an den Gängen war fünf Ellen; und es war ein freigelassener Raum an den Gemächern am Hause.

10 Und die Breite bis zu den Kammern war zwanzig Ellen um das Haus herum.

11 Und es waren zwei Türen an den Gängen nach dem freigelassenen Raum, eine gegen Mitternacht, die andere gegen Mittag; und der freigelassene Raum war fünf Ellen weit ringsumher.

12 Und das Gebäude am Hofraum gegen Abend war siebzig Ellen weit und die Mauer des Gebäudes war fünf Ellen breit allenthalben umher, und es war neunzig Ellen lang.

13 Und er maß die Länge des Hauses, die hatte hundert Ellen; und der Hofraum samt dem Gebäude und seinen Mauern war auch hundert Ellen lang.

14 Und die Weite der vordern Seite des Hauses samt dem Hofraum gegen Morgen war auch hundert Ellen.

15 Und er maß die Länge des Gebäudes am Hofraum, welches hinter ihm liegt, mit seinen Umgängen von der Seite bis zur andern hundert Ellen, und den innern Tempel und die Hallen im Vorhofe

16 samt den Schwellen, den engen Fenstern und den drei Umgängen ringsumher; und es war Tafelwerk allenthalben herum.

17 Er maß auch, wie hoch von der Erde bis zu den Fenstern war und wie breit die Fenster sein sollten; und maß vom Tor bis zum Allerheiligsten auswendig und inwendig herum.

18 Und am ganzen Hause herum waren Cherubim und Palmlaubwerk zwischen die Cherubim gemacht.

19 Und ein jeder Cherub hatte zwei Angesichter: auf einer Seite wie ein Menschenkopf, auf der andern Seite wie ein Löwenkopf.

20 Vom Boden an bis hinauf über die Tür waren die Cherubim und die Palmen geschnitzt, desgleichen an der Wand des Tempels.

21 Und die Türpfosten im Tempel waren viereckig, und war alles artig aneinander gefügt.

22 Und der hölzerne Altar war drei Ellen hoch und zwei Ellen lang und breit, und seine Ecken und alle seine Seiten waren hölzern. und er sprach zu mir: Das ist der Tisch, der vor dem HERRN stehen soll.

23 Und die Türen am Tempel und am Allerheiligsten

24 hatten zwei Türflügel, und ein jeder derselben hatte zwei Blätter, die man auf und zu tat.

25 Und waren auch Cherubim und Palmlaubwerk daran wie an den Wänden. Und ein hölzerner Aufgang war außen vor der Halle.

26 Und es waren enge Fenster und viel Palmlaubwerk herum an der Halle und an den Wänden.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9659

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9659. 'And there shall be eight boards and their bases [made] from silver' means support in every respect from good and through truth that springs from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'eight' as what is so in every respect, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'boards' as good that lends support, dealt with in 9634; and from the meaning of 'bases [made] from silver' as support provided through truth from good, dealt with in 9643.

[2] 'Eight' means in every respect because this number has the same meaning as two and four, being the product of these when multiplied together. 'Two' and 'four' mean being joined together, completely so, 5194, 8423, 8877, and consequently also mean what is complete, 9103, and therefore what is so in every respect; for what exists in completeness does so in every respect. Another reason why 'eight' means what exists in completeness and in every respect is that since 'a week' means a whole period from beginning to end, 2044, 3845, 'the eighth day' means a complete state, from which a new beginning then commences. This explains why males had to be circumcised on the eighth day, Genesis 17:12; 21:4, for circumcision was a sign of purification from foul kinds of love by means of the truth of faith, 2039, 2046 (end), 2799, 3412, 3413, 4462. The foreskin corresponded to the defilement of good by those kinds of love, 4462, 7045, 7225, and the knife of flint with which circumcision was carried out was a sign of the truth of faith by means of which purification was accomplished, 2039 (end), 2046 (end), 2799, 7044.

[3] What exists in completeness and in every respect is also meant by 'eight' following 'seven' in Micah,

When Asshur comes into our land and treads our palaces we will set up over him seven shepherds and eight princes of men (homo), and they will feed 1 the land of Asshur with the sword; and he will deliver [us] from Asshur. Micah 5:5-6.

'Asshur' stands for reasoning on the basis of one's own intelligence about the Church's forms of good and its truths. Deliverance totally or in every respect from consequent falsity is meant by 'eight princes of men' who will bring destruction, 'princes of men' being the leading truths that rise out of good.

[4] The fact that 'eight' means completeness and in every respect is also clear from an experience I had involving the admission and reception of some communities into heaven, about which see 2130. I saw as many as twelve communities received first, and after them as many as eight more; for people admitted and received into heaven are those who have been purified from earthly things, that is, from all love of them, and have gone on to receive instruction. The number eight on that occasion was a sign of that which was complete.

[5] 'Eight' has a similar meaning elsewhere in the Word, for example where it says that the portico of the gateway was 'eight cubits' long from the house, and that there were 'eight steps' up to the house, in Ezekiel 40:9, 31, 41. The description there is of the new house, by which the Lord's New Church is meant, truths leading to good and from good back to truths being meant by 'the portico' and 'the steps'.

[6] Anyone who does not know that spiritual realities or real things are implied by the numbers used in the Word cannot possibly see any such reality nor thus anything holy in the measures and numbers where the tabernacle, Solomon's temple, and after these the new house, new temple, and new land in Ezekiel, are described, when yet not a syllable in the Word is devoid of spiritual meaning. Let all who have intelligence weigh up in their mind what the measures and numbers in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel really mean, also the measures and numbers in John, at Revelation 21:17, where it says that the angel measured the wall of the new Jerusalem, a hundred and forty-four cubits, and that this measure was that of a man (homo), that is, of an angel, and also in the following, besides many other places,

Let him who has intelligence reckon the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man (homo), that is, its number is six hundred and sixty-six. Revelation 13:18.

For more about all numbers in the Word, that they mean spiritual realities or real things, see 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 5291, 5335, 5708, 6175, 7973, and places where the specific meaning of certain numbers has been shown.

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5335. 'And Joseph was a son of thirty years' means a state when the quantity of remnants was complete. This is clear from the meaning of 'thirty' as a completed number of remnants, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'years' as states, dealt with in 482, 487, 488, 493, 893. In the Word the number thirty can mean some existence of conflict, or else it can mean a completed number of remnants. The reason why that number has this twofold meaning is that it is arrived at by multiplying five and six, or else by multiplying three and ten. When it is the product of five times six it means some existence of conflict, 2276, because 'five' means some, 649, 4638, 5291, and 'six' conflict, 720, 737, 900, 1709. But when thirty is the product of three times ten it means a completed number of remnants, because 'three' means that which is complete, 2788, 4495, and 'ten' means remnants, 576, 1906, 2284. A composite number implies much the same as the simple ones of which it is the product, 5291. Remnants are the truths joined to good which have been stored away by the Lord in a person's interior parts, see 468, 530, 560, 561, 576, 660, 1050, 1738, 1906, 2284, 5135.

[2] A completed number of remnants is likewise meant by 'thirty' - as it is also by 'sixty', and by 'a hundred' too - in Mark,

The seed which fell into good ground yielded fruit growing up and increasing. One bore thirty-fold, and another sixty, and another a hundred. Mark 4:8, 10.

Each of these numbers, being a multiple of ten, means a completed number of remnants. Also, because no one can be regenerated - that is, permitted to enter into spiritual temptations, by means of which regeneration is effected - until he has received a completed number of remnants, it was therefore laid down that no Levite should carry out any work in the tent of meeting until he was fully thirty years old. Their work or function is also called 'military service', being referred to in Moses as follows,

Take a census of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi - from sons thirty years of age and over, up to sons fifty years of age, everyone coming to perform military service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. Numbers 4:2-3.

Much the same is said regarding the sons of Gershon, and much the same regarding the sons of Merari, in verses 22, 23, 29, 30, and then in verses 35, 39, 43. Of that same chapter in Moses. And something similar is implied where it says that David began to reign when he was a son thirty years of age, 2 Samuel 5:4.

[3] From all this one may now see why the Lord did not make Himself known until He was thirty years of age, Luke 3:23. At that age a completed number of remnants existed with Him, though these remnants which the Lord possessed were ones that He Himself had acquired for Himself. They were also Divine ones and the means by which He united His Human Essence to His Divine Essence and made that Human Essence Divine, 1906. In Him therefore lies the reason why 'thirty years' means a state when the quantity of remnants is complete and why the priests the Levites began to perform their specific functions when they were thirty years old. And because he was to represent the Lord's kingship, David did not begin to reign until he was that same age. For every representative is derived from the Lord, and therefore every representative has reference to Him.

  
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