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Exode第19章

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1 Le troisième mois après leur sortie du pays d'Egypte, les enfants d'Israël arrivèrent ce jour-là au désert de Sinaï.

2 Etant partis de Rephidim, ils arrivèrent au désert de Sinaï, et ils campèrent dans le désert; Israël campa là, vis-à-vis de la montagne.

3 Moïse monta vers Dieu: et l'Eternel l'appela du haut de la montagne, en disant: Tu parleras ainsi à la maison de Jacob, et tu diras aux enfants d'Israël:

4 Vous avez vu ce que j'ai fait à l'Egypte, et comment je vous ai portés sur des ailes d'aigle et amenés vers moi.

5 Maintenant, si vous écoutez ma voix, et si vous gardez mon alliance, vous m'appartiendrez entre tous les peuples, car toute la terre est à moi;

6 vous serez pour moi un royaume de sacrificateurs et une nation sainte. Voilà les paroles que tu diras aux enfants d'Israël.

7 Moïse vint appeler les anciens du peuple, et il mit devant eux toutes ces paroles, comme l'Eternel le lui avait ordonné.

8 Le peuple tout entier répondit: Nous ferons tout ce que l'Eternel a dit. Moïse rapporta les paroles du peuple à l'Eternel.

9 Et l'Eternel dit à Moïse: Voici, je viendrai vers toi dans une épaisse nuée, afin que le peuple entende quand je te parlerai, et qu'il ait toujours confiance en toi. Moïse rapporta les paroles du peuple à l'Eternel.

10 Et l'Eternel dit à Moïse: Va vers le peuple; sanctifie-les aujourd'hui et demain, qu'ils lavent leurs vêtements.

11 Qu'ils soient prêts pour le troisième jour; car le troisième jour l'Eternel descendra, aux yeux de tout le peuple, sur la montagne de Sinaï.

12 Tu fixeras au peuple des limites tout à l'entour, et tu diras: Gardez-vous de monter sur la montagne, ou d'en toucher le bord. Quiconque touchera la montagne sera puni de mort.

13 On ne mettra pas la main sur lui, mais on le lapidera, ou on le percera de flèches: animal ou homme, il ne vivra point. Quand la trompette sonnera, ils s'avanceront près de la montagne.

14 Moïse descendit de la montagne vers le peuple; il sanctifia le peuple, et ils lavèrent leurs vêtements.

15 Et il dit au peuple: Soyez prêts dans trois jours; ne vous approchez d'aucune femme.

16 Le troisième jour au matin, il y eut des tonnerres, des éclairs, et une épaisse nuée sur la montagne; le son de la trompette retentit fortement; et tout le peuple qui était dans le camp fut saisi d'épouvante.

17 Moïse fit sortir le peuple du camp, à la rencontre de Dieu; et ils se placèrent au bas de la montagne.

18 La montagne de Sinaï était toute en fumée, parce que l'Eternel y était descendu au milieu du feu; cette fumée s'élevait comme la fumée d'une fournaise, et toute la montagne tremblait avec violence.

19 Le son de la trompette retentissait de plus en plus fortement. Moïse parlait, et Dieu lui répondait à haute voix.

20 Ainsi l'Eternel descendit sur la montagne de Sinaï, sur le sommet de la montagne; l'Eternel appela Moïse sur le sommet de la montagne. Et Moïse monta.

21 L'Eternel dit à Moïse: Descends, fais au peuple la défense expresse de se précipiter vers L'Eternel, pour regarder, de peur qu'un grand nombre d'entre eux ne périssent.

22 Que les sacrificateurs, qui s'approchent de l'Eternel, se sanctifient aussi, de peur que l'Eternel ne les frappe de mort.

23 Moïse dit à l'Eternel: Le peuple ne pourra pas monter sur la montagne de Sinaï, car tu nous en as fait la défense expresse, en disant: Fixe des limites autour de la montagne, et sanctifie-la.

24 L'Eternel lui dit: Va, descends; tu monteras ensuite avec Aaron; mais que les sacrificateurs et le peuple ne se précipitent point pour monter vers L'Eternel, de peur qu'il ne les frappe de mort.

25 Moïse descendit vers le peuple, et lui dit ces choses.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed#529

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529. Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. (11:19) This symbolizes the New Heaven, in which the Lord is worshiped in His Divine humanity, and where people live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, which constitute the two essential elements of the New Church that are the means of conjunction.

The temple of God symbolizes the Lord's Divine humanity, also heaven where angels dwell, and likewise the church on earth. To be shown that the temple of God has these three symbolic meanings, and that the three cannot be separated, see no. 191. Here, however, the temple of God symbolizes the Lord in His Divine humanity in heaven where angels dwell, because it is said to be the temple of God in heaven. The ark in the temple means the Ten Commandments, for the ark had as its sole contents the two tables on which the Ten Commandments were written. 1 The temple's being opened means, symbolically, that these two, the Divine humanity and the Ten Commandments, which are the two essential elements of the New Church, are now visible, and that they became visible after the evil were cast into hell (no. 528). The ark is called the ark of His covenant in His temple because a covenant symbolizes conjunction, as we will see below. But first we must say something about the Ten Commandments.

[2] What nation in the entire world does not know that it is evil to kill, commit adultery, steal, and bear false witness? If nations did not know this and enact laws to keep people from doing these things, it would be all over with them. For society, the republic, or kingdom would collapse without these laws.

Who can suppose that the Israelite nation was so stupid in comparison to all other nations as not to know that such actions are evil? One may wonder, therefore, why these laws, being so universally known throughout the whole world, were promulgated by Jehovah Himself from Mount Sinai, attended by the great miracle they were, and written, moreover, with His finger.

But listen, they were promulgated by Jehovah with such a great miracle and written with His finger in order that people might know that these laws are not only civil and moral laws, but also spiritual laws, and that to disobey them is not only to do evil to one's fellow citizen and to society, but is also to sin against God. Their promulgation by Jehovah from Mount Sinai made them therefore laws of religion. For it is evident that whatever Jehovah God commands, He commands to make it a matter of religion, so that it must be obeyed for His sake, and for a person's own sake, that he may be saved.

[3] Because these laws were the first elements of the church to be established by the Lord with the Israelite nation, and because they embrace in brief summary everything having to do with religion which makes possible a conjunction of the Lord with a person and of a person with the Lord, therefore they were so holy that nothing was more holy.

That they were so very holy can be seen from the following: That Jehovah Himself, that is to say, the Lord, descended in fire; that the mountain then smoked and quaked; and that this was attended by thunderings, lightnings, a thick cloud, and the sound of a trumpet (Exodus 19:16, 18, Deuteronomy 5:22-26). That before Jehovah descended, the people readied themselves and sanctified themselves for three days (Exodus 19:10-11, 15). That the mountain was set around with bounds to keep anyone from coming near the foot of the mountain, lest he die, Exodus 19:12-13, 20-23; 24:1-2. That the Law was written on two tablets of stone, and written with the finger of God, Exodus 31:18; 32:15-16; Deuteronomy 9:10. That when Moses brought the tablets down from the mountain a second time, his face shone, Exodus 34:29-35. That the tablets were placed in the ark, Exodus 25:16; 40:20; Deuteronomy 10:5; 1 Kings 8:9. That the place in the Tabernacle where the Ark was put was called the most holy place, Exodus 26:33, and elsewhere. That because it held the Law, the Ark was there called Jehovah. Numbers 10:35-36; 2 Samuel 6:2; Psalms 132:8. That Jehovah spoke with Moses from above the ark, Exodus 25:22; Numbers 7:89. That because of the holiness of the Law, Aaron was not permitted enter within the veil, where the ark was without sacrifices and incense, lest he die. Leviticus 16:2-14ff. That owing to the Lord's presence and power in the Law that was in the ark, the waters of the Jordan were cut off, and as long the Ark rested in the middle, the people crossed on dry ground, Joshua 3:1-17; 4:5-20. That carrying the ark around caused the walls of Jericho fell down, Joshua 6:1-20. That Dagon, the Philistine god, fell to the ground before the Ark, and later lay at the threshold of the temple with its head broken off, 1 Samuel 5:3-4. That many thousands of the people of Ekron and Beth-shemesh were smitten because of the Ark, 1 Samuel 5 and 6. That David brought up the Ark into Zion with sacrifices and jubilation, 2 Samuel 6:1-19. That Uzzah died then because he touched the Ark, 2 Samuel 6:6-7. That in the Temple at Jerusalem the Ark constituted the inner sanctuary (1 Kings 6:19ff., 8:3-9). That the tablets on which the Law was written were called the tablets of the covenant, and because of them the Ark was called the ark of the covenant, with the Law itself being called the covenant (Numbers 10:33, Deuteronomy 4:13, 23; 5:2-3; 9:9, Joshua 3:11, 1 Kings 8:19, 21, and elsewhere).

The Law's being called a covenant symbolizes conjunction. The reason is that covenants are made for the sake of love, friendship, and association, thus for the sake of conjunction. That is why we find it said of the Lord that He will be "a covenant to the people" (Isaiah 42:6; 49:8), and He is called "the Messenger of the covenant" (Malachi 3:1). His blood also is called "the blood of the covenant" (Matthew 26:28, cf. Zechariah 9:11, Exodus 24:4-10). And therefore the Word is called the Old and New Testaments or Covenants.

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1. 1 Kings 8:9

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Ezekiel第43章

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1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.

2 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.

3 It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

4 The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

5 The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house.

6 I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.

7 He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;

8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost beside my doorpost, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

9 Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.

10 You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

11 If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.

12 This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

13 These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.

14 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.

15 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

16 The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it.

17 The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.

18 He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

19 You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin offering.

20 You shall take of its blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around: thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.

22 On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bull.

23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

24 You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

25 Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.

27 When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.

   

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