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Ezechiel 43

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1 Potom vedl mne k bráně, kterážto brána patřila k východu.

2 A aj, sláva Boha Izraelského přicházela od východu, jejíž zvuk byl jako zvuk vod mnohých, a země svítila se od slávy jeho.

3 A podobné bylo to vidění, kteréž jsem viděl, právě tomu vidění, kteréž jsem byl viděl, když jsem šel, abych kazil město, vidění, pravím, podobná vidění onomu, kteréž jsem viděl při řece Chebar. I padl jsem na tvář svou.

4 A když sláva Boží vcházela do domu, cestou brány patřící k východu,

5 Tedy pojal mne Duch, a uvedl mne do síně vnitřní, a aj, dům plný byl slávy Hospodinovy.

6 I slyšel jsem, an mluví ke mně z domu, a muž stál podlé mne.

7 I řekl mi: Synu člověčí, místo stolice mé a místo šlepějí noh mých, kdežto bydliti budu u prostřed synů Izraelských na věky, a nebudou poškvrňovati více dům Izraelský jména svatosti mé, oni ani králové jejich smilstvím svým a mrtvými těly králů svých, ani výsostmi svými,

8 Když kladli prah svůj podlé prahu mého, a veřeji svou podlé veřeje mé, a stěnu mezi mnou a mezi sebou, a tak poškvrňovali jména svatosti mé ohavnostmi svými, kteréž páchali, pročež jsem je sehltil v hněvě svém.

9 Ale nyní vzdálí smilství svá i mrtvá těla králů svých, ode mne, a budu bydliti u prostřed nich na věky.

10 Ty synu člověčí, oznam domu Izraelskému o tomto domu, a nechť se zahanbí pro nepravosti své, a ať změří všecko naskrze.

11 A když se hanbiti budou za všecko, což páchali, způsob domu i formu jeho, i vycházení jeho, též vcházení jeho, i všecky způsoby jeho, všecka ustanovení jeho, všecky, pravím, způsoby jeho i všecky zákony jeho v známost jim uveď, a napiš před očima jejich, ať ostříhají všeho způsobu jeho i všech ustanovení jeho a činí je.

12 Tento jest zákon toho domu: Na vrchu hory všecko obmezení jeho vůkol a vůkol, nejsvětějšíť jest. Aj, ten jest zákon toho domu.

13 Tyto pak jsou míry oltáře na též lokty, o dlaň delší: Předně zpodek lokte zvýší a lokte zšíří, obruba pak jeho při kraji jeho vůkol pídi jedné. Takový jest výstupek oltáře,

14 Totiž od zpodku při zemi až do přepásaní dolejšího dva lokty, širokost pak lokte jednoho, a od přepásání menšího až do přepásaní většího čtyři lokty, širokost též na loket.

15 Ale sám oltář ať jest čtyř loket, a z oltáře zhůru čtyři rohové.

16 Oltář pak dvanácti loket zdélí a dvanácti zšíří, čtyřhranatý po čtyřech stranách svých.

17 Přepásaní pak čtrnácti loket zdélí a čtrnácti zšíří po čtyřech stranách jeho, a obruba vůkol něho na půl lokte, a zpodek při něm na loket vůkol, a stupňové jeho naproti východu.

18 I řekl ke mně: Synu člověčí, takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Ta jsou ustanovení oltáře v den, v kterýž bude udělán, k obětování na něm zápalů a kropení na něj krví.

19 Nebo dáš kněžím Levítským, kteříž jsou z semene Sádochova, kteříž přistupují ke mně, dí Panovník Hospodin, aby mi sloužili, volka mladého za hřích.

20 A nabera krve jeho, dáš na čtyři rohy jeho, i na čtyři úhly toho přepásaní, i na obrubu vůkol, a tak jej očistíš i vyčistíš.

21 A vezmeš toho volka za hřích, i spálí jej na místě uloženém v tom domě, vně před svatyní.

22 V den pak druhý obětovati budeš kozla bez poškvrny za hřích, a očistí oltář, tak jakž vyčistili volkem.

23 A když dokonáš očišťování, obětuj volka mladého bez vady, a skopce z stáda bez poškvrny.

24 Kteréž když obětovati budeš před Hospodinem, uvrhou kněží na ně soli, a budou je obětovati v zápal Hospodinu.

25 Po sedm dní obětuj kozla za hřích, na každý den; též i volka mladého a skopce z stáda bez poškvrny obětovati budou.

26 Sedm dní očišťovati budou oltář, a vyčistí jej, a posvětí ruky své.

27 A když vyplní ty dny, osmého dne i potom obětovati budou kněží na oltáři zápaly vaše, a pokojné oběti vaše, i přijmu vás laskavě, praví Panovník Hospodin.

   

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486. And the angel stood by, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there." This symbolizes the Lord's presence and His command to see and learn the state of the church in the New Heaven.

The Lord is meant by the angel, here as in nos. 5, 415, and elsewhere, since an angel does nothing of himself but is impelled by the Lord. That is why the angel said, "I will give power to my two witnesses" (verse 3), when they were the Lord's witnesses. The angel's standing by symbolizes the Lord's presence, and his speaking symbolizes the Lord's command. To rise and measure means, symbolically, to see and learn. We will see below that to measure means, symbolically, to learn and investigate the character of a state.

The temple, altar, and those who worship there symbolize the state of the church in the New Heaven - the temple symbolizing the church in respect to its doctrinal truth (no. 191), the altar symbolizing the church in respect to the goodness of its love (no. 392), and those who worship there symbolizing the church in respect to its formal worship as a result of those two elements. Those who worship symbolize here the reverence that is a part of formal worship, since the spiritual sense is a sense abstracted from persons (nos. 78, 79, 96), as is apparent here also from the fact that John is told to measure the worshipers. These three elements are what form the church: doctrinal truth, goodness of love, and formal worship as a result of these.

[2] That the church meant is the church in the New Heaven is apparent from the last verse of this chapter, where we are told that "the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple" (verse 19).

This chapter begins with the measuring of the temple in order that the state of the church in heaven might be seen and learned before its conjunction with the church in the world. The church in the world is meant by the court outside the temple, which John was not to measure, because it had been given to the gentiles (verse 2). The same church is then described by the great city called Sodom and Egypt (verses 7, 8). But after that great city fell (verse 13), it follows that the church became the Lord's (verses 15ff.).

It should be known that the church exists in the heavens just as on earth, and that the two are united like the inner and outer selves in people. Consequently the Lord provides the church in heaven first, and from it, or by means of it, then the church on earth. That is why the New Jerusalem is said to come down from God out of the New Heaven (Revelation 21:1-2).

The New Heaven means a new heaven formed from Christians, as described several times in the following chapters.

[3] To measure means, symbolically, to learn and investigate the character of a thing because the measure of something symbolizes its character or state. All the measurements of the New Jerusalem (chapter 21) have this symbolic meaning, as does the statement there that the angel who had the gold reed measured the city and its gates, and that he measured the wall to be one hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man which is that of an angel (verses 15, 17). Moreover, because the New Jerusalem symbolizes the New Church, is it apparent that to measure it and its component parts means, symbolically, to learn its character.

Measuring has the same symbolic meaning in Ezekiel, where we read that an angel measured the house of God: the temple, the altar, the court, and the chambers (Ezekiel 40:3-17; 41:1-5, 13-14, 22; 42:1-20, and 43:1-27). Also that he measured the waters (47:3-5, 9). Therefore the prophet is told:

...show the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the pattern... and... its exits and its entrances, and all its patterns..., so that they may keep its whole design... (Ezekiel 43:10-11)

Measuring has the same symbolic meaning in the following places:

I raised my eyes..., and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem...." (Zechariah 2:1-2)

He stood and measured the earth. (Habakkuk 3:6)

(The Lord Jehovih) has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and gauged heaven with a span... and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance. (Isaiah 40:12)

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? ...Who determined its measurements? ...Or who stretched the line upon it? (Job 38:4-5)

  
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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 40

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1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.

2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.

3 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

4 The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.

5 Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

6 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.

7 Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

10 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

11 He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

13 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door.

14 He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts, around the gate.

15 [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

16 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.

17 Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were rooms and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty rooms were on the pavement.

18 The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.

19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.

20 The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured its length and its breadth.

21 The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

22 The windows of it, and its arches, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before them.

23 There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits.

24 He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures.

25 There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

26 There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.

27 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.

28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

29 and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.

30 There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad.

31 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

32 He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;

33 and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.

34 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

35 He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;

36 its lodges, its posts, and its arches: and there were windows therein all around; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

37 The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

38 A room with its door was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.

39 In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

40 On the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.

41 Four tables were on this side, and Four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed [the sacrifices].

42 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

43 The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within all around: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

44 Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.

45 He said to me, This room, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house;

46 and the room whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.

47 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.

48 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.