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Ezequiel 41

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1 Me metió luego en el Templo, y midió los postes, siendo el ancho seis codos de una parte, y seis codos de otra, la anchura del arco.

2 Y la anchura de cada puerta era de diez codos; y los lados de la puerta, de cinco codos de una parte, y cinco de la otra. Y midió su longitud de cuarenta codos, y la anchura de veinte codos.

3 Y pasó al interior, y midió cada poste de la puerta de dos codos; y la puerta de seis codos; y la anchura de la entrada de siete codos.

4 Midió también su longitud, de veinte codos, y la anchura de veinte codos, delante del Templo; y me dijo: Este es el lugar Santísimo.

5 Después midió el muro de la casa, de seis codos; y de cuatro codos la anchura de las cámaras, en torno de la casa alrededor.

6 Y las cámaras eran cámara sobre cámara, treinta y tres por orden; y entraban modillones en la pared de la Casa alrededor, sobre los que las cámaras estribasen, y no estribasen en la pared de la Casa.

7 Y había mayor anchura y vuelta en las cámaras a lo más alto; el caracol de la Casa subía muy alto alrededor por dentro de la Casa; por tanto, la Casa tenía más anchura arriba; y de la cámara baja se subía a la más alta por la del medio.

8 Y miré la altura de la Casa alrededor; los cimientos de las cámaras eran una caña entera de seis codos de grandor.

9 Y la anchura de la pared de afuera de las cámaras era de cinco codos, y el espacio que quedaba de las cámaras de la Casa por dentro.

10 Y entre las cámaras había anchura de veinte codos por todos lados alrededor de la Casa.

11 Y la puerta de cada cámara salía al espacio que quedaba; una puerta hacia el norte, y otra puerta hacia el mediodía; y la anchura del espacio que quedaba era de cinco codos por todo alrededor.

12 Y el edificio que estaba delante del apartamiento al lado hacia el occidente era de setenta codos; y la pared del edificio, de cinco codos de anchura alrededor, y noventa codos de largo.

13 Y midió la Casa, cien codos de largo; y el apartamiento, y el edificio, y sus paredes, de longitud de cien codos;

14 y la anchura de la delantera de la Casa, y del apartamiento al mediodía, de cien codos.

15 Y midió la longitud del edificio que estaba delante del apartamiento que había detrás de él, y las cámaras de una parte y otra, cien codos; y el Templo de dentro, y los portales del atrio.

16 Los umbrales, y las ventanas estrechas, y las cámaras, tres en derredor a la parte delantera, todo cubierto de madera alrededor desde la tierra hasta las ventanas; y las ventanas también cubiertas.

17 Encima de sobre la puerta, y hasta la Casa de dentro, y de fuera, y por toda la pared en derredor por dentro y por fuera, tomó medidas.

18 Y la pared estaba labrada con querubines y palmas; entre querubín y querubín una palma; y cada querubín tenía dos rostros:

19 Un rostro de hombre hacia la palma de una parte, y el otro rostro de león hacia la palma de la otra parte, por toda la Casa alrededor.

20 Desde la tierra hasta encima de la puerta había labrados querubines y palmas, y por toda la pared del Templo.

21 Cada poste del Templo era cuadrado, y la delantera del Santuario era como la otra delantera.

22 La altura del altar de madera era de tres codos, y su longitud de dos codos; y sus esquinas, y su superficie, y sus paredes, eran de madera. Y me dijo: Esta es la mesa que está delante del SEÑOR.

23 Y el Templo y el Santuario tenían dos portadas.

24 Y en cada portada había dos hojas, dos hojas que se volvían; dos hojas en una portada, y otras dos en la otra.

25 Y en las puertas del Templo había labrados de querubines y palmas, así como estaban hechos en las paredes, y grueso madero sobre la delantera de la entrada por fuera.

26 Y había ventanas estrechas, y palmas de una y otra parte por los lados de la entrada, y de la Casa, y por las vigas.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8940

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8940. 'And if you make for Me an altar of stones' means a representative kind of worship in general that is composed of truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'an altar' as a representative of Divine worship in general, dealt with in 921, 2777, 2811, 4489; and from the meaning of 'stones' as truths, dealt with in 643, 1298, 3720, 3769, 3771, 3773, 3789, 3798, 6426, 8609. There is worship of the Lord that springs from good, and there is worship of Him that springs from truth. Worship of the Lord springing from good was represented by an altar of soil, and worship springing from truth by an altar of stone. Regarding the first and the second kinds of worship, see above in 8935. It was because an altar of stone was a sign of worship springing from truth that they were commanded to set up such an altar as soon as they crossed the Jordan and came into the land of Canaan, and to write on it the Commandments contained in the Law, that is, God's truths from heaven. For by the Ten Commandments are meant all God's truths in summary form. That altar is spoken of in Moses as follows,

When you cross the Jordan you shall set up for yourself large stones, and coat them with lime. Then you shall write on them all the words of the Law. Afterwards, you shall build there an altar to Jehovah your God, an altar of stones, which you shall not hew with any iron tool. 1 With whole stones you shall build the altar of Jehovah your God, and present 2 on it burnt offerings and eucharistic offerings. And you shall write on the stones of the altar the words of the Law, expressing them very plainly. Deuteronomy 27:1-8; Joshua 8:30-32.

[2] The reason why they were to write the words of the Law on stones of the altar was that truths were meant by 'stones', and worship that springs from truths by 'an altar of stones'. This was also the reason why the Ten Commandments, which were a sign of Divine Truths in their entirety, were inscribed on tablets of stone. The reason why it had to be done as soon as they crossed the Jordan was that the Jordan, which was the first and outermost boundary of the land of Canaan on the side where the wilderness lay, meant introduction into the Church or heaven, which is accomplished through cognitions or knowledge of truth and good, thus through truths from the Word, 4255. For all the rivers serving as boundaries of that land meant the first and outermost reaches of the Lord's kingdom, 4116, 4240. By 'the stones of the altar' the truths of faith are also meant in Isaiah,

He will remove sin when He makes all the stones of the altar like chalk-stones scattered about. Isaiah 27:9

This refers to the ruination of the Church. 'The stones of the altar like chalk-stones scattered about' stands for the truths of faith that inspire worship after something similar has happened to them. As regards altars in general, they were made out of soil, stones, bronze, wood, and also gold - out of bronze, wood, and gold because these materials served to mean good. For an altar of bronze, see Ezekiel 9:2; for an altar of wood, Ezekiel 41:22; and for an altar of gold, which was the altar of incense, 1 Kings 6:22; 7:48; Revelation 8:3. That 'bronze' means good, see 425, 1551; that 'wood' does so, 643, 2784, 2812, 3720, 8354; and that 'gold' does so as well, 113, 1551, 1552, 5658.

Bilješke:

1. literally, upon which you shall not strike iron

2. literally, cause to come up

  
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5658. 'Our silver in its full weight' means truths commensurate with each one's state. This is clear from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2954; and from the meaning of 'weight' as the state of something as regards good, dealt with in 3104, so that truths commensurate with each one's state means commensurate with the good they are able to receive. Many places in the Word make reference to weights or to measures, but no weight nor any measure is meant in the internal sense. Rather states so far as the good involved in some reality is concerned are meant by 'weights', while states so far as the truth involved in it is concerned are meant by 'measures'. The same applies to the properties of gravity and spatial magnitude; gravity in the natural world corresponds to good in the spiritual world, and spatial magnitude to truth. The reason for this is that in heaven, where correspondences originate, neither the property of gravity nor that of spatial magnitude exists because space has no existence there. Objects possessing these properties do, it is true, seem to exist among spirits, but those objects are appearances that have their origins in the states of goodness and truth in the heaven above those spirits.

[2] It was very well known in ancient times that 'silver' meant truth; therefore the ancients divided up periods of time ranging from the earliest to the latest world epochs into the golden ages, the silver ones, the copper ones, and the iron ones, to which they also added the clay ones. They applied the expression 'golden ages' to those periods when innocence and perfection existed, when everyone was moved by good to do what was good and by righteousness to do what was right. They used 'silver ages' however to describe those times when innocence did not exist any longer, though there was still some sort of perfection, which did not consist in being moved by good to do what was good but in being moved by truth to do what was true. 'Copper ages' and 'iron ages' were the names they gave to the times that were even more inferior than the silver ones.

[3] What led those people to give periods of time these names was not comparison but correspondence. For the ancients knew that 'silver' corresponded to truth and 'gold' to good; they knew this from being in communication with spirits and angels. For when a discussion takes place in a higher heaven about what is good, this reveals itself among those underneath them in the first or lowest heaven as what is golden; and when a discussion takes place about what is true this reveals itself there as what is silvery. Sometimes not only the walls of the rooms where they live are gleaming with gold and silver but also the very air within them. Also, in the homes of those angels belonging to the first or lowest heaven who are moved by good to live among what is good, tables made of gold, lampstands made of gold, and many other objects are seen; but in the homes of those who are moved by truth to live among what is true, similar objects made of silver are seen. But who at the present day knows that correspondence was what led the ancients to call ages golden ones and silver ones? Indeed who at the present day knows anything at all about correspondence? Anyone who does not know this about the ancients, and more so anyone who thinks pleasure and wisdom lie in contesting whether such an idea is true or untrue, cannot begin to know the countless facets there are to correspondence.

  
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