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Exodus第25章

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1 HE EN talede til Moses og sagde:

2 Sig til Israeliterne, at de skal bringe mig en Offerydelse; af enhver, som i sit Hjerte føler sig tilskyndet dertil, skal I tage min Offerydelse.

3 Og Offerydelsen, som I skal tage af dem, skal bestå af Guld, Sølv, Kobber,

4 violet og rødt Purpurgarn, karmoisinrødt Garn, Byssus, Gedehår,

5 rødfarvede Væderskind, Tahasjskind, Akacietræ,

6 Olie til Lysestagen, vellugtende Stoffer til Salveolien og Aøgelsen,

7 Sjohamsten og Ædelsten til Indfatning på Efoden og Brystskjoldet.

8 Og du skal indrette mig en Helligdom, for at jeg kan bo midt iblandt dem.

9 Du skal indrette Boligen og alt dens Tilbehør nøje efter det Forbillede, jeg vil vise dig.

10 Du skal lave en Ark af Akacietræ, halvtredje Alen lang, halvanden Alen bred og halvanden Alen høj,

11 og overtrække den med pu1t Guld; indvendig og udvendig skal du overtrække den og sætte en gylden Krans rundt om den;

12 og du skal støbe fire Guldringe til den og sætte dem på dens fire Fødder, to inge på hver Side at den.

13 Så skal du lave Bærestænger af Akacietræ og overtrække dem med Guld,

14 og du skal stikke Stængerne gennem ingene på Arkens Sider, for at den kan bæres med dem;

15 Stængerne skal blive i ingene, de må ikke tages ud.

16 Og i Arken skal du nedlægge Vidnesbyrdet, som jeg vil give dig.

17 Så skal du lave et Sonedække af purt Guld, halvtredje Alen langt og halvanden Alen bredt;

18 og du skal lave to Keruber af Guld, i drevet Arbejde skal du lave dem, ved begge Ender af Sonedækket.

19 Den ene Kerub skal du anbringe ved den ene Ende, den anden Kerub ved den anden; du skal lave Keruberne således, at de er i eet med Sonedækket ved begge Ender.

20 Og Keruberne skal brede deres Vinger i Vejret, således at de dækker over Sonedækket med deres Vinger, og de skal vende Ansigtet mod hinanden; nedad mod Sonedækket skal Kerubernes Ansigter vende.

21 Og Sonedækket skal du lægge over Arken, men i Arken skal du lægge Vidnesbyrdet, som jeg vil give dig.

22 Der vil jeg mødes med dig, og fra Sonedækket, fra Pladsen mellem de to Keruber på Vidnesbyrdets Ark, vil jeg meddele dig alle de Bud, jeg har at give dig til Israeliterne.

23 Fremdeles skal du lave et Bord at Alkacietræ, to Alen langt, en Alen bredt og halvanden Alen højt,

24 og overtrække det med purt Guld og sætte en gylden Krans rundt om det.

25 Og du skal sætte en Liste af en Hånds Bredde rundt om det og en gylden Krans rundt om Listen.

26 Så skal du lave fire Guldringe og sætte dem på de fire Hjørner ved dets fire Ben;

27 lige ved Listen skal ingene sidde til at stikke Bærestængerne i, så at man kan bære Bordet.

28 Og du skal lave Bærestængerne af Akacietræ og overtrække dem med Guld, og med dem skal Bordet bæres.

29 Og du skal lave de dertil hørende Fade og Kander, Krukker og Skåle til at udgyde Drikoffer med; af purt Guld skal du lave dem.

30 På Bordet skal du altid have Skuebrød liggende for mit Åsyn.

31 Fremdeles skal du lave en Lysestage af purt Guld, i drevet Arbejde skal Lysestagen, dens Fod og selve Stagen, laves, således af dens Blomster med Bægere og Kroner er i eet med den.

32 Seks Arme skal udgå fra Lysestagens Side, tre fra den ene og tre fra den anden Side.

33 På hver af Armene, der udgår fra Lysestagen, skal der være tre mandelblomstlignende Blomster med Bægere og Kroner,

34 men på selve Stagen skal der være fire mandelblomstlignende Blomster med Bægere og Kroner,

35 et Bæger under hvert af de tre Par Arme, der udgår fra Lysestagen.

36 Bægrene og Armene skal være i eet med den, så at det hele udgør eet drevet Arbejde af purt Guld.

37 Og du skal lave syv Lamper til den og sætte disse Lamper på den, for at de kan lyse Pladsen foran op.

38 Dens Lampesakse og Bakker skal være af purt Guld.

39 Der skal bruges en Talent purt Guld til den og til alt dette Tilbehør.

40 Se til, at du udfører det efter det Forbillede, som vises dig på Bjerget.

   


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Arcana Coelestia#9464

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9464. 'Gold and silver' means internal good and truth in general. This is clear from the meaning of 'gold' as good, and of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 113, 1551, 1552, 2954, 5658, 6112, 6914, 6917, 8932. The reason why internal good and truth is meant is that 'bronze' mentioned next means external good.

  
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8932. 'You shall not make [to be] with Me gods of silver and gods of gold' means that they are to avoid completely things which to outward appearances look like truths and forms of good but inwardly are falsities and evils. This is clear from the meaning of 'making gods' as worshipping, since someone who makes gods for himself does so in order to worship them; from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, and therefore in the contrary sense as falsity, and from the meaning of 'gold' as good, and therefore in the contrary sense as evil, both dealt with in 113, 1551, 1552, 2954, 5658, 6914, 6917, 7999. The reason why these are things which to outward appearances look like truths and forms of good, but inwardly are falsities and evils, is that the words 'making them with Me', that is, with Jehovah God, are used. Actual Divine Truth and Goodness reside on an inner level; they reside on an outer level as well, but then they are embodied in types or representative images. For the outward things composing a type or image stand for and represent inner realities. Outward things are falsities and evils when, separated from inner realities, they are held to be holy and are worshipped; and yet they still look like truths and forms of good because they represent those realities. These things are meant by 'making [to be] with Jehovah God gods of silver and gods of gold'.

[2] This commandment follows immediately after the Ten Commandments because the Israelite and Jewish people were the sort that held outward things separated from inward realities to be holy and worshipped them as being altogether Divine, 3479, 3769, 4281, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4433, 4680, 4825, 4832, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4903, 6304, 6832, 8814, 8819. To gain more definite knowledge of what those things are which look to outward appearances like truths and forms of good but inwardly are falsities and evils, and what those things are like, take as examples all the ritual practices of the Jewish Church, such as sacrifices, burning incense, washings, and many other practices. Outwardly they were truths and forms of good, not in themselves but because they were types or images that stood for and represented inward truths and forms of good, which are aspects of love to the Lord and faith in Him. When the outward objects belonging to such practices were held to be holy, and especially when they were worshipped, as they were by the Jews and Israelites when they became idolaters and used them in the worship of strange gods, they no longer had any connection with the truths and forms of good which they stood for and represented, because inwardly they were falsities and evils.

[3] The situation was the same with all other things that were types or representative images of heavenly and Divine realities among that people. For as soon as outward things which represented inner realities were used in the worship of other gods they became idols worshipped by them or 'gods of silver and gold which they made [to be] with Jehovah God'. For then those things looked to outward appearances like truths and forms of good, but inwardly they were falsities and evils.

[4] In general 'gods of silver and gold' are all the falsities and derivative evils in worship which are made to look like truth and good through wrong usages and misinterpretations of the Word, and at the same time through reasonings that are the product of self-intelligence. Such things are meant by 'gods of silver and gold' in the following places: In Isaiah,

On that day a person will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold which they made for themselves to bow down to, to the moles and bats, to go into the clefts 1 of the rocks and into the fissures of the crags. Isaiah 2:20-21.

'Moles and bats' stands for those who are in darkness, that is, are steeped in falsities and derivative evils.

[5] In the same prophet,

On that day a man will cast aside his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you - a sin. Isaiah 31:7.

'Which your hands have made' stands for things which are the product of self-intelligence. In the same prophet,

The craftsman casts a graven image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains for it. Isaiah 40:19.

'Graven images' are things which are products of the proprium or self, 8869. 'Overlaying with gold' stands for making things look to outward appearances like forms of good, 'casting silver chains' stands for making them seem to hang together as if linked to one another with truths, good being meant by 'gold' and truth by 'silver', see the paragraphs referred to above.

[6] Similarly in Jeremiah,

The customs 2 of the nations are vanity. Since indeed one cuts out wood from the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, he decorates it with silver and gold; they make it firm with pegs and hammers, so that it is not unsteady. Jeremiah 10:3-4.

In Hosea,

The Ephraimites sin more and more, and make for themselves a molten image from silver, idols by their own intelligence, completely the work of craftsmen. Hosea 13:2.

'Ephraim' stands for the Church's understanding, 5354, 6222, 6234, 6238, 6267; 'a molten image made from silver' stands for falsity that looks like truth, which is why it says 'by their own intelligence'; and 'completely the work of craftsmen' stands for the fact that it is all brought about through reasonings which are a product of the proprium or self.

[7] In Habakkuk,

Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, Awake! or to a dumb stone, Wake up, this will teach! Behold, this is bound in gold and silver, but there is no spirit in the midst of it. Habakkuk 2:19.

'A piece of wood' stands for evil, 'a stone' for falsity. 'Bound in gold and silver' stands for applications used to give the appearance of what is good and true. In Daniel,

Belshazzar said, when he had properly tasted the wine, that they were to bring the vessels of gold and silver which his father Nebuchadnezzar had brought from the temple that [had been] in Jerusalem, in order that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. And they would drink wine, and praise the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Daniel 5:2-4, 23.

'The vessels of gold and silver from the temple of Jerusalem' represented the forms of good and the truths which belonged to the Church and to the Lord's kingdom; 'drinking wine from them' meant desecrating them by means of evils and falsities, which are 'the gods of gold and silver'.

[8] In David,

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands They have a mouth, but they do not speak; they have eyes but do not see. Psalms 115:4-5; 135:15-16.

'Silver and gold, which are idols' stands for falsities and evils; 'the work of human hands' stands for the fact that they are the product of self-intelligence. In Moses,

You shall burn the graven images of the gods of the nations with fire; you shall not covet the silver and the gold that are on them, so that you take them to yourself; for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God. Therefore you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you become 3 an accursed thing like it; you shall utterly abhor it. Deuteronomy 7:25-26.

'Silver and gold on graven images' stands for falsities and evils which are worshipped as truths and forms of good because they have been made to look like these.

脚注:

1. Reading scissuras (clefts) for fissuras (fissures)

2. literally, statutes

3. Reading fias (you become) for fiat (it becomes)

  
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