以西結書42章

     以西結書42:1-20    ,

以西結書42:1-20

42:1 他帶我出來向北，到外院，又帶我進入聖屋；這聖屋一排順著空地，一排與北邊鋪石地之屋相對。

42:2 這聖屋長一百肘，寬五十肘，有向北的門。

42:3 對著內院那二十肘寬之空地，又對著外院的鋪石地，在第三層樓上有樓廊對著樓廊。

42:4 在聖屋前有一條夾道，寬十肘，長一百肘。房門都向北。

42:5 聖屋因為樓廊佔去些地方，所以上層比中下兩層窄些。

42:6 聖屋有三層，卻無柱子，不像外院的屋子有柱子；所以上層比中下兩層更窄。

42:7 聖屋外，東邊有牆，靠著外院，長五十肘。

42:8 靠著外院的聖屋長五十肘。殿北面的聖屋長一百肘。

42:9 在聖屋以下，東頭有進入之處，就是從外院進入之處。

42:10 向南（原文是東）在內院牆裡有聖屋，一排與鋪石地之屋相對，一排順著空地。

42:11 這聖屋前的夾道與北邊聖屋的夾道長寬一樣；出入之處與北屋門的樣式相同。

42:12 正在牆前、夾道的東頭，有門可以進入，與向南聖屋的門一樣。

42:13 他對我說：「順著空地的南屋北屋，都是聖屋；親近耶和華的祭司當在那裡吃至聖的物，也當在那裡放至聖的物，就是素祭、贖罪祭，和贖愆祭，因此處為聖。

42:14 祭司進去出了聖所的時候，不可直到外院，但要在聖屋放下他們供職的衣服，因為是聖衣；要穿上別的衣服才可以到屬民的外院。」

42:15 他量完了內殿，就帶我出朝東的門，量院的四圍。

42:16 他用量度的竿量四圍，量東面五百肘（原文是竿；本章下同），

42:17 用竿量北面五百肘，

42:18 用竿量南面五百肘，

42:19 又轉到西面，用竿量五百肘。

42:20 他量四面，四圍有牆，長五百肘，寬五百肘，為要分別聖地與俗地。

Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north.  The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.  Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.  And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.  Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.  For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.  And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.  For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long.  Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

  In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers  with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors,  as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.

    Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the Lord shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for the place is holy.  When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”

  Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around.  He measured the east side with the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around.  He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around.  He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed.  Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed.  He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common.

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    在這裡讓我們看見聖殿裡的一切是聖的，連衣服也是。因為聖就是有分別的意思！祭司在聖殿裡要吃聖的食物：吃至聖的物，也當在那裡放至聖的物，就是素祭、贖罪祭，和贖愆祭，因此處為聖。祭司進去出了聖所的時候，不可直到外院，但要在聖屋放下他們供職的衣服，因為是聖衣；要穿上別的衣服才可以到屬民的外院。

    同樣，我們成為基督徒也要和別人有所分別，就是我們必須不可以效法這個世界，要心意更新而變化！正如別人可以用「街頭運動」來抗爭，為自己爭權利，或是反抗執政者。但是基督徒是代表上帝，就必須用上帝給我們的法則來處理這樣的情形。因為「因我們並不是與屬血氣的爭戰（原文是摔跤；下同），乃是與那些執政的、掌權的、管轄這幽暗世界的，以及天空屬靈氣的惡魔爭戰。」（以弗所書6:12）

    因此，我們必須用禱告，並倚靠基督的方式得力！我們是要與魔鬼征戰，從魔鬼手中將人拯救出來！而勝過魔鬼的，就是藉耶穌基督在十字架上的死，流出寶血！所以，我們不要去用世上的抗爭方式，因為世人是與看的見的相爭，我們是與內看不見的惡者相爭，是不同的！

以西結書41:5-26

41:5 他又量殿牆，厚六肘；圍著殿有旁屋，各寬四肘。

41:6 旁屋有三層，層疊而上，每層排列三十間。旁屋的梁木擱在殿牆坎上，免得插入殿牆。

41:7 這圍殿的旁屋越高越寬；因旁屋圍殿懸疊而上，所以越上越寬，從下一層，由中一層，到上一層。

41:8 我又見圍著殿有高月臺。旁屋的根基，高足一竿，就是六大肘。

41:9 旁屋的外牆厚五肘。旁屋之外還有餘地。

41:10 在旁屋與對面的房屋中間有空地，寬二十肘。

41:11 旁屋的門都向餘地：一門向北，一門向南。周圍的餘地寬五肘。

41:12 在西面空地之後有房子，寬七十肘，長九十肘，牆四圍厚五肘。

41:13 這樣，他量殿，長一百肘，又量空地和那房子並牆，共長一百肘。

41:14 殿的前面和兩旁的空地，寬一百肘。

41:15 他量空地後面的那房子，並兩旁的樓廊，共長一百肘。

41:16 內殿、院廊、門檻、嚴緊的窗櫺，並對著門檻的三層樓廊，從地到窗櫺（窗櫺都有蔽子），

41:17 直到門以上，就是到內殿和外殿內外四圍牆壁，都按尺寸用木板遮蔽。

41:18 牆上雕刻基路伯和棕樹。每二基路伯中間有一棵棕樹，每基路伯有二臉。

41:19 這邊有人臉向著棕樹，那邊有獅子臉向著棕樹，殿內周圍都是如此。

41:20 從地至門以上，都有基路伯和棕樹。殿牆就是這樣。

41:21 殿的門柱是方的。至聖所的前面，形狀和殿的形狀一樣。

41:22 壇是木頭做的，高三肘，長二肘。壇角和壇面，並四旁，都是木頭做的。他對我說：「這是耶和華面前的桌子。」

41:23 殿和至聖所的門各有兩扇。

41:24 每扇分兩扇，這兩扇是摺疊的。這邊門分兩扇，那邊門也分兩扇。

41:25 殿的門扇上雕刻基路伯和棕樹，與刻在牆上的一般。在外頭廊前有木檻。

41:26 廊這邊那邊都有嚴緊的窗櫺和棕樹；殿的旁屋和檻就是這樣。

Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.  And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.  And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story.  I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.  The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the  other chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.  And the doors of the side chambers opened on the free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around.

  The building that was facing the separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

  Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long;  also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits.

  Then he measured the length of the building facing the yard that was at the back and its galleries on either side, a hundred cubits.      

The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court,       the thresholds and the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered),  to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern.  It was carved of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces:  a human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around.  From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave.

  The doorposts of the nave were squared, and in front of the Holy Place was something resembling  an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.”  The nave and the Holy Place had each a double door.  The double doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door.  And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls. And there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside.  And there were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies.

 The Temple's Chambers

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     這裡讓我們看見聖殿內的描述，特別是看見祭壇是用木頭做的，特別用「這是耶和華面前的桌子」的稱呼來稱呼。

    說到祭壇就想到放祭物的地方，更是讓我們想見到基督的犧牲，也因為如此，我們才可以和上帝和好！

    願我們思念基督的犧牲並上帝的預備，就心中感謝！若不是這樣，人怎能享受上帝同在的永生呢！

以西結書41章

    以西結書41:1-4  , 以西結書41:5-26   ,

以西結書41:1-4

41:1 他帶我到殿那裡量牆柱：這面厚六肘，那面厚六肘，寬窄與會幕相同。

41:2 門口寬十肘。門兩旁，這邊五肘，那邊五肘。他量殿長四十肘，寬二十肘。

41:3 他到內殿量牆柱，各厚二肘。門口寬六肘，門兩旁各寬七肘。

41:4 他量內殿，長二十肘，寬二十肘。他對我說：「這是至聖所。」

1 Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs. On each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs. 2 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits. 3 Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven cubits. 4 And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place."

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    說到「至聖所」，這是聖殿中最神聖的地方，在那裏是上帝臨在之處，是上帝與大祭司單獨相會之處！然而新約時代，那阻隔人進入的幔子已經斷裂了，人可以坦然無懼來到施恩寶座前，向上帝傾心吐意了！上帝要與屬祂的人，有親密的相遇，你有享受過嗎？

    讓我們放下各樣的重擔，靠著耶穌基督的寶血，來奔向我們上帝的面前，來到至聖所與祂相遇，來瞻仰祂的榮光，相信你被祂慈愛的榮光照耀後，心中不再會感到不滿足了！一切都算不得甚麼了！這樣的同在就是天堂了！

    而上帝透過耶穌基督讓我們感受到祂是以馬內利的上帝，祂的同在，使我們心就陶醉就滿足，迫不得將這分喜樂分享出去，將榮耀歸給上帝！這是我[們敬拜上帝之後的喜樂與滿足！願你也感受到！更願您藉由信靠，持守這份感動！這事沒有人能奪去的，因為只有屬上帝的人可以享受！是上帝的作為，不是一時的熱度，是永恆的滿足！

以西結書40:44-49

40:44 在北門旁，內院裡有屋子，為歌唱的人而設。這屋子朝南（南：原文是東）；在南門旁，又有一間朝北。

40:45 他對我說：「這朝南的屋子是為看守殿宇的祭司；

40:46 那朝北的屋子是為看守祭壇的祭司。這些祭司是利未人中撒督的子孫，近前來事奉耶和華的。」

40:47 他又量內院，長一百肘，寬一百肘，是見方的。祭壇在殿前。

40:48 於是他帶我到殿前的廊子，量廊子的牆柱。這面厚五肘，那面厚五肘。門兩旁，這邊三肘，那邊三肘。

40:49 廊子長二十肘，寬十一肘。上廊子有臺階。靠近牆柱又有柱子，這邊一根，那邊一根。

44 On the outside of the inner gateway there were two chambers in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south gate facing north. 45 And he said to me, "This chamber that faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple, 46 and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who alone among the sons of Levi may come near to the Lord to minister to him." 47 And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits broad, a square. And the altar was in front of the temple.

48 Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the jambs of the vestibule, five cubits on either side. And the breadth of the gate was fourteen cubits, and the sidewalls of the gate were three cubits on either side. 49 The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits, and people would go up to it by ten steps. And there were pillars beside the jambs, one on either side.

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    而在內院裡重要的人物就是「看守殿宇的祭司」和「看守祭壇的祭司」，分別住在祭壇的南邊和北邊的房子。這些祭司都是撒督的子孫，近前來事奉耶和華的。表示這些人都是重要的祭司，是上帝所命定的！

    同樣，我們屬耶穌基督的人，也透過上帝的命定，成為這世代的祭司，是有君尊的祭司，因為屬基督的人，更是上帝的兒女，是上帝所寶貴、所鍾愛的重要祭司。

    也因為如此，我們既有上帝所賜的聖靈，也有上帝所頒布的聖經，更是要靠著主耶穌的恩典，讓聖靈將聖經的精義放在我們心中，專心在上帝面前建造祂的教會，使人看見基督的榮美！沒有比這事更是要緊！也因此，我們不要受到別人的愚弄，凡是透過禱告在基督裡尋求上帝的面，才能在外院將上帝的話語宣講出來！