AC 7973
About six hundred thousand on foot that were men.
(Exodus 12:37)
That this signifies
all things of the truth and good of faith in one complex . . ..
for this number arises from six and also from twelve . . ..
[6] That this number signifies such things
scarcely anyone can believe,
for the reason that it is a matter of history,
and everything historical
keeps the mind continually in the external sense,
and withdraws it from the internal sense.
Nevertheless this number has such a signification,
for there is not even a syllable,
nor yet one jot or one point in the Word,
which is not in itself holy,
because it infolds in itself what is holy.
Everyone sees
that there is nothing holy in the mere historical fact.
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