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The externals of the Ancient Church were all representative of the Lord, and of the celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom - that is, of love and charity and faith thence and consequently of such things as are of the Christian. Church.

Thus when the externals of the Ancient, and also of the Jewish Church, are unfolded, and as it were unwrapped, the Christian Church is disclosed.- SWEDENBORG, Heavenly Arcana, 4772.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an ring: of every man that giveth it willingly with his rt ye shall take my offering.

And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; d, and silver, and brass,

And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and ts' hair,

And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittimd,

Dil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet

nyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the stplate.

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell ng them:

ccording to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the rnacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, so shall ye make it. - EXODUS XXV. 1-9.

HE instruction given by the Lord to Moses I was not in its letter a revelation of Divine heavenly things; yet it was from the Lord