AC 1332
That "a hundred years" signifies the state of that church in general, is evident from what has been stated and shown before concerning numbers and years, namely, that they signify times and states. But what and of what quality the states were that are signified by the number "a hundred" years, and by the numbers of years in the following verses of this chapter, it would be tedious to explain; moreover the subject is intricate.
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Speaking of "hundred" I recently explored a question on AC 3812:2, where Elliott speaks of "one in a million" and the old translation has "one in ten thousand." Latin experts informed me that it is not a definite number, but must be more than one unit of 10,000. Mostly it's used to mean "an awful lot" and so Elliott's translation is probably just fine.
If interested see also AC 2575 on the topic of "a whole lot."
Cheers,
Mike
Dawson Creek, BC
The chapter is about all the Ancient churches after the tower of Babel,and that genealogy. It was wryly amusing that the Lord is telling us that sometimes Divine revelation is tedious and intricate. We so want it to be simple! Thanks for the additional numbers, Mike.
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