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Jezekilj 41

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1 Posle me odvede u crkvu, i izmeri dovratnike, i beše šest lakata u širinu otuda i šest lakata u širinu odovuda, prema širini šatoru.

2 A vratima širina beše deset lakata, a strane vratima behu od pet lakata od tuda i od pet lakata od ovuda; po tom izmeri joj dužinu, i beše četrdeset lakata, i širinu, i beše dvadeset lakata.

3 Pa uđe unutra i izmeri dovratnike, i behu od dva lakta; a vrata behu od šest lakata, a širina vratima sedam lakata.

4 I izmeri dužinu onde, i beše dvadeset lakata, a širina dvadeset lakata unutra u crkvi; i reče mi: Ovo je svetinja nad svetinjama.

5 I izmeri zid domu, i beše šest lakata, i širina kleti unaokolo u domu beše četiri lakta.

6 A kleti behu po tri jedna nad drugom, i beše ih trideset, i dopirahu do zida koji beše u domu unaokolo za kleti da ih drži, a ne držaše ih zid od doma.

7 Jer se raširivaše građevina ozgo unaokolo za kleti koje behu oko doma ozgo svuda unaokolo, i zato građevina beše ozgo šira, i najniže kleti behu ozgo šire za srednje.

8 I videh uz dom visinu unaokolo; a pod u kleti beše s cele trske, šest lakata.

9 Širina zidu uz kleti spolja beše pet lakata, a beše prazno mesto kletima koja behu uz dom.

10 I među kletima beše dvadeset lakata širine oko doma.

11 A vrata od kleti behu k praznom mestu, jedna prema severu, a jedna prema jugu, a širina onom praznom mestu pet lakata svuda unaokolo.

12 A građevina koja beše pred odeljenom stranom k zapadu imaše sedamdeset lakata u širinu, a zid te građevine beše pet lakata širok unaokolo, i devedeset lakata dug.

13 Potom izmeri dom, i beše u dužinu sto lakata; odeljena strana i građevina i zidovi joj, sve zajedno u dužinu sto lakata.

14 I širina pred domom i odeljenom stranom k istoku imaše sto lakata.

15 I izmeri dužinu građevini pred odeljenom stranom što beše iza nje, i kleti njene od tuda i od ovuda, i beše sto lakata; i unutrašnji dom i hodnike od trema;

16 Pragove i prozore sužene, i kleti unaokolo u tri reda, prema pragu, što beše obloženo drvetom svuda unaokolo, od zemlje do prozora, i prozori behu obloženi;

17 Do vrh vrata i do doma unutrašnjeg, i spolja, i sav zid unaokolo iznutra i spolja na meru.

18 I behu načinjeni heruvimi i palme, jedna palma među dva heruvima, i u svakog heruvima behu dva lica:

19 Lice čovečje prema palmi od tuda, i Lice lavovo prema palmi od ovuda; tako beše načinjeno po svemu domu unaokolo;

20 Od zemlje do vrh vrata behu heruvimi i palme načinjene, tako i po zidu u crkvi.

21 U crkvi dovratnici behu na četiri ugla; i svetinji lice beše onako.

22 Oltar beše drven, tri lakta visok, i dva lakta dug, s uglovima, i dužina i strane behu od drveta. I reče mi: To je sto koji stoji pred Gospodom.

23 Dvoja vrata behu u crkvi i svetinji;

24 A u vratima behu dva krila, koja se obrtahu, dva krila u jednih vrata i dva u drugih.

25 I na vratima crkvenim behu načinjeni heruvimi i palme, kao po zidovima; i grede drvene behu pred tremom spolja.

26 I behu uski prozori i palme od tuda i od ovuda po stranama tremu i po kletima u domu i po gredama.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #904

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904. 21:15 And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. This symbolically means that to people who possess the goodness of love, the Lord grants a faculty for understanding and knowing the nature of the Lord's New Church as regards its doctrine and its introductory truths, and as regards the Word from which they are drawn.

He who spoke with me symbolizes the Lord speaking from heaven, because it was an angel speaking, one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls mentioned in verse 9, who means the Lord speaking from heaven (no. 895). A reed symbolizes a power or ability springing from the goodness of love - a reed symbolizing power or ability (no. 485), and gold the goodness of love (nos. 211, 726). To measure means, symbolically, to learn the character of a thing, thus to understand and know it (no. 486). The city, the holy Jerusalem, symbolizes the church in respect to its doctrine (nos. 879, 880). Its gates symbolize concepts of truth and goodness from the Word's literal sense, which are truths and goods owing to the spiritual life in them (no. 899). And the wall symbolizes the Word in its literal sense from which the doctrine and concepts come (no. 898).

It is apparent from this that "he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall," symbolically means that to people who possess the goodness of love, the Lord grants a faculty for understanding and knowing the nature of the Lord's New Church as regards its doctrine and its introductory truths, and as regards the Word from which they are drawn.

[2] These symbolic meanings cannot be seen at all in the literal sense, for one sees in it only that an angel speaking with John had a gold reed with which to measure the city and its gates and wall. But even so, that these words contain another meaning, a spiritual meaning, is clearly apparent from the fact that the city Jerusalem does not mean a real city, but the church. Consequently everything said about Jerusalem as a city symbolizes such things as have to do with the church, and everything having to do with the church is, in itself, spiritual.

Such a spiritual meaning is present also in what is said in chapter 11 above, where we are told the following:

I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood by, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there." (Revelation 11:1)

A similar spiritual meaning is present, too, in everything that the angel measured with a reed in Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48. Also in these verses in Zechariah:

I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what its width is and what its length." (Zechariah 2:1-2)

Indeed, such a spiritual meaning is present in everything connected with the Tabernacle and in everything connected with the Temple in Jerusalem, whose measurements we are told, and also in the measurements themselves. And yet nothing of this can be seen in the literal sense.

  
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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.