第4节。但是，当属灵的真理和善被教会的人亵渎时，后果就是属灵的死亡；这发生在因缺乏真理而导致的善的蒙昧中，所以属灵的真理和善不能产生；然而，在自然层面上，教会仍然被自然的真理和善的事工所修正，这些真理和善是来自主通过天国的。

3252. 'A hundred and seventy-five years' means the things constituting that state. This becomes clear from the fact that every number used in the Word means some real thing, see 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, and so with this particular number which consequently means the things which constitute the state that is the subject here. As long as the mind confines itself to the historical sense it seems as though numbers, such as these ¹ which give Abraham's age, do not hold any interior meaning within them. The fact that they do nevertheless hold such meaning within them is evident from all that has been shown already concerning numbers, and becomes clear from the consideration that no number as to its numerical value contains anything holy, and yet the smallest detail of all in the Word is holy.

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