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出埃及记第30章

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1 你要用皂荚做一座烧香的

2 这坛要四方的,长一肘,宽一肘,二肘;坛的四角要与坛接连一块。

3 要用精把坛的上面与坛的四围,并坛的四角,包裹;又要在坛的四围镶上牙边。

4 要做两个安在牙子边以,在坛的两旁,两根横撑上,作为穿杠的用处,以便抬坛。

5 要用皂荚做杠,用包裹。

6 要把坛放在法柜前的幔子外,对着法柜上的施恩座,就是我要与你相会的地方。

7 亚伦在坛上要烧馨料做的;每早晨他收拾的时候,要烧这

8 黄昏的时候,他要在耶和华面前烧这香,作为世世代常烧的香。

9 在这坛上不可奉上异样的香,不可献燔祭、素祭,也不可浇上奠祭。

10 亚伦一年一次要在坛的角上行赎罪之礼。他一年一次要用赎罪祭牲的血在坛上行赎罪之礼,作为世世代的定例。这坛在耶和华面前为至

11 耶和华晓谕摩西

12 你要按以色列人被数的,计算总数,你数的时候,他们各要为自己的生命把赎价奉耶和华,免得数的时候在他们中间有灾殃。

13 凡过去归那些被数之人的,每人要按所的平,拿银子半舍客勒;这半舍客勒是奉耶和华的礼物(一舍客勒二十季拉)。

14 凡过去归那些被数的人,从二十岁以外的,要将这礼物奉耶和华

15 他们为赎生命将礼物奉耶和华,富足的不可多出,贫穷的也不可少出,各人要出半舍客勒

16 你要从以色列人收这赎罪,作为会幕的使用,可以在耶和华面前为以色列人纪念,赎生命。

17 耶和华晓谕摩西

18 你要用铜做濯盆和盆座,以便濯。要将盆放在会幕的中间,在盆里盛

19 亚伦和他的儿子要在这盆里

20 他们进会幕,或是就前供职给耶和华献火祭的时候,必用濯,免得亡。

21 他们就免得亡。这要作亚伦和他後裔世世代永远的定例。

22 耶和华晓谕摩西

23 你要取上品的香料,就是流质的没药五舍客勒,肉桂一半,就是二五十舍客勒,菖蒲二五十舍客勒,

24 桂皮五舍客勒,都按着所的平,又取橄榄

25 按做香之法调和做成

26 要用这油抹会幕和法柜,

27 桌子桌子的一切器具,台和台的器具,并香

28 祭坛,和的一切器具,洗濯盆和盆座。

29 要使这些物成为,好成为至;凡挨着的都成为

30 亚伦和他的儿子,使他们成为,可以给我供祭司的职分。

31 你要对以色列人:这,我要世世代以为

32 不可倒在别人的身上,也不可按这调和之法做与此相似的。这膏油是的,你们也要以为

33 凡调和与此相似的,或将这膏膏在别身上的,这要从民中剪除。

34 耶和华吩咐摩西:你要取馨香料,就是拿他弗、施喜列、喜利比拿;这馨香料和净乳各样要一般大的分量。

35 你要用这些加上盐,按做香之法做成清净圣洁的香。

36 这香要取点捣得极细,放在会幕内、法柜前,我要在那里与你相会。你们要以这香为至

37 你们不可按这调和之法为自己做香;要以这香为,归耶和华

38 凡做和这一样,为要香味的,这要从民中剪除。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#10219

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10219. 'That there may be no plague among them when they are numbered' means in order that there may be no punishment of evil when they do good as from themselves. This is clear from the meaning of 'plague' as the punishment of evil, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'numbering the children of Israel' as arranging and setting truths and forms of the good of faith and love in order, dealt with above in 10217, thus putting them into practice. The expression 'as from themselves' is used because the good deeds which a person does he does as from self; until faith resides in him as a result of love he can see no other origin of those deeds. For good flows in from the Lord and is received by the person; but what is received is not felt initially to be other than something residing and originating in himself. And the person does not perceive that it begins in the Lord until this is made known to him and then believed and acknowledged by him. Till then he is not capable of reflecting on the idea that something flows in from the Divine; and he is totally incapable of perceiving it, that is, feeling it within himself, until he begins to will and desire it to be so.

[2] The situation in all this is like that with the actual life present in a person and like that with the two inner powers of life, the understanding and the will. Is there anyone who does not think, before receiving instruction in the matter, that life dwells innately within him and that his actions therefore originate in himself? Is there anyone who does not think that understanding and will are likewise innate? But in actual fact both his life in general and his understanding and will are flowing into him. Truths constituting the understanding and forms of good composing the will are flowing out of heaven from the Lord, while falsities constituting the understanding and evils composing the will are flowing from hell. For unless spirits and angels are present with a person, acting as channels through which those things flow in, the person cannot have life for even a single moment, nor therefore have any thought or will, as becomes clear from plenty of experiences mentioned at the ends of a number of chapters, where influx is the subject; see the places referred to in 9223, 9276(end), 9682.

[3] But for as long as a person thinks that everything he does originates in himself, both good deeds and bad ones, he is unmoved by good influences and evils cling to him. As soon however as he acknowledges and believes that good desires flow in from the Lord and do not begin in himself, and that evil desires flow in from hell, he is moved by good influences, and evils stop clinging to him. Furthermore to the extent that the good influences move him the evils are removed, and in this way he is purified and delivered from them. But for as long as the person's state is such that he is not capable of perceiving or feeling the presence of good influences from the Lord, he performs good deeds as from himself; nevertheless he ought to acknowledge and believe that they begin in the Lord. When the person does this he is also delivered from evils; but in order that he may be delivered from the evils, that acknowledgement must be a confession not of the lips alone but of the heart itself.

[4] The fact that 'plague' means the punishment of evil is clear without explanation. There are three plagues or punishments which follow those who attribute truths and forms of the good of faith and love to themselves, that is, who think that they merit heaven because of their deeds. For those who attribute them to themselves are also given to think that they merit heaven because of what they themselves have done. Those three punishments are,

1. Their inability to receive any good of love or truth of faith at all;

2. Evils and falsities constantly pursuing them;

3. Destruction of the truths and forms of good received since early childhood.

These three punishments are meant by the three plagues which were presented by the prophet Gad to David because of his numbering the people, 2 Samuel 24:13.

[5] These were,

1. Seven years of famine;

2. Flight for three months before his enemies;

3. Three days of pestilence.

For 'famine' means a lack and shortage of the forms of good and of the truths that belong to faith and love, since these are meant by bread, food, wheat, barley, oil, and wine, which are lacking so long as famine lasts.

'Flight before enemies' however is used to mean in the internal sense pursuit by evils and falsities; for people who attribute good and truth to themselves cannot fight against the evils and falsities that come from hell, 9978, these being in the spiritual sense the enemies before whom they flee and by whom they are pursued.

But 'pestilence' means the laying waste and annihilation of the forms of good and the truths received since early childhood, 7505. David's choice of the pestilence and the death from it of up to seventy thousand men meant that among the Israelite and Jewish nation all truth and good of faith and love would be destroyed, which was indeed what happened. For they did not acknowledge the Lord; yet He is the Source of all good and all truth. Three days meant to completeness, as did the seventy thousand men who died.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.