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Ezekiel 47

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1 At ibinalik niya ako sa pintuan ng bahay; at, narito, ang tubig ay lumalabas sa ilalim ng pasukan sa bahay sa dakong silanganan (sapagka't ang harapan ng bahay ay sa dakong silanganan); at ang tubig ay umaagos sa ilalim, mula sa dakong kanan ng bahay, sa timugan ng dambana.

2 Nang magkagayo'y inilabas niya ako sa daan ng pintuang-daang hilagaan, at pinatnubayan niya ako sa palibot ng daan sa labas, sa lalong labas ng pintuang-daan, sa daan ng pintuang-daan na nakaharap sa dakong silanganan; at, narito, doo'y lumalabas ang tubig sa dakong kanan.

3 Nang ang lalake ay lumabas sa dakong silanganan na may pising panukat sa kaniyang kamay, siya'y sumukat ng isang libong siko, at pinaraan niya ako sa tubig, sa tubig na hanggang bukongbukong.

4 Muling sumukat siya ng isang libo, at pinaraan niya ako sa tubig, sa tubig na hanggang mga tuhod. Muli siyang sumukat ng isang libo, at pinaraan niya ako sa tubig, sa tubig na hanggang sa mga balakang.

5 Pagkatapos ay sumukat siya ng isang libo; at isang ilog na hindi ko naraanan; sapagka't ang tubig ay sumasampa, tubig upang languyan, ilog na hindi mararaanan.

6 At sinabi niya sa akin, Anak ng tao, nakita mo baga ito? Nang magkagayo'y dinala niya ako, at pinabalik niya ako sa pangpang ng ilog.

7 Nang ako nga'y makabalik, narito, sa pangpang ng ilog, ay may totoong maraming puno ng kahoy sa magkabilang dako.

8 Nang magkagayo'y sinabi niya sa akin, Ang tubig na ito ay lumalabas sa dakong silanganang lupain, at bababa sa Araba; at huhugos sa dagat; sa dagat ay huhugos ang tubig na pinalabas; at ang tubig ay mapagagaling.

9 At mangyayari, na bawa't likhang may buhay na dumadami, saan mang dako umaagos ang tubig, ay mabubuhay; at magkakaroon ng totoong napakaraming isda; sapagka't ang tubig na ito ay dumarating diyan at ang tubig ng dagat ay mapagagaling, at bawa't may buhay ay mabubuhay saan man dumating ang ilog.

10 At mangyayari, na ang mga mangingisda ay magsisitayo sa tabi niyaon: mula sa En-gedi hanggang sa En-eglaim ay magiging dako na ladlaran ng mga lambat; ang mga isda ng mga yaon ay magiging ayon sa pagkakaisda ng mga yaon, gaya ng isda sa malaking dagat, na totoong marami.

11 Nguni't ang kaniyang mga dakong maburak, at ang mga lumbak niyaon, ay hindi mapapagaling; magiging asinan nga.

12 At sa pangpang ng ilog sa tabi niyaon, sa dakong ito at sa dakong yaon, tutubo ang sarisaring punong kahoy na pinakapagkain, na ang dahon ay hindi matutuyo, ni magkukulang man ang bunga niyaon: magbubunga ng bago buwan-buwan, sapagka't ang tubig niyaon ay lumalabas sa santuario; at ang bunga niyaon ay magiging pagkain at ang dahon niyaon ay pangpagaling.

13 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Ito ang magiging hangganan, na inyong pagbabahagihan ng lupain na pinakamana ayon sa labing dalawang lipi ng Israel: ang Jose ay magkakaroon ng dalawang bahagi.

14 At inyong mamanahin, ng isa na gaya ng iba; sapagka't aking isinumpa na ibigay ito sa inyong mga magulang: at ang lupaing ito ay mahuhulog sa inyo na pinakamana.

15 At ito ang magiging hangganan ng lupain: Sa dakong hilagaan, mula sa malaking dagat, sa daang Hethlon, hanggang sa pasukan sa Sedad;

16 Hamath, Berotha, Sibrahim, na nasa pagitan ng hangganan ng Damasco at ng hangganan ng Hamath; Haser-hatticon na nasa tabi ng hangganan ng Hauran.

17 At ang hangganang mula sa dagat ay magiging ang Hazar-enon sa hangganan ng Damasco, at nasa hilagaan na dakong hilagaan ang hangganan ng Hamath. Ito ang dakong hilagaan.

18 At ang dakong silanganan, ang pagitan ng Hauran at ng Damasco at ng Galaad, at ang lupain ng Israel, ay siyang magiging Jordan; mula sa hilagaang hangganan hanggang sa silanganang dagat ay inyong susukatin. Ito ang dakong silanganan.

19 At ang timugang dako na gawing timugan ay magiging mula sa Tamar hanggang sa tubig ng Meribot-cades, sa batis ng Egipto, hanggang sa malaking dagat. Ito ang timugang dako na gawing timugan.

20 At ang dakong kalunuran ay magiging ang malaking dagat, mula sa hangganang timugan hanggang sa tapat ng pasukan sa Hamath. Ito ang dakong kalunuran.

21 Gayon ninyo hahatiin ang lupaing ito sa inyo ayon sa mga lipi ng Israel.

22 At mangyayari na inyong hahatiin sa sapalaran na pinakamana sa inyo at sa mga taga ibang lupa na makikipamayan sa gitna ninyo, na magkakaanak sa gitna ninyo; at sila'y magiging sa inyo'y gaya ng ipinanganak sa gitna ng mga anak ni Israel; sila'y magkakaroon ng mana na kasama ninyo sa gitna ng mga lipi ng Israel.

23 At mangyayari, na kung saang lipi nakipamayan ang taga ibang lupa, doon ninyo bibigyan siya ng mana, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

   

Okususelwe Emisebenzini kaSwedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #9659

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

9659. 'And there shall be eight boards and their bases [made] from silver' means support in every respect from good and through truth that springs from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'eight' as what is so in every respect, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'boards' as good that lends support, dealt with in 9634; and from the meaning of 'bases [made] from silver' as support provided through truth from good, dealt with in 9643.

[2] 'Eight' means in every respect because this number has the same meaning as two and four, being the product of these when multiplied together. 'Two' and 'four' mean being joined together, completely so, 5194, 8423, 8877, and consequently also mean what is complete, 9103, and therefore what is so in every respect; for what exists in completeness does so in every respect. Another reason why 'eight' means what exists in completeness and in every respect is that since 'a week' means a whole period from beginning to end, 2044, 3845, 'the eighth day' means a complete state, from which a new beginning then commences. This explains why males had to be circumcised on the eighth day, Genesis 17:12; 21:4, for circumcision was a sign of purification from foul kinds of love by means of the truth of faith, 2039, 2046 (end), 2799, 3412, 3413, 4462. The foreskin corresponded to the defilement of good by those kinds of love, 4462, 7045, 7225, and the knife of flint with which circumcision was carried out was a sign of the truth of faith by means of which purification was accomplished, 2039 (end), 2046 (end), 2799, 7044.

[3] What exists in completeness and in every respect is also meant by 'eight' following 'seven' in Micah,

When Asshur comes into our land and treads our palaces we will set up over him seven shepherds and eight princes of men (homo), and they will feed 1 the land of Asshur with the sword; and he will deliver [us] from Asshur. Micah 5:5-6.

'Asshur' stands for reasoning on the basis of one's own intelligence about the Church's forms of good and its truths. Deliverance totally or in every respect from consequent falsity is meant by 'eight princes of men' who will bring destruction, 'princes of men' being the leading truths that rise out of good.

[4] The fact that 'eight' means completeness and in every respect is also clear from an experience I had involving the admission and reception of some communities into heaven, about which see 2130. I saw as many as twelve communities received first, and after them as many as eight more; for people admitted and received into heaven are those who have been purified from earthly things, that is, from all love of them, and have gone on to receive instruction. The number eight on that occasion was a sign of that which was complete.

[5] 'Eight' has a similar meaning elsewhere in the Word, for example where it says that the portico of the gateway was 'eight cubits' long from the house, and that there were 'eight steps' up to the house, in Ezekiel 40:9, 31, 41. The description there is of the new house, by which the Lord's New Church is meant, truths leading to good and from good back to truths being meant by 'the portico' and 'the steps'.

[6] Anyone who does not know that spiritual realities or real things are implied by the numbers used in the Word cannot possibly see any such reality nor thus anything holy in the measures and numbers where the tabernacle, Solomon's temple, and after these the new house, new temple, and new land in Ezekiel, are described, when yet not a syllable in the Word is devoid of spiritual meaning. Let all who have intelligence weigh up in their mind what the measures and numbers in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel really mean, also the measures and numbers in John, at Revelation 21:17, where it says that the angel measured the wall of the new Jerusalem, a hundred and forty-four cubits, and that this measure was that of a man (homo), that is, of an angel, and also in the following, besides many other places,

Let him who has intelligence reckon the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man (homo), that is, its number is six hundred and sixty-six. Revelation 13:18.

For more about all numbers in the Word, that they mean spiritual realities or real things, see 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 5291, 5335, 5708, 6175, 7973, and places where the specific meaning of certain numbers has been shown.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. i.e. destroy

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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

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Ezekiel 48

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1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].

2 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].

3 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].

4 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].

5 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].

6 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one [portion].

7 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion].

8 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.

9 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.

10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst.

11 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.

13 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.

15 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.

16 These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

17 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

20 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.

21 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.

22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.

23 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].

24 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion].

25 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].

26 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].

27 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].

28 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.

29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.

30 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;

31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

32 At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

33 At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

35 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.