GOD CALLING OUT OF THE TABERNACLE
[p. 95] GOD CALLING OUT OF THE TABERNACLE
Exodus 25:8,9; Leviticus 1:1,2
JT I thought we might look briefly at the tabernacle as presented in Exodus and Leviticus this morning, and in Numbers this afternoon, so that we may see something of the largeness and elevation morally of that in which God dwells, and how it is inclusive of the universe; and then that as dwelling in it, He calls out of it. In Leviticus, it is not only that He spoke out of it, but He calls — the latter thought underlies the assembly. He forms those who are called, not only out of the world, but in relation to that in which God is. Not only did the people need to be delivered out of Egypt, but they needed to be delivered out of the smallness of human thoughts, however extended — deliverance out of mere national or local feeling, into the greatness of the realm in which God has placed Himself and in which He lives. It is only as we hold ourselves locally in relation to the whole divine system that we see things aright. So it occurred to me the Lord might help us in the consideration of the subject, in a brief way, great as it is; that, delivering us out of the world, He would also deliver us out of the smallness of our own thoughts. Thus we are on a higher plane in chapter 25 of Exodus than we are earlier. Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the elders of Israel were taken up, and they saw the God of Israel and what was under His feet. Thus we get an elevated view, and then that in which God would dwell and is to be known. Whatever may be the responsibilities locally, our thoughts are never to be less than that which is presented in relation to God.
Rem That would lead to enlargement of thought on assembly [p. 96] lines.
JT That is what I had in mind; divine thoughts all centre round Christ and the assembly — not the assembly presented locally, but in its universal bearing.
Rem Your thought is that the more we take in the universal bearing, the more we shall be governed in our local setting.
JT Place the universal thing first. We have to consider for all in any local exercise.
Ques Would Colossians bear on it — to be filled with the knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding?
JT Yes; the full knowledge of His will; and so Ephesians emphasises the will — the good pleasure of His will, the mystery of His will, and the counsel of His will; the will of God is stamped on all. And then follows that which is, as it were, fixed in the way of unity. In Ephesians 4 the apostle, a prisoner of the Lord — or in the Lord, as it is — enjoins that the saints with all lowliness, and meekness, and long-suffering, should bear with one another in love, endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit. “[There is] one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all”; Ephesians 4:4 that is to say, there is a universal system of things marked by unity. The unity of the Spirit pervading it has to be kept in all lowliness and meekness, forbearing one another in love. It is thus that these general epistles teach us to move on in the testimony in practical unity in relation to the whole.
Ques Have you any thought as to Moses getting the pattern on the mount?
JT It is to suggest moral elevation. You get an extended view; not only have you specifications, but you have what is seen on the mount. The disciples on the mount of Transfiguration were taken [p. 97] up to see; they had heard much, and seen much, below, but there was that which was to be seen on high.
Naturally our thoughts are very near the earth, and always tending to be local. Undue local feeling is selfish feeling, whereas the extended view from the elevation enables us to see with God, and that in which He dwells.
HH It is in the local position that we are tested as to how far we are working these things out with our brethren.
JT Quite. That comes out in Numbers, where there is not only speaking out of the tabernacle, but speaking in the wilderness, where we are set up tribally and family-wise in relation to all this, each having his own appointed place in connection with his family and his tribe. But Exodus is the extended view, so that we may see where God is, that in which He is, and that in which He displays Himself.
CCE Your horizon is rather limited on the plain, and therefore the mountain gives the idea of an extended horizon.
AH The tabernacle was said to be a representation of things in the heavens. Would that correspond with the mountain?
JT Quite. It is not only that it is that, but it is seen on the mount, it is seen from the elevated position. First, the God of Israel is seen, and what is under His feet, and they ate and drank there. God would impress us not only with what He can be to us in delivering us and instructing us severally, but with what He can be to us on high, how He would make us feel at home there. But then afterwards Moses and his attendant Joshua go up alone in order that Moses should get a view of that in which God would be displayed, and in which He would dwell.
[p. 98] ASL Did Moses see on high the entire system as in the thought of God and then come down and put up a miniature of it in the wilderness? It is a remarkable expression; it says, “the figurative representations of the things in the heavens” Hebrews 9:23 I thought that would convey that he saw the whole thing in all the extent of it with God, and then was instructed to go down and make according to the pattern thereof.
JT That seems to be it. No one but Moses could set up the thing; for he saw it. We have only the specifications. After it was set up, of course the others saw it. Patterns or models of it now can at best only be founded on specifications.
ASL And they are only patterns or figures of the things in the heavens; Moses saw the thing in all its extent.
JT He not only got the specifications, but he saw the pattern, its oneness — it is in the singular.
ASL So in Hebrews the heavenly things themselves must be purified by better sacrifices. He saw what represented the heavenly things themselves.
CCE Do you think he saw the divine idea embodied in one whole?
JT I thought so; the divine idea presented as one whole.
Ques Does Ephesians give the elevated view?
JT Yes; only there it is more a domain. The tabernacle is a structure. The tabernacle is really more the end of chapter 2.
HH Do you think of the holy mount in regard to the elevated position?
JT It is a great feature of the gospels. Luke says there were those who were “eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word” Luke 1:2 That is a question of what is spoken, but the mount of Transfiguration refers to what was seen. “There are some of those standing here who shall not taste death until [p. 99] they shall have seen the kingdom of God” Luke 9:27 or, as in another gospel, “the kingdom of God come in power” Mark 9:1 Whatever view it may be, it was what they saw, and that was intended to impress them. Those three disciples, therefore — Peter, James and John — had a unique place, as Moses had. There would be not only what they heard, but what they saw.
HH It is an abiding system, would you say, and we need to be elevated in our hearts and minds in order to take it in?
JT I thought that; and we need to have the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of God to take the thing in, otherwise, although holding together by a sort of mutual agreement, we shall be simply so many churches and so many parishes in practical independency.
Ques Does the universal idea govern the local?
JT The universal is the thing presented. Exodus, therefore, is on a higher plane. We are dealing with something seen on the mount, of which the pattern is presented, and then specifications are given. One man, at least, with Joshua, had the thing as seeing it, and that would necessarily govern him in all his ministry. Whatever anyone might say to Moses about the specifications of the tabernacle, he would always revert inwardly to what he saw; and in all that he had to say to the people he would convey to them that there was something that he saw, that is to say, there is something more than can be conveyed in words. Christianity is not in word only.
Ques It is seeing, is it not?
JT Yes. There is the impression made on the mind by what is seen. Entering the holiest we apprehend God as in Christ, and Christ as He is before God.
Ques Does the apostle emphasise that in Corinthians “Last of all ... he appeared to me also”? 1 Corinthians [p. 100] 15:8 Quite. There you come to a very important thing, because the Lord is presented there as risen and seen by those who were prominent in the testimony — a very different thing from seeing Him here in the flesh. He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve, after that seen of five hundred brethren, then of James, then of all the apostles, and last of all seen of Paul. The Lord intended that there should be something known in those in the way of impression by what they saw — something that would give colour and character to their ministry.
Ques Have we not often to change our attitude in order to see? It says in Revelation 1:12, “And having turned, I saw”.
JT That refers to change of dispensation, I think; John had been occupied with what was in keeping with the present dispensation; he was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, we read.
Rem In the first epistle of John it says, “We have seen with our eyes; that which we contemplated” 1 John 1:1.
JT That bears on what we are saying. There was what was seen as well as what was heard, so he couples the two, “That which we have seen and heard we report to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us” 1 John 1:3 It shows how Christianity is infinitely above the mind of man, for however much acquainted man may be with doctrine he could never have the impression of what was seen.
Ques Does the extended view begin with the contemplation of the Person?
JT Well, I think so. “We have contemplated his glory” John 1:14 it says in John’s gospel. There is no doubt there is something akin to the elevation in the mount of Transfiguration for all of us. If we are attentive to the Lord, He would give us the extended view. No ministry can give it to us, but ministry conveys some impression that sets you in movement [p. 101] towards it.
CCE Do you think ministry conveys the impression of one who has seen?
JT I think that is so. You are impressed by the fact that there is someone who has got something you have not, though you may follow all he says; but you would like to get it.
Ques Would Ephesians 1 fit in here: “being enlightened in the eyes of your heart”?
JT Yes; “so that ye should know” Ephesians 1:18 It is all to one end. And then the second prayer (chapter 3) comes in, that ye might be strengthened by the power of God in the inner man. God works in the inner. There may be much in the outer — clearness of doctrine — but it is the inner man finally that tells.
ASL Would seeing in this sense consist in the conscious knowledge of things? The sense that a brother has something you have not got would mean that he has got the thing in his soul.
JT Yes; so John’s epistle is to bring that about. “These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life”; 1 John 5:13 that is conscious knowledge.
Ques Whom would Moses represent as having this extended view?
JT I think he represents authoritative ministry in that particular view; ministry first comes to us in an authoritative way. You are impressed that there is something there beyond mere words.
ASL “I will come ...” Paul says, “and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power” 1 Corinthians 4:19,20. That is it, is it not?
JT Quite.
Rem The Lord Himself spoke with authority and not as the scribes.
JT That is right. In each case He spoke of what He knew. “We speak that which we know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen” John 3:[p. 102] 11.
Ques Would it be Christ as the apostle?
JT On that line.
Ques Do you suggest that it is open to us to go up to the mountain characteristically?
JT I think so in a way, but of course the apostles had a special place. “That which we have seen and heard we report to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ” 1 John 1:3. That, I think, indicates the peculiar place the apostles had as seeing things. Christianity has come in, therefore, in an authoritative way in vessels who had not only heard but had seen. Hebrews says, “and has been confirmed to us by those who have heard” Hebrews 2:3 But there is more than that. Hebrews does not emphasise apostolic authority in the apostles, because Christ Himself is there as the Apostle, but in the apostolic epistles we have authority in persons who both heard and saw.
FW Would it have reference to the foundation work — what was initially conveyed to the church?
JT Christianity was brought in in that way.
FW There seems to be a distinction between Moses at the end of chapter 24 and the verses we started with today: “And they shall make me” Do we come in more distinctly there?
JT The people are brought into it when it says, “And they shall make me a sanctuary” but all the responsibility as to the pattern was on Moses.
Ques So we go back to the apostle Paul for the pattern?
JT Yes. In 1 Corinthians 3:10 Paul says, “as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation, but another builds upon it. But let each see how he builds upon it”
Rem So the apostle’s ministry takes us there.
JT [p. 103] In Ephesians the foundation is of the apostles and prophets, but in Corinthians Paul speaks of something he had laid.
FW Is there not a moral thought for us that we should appreciate what God in His sovereignty has given us in the way of light now, even as in the early days they were governed by the apostles, and as the Israelites were governed by the light Moses had?
JT It is a question now as to what the Spirit says to the churches. That may be very little or it may be much. Certain conditions necessarily interfere with or modify what the Spirit says — the state of the instrument, for instance; but whatever the Spirit is saying is to be attended to. The bearing of what He says will always be in regard to the foundations, in regard to what there was at the beginning. There may be much that is corrective in it, and no doubt ministry now is in the main corrective, for the state of things is so weak that there is not much scope for opening up the mind of God — the things of God — but nevertheless if the Spirit is speaking, He is to be heard; what the Spirit says is the point to pay attention to.
AH Do you think the Spirit comes in with Bezaleel? It says he was filled with the Spirit, and he shows the people what to do.
JT That is good. He represents that which is employed universally in the structure, and everyone is brought into that.
Ques In the verses read it is not only the seeing, but the being shown; it says, “I will shew thee” Does that involve God’s sovereignty?
JT Yes, quite; it was the showing of the thing then because it was still future, but all has come out now, and there is nothing to be added; it is the filling in; the foundation is laid. In Zechariah 4 the thought is that the one who lays the foundation finishes the building; according to the ministry of [p. 104] the Spirit in a day of small things, in the days of Zechariah and Haggai the beginning and end are brought together. It is all a question of what Christ is doing, but each one may have his part in it.
Ques How would you say the injunction to build a tabernacle would come to us; is it passed on to ourselves?
JT In the way of providing material, I think. What has been called attention to is, “they shall make me a sanctuary” and that brings us all into it.
Ques Is that the Spirit’s work?
JT It is the Spirit’s work through each of us; hence the importance of being enlightened to see the divine scheme, so that we are working with God, not working merely locally, that what we are doing locally has a bearing on the whole. It is said of Jonathan that he wrought with God; 1 Samuel 14:45.
Ques Does not God in this way secure His own glory?
JT Yes; He brings us all into it, and hence the importance of getting the thought of God — seeing what His mind is in the way of pattern, and specification. Exodus makes a great point not only of what was shown to Moses, but also of what was actually made; “and he made” “and he made”; every item is given in review, not only as shown, but as made. Things are to be constructed and finished.
Ques Would gold, silver and precious stones be the Spirit’s work in contrast to wood, hay and stubble?
JT Yes; that which stands the fire.
Ques Do you suggest that every saint should be engaged in this work?
JT Certainly; “They shall make me a sanctuary”; the word ‘sanctuary’ mentioned before dwelling reminding us that we are to be holily [p. 105] engaged; we are not to bring our natural minds into it. The holiness of the sanctuary is one of the great features to be emphasised.
Rem So that we provide conditions for the divine presence: “that I may dwell among them”
JT That is right — holiness. Peter says, “Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy ... pass your time of sojourn in fear” 1 Peter 1:16,17 Our natural minds are not to be brought into the thing. “The stranger that cometh near shall be put to death” Numbers 1:51 refers to the natural mind.
Rem We are each given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ; Ephesians 4:7.
JT The supply is all given, and given bountifully.
Rem Right construction and right building must be the outcome of right seeing. How do we come into the seeing?
JT It is by the acquirement of the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. The Lord opens the understanding. “Think of what I say” Paul says, “for the Lord will give thee understanding in all things” 2 Timothy 2:7. That means the whole thing — nothing left out; there is nothing you may not get understanding about; hence the great importance of turning to the Lord in matters. He will never leave us in the fog or puzzled. Every part of the divine system will be opened up to us to understand; He will give us understanding in all things.
Rem We have to consider the light that Paul brought in.
JT Paul is the architect; he is the only one that uses that word: “As a wise architect, I have laid the foundation” he says (1 Corinthians 3:10); that would be in relation to the whole structure; for the architect does not simply have the foundation in mind, he has in view the entire building. Timothy fully followed it up, so that the apostle could entrust him with it. “The things thou hast heard of me in [p. 106] the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men” 2 Timothy 2:2. I suppose Paul would not have passed over the elder brethren at that time if they had been available, but he took up a young man because evidently Timothy had followed the thing up and was trustworthy; he was an available vessel. There was not only light with Timothy, but affection; he cared “with genuine feeling” how the saints got on. And then, he also paid strict attention to what Paul said. If you have what Paul said and love in your heart for all the saints, you are fit to be a builder.
Ques Do we see in Luke 24 how the Lord works in bringing the two back to the centre? Is that an illustration of how He works now with us?
JT Yes; that is true. The Lord brings them back to the centre, and then shows Himself to them, and opens their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures. The understanding of the Scriptures, according to the Lord’s subdivision of them there, is of great importance to the builder.
HH Paul knew all about the heavenly system, did he not — he had been in the third heaven?
JT His ministry for fourteen years had all been influenced, no doubt, by that view, although he had said nothing about it, and he would not have told them, but that necessity called for it; but no one who heard him could fail to be impressed, I am sure, with the sense that there was a man who had seen something. He had kept it a secret for these fourteen years, but the fact that he had not told anyone does not mean that it had not impressed them. Then we see the way the Lord takes to keep us, as having such light — His disciplinary measures. The apostle having received the impression, and seen the things, when he came back to earth there was given to him a thorn in the flesh to buffet him that he might not be exalted above measure; as he got the impression, so [p. 107] he got the thorn in the flesh; the thorn was a ballast to his ministry; it was in that way balanced, so that he was not exalted above measure. It seems to me that the Lord’s disciplinary measures balance us, so that we might be here, forbearing one another in love, endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit. That is what God has before Him. If we have the light He would balance us.
HH So that suffering would come in in some way to make us correspond to the light.
JT Yes; some limiting thing, so that the saints really get the thing with God. We may discredit the light unless we are lowly in the dissemination of it.
CCE Paul could only correct such a state as that at Corinth as having been where he had been.
JT I think that. He said, I cannot go there, I can only write to them, and of course my letter cannot convey what I could convey personally, but I shall send Timotheus, for he is my child in the faith; he is like me, so that they would have in their midst, accompanied by the letter, a reflection of Paul: “who shall put you in mind of my ways [as] they [are] in Christ” 1 Corinthians 4:17 That is the thing that confirms the truth.
Rem Timothy was a product of his ministry.
JT Yes, quite.
Ques Would what you say of the apostle Paul equally apply to the apostle John? He was shown the things, and he was to testify what he saw — the book of Revelation being the outcome of the things that he saw.
JT There in Revelation you have a seer. The thought of the seer is one who sees. In apostolic ministry it is not only seeing, there is also the hearing. There are things heard as well as seen, both eyes and ears are brought into play in the apostles.
Ques Would you give us a word about [p. 108] the materials?
JT I did not intend to speak of that, but the gold, silver, and brass, and all the different materials are most instructive; and each has its own meaning. The order is: gold, silver, copper, blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat’s hair, rams’ skins dyed red, badgers’ skins, acacia wood, oil for the light, and spices for the anointing and for the incense of fragrant drugs, onyx stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate. Each item has its own meaning as pointing to the richness, the variegated richness of the dwelling — all coming through and working out in the affections of the saints. God is so delighted with man brought into relationship with Him, that He would secure all the materials of the system in which He is to dwell through their intelligence and affections. It is very wonderful! God could bring about all these things Himself, but He does it through the saints.
FW They were apparently all found with the people; they did not come from heaven.
JT Not exactly, but they refer to the work of God in the saints.
FI Was the material given intelligently as the result of the elders being ennobled when they saw the God of Israel?
JT Yes; but I think it dates back to Egypt. God includes in the material every bit of His work, for He begins to work in us from the very outset; our repentance and our conversion are the fruit of His work, and that brings joy in heaven. Every bit of the work of God in us from Egypt onwards is taken up.
Ques Would it be a similar thought to Luke 8, where certain women “ministered to him of their substance”? Luke 8:3 Yes; that is in Luke 8, but in chapter 7 you have a woman who is a sinner who is a child of wisdom; and “wisdom is justified of all her children” Luke 7:35 the Lord says, and then brings her in and sets her forth as a model — “Seest thou this woman?” Luke 7:44 He says. There is something to look at — small, but a model of love; she is a child of wisdom, and the Lord filled her treasures. The Lord fills the treasures of all the children of wisdom; they are rich people, so that in the next chapter they minister to Him of their substance. I think that shows that what God surrounds Himself with is the fruit of His own work in His people. He loves man in the abstract, and now that Christ has come in He loves them in the concrete. Man is there in Him; there is One in whom He has found His delight, and He is bringing in an order of man in whom He finds delight, hence the value that He attaches to His own work coming out man-wise, as it were, in our intelligence and affections. He surrounds Himself with that. God dwells as to His own infinite essence in light unapproachable, and we cannot say anything as to that, but we know something about what has come out, and what He has brought about by His work as it comes out in us. We know about that and that is what the scripture is dealing with. Beyond that we do not know; there are things that we know nothing about, but we do know these things. The Holy Spirit is given to us, as John says, that ye might “know all things” 1 John 2:20.
Ques Do you see the heave-offering in that woman in Luke 7?
JT Yes; she loved much; that is a good deal to say. The Lord loves to have someone in every locality to whom He can direct attention in that way — “Seest thou this woman?” Luke 7:44 He says. It is as much as to say, There is my thought.
Ques Why does the gold come in first?
JT God is emphasising that things must be [p. 110] of
Him; although they come through the hearts of the saints, yet they are of God. The whole scene inwardly is marked by what is of God; it is all of Him.
Ques Would you connect the gold with the delight that is found in Christ?
JT Yes; it was in Him it came out; God has visited His people; Luke 7:16. John says, “Ye are of God, children” 1 John 4:4 The silver is the next thing — redemption; there can be nothing effected save by redemption. Copper would signify that everything is according to divine judgment; God has not left it to man; everything is according to His own judgment. All these things have their own meaning. Blue means that heaven takes the pre-eminence; heaven comes first with God.
Ques What difference do you make between purple and scarlet?
JT Purple is related to suffering; the whole thing is marked by suffering. It is a combination of the heavenly and the earthly colours — blue and scarlet. Then the earthly comes after that; scarlet is earthly glory. I suppose purple is a type of suffering and imperial glory; it is not only royal, but imperial. The Lord is King of kings; 1 Timothy 6:15.
FW You made a remark that the sanctuary came before the tabernacle. “They shall make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them” What had you in mind as to that?
JT The idea of holiness. The word for ‘tabernacle’ is ‘dwelling’. The dominant word in the whole section is that God would dwell, but He notifies that they were to make Him a sanctuary. The apostle has that before him in Corinthians — the temple of God is holy.
FW “Holiness becometh thy house” (Psalm 93:5); not only righteousness, but holiness.
JT That is the way it stands.
[p. 111] Ques Is your thought that the builder would have to bring material?
JT Yes; you are concerned about supplying material; and every one of these items should appear in every saint — every one of them. Then it goes on to the fine twined linen. This is not merely linen, but byssus, Egyptian cotton, the point being, I believe, the fineness of the yarn or texture. Things are to be very fine. The textile used was to be very fine, indicating delicacy of sensibility and feeling. There is nothing coarse, or rough, or uncouth in the house of God. There is to be delicacy of feeling. It was seen in perfection in the Lord — the fineness of His feelings and thoughts and affections. Then it goes on to the goat’s hair, which is the very opposite to that. When you have to do with sin it is not a question of fineness or delicacy of feeling, but of denunciation; there is to be no compromise with what is evil, but rigid separation, not minding whether you hurt people’s feelings or otherwise. Thus within it should be all delicacy and consideration and courtesy to each other — to brethren, and indeed to men too, but when it comes to sin or a question of unrighteousness there is to be nothing but the strongest denunciation of it, however much people’s feelings may be hurt.
Ques Is that the prophetic side of things?
JT It is much like that. John’s clothing was camel’s hair. The goat represents a separate type of man; he goes by himself, and is a man who is known of God. We have been referring to these details as regards material, but the general thought before us is the sanctuary and the dwelling. The book is most elaborate in the way it works out the completion of the thing, not only the completion of it in detail, but the setting up of the whole. Nothing is left to Moses’ imagination or ingenuity; all is of God.
ASL “See that thou make [them] according to their pattern which hath been shewn to thee in the mountain” Exodus 25:40 — this is repeated frequently.
JT It is.
Ques What were the utensils?
JT They were the things to be used in the service, especially what was in the holy place. Then God owns the work by coming in Himself to dwell, and then Leviticus is, He calls out of that. It is not simply that He speaks, but He calls, and that is what indicates the assembly. The call was out of the tabernacle.
Ques Do you mean that the call was out of Egypt to the tabernacle in the wilderness?
JT The tabernacle was set up in the wilderness, and the call is out of it. I think the call may be seen in Romans and Corinthians.
Ques Is it making choice?
JT It is rather God making Himself heard to those who are at a distance. In Corinthians we are said to be “called saints”; so that we do not come by choice. It is a question of God’s call. It is a great thing to see that God calls; He calls out of this wonderful system.
AJG Does Paul bring that to bear upon the Corinthians when he says, “Consider your calling” 1 Corinthians 1:26?
JT Yes. There is what they were called from; they were called from among the poor, from among the little-esteemed, the despised in this world, but they were saints by God’s calling.
Rem We are said to be called to the fellowship of God’s Son.
JT We are called to that.
Ques In reference to our calling, is it to show us the greatness of our conversion?
JT [p. 113] It is not that so much; the point is where God is when He is calling, and what He is calling us to.
Rem We are called to that system.
JT Yes.