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以西结书 40

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1 我们被掳掠第二十五年,耶路撒冷城攻破十四年,正在年初,之初十日,耶和华的灵(原文是)降在我身上,他把我到以色列地。

2 的异象中带我到以色列,安置在至上;在上的边有彷佛一座城建立。

3 我到那里,见有一,颜色(原文是形状)如铜,拿麻绳和量度的竿,站在门口

4 对我子啊,凡我所指示你的,你都要用眼,用耳,并要放在上。我带你到这里,特为要指示你;凡你所见的,你都要告诉以色列家。

5 我见殿四围有。那量度的竿,长肘,每肘是肘零掌。他用竿量,厚竿,高竿。

6 他到了朝东的,就上的台阶,量的这槛,宽竿;又量的那槛,宽竿。

7 又有卫房,每房长竿,宽竿,相隔五肘。槛,就是挨着向殿的廊槛,宽竿。

8 他又量向殿的廊子,宽竿。

9 又量廊,宽肘,墙柱厚肘;那的廊子向着殿。

10 洞有卫房:这旁间,那旁间,都是样的尺寸;这边的柱子和那边的柱子,也是样的尺寸。

11 他量门口,宽肘,长十三肘。

12 卫房前展出的境界:这边肘,那边肘;卫房这边肘,那边肘。

13 又量洞,从这卫房顶的後檐到那卫房顶的後檐,宽二十五肘;卫房相对。

14 又量(原文是造)廊子六十肘(七十士译本是二十肘),墙柱外是院子,有廊为界,在洞两边。

15 从大门口到内廊前,共五十肘。

16 卫房和洞两旁柱间并廊子,都有严紧的窗棂;里边都有窗棂,柱上有雕刻的棕树。

17 我到外院,见院的四围有铺石地;铺石地上有屋子三十间。

18 铺石地,就是矮铺石地在各洞两旁,以洞的长短为度。

19 他从下量到内院外,共宽一肘,东面面都是如此。

20 他量外院朝,长宽若干。

21 洞的卫房,这旁间,那旁间。洞的柱子和廊子,与第一的尺寸一样。洞长五十肘,宽二十五肘。

22 其窗棂和廊子,并雕刻的棕树,与朝东的尺寸一样。登层台阶上到这

23 内院有与这相对,面东面都是如此。他从这量到那,共一肘。

24 他带我往去,见朝,又照先前的尺寸量洞的柱子和廊子。

25 门洞两旁与廊子的周围都有窗棂,和先量的窗棂一样。门洞长五十肘,宽二十五肘。

26 层台阶上到这门,前面有廊子,柱上有雕刻的棕树,这边棵,那边棵。

27 内院朝。从这量到朝的那,共一肘。

28 我从到内院,就照先前的尺寸量

29 卫房和柱子,并廊子都照先前的尺寸。门洞两旁与廊子的周围都有窗棂。门洞长五十肘,宽二十五肘。

30 周围有廊子,长二十五肘,宽五肘。

31 廊子朝着外院,柱上有雕刻的棕树。登层台阶,上到这门。

32 我到内院的东面,就照先前的尺寸量东

33 卫房和柱子,并廊子都照先前的尺寸。门洞两旁与廊子的周围都有窗棂。门洞长五十肘,宽二十五肘。

34 廊子朝着外院。门洞两旁的柱子,都有雕刻的棕树。登层台阶,上到这门。

35 我到,就照先前的尺寸量那

36 就是量卫房和柱子,并廊子。门洞周围都有窗棂;门洞长五十肘,宽二十五肘。

37 廊柱朝着外院。门洞两旁的柱子都有雕刻的棕树。登层台阶,上到这门。

38 洞的柱旁有屋子和;祭司(原文是他们)在那里洗燔祭牲。

39 廊内,这边有两张桌子,那边有两张桌子,在其上可以宰杀燔祭牲、赎祭牲,和赎愆祭牲。

40 上到朝门口,这边有两张桌子廊那边也有两张桌子

41 这边有桌子,那边有桌子,共张;在其上祭司宰杀牺牲。

42 为燔祭牲有桌子,是凿过的石头做成的,长肘半,宽肘半,肘。祭司将宰杀燔祭牲和平安祭牲所用的器皿放在其上。

43 有钩子,宽掌,钉在廊内的四围。桌子上有牺牲的

44 旁,内院里有屋子,为歌的人而设。这屋子朝:原文是东);在旁,又有间朝

45 他对我:这朝子是为看守殿宇的祭司

46 那朝的屋子是为看守祭坛祭司。这些祭司是利未人中撒督的子孙,近前来事奉耶和华的

47 他又量内院,长一肘,宽一肘,是见方的。祭坛在殿前。

48 於是他我到殿前的廊子,量廊子的墙柱。这面厚五肘,那面厚五肘。两旁,这边肘,那边肘。

49 廊子长二十肘,宽十肘。上廊子有台阶,靠近墙又有子,这边根,那边根。

   

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Apocalypse Revealed #367

Studere hoc loco

  
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367. Clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands. This symbolizes a communication and conjunction with the higher heavens, and a confession springing from Divine truths.

To be clothed with white robes means, symbolically, to have a communication and conjunction with the heavens (see no. 328 above). Holding palm branches in the hands symbolizes confessions springing from Divine truths because palm branches symbolize Divine truths. For every tree symbolizes some element of the church, and palm branches symbolize Divine truth in outmost expressions, which is the Divine truth in the literal sense of the Word.

Engraved, therefore, on all the walls of the Temple in Jerusalem, inside and out, and also on its doors, were cherubim and palm trees (1 Kings 6:29, 32). Likewise in the New Temple described in Ezekiel 41:18-20. Cherubim symbolize the Word (no. 239), and palm trees the Divine truths in it.

That palm trees symbolize Divine truths in the Word, and palm branches in the hands confessions springing from them, can be seen from the fact that the Israelites were commanded to take, at the feast of Tabernacles, "the fruits of honorable trees and branches of palms, and rejoice before Jehovah." (Leviticus 23:39-40)

It can be seen also from the fact that when Jesus came to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, the people "took palm branches and went to meet Him, crying, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!'" (John 12:12-13)

These symbolize a confession of the Lord springing from Divine truths.

A palm tree symbolizes Divine truth also in the book of Psalms:

The righteous man shall flourish like a palm tree; he shall grow... planted in the house of Jehovah; he shall sprout in the courts of our God. (Psalms 92:12-13)

So, too, elsewhere.

Because Jericho was a city near the Jordan, and the Jordan river symbolized that which is first in the church, namely Divine truth such as it is in the literal sense of the Word, therefore the city was called the city of palms (Deuteronomy 34:3, Judges 1:16; 3:13). For the Jordan was the first boundary of or point of entrance into the land of Canaan, and the land of Canaan symbolizes the church.

  
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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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1 Kings 6:29

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29 He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.