22-03-2024, 01:23 PM
For any numbers in the manuscript, there are really two options, which is that the number is either meaningful or not meaningful. If I ask you to draw a fruit bowl with multiple apples, you need to decide on a number of apples more than 1. The number of apples you draw does not need to be significant.
However, if the diagram is indeed symbolic in nature, then we can probably expect at least some numbers to be meaningful. For six, the best I have found so far is that according to Augustine, we are currently living in the sixth age of the world (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ). When the sixth age is fulfilled, Heavenly Jerusalem will come down to Earth, the ruling powers will be overthrown, the dead will be raised from their graves, the last judgement will take place etc.
There is even a connection to vessels. In John 2, it said that Jesus turned six vessels of water into wine at the wedding in Cana.
Here only three are depicted, but I like the way they look:
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Turning again to the Church Father Augustine, we learn how the six jars at Cana should be understood in a teleological sense:
However, if the diagram is indeed symbolic in nature, then we can probably expect at least some numbers to be meaningful. For six, the best I have found so far is that according to Augustine, we are currently living in the sixth age of the world (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ). When the sixth age is fulfilled, Heavenly Jerusalem will come down to Earth, the ruling powers will be overthrown, the dead will be raised from their graves, the last judgement will take place etc.
There is even a connection to vessels. In John 2, it said that Jesus turned six vessels of water into wine at the wedding in Cana.
Here only three are depicted, but I like the way they look:
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Turning again to the Church Father Augustine, we learn how the six jars at Cana should be understood in a teleological sense:
Quote:Hence there were there six water-pots, which He bade be filled with water. Now the six water-pots signify the six ages, which were not without prophecy. And those six periods, divided and separated as it were by joints, would be as empty vessels unless they were filled by Christ. Why did I say, the periods which would run fruitlessly on, unless the Lord Jesus were preached in them? Prophecies are fulfilled, the water-pots are full; but that the water may be turned into wine, Christ must be understood in that whole prophecy. (Tractates on John 9.6)
