Apocalypsis Explicata # 574
574 "Et audivi numerum illorum." - Quod significet perceptum quale, constat ex significatione "audire", quod sit percipere (ut supra, n. 14, 529); et ex significatione "numeri", quod sit quale rei de qua agitur (de qua supra, n. 429); hic quale falsorum mali conspirantium contra vera boni, ex quibus et pro quibus ratiocinationes sensualis hominis, quae significantur per "numerum exercituum equitatus" (de quibus mox supra): at quale eorum ulterius describitur in versu nunc sequente, nempe per haec verba, "Et ita vidi equos in visione, et sedentes super illis habentes thoraces igneos et hyacinthinos et sulphureos, et capita equorum sicut capita leonum, et ex oribus illorum exivit ignis et fumus et sulphur"; in his continetur quale quod per "numerum" hic significatur. Videri potest sicut aliquid numeri intelligatur hic per "numerum"; sed in spirituali mundo non dantur numeri, quia ibi spatia et tempora non mensurantur et determinantur per numeros sicut in mundo naturali; quapropter per omnes numeros in Verbo significantur res, et per ipsum numerum significatur quale rei (videatur supra, n. 203, 336, 429, 430; et in opere De Caelo et Inferno 263).
Daniel 10:4-10
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In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,
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I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz:
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his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
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I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn't see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.
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So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
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Yet heard I the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.
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Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.
