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Ezechiël 42

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1 Daarna bracht hij mij uit tot het buitenste voorhof; den weg naar den weg van het noorden; en hij bracht mij tot de kameren, die tegenover de afgesneden plaats, en die tegenover het gebouw tegen het noorden waren:

2 Voor aan de lengte van de honderd ellen naar de deur van het noorden; en de breedte was vijftig ellen.

3 Tegenover de twintig ellen, die het binnenste voorhof had, en tegenover het plaveisel, dat het buitenste voorhof had, was galerij tegen galerij, in drie rijen.

4 En voor de kameren was een wandeling van tien ellen de breedte; naar binnen toe, en een weg van een el; en de deuren van dezelve waren tegen het noorden.

5 De bovenste kameren nu waren nauwer (omdat de galerijen hoger waren dan dezelve), dan de onderste en dan de middelste des gebouws.

6 Want zij waren wel van drie rijen, maar hadden geen pilaren gelijk de pilaren der voorhoven; daarom waren zij benauwder dan de onderste en dan de middelste van de aarde af.

7 De muur nu, die naar buiten tegenover de kameren was, den weg naar het buitenste voorhof, voor aan de kameren, de lengte van dien was vijftig ellen.

8 Want de lengte der kameren, die het buitenste voorhof had, was vijftig ellen; en ziet, voor aan den tempel waren honderd ellen.

9 Van onder deze kameren nu was de ingang van het oosten, als iemand tot dezelve ingaat, uit het buitenste voorhof.

10 Aan de breedte van den muur des voorhofs, den weg naar het oosten, voor aan de afgesneden plaats, en voor aan het gebouw, waren kameren.

11 En de weg voor dezelve henen was als de gedaante der kameren, die den weg naar het noorden waren, naar derzelver lengte, alzo naar derzelver breedte; en al haar uitgangen waren ook naar derzelver wijzen en naar derzelver deuren.

12 En gelijk de deuren der kameren, die den weg naar het zuiden waren, was er een deur in het hoofd van den weg, den weg voor aan den rechten muur, den weg naar het oosten, als men daar ingaat.

13 Toen zeide hij tot mij: De kameren van het noorden, en de kameren van het zuiden, die voor aan de afgesneden plaats zijn, dat zijn heilige kameren, waarin de priesters, die tot den HEERE naderen, die allerheiligste dingen zullen eten; aldaar zullen zij de allerheiligste dingen henenleggen, en het spijsoffer, en het zondoffer, en het schuldoffer, want de plaats is heilig.

14 Als de priesters ingegaan zullen zijn, zo zullen zij uit het heiligdom niet weder uitgaan in het buitenste voorhof, maar aldaar hun klederen henenleggen, in dewelke zij gediend hebben, want die zijn een heiligheid; en zij zullen andere klederen aantrekken, en naderen tot hetgeen voor het volk is.

15 Als hij nu de maten van het binnenste huis geeindigd had, zo bracht hij mij uit, den weg naar de poort, die den weg naar het oosten zag, en hij mat ze rondom henen.

16 Hij mat de oostzijde met het meetriet; vijfhonderd rieten, met het meetriet, rondom.

17 Hij mat de noordzijde, vijfhonderd rieten, met het meetriet, rondom.

18 De zuidzijde mat hij, vijfhonderd rieten, met het meetriet.

19 Hij ging om naar de westzijde, en hij mat vijfhonderd rieten, met het meetriet.

20 Hij mat het aan de vier zijden; het had een muur rondom henen, de lengte was vijfhonderd rieten, en de breedte vijfhonderd, om onderscheid te maken tussen het heilige en onheilige.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #628

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628. And the angel stood near, saying, signifies the Lord's will and command. This is evident from the signification of "to stand near," as being here will (of which presently); also from the signification of "angel," as being the Lord in respect to the Word (See above, n. 593); also from the signification of "saying," as being, when the Lord speaks, command; for what the Lord says is to be done, or that anyone should do it, is a command. "The angel stood near" means here the Lord's will, because in the spiritual world the thought, with the purpose, and will to see another, to speak with him, and to give him a command, causes the other to be present, that is, to stand near; for in that world there are no distances that are constant and thence measurable, as in the natural world; but likeness of affection and of thought thence causes presence, and unlikeness of these causes absence; this is the origin of all distances in that world. This comes from the universal principle that the Lord is present with all according to their love to Him and according to their love towards the neighbor and thoughts from these. From this universal principle all distances, that is, all presence and absence among angels and spirits, exist; therefore when anyone desires to speak with another, that is, thinks about him from a purpose or wish to speak with him, that one immediately becomes present, or he is present with that one. (That this is so can be seen in the work on Heaven and Hell, n. 191-199, where Space in Heaven is treated of.) From this it can now be seen why the Lord's will is signified by "the angel stood near," for "to stand near" means to be present.

  
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Apocalypse Explained #83

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83. And I became dead, signifies that He was rejected. This is evident from this, that the Lord is said to be "dead" when faith in Him and love towards Him are no more; for with those who are in love towards Him and faith in Him the Lord lives, but with those who are not in love and in faith toward Him He does not live. With such He is said to be "dead" because He is rejected. This is what is here meant in the internal sense by the words "I became dead;" but in the sense of the letter it is meant that He was crucified. The Lord's being crucified has a like signification in the internal sense, namely, that He was rejected and treated thus by the Jews; for the Lord, when He was in the world, was Divine truth itself, and as Divine truth was altogether rejected by the Jews, therefore the Lord, who was Divine truth, suffered Himself to be crucified. Such things are signified by all that is related in the Evangelists concerning the Lord's passion; the particulars, even to every minutest particular, involve this. Whenever, therefore, the Lord speaks of His passion He calls Himself the Son of man, that is, Divine truth (See above, n. 63). That Divine truth was altogether rejected by the Jews is well known; for they accepted nothing that the Lord said, and not even that He was the Son of God. From this it may be known how those things that the Lord said to the disciples about the Jews' rejection of Him are to be understood. Thus in Luke:

The Son of man must suffer many things, and be repudiated by the elders and chief priests and scribes (Luke 9:22).

In the same:

The Son of man must suffer many things, and be repudiated by this generation (Luke 17:25).

In Mark:

It is written of the Son of man, that He should suffer many things and be set at naught (Mark 9:12).

In Luke:

Jesus took unto Him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are foretold through the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. For He shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and shamefully entreated, and spit upon; and after they have scourged Him, they shall put Him to death; but the third day He shall rise again (Luke 18:31-33).

The way in which the Jews treated Divine truth, which was from the Word, is signified by these particulars. "Jerusalem" here is the Jewish Church; "to be delivered unto the Gentiles, to be mocked, to be shamefully entreated, to be spit upon, to be scourged, to be put to death," are the wicked ways in which the Jews treated Divine truth; and as the Lord was Divine truth itself, because He was the Word (John 1:14), and as it was foretold in the prophets that Divine truth would be so dealt with in the end of the church, therefore it is said, "that all things may be accomplished that have been foretold through the prophets concerning the Son of man." So elsewhere in the same Gospel:

These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me (Luke 24:44).

That all things were accomplished when Jesus was crucified He Himself said, when He was upon the cross:

Jesus, knowing that all things were accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst (John 19:28).

He then said, "I thirst," because He longed for a new church that would acknowledge Him. (That to "thirst," in the spiritual sense, signifies to long for, and that it is predicated of the truths of the church, see Arcana Coelestia 4958, 4976, 8568.) These are also the things that were predicted by Daniel concerning vastation and desolation:

After sixty and two weeks shall the Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself; then the people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, so that its end shall be with a flood. At last upon the bird of abominations shall be desolation, and even to the consummation and decision it shall drop upon the devastation (Daniel 9:26-27).

"Desolation" and "vastation" signify repudiation and rejection of Divine truth with those that are of the church (See Arcana Coelestia 5360, 5376). That Divine truth, which is the Word, was so repudiated by the Jews, is also meant by these words in Matthew:

I say unto you that Elias is come already, and they have not acknowledged him, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Even so shall the Son of man suffer of them (Matthew 17:12).

By "Elias" the Word is signified (See Arcana Coelestia, preface to chapter 18 of Genesis, and in n. 2762, 5247), and also by "John the Baptist;" therefore he was called "Elias" (n. 7643, 9372). From this it can be seen what is signified by "Elias has come," and that "they have done to him whatsoever they listed," and that "the Son of man is to suffer of them." How the Jews explained and thus rejected the Word is clear from many passages in the Gospels, where the Lord makes this manifest. From this it can now be seen that "I became dead," signifies that He was rejected. Moreover, that the Lord, by the passion of the cross, also glorified His Human, that is, made it Divine, see New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine, n. 294-295, 302, 305.

  
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