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1 Ja Herra puhui Moosekselle sanoen:

2 "Sano israelilaisille, että he kokoavat anteja minulle; jokaiselta, jonka sydän on siihen altis, ottakaa vastaan anti minulle.

3 Ja nämä ovat ne annit, joita teidän on otettava vastaan heiltä: kultaa, hopeata ja vaskea,

4 punasinisiä, purppuranpunaisia ja helakanpunaisia lankoja ja valkoisia pellavalankoja sekä vuohenkarvoja,

5 punaisia oinaannahkoja, sireeninnahkoja, akasiapuuta,

6 ljyä seitsenhaaraista lamppua varten, hajuaineita voiteluöljyä ja hyvänhajuista suitsutusta varten,

7 onyks-kiviä ja muita jalokiviä kasukkaa ja rintakilpeä varten.

8 Ja tehkööt he minulle pyhäkön asuakseni heidän keskellään.

9 Tehkää asumus ja kaikki sen kalusto tarkoin sen kaavan mukaan, jonka minä sinulle näytän.

10 Tehkööt he arkin akasiapuusta, puolenkolmatta kyynärän pituisen, puolentoista kyynärän levyisen ja puolentoista kyynärän korkuisen.

11 Ja päällystä se puhtaalla kullalla, päällystä se sisältä ja ulkoa; ja tee siihen kultareunus yltympäri.

12 Ja vala siihen neljä kultarengasta ja kiinnitä ne sen neljään jalkaan, niin että kaksi rengasta tulee sen toiselle puolelle ja kaksi rengasta sen toiselle puolelle.

13 Ja tee korennot akasiapuusta ja päällystä ne kullalla.

14 Ja pistä renkaisiin arkin sivuille korennot, joilla arkki on kannettava.

15 Korennot jääkööt arkin renkaisiin, älköönkä niitä vedettäkö pois.

16 Ja pane arkkiin laki, jonka minä sinulle annan.

17 Tee myös armoistuin puhtaasta kullasta, puolenkolmatta kyynärän pituinen ja puolentoista kyynärän levyinen.

18 Ja tee kaksi kultakerubia, tee ne kohotakoista tekoa, armoistuimen molempiin päihin.

19 Tee toinen kerubi toiseen päähän ja toinen kerubi toiseen päähän. Tehkää kerubit armoistuimesta kohoaviksi, sen kumpaankin päähän.

20 Ja kerubit levittäkööt siipensä ylöspäin, niin että ne peittävät siivillänsä armoistuimen, ja niiden kasvot olkoot vastakkain; armoistuinta kohti olkoot kerubien kasvot käännetyt.

21 Ja aseta armoistuin arkin päälle ja pane arkkiin laki, jonka minä sinulle annan.

22 Ja siinä minä ilmestyn sinulle ja puhun sinulle armoistuimelta, niiden kahden kerubin välistä, jotka ovat lain arkin päällä, kaiken sen, minkä minä sinun kauttasi israelilaisille säädän.

23 Ja tee pöytä akasiapuusta, kahden kyynärän pituinen, kyynärän levyinen ja puolentoista kyynärän korkuinen.

24 Ja päällystä se puhtaalla kullalla ja tee siihen kultareunus yltympäri.

25 Ja tee sen ympäri kämmenen korkuinen lista ja listan ympäri kultareunus.

26 Ja tee siihen neljä kultarengasta ja kiinnitä renkaat sen neljään kulmaan, kunkin neljän jalan kohdalle.

27 Renkaat olkoot juuri listan alla niiden korentojen pitiminä, joilla pöytä on kannettava.

28 Ja tee ne korennot akasiapuusta ja päällystä ne kullalla, ja niillä on pöytä kannettava.

29 Tee myös siihen vadit ja kupit, kannut ja maljat, joista juomauhrit vuodatetaan; tee ne puhtaasta kullasta.

30 Ja pidä aina minun edessäni pöydällä näkyleivät.

31 Ja tee myös seitsenhaarainen lamppu puhtaasta kullasta. Tee lamppu jalkoineen ja varsineen kohotakoista tekoa; sen kukkakuvut, nuput kukkalehtineen, olkoot samaa kappaletta kuin se.

32 Kuusi haaraa lähteköön lampun sivuista, kolme haaraa toisesta sivusta ja kolme haaraa toisesta sivusta.

33 Toisessa haarassa olkoon kolme mantelinkukan muotoista kukkakupua, nuppua kukkalehtineen, ja toisessa haarassa samoin kolme mantelinkukan muotoista kukkakupua, nuppua kukkalehtineen; näin olkoon jokaisessa kuudessa haarassa, jotka lampusta lähtevät.

34 Mutta lampussa itsessään olkoon neljä mantelinkukan muotoista kukkakupua, nuppua kukkalehtineen.

35 Yksi nuppu olkoon aina jokaisen haaraparin alla niistä kuudesta haarasta, jotka lampusta lähtevät.

36 Nuput ja haarat olkoot samaa kappaletta kuin se; olkoon se kauttaaltaan samaa kohotakoista tekoa, puhdasta kultaa.

37 Ja tee siihen seitsemän lamppua, ja lamput asetettakoon niin, että seitsenhaarainen lamppu heittää valonsa etupuolelle.

38 Ja sen lamppusakset ja karstakupit olkoot puhdasta kultaa.

39 Yhdestä talentista puhdasta kultaa tehtäköön sekä se että kaikki nämä kalut.

40 Ja katso, että teet ne sen kaavan mukaan, joka sinulle niistä vuorella näytettiin."

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9509

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9509. 'And you shall make two cherubs' means that there is no admission or access to the Lord except through the good of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'cherubs' as watchfulness and providence, guarding against access to the Lord except through the good of love. Since this was meant by the cherubs, they were placed over the mercy-seat that was over the ark; and they were for the same reason made from solid gold. For 'the ark' means heaven where the Lord is, 9485, and 'gold' means the good of love, 9490. The reason why there is no access to the Lord except through the good of love is that love is spiritual togetherness, and all good belongs to love. Those therefore who are governed by the good of love to the Lord are brought to Him in heaven, because they have been joined together with Him. So too are those who are governed by the good of love towards the neighbour; for the neighbour is the good of a fellow-citizen, the good of one's country, the good of the Church, the good of the whole of the Lord's kingdom, and in the highest sense the Lord Himself since He is the source of that good present with a person.

[2] There are two states that a person passes through while being regenerated, one of which follows the other. The first is a state during which he is led by means of the truths of faith to the good of love; the other is one in which he is governed by the good of love, and when governed by it he is in heaven with the Lord. From this it is evident that this good is heaven itself present with the person, that good being the Lord present with him because its source is the Lord. Regarding these two states that a person who is being regenerated passes through, one of which follows the other, see 7923, 7992, 8505, 8506, 8510, 8512, 8516, 8643, 8648, 8658, 8685, 8690, 8701, 9224, 9227, 9230, 9274; and the fact that a person comes into heaven when governed by good, that is, when led by the Lord by means of good, 8516, 8539, 8722, 8772, 9139.

[3] It is clear from places in the Word where 'cherubs' are mentioned that they mean watchfulness and providence, guarding against access to the Lord or to heaven except through the good of love, that is, except by those governed by the good of love, and also guarding against any harm being done to the good from the Lord which is present in heaven and with a person, as for instance in Genesis,

And He expelled the man, and away from the east towards the garden of Eden He caused the cherubs to dwell, and the flame of a sword turning itself this way and that to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:24.

Here it is self-evident that things which serve as guards are meant by 'the cherubs', since it says 'to guard the way to the tree of life'. 'The tree of life' is the good of love, which comes from the Lord and for that reason is the Lord; and it is guarded by the prevention of any access except through the good of love.

[4] It is thought that the Lord is accessible through the truths of faith. But there can be no access to Him, nor even to heaven, through those truths if they have been separated from the good of love. As soon as separated truths wish to enter, heaven, which is the way to the Lord, is closed. And since truth cannot enter by itself unless it has good within it, and by virtue of this has come to consist of good, neither can understanding do so, still less factual knowledge, if separated from good desired by the will.

[5] Because watchfulness and providence guarding against access to the Lord, or for that reason to heaven, except through the good of love is meant by 'the cherubs', the Word says that Jehovah is seated on the cherubs, also rides and dwells upon the cherubs, as in David,

Turn Your ears, O Shepherd of Israel; You who are seated upon the cherubs, shine forth. Psalms 80:1.

In the same author,

Jehovah will reign, the peoples will be shaken. He is seated on the cherubs. Psalms 99:1.

In the same author,

Jehovah rode on a cherub, and flew. Psalms 18:10.

And in Isaiah,

Jehovah Zebaoth is dwelling on the cherubs. Isaiah 37:16.

For the same reasons there were cherubs upon the curtains of the dwelling-place, and upon the veil, Exodus 26:1, 31; 36:35; they were also upon the walls of the temple round about and upon the doors there, 1 Kings 6:23-29, 31-35, and similarly in the new temple, as described in Ezekiel 41:18-20. The presence of the cherubs on the curtains of the dwelling-place, on the veil, on the walls of the temple, and on the doors there, was a sign of the Lord's watchfulness, guarding against access to Divine Holiness except through the good of love; and the presence of the cherubs over the ark was a sign that no one should gain access to the Lord Himself except through that good. This also explains why the cherubs were made from solid gold, and in the Jerusalem temple from olive wood; for 'gold' and 'olive oil' mean the good of love.

[6] That watchfulness and providence of the Lord is described in Ezekiel by 'the four living creatures', each of which had four faces, under the throne where the Lord was, Ezekiel 1:1-end; 10:1-end, and also in John by 'four living creatures' around the throne where the Lord was, 10:Revelation 4:6-10; 5:6, 8-9, 14. By 'the four living creatures' is meant the good, varying in appearance, which emanates from the Lord, and which watches and guards against the letting in of anything other than the good of love to the Lord and the good of love towards the neighbour. By 'the throne' on which the Lord was seated heaven is meant, 5313.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #566

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566. 'The face 1 of the ground' means the whole of that area where the Church was. This is clear from the meaning of 'the ground', for in the Word a careful distinction is made between ground (humus) and land or earth (terra). Whenever 'ground' is used it means the Church or some aspect of the Church. This too is the derivation of the name Man or Adam, which means ground. But when 'land' or earth' occurs in the Word it frequently means where the Church or some aspect of the Church does not exist, as in Chapter 1 where the word 'land' alone is used, because the Church or regenerate person did not as yet exist. Not until Chapter 2 is the word 'ground' used because the Church has by now come into being. The same applies in the present verse and in verses 4, 23, of the next chapter, where it is said that every being was to be wiped off the face 1 of the ground, meaning within that area where the Church was; and in verse 7 of the next chapter, where the subject is the Church that is to be created, 'to keep their seed alive on the face 1 of the ground'. 2 The same applies elsewhere in the Word, as in Isaiah,

Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and will set them on their own ground. And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will inherit them on Jehovah's ground. Isaiah 14:1-2.

This refers to the Church once it has come into being; but when in the same chapter the Church does not exist it is called the land, verses 9, 12, 16, 20, 21, 25, 26.

[2] In the same prophet,

And the ground of Judah will be a terror to Egypt. On that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak the language 3 of Canaan. Isaiah 19:17-18.

Here 'the ground' means where the Church exists, and 'the land' where it does not. In the same prophet,

The land will surely stagger like a drunken man. Jehovah will visit the host of the height on high, and the kings of the ground on the ground. Isaiah 24:20-21.

Here the meaning is similar. In Jeremiah,

Because of the ground which was cracked since there was no rain on the land, the farmers were put to shame, and covered their heads. Even the hind in the field has calved. Jeremiah 14:4-5.

Here 'the land' stands for that which includes the ground, and 'the ground' for that which includes the field.

[3] In the same prophet,

He led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north land and out of all the lands to where I have driven them. And they will dwell on their own ground. Jeremiah 23:8.

Here 'land' and 'lands' mean where Churches do not exist, 'the ground' where the Church or true worship does exist. In the same prophet,

I will render the remnants of Jerusalem, those who are left in this land, and those who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, and I will render them as a horror for evil to all the kingdoms of the land. And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they are consumed from the ground which I gave to them and their fathers. Jeremiah 24:8-10.

'The ground' stands for doctrine and worship arising out of it. And something similar is found in 25:5 of the same book.

[4] In Ezekiel,

I will gather you out of the lands into which you have been scattered. And you will acknowledge that I am Jehovah when I bring you back to the ground of Israel, into the land which I lifted up My hand to give to your fathers. Ezekiel 20:41-42.

'The ground' stands for internal worship. It is called 'the land' when internal worship does not exist. In Malachi,

I will rebuke the devourer for you, and he will not ruin for you the fruit of the ground, nor will the vine in the field fail you. And all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of that which is pleasing. Malachi 3:11-12.

Here 'land' stands for that which includes, and so plainly stands for man who is actually called 'the land', when 'ground' stands for the Church or doctrine.

[5] In Moses,

Sing, O Nations, His people. He will reconcile His ground, His people. Deuteronomy 32:43.

This clearly stands for the Church of the gentiles, which is called 'the ground'. In Isaiah,

Before the boy knows to refuse evil and to choose good, the ground will be deserted which you loathe in the presence of its two kings. Isaiah 7:16.

This refers to the Coming of the Lord. 'The ground will be deserted' stands for the Church or true doctrine of faith. The words 'ground 'and 'field' are clearly used in this way because they are places that are sown, as in Isaiah,

He will give rain for your seed with which you may sow the ground. Oxen and young asses tilling the ground . . . Isaiah 30:23-24.

And in Joel,

The field has been laid waste, and the ground has been mourning because the corn has been laid waste. Joel 1:10.

From these quotations it is now clear that 'man', who in Hebrew is called Adam from the word for ground, means the Church.

Bilješke:

1. literally, faces

2. The Hebrew in Genesis 7:3 in fact means earth or land. cf 722 below.

3. literally, lip.

  
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