1956. Dat de woorden ‘Daarom noemde zij de fontein’ de staat van het ware daarvan betekenen, blijkt uit wat gezegd is en uit de betekenis van de fontein, namelijk het ware, waarover eerder in nr. 1927. Daar dit ware niet in het redelijke maar beneden het redelijke werd gezien, wordt de fontein in de oorspronkelijke taal uitgedrukt met een ander woord dan het hier boven is gehanteerd en gewoonlijk voor fontein gebruikelijke.

In most places in the Word, "ten" represents "all," or in some cases "many" or "much." The Ten Commandments represent all the guidance we get from the Lord in life; the ten horns on the beast of Revelation represent all power of falsity; the ten virgins with lamps in Matthew 25 represent all people of the church.

Yet in other places, ten, or especially a "tenth," signifies representing remnants, or tiny scraps of goodness preserved for the future. These can be the remnants of a church -- a few good people that can be built up into a new church. Or they can be tiny subconscious memories of love and joy which the Lord stores in each of us in early childhood, feelings He can use later to draw us toward a life of goodness and affection.

These two meanings seem nearly opposite, but they're actually not. Love is whole and indivisible, so that the tiniest feeling buried inside someone contains all the elements of the love it can become. In a similar way, a remnant of a church that has preserved that church's knowledge has everything it needs to grow into a new church. In a sense, then, those remnants are indeed "all," they're just a version of "all" that is still in a state of potential.