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Apocalypse Explained #1186
1186. And no craftsman of whatsoever craft shall be found in thee any more, signifies no more wisdom, intelligence, or knowledge. This is evident from the signification of "craftsman of whatsoever craft," as being everything belonging to the understanding, consequently wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge, for these belong to the understanding, the inmost of which is wisdom, the middle intelligence, and the lowest is knowledge. This is the signification of "craftsman of whatsoever craft," because these are endowments of the understanding, and its endowments are signified by "crafts." As these are signified by "crafts," so in the Word where the construction of the tabernacle is treated of, also the garments of Aaron, which were of gold, blue, purple, scarlet double-dyed, and fine twined linen, it is said that they were to be the work of the "craftsman," elsewhere "a work of a contriver" (Exodus 26:1, 31; 28:6; 39:8; and elsewhere). The things of which these were made, and which are here mentioned, signify things of wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge; therefore of Bezaleel and Oholiab, who were the craftsmen, and who made these things, it is said:
They were filled with wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge (Exodus 31:3; 36:1-2).
[2] That "craftsman" signifies intelligence from what is one's own [proprium] is evident in Hosea:
They make them a molten image of their silver, and idols in their intelligence, all of it the work of the craftsmen (Hosea 13:2).
"Molten image" and "idol" signify worship according to doctrine that is from self-intelligence; "silver" signifies the falsity from which such doctrine comes; therefore it is said "that in their intelligence they make them an idol, all of it the work of craftsmen." So in Isaiah:
The craftsman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth chains of silver; he seeketh a wise craftsman (Isaiah 40:19-20).
And in Jeremiah:
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the founder, hyacinthine and garments, all of it the work of the wise (Jeremiah 10:3, 9).
Here and in many passages elsewhere self-intelligence is described by "idols," and "sculptured and molten images" (See n. 587, 827).
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[3] End, mediate causes, and effect, are called also the chief end, intermediate ends, and the final end. Intermediate and final ends are called ends, because the chief end produces them, is everything in them, is their esse and is their soul. The chief end is the will's love in man, the intermediate ends are subordinate loves, and the final end is the love of the will existing as it were in its effigy. As the chief end is the love of the will it follows that intermediate ends, being subordinate loves, are foreseen, provided, and produced through the understanding, and that the final end is the use foreseen, provided, and produced by the love of the will through the understanding, for everything that love produces is a use. This must be premised in order that what has just been said may be perceived, namely, that eminence and riches may be blessings or that they may be curses.
Exodus 36
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"Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded."
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Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it:
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and they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They brought yet to him freewill offerings every morning.
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All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which they did.
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They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make."
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Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing.
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For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
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All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made them.
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The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.
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He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
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He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling.
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He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite one to another.
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He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
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He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.
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The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
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He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
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He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outmost in the second coupling.
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He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
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He made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
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He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
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Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
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Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
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He made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward.
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He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
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For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,
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and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
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For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
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He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
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They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did thus to both of them in the two corners.
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There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.
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He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
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and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
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He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
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He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
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He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
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He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.
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He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
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and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.
