AE 194 - laboring in the vineyard

AE 194 [2]
. . . all times in the Word, as a day, a week, a month, a year, an age,
signify states of life . . .

A householder hired laborers into his vineyard,
who labored from the third hour, the sixth, the ninth, and the eleventh,
and received equal reward.
(Matthew 20:1-16)

. . . "laboring in the vineyard"
is acquiring for oneself spiritual life
by the knowledges of truth and good from the Word
applied to the uses of life. . .
"vineyard" in the Word signifies the spiritual church,
and with a person spiritual life . ..
"three" signifies a full state,
or what is complete even to the end, likewise "six" and "nine."
But "eleven" signifies a state not yet full, and yet a receptive state
such as there is with well-disposed children and infants.
The "twelfth hour," to which all labored,
signifies truths and goods in their fullness . . ..