Apocalypse Explained # 921
921. Verse 20. And the wine-press was trodden without the city; and there went out blood from the wine-press even unto the bridles of the horses, for a thousand six hundred stadia. 1
20. "And the wine-press was trodden without the city," signifies the bringing forth of falsity from evil out of hell n. 922; "and there went out blood from the wine-press even to the bridles of the horses," signifies falsifications of the Word flowing forth from evil, even to dominion over the understanding n. 923; "for a thousand six hundred stadia," signifies evils in the whole complex (n. 924). 2
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. A stadium (plural stadia) is an ancient Greek measure of distance equal to about 607 feet. Thus 1600 stadia is about 180 miles or 300 kilometers.
2. MARGINAL NOTE. - See chap. 19., where the Lord as the Word is treated of.
Numbers 18:26-30
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"Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, 'When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.
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Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
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Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest.
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Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.'
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"Therefore you shall tell them, 'When you heave its best from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.
