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Exodus 30

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1 Fremdeles skal du lave et Alter til at brænde øgelse på: af Akacietræ skal du lave det,

2 en Alen langt og en Alen bredt, firkantet skal det være, og to Alen højt, og dets Horn skal være i eet med det.

3 Du skal overtrække det med purt Guld, både Pladen og Siderne hele Vejen rundt og Hornene, og sætte en Guldkrans rundt om;

4 og du skal sætte to Guldringe under Kransen på begge Sider, på begge Sidestykkerne skal du sætte dem til at stikke Bærestænger i, for at det kan bæres med dem;

5 og Bærestængerne skal du lave af Akacietræ og overtrække med Guld.

6 Derpå skal du opstille det foran Forhænget, der hænger foran Vidnesbyrdets Ark, foran Sonedækket oven over Vidnesbyrdet der, hvor jeg vil åbenbare mig for dig.

7 På det skal Aron brænde vellugtende øgelse; hver Morgen, når han gør Lamperne i Stand, skal han antænde den.

8 Og når Aron sætter Lamperne på Lysestagen ved Aftenstid, skal han ligeledes antænde den; det skal være et stadigt øgelseoffer for HE ENs Åsyn fra Slægt til Slægt.

9 I må ikke ofre et lovstridigt øgelseoffer derpå, ej heller Brændofre eller Afgrødeofre, lige så lidt som I må udgyde Drikofre derpå.

10 Men een Gang om Året skal Aron skaffe Soning på dels Horn; med noget af Forsoningssyndofferets Blod skal han een Gang om Året skaffe Soning på det, Slægt efter Slægt. Det er højhelligt for HE EN.

11 HE EN talede fremdeles til Moses og sagde:

12 Når du holder Mandtal over Israeliterne, skal enhver, som mønstres, ved Mønstringen give HE EN Sonepenge for sit Liv, at ingen Ulykke skal ramme dem i Anledning af Mønstringen.

13 Enhver, der må underkaste sig Mønstringen, skal udrede en halv Sekel i hellig Mønt, tyve Gera på en Sekel, en halv Sekel som Offerydelse til HE EN.

14 Enhver, der må underkaste sig Mønstringen, fra Tyveårsalderen og opefter, skal udrede HE ENs Offerydelse.

15 hen rige må ikke give mere, den fattige ikke mindre end en halv Sekel, når de bringer HE ENs Offerydelse til Soning for deres Sjæle.

16 Og du skal tage Sonepengene af Israeliterne og bruge dem til Tjenesten ved Åbenbaringsteltet. og de skal tjene til at bringe Israeliterne i Minde for HE ENs Åsyn, til Soning for eders Sjæle.

17 HE EN talede fremdeles til Moses og sagde:

18 Du skal lave en Vandkumme med Fodstykke af Kobber til at tvætte sig i op opstille den mellem Åbenbaringsteltet og Alteret og hælde Vand i den,

19 for at Aron og hans Sønner kan tvætte deres Hænder og Fødder deri.

20 Når de går ind i Åbenbaringsteltet, skal de tvætte sig med Vand for ikke at ; ligeledes når de træder hen til Alteret for at gøre Tjeneste og brænde Ildofre for HE EN.

21 De skal tvætte deres Hænder og Fødder for ikke at . Det skal være en evig Anordning for ham og hans Afkom fra Slægt til Slægt.

22 HE EN talede fremdeles til Moses og sagde:

23 Du skal tage dig vellugtende Stoffer af den bedste Slags, 500 Sekel ædel Myrra, halvt så meget. 250 Sekel, vellugtende Kanelbark, 250 Sekel vellugtende Kalmus

24 og 500 Sekel Kassia, efter hellig Vægt, og en Hin Olivenolie.

25 Deraf skal du tilberede en hellig Salveolie, en krydret Blanding, som Salveblanderne laver den; en hellig Salveolie skal det være.

26 Med den skal du salve Åbenbaringsteltet, Vidnesbyrdets Ark,

27 Bordet med alt dets Tilbehør, Lysestagen med dens Tilbehør, øgelsealteret,

28 Brændofferalteret med alt dets Tilbehør og Vandkummen med dens Fodstykke,

29 Således skal du hellige dem, så de bliver højhellige. Enhver, der kommer i Berøring med dem, bliver hellig" .

30 Ligeledes skal du salve Aron og hans Sønner og hellige dem til at gøre Præstetjeneste for mig.

31 Men til Israeliterne skal du sige således: Dette skal være mig en hellig Salveolie fra Slægt til Slægt.

32 Den må ikke udgydes på noget Menneskes Legeme, og i denne Blanding må I ikke tilberede lignende Salve til eget Brug, hellig er den, og hellig skal den være eder.

33 Den, der tilbereder lignende Salve eller anvender den på en Lægmand, skal udryddes af sin Slægt.

34 HE EN talede fremdeles til Moses og sagde: Tag dig øgelseoffer, Stakte, Onyksmusling, Galbanum og ren Virak, lige meget af hvert,

35 og tilbered deraf en krydret øgelse, som Salveblanderne laver den, saltet, ren, til hellig Brug.

36 Deraf skal du støde en Del til Pulver, og noget deraf skal du lægge foran Vidnesbyrdet i Åbenbaringsteltet, hvor jeg vil åbenbare mig for dig. Det skal være eder højhelligt.

37 Den øgelse, du tilbereder i denne Blanding, må I ikke tilberede til eget Brug. Hellig skal den være dig for HE EN.

38 Den, der tilbereder lignende øgelse for at nyde dens Duft, skal udryddes af sin Slægt.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #10292

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

10292. 'Stacte' means an affection for truth on the level of the senses. This is clear from the meaning of 'stacte' as truth on the level of the senses, an affection for that truth being meant on account of the sweet smell this spice has. For an odour means perception, a sweet odour meaning perception that is pleasing, a foul and stinking odour perception that is displeasing; and any pleasure or displeasure that perception brings is attributable to and in keeping with the affection belonging to love, see 925, 1514, 1517-1519, 3577, 4624-4634, 4748, 5621, 10054. It should be remembered in general that all things whatever in the vegetable kingdom, both those which woodlands yield and those which gardens, fields, and plains produce, such as trees, crops, flowers, grass, and vegetables, mean spiritual and celestial realities generally and specifically. The reason why this should be so is that the whole natural order is a theatre representative of the Lord's kingdom, see in the places referred to in 9280.

[2] 'Stacte' means an affection for truth on the level of the senses because it is mentioned first; for there are four spices from which the incense was made, even as there are four spices from which the anointing oil was prepared. And the one that is mentioned first is the most external, as was that mentioned first in the preparation of the anointing oil, namely the best myrrh, by which the perception of truth on the level of the senses is meant, see 10252 above.

[3] The reason why four spices were used in the preparation of both the oil and the incense was that they meant levels of truth in their proper order, from outward to inmost; and in a person they follow one another in that same order. For a person has an external, called the external man, and an internal, called the internal man; and in each of these there is a more external level and a more internal one. The most external level is called that of the senses; this therefore is what is meant by 'stacte'. What the level of the senses is and what it is like, see 9996, 10236.

[4] The fact that 'stacte' means an affection for truth on the level of the senses cannot be corroborated from other places in the Word because it is not mentioned anywhere else. Yet another kind of stacte, for which also a different word is used in the original language, is mentioned among those spices which were taken down into Egypt, Genesis 37:25; 43:11; and by those commodities which were taken down to Egypt such things as exist in the external or natural man are implied. This is because 'Egypt' means factual knowledge, which belongs to the natural man, see in the places referred to in 9391.

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

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Arcana Coelestia #4748

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4748. 'And their camels carrying spices, and resin' and stacte' means interior natural truths. This is clear from the general meaning of 'camels' as things belonging to the natural man which serve the spiritual, and from their specific meaning as general facts within the natural man, dealt with in 3048, 3071, 3114, 3143, 3145, 4156; and from the meaning of 'spices, resin, and stacte' as interior natural truths joined to the good there, which are dealt with below. Among the ancients, sweet smelling and fragrant substances were used in their sacred worship; from these substances they obtained their frankincense and incense, similar substances being mixed with oil for their anointings. But no one today knows why those fragrances were used, for the reason that no knowledge at all exists of the fact that all aspects of the worship of the ancients had their origin in the spiritual and celestial things existing in heaven, or that those aspects of it corresponded to these. Mankind has been removing itself so far from spiritual and celestial things, immersing itself in natural, worldly, and bodily ones, that it lives in obscurity, many people having a negative attitude of mind to the existence of anything spiritual or celestial.

[2] The reason frankincense and incense were used among the ancients in sacred acts of worship is that 'odour' corresponds to perception, and 'a fragrant odour' - like that of the aromas which various kinds of spices have - to a pleasing and acceptable perception, as is the perception of truth derived from good, or of faith from charity. Indeed the correspondence of one to the other is such that, as often as it pleases the Lord, actual perceptions in the next life are converted into odours. Regarding these, see what has already been told from experience in 925, 1514, 1517-1519, 3577, 4624-4634. What specifically is meant here by 'spices, resin, and stacte' may be seen from other places where these three are mentioned. In general they mean interior truths within the natural, but those truths which are derived from the good there; for truths do not on their own constitute the natural, but good does by means of truths. Consequently variations exist, conditioned by what the truth joined to the good is like and therefore by what the good is like, since the particular nature of the good depends on what the truths are like.

[3] 'Gilead' means exterior good like that belonging to the senses, called pleasure, 4117, 4124, while 'Egypt' in the good sense means facts, which are the external truths of the natural man that correspond to, that is, are in accord with, that good, 1462. Therefore the reference to Ishmaelites from Gilead bringing down those aromatic commodities on camels to Egypt means bringing their own interior truths, based on their own facts, to the facts meant by 'Egypt', which matters are dealt with below. Interior truths are conclusions based on exterior truths, that is, on facts; for the facts belonging to the natural man are the means that enable conclusions to be drawn about interior truths and thereby to identify them, just as a person identifies another's state of mind in his facial expressions and in the twinkling of light in his eyes, as well as in his tone of voice and his gestures.

[4] Because such truths are the means by which a person's natural is made more perfect and also receives correction, healing is therefore associated with spices of this kind - with resin, for example, in Jeremiah,

Is there no balsamic resin in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why has not the healing of the daughter of my people arisen? Jeremiah 8:22.

In the same prophet,

Go up to Gilead to take resin, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied medicaments; there is no healing for you. Jeremiah 46:11.

In the same prophet,

Suddenly Babel has fallen and been broken; wail over her! Take resin for her pain; perhaps she will be healed. Jeremiah 51:8.

[5] Wares similar to this mean spiritual things, as is quite evident in John,

The merchants of the earth will weep and will mourn over Babel, that nobody buys their wares any longer, wares of gold and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and bronze, and iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and draught-cattle, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and the bodies and souls of people. Revelation 18:11-13.

These wares would never have been listed in this specific manner if each and all had not meant the kinds of things that exist in the Lord's kingdom and in His Church. Otherwise they would have been words that had no real meaning. It is well known that 'Babel' means those who turn all worship of the Lord into worship of themselves, so that profanity exists inwardly while outwardly they are doing what is holy. This being so, 'their wares' means the things which, for the sake of worship of themselves, they themselves have invented enthusiastically and skillfully, as well as doctrinal teachings and ideas of good and truth from the Word which they have twisted to suit themselves. Thus the individual wares mentioned in these verses mean specific features of their invention, 'cinnamon, incense, ointment, and frankincense' meaning truths that are derived from good, but with those people perverted truths and falsities that are the products of evil.

[6] Something similar may be seen in what is recorded in Ezekiel regarding the wares of Tyre,

Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders. Wheat of minnith and pannag, and honey, and oil, and resin, they exchanged for your trading. Ezekiel 27:17.

Here also 'resin' means truth derived from good. To one who has no belief in the internal sense of the Word all these expressions will be mere words and so vessels with nothing in them, when in fact they hold Divine, celestial, and spiritual things within them.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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