Here is intelligence, if anyone has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains, where the woman sitteth upon them and they are seven kings five are fallen, and one is, the other is not yet come and when he cometh, he mast remain a little while ( Rev. To the locusts that came out thence it was said that they should not kill the men who had not the seal of God on their foreheads, but that they should be tormented five months ( Rev. The fifth angel sounded, then I saw a star from heaven fallen into the earth and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss. One thousand shall flee before the rebuke of one, before the rebuke of five shall ye flee till ye be left as a mast upon the head of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill ( Isa. ![]() In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak with the lips of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah Zebaoth ( Isa. There shall be left therein gleanings as in the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the head of the bough, four or five in the branches of a fruitful tree ( Isa. In the following passages also, five signifies in both the genuine and the opposite sense such things in the spiritual world as it corresponds to. For every detail happened of Providence, in order that Divine things might be represented As these passages are historic it can hardly be believed that the numbers in them are significant as the number five thousand of the men, and also the number five of the loaves, and two of the fishes, as also the number one hundred, and the number fifty, of the companies that sat down, and lastly twelve which was the number of the baskets containing the fragments when yet there is a secret in each number. 25:1-13) and likewise in these words of the Lord: think ye that I am come to give peace upon earth? I tell you, Nay but division for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three ( Luke 12:51) and also even in the historic facts that the Lord fed five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes, and that He commanded them to sit down by hundreds and by fifties and after they had eaten they took up twelve baskets of fragments ( Matt. It is the same where the Lord mentions these numbers in other places as with him that was called to the supper and said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them ( Luke 14:19) with the rich man who said to Abraham, I have five brethren that one might be sent to tell them, lest they also come into this place of torment ( Luke 16:28) with the ten virgins, five of whom were prudent, and five foolish ( Matt. He who laid up the pound in a napkin denotes those who procure for themselves the truths of faith but do not conjoin them with the goods of charity, and so have no gain or fruit from them. Here in like manner ten and five signify remains ten more, five fewer. But the lord said, Take away from him the pound, and give it unto him that hath ten pounds ( Luke 19:12) The third had laid up the pound in a napkin. And he said unto him also, Be thou also over five cities. And the second said, Lord, thy pound hath made five pounds. And he said unto him, Well done thou good servant, because thou hast been faithful in a very little, be thou over ten cities. ![]() It is similar with other parables, as with the one about the man who, going into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, gave to his servants ten pounds, and told them to trade with them till he came. ![]() Of the last it is said that he hid his lord's silver in the earth for by the silver he had is signified in the internal sense the truth that is of faith (AC 1551, 2954) and faith without charity cannot make gain or bear fruit. ![]() One who does not think beyond the literal sense cannot know but that the very numbers, five, two, and one, were taken simply for composing the story of the parable, and that they involve nothing further, whereas there is a secret in these numbers themselves for by the servant who received five talents are signified those who have admitted goods and truths from the Lord, thus who have received remains by him who received two are signified those who have joined charity to faith when well on in years and by him who received one, those who have received faith alone without charity. Take for instance the following passages in which five is mentioned, as in the Lord's parable about the man who went into another country, and delivered to his servants according to their abilities, to one five talents, to another two, and to a third one:-Īnd he that had received the five talents traded with them, and gained other five talents and likewise he that had received two gained other two but he that had received one hid his lord's silver in the earth ( Matt.
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