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Exodus第38章

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1 Ja ta tegi akaatsiapuust põletusohvrialtari, viis küünart pika ja viis küünart laia, neljanurgelise ja kolm küünart kõrge.

2 Ta tegi selle neljale nurgale sarved; sarved olid sellega ühest tükist; ja ta kardas selle vasega.

3 Ta tegi kõik altari riistad, tuhanõud, labidad, piserdusnõud, hargid ja sütepannid; kõik selle riistad ta tegi vasest.

4 Ta tegi altarile võrestiku, võrgukujulise töö vasest, ääre alla, altpoolt vaadates poole altarini.

5 Ta valas neli rõngast vaskvõrestiku neljale nurgale kangide asemeiks.

6 Ta tegi akaatsiapuust kandekangid ja kardas need vasega.

7 Ta pistis kandekangid rõngastesse altari külgedel; ta tegi selle laudadest õõnsakujulisena.

8 Ja ta tegi vaskpesemisnõu ja selle vaskjala nende teenistuses olevate naiste peeglitest, kes teenisid kogudusetelgi ukse juures.

9 Ja ta tegi õue: lõunapoolses küljes, keskpäeva pool, oli õuel sada küünart korrutatud linasest lõimest eesriideid,

10 nende kakskümmend sammast ja kakskümmend vaskjalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

11 Nõndasamuti oli põhjapoolses küljes sada küünart eesriideid, nende kakskümmend sammast ja kakskümmend vaskjalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

12 Läänepoolses küljes oli viiskümmend küünart eesriideid, nende kümme sammast ja kümme jalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

13 Idapoolses küljes, päikesetõusu pool, oli viiskümmend küünart eesriideid:

14 ühel pool oli viisteist küünart eesriideid, nende kolm sammast ja kolm jalga,

15 samuti oli teisel pool; ühel ja teisel pool õueväravat oli võrdselt viisteist küünart eesriideid, nende kolm sammast ja kolm jalga.

16 Kõik eesriided ümber õue olid korrutatud linasest lõimest.

17 Sammaste jalad olid vasest, sammaste haagid ja põrgad hõbedast, nende nupud hõbedaga karratud; kõigil õue sammastel olid hõbepõrgad.

18 Õuevärava kate oli kirjatud töö sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest lõngast ning korrutatud linasest lõimest, kakskümmend küünart pikk, laiusele vastavalt viis küünart kõrge, nagu muud õue eesriided.

19 Nende neli sammast ja neli jalga olid vasest, nende haagid hõbedast, nende nuppude kard ja põrgad samuti hõbedast.

20 Kõik elamu ja ümber oleva õue vaiad olid vasest.

21 See on elamu, tunnistuselamu kulude arvestus, mis tehti Moosese käsul; selle tegid leviidid preester Aaroni poja Iitamari juhatusel:

22 Betsaleel, Huuri poja Uuri poeg Juuda suguharust on valmistanud kõik, milleks Issand oli Moosesele käsu andnud,

23 ja koos temaga Oholiab, Ahisamaki poeg Daani suguharust, kui sepp ning osav kuduja ja kangakirjaja sinist, purpurpunast ja helepunast lõnga ning linast lõime kasutades.

24 Kõike kulda, mis oli kõigutusohvri kuld, mida tööks tarvitati kõigi pühamu tööde juures, oli kakskümmend üheksa talenti ja seitsesada kolmkümmend seeklit püha seekli järgi.

25 Ja hõbedat neilt, kes koguduse hulgast olid ära loetud, oli sada talenti ja tuhat seitsesada seitsekümmend viis seeklit püha seekli järgi,

26 üks beka pea kohta, see on pool seeklit püha seekli järgi kõigilt, kes astusid äraloetute hulka, kahekümneaastased ja üle selle, kuuesaja kolme tuhande viiesaja viiekümnelt.

27 See sada talenti hõbedat oli pühamu jalgade ja eesriide jalgade valamiseks, sada talenti sajaks jalaks, talent iga jala jaoks.

28 Aga sellest tuhande seitsmesaja seitsmekümne viiest seeklist tegi ta sammastele haagid, kardas nende nupud ja valmistas põrgad.

29 Kõigutusohvri vaske oli seitsekümmend talenti ja kaks tuhat nelisada seeklit.

30 Sellest tehti kogudusetelgi ukse jalad, vaskaltar ja selle küljes olev vaskvõrestik, kõik altari riistad,

31 ümberringi oleva õue jalad, õuevärava jalad, kõik telgi vaiad ja kõik ümberringi oleva õue vaiad.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#716

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716. 'Sevens of each' means that they are holy. This is clear from what has been stated already in 84-87 about the seventh day or sabbath. That is to say, the Lord is the Seventh Day and from Him derives every celestial Church or man, and indeed, the celestial itself which, because it is the Lord's alone, is most holy. Consequently seven in the Word means holy; indeed in the internal sense, as here, absolutely nothing is obtained from the number itself. For people who possess the internal sense, as angels and angelic spirits do, have no concept at all of what a number is, and so do not know what seven is. Therefore the idea that they were to take seven pairs of all the clean beasts, or that the ratio of the good to the evil was to be seven to two, is not at all the meaning here. Rather it is this: Things of the will with which this member of the Church was supplied were the goods which are holy, through which, as stated already, he was capable of being regenerated.

[2] That 'seven' means that which is holy, or things that are holy, becomes clear from the rituals in the representative Church, where the number seven occurs time and again, for example, being sprinkled seven times with blood and oil, as in Leviticus,

Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the Tabernacle and everything that was in it and made them holy. And he sprinkled some of it over the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels to make them holy. Leviticus 8:10-11.

Here 'seven times' would be utterly devoid of meaning if that which is holy was not being represented in this way. 'Oil' there means the holiness of love. And elsewhere in Leviticus, when Aaron entered the Holy Place,

He shall take some of the blood of the young bull, and shall sprinkle it with his finger over the face 1 of the mercy-seat towards the east, and he shall sprinkle the face 1 of the mercy-seat seven times with some of the blood with his finger.

Similarly with the altar,

He shall sprinkle over it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and shall cleanse it, and make it holy. Leviticus 16:14, 19.

Here every single detail means the Lord Himself, and therefore the holiness of love - that is to say, 'the blood' and also 'the mercy-seat', 'the altar' too, 'the east in which direction the blood was to be sprinkled', and so 'seven' as well, all mean the Lord.

[3] In sacrifices it is similar, about which the following is said in Leviticus,

If a soul has sinned inadvertently, and if the anointed priest has sinned, thus making the people guilty, he shall slaughter the young bull in Jehovah's presence. And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times in Jehovah's presence towards the veil of the Holy Place. Leviticus 4:2-4, 6.

Here similarly 'seven' means that which is holy, for the subject is atonement, and therefore the Lord, since atonement is the Lord's alone. Similar instructions were also given concerning the cleansing of leprosy, about which the following is said in Leviticus,

[Taking some] of the bird's blood, the cedar-wood, the double-dyed scarlet, and the hyssop, the priest shall sprinkle over the one who is to be cleansed from leprosy seven times, and shall cleanse him. In a similar way some of the oil which is in his left palm, seven times in Jehovah's presence. In a similar way in a house where there is leprosy, [he shall take some] of the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the double-dyed scarlet, and shall sprinkle some of the bird's blood seven times. Leviticus 14:6-7, 27, 51.

Anyone may see that here cedar-wood, double-dyed scarlet, hyssop, oil, and blood of a bird, and so the number seven, would be utterly meaningless if things that are holy were not being represented by them. If you take away from them holy things, what is left is something dead, or something unholy and idolatrous. When however they do mean holy things the worship they contain in that case is a Divine worship which is internal and simply represented by things that are external. The Jews however were incapable of knowing what these meant; and neither does anyone today know what cedar-wood, hyssop, double-dyed scarlet, and the bird all mean. Yet if only they had been willing to think that these did embody holy things which they did not actually know, and so had worshipped the Lord - who was the Messiah to come who would heal them from their leprosy, that is, from profaning what is holy - they could have been saved. For people who do think and believe in this manner straightaway receive instruction in the next life, if they desire it, as to what every single detail represented.

[4] Similarly where 'the red heifer' is the subject it is said that the priest was to take some of its blood on his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood towards the face 1 of the tent of meeting seven times, Numbers 19:4. Because 'the seventh day' or sabbath meant the Lord, and from Him meant the celestial man and the celestial itself, the seventh day in the Jewish Church was the holiest of all its religious observances. For this reason there was a sabbath year 2 every seventh year, Leviticus 25:4. Also a jubilee was to be proclaimed after seven sabbaths of years, that is, after seven times seven years, Leviticus 25:8-9. In the highest sense the number seven means the Lord, and from this the holiness of love. This becomes clear also from the golden lampstand with its seven lamps, mentioned in Exodus 25:31-33, 37; 37:17-19, 23; Numbers 8:2-3; Zechariah 4:2. And in John it is spoken of as follows,

Seven golden lampstands; in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man. Revelation 1:12-13.

Here it is absolutely clear that 'a lampstand with seven lamps' means the Lord, and that 'the lamps' are the holy things of love, which comprise celestial things, which also is why there were seven of them.

[5] In the same author,

From the throne there were coming forth seven fiery torches burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. Revelation 4:5.

Here 'the seven torches which came forth from the Lord's throne' are seven lamps. The same applies to the number seven when it occurs in the Prophets, as in Isaiah,

The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, on the day when Jehovah will bind up the hurt of His people. Isaiah 30:26.

Here 'sevenfold light as the light of seven days' does not at all mean sevenfold but the holiness of love meant by the sun. See also what has been stated and shown already at Genesis 4:15 concerning the number seven. From these quotations it is also quite clear that all numbers used in the Word never have a numerical value [in the internal sense], as has also been shown already at Genesis 6:3.

脚注:

1. literally, the faces

2. literally, sabbath of a sabbath

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