Apocalypse Revealed#860
860. Whose number is as the sand of the sea. This symbolizes the multitude of such people.
The multitude of such people is likened to the sand of the sea, because the sea symbolizes the external component of the church (nos. 402-404, 470), and the sand is something which serves no use in the sea except to compose the bottom.
Because the number of such people is so great, therefore the valley of their burial is called "The Multitude of Gog," and the name of the city where they are, "The Multitude" (Ezekiel 39:15-16).
Luke第19章:12-19
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He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
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He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
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But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
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"It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
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The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'
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"He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'
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"The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.'
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"So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
