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)

9485. ‘Et faciant arcam’: quod significet intimum caelum, constat ex significatione ‘arcae’ quod sit intimum caelum, nam per ¹ testimonium seu legem in arca significatur Dominus, ex causa quia testimonium est Divinum Verum, et Divinum Verum est Dominus in caelo, videatur infra n. ² 9503; inde nunc ‘arca’ significat intimum caelum; quapropter illa erat sanctissimum, et a populo colebatur pro ³ Jehovah, credebatur enim quod ⁴ Jehovah ibi et inter cherubos habitaret, ⁵ ut constat apud Davidem,

Audivimus in Ephrata; intrabimus in habitaculum Ipsius, incurvabimus nos scabello pedum Ipsius; surge, Jehovah, ad requiem Tuam, Tu et arca fortitudinis ⁶ Tuae, Ps. 132:6-8;

agitur ibi de Domino; ‘Ephrata’ est Bethlechem ubi Dominus natus ⁷ , Mic. 5:1 [KJV 5:2]; Matth. 2:6;

‘habitaculum’ est caelum ubi Dominus; ‘Tu et arca fortitudinis Tuae’ est Dominus ac repraesentativum ⁸ Ipsius; quod arca sit repraesentativum ⁹ Domini, patet apud Jeremiam,

Reducam vos Zionem; in diebus illis non dicent amplius, Arca foederis, neque ¹⁰ ascendet super cor, nec mentionem facient ejus, neque desiderabunt, neque reparabitur amplius; in tempore illo vocabunt Hierosolymam thronum Jehovae, et congregabuntur ad eam omnes gentes ob nomen Jehovae Hierosolymam, 3:14, 16, 17; agitur ibi de nova Ecclesia; repraesentativum prioris Ecclesiae, quod tunc abolendum, intelligitur per arcam, quae non dicetur amplius, nec ascendet super cor, nec reparabitur; Hierosolyma, ad quam congregabuntur gentes, est nova illa Ecclesia; inde patet quod per ‘arcam’ significetur repraesentativum Domini ac Ipsius cultus in Ecclesia; simile ac per ‘juge’ et per ‘habitaculum sanctuarii’ apud Danielem 8:11.

[3] ¹¹ Quod arca pro Jehovah a populo Israelitico et Judaico coleretur, et quod crederetur quod ibi et inter cherubos habitaret, patet in libro 2 Samuelis, Ascendere fecit David arcam Dei, cujus vocatur nomen, nomen Jehovae Zebaoth insidentis cherubis super illa, 6:2:

et apud Moschen, Quando proficiscebatur arca, dixit Moscheh, Surge, Jehovah, dispergantur inimici Tui et fugiant osores Tui coram faciebus Tuis; quando quiescebat, ¹² dicebat, Redi, Jehovah, myriades milium Israelis, Num. 10:33-36.

¹³ Quod intimum caelum per arcam significaretur, ¹⁴ erat quia per totum tabernaculum seu tentorium ¹⁵ repraesentabatur universum caelum angelicum, ultimum ejus per atrium, medium ejus per habitaculum ubi sacerdos ministrabat, et intimum per ¹⁶ habitaculum intra velum, ubi arca in qua testimonium.

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