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Hesekiel第43章

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1 Und er führte mich zum Tore, dem Tore, das gegen Osten sah.

2 Und siehe, die Herrlichkeit des Gottes Israels kam von Osten her; und ihr auschen war wie das auschen großer Wasser, und die Erde leuchtete von seiner Herrlichkeit.

3 Und das Ansehen des Gesichtes (O. der Erscheinung; so auch nachher,) das ich sah, war wie das Gesicht, welches ich gesehen hatte, als ich kam, um die Stadt zu verderben; und es waren Gesichte wie das Gesicht, welches ich am Flusse Kebar gesehen hatte. Und ich fiel nieder auf mein Angesicht.

4 Und die Herrlichkeit Jehovas kam in das Haus, den Weg des Tores, welches gegen Osten gerichtet war.

5 Und der Geist hob mich empor und brachte mich in den inneren Vorhof; und siehe, die Herrlichkeit Jehovas erfüllte das Haus.

6 Und ich hörte einen, der aus dem Hause zu mir redete; und ein Mann stand neben mir.

7 Und er sprach zu mir: Menschensohn, dies ist der Ort meines Thrones und der Ort meiner Fußsohlen, wo ich inmitten der Kinder Israel wohnen werde ewiglich. Und das Haus Israel wird meinen heiligen Namen nicht mehr verunreinigen, sie und ihre Könige, durch ihre Hurerei und durch die Leichname ihrer Könige und ihre Höhen:

8 indem sie ihre Schwelle an meine Schwelle und ihre Türpfosten neben meine Türpfosten setzten, daß nur die Wand zwischen mir und ihnen war; und meinen heiligen Namen verunreinigten durch ihre Greuel, die sie verübten, so daß ich sie in meinem Zorne vernichtet habe.

9 Nunmehr werden sie ihre Hurerei und die Leichname ihrer Könige von mir entfernen, und ich werde in ihrer Mitte wohnen ewiglich.

10 Du, Menschensohn, berichte dem Hause Israel über dieses Haus, damit sie sich ihrer Missetaten schämen und den Bau (O. Entwurf, Bauplan) messen.

11 Und wenn sie sich alles dessen schämen, was sie getan haben, so zeige ihnen die Form des Hauses und seine Einrichtung, und seine Ausgänge und seine Eingänge, und alle seine Formen und alle seine Satzungen, und alle seine Formen und alle seine Gesetze; und schreibe es vor ihren Augen auf, damit sie seine ganze Form und alle seine Satzungen behalten und sie tun. -

12 Dies ist das Gesetz des Hauses: Auf dem Gipfel des Berges (Vergl. Kap. 40,2) soll sein ganzes Gebiet ringsherum hochheilig sein; siehe, das ist das Gesetz des Hauses. -

13 Und dies sind die Maße des Altars (des Brandopferaltars) nach Ellen, die Elle eine Elle und eine Handbreite: ein Untersatz, eine Elle (Eig. diese (beschriebene) Elle) hoch und eine Elle breit (d. h. vorspringend;) und sein Gesims an seinem ande ringsum: eine Spanne; und das ist der Sockel des Altars.

14 Und von dem Untersatz (And. l.: Und dies ist die Höhe des Altas: von dem Untersatz usw.) am Boden bis zur unteren Umwandung: zwei Ellen Höhe und eine Elle Breite (d. h. Vorsprung;) und von der kleineren Umwandung bis zur größeren Umwandung: vier Ellen Höhe und eine Elle Breite (d. h. Vorsprung.)

15 Und der Gottesberg (Der Gottesberg ist die Grundlage des Feuerherdes) :vier Ellen Höhe; und von dem Gottesherde (Hebr. Ariel) aufwärts die vier Hörner.

16 Und der Gottesherd: zwölf Ellen Länge bei zwölf Ellen Breite, quadratförmig, an seinen vier Seiten.

17 Und die untere Umwandung: vierzehn Ellen Länge bei vierzehn Ellen Breite, an ihren vier Seiten; und das Gesims rings um dieselbe: eine halbe Elle (entspricht einer Spanne (s. V. 13),) und ihr Untersatz eine Elle ringsum. Und seine Stufen waren gegen Osten gerichtet.

18 Und er sprach zu mir: Menschensohn, so spricht der Herr, Jehova: Dies sind die Satzungen des Altars, an dem Tage, da er gemacht wird, um Brandopfer darauf zu opfern und Blut darauf zu sprengen.

19 Und du sollst den Priestern, den Leviten, welche vom Samen Zadoks sind, die mir nahen, spricht der Herr, Jehova, um mir zu dienen, einen jungen Farren geben zum Sündopfer.

20 Und du sollst von seinem Blute nehmen und es an seine vier Hörner tun und an die vier Ecken der Umwandung und an das Gesims ringsum; und so sollst du ihn entsündigen und Sühnung für ihn tun.

21 Und du sollst den Farren des Sündopfers nehmen, und man soll ihn an dem bestimmten Orte des Hauses, außerhalb des Heiligtums, verbrennen.

22 Und am zweiten Tage sollst du einen Ziegenbock ohne Fehl zum Sündopfer darbringen; und man soll den Altar entsündigen, so wie man ihn mit dem Farren entsündigt hat.

23 Wenn du das Entsündigen vollendet hast, sollst du einen jungen Farren ohne Fehl und einen Widder ohne Fehl vom Kleinvieh darbringen:

24 du sollst sie vor Jehova darbringen, und die Priester sollen Salz auf sie streuen (Eig. schütten) und sie dem Jehova als Brandopfer opfern.

25 Sieben Tage lang sollst du täglich einen Bock als Sündopfer opfern; und einen jungen Farren und einen Widder vom Kleinvieh, ohne Fehl, soll man opfern.

26 Sieben Tage lang soll man Sühnung tun für den Altar und ihn reinigen und ihn einweihen.

27 Und wenn man die Tage vollendet hat, so soll es am achten Tage und fernerhin geschehen, daß die Priester eure Brandopfer und eure Friedensopfer auf dem Altar opfern; und ich werde euch wohlgefällig annehmen, spricht der Herr, Jehova.

   

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9668. 'And you shall set up the dwelling-place according to the plan which you saw on the mountain' means in the four quarters, according to the states of good and of the truth springing from it in the heaven that is represented. This is clear from the meaning of 'the dwelling-place' as a representative of heaven, dealt with in 9594; and from the meaning of 'according to the plan which you saw on the mountain' as to the four quarters according to the states of good and of the truth springing from it in heaven. This is what 'the plan according to which the dwelling-place was to be set up' serves to mean, Mount Sinai where it was seen being heaven, see 9420. From the description that is given it is evident that the dwelling-place was positioned lengthways from east to west, and that the entrance was at the east end and the ark at the west. The sides therefore were to the south and to the north. The eastern quarter of the dwelling-place represented the state of good on the rise, the western quarter the state of good on the decline, the southern quarter the state of truth dwelling in light, and the northern quarter the state of truth dwelling in shade.

[2] The entrance was towards the eastern quarter because the Lord enters heaven by way of the good of love, as also becomes clear in Ezekiel, where the new temple is the subject and the following words occur,

He brought me to the gate which was facing towards the east, and behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. And the glory of Jehovah entered the house by the way of the gate, the face of which is towards the east; and the glory of Jehovah filled the house. Ezekiel 43:1-6.

And after this,

Jehovah said to me, The gate facing east shall be shut and not opened, and no man (vir) shall enter by it; but Jehovah, the God of Israel, will enter by it. Ezekiel 44:1-2.

From these words it is plainly evident that the Lord alone enters heaven by way of the good of love, and that the good of love from the Lord fills heaven and composes it. 'The east' means the Lord in respect of the good of love because the Lord is the Sun of heaven, 3636, 3643, 7078, 7083, 7171, 8644, 8812. But in heaven things are positioned in such a way that the east is where the Lord appears as the Sun, straight before the right eye, 4321 (end), 7078, 7171. From there towards the west, thus in a direct line from the east and towards the west, are those with whom the good of love is present; but to the south are those dwelling in the light of truth, and to the north those in the shade of truth. All who are in heaven look towards the Lord, for to look frontwards there is to look towards Him. No one there can look backwards away from Him, no matter how far they turn themselves about, see 4321 (end). But this is an arcanum which the natural man cannot take in. These are the kinds of things that were represented by the plan seen by Moses on the mountain, according to which the dwelling-place was to be set up.

  
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9594. 'And you shall make the dwelling-place' means the second or middle heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'the dwelling-place', when it refers to the Divine, as heaven - the middle or second heaven, strictly speaking. It is well known that there are three heavens, namely the inmost, middle, and lowest, or third, second, and first. All these heavens were represented by the tabernacle; the inmost or third heaven was represented by the ark where the Testimony was, the middle or second heaven by the dwelling-place where the table for the loaves of the Presence and the lampstand were, and the lowest or first heaven by the court. The reason why there are three heavens is that there are three degrees of life with the human being. (Human beings, who become angels after death, constitute heaven; angels have no other beginning, and the heavens spring from no other source.) The inmost degree of his life exists for the inmost heaven, the middle degree of life for the middle heaven, and the lowest for the lowest heaven. And because the human being is like this, or has been so formed, and heaven springs from the human race, there are three heavens.

[2] These degrees of life with a person are opened up in successive stages. The first degree is opened up by a life led in accord with what is right and fair, the second degree by a life in accord with the truths of faith drawn from the Word and with forms of the good of charity towards the neighbour that follow on from those truths, and the third degree by a life in accord with the good of mutual love and the good of love to the Lord. These virtues are the means by which those three degrees of life with a person, and so the three heavens with him, are opened up in successive stages. But it should be recognized that to the extent that a person departs from good in life and moves towards evil in life those degrees are closed, that is, the heavens with him are closed; for just as good in life opens them, so evil in life closes them. This being so, all who are steeped in evil are outside heaven, thus are in hell. It should also be recognized that with some people - since the heavens with a person are opened up in successive stages according to the good present in his life, as stated above - the first heaven and not the second is opened up; that with some others the second heaven and not the third is opened up; but that the third heaven is opened up solely with those governed by good in life springing from love to the Lord. For the human being is heaven in its smallest form, and has been created so as to conform to an image of heaven and of the world, see the places referred to in 9279.

[3] There is therefore an inmost heaven, represented by the ark of the Testimony, which was the subject in the previous chapter; a middle heaven, represented by the dwelling-place, which is the subject in the present chapter; and a lowest heaven, represented by the court, which is the subject in the next chapter. Heaven is called God's dwelling-place because what is Divine and the Lord's dwells there; for Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good is what makes heaven, indeed gives life to the angels there. And since the Lord dwells with angels in that which comes from Him, 9338 (end), heaven is called God's dwelling-place, and the actual Divine Truths emanating from Divine Good, which angels or angelic communities are recipients of, are called dwellings, as in David,

Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me, let them lead me to [Your] holy mountain and to Your dwellings, that I may go in to the altar of God, to God ... Psalms 43:3-4.

In the same author,

There is a river whose streams will make glad the city of God, the holy place of the dwellings of the Most High. Psalms 46:4.

In the same author,

Down to the ground 1 they have profaned the dwelling-place of Your name. Psalms 74:7.

In the same author,

How lovely are Your dwellings, O Jehovah! Psalms 84:1.

[4] The fact that the Divine realities which emanate from the Lord's Divine Human are what are rightly called 'dwellings', as a result of which heaven itself is called 'the dwelling-place', is also clear in David,

He swore to Jehovah, he made a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob, Surely I will not give sleep to my eyes, until I find a place for Jehovah, the dwelling-places for the Mighty One of Jacob. Behold, we heard of Him in Ephrathah, we found Him in the fields of the wood. We will enter His dwelling-places. Psalms 132:2, 4-7.

'The Mighty One of Jacob' is the Lord's Divine Human, 6425. 'Ephrathah', where He was to be found, is Bethlehem where He was born, Genesis 35:19; 48:7; Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:5-6. 'The fields of the wood' are the forms of good composing the Church among gentiles.

[5] In Ezekiel,

They will dwell in the land which I gave to My servant Jacob. They will dwell in it, they [and their sons] and their sons' sons forever. And David My servant will be their prince forever. I will make with them a covenant of peace; it will be an eternal covenant with them. And I will set My sanctuary in their midst forever; so shall My dwelling-place be among them. Ezekiel 37:25-27.

'David, who will be their prince forever' stands for the Lord, 1888; 'the sanctuary' (sanctuarium) stands for the Lord's Divine Human, since He is the source of all holiness (sanctum), 3210, 9229, so that 'dwelling-place' stands for heaven and for the Church, where the Lord is.

[6] In Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah, Behold, I will bring back the captivity 2 of the tents of Jacob, and will have compassion on his dwellings, that the city may be built upon its mound. Jeremiah 30:18.

'Bringing back the captivity of the tents of Jacob' stands for restoring the external Church's forms of good and truths which had been destroyed, 'having compassion on his dwellings' for restoring the internal Church's truths, 'the city which was to be built upon its mound' for doctrinal teachings about the truth, 2449, 2943, 3216, 4492, 4493.

[7] How the Lord dwells in the heavens may be seen from what has been shown previously regarding the Lord, that is to say, where it has been shown that the Lord's Divine Human is the Sun, the source of heat and light in the heavens. The heat radiating from the Lord as the Sun is love, while the light is faith. The Lord therefore dwells with those who receive from Him the good of love and the truth of faith, which are the heat and light of life; and how fully He is present depends on their degree of receptivity.

脚注:

1. literally, Into the earth or land

2. i.e. restore the fortunes

  
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