In Genesis 43:23, Exodus 1:11, this signifies truth and good given by the Lord without the individual's knowledge. (Arcana Coelestia 5664)

This also signifies doctrines from falsified truths in the natural man. (Arcana Coelestia 6661)

In Exodus 19:5 and Psalm 135:4, this signifies that divine truth should be with them more than with other people. (Arcana Coelestia 8768)

In Isaiah 30:6, this signifies knowledges in the natural man. (Arcana Coelestia 3048[3])

In Isaiah 10:13, this signifies the truths of intelligence destroyed. (Arcana Coelestia 10227[4])

'Treasure,' as in Matthew 13:44, signifies divine truth in the Word.

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583. And it was given authority to do so for forty-two months. This symbolizes the scope to teach and practice the evils and falsities accompanying that doctrine even to the end of that church, until the beginning of a new one.

Being given authority to do so symbolizes the ability to speak great and blasphemous things, namely, to teach and practice evils and falsities, as indicated just above in no. 582. Forty-two months mean, symbolically, to the end of the previous church, until the beginning of a new one, as said in no. 489 above, having the same symbolic meaning as three and a half days (no. 505), as time, times and half a time (no. 562), and as one thousand, two hundred and sixty days (no. 491). For forty-two months constitute three and a half years.