9826. “杂色的内袍” 表直接从神性属天层发出, 从至内在存在于那里的神性真理. 这从 “内袍” 的含义清楚可知,

“内袍” 是指属世真理. 但当论述的主题是亚伦, 而亚伦的衣服代表主的属灵国度的真理 (参看9814, 9822节) 时,

“内袍” 表示从至内在存在于这国度中的神性真理, 因而表示从神性属天层, 就是主在至内层天堂的神性良善最近发出之物 (“内袍” 表示这类事物, 可参看4677节). 因为天堂有三层, 即: 被称为属天层的至内层, 被称为属灵层的中间层和接近属世之物的最低层. 在至内层天堂掌权的, 是对主之爱的良善, 在中间天堂掌权的, 是对邻之仁的良善, 在最低天堂掌权的, 是信之良善. 这些天堂彼此完全不同, 相互分离, 以致在这一层天堂的, 不可能过到另一层天堂去. 然而, 为使它们构成一个天堂, 它们通过居间的天使社群联结起来; 以这种方式一个天堂从另一个天堂发出. 因此, 由于亚伦的衣服代表属灵天堂, 因而代表在其适当次序中的该天堂的真理, 故显而易见, 被称为 “杂色内袍” 的最里面的衣服代表那里直接从神性属天层发出的至内在真理. 经上之所以说 “杂色”, 是因为它是一件织成的衣服, 这从出埃及记后面的经文明显看出来:

他们用织工为亚伦和他的儿子作细麻布的内袍.(出埃及记 39:27)

内袍由细麻布来做, 是为了可以代表来自一个属天源头的真理;

“细麻布” 表示这种真理 (参看9469节).

Seven, as in Revelation 15:1, signifies everything in an universal sense. The number 'seven' was considered holy, as is well known, because of the six days of creation, and the seventh, which is the celestial self, where peace, rest, and the Sabbath is. The number seven occurs so frequently in the rites of the Jewish church and is held holy everywhere.

So times were divided into seven, longer and shorter intervals, and were called weeks, like the great intervals of times till the coming of the Messiah, in Daniel 9:24-25. The time of seven years is called 'a week' by Laban and Jacob, as in Genesis 29:27-28. So wherever the number seven occurs, it is considered holy and sacred, as in Psalm 119:164, and in Isaiah 30:26.

As the periods of a person's regeneration are distinguished into six, prior to the seventh, or the celestial self, so the times of vastation are also distinguished, until nothing celestial is left. This was represented by the many captivities of the Jews, and by the last Babylonian captivity, which lasted seven decades, or seventy years. This was also represented by Nebuchadnezzar, in Daniel 4:16, 22, 29. It also refers to the vastation of the end times, in Revelation 15:1, 7-8. They should 'tread the holy city under foot, forty and two months, or six times seven,' as in Revelation 11:2 and Revelation 5:1. So the severity and increments of punishment were expressed by the number seven, as in Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28 and Psalm 79:12.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 5, 7-8, 15; Arcana Coelestia 395; Daniel 9, 9:24, 9:25; Psalms 119)