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내가 그 모든 강을 말리우고 그 땅을 악인의 손에 팔겠으며 타국 사람의 손으로 그 땅과 그 가운데 있는 모든 것을 황무케 하리라 나 여호와의 말이니라
10. The "fulness of time" also signifies consummation and desolation: the reason is that "time" signifies the state of the Church (see Revelation 10:6; and in Ezekiel). The same also is signified by "a time, times, and half a time" [see Revelation 12:14; Daniel 7:25; 12:7]. Times in the world are spring, summer, autumn; and the fulness of them is winter. Times as to light are morning, noon, evening; and the fulness of these is night, etc. , etc. This is meant by the Lord's coming being in "the fulness of time" or of "times;" that is, when there is no longer any truth of faith and good of charity remaining. (Concerning "the fulness of time," see Romans 11:12, 25; Galatians 4:4, and, especially, Ephesians 1:9, 10; Genesis 15:16).
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making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him