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1249. That these words mean the spread of the worship, even from the truths of faith to the good that stems from charity, 'Mesha' meaning truth, 'Sephar' good, cannot indeed be confirmed from the Word as no mention is made of Mesha or Sephar in the Prophets. Nevertheless the matter becomes clear from the fact that this verse stands as the conclusion to what has gone before, and especially from the fact that 'the mountain of the east' is the ultimate bound to which the preceding things look, and the fact that in the Word 'the mountain of the east' means charity from the Lord, as becomes clear from what follows below. The matter also becomes clear from the fact that all things of the Church look towards charity as their ultimate goal and end in view. From all this it follows that 'Mesha' means truth, or the boundary from which the thing begins, while 'Sephar' means good and so charity, meant by 'the mountain of the east', or the boundary to which it is directed.
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When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.