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2 Mose 27

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1 Und sollst einen Altar machen von Föhrenholz, fünf Ellen lang und breit, daß er gleich viereckig sei, und drei Ellen hoch.

2 Hörner sollst du auf seine vier Ecken machen, und sollst ihn mit Erz überziehen.

3 Mache auch Aschentöpfe, Schaufeln, Becken, Kreuel, Kohlpfannen; alle seine Geräte sollst du von Erz machen.

4 Du sollst auch ein ehern Gitter machen wie ein Netz und vier eherne Ringe an seine vier Orte.

5 Du sollst es aber von unten auf um den Altar machen, daß das Gitter reiche bis mitten an den Altar.

6 Und sollst auch Stangen machen zu dem Altar von Föhrenholz, mit Erz überzogen.

7 Und sollst die Stangen in die Ringe tun, daß die Stangen seien an beiden Seiten des Altars, damit man ihn tragen möge.

8 Und sollst ihn also von Brettern machen, daß er inwendig hohl sei, wie dir auf dem Berge gezeiget ist.

9 Du sollst auch der Wohnung einen Hof machen, einen Umhang von gezwirnter weißer Seide, auf einer Seite hundert Ellen lang, gegen dem Mittag,

10 Und zwanzig Säulen auf zwanzig ehernen Füßen, und ihre Knäufe mit ihren Reifen von Silber.

11 Also auch gegen Mitternacht soll sein ein Umhang, hundert Ellen lang; zwanzig Säulen auf zwanzig ehernen Füßen, und ihre Knäufe mit ihren Reifen von Silber.

12 Aber gegen dem Abend soll die Breite des Hofes haben einen Umhang fünfzig Ellen lang, zehn Säulen auf zehn Füßen.

13 Gegen dem Morgen aber soll die Breite des Hofes haben fünfzig Ellen,

14 also daß der Umhang habe auf einer Seite fünfzehn Ellen, dazu drei Säulen auf dreien Füßen,

15 und aber fünfzehn Ellen auf der andern Seite, dazu drei Säulen auf dreien Füßen.

16 Aber in dem Tor des Hofes soll ein Tuch sein, zwanzig Ellen breit, gewirket von gelber Seide, Scharlaken, Rosinrot und gezwirnter weißer Seide, dazu vier Säulen auf ihren vier Füßen.

17 Alle Säulen um den Hof her sollen silberne Reife und silberne Knäufe und eherne Füße haben.

18 Und die Länge des Hofes soll hundert Ellen sein, die Breite fünfzig Ellen, die Höhe fünf Ellen, von gezwirnter weißer Seide; und seine Füße sollen ehern sein.

19 Auch alle Geräte der Wohnung zu allerlei Amt und alle seine Nägel und alle Nägel des Hofes sollen ehern sein.

20 Gebeut den Kindern Israel, daß sie zu dir bringen das allerreinste lautere Öl von Ölbäumen gestoßen, zur Leuchte, das man allezeit oben in die Lampen tue

21 in der Hütte des Stifts außer dem Vorhang, der vor dem Zeugnis hanget. Und Aaron und seine Söhne sollen sie zurichten, beide des Morgens und des Abends, vor dem HERRN. Das soll euch eine ewige Weise sein auf eure Nachkommen unter den Kindern Israel.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9909

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9909. 'Over his heart before Jehovah continually' means for evermore shining forth from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'heart' as the good of love, dealt with in 3313, 3635, 3883-3896, 7542, 9050; and from the meaning of 'continually' as for evermore. Shining forth is meant because the breastplate was over the heart, and 'the breastplate' means Divine Truth shining forth from the Lord's Divine good, 9823.

  
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3309. 'And Esau was a man skilled in hunting' means the good of life that has its origin in sensory truths and factual truths. This is clear from the representation of 'Esau' as the good of life, dealt with above, and from the meaning of 'a man skilled in hunting' as those who have the affection for truth, dealt with in what follows - for 'a skilled man' has reference to the affection for truth, that is, to those who have that affection for truth, whereas 'hunting' means truths themselves, though truths which belong to the natural man and in which goods have their origin. Now because the truths of the natural man are called factual, 3293, and factual truths are primarily of two kinds or two degrees - sensory and factual proper - 'hunting' here means both of these. Sensory truths occur with children, factual with those same children when they are growing up, for factual truths cannot exist with anyone before he has received sensory truths because the ideas that make up factual truths are acquired from sensory truths. Then, from those factual truths, other truths even more interior can be learned and grasped, which are called matters of doctrine, meant by 'a man of the field', dealt with below in the next paragraph.

[2] The reason why 'hunting' means the sensory truths and factual truths that are taught to those in whom the good of life is present and who have the affection for those truths is that the word 'hunting' in a broad sense refers to creatures caught through hunting, such as rams, he-goats, she-goats, and the like, by which are meant spiritual goods, see 2180, 2830; and also because the weapons used in hunting, which were the quiver, the bow, and darts, mean matters of doctrine upholding what is true, 2685, 2686, 2709. These are the things meant by 'hunting', as may be seen from what Isaac his father told Esau, in Chapter 27 below,

Take now your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt venison for me, and make me savoury food such as I love. Genesis 27:3-4; and, in the same chapter, from what he told Jacob, who was posing as Esau,

Bring it to me that I may eat from my son's venison, so that my soul may bless you. Genesis 27:25.

These quotations show what 'hunting' or 'venison' means.

[3] Consequently 'hunting' is teaching [what is true] or else inducing a belief in what is false, and in both senses, that is to say, acting from an affection for truth or from an affection for falsity. Acting from an affection for truth is described in Jeremiah,

I will bring them back over their land which I gave to their fathers. Behold, I am sending to many fishermen, and they will fish them; and after that I will send to many hunters and they will hunt them from upon every mountain, and from upon every hill, and from the holes in the rocks. Jeremiah 16:15-16.

'Fishermen' stands for those whose teaching is drawn from sensory truths, 40, 991, 'hunters' those whose teaching is drawn from factual truths, and also from matters of doctrine. 'Upon every mountain, and upon every hill' stands for teaching people who are stirred by the affection for good and by the affection for truth - 'mountain' and 'hill' carrying such meanings, see 795, 796, 1430. 'Hunting in the field', as in Genesis 27:3, implies the same. Inducing others to believe what is false and doing so from the affection for falsity is described in Ezekiel,

Behold, I am against your little pillows with which you there hunt the souls to make them fly away, and I will tear them from on your arms, and I will let the souls go that you hunt, souls to fly away; and I will tear off your veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted. Ezekiel 13:18-21.

For the meaning of 'hunting' in this sense, see 1178, though nets are normally associated with this type of hunting.

  
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