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maastamuutto 26

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1 "Ja tee asumus kymmenestä telttakankaan kaistasta, jotka ovat valmistetut kerratuista valkoisista pellavalangoista ja punasinisistä, purppuranpunaisista ja helakanpunaisista langoista, ja tee niihin taidokkaasti kudottuja kerubeja.

2 Kunkin kaistan pituus olkoon kaksikymmentäkahdeksan kyynärää ja leveys neljä kyynärää; kaikilla kaistoilla olkoon sama mitta.

3 Viisi kaistaa yhdistettäköön toisiinsa, ja samoin toiset viisi kaistaa yhdistettäköön toisiinsa.

4 Ja tee silmukat punasinisestä langasta ensimmäisen kaistan reunaan, yhdistetyn kappaleen laitaan, ja samoin toisen yhdistetyn kappaleen viimeisen kaistan reunaan.

5 Tee viisikymmentä silmukkaa ensimmäiseen kaistaan, ja tee viisikymmentä silmukkaa vastaavan kaistan laitaan, toiseen yhdistettyyn kappaleeseen, niin että silmukat ovat kohdakkain.

6 Ja tee viisikymmentä kultahakasta ja yhdistä kaistat toisiinsa näillä hakasilla, niin että siitä tulee yhtenäinen asumus.

7 Tee vielä kaistoista, jotka ovat kudotut vuohenkarvoista, teltta asumuksen suojaksi; tee niitä kaistoja yksitoista.

8 Kunkin kaistan pituus olkoon kolmekymmentä kyynärää ja leveys neljä kyynärää; niillä yhdellätoista kaistalla olkoon sama mitta.

9 Liitä yhteen viisi kaistaa erikseen ja kuusi kaistaa erikseen, ja aseta kuudes niistä kaksin kerroin teltan etupuolelle.

10 Ja tee viisikymmentä silmukkaa toisen yhdistetyn kappaleen viimeisen kaistan reunaan ja viisikymmentä silmukkaa toisen yhdistetyn kappaleen vastaavan kaistan reunaan.

11 Tee myös viisikymmentä vaskihakasta ja pistä hakaset silmukkoihin ja liitä teltta yhteen, niin että siitä tulee yhtenäinen.

12 Siitä telttakaistojen liiasta osasta, joka jää riippumaan, jääköön puolet riippumaan asumuksen takasivulle.

13 Ja siitä, mikä telttakaistoissa on liikaa pituutta, riippukoon kyynärän verran asumuksen kummallakin sivulla sitä peittämässä.

14 Ja tee teltalle peite punaisista oinaannahoista ja sen päälle vielä toinen peite sireeninnahoista.

15 Asumuksen laudat tee akasiapuusta, pystyyn asetettaviksi.

16 Jokainen lauta olkoon kymmentä kyynärää pitkä ja puoltatoista kyynärää leveä.

17 Jokaisessa laudassa olkoon kaksi tappia, jotka ovat poikkilistalla yhdistetyt keskenään; tee näin kaikki asumuksen laudat.

18 Ja asumuksen lautoja tee kaksikymmentä lautaa eteläpuolta varten.

19 Ja tee neljäkymmentä hopeajalustaa kahdenkymmenen laudan alle, aina kaksi jalustaa kunkin laudan alle sen kahta tappia varten.

20 Samoin asumuksen toista sivua, pohjoispuolta, varten kaksikymmentä lautaa,

21 ja neljäkymmentä hopeajalustaa, aina kaksi jalustaa kunkin laudan alle.

22 Mutta asumuksen takasivua, länsipuolta, varten tee kuusi lautaa.

23 Ja tee kaksi lautaa asumuksen peränurkkia varten.

24 Ja ne olkoot yhteenliitettyjä kaksoislautoja ja alhaalta alkaen kiinni toisissaan ylös saakka, ensimmäiseen renkaaseen asti; näin tehtäköön ne molemmat ja asetettakoon kumpaankin nurkkaan.

25 Näin tulee olemaan yhteensä kahdeksan lautaa ja niihin kuusitoista hopeajalustaa, aina kaksi jalustaa kunkin laudan alla.

26 Tee myös viisi poikkitankoa akasiapuusta asumuksen toisen sivun lautoja varten,

27 ja viisi poikkitankoa asumuksen toisen sivun lautoja varten, ja viisi poikkitankoa asumuksen takasivun, länsipuolen, lautoja varten.

28 Ja keskimmäinen poikkitanko asetettakoon keskelle lautoja, ja kulkekoon se reunasta reunaan.

29 Ja päällystä laudat kullalla ja tee kullasta niiden renkaat poikkitankojen pitimiksi ja päällystä poikkitangot kullalla.

30 Ja aseta asumus pystyyn sen muotoiseksi, kuin sinulle vuorella näytettiin.

31 Tee vielä esirippu punasinisistä, purppuranpunaisista ja helakanpunaisista langoista ja kerratuista valkoisista pellavalangoista; ja tehtäköön siihen taidokkaasti kudottuja kerubeja.

32 Ja ripusta se neljään akasiapuiseen, kullalla päällystettyyn pylvääseen, joissa on kultakoukut ja jotka seisovat neljällä hopeajalustalla.

33 Ja ripusta esirippu hakasten alle ja vie sinne esiripun sisäpuolelle lain arkki. Ja niin olkoon esirippu teille väliseinänä pyhän ja kaikkeinpyhimmän välillä.

34 Ja aseta armoistuin lain arkin päälle, joka on kaikkeinpyhimmässä.

35 Mutta pöytä sijoita esiripun ulkopuolelle ja seitsenhaarainen lamppu vastapäätä pöytää, asumuksen eteläsivulle; aseta siis pöytä pohjoissivulle.

36 Tee myös teltan oveen uudin, kirjaellen kudottu punasinisistä, purppuranpunaisista ja helakanpunaisista langoista ja kerratuista valkoisista pellavalangoista.

37 Ja tee uudinta varten viisi pylvästä akasiapuusta ja päällystä ne kullalla, mutta niiden koukut olkoot kultaa; ja vala niille viisi vaskijalustaa."

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9509

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

9509. 'And you shall make two cherubs' means that there is no admission or access to the Lord except through the good of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'cherubs' as watchfulness and providence, guarding against access to the Lord except through the good of love. Since this was meant by the cherubs, they were placed over the mercy-seat that was over the ark; and they were for the same reason made from solid gold. For 'the ark' means heaven where the Lord is, 9485, and 'gold' means the good of love, 9490. The reason why there is no access to the Lord except through the good of love is that love is spiritual togetherness, and all good belongs to love. Those therefore who are governed by the good of love to the Lord are brought to Him in heaven, because they have been joined together with Him. So too are those who are governed by the good of love towards the neighbour; for the neighbour is the good of a fellow-citizen, the good of one's country, the good of the Church, the good of the whole of the Lord's kingdom, and in the highest sense the Lord Himself since He is the source of that good present with a person.

[2] There are two states that a person passes through while being regenerated, one of which follows the other. The first is a state during which he is led by means of the truths of faith to the good of love; the other is one in which he is governed by the good of love, and when governed by it he is in heaven with the Lord. From this it is evident that this good is heaven itself present with the person, that good being the Lord present with him because its source is the Lord. Regarding these two states that a person who is being regenerated passes through, one of which follows the other, see 7923, 7992, 8505, 8506, 8510, 8512, 8516, 8643, 8648, 8658, 8685, 8690, 8701, 9224, 9227, 9230, 9274; and the fact that a person comes into heaven when governed by good, that is, when led by the Lord by means of good, 8516, 8539, 8722, 8772, 9139.

[3] It is clear from places in the Word where 'cherubs' are mentioned that they mean watchfulness and providence, guarding against access to the Lord or to heaven except through the good of love, that is, except by those governed by the good of love, and also guarding against any harm being done to the good from the Lord which is present in heaven and with a person, as for instance in Genesis,

And He expelled the man, and away from the east towards the garden of Eden He caused the cherubs to dwell, and the flame of a sword turning itself this way and that to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:24.

Here it is self-evident that things which serve as guards are meant by 'the cherubs', since it says 'to guard the way to the tree of life'. 'The tree of life' is the good of love, which comes from the Lord and for that reason is the Lord; and it is guarded by the prevention of any access except through the good of love.

[4] It is thought that the Lord is accessible through the truths of faith. But there can be no access to Him, nor even to heaven, through those truths if they have been separated from the good of love. As soon as separated truths wish to enter, heaven, which is the way to the Lord, is closed. And since truth cannot enter by itself unless it has good within it, and by virtue of this has come to consist of good, neither can understanding do so, still less factual knowledge, if separated from good desired by the will.

[5] Because watchfulness and providence guarding against access to the Lord, or for that reason to heaven, except through the good of love is meant by 'the cherubs', the Word says that Jehovah is seated on the cherubs, also rides and dwells upon the cherubs, as in David,

Turn Your ears, O Shepherd of Israel; You who are seated upon the cherubs, shine forth. Psalms 80:1.

In the same author,

Jehovah will reign, the peoples will be shaken. He is seated on the cherubs. Psalms 99:1.

In the same author,

Jehovah rode on a cherub, and flew. Psalms 18:10.

And in Isaiah,

Jehovah Zebaoth is dwelling on the cherubs. Isaiah 37:16.

For the same reasons there were cherubs upon the curtains of the dwelling-place, and upon the veil, Exodus 26:1, 31; 36:35; they were also upon the walls of the temple round about and upon the doors there, 1 Kings 6:23-29, 31-35, and similarly in the new temple, as described in Ezekiel 41:18-20. The presence of the cherubs on the curtains of the dwelling-place, on the veil, on the walls of the temple, and on the doors there, was a sign of the Lord's watchfulness, guarding against access to Divine Holiness except through the good of love; and the presence of the cherubs over the ark was a sign that no one should gain access to the Lord Himself except through that good. This also explains why the cherubs were made from solid gold, and in the Jerusalem temple from olive wood; for 'gold' and 'olive oil' mean the good of love.

[6] That watchfulness and providence of the Lord is described in Ezekiel by 'the four living creatures', each of which had four faces, under the throne where the Lord was, Ezekiel 1:1-end; 10:1-end, and also in John by 'four living creatures' around the throne where the Lord was, 10:Revelation 4:6-10; 5:6, 8-9, 14. By 'the four living creatures' is meant the good, varying in appearance, which emanates from the Lord, and which watches and guards against the letting in of anything other than the good of love to the Lord and the good of love towards the neighbour. By 'the throne' on which the Lord was seated heaven is meant, 5313.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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

Okususelwe Emisebenzini kaSwedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #3769

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

3769. 'And there was a large stone over the mouth of the well' means that it, that is to say, the Word, was closed up. This becomes clear without explanation. The Word is said to be closed up when it is understood purely according to the sense of the letter and everything there is taken for doctrine. It is even more closed up when those things are acknowledged as doctrine which show favour to the desires that go with self-love and love of the world, for these especially roll the large stone over the mouth of the well, that is, they close the Word up. In this case people neither know nor wish to know that any interior sense exists within the Word. Yet they can see that the Word has an interior sense from the many places where the interior sense is used to explain the literal, and also from the generally accepted teachings within the Church which, by means of various explanations, are brought to bear on the literal sense.

[2] What is meant by the Word's being closed up becomes particularly clear from the Jews who explain every single thing literally, and as a consequence believe that they have been chosen in preference to everybody else in all the world, and that the Messiah is coming who will lead them into the land of Canaan and will exalt them above all nations and peoples of the world. For the Jews are governed by loves of an earthly and bodily nature, which are such that they close the Word altogether so far as interior teachings are concerned. What is more, they do not even know whether any heavenly kingdom exists, whether they are going to live after death, what the internal man is, or even the existence of anything spiritual, let alone that the Messiah has come to save souls. The fact that the Word is in their case closed up may also be seen quite clearly from the consideration that although they live among Christians they nevertheless accept nothing whatever of Christian teaching, in accordance with the following words in Isaiah,

Say to this people, Hearing hear, and do not understand; and seeing see, and do not comprehend. Make the hearts of this people fat and their ears heavy, and plaster over their eyes. And I said, How long, O Lord? And He said, Until cities have been laid waste till no inhabitant [is left], and houses till no man [is left], and the land has been laid waste as a desolation. Isaiah 6:9-11; Matthew 13:14-15; John 12:40-41.

[3] To the extent that someone is under the influence of self-love and love of the world, and of the desires that go with these loves, the Word is to him closed up. For those loves have self as the end in view, an end which fosters natural light but extinguishes heavenly light. As a result people see clearly the things that belong to self and the world but nothing whatever of those that belong to the Lord and to His kingdom. When this is so they may indeed read the Word, but their end in view is the increase of personal position and wealth, or that they may be seen by others; or else they read it because it is the done thing and therefore merely from force of habit, or they read it as a religious duty, but without any amendment of life in view. To these people the Word has in different ways become closed up, for some so closed that they do not wish to know anything at all apart from that which their own teachings - whatever these may be - declare.

[4] If anyone were to say, for example, that the power of opening and of shutting heaven has not been granted to Peter but to faith rooted in love, which faith is meant by Peter's keys, they would never acknowledge it because self-love and love of the world stand in the way. Or if anyone were to say that the saints ought not to be worshipped but the Lord alone, they would not accept that either. Nor would they believe it if someone were to say that the bread and wine in the Holy Supper mean the Lord's love towards the whole human race and man's love for the Lord in return. And if anyone were to say that faith - other than the good of faith, which is charity - does not achieve anything, they would give a completely contrary explanation. And so it would be with everything else. People like these can see nothing at all of the truth contained in the Word and do not wish to see it. Instead they adhere rigidly to their own doctrinal opinions. They do not even wish to hear of the existence of the internal sense in which the holiness and the glory of the Word reside. Indeed when they hear about the existence of it they are revolted because of their detestation of the mere mention of it. So the Word has been closed up. Yet the Word is such that it is open right into heaven, and through heaven towards the Lord, and is closed only in relation to man, that is, insofar as he is subject to the evils of self-love and love of the world where the ends in view of his life are concerned, and is subject to false assumptions resulting from those evils. From this one may see what is meant by 'a large stone over the mouth of the well'.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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