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Hesekiel 43

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1 Und er führte mich wieder zum Tor gegen Morgen.

2 Und siehe, die Herrlichkeit des Gottes Israels kam von Morgen und brauste, wie ein großes Wasser braust; und es ward sehr licht auf der Erde von seiner Herrlichkeit.

3 Und es war eben wie das Gesicht, das ich sah, da ich kam, daß die Stadt sollte zerstört werden, und wie das Gesicht, das ich gesehen hatte am Wasser Chebar. Da fiel ich nieder auf mein Angesicht.

4 Und die Herrlichkeit des HERRN kam hinein zum Hause durchs Tor gegen Morgen.

5 Da hob mich ein Wind auf und brachte mich in den innern Vorhof; und siehe, die Herrlichkeit des HERRN erfüllte das Haus.

6 Und ich hörte einen mit mir reden vom Hause heraus, und ein Mann stand neben mir.

7 Der sprach zu mir: Du Menschenkind, das ist der Ort meines Throns und die Stätte meiner Fußsohlen, darin ich ewiglich will wohnen unter den Kindern Israel. Und das Haus Israel soll nicht mehr meinen heiligen Namen verunreinigen, weder sie noch ihre Könige, durch ihre Abgötterei und durch die Leichen ihrer Könige in ihren Höhen,

8 welche ihre Schwelle an meine Schwelle und ihre Pfoste an meine Pfoste gesetzt haben, daß nur eine Wand zwischen mir und ihnen war; und haben also meinen heiligen Namen verunreinigt durch ihre Greuel, die sie taten, darum ich sie auch in meinem Zorn verzehrt habe.

9 Nun aber sollen sie ihre Abgötterei und die Leichen ihrer Könige fern von mir wegtun; und ich will ewiglich unter ihnen wohnen.

10 Und du, Menschenkind, zeige dem Haus Israel den Tempel an, daß sie sich schämen ihrer Missetaten, und laß sie ein reinliches Muster davon nehmen.

11 Und wenn sie sich nun alles ihres Tuns schämen, so zeige ihnen die Gestalt und das Muster des Hauses und seine Ausgänge und Eingänge und alle seine Weise und alle seine Sitten und alle seine Weise und alle seine Gesetze; und schreibe es ihnen vor, daß sie alle seine Weise und alle seine Sitten halten und darnach tun.

12 Das soll aber das Gesetz des Hauses sein: Auf der Höhe des Berges, soweit ihr Umfang ist, soll das Allerheiligste sein; das ist das Gesetz des Hauses.

13 Das aber ist das Maß des Altars nach der Elle, welche eine handbreit länger ist den die gemeine Elle: sein Fuß ist eine Elle hoch und eine Elle breit; und die Leiste an seinem Rand ist eine Spanne breit umher.

14 Und das ist die Höhe: Von dem Fuße auf der Erde bis an den untern Absatz sind zwei Ellen hoch und eine Elle breit; aber von demselben kleineren Absatz sind's vier Ellen hoch und eine Elle breit.

15 Und der Harel (der Gottesberg) vier Ellen hoch, und vom Ariel (dem Gottesherd) überwärts die vier Hörner.

16 Der Ariel aber war zwölf Ellen lang und zwölf Ellen breit ins Geviert.

17 Und der oberste Absatz war vierzehn Ellen lang und vierzehn Ellen breit ins Geviert; und eine Leiste ging allenthalben umher, eine halbe Elle breit; und sein Fuß war eine Elle hoch, und seine Stufen waren gegen Morgen.

18 Und er sprach zu mir: Du Menschenkind, so spricht der HERR HERR: Dies sollen die Sitten des Altars sein des Tages, da er gemacht ist, daß man Brandopfer darauf lege und Blut darauf sprenge.

19 Und den Priestern von Levi aus dem Samen Zadoks, die da vor mich treten, daß sie mir dienen, spricht der HERR HERR, sollst du geben einen jungen Farren zum Sündopfer.

20 Und von desselben Blut sollst du nehmen und seine vier Hörner damit besprengen und die vier Ecken an dem obersten Absatz und um die Leiste herum; damit sollst du ihn entsündigen und versöhnen.

21 Und sollst den Farren des Sündopfers nehmen und ihn verbrennen an einem Ort am Hause, der dazu verordnet ist außerhalb des Heiligtums.

22 Aber am andern Tage sollst du einen Ziegenbock opfern, der ohne Fehl sei, zu einem Sündopfer und den Altar damit entsündigen, wie er mit dem Farren entsündigt ist.

23 Und wenn das Entsündigen vollendet ist, sollst du einen jungen Farren opfern, der ohne Fehl sei, und einen Widder von der Herde ohne Fehl.

24 Und sollst sie beide vor dem HERRN opfern; und die Priester sollen Salz darauf streuen und sollen sie also opfern dem HERRN zum Brandopfer.

25 Also sollst du sieben Tage nacheinander täglich einen Bock zum Sündopfer opfern; und sie sollen einen jungen Farren und einen Widder von der Herde, die beide ohne Fehl sind, opfern.

26 Und sollen also sieben Tage lang den Altar versöhnen und ihn reinigen und ihre Hände füllen.

27 Und nach denselben Tagen sollen die Priester am achten Tag und hernach für und für auf dem Altar opfern eure Brandopfer und eure Dankopfer, so will ich euch gnädig sein, spricht der HERR HERR.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9487

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

9487. 'Two cubits and a half shall be its length' means all so far as good is concerned. This is clear from the meaning of 'two and a half' as much and as what is complete, and as all when this number has reference to something Divine (the reason why 'two and a half' means much and what is complete is that this number is similar in meaning to five, ten, a hundred, and a thousand, since twice two and a half makes five, twice five makes ten, and ten times ten makes a hundred; for doubles and multiples have a similar meaning to the simple numbers of which they are the products, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973. For the meaning of 'five' as much and completeness, see 5708, 5956, 9102; likewise 'ten', 3107, 4638; also 'a hundred', 2636, 4400; and a thousand, 2575, 8715. So it is that when these numbers are used in reference to something Divine they mean all); and from the meaning of 'length' as good, dealt with in 1613, 8898.

[2] To say that 'length' in the Word means good and 'breadth' truth may seem to be like nonsense; nevertheless this is indeed what they mean. The reason why they do so is that all things without exception in the Word mean realities such as belong to heaven and to the Church, and so such as are connected with the good of love and with the truth of faith. No spatial dimensions such as 'length' and 'breadth' imply can be attributed to these; but instead of spatial dimensions the state of their essential being (esse), which is a state of good, and the resulting state of manifestation (existere), which is a state of truth, can be attributed to them. Furthermore in heaven spatial dimensions are appearances produced by those states, 4882, 9440. From all this it becomes clear that spiritual realities are meant by the measurements and dimensions given in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel, where a new temple and a new land are the subject. They are consequently meant here in Exodus, where the ark, the dwelling-place, the court, the tables there, and the altars are the subject. Such realities are in a similar way meant where the temple in Jerusalem is the subject, also when it says that the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven was square, its breadth being as great as its length, Revelation 21:16; Zechariah 2:1-2. For 'Jerusalem' means a new Church, the character of its good being meant by the measurement of its length, and the character of its truth by that of its breadth.

[3] The fact that 'breadth' or 'broad place' means truth is plainly evident in David,

In distress I called on Jah; He answered me in a broad place. Psalms 118:5.

In the same author,

You have made my feet stand in a broad place. Psalms 31:8.

In Isaiah,

The outstretchings of Asshur's wings will fill the breadth of the land. Isaiah 8:8.

In Habakkuk,

I am rousing the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, marching 1 into the breadths of the earth. Habakkuk 1:6.

'Marching into the breadths of the earth', when said of the Chaldeans, means destroying the truths of faith.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. literally, walking

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

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Arcana Coelestia #1906

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

1906. 'After Abram had been dwelling ten years in the land of Canaan' means the remnants of good and of truth deriving from that good which the Lord acquired to Himself and by means of which this rational was conceived. This is clear from the meaning of 'ten' as remnants, dealt with already in 576. What remnants are has been stated and shown in 468, 530, 560, 561, 660, 661, 798, 1050; that is to say, they are all the states of affection for good and truth conferred by the Lord on a person from earliest childhood right through to life's end. These states are stored away within him for the use of his life after death, for in the next life all the states of his life return one after another and at that time they undergo modification through the states of good and truth which the Lord has conferred on him. The more remnants he acquires therefore during his lifetime, or the more good and truth he acquires, the happier and more beautiful the rest of his states seem to be when they actually return. The truth of this may become clear to anyone if he gives the matter careful consideration. At birth no one of himself possesses any good at all, but is wholly defiled with hereditary evil. Everything good flows in, such as his love for parents, nursemaids, and playmates, this influx being from innocence. These are the gifts which flow in from the Lord through the heaven of innocence and peace, which is the inmost heaven, and this is the manner in which they are imparted to him during early childhood.

[2] Later on, when he grows up, this good, innocent, and peaceful state of early childhood departs from him little by little; and insofar as he is introduced into the world, he enters into its pleasures and delights, and so into evils, and the heavenly things or the goods of early childhood start to be dispersed. Yet they still remain, it being by means of these that the states are moderated which a person takes to himself and acquires later on. Without them he cannot possibly be truly human, for states in which evil desires or any evils occur, if not moderated by means of states in which the affection for good is present, would be more dreadful than those of any animal. Those states of good are what are called remnants, which are conferred by the Lord and implanted in a person's natural disposition, this being done when the person is not aware of it.

[3] In later life he has further new states conferred on him; but these are not so much states of good as of truth, for as he grows up he has truths bestowed on him, and these in a similar way are stored away within his interior man. By means of these remnants, which are those of truth, and which have been born from the influx of spiritual things from the Lord, a person has the ability to think, and also to understand what the good and truth of civil or public life and moral or private life are, and also to receive spiritual truth, that is, the truth of faith. Yet he has no ability to do these things except by means of the remnants of good which he received in early childhood. Of the existence of remnants, and the fact that they are stored away in man in his interior rational, man is completely unaware. That unawareness is due to thinking that nothing flows in but that everything is innate within him, and thus present within him when he is an infant, though the reality is altogether different from that. Remnants are referred to in various places in the Word, and by them are meant those states by which a person becomes human, and this from the Lord alone.

[4] The remnants which resided with the Lord however were all the Divine states which He acquired to Himself and by means of which He united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence. These are in no way comparable with the remnants that reside with man, for the latter are not Divine but human. The remnants the Lord had are what is meant by the ten years Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan. When angels hear the Word they have no knowledge of what 'ten' is; but the moment ten is mentioned by man the idea of remnants comes to them, for 'ten' and 'tenths' in the Word mean remnants, as is clear from what has been stated and shown in 576, 1738. And when they perceive that 'Abram had been dwelling ten years in the land of Canaan' the idea of the Lord comes to them, and with it simultaneously countless things meant by the remnants residing with the Lord when He was in the world.

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