'A week' signifies state, and 'the seventh week,' a holy state.

(Verweise: Apocalypse Revealed 480; Arcana Coelestia 2044)

The ancients understood 'a week' to mean any period divided into seven, whether days, years, or ages, long or short.

(Verweise: Arcana Coelestia 3845)

480. So I went to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little book." (10:9) This symbolizes a disposition of the heart with many people in the church to accept the doctrine.

This is the symbolic meaning because John here shows how many people in the church receive the doctrine regarding the Lord, as said just above. A disposition of the heart in them to accept it is meant because of the inclination in John to take it, since he went and asked for it.

Inasmuch as this account involves such particulars, therefore John was first told to take the little book, after which he went and asked for it, and the angel then told him he would give it to him, but that the little book would make his stomach bitter; and lastly we are told that he was given it, and that the prediction came to pass. These particulars all have a symbolic meaning.