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Ezechiele 10

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1 Io guardai, ed ecco, sulla distesa sopra il capo dei cherubini, v’era come una pietra di zaffiro; si vedeva come una specie di trono che stava sopra loro.

2 E l’Eterno parlò all’uomo vestito di lino, e disse: "Va’ fra le ruote sotto i cherubini, empiti le mani di carboni ardenti tolti di fra i cherubini, e spargili sulla città". Ed egli v’andò in mia presenza.

3 Or i cherubini stavano al lato destro della casa, quando l’uomo entrò là; e la nuvola riempì il cortile interno.

4 E la gloria dell’Eterno s’alzò di sui cherubini, movendo verso la soglia della casa; e la casa fu ripiena della nuvola; e il cortile fu ripieno dello splendore della gloria dell’Eterno.

5 E il rumore delle ali dei cherubini s’udì fino al cortile esterno, simile alla voce dell’Iddio onnipotente quand’egli parla.

6 E quando l’Eterno ebbe dato all’uomo vestito di lino l’ordine di prender del fuoco di fra le ruote che son tra i cherubini, quegli venne a fermarsi presso una delle ruote.

7 E uno dei cherubini stese la mano fra gli altri cherubini verso il fuoco ch’era fra i cherubini, ne prese e lo mise nelle mani dell’uomo vestito di lino, che lo ricevette, ed uscì.

8 Or ai cherubini si vedeva una forma di mano d’uomo sotto alle ali.

9 E io guardai, ed ecco quattro ruote presso ai cherubini, una ruota presso ogni cherubino; e le ruote avevano l’aspetto d’una pietra di crisolito.

10 E, a vederle, tutte e quattro avevano una medesima forma, come se una ruota passasse attraverso all’altra.

11 Quando si movevano, si movevano dai loro quattro lati; e, movendosi, non si voltavano, ma seguivano la direzione del luogo verso il quale guardava il capo, e, andando, non si voltavano.

12 E tutto il corpo dei cherubini, i loro dossi, le loro mani, le loro ali, come pure le ruote, le ruote di tutti e quattro, eran pieni d’occhi tutto attorno.

13 E udii che le ruote eran chiamate "Il Turbine".

14 E ogni cherubino aveva quattro facce: la prima faccia era una faccia di cherubino; la seconda faccia, una faccia d’uomo; la terza, una faccia di leone; la quarta, una faccia d’aquila.

15 E i cherubini s’alzarono. Erano gli stessi esseri viventi, che avevo veduti presso il fiume Kebar.

16 E quando i cherubini si movevano, anche le ruote si movevano allato a loro; e quando i cherubini spiegavano le ali per alzarsi da terra, anche le ruote non deviavano da presso a loro.

17 Quando quelli si fermavano, anche queste si fermavano; quando quelli s’innalzavano, anche queste s’innalzavano con loro, perché lo spirito degli esseri viventi era in esse.

18 E la gloria dell’Eterno si partì di sulla soglia della casa, e si fermò sui cherubini.

19 E i cherubini spiegarono le loro ali e s’innalzarono su dalla terra; e io li vidi partire, con le ruote allato a loro. Si fermarono all’ingresso della porta orientale della casa dell’Eterno; e la gloria dell’Iddio d’Israele stava sopra di loro, su in alto.

20 Erano gli stessi esseri viventi, che avevano veduti sotto l’Iddio d’Israele presso il fiume Kebar; e riconobbi che erano cherubini.

21 Ognun d’essi avevan quattro facce, ognuno quattro ali; e sotto le loro ali appariva la forma di mani d’uomo.

22 E quanto all’aspetto delle loro facce, eran le facce che avevo vedute presso il fiume Kebar; erano gli stessi aspetti, i medesimi cherubini. Ognuno andava dritto davanti a sé.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #487

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487. "But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it." (11:2) This symbolically means that the state of the church on earth, as it is still, must be set aside and not learned.

The court outside the temple symbolizes the church on earth, because that church is outside heaven, heaven being the temple (no. 486). To leave out means, symbolically, to remove, here to remove from heaven, because its state is of such a character. And not to measure means, symbolically, not to learn or investigate its character (no. 486). The reason follows: "for has been given to the gentiles, and they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months."

That the court outside the temple here symbolizes the church on earth as it is still, is apparent from the following particulars in this chapter, where it is described by the great city called Sodom and Egypt, in which the Lord's two witnesses lay dead, and which afterward fell in a great earthquake, and seven thousand people by name were killed in it - and many other particulars besides.

[2] Elsewhere in the Word the court symbolizes the outward aspect of the church. For there were two courts 1 to be crossed when entering the Temple itself in Jerusalem, and as the Temple symbolized the church in respect to its inner aspect, therefore the courts symbolized the church in respect to its outward one. Consequently strangers who came from the surrounding nations were admitted into the courts, but not into the Temple itself.

Moreover, because the court symbolized the outward aspect of the church, it symbolized therefore also the church on earth, and heaven as well in its outmost manifestations, inasmuch as the church on earth is an entryway into heaven, and so is heaven in its outmost manifestations.

[3] A court has this symbolic meaning in the following places:

Blessed is he whom You choose... He shall dwell in Your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, with the holiness of Your temple. (Psalms 65:4)

Praise the name of Jehovah..., O you... who stand in (His) house, in the courts of the house of our God. (Psalms 135:1-2)

How lovely are Your habitations, O Jehovah...! My soul... indeed faints for the courts of Jehovah. (Psalms 84:1-2)

Enter into His gates with confession, His courts with praise. (Psalms 100:4)

The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree... Those who are planted in the house of Jehovah shall sprout in the courts of our God. (Psalms 92:12-13)

...a day in Your courts is better than thousands. I have chosen to stand at the door in the house of my God... (Psalms 84:10)

And so on elsewhere, as in Psalms 96:8; 116:18-19, Isaiah 1:12; 62:9, Zechariah 3:7, Ezekiel 10:3-5.

Regarding the courts of the Temple in Jerusalem, see 1 Kings 6:36; 7:12.

Regarding the courts of the new Temple, Ezekiel 40:17-44; 42:1-14; 43:4-7.

And regarding the court outside the Tabernacle, Exodus 27:9-18.

Notes de bas de page:

1. I.e., the inner court or court of priests, and the outer court or great court. See 1 Kings 6:36; 7:12

  
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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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Ezekiel 42:1-14

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1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the room that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north.

2 Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

3 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and Over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.

4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.

6 For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.

7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.

8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.

9 From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms.

11 The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

12 According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.

13 Then he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, they are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

14 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people.