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Ezequiel 45

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1 Y cuando partiereis por suertes la tierra en heredad, apartaréis una suerte para el SEÑOR que le consagraréis de la tierra, de longitud de veinticinco mil cañas de medir y diez mil de ancho; esto será santificado en todo su término alrededor.

2 De esto serán para el Santuario quinientas de longitud , y quinientas de ancho , en cuadro alrededor; y cincuenta codos en derredor para sus ejidos.

3 Y de esta medida medirás en longitud veinticinco mil cañas , y en anchura diez mil, en lo cual estará el Santuario, el Lugar Santísimo.

4 Lo consagrado de esta tierra será para los sacerdotes ministros del Santuario, que son escogidos para ministrar al SEÑOR; y les será lugar para casas, y Lugar Santo para el Santuario.

5 Y otras veinticinco mil de longitud, y diez mil de anchura, lo cual será para los levitas ministros de la Casa, en posesión, con veinte cámaras.

6 Y para la posesión de la ciudad daréis cinco mil de anchura y veinticinco mil de longitud, delante de lo que se apartó para el Santuario; esto será para toda la Casa de Israel.

7 Y la parte del Príncipe será junto al apartamiento del Santuario, de una parte y de la otra, y junto a la posesión de la ciudad, delante del apartamiento del Santuario, y delante de la posesión de la ciudad, desde el rincón occidental que está hacia el occidente, hasta el rincón oriental que está hacia el oriente; y la longitud será de una parte a la otra, desde el rincón del occidente hasta el rincón del oriente.

8 Esta tierra tendrá por posesión en Israel, y nunca más mis príncipes oprimirán a mi pueblo; mas darán la tierra a la Casa de Israel por sus tribus.

9 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Basta ya, oh príncipes de Israel; quitad la violencia y la rapiña; haced juicio y justicia; quitad vuestras imposiciones de sobre mi pueblo, dijo el Señor DIOS.

10 Peso de justicia, y efa de justicia, y bato de justicia, tendréis.

11 El efa y el bato serán de una misma medida; que el bato tenga la décima parte del homer, y la décima parte del homer el efa; la medida de ellos será según el homer.

12 Y el siclo será de veinte geras: veinte siclos, con veinticinco siclos, y quince siclos, os serán una mina.

13 Esta será la ofrenda que ofreceréis: la sexta parte de un efa de homer del trigo, y la sexta parte de un efa de homer de la cebada.

14 Y la ordenanza del aceite será que ofreceréis un bato de aceite, que es la décima parte de un coro: diez batos harán un homer; porque diez batos son un homer.

15 Y una cordera de la manada de doscientas, de las gruesas de Israel, para sacrificio, y para holocausto y para pacíficos, para ser expiados, dijo el Señor DIOS.

16 Todo el pueblo de la tierra será obligado a esta ofrenda para el príncipe de Israel.

17 Mas del príncipe será la obligación de dar el holocausto, y el sacrificio, y la libación, en las solemnidades, y en las lunas nuevas, y en los sábados, y en todas las fiestas de la Casa de Israel; él hará la expiación, y el presente, y el holocausto, y los pacíficos, para expiar la Casa de Israel.

18 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: El mes primero, al primero del mes, tomarás un becerro, hijo de vaca, sin defecto, y expiarás el Santuario.

19 Y el sacerdote tomará de la sangre del becerro de la expiación, y pondrá sobre los postes de la Casa, y sobre los cuatro ángulos del patio del altar, y sobre los postes de las puertas del atrio de adentro.

20 Así harás hasta el séptimo día del mes por los errados y engañados; y expiarás la Casa.

21 El mes primero, a los catorce días del mes, tendréis la pascua, que será fiesta de siete días; se comerá pan sin levadura.

22 Y aquel día el príncipe sacrificará por sí, y por todo el pueblo de la tierra, un becerro por el pecado.

23 Y en todos los siete días de solemnidad hará holocausto al SEÑOR, siete becerros y siete carneros sin defecto, cada día de los siete días; y por el pecado un macho cabrío cada día.

24 Y con cada becerro ofrecerá Presente de un efa de flor de harina , y con cada carnero otro efa; y por cada efa un hin de aceite.

25 En el mes séptimo, a los quince del mes, en la fiesta, hará otro tanto como en estos siete días, en cuanto a la expiación, y en cuanto al holocausto, y en cuanto al presente, y en cuanto al aceite.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #5536

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5536. 'You have bereaved me [of my children]' means that thus no Church existed any longer. This is clear from the representation of Jacob, the one who says this about himself, as the good of truth, dealt with in 3659, 3669, 3677, 3775, 4234, 4273, 4538 (and as the good of truth is represented, so also is the Church because good is the essential element of the Church. It therefore amounts to the same whether you say the good of truth or the Church, for the person who has the good of truth present with him has the Church present with him. 'Jacob' represents the Church, see 4286, 4520, and that being so his sons represent the truths known to the Church, 5403, 5419, 5427, 5458, 5512); and from the meaning of 'bereaving' as depriving the Church of its truths and forms of good, such as those here which are represented by Joseph, Benjamin, and Simeon, to whom reference is made directly after the words 'you have bereaved me'.

[2] 'Bereaving' is depriving the Church of its truths for the reason that the Church is likened to a marriage. Good is likened to the husband and truth to the wife, while the truths born from that marriage are likened to 'the sons' and the forms of good to 'the daughters', and so on. When therefore a state of bereavement or an action causing this is mentioned, the meaning is that the Church has been deprived of its truths and as a consequence ceases to be a Church. The expressions 'bereft' and 'bereavement' are also used in various other places in the Word, as in

Ezekiel,

I will send famine and evil wild animals upon you, and I will make you bereft. Ezekiel 5:17.

In the same prophet,

When I cause evil wild animals to pass through the land and they leave it bereft so that it becomes a desolation, with the result that no one passes through on account of the wild animals. Ezekiel 14:15.

In Leviticus,

I will send into you the wild animals of the field, which will leave you bereft and will cut off your beasts, 1 and make you few in number, so that your roads are laid waste. Leviticus 26:22.

[3] In these quotations 'famine' stands for an absence of cognitions of good and truth and the consequent desolation, 'evil wild animals' for falsities derived from evils, and 'the land' for the Church. 'Sending famine and evil wild animals, and leaving the land bereft' stands for destroying the Church by means of falsities derived from evils and so depriving it completely of truths. In Jeremiah,

I will winnow them with a winnowing-fork in the gates of the land; I will bereave, I will destroy My people. Jeremiah 15:7.

Here also 'bereaving' stands for depriving of truths. In the same prophet,

Give their children over to the famine, and cause them to be wiped out by the power of the sword, 2 so that their wives become bereaved [of children] and widows. Jeremiah 18:11.

'So that their wives become bereaved and widows' stands for their being left without truths or good.

[4] In Hosea,

As for the Ephraimites, their glory will fly away like a bird, away from birth, and from the belly, and from conception. Even if they bring up their sons, I will make them bereft of human beings. Hosea 9:11-12.

Here the meaning is similar. In Ezekiel,

I will cause human beings to walk upon you, even My people; and those human beings will by inheritance take possession of you and you will be an inheritance to them; no more will you bereave them [of their children]. Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Because they say to you, You have been one devouring human beings and one bereaving your peoples [of children]. Ezekiel 36:12-13.

Here also 'bereaving' stands for depriving of truths.

[5] In Isaiah,

Now hear this, you lover of pleasures, sitting securely, saying in her 3 heart, I am, and there is no one else like me; a widow I shall not sit, nor shall I know bereavement [of children]. But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day-bereavement and widowhood. Isaiah 47:8-9.

This refers to the daughter of Babel and to Chaldea, that is, to those who are outwardly holy but inwardly unholy and who call themselves the Church by virtue of that outward holiness. 'Bereavement and widowhood' stands for a deprivation of truth and good. In the same prophet,

Lift up your eyes round about, and see; they all gather together, they come to you. The children of your bereavements will say again in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; yield me a place to dwell in. But you will say in your heart, Who has begotten these for me, when yet I am bereft [of children] and alone, an exile and one who has been displaced? Who therefore has brought these up? I was left, alone. These, where were they? Isaiah 49:18, 20-21.

This refers to Zion, which is the celestial Church, and to its fruitfulness after it had been laid waste. 'The sons of bereavements' stands for the truths of which it was deprived when laid waste, but which were restored and underwent enormous increase.

Footnotes:

1. i.e. cattle

2. literally, cause them to flow down by means of the hand of the sword

3. The Latin means your but the Hebrew means her, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes this verse.

  
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