636# “他们要说预言一千二百六十天”表示他们应教导人，应教导什么，甚至直到旧教会的结束和新教会的开始。这从“说预言”和“一千二百六十天”的含义清楚可知：“说预言”是指教导(参看AE 624节)；在此是指教导和被教导这两者，因为这话是指着“两个见证人”说的，“两个见证人”表示爱与仁之良善，以及教义与信仰的真理，与人同在的这些事物就是那教导和被教导的；因为那些处于爱之良善和教义真理的人教导人，他们所教导的，是爱之良善和教义真理。“一千二百六十天”是指甚至直到旧教会的结束和新教会的开始，“一千二百六十天”与“三个半”具有相同的含义，因为一千二百六十天就是三年半，三百六十天算作一年，“三个半”表示前一个状态的结束和一个新状态的开始，在此表示前教会的结束和新教会的开始；事实上，此处这是指教会的末期。由于这就是该数字的含义，所以这一节的第九节经文说，他们观看他们的尸首三天半，又不许把他们的尸首放在坟墓里；后来第十一节经文说，过了这三天半，有生命的灵从神那里进入他们里面。在这些经文中，“三天半”表示旧教会的结束，那时爱之良善或教义真理根本不被接受；也表示一个新教会的开始，那时它们将被接受。“那从无底坑或深渊里上来的兽要把这些见证人杀了”表示前教会的结束，“有生命的灵从神那里进入他们里面”表示新教会的开始。数字“一千二百六十”与“三个半”具有相同的含义，因为在圣言中，“时代”、“年”、“月”、“七或周”、“日”和“时”具有相同的含义，这些只意味着时间，总体和具体的时间，或大大小小的时间，同样表示状态，因为由数字所标明的时间或大或不会改变事物的含义，如前所示(AE 571, 633a节)。在启示录的下一章，这个天数具有相同的含义：
妇人就逃到旷野，在那里有神给她预备的地方，叫他们在那里养活她一千二百六十天。(启示录12:6)
此处“妇人”表示教会；“旷野”，就是她被养活的地方，表示不接受良善和真理的地方；“过了这些天”表示教会的一个新状态。
636. And they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days.- That this signifies that they shall teach, and what shall be taught, even until the end of the old church, and the beginning of a new, is evident from the signification of prophesying as denoting to teach. Concerning this see above (n. 624). In this case it signifies both to teach and to be taught, for it is said of the two witnesses, who signify the good of love and of charity and the truth of doctrine and of faith, for these are those things with man that teach, and that are also taught. For those who are in goods of love, and in truths of doctrine, are they who teach, while the goods of love and truths of doctrine are what are taught by them. And from the signification of a thousand two hundred and sixty days as denoting even to the end of the old and the beginning of a new church. For a thousand two hundred and sixty days have the same signification as three and a half, because a thousand two hundred and sixty days make three years and a half, reckoning three hundred and sixty days to the year, and by three and a half is signified the end of a former state and the beginning of a new one, here, the end of the former church and the beginning of a new one, the subject being the last time of the church. Because that number has this signification, it is therefore said, in the ninth verse of this chapter, "They shall see their bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer them to be put in sepulchres"; and afterwards in verse eleven; "And after the three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered into them." In these passages by three days and a half is signified the end of the old church, when the good of love and the truth of doctrine will not be received at all; and also the beginning of a new church when they will be received. The end of the former church is signified by the beast ascending out of the abyss to kill the witnesses, while the beginning of a new church is signified by the spirit of life from God entering into them.
[2] The reason why the number a thousand two hundred and sixty has a signification similar to three and a half, is, that in the Word ages, years, months, weeks, days, and hours have a similar signification, for these simply mean times, and times generally and particularly, or times greater or less, equally signify states, for a period greater or less designated by numbers does not change the signification of the thing, as was also shown above (n. 12:6).
The woman there means the church. The wilderness where she shall be nourished signifies where non-reception of good and truth exists; and the accomplishment of those days signifies a new state of the church.
636. And they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, signifies that they shall teach, and what shall be taught, even to the end of the old church and the beginning of the new. This is evident from the signification of "to prophesy," as being to teach (See above, n. Revelation 12:6).
The "woman" here means the church; the "wilderness," where she should be nourished, signifies where there is no reception of good and truth; and "after the passing of those days" signifies a new state of the church.
636. "Et prophetabunt diebus mille ducentis sexaginta." - Quod significet quod docebunt et quae docebuntur usque ad finem ecclesiae veteris et principium novae, constat ex significatione "prophetare", quod sit docere (de qua supra, n. 624); hic tam docere quam doceri; nam dicitur de "duobus testibus", per quos significantur bonum amoris et charitatis ac verum doctrinae et fidei, haec enim apud hominem sunt quae docent, et quae etiam docentur; nam qui in bonis amoris et in veris doctrinae sunt, illi docent; et quae ab illis docentur sunt bona amoris et vera doctrinae: et ex significatione "dierum mille ducentorum sexaginta", quod sit usque ad finem ecclesiae veteris ac principium ecclesiae novae, per "dies" enim "mille ducentos sexaginta" simile significatur quod per "tres et dimidium" quoniam dies mille ducenti sexaginta faciunt tres annos et dimidium dum annus sumitur pro trecentis sexaginta diebus; et per "tres et dimidium" significatur finis status prioris et principium novi; hic finis ecclesiae prioris et principium novae, nam hic agitur de ultimo tempore ecclesiae: et quia id per illum numerum significatur, ideo dicitur in hujus capitis versu 19,
"Videbunt.... corpora illorum dies tres et dimidium, et non permittent illa poni in monumentis;"
et dein in versu 11,
#"Et post tres dies et dimidium spiritus vitae a Deo intravit in illos;"
in quibus locis per "tres dies et dimidium" significatur finis veteris ecclesiae, quando prorsus non recepturi aliquod bonum amoris et verum doctrinae, et quoque principium novae ecclesiae, quando recepturi: finis prioris ecclesiae significatur per quod "bestia ex abysso ascendens occidet illos testes", et principium novae ecclesiae significatur per quod "spiritus vitae ex Deo intraverit in illos." Quod numerus "mille ducenta sexaginta" simile significet quod numerus "tria et dimidium", est quia in Verbo "saecula", "anni", "menses", "septimanae", "dies" et "horae", similia 1
significant; nam per illa intelliguntur modo tempora, et per tempora in communi et in particulari, seu per tempora majora aut minora aeque significantur status; nam tempus majus et minus designatum per numeros non mutat significationem rei (ut etiam supra, n. 571, 633 [a] , ostensum est). Simile per eundem numerum dierum significatur in sequente capite Apocalypseos,
"Et mulier fugit in desertum, ubi habet locum praeparatum a Deo, ut ibi alant eam dies mille ducentos sexaginta" (12:6):
per "mulierem" ibi intelligitur ecclesia, per "desertum" ubi aleretur, significatur non receptio boni et veri, et "post exactos illos dies" significatur novus ecclesiae status.
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