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Hesekiel 45

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1 "Kun te arvotte maata perintöosiksi, niin antakaa Herralle anti, pyhä osa maasta, kahtakymmentäviittä tuhatta pitkä ja kahtakymmentä tuhatta leveä. Se olkoon pyhä koko alueeltaan, yltympäri.

2 Siitä tulkoon pyhäkölle neliö, viisisataa ja viisisataa joka taholta, ja sen lisäksi avointa tilaa viisikymmentä joka taholta.

3 Ja mittaa tästä mitatusta alueesta kahtakymmentäviittä tuhatta pitkälti ja kymmentätuhatta leveälti, ja siinä olkoon pyhäkkö, korkeasti-pyhä.

4 Se olkoon pyhä osa maasta papeille, jotka palvelevat pyhäkössä, jotka lähestyvät ja palvelevat Herraa; se olkoon talojen sijana heitä varten ja pyhänä paikkana pyhäkköä varten.

5 Kahtakymmentäviittä tuhatta pitkälti ja kymmentätuhatta leveälti on tuleva leeviläisille, jotka toimittavat palvelusta pyhäkössä, heille perintömaaksi-kaksikymmentä kammiota-.

6 Kaupungille antakaa perintömaata viittätuhatta leveälti ja kahtakymmentäviittä tuhatta pitkälti, pyhän antimaan viereltä; se olkoon kaiken Israelin heimon oma.

7 Ja ruhtinaalle: molemmilta puolin pyhää antimaata ja kaupungin perintömaata, pyhän antimaan sivusta ja kaupungin perintömaan sivusta, lännen puolelta länteen päin ja idän puolelta itään päin, maata yhtä pitkälti kuin on yhden sukukuntaosan pituus länsirajasta itärajaan.

8 Se olkoon hänellä maana, perintömaana Israelissa; ja älkööt minun ruhtinaani enää sortako minun kansaani, vaan jättäkööt muun maan Israelin heimolle sukukunnittain.

9 Näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Jo riittää, te Israelin ruhtinaat! Heittäkää pois väkivalta ja sorto, noudattakaa oikeutta ja vanhurskautta, heretkää häätämästä mailtansa minun kansaani, sanoo Herra, Herra.

10 Olkoon teillä oikea paino, oikea eefa-mitta ja oikea bat-mitta.

11 Eefa-ja bat-mitta olkoot tarkoin yhtä suuret: bat vetäköön kymmenenneksen hoomer-mittaa ja eefa kymmenenneksen hoomer-mittaa; hoomerin mukaan määrättäköön kumpaisenkin suuruus.

12 Sekelissä olkoon kaksikymmentä geeraa; miina olkoon teillä kaksikymmentä sekeliä, kaksikymmentäviisi sekeliä, viisitoista sekeliä.

13 Tämä on anti, joka teidän on annettava: kuudennes eefaa nisuhoomerista ja kuudennes eefaa ohrahoomerista;

14 ljyn määrä bat-mitasta öljyä: kymmenennes batia koor-mitasta-kymmenestä batista, hoomerista-sillä hoomer on kymmenen batia;

15 pikkukarjasta: kahdestasadasta yksi lammas Israelin runsasvetisiltä laitumilta ruokauhriksi, polttouhriksi ja yhteysuhriksi, että voitaisiin toimittaa heille sovitus, sanoo Herra, Herra.

16 Kaikki maan kansa on velvoitettu tähän antiin Israelin ruhtinaalle.

17 Mutta ruhtinas toimittakoon polttouhrit, ruokauhrin ja juomauhrin juhlina, uusinakuina ja sapatteina, kaikkina Israelin heimon juhla-aikoina; hän uhratkoon syntiuhrin, ruokauhrin, polttouhrin ja yhteysuhrin toimittaakseen sovituksen Israelin heimolle.

18 Näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Ota ensimmäisessä kuussa, kuukauden ensimmäisenä päivänä virheetön mullikka ja puhdista pyhäkkö.

19 Ja pappi ottakoon syntiuhrin verta ja sivelköön sitä temppelin ovenpieliin ja alttarin välireunan neljään kulmaan ja sisemmän esipihan portin ovenpieliin.

20 Samoin tee kuukauden seitsemäntenä päivänä sen varalta, että joku olisi erehdyksestä tai tietämättömyydestä rikkonut. Ja niin te toimitatte temppelin sovituksen.

21 Ensimmäisessä kuussa, kuukauden neljäntenätoista päivänä, on teillä pääsiäinen. Se on seitsenpäiväinen juhla. Syötäköön silloin happamatonta leipää.

22 Sinä päivänä uhratkoon ruhtinas omasta puolestansa ja maan kaiken kansan puolesta mullikan syntiuhriksi.

23 Ja seitsemänä juhlapäivänä hän uhratkoon polttouhriksi Herralle seitsemän mullikkaa ja seitsemän oinasta, virheettömiä, joka päivä seitsemänä päivänä, ja syntiuhriksi kauriin joka päivä.

24 Ja ruokauhriksi hän uhratkoon eefa-mitan mullikkaa ja eefa-mitan oinasta kohti sekä öljyä hiin-mitan eefaa kohti.

25 Seitsemännessä kuussa, kuukauden viidentenätoista päivänä, juhlana, hän uhratkoon samalla tavoin-niin seitsemänä päivänä-samankaltaisen syntiuhrin, polttouhrin ja ruokauhrin sekä saman määrän öljyä."

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4255

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4255. 'For with just my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps' means that from having little He now had much. This is clear from the meaning of 'a staff' as power - a word used in reference to truth, and dealt with in 4013, 4015; from the meaning of 'Jordan' as introduction into cognitions of good and truth, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'two camps' as goods and truths, as above in 4250 - the two camps referred to here consisting of the people, flocks, herds, and camels, which he split into two groups. From this one may see what these words mean in the proximate sense - that when being introduced into cognitions He had only a small amount of truth but subsequently He had many truths and goods; or what amounts to the same, from having little He now had much. From the explanations given up to now it is evident that the subject in the internal sense has been the way in which the Lord made the Human within Him Divine, doing so step by step in keeping with order. So the subject has been His advance into intelligence and wisdom, at length into Divine intelligence and wisdom. This shows what the phrase 'from having little He now had much' is used to mean.

[2] The reason 'the Jordan' means introduction into cognitions of good and truth is that it was a boundary to the land of Canaan. For all the boundaries of that land meant things that are first and last in the Lord's kingdom, and also those that are first and last in the Church, and so those that are first and last in the celestial and spiritual things which constitute the Lord's kingdom and His Church, see 1585, 1866, 4116, 4240. Therefore, being a boundary, 'the Jordan' meant introduction into cognitions of good and truth, for these come first; but when at length a person becomes in himself a Church or the Lord's kingdom they come to be last.

[3] That 'the Jordan' means things that are first and those that are last may be seen from other places in the Word, as in David,

O my God, my soul bows itself down within me; 1 therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons from the little mountain. Psalms 42:6.

'Remembering from the land of Jordan' stands for doing so from what is last and so from a position of humbleness. In the same author,

Judah became His sanctuary, Israel His dominions. The sea saw and fled; the Jordan turned about backwards. Psalms 114:2-3, 5.

'Judah' stands for the good of celestial love, and 'Israel' for the good of spiritual love, 3654. 'The sea' stands for cognitions of truth, 28, 'the Jordan' stands for cognitions of good which are said 'to turn about backwards' when the good of love gains dominion, for in that case cognitions are viewed from that good, not the good from those cognitions - in accordance with the things that have often been shown already.

[4] In the Book of Judges,

Gilead dwelling at the crossing of the Jordan; and Dan, why will he fear ships? Judges 5:17.

'Gilead' stands for the sensory good or pleasure by means of which a person is first introduced into the path of his regeneration, 4117, 4124. 'Dwelling at the crossing of the Jordan' stands for the things effecting that introduction, and so things that are first and last in the Church and the Lord's kingdom. These introductory things were also represented by 'the Jordan' when the children of Israel entered the land of Canaan, Joshua 3:14-end; 4:1-end; for 'the land of Canaan' represented the Lord's kingdom, 1413, 1437, 1607, 3038, 3481, 3686, 3705.

And the dividing of the Jordan and their passing through on dry ground meant the removal of evils and falsities and the admission into the Lord's kingdom of those who are governed by goods and truths. Similar in meaning is the dividing of the waters of the Jordan by Elijah when he was carried up into heaven, 2 Kings 2:8, and by Elisha when he entered in place of Elijah into the prophetic role, 2 Kings 2:14.

[5] The cure of Naaman's leprosy, effected by his having washed himself seven times in the Jordan according to Elisha's command, 2 Kings 5:1-14, represented baptism, for baptism means introduction into the Church and into the things that belong to the Church, and so into regeneration and the things that belong to regeneration. Not that anyone is regenerated by baptism; rather it is the sign of it, which he should call to mind. And because the things which constitute the Church are meant by baptism, and baptism is meant by 'the Jordan', as mentioned above, it was the Jordan therefore in which people were baptized by John, Matthew 3:6; Mark 1:5. And the Lord too was willing to be baptized in it by John, Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9.

[6] Because 'the Jordan' means things that are first and last in the Lord's kingdom and in the Church - such as the cognitions of good and truth, since these serve to introduce a person into His kingdom and Church - the Jordan is also for that reason referred to as a boundary of the new earth or holy land, in Ezekiel 47:18. The new earth or holy land means the Lord's kingdom and also the new Church which is the Lord's kingdom on earth, see 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 3355 (end).

Footnotes:

1. literally, upon me

  
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Arcana Coelestia #1437

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1437. 'They came out to go into the land of Canaan' means that in this manner He drew closer to the celestial things of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land of Canaan'. That 'the land of Canaan' represents the Lord's kingdom in heaven and on earth becomes clear from many things in the Word. The reason it does so is that the representative Church was established in that land, a Church in which every single thing represented the Lord and the celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom. This applied not only to religious observances but also to everything associated with those observances - to both the persons who ministered and to the things they administered, and even to the places where the ministrations took place because the representative Church was centred there the land was consequently called 'the Holy Land', even though it was anything but holy, seeing that idolaters and profaners inhabited it. This then is the reason why 'the land of Canaan' here and in what follows means the celestial things of love Indeed the celestial things of love, these alone, exist in the Lord's kingdom and constitute that kingdom

  
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