Strophe 1. Und der Herr belehrt die Wiedergeborenen durch das Wort und macht ihnen klar, dass sie unbedingt darauf achten müssen, die Gesetze der göttlichen Ordnung und die Beschlüsse der göttlichen Weisheit bei jedem Schritt des Lebens, den sie für richtig halten, zu befolgen, damit der göttliche Wille in das Gedächtnis eingeprägt wird, den Verstand durchdringt und im Leben verwirklicht wird.

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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