482、迄今为止，没有人知道出现在本章的“年”和“年数”在内义上表示什么。那些停留于字义的人以为它们无非是世俗的年数，但从此处直到第12章的内容无一是如字面上所呈现的那种历史；相反，每一个细节都包含不同性质的某种事物。适用于名字的，也适用于数字。在圣言中，数字3和7经常出现；无论在哪里出现，它们都表示在所提到的时间或其它东西所体现或代表的状态方面的某种神圣或不可侵犯的事物。这适用于最短的时间，如适用于最长的时间一样，因为正如部分构成整体，最短的或最小的，构成最长的或最大的。事实上，一种相似性必须存在，以便一个整体可以恰当地从部分中出来，或最大的从最小的中出来。
如以赛亚书：
现在耶和华宣告说，三年之内，照雇工的年数，摩押的荣耀必毫无价值。（以赛亚书16:14）
又：
于是主对我说，一年之内，照雇工的年数，基达的一切荣耀都必消没。（以赛亚书21:16）
此处既指最短的时间，也指最长的时间。哈巴谷书：
耶和华啊，我听见你的名声就惧怕。耶和华啊！求你在这些年中间复活你的作为，在这些年中间显明出来。（哈巴谷书3:2）
此处“这些年中间”表示主的降临。若时间间隔较短，它表示主的每一次降临，如当一个人正在重生时；若间隔较长，则表示主的教会正在重新兴起。在以赛亚书，它还被称为“救赎之年”：
报仇之日在我心中，我救赎之年已经来到。（以赛亚书63:4）
撒旦要被捆绑的“一千年”（启示录20:2-3，7）和头一次复活的“一千年”（启示录20:4-6）也绝非表示一千年，而是表示他们的状态。因为正如“日”用来表述状态，如前所示，“年”也是如此，状态以年数来描述。由此明显可知，本章中的时间也体现状态，因为每个教会所处的感知状态都与众不同。他们感知力的不同是由性情（无论遗传的还是后天获得的）不同导致的。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]482. The inner meaning of the years and numbers of years that come up in this chapter is not as yet recognized by anyone. Those who concentrate on the literal meaning consider the years to be time-related, but none of the chapters from here to the twelfth contains any history that is literally accurate. Each and every detail instead has a different kind of content. As with the names [470], so also with the numbers.
The number three occurs frequently throughout the Word, as does the number seven, and each time they occur they symbolize something whose circumstances are holy or sacrosanct. The periods of time and other features involved entail or represent those circumstances. The meaning is the same for short periods as it is for long periods; just as the parts make up the whole, so the smallest fractions make up the largest aggregates. There has to be uniformity across the different magnitudes for a whole to develop out of the parts or for an aggregate to emerge from the pieces in a compatible way.
[2] In Isaiah, for example:
Now has Jehovah spoken, saying, "In three years (corresponding to a hired servant's years) the glory of Moab will be abased." (Isaiah 16:14)
In the same author:
The Lord said to me, "In one more year (corresponding to a hired servant's years) all the glory of Kedar will be consumed." (Isaiah 21:16)
This means both the shortest and the longest periods. In Habakkuk:
Jehovah, I have heard of your fame; I have been awed, Jehovah, by your work. In the middle of the years, bring it to life. In the middle of the years, please make it known. (Habakkuk 3:2)
The middle of the years stands for the Lord's Coming. In regard to shorter periods, it stands for every instance in which the Lord comes — when we are being reborn, for example. In regard to somewhat longer periods, it stands for a time when the Lord's church rises up anew. Isaiah also calls this the year of the redeemed:
The day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. (Isaiah 63:4)
The thousand years in which Satan was to be fettered (Revelation 20:2-3, 7) and the thousand years of the first resurrection (Revelation 20:4-5, 6) likewise mean not a thousand years but the state of those people. Just as a day is taken to refer to a state, as shown before [23], so are years; and the number of years describes the states in some way. This clarifies the fact that the intervals mentioned in this chapter also involve the prevailing states, since the state of perception in each church was different from that in another. The differences in their ability to perceive was a result of differences in character — both inherited character and character developed through living.
Potts(1905-1910) 482
482. What the "years" and the "numbers of years" which occur in this chapter, signify in the internal sense, has hitherto been unknown. Those who abide in the literal sense suppose them to be secular years, whereas from this to the twelfth chapter there is nothing historical according to its appearance in the literal sense, but all things in general and every single thing in particular contain other matters. And this is the case not only with the names, but also with the numbers. In the Word frequent mention is made of the number three, and also of the number seven, and wheresoever they occur they signify something holy or most sacred in regard to the states which the times or other things involve or represent; and they have the same signification in the least intervals of time as in the greatest, for as the parts belong to the whole, so the least things belong to the greatest, for there must be a likeness in order that the whole may properly come forth from the parts, or the greatest from its leasts. Thus in Isaiah:
Now hath Jehovah spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be rendered worthless (Isa. 16:14). Again:
Thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall be consumed (Isa. 21:16), where both the least and the greatest intervals are signified. in Habakkuk:
Jehovah, I have heard Thy renown, and was afraid; O Jehovah, revive Thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known (Hab. 3:2),where the "midst of the years" signifies the Lord's advent. In lesser intervals it signifies every coming of the Lord, as when man is being regenerated; in greater, when the church of the Lord is arising anew. It is likewise called the "year of the redeemed" in Isaiah:
The day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed is come (Isa. 63:4). So also the thousand years in which Satan was to be bound (Rev. 20:2, 7), and the thousand years of the first resurrection (Rev. 20:4-6), by no means signify a thousand years, but their states; for as "days" are used to express states, as shown above, so also are "years," and the states are described by the number of the years. Hence it is evident that the times in this chapter also involve states; for every church was in a different state of perception from the rest, according to the differences of genius, hereditary and acquired.
Elliott(1983-1999) 482
482. Until now nobody has known what the years and the numbers of years occurring in this chapter mean in the internal sense. People who stay within the sense of the letter imagine that they are no more than chronological years. But none of the content from here down to Chapter 12 is history as it seems to be in the sense of the letter, for every single detail contains something of a different nature. What applies to names applies to numbers as well. In the Word the number three occurs frequently, and so does the number seven; and in every instance they mean something holy or inviolable as regards those states which the periods of time or whatever else that is mentioned embody or represent. This applies as much to the shortest as to the longest time-intervals; for just as parts makeup the whole, so do the shortest make up the longest. For a similarity must exist in order that a whole may emerge satisfactorily out of the parts, or that which is largest out of that which is smallest.
[2] As in Isaiah,
Jehovah has now spoken, saying, In three years, according to the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be rendered worthless. Isa 16:14.
In the same prophet,
The Lord said to me, Within yet a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar will be brought to an end. Isa 21:6.
Here both the shortest as well as the longest time-intervals are meant. In Habakkuk,
O Jehovah, I have heard Your fame; I was afraid. O Jehovah, revive Your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years do You make it known. Hab 3:2.
Here 'the midst of the years' stands for the Lord's Coming. If the intervals are shorter this stands for every coming of the Lord, as when a person is being regenerated; but if longer it stands for the rising anew of the Lord's Church. It is also called in Isaiah 'the year of the redeemed', The day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. Isa 63:4.
So too 'the thousand years' for which Satan is to be bound, Rev 20:2, 3, 7, and 'the thousand years' associated with the first resurrection, Rev 20:4-6. These in no way mean a thousand years but the states associated with them. For just as 'days, as shown 'already, are interpreted as a state, so too are 'years', and the states are described by the number of the years. From this it becomes clear that periods of time in this chapter also embody states, for every Church experienced a different state of perception from the next, according to differences of disposition resulting from inherited and acquired characteristics.
Latin(1748-1756) 482
482. Quid anni et numeri annorum qui in hoc capite occurrunt in interno sensu significant, nondum alicui notum est; qui in sensu litterae sunt, ii putant annos esse saeculares; sed hic usque ad cap. xli nihil historicum, sicut in sensu litterae apparet, continetur, sed omni: et singula continent alia; sicut nomina, ita quoque numeri. In Verbo occurrit passim numerus ternarius, tum quoque septenarius, et ubique significant aliquod sanctum seu sacrosanctum quoad status, quos tempora aut alia involvunt aut repraesentant; simile in minimus inter vallis ac in maximis, nam sicut partes sunt totius, ita minima sunt maximorum; nam similiter se habebunt, ut totum ex partibus aut maximum a minimus convenienter existat; [2] ut apud Esaiam, Nunc locutus est Jehovah dicendo, In tribus annis, secundum annos mercenarii, et vitis reddetur gloria Moabi, xvi 14:apud eundem, Dixit Dominus ad me, In adhuc anno, juxta annos mercenarii, et consumetur omnis gloria Kedaris, xxi 16;
ubi significantur tam minima quam maxima intervalla: apud Habakkuk, Jehovah, audivi famam Tuam, reveritus sum, Jehovah, opus Tuum, in medio annorum vivifica illud, in medio annorum nota facias, iii 2;
ubi 'medium annorum' pro Adventu Domini; etiam in minoribus intervallis pro omni Domini adventu, ut cum regeneratur homo; in majoribus, dum e novo Ecclesia Domini exsurgit. Vocatur etiam 'annus redemptorum,' apud Esaiam, Dies ultionis in corde Meo, et annus redemptorum Meorum venit, lxiii 4;
sicut etiam 'anni millenarii' quibus vinctus erit satanas, Apoc. xx 2, {x}3, 7; et 'mille anni' resurrectionis primae, Apoc. xx 4-6, nusquam significant mille annos, sed status eorum; nam sicut 'dies,' ut prius ostensum, etiam 'anni' pro statu accipiuntur, et status describuntur per numerum annorum. Inde constare potest quod tempora in hoc capite involvant quoque status, nam unaquaevis Ecclesia in alio statu perceptionis fuit quam altera, secundum differentias indolis ex hereditario et actuali.