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出埃及記第30章

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1 你要用皂莢做一座燒香的

2 這壇要四方的,長一肘,寬一肘,二肘;壇的四角要與壇接連一塊。

3 要用精把壇的上面與壇的四圍,並壇的四角,包裹;又要在壇的四圍鑲上牙邊。

4 要做兩個安在牙子邊以,在壇的兩旁,兩根橫撐上,作為穿杠的用處,以便抬壇。

5 要用皂莢做杠,用包裹。

6 要把壇放在法櫃前的幔子外,對著法櫃上的施恩座,就是我要與你相會的地方。

7 亞倫在壇上要燒馨料做的;每早晨他收拾的時候,要燒這

8 黃昏的時候,他要在耶和華面前燒這香,作為世世代常燒的香。

9 在這壇上不可奉上異樣的香,不可獻燔祭、素祭,也不可澆上奠祭。

10 亞倫一年一次要在壇的角上行贖罪之禮。他一年一次要用贖罪祭牲的血在壇上行贖罪之禮,作為世世代的定例。這壇在耶和華面前為至

11 耶和華曉諭摩西

12 你要按以色列人被數的,計算總數,你數的時候,他們各要為自己的生命把贖價奉耶和華,免得數的時候在他們中間有災殃。

13 凡過去歸那些被數之人的,每人要按所的平,拿銀子半舍客勒;這半舍客勒是奉耶和華的禮物(一舍客勒二十季拉)。

14 凡過去歸那些被數的人,從二十歲以外的,要將這禮物奉耶和華

15 他們為贖生命將禮物奉耶和華,富足的不可多出,貧窮的也不可少出,各人要出半舍客勒

16 你要從以色列人收這贖罪,作為會幕的使用,可以在耶和華面前為以色列人紀念,贖生命。

17 耶和華曉諭摩西

18 你要用銅做濯盆和盆座,以便濯。要將盆放在會幕的中間,在盆裡盛

19 亞倫和他的兒子要在這盆裡

20 他們進會幕,或是就前供職給耶和華獻火祭的時候,必用濯,免得亡。

21 他們就免得亡。這要作亞倫和他後裔世世代永遠的定例。

22 耶和華曉諭摩西

23 你要取上品的香料,就是流質的沒藥五舍客勒,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,都按著所的平,又取橄欖

25 按做香之法調和做成

26 要用這油抹會幕和法櫃,

27 桌子桌子的一切器具,臺和臺的器具,並香

28 祭壇,和的一切器具,洗濯盆和盆座。

29 要使這些物成為,好成為至;凡挨著的都成為

30 亞倫和他的兒子,使他們成為,可以給我供祭司的職分。

31 你要對以色列人:這,我要世世代以為

32 不可倒在別人的身上,也不可按這調和之法做與此相似的。這膏油是的,你們也要以為

33 凡調和與此相似的,或將這膏膏在別身上的,這要從民中剪除。

34 耶和華吩咐摩西:你要取馨香料,就是拿他弗、施喜列、喜利比拿;這馨香料和淨乳各樣要一般大的分量。

35 你要用這些加上鹽,按做香之法做成清淨聖潔的香。

36 這香要取點搗得極細,放在會幕內、法櫃前,我要在那裡與你相會。你們要以這香為至

37 你們不可按這調和之法為自己做香;要以這香為,歸耶和華

38 凡做和這一樣,為要香味的,這要從民中剪除。

   

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10239. 'And Aaron and his sons shall wash in it' means a representative sign of the purification and regeneration of a person by the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'washing' as purification, dealt with above in 10237; from the representation of 'Aaron' as the Lord in respect of Divine Celestial Good, dealt with in 9806, 10068; and from the representation of 'Aaron's sons' as the Lord in respect of Divine Spiritual Good, dealt with in 9807, 10068. From these places it is evident that 'Aaron and his sons shall wash in it' means a representative sign of the purification of a person by the Lord. The reason why a representative sign of regeneration as well is meant is that regeneration as well was represented by washing, that is to say, washing the whole body, which was called baptizing. And baptizing or baptism is the sign of regeneration, see 4255, 9088.

[2] But regeneration is different from purification in that regeneration comes first and purification afterwards. None can be purified from evils and falsities except those who are undergoing regeneration and after they have been regenerated. One who has not been regenerated is, it is true, led away from evils so far as he allows, but he is not purified from them; he is all the time impure. The person who has been regenerated is different; day by day he is being made purer. This is how the Lord's words addressed to Peter should be understood,

He who has been washed has no need except to wash his feet, so that the whole person is clean. John 13:10.

'He who has been washed' means one who has been regenerated.

[3] The fact that the word 'baptizing' was used to denote the total washing of things is clear in Mark 7:4 1 , and to denote washing the whole body, in Matthew 3:13-16; Mark 1:9-10; and also 2 Kings 5:10, 14. The Jordan - in which washings, which were baptizings, took place, Matthew 3:6, 13; Mark 1:5; 2 Kings 5:10, 14 - meant the natural, 1585, 4255. Baptismal washing also means temptation, Matthew 20:22-23; it does so because all regeneration is accomplished by means of temptations, 5036, 5773, 8351, 8958, 8959ff.

[4] It must also be stated briefly here why it was that the Lord, when He was in the world, was Himself willing to be baptized, when yet baptism is the sign of a person's regeneration by Him. The reason was that the baptizing of the Lord Himself was a sign of the glorification of His Humanity. Anything in the Word that means a person's regeneration also means the glorification of the Human within the Lord; for a person's regeneration is an image of the Lord's glorification, 3138, 3212, 3296, 3490, 4402, 5688. This is why the Lord, when He allowed John to baptize Him, said,

Thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all the righteousness of God 2 . Matthew 3:15.

'Fulfilling all the righteousness of God' means subduing the hells, restoring them and the heavens to order, by His own power, and at the same time glorifying His Human. All this was accomplished by means of the temptations which the Lord allowed Himself to undergo, thus by means of the conflicts with the hells which He underwent repeatedly, even to the last on the Cross. These things constituted the righteousness which the Lord fulfilled, see 9486, 9715, 9809, 10019, 10152. The like is also meant by references to the fulfillment of all things written in the Law and the Prophets concerning the Lord, Luke 18:31; 22:37; 24:44, and by the Lord's declaration that He had come to fulfill all of the law, Matthew 5:17-18.

[5] A person unacquainted with the arcana within the Word thinks that the Lord became righteousness through His fulfillment of everything in the law, and that by this fulfillment He freed the human race from the yoke of the law, and so from damnation. But that is not what these words mean. Rather their meaning is that He became righteousness through His subduing of the hells, restoration of the heavens to order, and glorification of His Human. For by this glorification He filled Himself with power, in order that by His Divine Human He could keep the hells in subjection forever, maintain the heavens in order, and so regenerate a person, that is, deliver him from the hells and save him.

脚注:

1. i.e. the Greek verb used in that verse is baptizein, which implies total immersion in water.

2. Here Swedenborg is following the Latin version of Sebastian Schmidt. There is nothing in the Greek to support the addition of God.

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

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Exodus第25章

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,

4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,

5 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

10 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and Two rings on the other side of it.

13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.

22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

23 "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

25 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.

30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

31 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;

33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;

34 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.

39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.

40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.