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Ezekiel 45

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1 Når I udskifter landet ved lodkastning, skal I yde Herren en Offerydelse, en hellig Del af Landet, 25 000 Alen lang og 20 000 Alen bred; hellig skal den være i hele sin Udstrækning.

2 Deraf skal til Helligdommen fratages et firkantet Stykke på 500 Alen til alle Sider, omgivet af en åben Plads på 50 Alen.

3 Af denne Strækning skal du afmåle et Stykke på 25000 Alens Længde og 10000 Alens Bredde; der skal Helligdommen, den højhellige, ligge.

4 Det er en hellig Gave af Landet og skal tilfalde Præsterne, som gør Tjeneste i Helligdommen, dem, som træder frem for at gøre Tjeneste for HE EN; og det skal give dem Plads til Boliger og Græsgang.

5 Et Stykke på 25000 Alens Længde og 10000 Alens Bredde skal som Grundejendom tilfalde Leviteme, som gør Tjeneste i Templet, til Byer at bo i.

6 Byens Grundejendom skal I give en Bredde af 5000 Alen og en Længde af 25000 Alen, samme Længde som den hellige Offerydelse; den skal tilhøre hele Israels Hus.

7 Og Fyrsten skal på begge Sider af den hellige Offerydelse og Byens Grundejendom have et Område langs den hellige Offerydelse og Byens Grundejendom både på Vestsiden og Østsiden af samme Længde som en af Stammelodderne fra Landets Vestgrænse til Østgrænsen;

8 det skal tilhøre ham som Grundejendom i Israel, for at mine Fyrster ikke fremtidig skal undertrykke mit Folk; men det øvrige Land skal gives Israels Hus, Stamme for Stamme.

9 siger den Herre HE EN: Lad det nu være nok, I Israels Fyrster! Afskaf Vold og Undertrykkelse, gør et og Skel og hør op med eders Overgreb mod mit Folk, lyder det fra den Herre HE EN.

10 Vægt, som vejer rigtigt, Efa og Bat, som holder Mål, skal I have.

11 Efa og Bat skal have ens Mål, så at en Bat holder en Tiendedel Homer, og en Efa ligeledes en Tiendedel Homer; efter en Homer skal Målet fastslås.

12 En Sekel skal holde tyve Gera; fem Sekel skal være fem, ti Sekel ti, og til halvtredsindstyve Sekel skal l regne en Mine.

13 Dette er den offerydelse, I skal yde: En Sjetedel Efa af hver Homer Hvede og en Sjetedel Efa af hver Homer Byg.

14 Den fastsatte Ydelse af Olien: En Tiendedel Bat af hver Kor, ti Bat udgør jo en Kor;

15 et Lam fra Småkvæget af hver 200 som Offerydelse fra alle Israels Slægter til Afgrødeofre, Brændofre og Takofre for at skaffe eder Soning, lyder det fra den Herre HE EN

16 Alt Folket i Landet skal give Fyrsten i Israel denne Offerydelse.

17 Men Fyrsten skal det påhvile at udrede Brændofrene, Afgrødeofrene og Drikofrene på Højtiderne, Nymånefesterne og Sabbaterne, alle Israels Huses Fester; han skal sørge for Syndofrene, Afgrødeofrene, Brændofrene og Takofrene for at skaffe Israels Hus Soning.

18 siger den Herre HE EN: På den første Dag i den første Måned skal I fage EN lydefri ung Tyr og rense Helligdommen for Synd.

19 Præsten skal tage noget af Syndofferets Blod og stryge det på Templets Dørstolper, Alterfremspringets fire Hjørner og Dørstolperne til den indre Forgårds Port.

20 Det samme skal han gøre på den første Dag i den syvende Måned for deres Skyld, som har fejlet af Vanvare eller Uvidenhed, og således skaffe Templet Soning.

21 På den fjortende Dag i den første Måned skal I fejre Påskefesten: syv Dage skal I spise usyret Brød;

22 og Fyrsten skal på den Dag for sig selv og for alt Folket i Landet ofre en Tyr som Syndoffer;

23 på de syv Festdage skal han som Brændoffer for HE EN ofre syv Tyre og syv Vædre, lydefri Dyr, på hver af de syv Dage, og ligeledes daglig som Syndoffer en Gedebuk;

24 og som Afgrødeoffer skal han ofre en Efa med Tyren og ligeledes een med Væderen, desuden en Hin Olie med Efaen.

25 På den femtende Dag i den syvende Måned skal han på Festen ofre lige så meget som Syndoffer, Brændoffer, Afgrødeoffer og lige så megen Olie; det skal han gøre syv Dage.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #7847

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7847. 'And put it onto the two doorposts and onto the lintel' means the truths and forms of good of the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'the doorposts' as the truths of the natural; and from the meaning of 'the lintel' as the forms of good belonging to it. The reason why the doorposts and lintel have this meaning is that 'the house' means the actual person or his mind, and parts forming the door mean the things that serve to lead into it. These, it may be evident, are the truths and forms of good of the natural; for the natural man receives instruction first, before the rational man, and the ideas he learns during that time are natural ones, into which spiritual ideas, which are more internal, are gradually instilled. From this one may see in what way the truths and forms of good of the natural serve to lead in. Furthermore lintel and doorposts are similar in meaning to a person's frontlets and hands; for it is in the nature of angelic ideas to associate natural objects with human characteristics. The reason for this is that the spiritual world or heaven is in form like a person, and therefore all things in that world - that is, all spiritual realities, which are truths and forms of good - have connection with that form, as has been shown where correspondences are the subject, at the ends of quite a number of chapters. And since in angelic ideas natural objects become spiritual realities a house does so too. To them it is a person's mind; the bedrooms and other rooms are the inner parts of the mind, and the windows, doors, doorposts, and lintels are the outer parts leading in. Since angelic ideas are like this they are also filled with life; and that being so, things which in the natural world are lifeless objects become objects filled with life when they pass into the spiritual world. For everything spiritual is filled with life since it comes from the Lord.

[2] The fact that 'doorposts and lintel' is similar in meaning to a person's 'frontlets and hands' may be seen from the following words in Moses,

You shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. You are to bind them as a sign onto your hand, and let them be as frontlets between your eyes. And you are to write them onto the doorposts of your house, and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:5, 8-9; 11:13, 18, 20.

Since they hold a similar meaning to each other both observances have been stated here.

[3] As regards the meaning of 'lintel and doorposts' in the spiritual sense as the forms of good and the truths of the natural which lead into spiritual things, this is clear from the description in Ezekiel of the new temple, which means the spiritual Church. There reference is made many times to doorposts and lintels, objects which were also measured. This would never have been done unless those details had also meant something descriptive of the Church or of heaven, that is, something spiritual, such as the following details in that prophet,

The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering, and put it onto the doorpost of the house, and onto the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and onto the post of the gate of the inner court, on the first day of the month. Ezekiel 45:19.

[4] In the same prophet,

The prince shall enter by the way of the portico outside, and stand by the gate post; and the priests shall make his burnt offering. At that time he shall worship on the threshold of the gate. Ezekiel 46:2.

Anyone may recognize that 'the temple' here is not used to mean the temple but the Lord's Church, for the kinds of things described here in a number of chapters have never come about, and never will. In the highest sense 'the temple' is used to mean the Lord's Divine Human. He Himself teaches this meaning in John 2:19, 21-22; and in the representative sense 'the temple is therefore used to mean His Church. For statements that the angel measured the lintels of this new temple, see Ezekiel 40:9-10, 14, 16, 24; 41:21, 25. This measuring of them would have had no importance unless 'the lintels', and also the numbers involved, had meant some aspect of the Church. Because 'the doorposts and lintel' meant the truths and forms of good in the natural, which serve to lead in, the ones in this new temple were square, Ezekiel 41:21. For the same reason the doorposts in Solomon's temple were made of planks of olive wood, 1 Kings 6:31, 33. 'Olive wood' meant the good of truth or the good which is that of the spiritual Church.

  
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