Monday, October 27, 2008

AC 9462 - the collection for the tabernacle

AC 9462.
And this is the collection which you shall take from them;
gold, and silver, and brass;
and blue, and crimson, and scarlet double-dyed,
and fine linen, and goats' wool;
and skins of red rams, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood;
oil for the luminary, spices for the oil of anointing,
and for the incense of spices; onyx stones,
and stones for filling, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

(Exodus 25:
3-7)

"And this is the collection which you shall take from them,"
signifies that these things shall by all means be required;
"gold and silver,"
signifies good and truth in general;
"and brass," signifies external good;
"and blue," signifies the celestial love of truth;
"and crimson," signifies the celestial love of good;
"and scarlet double-dyed," signifies mutual love;
"and fine linen,"
signifies the truth thence derived;
"and goats' wool,"
signifies the good thence derived;
"and skins of red rams, and badgers' skins,"
signifies the external truths and goods by which they are held together;
"and shittim wood,"
signifies the goods of merit which are from the Lord, thus of the Lord alone;
"oil for the luminary,"
signifies the internal good which is in mutual love and charity;
"spices for the oil of anointing,"
signifies the internal truths that belong to the inaugurating good;
"and for the incense of spices,"
signifies for acceptable perception;
"onyx stones, and stones for filling,"

signifies spiritual truths and goods in general;
"for the ephod, and for the breastplate,"
signifies which should be for a covering for external and internal celestial things.

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