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)

8535. ‘Et reposuit illud Aharon coram Testimonio ad custodiam’: quod significet quod in praesentia Divini, constat ex significatione ‘reponere ad custodiam’ quod sit ¹ in memoriale, ut supra n. 8526 fin. , 8533, et ex significatione ‘coram Testimonio’ quod sit in praesentia Divini; quod Testimonium sit Divinum, patet a praecedentibus, ² ubi dicitur a Moscheh ad Aharonem quod reponeret illud coram Jehovah, n. 8532, ita coram Divino; quod ‘Testimonium’ sit Divinum, est quia per Testimonium intelligitur in universali sensu Verbum, et quia Verbum est verum Divinum ³ , ita ⁴ Dominus; Qui quod sit Verbum, patet apud Johannem, In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum: et Verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis, 1:1, 14;

quod ‘Testimonium’ sit Dominus quoad Divinum Verum, constat ex arca in qua lex e Sinai lata, quae Testimonium vocatur; quod ex eo fuerit omnis sanctitas Tabernaculo, et quod Testimonium fuerit ipsum sanctum Divinum, patet ex eo quod supra illud esset propitiatorium cum cherubis, proxime extra velum ibi essent mensae aureae cum panibus, et cum lucernis, et quod sanctissimum cultus ibi ab Aharone ministraretur, tum quod Jehovah postea cum Moscheh loqueretur ibi supra propitiatorium inter duos cherubos, ita ex Testimonio, de quibus videatur Exod. 25:16, 21, 22, 40:20.

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