Seven, as in Revelation 15:1, signifies everything in an universal sense. The number 'seven' was considered holy, as is well known, because of the six days of creation, and the seventh, which is the celestial self, where peace, rest, and the Sabbath is. The number seven occurs so frequently in the rites of the Jewish church and is held holy everywhere.

So times were divided into seven, longer and shorter intervals, and were called weeks, like the great intervals of times till the coming of the Messiah, in Daniel 9:24-25. The time of seven years is called 'a week' by Laban and Jacob, as in Genesis 29:27-28. So wherever the number seven occurs, it is considered holy and sacred, as in Psalm 119:164, and in Isaiah 30:26.

As the periods of a person's regeneration are distinguished into six, prior to the seventh, or the celestial self, so the times of vastation are also distinguished, until nothing celestial is left. This was represented by the many captivities of the Jews, and by the last Babylonian captivity, which lasted seven decades, or seventy years. This was also represented by Nebuchadnezzar, in Daniel 4:16, 22, 29. It also refers to the vastation of the end times, in Revelation 15:1, 7-8. They should 'tread the holy city under foot, forty and two months, or six times seven,' as in Revelation 11:2 and Revelation 5:1. So the severity and increments of punishment were expressed by the number seven, as in Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28 and Psalm 79:12.

(რეკომენდაციები: Apocalypse Explained 5, 7-8, 15; Arcana Coelestia 395; Daniel 9, 9:24, 9:25; Psalms 119)

260. Insuper sciendum est, quod Sensus literae sit custodia pro genuinis veris, quae intus latent, ne laedantur; et in eo est custodia, quod ille Sensus possit huc illuc verti, et explicari secundum captum, et tamen Internum ejus non laedi et violari; non enim nocet, quod Sensus literae aliter ab uno quam ab altero intelligatur, sed id nocet, si homo falsa infert, quae contra Divina vera sunt, quod unice fit ab illis, qui se in falsis confirmaverunt; per hoc infertur Verbo violentia: ne hoc fiat, custodit Sensus literae, et custodit apud illos, qui in falsis sunt ex Religione, et falsa ejus non confirmant. Sensus literae Verbi ut Custodia, significatur per Cherubos in Verbo, et quoque per illos describitur ibi. Haec Custodia significatur per Cherubos, qui, postquam Adamus cum Uxore ejectus est ex Horto Edenis, ad introitum ejus positi sunt, de quibus haec leguntur, Cum Jehovah Deus expulerat hominem, habitare fecit ab Oriente horti Edenis CHERUBOS, et flammam gladii hinc inde vertentis se, ad custodiendum viam Arboris vitae, Genesis 3:23-24.

[2] Quid haec significant nemo videre potest, nisi sciat, quid per Cherubos significatur, et quid per Hortum Edenis, et per Arborem vitae ibi, et dein quid per Flammam gladii hinc inde vertentis se; haec singula in ARCANIS COELESTIBUS Londini editis ad hoc caput explicata sunt; videlicet, quod per Cherubos significetur Custodia; per viam Arboris vitae significatur introitus ad Dominum, qui hominibus est per Vera Sensus Spiritualis Verbi; per flammam gladii vertentis se, significatur Divinum Verum in ultimis, quod est sicut Verbum in Sensu literae, qui ita verti potest. Simile intelligitur per CHERUBOS EX AURO POSITOS super duabus extremitatibus Propitiatorii, quod erat super Arca, in Tabernaculo, Exodus 25:18-21; per Arcam significabatur Verbum, quia Decalogus in illa erat primitivum ejus; per Cherubos ibi significabatur custodia, quare Dominus cum Mose inter illos loquutus est, Exodus 25:22; 37:9; ¹ Numeri 7:89. Et loquutus est in Sensu naturali, nam cum homine non loquitur nisi in pleno, et in Sensu literae est Divinum Verum in suo pleno, videatur supra, ² 214-224. Nec aliud significatum est per CHERUBOS super Aulaeis Tabernaculi, et super Velo, Exodus 26:1, 31; ³ nam Aulaea et Vela Tabernaculi significabant ultima Coeli et Ecclesiae, ita quoque Verbi, videatur supra, 220. Similiter per CHERUBOS sculptos super parietibus et super foribus Templi Hierosolymitani, 1 Regnum 6:29, 32, 35, videatur supra, 221; ⁴ pariter per ⁵ CHERUBOS in Novo Templo, Ezechiel 41:18-20.

[3] Quoniam per Cherubos significabatur Custodia ne Dominus, Coelum, et Divinum Verum, quale est intus in Verbo, immediate adeantur, sed mediate per ultima, ideo de Rege Tyri ita dicitur, Tu obsignans demensum, plenus sapientia et perfectus pulchritudine, in Eden Horto fuisti; omnis lapis pretiosus tegumentum tuum; tu CHERUBE expansio contegentis: perdidi te, CHERUBE CONTEGENS, in medio ⁶ lapidum ignis, Ezechiel 28:12-14, 16, per Tyrum significatur Ecclesia quoad cognitiones veri et boni, et inde per ⁷ Regem Tyri Verbum ubi et unde cognitiones illae sunt; quod Verbum hic in suo ultimo per illum, et per Cherubum Custodia significetur, patet, nam dicitur, tu obsignans demensum, omnis lapis pretiosus tegumentum tuum, ⁸ tu Cherube expansio contegentis, ut et Cherube contegens; quod per Lapides pretiosos, qui etiam ibi nominantur, intelligantur illa quae Sensus literae sunt, videatur supra 217-218. Quoniam per Cherubos significatur Verbum in ultimis, et quoque Custodia, ideo dicitur apud Davidem, Jehovah inclinavit Coelos, et descendit, et equitavit super ⁹ Cherubo, Psalmus 18:10-11. ¹⁰ Pastor Israelis, qui sedet super Cherubis, effulge, Psalmus 80:2. ¹¹ Jehovah insidens Cherubis, Psalmus 99:1, equitare super Cherubis, sedere super illis, [et insidere illis,] ¹² est super sensu ultimo Verbi. Divinum Verum in Verbo, et ejus quale, describitur per quatuor Animalia, quae etiam vocantur Cherubi, apud Ezechielem 1; 9; 10. ¹³ et quoque per quatuor Animalia in medio Throni, et juxta Thronum, Apocalypsis 4:6, seq. Videatur APOCALYPSIS REVELATA a me Amstelodami edita, 239, 275, 314.

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