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2 Mose第27章

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1 Du sollst einen Altar machen von Akazienholz, fünf Ellen lang und breit, daß er gleich viereckig sei, und drei Ellen hoch.

2 Hörner sollst du auf seinen vier Ecken machen und sollst ihn mit Erz überziehen.

3 Mache auch Aschentöpfe, Schaufeln, Becken, Gabeln, Kohlenpfannen; alle seine Geräte sollst du aus Erz machen.

4 Du sollst auch ein ehernes Gitter machen wie ein Netz und vier eherne Ringe an seine vier Enden.

5 Du sollst's aber von untenauf um den Altar machen, daß das Gitter reiche bis mitten an den Altar.

6 Und sollst auch Stangen machen zu dem Altar von Akazienholz, mit Erz überzogen.

7 Und man soll die Stangen in die Ringe tun, daß die Stangen seien an beiden Seiten des Altars, wenn man ihn trägt.

8 Und sollst ihn also von Brettern machen, daß er inwendig hohl sei, wie dir auf dem Berge gezeigt ist.

9 Du sollst auch der Wohnung einen Hof machen, einen Umhang von gezwirnter weißer Leinwand, auf einer Seite hundert Ellen lang, gegen Mittag,

10 und zwanzig Säulen auf zwanzig ehernen Füßen, und ihre Haken mit ihren Querstäben von Silber.

11 Also auch gegen Mitternacht soll sein ein Umhang, hundert Ellen lang, zwanzig Säulen auf zwanzig ehernen Füßen, und ihre Haken mit ihren Querstäben von Silber.

12 Aber gegen Abend soll die Breite des Hofes haben einen Umhang, fünfzig Ellen lang, zehn Säulen auf zehn Füßen.

13 Gegen Morgen aber soll die Breite des Hofes haben fünfzig Ellen,

14 also daß der Umhang habe auf einer Seite fünfzehn Ellen, dazu drei Säulen auf drei Füßen,

15 und wieder fünfzehn Ellen auf der andern Seite, dazu drei Säulen auf drei Füßen;

16 aber im Tor des Hofes soll ein Tuch sein, zwanzig Ellen breit, gewirkt von blauem und rotem Purpur, Scharlach und gezwirnter weißer Leinwand, dazu vier Säulen auf ihren vier Füßen.

17 Alle Säulen um den Hof her sollen silberne Querstäbe und silberne Haken und eherne Füße haben.

18 Und die Länge des Hofes soll hundert Ellen sein, die Breite fünfzig Ellen, die Höhe fünf Ellen, von gezwirnter weißer Leinwand, und seine Füße sollen ehern sein.

19 Auch alle Geräte der Wohnung zu allerlei Amt und alle ihre Nägel und alle Nägel des Hofes sollen ehern sein.

20 Gebiete den Kindern Israel, daß sie zu dir bringen das allerreinste, lautere Öl von Ölbäumen, gestoßen, zur Leuchte, daß man täglich Lampen aufsetze

21 in der Hütte des Stifts, außen vor dem Vorhang, der vor dem Zeugnis hängt. Und Aaron und seine Söhne sollen sie zurichten des Morgens und des Abends vor dem HERRN. Das soll euch eine ewige Weise sein auf eure Nachkommen unter den Kindern Israel.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#6306

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6306. 'Which I took out of the hand of the Amorite' means because of the victory over evil. This is clear from the representation of 'the Amorite' as evil, dealt with in 1857; and from the meaning of 'taking out of the hand' as acquiring through victory. As regards 'the Amorites', it should be recognized that they mean evil, just as 'the Canaanites' and all the other nations in the land that are mentioned in the Word mean various kinds of evil and also of falsity. Such things were represented by the nations when the children of Israel were taking possession of the land of Canaan. The reason for this was that whenever the children of Israel represented the things of heaven those nations represented the things of hell; thus the land of Canaan represented every state that exists in the next life. Also, because the nations represented the things of hell they were utterly destroyed; and entrance into any treaty with those who might remain was forbidden.

[2] The action of the children of Israel, of their taking possession of and dwelling in the land of those who represented the hells, was representative. It represented what happened around the time of the Lord's Coming, when spirits from hell had possession of a large part of heaven but He, by coming into the world and making the human within Himself Divine, cast them out of there and down into hell, and thereby delivered heaven from them, which He then gave as an inheritance to those who belonged to His spiritual kingdom.

[3] The representation of the Amorite nation as evil in general is evident from the places where it is referred to, as in Ezekiel, Thus said the Lord Jehovih to Jerusalem, 1 Your tradings and your births are of the land of the Canaanite. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. Ezekiel 16:3, 45.

'Father' in the internal sense means the Church's good, or in the contrary sense evil, and 'mother' means the Church's truth, or in the contrary sense falsity; and this is why it is said, 'Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite'.

[4] In Amos,

I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and whose strength was like the oaks. I led you in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. Amos 2:9-10.

Here also 'the Amorite' stands for evil, for the evil of self-love is described by 'the height of the cedars' and 'the strength of an oak'. The reason why 'the Amorite' means evil in general is that the entire land of Canaan was called 'the land of the Amorite'; for it says, 'I led you in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite'. In addition the second Book of Kings says,

Manasseh king of Judah did what was evil, greater than all the evil which the Amorites did, who were before him. 2 Kings 21:11.

[5] 'With my sword' means through truth engaged in conflict. This is clear from the meaning of 'sword' as truth engaged in conflict, dealt with in 2799, 4499.

'And my bow' means received from doctrine. This is clear from the meaning of 'bow' as doctrine, dealt with in 2686, 2709.

[6] The words used here, 'the portion which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow' were, it is quite evident, uttered by Israel on account of the internal sense; for Jacob did not take that portion from the Amorite with sword or bow. He bought it from the sons of Hamor, as is evident from Genesis 33, where these words occur, Jacob came to Salem, the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, as he was coming from Paddan Aram; and he encamped towards the face of the city. And he bought the portion of the field where he had stretched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs. Genesis 33:18-19.

The fact that this field was the portion he gave to Joseph is clear in Joshua,

The bones of Joseph which the children of Israel caused to be brought up out of Egypt they buried in Shechem, in the part of the field which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs; and they had become an inheritance for the children of Joseph. Joshua 24:32.

From this it is evident that the portion had been bought, and that this is what was given to Joseph. Nor was the city of Shechem nearby meant, the city in which Simeon and Levi killed every male and which they took with the sword, Genesis 34. This is made clear by the fact that Jacob detested what they did and for that reason cursed Simeon and Levi, completely dissociating himself from the crime. He said,

Simeon and Levi are brothers; instruments of violence are their swords. Into their secret place let my soul not come; in their congregation let not my glory be united; for in their anger they killed a man, and in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was hard. 2 I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. Genesis 49:5-7.

From all this it may now be seen that the words 'the portion which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow' were uttered by him, when the spirit of prophecy rested on him, for the sake of the internal sense.

脚注:

1. The Latin means O Jerusalem but the Hebrew means to Jerusalem, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse (and possibly in his rough draft here).

2. i.e. cruel

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