9539. 'The rings shall be close to the rail, as houses for the poles' means the power from this. This is clear from the meaning of 'the rail' which 'the rings shall be close to' as the joining in outermost parts to truth from the Divine, dealt with in 9534; from the meaning of 'the rings' as the receptacle of it, also dealt with above, in 9536; and from the meaning of 'the poles' as power, dealt with in 9496. The expression 'as houses' is used because the subject is celestial good and the power of its receptacle, that good being meant by 'the bread of faces' and its receptacle by 'the table' on which the loaves were laid. 'Houses' furthermore means that good in the outermost parts. For the meaning of 'house' as good, see 2233, 2234, 2559, 3652, 3720, 4982, 7848, 7929.