3136. 'And behold, he was standing with the camels' means presence in general facts. This is clear from the meaning of 'standing with' as being present, and from the meaning of 'the camels' as general facts, dealt with in 3048, 3071.

'Time, and times, and half a time,' as in Revelation 12:14, signifies to the end and a new beginning, thus until it grows from a few people to many more, till it reaches its appointed state. 'A time, and times, and half a time,' has the same meaning as 'a thousand two hundred and sixty days' in Revelation 12:6, as 'three days and a half' in Revelation 11:9-10, 'the three years and six months of famine' in Luke 4:25, and 'a stated time' or 'stated times and a half, when they will make a consummation of dispersing the hands of the people of holiness,' in Daniel 12:7.

(Referências: Apocalypse Revealed 562; Daniel 12; Luke 4)