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Hesekiel 10

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1 Siis ma vaatasin, ja ennäe, taevalaotuses, mis oli keerubite pea kohal, olid nagu safiirikivid; midagi, mis paistis aujärjena, nähti nende kohal.

2 Ja ta rääkis mehega, kellel olid linased riided seljas, ja ütles: 'Mine rataste vahele, mis on iga keerubi all, ja täida pihud tuliste sütega keerubite vahelt ning pillu need linna peale!' Ja mees läks sisse minu nähes.

3 Keerubid seisid kojas paremal pool, kui mees läks, ja pilv täitis sisemise õue.

4 Siis tõusis Issanda auhiilgus keerubi kohalt koja lävele, koda täitus pilvest ja õu täitus Issanda auhiilguse särast.

5 Ja keerubite tiibade kahinat kuuldus kuni välimise õueni nagu Kõigeväelise Jumala häält, kui ta kõneleb.

6 Ja kui ta käskis meest, kellel olid linased riided seljas, öeldes: 'Võta tuld rataste vahelt, keerubite vahelt!', siis läks see ja asetus ratta kõrvale.

7 Ja üks keerub pistis oma käe keerubite vahelt tule juurde, mis oli keerubite vahel, ja võttis seda ning andis linasesse riietatu pihkudesse; ja see võttis ning läks välja.

8 Keerubitel paistis tiibade all olevat otsekui inimese käsi.

9 Ja ma vaatasin, ja ennäe, keerubite kõrval oli neli ratast, iga keerubi kõrval oli ratas, ja rattad olid välimuselt nagu krüsoliidikivid.

10 Ja neil neljal oli ühesugune välimus, otsekui oleks ratas olnud ratta sees.

11 Kui nad liikusid, siis nad said minna iga nelja külje suunas, käigul pöördumata; sest sinna, kuhu oli pööratud esikülg, läksid nad selle järel; käigul nad ei pöördunud.

12 Ja kogu nende keha, seljad, käed, tiivad ja rattad olid ümberringi täis silmi; sel nelikul olid rattad

13 ja rattaid nimetati, nagu ma kuulsin, 'ratastikuks'.

14 Ja igaühel oli neli nägu: üks oli keerubi nägu, teine inimese nägu, kolmas lõvi nägu ja neljas kotka nägu.

15 Ja keerubid tõusid üles, need olid samad olevused, keda ma olin näinud Kebari jõe ääres.

16 Ja kui keerubid liikusid, siis liikusid rattad nende kõrval; ja kui keerubid tõstsid tiibu, et maa pealt üles tõusta, siis ei pöördunud ka rattad ära nende kõrvalt.

17 Kui ühed seisid, siis seisid ka teised, ja kui ühed tõusid üles, siis tõusid teised koos nendega, sest nende sees oli olevuse vaim.

18 Siis Issanda auhiilgus läks ära koja lävelt ja seisis keerubite kohal.

19 Ja minnes tõstsid keerubid oma tiibu ning tõusid maast üles mu silme all, ja nende rattad samuti nagu nad isegi; nad jäid seisma Issanda koja idapoolse värava suus ja Iisraeli Jumala auhiilgus oli ülal nende kohal.

20 Need olid needsamad olevused, keda ma olin näinud Iisraeli Jumala all Kebari jõe ääres; ja ma mõistsin, et need olid keerubid.

21 Igaühel oli neli nägu ja igaühel oli neli tiiba, ja neil olid otsekui inimese käed tiibade all.

22 Ja nende nägude kuju: need olid näod, mida ma olin näinud Kebari jõe ääres, nende välimus ja need ise; igaüks läks edasi omaette.

   

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Pots" and other large vessels in the Bible represent facts and factual ideas, which serve as containers for truth the same way pots serve as containers for water or wine. Pots fill their function because they are hard, strong and impervious; facts are also absolute and unchanging, filling their function the same way. And pots must be filled to serve any use, just as facts must be filled with truth to serve any purpose. To some extent this meaning also applies to cups, bowls and other smaller vessels, though it is a little more immediate. Generally you don't fill a cup so you can store a liquid; you fill it to drink it. Smaller vessels then often take more of their meaning from the substance they contain, and in many cases ("cup" and "wine" especially) actually mean the same thing.

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Arcana Coelestia # 6917

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6917. 'Vessels of silver' means factual knowledge of what is true, 'and vessels of gold' means factual knowledge of what is good. This is clear from the meaning of 'vessels' as known facts, dealt with in 3068, 3079 (known facts are called 'vessels' because they are general and can contain within them countless truths and manifold forms of good); from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, and of 'gold' as good, dealt with in 1551, 1552, 2954, 5658, 'the silver of Egypt' being factual knowledge that held truth in it and was appropriate, see 6112. As regards the vessels of silver and the vessels of gold in the hands of the Egyptians - that they mean factual knowledge of what is true and factual knowledge of what is good, even though here and in what has gone before, as well as in what follows, false factual knowledge is meant by 'the Egyptians - it should be recognized that in themselves known facts are neither true nor false. Rather, they become true in the hands of those who are guided by truths, and false in the hands of those who are steeped in falsities. What use they are put to and then made to serve is what determines which of these they become. The facts a person knows are like the wealth and riches he possesses. Wealth and riches in the hands of those governed by evil are ruinous because they put them to evil kinds of use, whereas wealth and riches in the hands of those governed by good are advantageous because they put them to good kinds of use. Therefore if wealth and riches in the hands of evil people are handed over to those who are good they become good. So too with factual knowledge.

[2] Among the Egyptians, for example, there remained a large number of the representatives that belonged to the Ancient Church, as is clear from their hieroglyphics. But because they applied them to magical practices and therefore made them serve an evil use, these things were for them not true factual knowledge but false. Yet in the Ancient Church the same knowledge had held what was true since people had put it to its correct use - to Divine worship. Take sacrifices on altars as another example. Among the Hebrew nation, and subsequently among the Jewish and Israelite nation, they were ritual acts that were true because they were put to use in the worship of Jehovah. But among the nations in the land of Canaan they were false ritual acts because they were put to use in the worship of their idols. This was why the command was also given to destroy those nations' altars wherever they were. The same holds true with a very large number of other things. For this reason many known facts can be learned from those who are steeped in evils and falsities, and put to good kinds of use, thus becoming good. Similar things were also meant by plundering the nations in the land of Canaan - by the wealth, large cattle, small cattle, houses, and vineyards which the children of Israel plundered there. The same thing is still further evident from the gold and silver plundered from the nations. This too was devoted to a sacred use, as is clear from the second Book of Samuel,

There were in his hand vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze. King David consecrated these also to Jehovah, along with the silver and gold that he had consecrated from all the nations which he had subdued - from the Syrians, [and] from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek, and from the plunder of Hadad Ezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah. 2 Samuel 8:10-12.

And in Isaiah,

At length the merchandise of Tyre and her harlot's wages will be holy to Jehovah, they will not be hoarded or held back; but her merchandise will be for those that dwell before Jehovah to eat to their satiety and for one covering himself with what is ancient. Isaiah 23:18.

And also the objects which the women of the children of Israel asked of the Egyptians, thereby plundering them, were later on put to use in the making of the Ark, and to many other sacred objects in their worship.

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