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Izlazak 38

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1 Od bagremova drva napravi žrtvenik za žrtve paljenice, pet lakata dug, pet lakata širok - u četvorinu - a tri lakta visok.

2 Na njegova četiri ugla načini mu četiri roga. Rogovi su bili u jednom komadu s njim. Onda ga obloži tučem.

3 A načini i sav pribor za žrtvenik: lonce, strugače, kotliće, viljuške i kadionike; sav mu je ovaj pribor načinio od tuča.

4 Za žrtvenik zatim načini rešetku u obliku mrežice od tuča ispod izbočine; zahvaćala mu je do sredine.

5 Salije četiri koluta na četiri ugla tučane rešetke da služe kao kvake za motke.

6 Motke načini od bagremova drva pa ih obloži tučem.

7 Onda provuče motke kroz kolutove na objema stranama žrtvenika da se na njima nosi. Napravio ga je šuplja - od dasaka.

8 A zatim, od zrcala žena koje su posluživale na vratima Šatora sastanka, načini tučani umivaonik i tučani stalak za nj.

9 Onda načini dvorište. Na južnoj strani dvorišta bijahu zavjese od prepredenog lana, stotinu lakata duge.

10 Njihovih dvadeset stupova sa dvadeset podnožja bilo je od tuča, dok su kuke na stupovima i njihove šipke bile od srebra.

11 Od stotinu lakata bile su zavjese i sa sjeverne strane. Njihovih dvadeset stupova sa dvadeset podnožja bilo je od tuča, dok su kuke na stupovima i njihove šipke bile od srebra.

12 Sa zapadne strane bijahu zavjese od pedeset lakata, sa deset stupova i deset njihovih podnožja. Kuke su na stupovima i njihove šipke bile od srebra.

13 Sprijeda, s istoka, zavjese od pedeset lakata.

14 S jedne strane vrata zavjese su bile petnaest lakata, sa tri stupca i njihova tri podnožja.

15 Tako i s druge strane - dakle, na obje strane dvorišnih vrata - bile su zavjese od petnaest lakata, sa tri stupca i njihova tri podnožja.

16 Sve su zavjese oko dvorišta bile od prepredenog lana.

17 Podnožja za stupove bila su od tuča, a kuke na stupovima i njihove šipke od srebra. Vrhovi stupova bili su srebrom obloženi. Sve šipke na dvorišnim stupovima bijahu od srebra.

18 Zavjesa na dvorišnim vratima - izvezena - bila je od ljubičastog, crvenog i tamnocrvenog prediva i prepredenog lana. Dvadeset je lakata bila duga; visoka, po širini, pet lakata kao i dvorišne zavjese.

19 Bila su četiri njihova stupa sa četiri podnožja od tuča. Kuke na stupovima bile su od srebra. Vrhovi stupova bili su srebrom obloženi, a njihove šipke bile su srebrne.

20 Svi kočići unutar Prebivališta bili su od tuča.

21 To je popis stvari za Prebivalište - Prebivalište Svjedočanstva, koji je sastavljen na zapovijed Mojsijevu trudom levita pod vodstvom Itamara, sina svećenika Arona.

22 Besalel, Urijev sin, iz koljena Hurova od plemena Judina napravio je sve što je Jahve Mojsiju naredio.

23 S njim je bio Oholiab, sin Ahisamakov, iz plemena Danova, rezbar, krojač i vezilac za ljubičasto, crveno i tamnocrveno predivo i prepredeni lan.

24 Sve zlato što je utrošeno u radove oko Svetišta - zlato posvećeno prinosom - iznosilo je: dvadeset i devet talenata i sedam stotina trideset šekela u hramskim šekelima.

25 A srebro, sabrano prigodom upisivanja zajednice -

26 to jest beku po glavi, odnosno pola šekela prema hramskom šekelu, od svakoga koji je bio upisan, od dvadeset godina pa naprijed - iznosilo je: stotinu talenata i tisuću sedam stotina sedamdeset i pet šekela u hramskim šekelima. Bilo je upisanih: šest stotina tri tisuće i petsto pedeset.

27 Stotinu talenata srebra otišlo je za salijevanje podnožja Svetištu i zavjesi: sto podnožja od sto talenata - talenat za podnožje.

28 A od tisuću sedam stotina sedamdeset i pet šekela načinio je kuke za stupove, obložio njihove vrhove i napravio šipke za njih.

29 Tuč od žrtve prikaznice iznosio je sedamdeset talenata i dvije tisuće četiri stotine šekela.

30 Od njega je načinio: podnožja za ulaz u Šator sastanka, žrtvenik od tuča s njegovom tučanom rešetkom i sav pribor za žrtvenik;

31 dalje, podnožja oko dvorišta, podnožja za dvorišni ulaz; sve kočiće za Prebivalište i sve kočiće oko dvorišta.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#9688

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9688. 'The work of an embroiderer' means things that belong to factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'the work of an embroiderer', or embroidery, as factual knowledge. A large number of places in the Word speak of that which has been embroidered and of embroidery, and in every case factual knowledge is meant by it. The reason for this goes back to representatives in the next life; there garments embroidered in various ways are seen, and by these garments truths on the level of factual knowledge are meant.

[2] Truths on the level of factual knowledge differ from those on the level of the understanding in the same way as outward things differ from inward ones, or as the natural level with a person differs from the spiritual. Facts serve the understanding as objects from which it may deduce truths; for the power of understanding is the internal or spiritual man's power of sight, and known facts are its objects in the external or natural man. These facts are meant by 'the work of an embroiderer' whereas that power of understanding is meant by 'the work of a designer', 9598, for designing is a function of the understanding, and embroidering a function of the knowledge and skill employed by the understanding. This explains why the objects within the dwelling-place, which were signs meaning inner realities, were the work of a designer, such as the curtains that formed it, verse 1, and the veil between the holy place and the holy of holies, verse 31. But the objects which were signs meaning outer realities were the work of an embroiderer, such as the screen in place of a tent door, and the screen in place of a gate of the court, Exodus 38:18, and also the girdle, Exodus 39:29, 'the girdle' being what is external linking everything internal, 'the court' being the lowest part of heaven, and 'the tent door' the place where there is an exit from the middle heaven into the lowest.

[3] The fact that 'embroidery' and that which has been 'embroidered' mean factual knowledge belonging to the external or natural man is clear from the following places in the Word: In Ezekiel,

Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail; violet and purple from the islands of Elishah was your covering. Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks; [they exchanged for your wares] chrysoprase and purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen. The merchants of Sheba [came] with balls of violet and with embroidered work. Ezekiel 27:7, 16, 24.

This refers to Tyre, by which those in possession of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good are meant, and in the abstract sense those cognitions themselves, 1201. 'Fine linen with embroidery' means truth on the level of factual knowledge, for 'fine linen' means truth from a celestial origin, 5319, 9469, and 'embroidery' is factual knowledge. This also is the reason why it says that it came from Egypt - for 'Egypt' means factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 2588, 4749, 4964, 4966, 5700, 5702, 6004, 6015, 6125, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, 6750, 7779 (end), 9391 - and also from Syria and from Sheba, since cognitions of truth and good are meant by 'Syria', 1232, 1234, 3051, 3249, 3664, 3680, 4112, and in like manner by 'Sheba', 1171, 3240. Cognitions of truth and good constitute the Church's factual knowledge. Anybody endowed with the ability to think intelligently and weigh things up can see that in these verses from Ezekiel one should not understand embroidery, fine linen, violet, or purple, but that these commodities mean things such as are worthy of mention in the Word, namely spiritual realities that belong to heaven and the Church.

[4] In the same prophet,

All the princes of the sea will step down from upon their thrones, and will cast away their robes and will strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with tremblings. Ezekiel 26:16.

This too refers to Tyre. 'The princes of the sea' are the first and foremost known facts, which are called dogmas, 'princes' meaning things which are first and foremost, see 1482, 2089, 5044, and 'the sea' factual knowledge in general 28, 2850. 'Robes' are external truths, 'embroidered' are truths on the level of factual knowledge, which too are external ones. For the meaning of 'garments' as truths, 2576, 4545, 4763, 5248, 5319, 5954, 6914, 6917, 6918, 9093, 9158, 9212, 9216.

[5] In the same prophet,

I clothed you with embroidered cloth, and shod you with badger; I swathed you in fine linen and covered you with silk. Thus were you adorned with gold and silver; and your garments were fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. But you took your embroidered garments and covered the images, with which you committed whoredom. 1 Ezekiel 16:10, 13, 18.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which the Church is meant. 'Embroidered garments' stands for truths on the level of factual knowledge. 'Covering the images, with which she committed whoredom' stands for giving strength to falsities, for 'committing whoredom' means perverting truths by bringing them into contact with falsities or with evils. Is there anyone who cannot see that since these verses describe Jerusalem 'fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth' are not used to mean fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth? Yet what they really mean the Christian world does not seek to know, because it supposes that heavenly and spiritual matters in the Word reside in its literal sense; the more internal contents of the Word it calls mystical, but has no interest in them.

[6] In the same prophet,

A great eagle with great wings, with long pinions, full of feathers, 2 which had embroidery ... Ezekiel 17:3.

This refers to the house of Israel, which means the spiritual Church; and this Church is called 'an eagle' by virtue of its perception of truth, 3901, 8764, 'which had embroidery' standing for its possession of factual knowledge. In David,

All glorious is the king's daughter within, in her clothing with gold interweavings; in an embroidered [robe] she will be led to the king. Psalms 45:13-14.

'The king's daughter' stands for an affection for truth, 'an embroidered [robe]' for factual knowledge of truth. In the Book of Judges,

Will they not divide the spoil, ... the spoil of colours for Sisera, the spoil of colours of embroidered work, embroiderers' colour - on the necks of the spoil? 3 Judges 5:30.

In this verse, which is part of the Song of Deborah and Barak, 'embroidered [work]' stands for factual knowledge belonging to the natural man.

脚注:

1. Here verse 18 of Ezekiel 16 has become confused with the preceding verse 17.

2. literally, A great eagle, great with wings, long with pinions, and full with feathers,

3. The meaning in the Hebrew of this verse is very obscure. The Latin rendering by Sebastian Schmidt, which Swedenborg relies on here, is literal and equally difficult to make sense of.

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