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Exodus 30:34

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34 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight;

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Arcana Coelestia #10274

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10274. 'And all its vessels' means forms of Divine Good and Divine Truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'vessels' as cognitions and known facts, dealt with in 3068, 3079, 9394, 9544, 9724; but when they are spoken of with reference to the Lord's Divine Human, forms of Divine Good and Divine Truths acting as servants are meant.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #9544

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9544. 'And you shall make its dishes, its cups, and its small dishes, and its small brushes, with which it shall be covered' means cognitions of celestial good and truth. This is clear from the meaning of vessels in general as factual knowledge or cognitions, dealt with in 3068, 3079, so that the particular vessels that are mentioned here are cognitions of celestial good and truth. Celestial good is the good of love to the Lord, and celestial truth is the good of mutual love, cognitions of those kinds of good being meant by such vessels. And since cognitions of them are meant, and cognitions are contained in the memory belonging to the natural man, and the natural is external, it says that the table shall be covered with those vessels. For since the natural lies externally or below, covering over and enclosing what lies inwardly or above, it is called a covering, 6377. What use those vessels were to serve, see Leviticus 24:6-7; and Numbers 4:7-8.

9544a 'From pure gold you shall make them' means that they are derived from good. 1

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1. This paragraph has been added by the editor of the third Latin edition.

  
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