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Ezekiel 43

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1 Pagkatapos ay dinala niya ako sa pintuang-daan, sa makatuwid baga'y sa pintuang-daan na nakaharap sa dakong silanganan.

2 At, narito, ang kaluwalhatian ng Dios ng Israel ay nanggagaling sa dakong silanganan: at ang kaniyang tinig ay gaya ng lagaslas ng maraming tubig; at ang lupa ay nagningning sa kaniyang kaluwalhatian.

3 At ayon sa anyo ng pangitain na aking nakita, ayon sa pangitain na nakita ko nang ako'y pumaroon upang gibain ang bayan; at ang mga pangitain ay gaya ng pangitain na aking nakita sa tabi ng ilog Chebar: at ako'y nasubasob.

4 At ang kaluwalhatian ng Panginoon ay pumasok sa bahay sa daan ng pintuang-daan na nakaharap sa dakong silanganan.

5 At itinaas ako ng Espiritu, at dinala ako sa lalong loob na looban; at, narito, napuno ng kaluwalhatian ng Panginoon ang bahay.

6 At aking narinig ang isang nagsasalita sa akin mula sa bahay; at isang lalake ay tumayo sa siping ko.

7 At sinabi niya sa akin, Anak ng tao, ito ang dako ng aking luklukan, at dako ng mga talampakan ng aking mga paa, na aking tatahanan sa gitna ng mga anak ni Israel magpakailan man. At hindi na lalapastanganin pa ng sangbahayan ni Israel ang aking banal na pangalan, nila man, o ng kanilang mga hari man, ng kanilang pagpapatutot, at ng mga bangkay man ng kanilang mga hari sa kanilang mga mataas na dako;

8 Sa kanilang paglalagay ng kanilang pasukan sa tabi ng aking pasukan, at ng kanilang haligi ng pintuan sa tabi ng aking haligi ng pintuan, at wala kundi pader sa pagitan ko at nila; at kanilang nilapastangan ang aking banal na pangalan sa pamamagitan ng kanilang mga kasuklamsuklam na kanilang ginawa: kaya't aking pinugnaw sila sa aking galit.

9 Iwan nga nila ang kanilang pagpapatutot, at ilayo sa akin ang mga bangkay ng kanilang mga hari, at ako'y tatahan sa gitna nila magpakailan man.

10 Ikaw, anak ng tao, ituro mo ang bahay sa sangbahayan ni Israel, upang sila'y mangapahiya sa kanilang mga kasamaan; at sukatin nila ang anyo.

11 At kung sila'y mangapahiya sa lahat nilang ginawa, ipakilala mo sa kanila ang anyo ng bahay, at ang pagka-anyo niyaon, at ang mga labasan niyaon, at ang mga pasukan niyaon, at lahat ng anyo niyaon, at ang lahat ng mga alituntunin niyaon, at lahat ng anyo niyaon, at lahat ng kautusan niyaon; at iyong isulat yaon sa kanilang paningin; upang kanilang maingatan ang buong anyo niyaon, at ang lahat ng mga alituntunin niyaon, at kanilang isagawa.

12 Ito ang kautusan tungkol sa bahay; ang taluktok ng bundok sa buong hangganan niyaon sa palibot ay magiging kabanalbanalan. Narito, ito ang kautusan tungkol sa bahay.

13 At ito ang mga sukat ng dambana ayon sa mga siko (ang siko na pinakasukat ay isang siko at isang lapad ng kamay): ang patungan ay isang siko, at ang luwang ay isang siko, at ang gilid niyaon sa palibot ay isang dangkal; at ito ang magiging patungan ng dambana.

14 At mula sa patungan sa lupa sa lalong mababang grado ay malalagay na dalawang siko, at ang luwang ay isang siko; at mula sa lalong mababang grado hanggang sa lalong mataas na grado ay malalagay na apat na siko, at ang luwang ay isang siko.

15 At ang lalong mataas na dambana ay magiging apat na siko; at mula sa apuyan ng dambana hanggang sa dakong itaas ay magkakaroon ng apat na sungay.

16 At ang apuyan ng dambana ay magkakaroon ng labing dalawang siko ang haba at labing dalawa ang luwang, parisukat sa apat na tagiliran niyaon.

17 At ang patungan niyaon ay magkakaroon ng labing apat na siko ang haba at labing apat na siko ang luwang sa apat na tagiliran niyaon; at ang gilid sa palibot ay magiging kalahating siko; at ang patungan niyaon ay magiging isang siko sa palibot; at ang mga baytang niyaon ay paharap sa dakong silanganan.

18 At sinabi niya sa akin, Anak ng tao, ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Ito ang mga alituntunin tungkol sa dambana sa kaarawan na kanilang gagawin, upang paghandugan sa ibabaw ng mga handog na susunugin, at upang pagwisikan ng dugo.

19 Iyong ibibigay sa mga saserdote na mga Levita na sa angkan ni Sadoc na malapit sa akin, upang magsipangasiwa sa akin, sabi ng Panginoong Dios, ang isang guyang baka na pinakahandog dahil sa kasalanan.

20 At kukuha ka ng dugo niyaon, at ilalagay mo sa apat na sungay niyaon, at sa apat na sulok ng patungan, at sa laylayan sa palibot: ganito mo lilinisin yaon at tutubusin ito.

21 Iyo rin namang kukunin ang guyang toro na handog dahil sa kasalanan, at susunugin mo sa takdang dako ng bahay, sa labas ng santuario.

22 At sa ikalawang araw ay maghahandog ka ng kambing na lalake na walang kapintasan na pinakahandog dahil sa kasalanan; at kanilang lilinisin ang dambana gaya ng kanilang pagkalilis sa pamamagitan ng guyang toro.

23 Pagka ikaw ay nakatapos ng paglilinis, maghahandog ka ng isang guyang toro na walang kapintasan, at isang lalaking tupa na mula sa kawan na walang kapintasan.

24 At iyong ilalapit ang mga yaon sa harap ng Panginoon, at hahagisan ng asin ang mga yaon ng mga saserdote, at kanilang ihahandog na pinakahandog na susunugin sa Panginoon.

25 Pitong araw na maghahanda ka sa bawa't araw ng isang kambing na pinakahandog dahil sa kasalanan: maghahanda rin sila ng guyang toro, at isang lalaking tupang mula sa kawan, na walang kapintasan.

26 Pitong araw na kanilang tutubusin ang dambana at lilinisin; gayon nila itatalaga.

27 At pagka kanilang naganap ang mga kaarawan, mangyayari na sa ikawalong araw, at sa haharapin, maghahandog ang mga saserdote ng inyong mga handog na susunugin sa ibabaw ng dambana, at ang inyong mga handog tungkol sa kapayapaan; at aking tatanggapin kayo, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #179

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179. (Verse 28) And I will give him the morning star. That this signifies intelligence and wisdom from the Divine Human of the Lord is evident from the signification of stars, as denoting the knowledges (cognitiones) of good and truth (concerning which see above, n. 72); and because they signify such knowledges, they also signify intelligence and wisdom; for all intelligence and wisdom are from the knowledges of good and truth; and from the signification of morning, as denoting the Lord as to His Divine Human, hence the morning star denotes intelligence and wisdom from Him. We often read of morning in the Word; and the signification of the term differs according to the series of things treated of in the internal sense: in the highest sense, it signifies the Lord, and also His coming: in the internal sense, it signifies His kingdom and church, and their state of peace. Moreover, it signifies the first state of a new church, and also a state of love, also a state of enlightenment, consequently a state of intelligence and wisdom, and also a state of the conjunction of good and truth, which is the state when the internal man is conjoined to the external. The reason why morning has such a variety of significations is, that, in the highest sense, it signifies the Lord's Divine Human, and hence it also signifies all those things that proceed from it; for the Lord is present in those things which proceed from Him, so that He Himself is there.

[2] The reason why the Lord's Divine Human, in the highest sense, is meant by morning is, that the Lord is the Sun of the angelic heaven; and the Sun of that heaven does not advance from morning to evening, or from rising to setting, as the sun of the world apparently does, but it remains stationary in its place, in front, above the heavens. This is why there is always morning and never evening there. And because all the intelligence and wisdom which the angels have exist with them from the Lord as a Sun, therefore also their state of love, wisdom and intelligence, and, in general, their state of enlightenment, is signified by morning; for those things proceed from the Lord as a Sun, and that which proceeds from Him is Himself; for from the Divine nothing proceeds but what is Divine, and everything Divine is Himself. (That the Lord is the Sun of the angelic heaven, and that from Him as a Sun exist all love, wisdom and intelligence, and, in general, all enlightenment as to Divine truths, from which wisdom is derived, may be seen in the work, Heaven and Hell 116-125, 126-143, 155, 156.)

[3] From these considerations it is now evident why it is that morning is so often mentioned in the Word when it treats of Jehovah or the Lord, of His advent, kingdom and church, and of the goods thereof; as in the following passages, which shall be adduced by way of illustration. In the second Book of Samuel:

"The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spake to me. He is as the light of the morning; the sun riseth, a morning without clouds" (23:3, 4).

The God of Israel, and the Rock, is the Lord as to his Divine Human, and the Divine truth proceeding therefrom. He is called the God of Israel, because Israel denotes His spiritual church, and the Rock, because His Divine in the church is Divine truth (see Arcana Coelestia 3720, 6426, 8581, 10580). Because the Lord in the angelic heaven is the Sun, and all the light of the angels is therefrom, and as the Sun there is continually in its morning, therefore it is said, "He is as the light of the morning, the sun riseth, a morning without clouds."

[4] In David:

"From the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth; thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek" (Psalms 110:3, 4).

This is said of the Lord, as about to come into the world. From the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth, denotes conception from the Divine itself, and hence the glorification of His Human: a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek, denotes that Divine good and Divine truth proceed from Him; for the Lord as a priest is Divine good, and as king of holiness, which is Melchizedek, is Divine truth (see Arcana Coelestia 1725).

[5] In Ezekiel:

The cherubs "stood at the eastern door of the gate of the house; the glory of the God of Israel was over them above" (10:19).

Cherubs signify the Lord as to providence, and as to protection lest any should approach except by means of the good of love; the eastern door of the gate of the house signifies approach; the house of God is heaven and the church; the east is where the Lord appears as a Sun, thus where He is continually in the morning; hence it is said the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

[6] In the same:

The angel "led me to the gate which looketh towards the east. When, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east; and the earth was enlightened with his glory. And the glory of Jehovah came into the house by the way of the gate whose face is towards the east" (43:1, 2, 4).

In the internal sense here, is described the influx of the Lord into those who are in His kingdom and church; the God of Israel is the Lord as to the Divine Human and the Divine truth proceeding therefrom; the house of God is His kingdom and the church; glory is the Divine truth such as it is in heaven; to come by the way of the east into the house denotes from the sun where it is continually in its morning. (That glory is Divine truth such as it is in heaven, see Arcana Coelestia 4809, 5922, 8267, 8427, 9429; that the house of God denotes heaven and the church as to good, and temple the same as to truth, see n. 3720: and that the east, in the highest sense, is the Lord, because He is the Sun of heaven, which is always in its rising and morning, and that hence the east denotes the good of love from Him, see n. 3708, 5097, 9668.)

[7] In the same:

The angel "afterwards led me back to the door of the house, where, behold, waters issuing out from under the threshold of the house towards the east, will descend into the plain and come towards the sea, being sent forth into the sea that the waters may be healed; whence it comes to pass that every living soul that creepeth, whithersoever the rivers come, shall live; whence there is exceeding much fish, because these waters shall come thither, and they are healed, that everything may live whither the river shall come" (47:1, 2, 8, 9).

Here also is described, by pure correspondences, the influx of the Lord from His Divine Human into those who belong to His kingdom and church. By the waters issuing out from under the threshold of the house eastward is described the Divine truth proceeding from Him, and flowing into those who are in the east, that is, who are in the good of love to Him. By the waters going down into the plain and into the sea, and the waters of the sea being thence healed is signified influx into the natural man and into the knowledges (cognitiones) which are there. That hence there would be a very great multitude of fish signifies scientific truths (scientifica vera) in the natural man; that everything should live whither the river should come, signifies, that they should have life from Divine truth. No one can see that such things are signified except from the internal sense of the Word; when, notwithstanding, every single expression involves arcana concerning the regeneration of man by the Lord. But what is involved in each expression will be made known when we come to treat of the twenty-second chapter of the Apocalypse, where similar things are mentioned.

[8] In David:

"I have waited for Jehovah; my soul doth wait, my soul waiteth for the Lord more than they who watch for the morning; they who watch for the morning, because with him is plenteous redemption, and he will redeem Israel" (Psalms 130:5-8).

The coming of the Lord into the world is here treated of, and the reception of Him by those who are in the good of love. The coming of the Lord is signified by I have waited for Jehovah, my soul waiteth for the Lord, because with Him is plenteous redemption, and He will redeem Israel; and the reception of Him by those who are in the good of love is signified by more than they who watch for the morning, they who watch for the morning. Here, morning, in the highest sense, signifies the Lord, and, in the internal sense, His kingdom and church; and they who watch for the morning signify those who wait for the coming of the Lord, who are such as are in the good of love, because to them the Lord is the morning.

[9] That morning signifies the coming of the Lord into the world, and, at such a time, a new church, is evident from the following passages; as in Daniel:

"Until the evening and the morning, two thousand and three hundred, then what is holy shall be justified. The vision of the evening and the morning which was told is truth" (8:14, 26).

The evening signifies the last time of the former church, and the morning the first time of the new church, thus the coming of the Lord. In Isaiah:

"Crying to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night" (21:11, 12).

Here also the coming of the Lord is treated of; the night is the last time of the former church, and the morning the first of the new (what is signified by calling out of Seir, may be seen, Arcana Coelestia 4240, 4384). In Ezekiel:

"The end cometh, the end cometh, the morning cometh upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the land; behold the day cometh, the morning is gone forth" (7:6, 7, 10).

This passage equally treats of the coming of the Lord and the end of the former church and the beginning of a new one. In Zephaniah:

"Jehovah in the morning, in the morning he shall bring his judgment to the light, nor shall he fail" (3:5).

[10] Here similar things are meant. Because morning signifies the coming of the Lord, also His kingdom and church, and also the good of love which is from Him, it is therefore obvious what is meant by morning in the following passages. In David:

"Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning" (Psalm 143:8).

Again:

"I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning" (59:16).

Again:

"O satisfy us in the morning with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days" (90:14).

Again:

"O Jehovah, my voice shalt thou hear in the morning; in the morning I will set myself in order for thee" (5:3).

Again:

"God is in the midst of her; God shall help her at the dawn of the morning" (46:5).

Again:

"O God, my God; in the morning will I seek thee" (63:1)

In Isaiah:

"In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to blossom" (17:11).

Again:

"Jehovah be thou their arm every morning" (33:2).

Again:

"Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the learned; he hath awakened me every morning" (50:4).

In Jeremiah:

"I spake unto you every morning" (7:13; 11:7 25:3, 4).

From the signification of morning it is evident what is meant by

The manna falling in the morning (Exodus 16:12, 13, 21).

Jehovah descending in the morning upon Mount Sinai (Exod, 19:16);

And the priest being commanded to burn wood upon the altar all night until the morning (Leviticus 6:12).

Also what is involved in the command respecting the sacrifice of the passover is evident:

"Thou shalt sacrifice the passover at the going down of the sun. Afterwards thou shalt eat it; and thou shalt look back in the morning, and go unto thy tents" (Deuteronomy 16:6, 7).

The reason why they should sacrifice the passover when the sun went down was, that the setting of the sun signified the last time of the church; that they should look back in the morning, signified the establishment of a new church, thus the coming of the Lord. These passages have been adduced in order that it may be known that by the morning star which the Son of man would give is signified wisdom and intelligence from His Divine Human. And because those who receive wisdom and intelligence from the Lord also receive Him; for the Lord is in the wisdom and intelligence which are from Him, so that, He is Himself the wisdom and intelligence which they possess, therefore the Lord Himself is also called the morning star in the Apocalypse:

"I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star" (22:16).

He is similarly called a star (Numbers 24:17).

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Ezekiel 43

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1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.

2 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.

3 It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

4 The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

5 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house.

6 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.

7 He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;

8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

9 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.

10 You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

11 If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.

12 This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

13 These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.

14 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.

15 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

16 The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it.

17 The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.

18 He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

19 You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering.

20 You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.

22 On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bull.

23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

24 You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

25 Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.

27 When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.

   

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