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Jona 3

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1 Und das Wort Jehovas geschah zum zweiten Male zu Jona also:

2 Mache dich auf, geh nach Ninive, der großen Stadt, und rufe ihr die Botschaft aus, die ich dir sagen werde.

3 Da machte sich Jona auf und ging nach Ninive, nach dem Worte Jehovas. Ninive war aber eine außerordentlich große Stadt von drei Tagereisen.

4 Und Jona begann in die Stadt hineinzugehen eine Tagereise weit, und er rief und sprach: Noch vierzig Tage, so ist Ninive umgekehrt!

5 Und die Leute von Ninive glaubten Gott; und sie riefen ein Fasten aus und kleideten sich in Sacktuch, von ihrem Größten bis zu ihrem Kleinsten.

6 Und das Wort gelangte an den König von Ninive; und er stand von seinem Throne auf und legte seinen Mantel ab, und hüllte sich in Sacktuch und setzte sich in die Asche.

7 Und er ließ in Ninive, auf Befehl des Königs und seiner Großen, ausrufen und sagen: Menschen und Vieh, Rinder und Kleinvieh sollen gar nichts kosten, sie sollen nicht weiden und kein Wasser trinken;

8 und Menschen und Vieh sollen mit Sacktuch bedeckt sein und sollen heftig zu Gott rufen; und sie sollen umkehren, ein jeder von seinem bösen Wege und von dem Unrecht, das in ihren Händen ist.

9 Wer weiß? Gott möchte sich wenden und es sich gereuen lassen, und umkehren von der Glut seines Zornes, daß wir nicht umkommen.

10 Und Gott sah ihre Werke, daß sie von ihrem bösen Wege umgekehrt waren; und Gott ließ sich des Übels gereuen, wovon er geredet hatte, daß er es ihnen tun wolle, und tat es nicht.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9437

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9437. 'And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights' means the instructions given and influx in their completeness. This is clear from the meaning of 'forty' as completeness. 'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means that which is complete, 9103, as similarly does 'ten', 3107, 4638, and forty is the product of four multiplied by ten. For compound numbers have a meaning similar to the simple numbers of which they are the product, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973; and all numbers in the Word mean spiritual realities, see 575, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175. All this goes to explain why Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights. The fact that 'forty' here means the instructions given and the influx in their completeness is evident from Chapters 25-32 which come next, recording the instructions Moses received, that is, instructions regarding the ark, Aaron, the urim and thummim, and sacrifices. The reason why influx in its completeness is also meant is that at that time Moses began to represent the outward holiness of the Word, which acted as the intermediary between the Lord and the people, and mediation is accomplished by means of influx through that holiness into the representative existing among that people, 9419.

[2] It was because 'forty' represented completeness that Moses remained on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights not only this time but also on another occasion, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:18, 25; 10:10. For the same reason the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness forty years until, as it says in Numbers 14:33-34; 32:13, all that generation had been consumed; Jonah told the Ninevites that their city would be overturned after forty days, Jonah 3:4; the prophet was commanded to lie on his right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, Ezekiel 4:6; it says regarding Egypt that it would be made completely desolate for forty years, after which they would be gathered from the peoples, Ezekiel 29:11-13; and the earth was rained on forty days and forty nights, so that it was inundated with the flood, Genesis 7:4, 12, 17. From all this it is evident why the wicked person was to receive forty blows, Deuteronomy 25:3, for 'forty blows' meant the punishment in its completeness. It is also evident what should be understood in the prophecy of Deborah and Barak when it says that no shield or spear was seen among the forty thousand of Israel, Judges 5:8, 'among the forty thousand of Israel' meaning among them all. It is in addition evident why the temple built by Solomon was forty cubits long, 1 Kings 6:17, as was the new temple, according to Ezekiel 41:2; for in the highest sense 'the temple' means the Lord, and in the internal sense heaven and the Church, so that 'forty' means completeness in respect of representation. And it has a like meaning in other places.

  
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