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1 그가 나를 데리고 성소에 이르러 그 문벽을 척량하니 이편 두께도 육척이요 저편 두께도 육척이라 두께가 이와 같으며

2 그 문통의 광이 십척이요 문통 이편 벽의 광이 오척이요 저편 벽의 광이 오척이며 그가 성소를 척량하니 그 장이 사십척이요 그 광이 이십척이며

3 그가 안으로 들어가서 내전 문통의 벽을 척량하니 두께가 이척이요 문통이 육척이요 문통의 벽의 광이 각기 칠척이며

4 그가 내전을 척량하니 장이 이십척이요 광이 이십척이라 그가 내게 이르되 이는 지성소니라 하고

5 전의 벽을 척량하니 두께가 육척이며 전 삼면에 골방이 있는데 광이 각기 사척이며

6 골방은 삼층인데 골방 위에 골방이 있어 모두 삼십이라 그 삼면 골방이 전 벽 밖으로 그 벽에 의지하였고 전 벽 속은 범하지 아니하였으며

7 이 두루 있는 골방이 그 층이 높아갈수록 넓으므로 전에 둘린 이골방이 높아갈수록 전에 가까와졌으나 전의 넓이는 아래 위가 같으며 골방은 아랫층에서 중층으로 윗층에 올라가게 되었더라

8 내가 보니 전 삼면의 지대 곧 모든 골방 밑 지대의 고가 한 장대 곧 큰 자로 육척인데

9 전을 의지한 그 골방 바깥벽 두께는 오척이요 그 외에 빈 터가 남았으며

10 전 골방 삼면에 광이 이십척 되는 뜰이 둘려 있으며

11 그 골방 문은 다 빈 터로 향하였는데 한 문은 북으로 향하였고 한 문은 남으로 향하였으며 그 둘려 있는 빈 터의 광은 오척이더라

12 서편 뜰 뒤에 건물이 있는데 광이 칠십척이요 장이 구십척이며 그 사면 벽의 두께가 오척이더라

13 그가 전을 척량하니 장이 일백척이요 또 서편 뜰과 그 건물과 그 벽을 합하여 장이 일백척이요

14 전 전면의 광이 일백척이요 그 앞 동향한 뜰의 광도 그러하며

15 그가 뒷뜰 뒤에 있는 건물을 척량하니 그 좌우편 다락까지 일백 척이더라 내전과 외전과 그 뜰의 현관과

16 문통 벽과 닫힌 창과 삼면에 둘려 있는 다락은 문통 안편에서부터 땅에서 창까지 널판으로 가리웠고 (창은 이미 닫히었더라)

17 문통 위와 내전과 외전의 사면 벽도 다 그러하니 곧 척량한 대소 대로며

18 널판에는 그룹들과 종려나무를 새겼는데 두 그룹 사이에 종려나무 하나가 있으며 매 그룹에 두 얼굴이 있으니

19 하나는 사람의 얼굴이라 이편 종려나무를 향하였고 하나는 어린 사자의 얼굴이라 저편 종려나무를 향하였으며 온 전 사면이 다 그러하여

20 땅에서부터 문통 위에까지 그룹들과 종려나무들을 새겼으니 성전벽이 다 그러하더라

21 외전 문설주는 네모졌고 내전 전면에 있는 식양은 이러하니

22 곧 나무 제단의 고가 삼척이요 장이 이척이며 그 모퉁이와 옆과 면을 다 나무로 만들었더라 그가 내게 이르되 이는 여호와의 앞의 상이라 하더라

23 내전과 외전에 각기 문이 있는데

24 문마다 각기 두 문짝 곧 접치는 두 문짝이 있어 이 문에 두 짝이요 저 문에 두 짝이며

25 이 성전 문에 그룹과 종려나무를 새겼는데 벽에 있는 것과 같고 현관 앞에는 나무 디딤판이 있으며

26 현관 좌우편에는 닫힌 창도 있고 종려나무도 새겼고 전의 골방과 디딤판도 그러하더라

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9487

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9487. 'Two cubits and a half shall be its length' means all so far as good is concerned. This is clear from the meaning of 'two and a half' as much and as what is complete, and as all when this number has reference to something Divine (the reason why 'two and a half' means much and what is complete is that this number is similar in meaning to five, ten, a hundred, and a thousand, since twice two and a half makes five, twice five makes ten, and ten times ten makes a hundred; for doubles and multiples have a similar meaning to the simple numbers of which they are the products, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973. For the meaning of 'five' as much and completeness, see 5708, 5956, 9102; likewise 'ten', 3107, 4638; also 'a hundred', 2636, 4400; and a thousand, 2575, 8715. So it is that when these numbers are used in reference to something Divine they mean all); and from the meaning of 'length' as good, dealt with in 1613, 8898.

[2] To say that 'length' in the Word means good and 'breadth' truth may seem to be like nonsense; nevertheless this is indeed what they mean. The reason why they do so is that all things without exception in the Word mean realities such as belong to heaven and to the Church, and so such as are connected with the good of love and with the truth of faith. No spatial dimensions such as 'length' and 'breadth' imply can be attributed to these; but instead of spatial dimensions the state of their essential being (esse), which is a state of good, and the resulting state of manifestation (existere), which is a state of truth, can be attributed to them. Furthermore in heaven spatial dimensions are appearances produced by those states, 4882, 9440. From all this it becomes clear that spiritual realities are meant by the measurements and dimensions given in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel, where a new temple and a new land are the subject. They are consequently meant here in Exodus, where the ark, the dwelling-place, the court, the tables there, and the altars are the subject. Such realities are in a similar way meant where the temple in Jerusalem is the subject, also when it says that the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven was square, its breadth being as great as its length, Revelation 21:16; Zechariah 2:1-2. For 'Jerusalem' means a new Church, the character of its good being meant by the measurement of its length, and the character of its truth by that of its breadth.

[3] The fact that 'breadth' or 'broad place' means truth is plainly evident in David,

In distress I called on Jah; He answered me in a broad place. Psalms 118:5.

In the same author,

You have made my feet stand in a broad place. Psalms 31:8.

In Isaiah,

The outstretchings of Asshur's wings will fill the breadth of the land. Isaiah 8:8.

In Habakkuk,

I am rousing the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, marching 1 into the breadths of the earth. Habakkuk 1:6.

'Marching into the breadths of the earth', when said of the Chaldeans, means destroying the truths of faith.

Footnotes:

1. literally, walking

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Ezekiel 48

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1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].

2 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].

3 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].

4 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].

5 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].

6 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one [portion].

7 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion].

8 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.

9 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.

10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst.

11 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.

13 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.

15 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.

16 These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

17 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

20 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.

21 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.

22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.

23 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].

24 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion].

25 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].

26 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].

27 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].

28 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.

29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.

30 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;

31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

32 At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

33 At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

35 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.