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1 그가 나를 데리고 전 문에 이르시니 전의 전면이 동을 향하였는데 그 문지방 밑에서 물이 나와서 동으로 흐르다가 전 우편 제단남편으로 흘러 내리더라

2 그가 또 나를 데리고 북문으로 나가서 바깥 길로 말미암아 꺾여 동향한 바깥 문에 이르시기로 본즉 물이 그 우편에서 스미어 나오더라

3 그 사람이 손에 줄을 잡고 동으로 나아가며 일천척을 척량한 후에 나로 그 물을 건너게 하시니 물이 발목에 오르더니

4 다시 일천척을 척량하고 나로 물을 건너게 하시니 물이 무릎에 오르고 다시 일천척을 척량하고 나로 물을 건너게 하시니 물이 허리에 오르고

5 다시 일천척을 척량하시니 물이 내가 건너지 못할 강이 된지라 그 물이 창일하여 헤엄할 물이요 사람이 능히 건너지 못할 강이더라

6 그가 내게 이르시되 인자야 네가 이것을 보았느냐 하시고 나를 인도하여 강가로 돌아가게 하시기로

7 내가 돌아간즉 강 좌우편에 나무가 심히 많더라

8 그가 내게 이르시되 이 물이 동방으로 향하여 흘러 아라바로 내려가서 바다에 이르리니 이 흘러 내리는 물로 그 바다의 물이 소성함을 얻을지라

9 이 강물이 이르는 곳마다 번성하는 모든 생물이 살고 또 고기가 심히 많으리니 이 물이 흘러 들어 가므로 바닷물이 소성함을 얻겠고 이 강이 이르는 각처에 모든 것이 살 것이며

10 또 이 강 가에 어부가 설 것이니 엔게디에서부터 에네글라임까지 그물 치는 곳이 될 것이라 그 고기가 각기 종류를 따라 큰 바다의 고기 같이 심히 많으려니와

11 그 진펄과 개펄은 소성되지 못하고 소금 땅이 될 것이며

12 강 좌우 가에는 각종 먹을 실과나무가 자라서 그 잎이 시들지 아니하며 실과가 끊치지 아니하고 달마다 새 실과를 맺으리니 그 물이 성소로 말미암아 나옴이라 그 실과는 먹을만하고 그 잎사귀는 약 재료가 되리라

13 나 주 여호와가 말하노라 너희는 이 지계대로 이스라엘 십 이 지파에게 이 땅을 나누어 기업이 되게 하되 요셉에게는 두 분깃이니라

14 내가 옛적에 맹세하여 이 땅으로 너희 열조에게 주마 하였었나니 너희는 피차 없이 나누어 기업을 삼으라 이 땅이 너희의 기업이 되리라

15 이 땅 지계는 이러하니라 북방은 대해에서 헤들론 길로 말미암아 스닷 어귀까지니

16 곧 하맛과 브로다며 다메섹 지계와 하맛 지계 사이에 있는 시브라임과 하우란 지계 곁에 있는 하셀핫디곤이라

17 그 지계가 바닷가에서부터 다메섹과 지계에 있는 하살에논까지요 그 지계가 또 극북방에 있는 하맛 지계에 미쳤나니 이는 그 북방이요

18 동방은 하우란과 다메섹과 및 길르앗과 이스라엘 땅 사이에 있는 요단강이니 북편 지계에서부터 동해까지 척량하라 이는 그 동방이요

19 남방은 다말에서부터 므리봇 가데스 물에 이르고 애굽 시내를 따라 대해에 이르나니 이는 그 남방이요

20 서방은 대해라 남편 지계에서부터 맞은편 하맛 어귀까지 이르나니 이는 그 서방이니라

21 그런즉 너희가 이스라엘 모든 지파대로 이 땅을 나누어 차지하라

22 너희는 이 땅을 나누되 제비 뽑아 너희와 너희 가운데 우거하는 외인 곧 너희 가운데서 자녀를 낳은 자의 기업이 되게 할지니 너희는 그 외인을 본토에서 난 이스라엘 족속같이 여기고 그들로 이스라엘 지파 중에서 너희와 함께 기업을 얻게 하되

23 외인이 우거하는 그 지파에서 그 기업을 줄지니라 나 주 여호와의 말이니라

   

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Arcana Coelestia #886

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886. That 'olive' means the good that stems from charity is clear not only from the meaning of 'olive' but also from the meaning of 'oil' in the Word. Olive oil in addition to spices was used to anoint priests and kings, and it was also used in the lamps. Concerning the former, see Exodus 30:24, and the latter, Exodus 27:20. The reason olive oil was used in anointing and in lamps was that it represented everything celestial and so everything good that stems from love and charity. Oil is in fact the essential element of the tree, its soul so to speak, as the celestial or the good that stems from love and charity is the essential element or soul itself of faith. This is the origin of its representation. That 'oil' means that which is celestial or the good that stems from love and charity may be confirmed from many places in the Word, but since the olive itself is referred to here, let some that confirm the meaning solely of the olive be quoted. In Jeremiah,

Jehovah called your name, Green Olive Tree, fair with shapely fruit. Jeremiah 11:16.

The name given here applies to the Most Ancient or celestial Church, which was the basis of the Jewish Church. Consequently all the representatives of the Jewish Church had regard to celestial things, and through the latter to the Lord.

[2] In Hosea,

His branches will go out and his beauty will be like the olive, and his smell like that of Lebanon. Hosea 14:6.

This refers to the Church that is to be established. Its beauty is 'the olive', that is, the good that stems from love and charity, while 'the smell like that of Lebanon' is resulting affection for the truth of faith. 'Lebanon' stands for its cedars, which meant spiritual things, or the truths of faith.

In Zechariah,

Two olive trees beside the lampstand, one on the right of the bowl and one on the left of it. These are the two sons of pure oil, standing beside the Lord of the whole earth. Zechariah 4:3, 11, 14.

Here 'the two olive trees' stands for the celestial and the spiritual, and so for love which belongs to the celestial Church and for charity which belongs to the spiritual Church. These stand to the right and to the left of the Lord. 'The lampstand' here means the Lord, just as it used to represent Him in the Jewish Church. 'The lamps' are celestial things from which spiritual things radiate like rays of light, or light itself, from a flame. In David,

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine on the sides of your house, your sons will be like olive shoots. Psalms 128:3.

Here 'a wife like a vine' stands for the spiritual Church, and 'sons' stands for the truths of faith which are called 'olive shoots' because they stem from the goods of charity. In Isaiah,

Gleanings will be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries on the top of the [highest] branch. Isaiah 17:6.

This refers to the remnants residing with a person. 'Olives' stands for celestial remnants. In Micah,

You will tread olives but not anoint yourself with oil, and tread the new wine but not drink wine. Micah 6:15.

And in Moses,

You will plant and dress vineyards but not drink wine. You will have olive trees within all your borders but not anoint yourself with oil. Deuteronomy 28:39-40.

The subject here is the abundance of doctrinal detail concerning the goods and truths of faith which they rejected because of the kind of people they were. From these quotations it becomes clear that 'a leaf' means the truth of faith and 'olive' the good that stems from charity. And similar things are meant by 'the olive leaf which the dove was carrying in its mouth', that is, a small measure of the truth of faith deriving from the good that stems from charity was now showing itself with the member of the Ancient Church.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Exodus 30

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1 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

2 Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.

4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.

5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.

10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."

11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

12 "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.

13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

14 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."

17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

18 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.

20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."

22 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

23 "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;

24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.

25 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony,

27 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,

28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.

29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.

31 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.

32 It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you.

33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"

34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight;

35 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:

36 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.

37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.

38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."