Arcana Coelestia # 6798
6798. 'And it happened in [the course of] these many days' means after quite a number of changes of state. This is clear from the meaning of 'days' as states, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 4893, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, so that 'it happened in many days' means after quite a number of states or after quite a number of changes of state.
2 Kings 1:13-14
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Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, "Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.
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Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight."
