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1 Poi fece l’altare degli olocausti, di legno d’acacia; la sua lunghezza era di cinque cubiti; e la sua larghezza di cinque cubiti; era quadro, e avea un’altezza di tre cubiti.

2 E ai quattro angoli gli fece dei corni, che spuntavano da esso, e lo rivesti di rame.

3 Fece pure tutti gli utensili dell’altare: i vasi per le ceneri, le palette, i bacini, i forchettoni, i bracieri; tutti i suoi utensili fece di rame.

4 E fece per l’altare una gratella di rame in forma di rete, sotto la cornice, nella parte inferiore; in modo che la rete raggiungeva la metà dell’altezza dell’altare.

5 E fuse quattro anelli per i quattro angoli della gratella di rame, per farvi passare le stanghe.

6 Poi fece le stanghe di legno d’acacia, e le rivestì di rame.

7 E fece passare le stanghe per gli anelli, ai lati dell’altare le quali dovean servire a portarlo; e lo fece di tavole, vuoto.

8 Poi fece la conca di rame e la sua base di rame, servendosi degli specchi delle donne che venivano a gruppi a fare il servizio all’ingresso della tenda di convegno.

9 Poi fece il cortile; dal lato meridionale, c’erano, per formare il cortile, cento cubiti di cortine di lino fino ritorto,

10 con le loro venti colonne e le loro venti basi di rame; i chiodi e le aste delle colonne erano d’argento.

11 Dal lato di settentrione, c’erano cento cubiti di cortine con le loro venti colonne e le loro venti basi di rame; i chiodi e le aste delle colonne erano d’argento.

12 Dal lato d’occidente, c’erano cinquanta cubiti di cortine con le loro dieci colonne e le loro dieci basi; i chiodi e le aste delle colonne erano d’argento.

13 E sul davanti, dal lato orientale, c’erano cinquanta cubiti:

14 da uno dei lati dell’ingresso c’erano quindici cubiti di cortine, con tre colonne e le loro tre basi;

15 e dall’altro lato (tanto di qua quanto di là dall’ingresso del cortile) c’erano quindici cubiti di cortine, con le loro tre colonne e le loro tre basi.

16 Tutte le cortine formanti il recinto del cortile erano di lino fino ritorto;

17 e le basi per le colonne eran di rame; i chiodi e le aste delle colonne erano d’argento, e i capitelli delle colonne eran rivestiti d’argento, e tutte le colonne del cortile eran congiunte con delle aste d’argento.

18 La portiera per l’ingresso del cortile era in lavoro di ricamo, di filo violaceo, porporino, scarlatto, e di lino fino ritorto; aveva una lunghezza di venti cubiti, un’altezza di cinque cubiti, corrispondente alla larghezza delle cortine del cortile.

19 Le colonne erano quattro, e quattro le loro basi, di rame; i loro chiodi eran d’argento, e i loro capitelli e le loro aste eran rivestiti d’argento.

20 Tutti i piuoli del tabernacolo e dei recinto del cortile erano di rame.

21 Questi sono i conti del tabernacolo, del tabernacolo della testimonianza, che furon fatti per ordine di Mosè, per cura dei Leviti, sotto la direzione d’Ithamar, figliuolo del sacerdote Aaronne.

22 Betsaleel, figliuolo d’Uri, figliuolo di Hur, della tribù di Giuda, fece tutto quello che l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè,

23 avendo con sé Oholiab, figliuolo di Ahisamac, della tribù di Dan, scultore, disegnatore, e ricamatore di stoffe violacee, porporine, scarlatte e di lino fino.

24 Tutto l’oro che fu impiegato nell’opera per tutti i lavori del santuario, oro delle offerte, fu ventinove talenti e settecentotrenta sicli, secondo il siclo del santuario.

25 E l’argento di quelli della raunanza de’ quali si fece il censimento, fu cento talenti e mille settecento settantacinque sicli, secondo il siclo del santuario:

26 un beka a testa, vale a dire un mezzo siclo, secondo il siclo del santuario, per ogni uomo compreso nel censimento, dall’età di venti anni in su: cioè, per seicento tremila cinquecento cinquanta uomini.

27 I cento talenti d’argento servirono a fondere le basi del santuario e le basi del velo: cento basi per i cento talenti, un talento per base.

28 E coi mille settecento settantacinque sicli si fecero dei chiodi per le colonne, si rivestirono i capitelli, e si fecero le aste delle colonne.

29 Il rame delle offerte ammontava a settanta talenti e a duemila quattrocento sicli.

30 E con questi si fecero le basi dell’ingresso della tenda di convegno, l’altare di rame con la sua gratella di rame, e tutti gli utensili dell’altare,

31 le basi del cortile tutt’all’intorno, le basi dell’ingresso del cortile, tutti i piuoli del tabernacolo e tutti i piuoli del recinto del cortile.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8408

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8408. 'When we sat by a pot of flesh' means a life according to their own pleasure, and such as they craved for. This is clear from the meaning of 'a pot' as a container of good, and in the contrary sense a container of evil, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'flesh' as the heavenly proprium, thus good, and in the contrary sense as the proprium that is man's own, thus evil, also dealt with below. 1 And since 'flesh' means the proprium, 'sitting by a pot of flesh' means a life according to one's own pleasure, and such as one craves for; for that is the life of the proprium. The reason why 'a pot' means a container of good, and in the contrary sense a container of evil, is that 'the flesh' cooked in it means good and in the contrary sense evil. And having these meanings 'a pot' also means the bodily level or the natural level of the human mind, since these are containers of good or of evil. This being so, it is used in a general sense to mean a person, and in an even more general sense to mean a people or a city; and when 'a pot' is used to mean these, 'flesh' means the good or the evil that is in them, as in Ezekiel,

... the men who think iniquity and give wicked counsel in this city, saying, [The time] is not near; [the city] itself is the pot, we are the flesh. Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovih, Your slain whom you have placed in the midst of it, 2 they are the flesh, but it is the pot. Ezekiel 11:2-3, 7.

Here 'the pot' stands for the city or the people there, and 'the flesh' for evil, since 'the slain', who are called 'the flesh', are those among whom goodness and truth have been wiped out, 4503.

[2] In the same prophet,

Tell a parable against the house of rebellion, and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Put on the pot, put it on, and also pour [water into it gather] the pieces into it - every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with the choice of the bones. The Lord Jehovih said, Woe to the city of blood, 3 to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out of it! Ezekiel 24:3-6.

Here 'the pot' stands for the city or the people there, among whom there exists the evil that results when good is profaned. The good or flesh there is 'the thigh and the shoulder'; the evil is 'the scum' coming from it, and good when profaned is the scum remaining, which also accounts for the city's being called 'the city of blood'.

[3] In Jeremiah,

Jehovah said to Jeremiah, What do you see? I said, A puffed out pot do I see, its face towards the north. Then Jehovah said, From the north evil will be opened over all the inhabitants of the land. Jeremiah 1:11-14.

'A puffed-out pot' stands for a people whom falsities have taken possession of, and 'the north' for the sensory and bodily levels of the human mind, from which evil pours out. The subject here is the end of the Church, when what belongs to the external and therefore to sensory and bodily levels, together with falsity and evil, has dominion; for the Lord's Church moves in a series of stages from what is internal to what is external, at which point it breathes its last.

[4] In Zechariah,

On that day there will be on the horses' bells, Holiness to Jehovah. And the pots in the house of Jehovah will be as the bowls before the altar. And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holiness to Jehovah Zebaoth; and all offering sacrifice will come, and take from them, and cook in them. Zechariah 14:20-21.

The subject here is the salvation of faithful believers, faithful believers being 'the pots', which they are called because they receive good from the Lord; and because they receive that good every 'pot' is said to be 'holiness to Jehovah'. 'The bells of the horses, with Holiness on them' are truths in agreement with good. Since 'pots' are recipients and containers of good, they like all the other vessels for the altar were made of bronze, Exodus 38:3; for 'bronze' means the good of the natural, 425, 1551.

[5] In addition to this 'the pot' may mean religious teachings because these hold the Church's good and truth within them. Such teachings are meant by 'the pot' in which at Elisha's command a soup was boiled for the sons of the prophets, described as follows in the second Book of Kings,

Elisha came again to Gilgal, when there was a famine in the land. When the sons of the prophets were sitting before him he said to his servant, Put on a great pot, and boil a soup for the sons of the prophets. One of them went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, and gathered from it wild gourds, and cut them up into the pot of soup. While they were eating of the soup they cried out, There is death in the pot, O man of God! But he said that they should bring flour, which he threw into the pot, and said, Pour out for the people and let them eat. Then there was not anything bad in the pot. 2 Kings 4:38-41.

It should be recognized that all Divine miracles have to do with things connected with the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 7337, 8364, and that 'Elisha' represents the Word of the Lord, 2762, and 'prophets' teachings derived from it, 2534, 7269. From this one may see what thing connected with the Church was represented by this miracle, which was that if the Church's good has been falsified it is made good again by means of truth from the Word. 'A famine' is a lack of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good; 'the pot' is religious teachings; 'soup' is the good of the Jewish Church's outward religious observances; 'gourds from a wild vine' is falsification; and 'flour' is truth from the Word, 2177, used to make good again that which has been falsified, meant by 'death in the pot'. The reason why 'pots' means containers of good is that they were included among the utensils in which food was prepared, and 'food', every kind of it, means such things as nourish the soul, that is, affections for good and truth, 681, 1480, 3114, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5340, 5342, 5576, 5410, 5915.

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1. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes proprium as A distinctive characteristic; the essential nature, selfhood. It is a Latin word meaning 'one's own (thing)'. Swedenborg uses it in the specialized sense of 'what is of the self.'

2. i.e. the city

3. literally, bloods

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 4502

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4502. 'And they took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went away' means that they took away the affection for truth. This is clear from the representation of 'Dinah' as the affection for truth, dealt with above in 4498. The meaning according to the internal proximate sense is that they took away the affection for truth from those who were part of the remnants of the Most Ancient Church, for the phrase 'from Shechem's house' is used and by 'Shechem's house' is meant the good of truth of that Church. But as the subject here is the utter destruction of truth and good among those descended from Jacob, who are meant here by Jacob's sons, and as every detail mentioned has a specific application to the particular subject that is under discussion, 'Shechem's house' therefore means here simply the good of truth, like that which had existed with the member of the Most Ancient Church. Thus the meaning is that this good was wiped out among the nation descended from Jacob. For in the internal sense of the Word every expression or name means some aspect of the subject to which it belongs. At the same time the extinction of good and truth among Hamor and Shechem and his family is meant, because they accepted external usages, as shown in 4493.

[2] The truth of what has been explained so far regarding Simeon and Levi becomes clear from the prophetical utterances of Jacob before he died, where the following occurs,

Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of violence are their swords. Into their secret place let my soul not come; in their congregation let not my glory be united; for in their anger they killed a man, in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their fury, for it is severe. I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:5-7.

'Simeon and Levi' means the truth of faith which among the descendants of Jacob was turned into falsity, and the good of charity into evil, as above in 4499, 4500. They are called 'brothers' because good is the brother of truth, or charity is the brother of faith, 4498. 'Instruments of violence are their swords' means that falsities and evils did violence to truths and goods, 4499. 'Into their secret place let my soul not come, in their congregation let not my glory be united' means severance as regards life and doctrine, for in the Word 'soul' is used to refer to life, 1000, 1040, 1742, 3299, and 'glory' to doctrine. 'For in their anger they killed a man, in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox' means that with evil intent they annihilated the truth of the Church and the good of the Church, 'a man' meaning the truth of the Church, 3134, and 'an ox' its good, 2180, 2566, 2781. 'Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their fury, for it is severe' means the punishment incurred for turning away from truth and good - 'cursing' meaning turning oneself away and also being punished on that account, 245, 379, 1423, 3530, 3584, while anger means the departure from good, and 'fury' the departure from truth, 357, 3614. 'I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel' means that goods and truths will exist no longer within either the external or the internal aspect of their Church - 'dividing' and 'scattering' meaning separating and completely removing from them, 4424, 'Jacob' being the external aspect of the Church and 'Israel' the internal, 4286.

[3] These things are said about Simeon and Levi in this prophetical utterance because those two mean in general the truth and good of the Church, and when these cease to exist, and more so when falsities and evils take their place, the Church has been wiped out. Nothing other than this is contained in these prophetical words, as may be seen from the fact that neither the tribe of Simeon nor the tribe of Levi was cursed more than any other tribe. For the tribe of Levi was selected for the priesthood, and the tribe of Simeon existed as one of the rest of the tribes of Israel.

  
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