1355. 创世记 11:26. 他拉活到七十岁, 生了亚伯兰, 拿鹤, 哈兰.

“他拉活到七十岁” 表第九个, 也是最后一个状态的开始, “他拉” 和前面一样, 表偶像崇拜. “生了亚伯兰, 拿鹤, 哈兰” 表来自它的衍生物, 亚伯兰, 拿鹤, 哈兰都是真实的人物, 系偶像崇拜者的民族也以他们命名.

A company might have executives setting policy and strategy, engineers designing products, managers handling personnel and others handling various functions. They all do different things -- but if they're doing them with a shared underlying purpose, the company -- and the individuals in it -- will likely be successful. The Lord wants all human society to function in a similar way. We have different skills and individual loves, but if we all share a mutual love -- a love of serving others -- then society will function as one, will be a reflection of heaven and will be a good receptacle for the Lord's love. This can also happen within each of us, as we unify our talents and ideas around a central love. And in an abstract sense, it illustrates how a wide collection of varying ideas can be unified around a shared good intention. That is the kind of love pictured when “one” is used in the Bible, either as a specific number or in the sense of several people or objects “being one.” In more casual references -- when used to identify a specific person or object -- the meaning is relatively literal, and is connected to that person or object.