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1 Poi, con le stoffe tinte in violaceo, porporino e scarlatto, fecero de’ paramenti cerimoniali ben lavorati per le funzioni nel santuario, e fecero i paramenti sacri per Aaronne, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

2 Si fece l’efod, d’oro, di filo violaceo, porporino, scarlatto, e di lino fino ritorto.

3 E batteron l’oro in lamine e lo tagliarono in fili, per intesserlo nella stoffa violacea, porporina, scarlatta, e nel lino fino, e farne un lavoro artistico.

4 Gli fecero delle spallette, unite assieme; in guisa che l’efod era tenuto assieme mediante le sue due estremità.

5 E la cintura artistica che era sull’efod per fissarlo, era tutta d’un pezzo con l’efod, e del medesimo lavoro d’esso: cioè, d’oro, di filo violaceo, porporino, scarlatto, e di lino fino ritorto, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

6 Poi lavorarono le pietre d’onice, incastrate in castoni d’oro, sulle quali incisero i nomi de’ figliuoli d’Israele, come s’incidono i sigilli.

7 E le misero sulle spallette dell’efod, come pietre di ricordanza per i figliuoli d’Israele, nel modo che l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

8 Poi si fece il pettorale, artisticamente lavorato, come il lavoro dell’efod: d’oro, di filo violaceo, porporino, scarlatto, e di lino fino ritorto.

9 Il pettorale era quadrato; e lo fecero doppio; avea la lunghezza d’una spanna e una spanna di larghezza; era doppio.

10 E v’incastonarono quattro ordini di pietre; nel primo ordine v’era un sardonio, un topazio e uno smeraldo;

11 nel secondo ordine, un rubino, uno zaffiro, un calcedonio;

12 nel terzo ordine, un’opale, un’agata, un’ametista;

13 nel quarto ordine, un grisolito, un onice e un diaspro. Queste pietre erano incastrate nei loro castoni d’oro.

14 E le pietre corrispondevano ai nomi dei figliuoli d’Israele, ed erano dodici, secondo i loro nomi; erano incise come de’ sigilli, ciascuna col nome d’una delle dodici tribù.

15 Fecero pure sul pettorale delle catenelle d’oro puro, intrecciate a mo’ di cordoni.

16 E fecero due castoni d’oro e due anelli d’oro, e misero i due anelli alle due estremità del pettorale.

17 E fissarono i due cordoni d’oro ai due anelli alle estremità del pettorale;

18 e attaccarono gli altri due capi dei due cordoni d’oro ai due castoni, e li misero sulle due spallette dell’efod, sul davanti.

19 Fecero anche due anelli d’oro e li misero alle altre due estremità del pettorale, sull’orlo interiore vòlto verso l’efod.

20 E fecero due altri anelli d’oro, e li misero alle due spallette dell’efod, in basso, sul davanti, vicino al punto dove avveniva la giuntura, al disopra della cintura artistica dell’efod.

21 E attaccarono il pettorale mediante i suoi anelli agli anelli dell’efod con un cordone violaceo, affinché il pettorale fosse al disopra della banda artisticamente lavorata dell’efod, e non si potesse staccare dall’efod; come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

22 Si fece pure il manto dell’efod, di lavoro tessuto tutto di color violaceo,

23 e l’apertura, in mezzo al manto, per passarvi il capo: apertura, come quella d’una corazza, con all’intorno un’orlatura tessuta, perché non si strappasse.

24 E all’orlo inferiore del manto fecero delle melagrane di color violaceo, porporino e scarlatto, di filo ritorto.

25 E fecero de’ sonagli d’oro puro; e posero i sonagli in mezzo alle melagrane all’orlo inferiore del manto, tutt’all’intorno, fra le melagrane:

26 un sonaglio e una melagrana, un sonaglio e una melagrana, sull’orlatura del manto, tutt’all’intorno, per fare il servizio, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

27 Si fecero pure le tuniche di lino fino, di lavoro tessuto, per Aaronne e per i suoi figliuoli,

28 e la mitra di lino fino e le tiare di lino fino da servir come ornamento e le brache di lino fino ritorto,

29 e la cintura di lino fino ritorto, di color violaceo, porporino, scarlatto, in lavoro di ricamo, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

30 E fecero d’oro puro la lamina del sacro diadema, e v’incisero, come s’incide sopra un sigillo: SANTO ALL’ETERNO.

31 E v’attaccarono un nastro violaceo per fermarla sulla mitra, in alto, come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

32 Così fu finito tutto il lavoro del tabernacolo e della tenda di convegno. I Figliuoli d’Israele fecero interamente come l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè; fecero a quel modo.

33 Poi portarono a Mosè il tabernacolo, la tenda e tutti i suoi utensili, i suoi fermagli, le sue tavole le sue traverse, le sue colonne, le sue basi;

34 la coperta di pelli di montone tinte in rosso, la coperta di pelli di delfino e il velo di separazione;

35 l’arca della testimonianza con le sue stanghe, e il propiziatorio;

36 la tavola con tutti i suoi utensili e il pane della presentazione;

37 il candelabro d’oro puro con le sue lampade, le lampade disposte in ordine, tutti i suoi utensili, e l’olio per il candelabro;

38 l’altare d’oro, l’olio dell’unzione, il profumo fragrante, e la portiera per l’ingresso della tenda;

39 l’altare di rame, la sua gratella di rame, le sue stanghe e tutti i suoi utensili, la conca con la sua base;

40 le cortine del cortile, le sue colonne con le sue basi, la portiera per l’ingresso del cortile, i cordami del cortile, i suoi piuoli e tutti gli utensili per il servizio del tabernacolo, per la tenda di convegno;

41 i paramenti cerimoniali per le funzioni nel santuario, i paramenti sacri per il sacerdote Aaronne e i paramenti de’ suoi figliuoli per esercitare il sacerdozio.

42 I figliuoli d’Israele eseguirono tutto il lavoro, secondo che l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

43 E Mosè vide tutto il lavoro; ed ecco, essi l’aveano eseguito come l’Eterno aveva ordinato; l’aveano eseguito a quel modo. E Mosè li benedisse.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8408

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8408. 'When we sat by a pot of flesh' means a life according to their own pleasure, and such as they craved for. This is clear from the meaning of 'a pot' as a container of good, and in the contrary sense a container of evil, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'flesh' as the heavenly proprium, thus good, and in the contrary sense as the proprium that is man's own, thus evil, also dealt with below. 1 And since 'flesh' means the proprium, 'sitting by a pot of flesh' means a life according to one's own pleasure, and such as one craves for; for that is the life of the proprium. The reason why 'a pot' means a container of good, and in the contrary sense a container of evil, is that 'the flesh' cooked in it means good and in the contrary sense evil. And having these meanings 'a pot' also means the bodily level or the natural level of the human mind, since these are containers of good or of evil. This being so, it is used in a general sense to mean a person, and in an even more general sense to mean a people or a city; and when 'a pot' is used to mean these, 'flesh' means the good or the evil that is in them, as in Ezekiel,

... the men who think iniquity and give wicked counsel in this city, saying, [The time] is not near; [the city] itself is the pot, we are the flesh. Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovih, Your slain whom you have placed in the midst of it, 2 they are the flesh, but it is the pot. Ezekiel 11:2-3, 7.

Here 'the pot' stands for the city or the people there, and 'the flesh' for evil, since 'the slain', who are called 'the flesh', are those among whom goodness and truth have been wiped out, 4503.

[2] In the same prophet,

Tell a parable against the house of rebellion, and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Put on the pot, put it on, and also pour [water into it gather] the pieces into it - every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice of the bones. The Lord Jehovih said, Woe to the city of blood, 3 to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out of it! Ezekiel 24:3-6.

Here 'the pot' stands for the city or the people there, among whom there exists the evil that results when good is profaned. The good or flesh there is 'the thigh and the shoulder'; the evil is 'the scum' coming from it, and good when profaned is the scum remaining, which also accounts for the city's being called 'the city of blood'.

[3] In Jeremiah,

Jehovah said to Jeremiah, What do you see? I said, A puffed out pot do I see, its face towards the north. Then Jehovah said, From the north evil will be opened over all the inhabitants of the land. Jeremiah 1:11-14.

'A puffed-out pot' stands for a people whom falsities have taken possession of, and 'the north' for the sensory and bodily levels of the human mind, from which evil pours out. The subject here is the end of the Church, when what belongs to the external and therefore to sensory and bodily levels, together with falsity and evil, has dominion; for the Lord's Church moves in a series of stages from what is internal to what is external, at which point it breathes its last.

[4] In Zechariah,

On that day there will be on the horses' bells, Holiness to Jehovah. And the pots in the house of Jehovah will be as the bowls before the altar. And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holiness to Jehovah Zebaoth; and all offering sacrifice will come, and take from them, and cook in them. Zechariah 14:20-21.

The subject here is the salvation of faithful believers, faithful believers being 'the pots', which they are called because they receive good from the Lord; and because they receive that good every 'pot' is said to be 'holiness to Jehovah'. 'The bells of the horses, with Holiness on them' are truths in agreement with good. Since 'pots' are recipients and containers of good, they like all the other vessels for the altar were made of bronze, Exodus 38:3; for 'bronze' means the good of the natural, 425, 1551.

[5] In addition to this 'the pot' may mean religious teachings because these hold the Church's good and truth within them. Such teachings are meant by 'the pot' in which at Elisha's command a soup was boiled for the sons of the prophets, described as follows in the second Book of Kings,

Elisha came again to Gilgal, when there was a famine in the land. When the sons of the prophets were sitting before him he said to his servant, Put on a great pot, and boil a soup for the sons of the prophets. One of them went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, and gathered from it wild gourds, and cut them up into the pot of soup. While they were eating of the soup they cried out, There is death in the pot, O man of God! But he said that they should bring flour, which he threw into the pot, and said, Pour out for the people and let them eat. Then there was not anything bad in the pot. 2 Kings 4:38-41.

It should be recognized that all Divine miracles have to do with things connected with the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 7337, 8364, and that 'Elisha' represents the Word of the Lord, 2762, and 'prophets' teachings derived from it, 2534, 7269. From this one may see what thing connected with the Church was represented by this miracle, which was that if the Church's good has been falsified it is made good again by means of truth from the Word. 'A famine' is a lack of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good; 'the pot' is religious teachings; 'soup' is the good of the Jewish Church's outward religious observances; 'gourds from a wild vine' is falsification; and 'flour' is truth from the Word, 2177, used to make good again that which has been falsified, meant by 'death in the pot'. The reason why 'pots' means containers of good is that they were included among the utensils in which food was prepared, and 'food', every kind of it, means such things as nourish the soul, that is, affections for good and truth, 681, 1480, 3114, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5340, 5342, 5576, 5410, 5915.

Фусноти:

1. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes proprium as A distinctive characteristic; the essential nature, selfhood. It is a Latin word meaning 'one's own (thing)'. Swedenborg uses it in the specialized sense of 'what is of the self.'

2. i.e. the city

3. literally, bloods

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

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Exodus 16

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1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

4 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."

6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;

7 and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"

8 Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."

9 Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'"

10 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.

11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

12 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"

13 It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."

16 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent."

17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

19 Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."

20 Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.

21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.

22 It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

23 He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to Bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"

24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.

25 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. today you shall not find it in the field.

26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

28 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

31 The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

32 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"

33 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."

34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.