2
你告诉以色列人当为我送礼物来；凡甘心乐意的，你们就可以收下归我。
9
制造帐幕和其中的一切器具都要照我所指示你的样式。
17
要用精金做施恩座（施恩：或作蔽罪；下同），长二肘半，宽一肘半。
19
这头做一个基路伯，那头做一个基路伯，二基路伯要接连一块，在施恩座的两头。
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二基路伯要高张翅膀，遮掩施恩座。基路伯要脸对脸，朝着施恩座。
21
要将施恩座安在柜的上边，又将我所要赐给你的法版放在柜里。
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我要在那里与你相会，又要从法柜施恩座上二基路伯中间，和你说我所要吩咐你传给以色列人的一切事。
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要做四个金环，安在桌子的四角上，就是桌子四脚上的四角。
29
要做桌子上的盘子、调羹，并奠酒的爵和瓶；这都要用精金制作。
31
要用精金做一个灯台。灯台的座和杆与杯、球、花，都要接连一块锤出来。
33
这旁每枝上有三个杯，形状像杏花，有球，有花；那旁每枝上也有三个杯，形状像杏花，有球，有花。从灯台杈出来的六个枝子都是如此。
9487. 'Two cubits and a half shall be its length' means all so far as good is concerned. This is clear from the meaning of 'two and a half' as much and as what is complete, and as all when this number has reference to something Divine (the reason why 'two and a half' means much and what is complete is that this number is similar in meaning to five, ten, a hundred, and a thousand, since twice two and a half makes five, twice five makes ten, and ten times ten makes a hundred; for doubles and multiples have a similar meaning to the simple numbers of which they are the products, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973. For the meaning of 'five' as much and completeness, see 5708, 5956, 9102; likewise 'ten', 3107, 4638; also 'a hundred', 2636, 4400; and a thousand, 2575, 8715. So it is that when these numbers are used in reference to something Divine they mean all); and from the meaning of 'length' as good, dealt with in 1613, 8898.
[2] To say that 'length' in the Word means good and 'breadth' truth may seem to be like nonsense; nevertheless this is indeed what they mean. The reason why they do so is that all things without exception in the Word mean realities such as belong to heaven and to the Church, and so such as are connected with the good of love and with the truth of faith. No spatial dimensions such as 'length' and 'breadth' imply can be attributed to these; but instead of spatial dimensions the state of their essential being (esse), which is a state of good, and the resulting state of manifestation (existere), which is a state of truth, can be attributed to them. Furthermore in heaven spatial dimensions are appearances produced by those states, 4882, 9440. From all this it becomes clear that spiritual realities are meant by the measurements and dimensions given in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel, where a new temple and a new land are the subject. They are consequently meant here in Exodus, where the ark, the dwelling-place, the court, the tables there, and the altars are the subject. Such realities are in a similar way meant where the temple in Jerusalem is the subject, also when it says that the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven was square, its breadth being as great as its length, Revelation 21:16; Zechariah 2:1-2. For 'Jerusalem' means a new Church, the character of its good being meant by the measurement of its length, and the character of its truth by that of its breadth.
[3] The fact that 'breadth' or 'broad place' means truth is plainly evident in David,
In distress I called on Jah; He answered me in a broad place. Psalms 118:5.
In the same author,
You have made my feet stand in a broad place. Psalms 31:8.
In Isaiah,
The outstretchings of Asshur's wings will fill the breadth of the land. Isaiah 8:8.
In Habakkuk,
I am rousing the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, marching 1 into the breadths of the earth. Habakkuk 1:6.
'Marching into the breadths of the earth', when said of the Chaldeans, means destroying the truths of faith.
脚注:
1. literally, walking
