Treatise on the Mysteries of Numbers · §3

Numerology of Six and Seven

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…At the sixth hour, the sacrifice of the only-begotten was made on the mountain. Six years to serve the Hebrews was commanded. In the sixth month, Gabriel was sent to the Virgin. Into six jars, the water was made into wine. At the sixth hour, the Samaritan woman was spoken to by the well. Before six days of the Passover, Lazarus was raised. At the sixth hour, the thief was loved while being crucified. After having been raised from the dead, he appeared: to the women, to Cleopas, to the disciples without Thomas, to the disciples with Thomas, to Peter and John as they cast the net, and to the last of the ascension. Sixth, as Paul says, he appeared to the brothers: to Cephas, to the ten, to the five hundred, once to James, to all the apostles, and to Paul himself last. Six great mysteries the Lord our Jesus Christ performed among them, as Paul says: He was filled in the flesh, he was justified in spirit, he appeared to angels, he was proclaimed among the nations, he was believed in the world, and he was taken up in glory. Through six letters, the great names are written: Adonai, Sabaoth, Jesus, Lord, Physician, Good, Cloud, and Miriam. For also the seven is the perfect number.

On the seventh day, God rested from all his works. Seven avenging things he released upon Cain as he ascended. For seven sins the defiled one had worked: envy, deceit, the murder of a brother, being a first teacher of murder, becoming a pest to such a life, having grieved his parents, and having lied to God. Seven and with punishments he fell: he cursed the earth, he was working, he groaned having cut off, we trembled, it was in appearance, he struggled against the coming one, and he had a sign making him public.

Seventh was Enoch, after Adam, who pleased God, and like wheat of tares, he was separated from the ungodly. Seven the first, and seven the second years, about Rachel, Jacob served Laban. Seven sheep rams Abraham gifted to Abimelech as a testimony of the mastery of the well. Seven oxen signified famine, and seven ears of grain drew prosperity for the tables, of Pharaoh the dream. Seven sacred trumpets Joshua the son of Nun carried, and the walls of Jericho he brought down. In the seventh year of the slavery, the Jews are released from the Hebrews. From the fifteenth until the first twentieth, in which the Passover of the Jews was being performed, seven were the days of the feast. Seven nations God recorded for the Jews: the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Philistines, the Gergesenes, the Amorites, the Jebusites, and the Abarites. Seven of the tent were made in six days by the sister of Moses, having been set apart. Seven locks Samson was bound by, and he cut them as grass. Seven locks of hair he had; from them the scalp's strength and power fled. Seven eyes are the ones looking upon all the earth. Seven lampstands, and seven lamps Zechariah saw, because there are seven spirits from God. Seven of the Holy Spirit are the gifts: the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of might, and the spirit of knowledge.

Greek

ἕκτην ὥραν· ἕκτον ἐπὶ τῆς θυσίας τοῦ μονογενοῦς ἐν τῷ ὄρει. Ἓξ ἔτη δουλεύειν Ἑβραίοις παρήγγειλεν. Ἕκτῳ μηνὶ τὸν Γαβριὴλ πρὸς τὴν Παρθένον ἀπέστειλεν. Εἰς ἓξ ὑδρείας τὸ ὕδωρ οἶνον πεποίηκε. Ἕκτην ὥραν τῇ Σαμαρείτιδι παρὰ τὸ φρέαρ ὡμίλησε. Πρὸ ἓξ ἡμερῶν τοῦ Πάσχα τὸν Λάζαρον ἤγειρεν. Ἕκτην ὥραν τῷ λῃστῇ σταυρούμενος ἐφιλιώθη. Ἕκτον ὤφθη μετὰ τὸ ἀπὸ νεκρῶν ἐγερθῆναι· ταῖς γυναιξὶν, τῷ Κλεώπᾳ, τοῖς μαθηταῖς χωρὶς τοῦ Θωμᾶ, τοῖς μαθηταῖς μετὰ τοῦ Θωμᾶ, Πέτρῳ καὶ Ἰωάννῃ τὸ δίκτυον ἐλοῦσιν, τῇ τελευταίᾳ τῆς ἀναλήψεως. Ἕκτον, ὡς λέγει Παῦλος, ἐφάνη τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς· τῷ Κηφᾷ, τοῖς δέκα, τοῖς πεντακοσίοις, ἐφ' ἅπαξ Ἰακώβῳ, τοῖς ἀποστόλοις πᾶσιν, αὐτῷ τῷ Παύλῳ τελευταῖον. Ἓξ ἑνὶ αὐτῶν μεγάλα μυστήρια ἐποίησεν ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς, ὡς λέγει Παῦλος· Ἐπληρώθη ἐν σαρκὶ, ἐδικαιώθη ἐν πνεύματι, ὤφθη ἀγγέλοις, ἐκηρύχθη ἐν ἔθνεσιν, ἐπιστεύθη ἐν κόσμῳ, ἀνελήφθη ἐν δόξῃ. ∆ι' ἓξ γραμμάτων τὰ μεγάλα ὀνόματα γράφεται· ἀδωναῒ, σαβαὼθ, Ἰησοῦς, Κύριος, ἰατρὸς, ἀγαθὸς, νεφέλη, Μαριάμ. Ὅτι καὶ ὁ ἑπτὰ τέλειος ἀριθμός. Εʹ. Ἑβδόμῃ ἡμέρᾳ κατέπαυσεν ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ ὁ Θεός. Ἑπτὰ ἐκδικούμενα παρέλυσε τὸν Κάϊν ἀνελών. Ἑπτὰ γὰρ ἁμαρτίας ὁ μιαρὸς ἐργασάμενος, φθόνον, δόλον, φόνον ἀδελφοῦ, φόνων διδάσκαλος πρῶτος, μῦσος τοῦ οὕτω βίῳ γενόμενος, γονεῖς λυπήσας, ἐψεύσατο Θεόν. Ἑπτὰ καὶ τιμωρίαις ὑπέπεσε· ᾤκει κατηραμένην τὴν γῆν, εἰργάζετο, ἀφορῶν ἔστενεν, ἔτρεμεν, ἀπ' ὄψεως ἦν, ἠγωνία τὸν παριόντα, σημεῖον εἶχε δημοσιεῦον αὐτόν. Ἕβδομος Ἐνὼχ, μετὰ τὸν Ἀδὰμ, ὃς εὐηρέστησε τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ ὡς σῖτος ζιζανίων, τῶν ἀσεβῶν ἐχωρίσθη. Ἑπτὰ τὸ πρῶτον, καὶ ἑπτὰ τὸ δεύτερον ἔτη περὶ Ῥαχὴλ Ἰακὼβ τῷ Λάβαν ἐδούλευσεν. Ἑπτὰ προβάτων ἀμνοὺς Ἀβραὰμ τῷ Ἀβιμέλεχ ἐχαρίσατο τῆς τοῦ φρέατος δεσποτείας μαρτύριον. Ἑπτὰ βόες στίλε λιμοῦ, καὶ ἑπτὰ στάχυες πίνακες εὐθηνίαν διέγραψαν, τοῦ Φαραὼ τὸ ἐνύπνιον. Ἑπτὰ σάλπιγγας ἱερὰς ἐβάστασεν Ἰησοῦς ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ, ὁπηνίκα τῆς Ἱεριχῶ τὰ τείχη κατήνεγκεν. Ἑβδόμῳ ἔτει τῆς δουλείας Ἑβραίους ἀπο 43.516 λύουσιν Ἰουδαῖοι. Ἀπὸ πεντεκαιδεκάτης ἕως πρώτης εἰκάδος, ἐν αἷς ἐπετελεῖτο τὸ Πάσχα τῶν Ἰουδαίων, ἑπτὰ τῆς ἑορτῆς ἡμέραι. Ἑπτὰ δοῦλα τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις ἔθνη κατέγραψεν ὁ Θεὸς, τῶν Χαναναίων, τῶν Χετταίων, καὶ Φερεσταίων, τῶν Γεργεσαίων, τῶν Εὐαίων, τῶν Ἰεβουσαίων, τῶν Ἀβραίων. Ἑπτὰ τῆς σκηνῆς πεποίηκεν ἓξ ἡμέρας ἡ ἀδελφὴ Μωϋσέως ἀφορισθεῖσα. Ἑπτὰ κλήμασιν ἐδέθη Σαμψὼν, καὶ διέκοψεν αὐτὰ ὡς σπαρτίον. Ἑπτὰ βοστρύχους ἱεροὺς εἶχε τριχῶν· ὧν ἡ κουρὰ τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῶν καὶ δύναμιν ἐφυγάδευσεν. Ἑπτὰ ὀφθαλμοί εἰσιν οἱ ἐπιβλέποντες ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν. Ἑπτὰ ἐπαρυστρίδας, καὶ ἑπτὰ λύχνους ἦν ἑώρακε Ζαχαρίας, ὅτι ἑπτὰ πνεύματα παρὰ Θεοῦ. Ἑπτὰ τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος τὰ χαρίσματα· πνεῦμα σοφίας, πνεῦμα συνέσεως, πνεῦμα βουλῆς, πνεῦμα ἰσχύος, πνεῦμα γνώσεως,

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Epiphanius of Salamis, Tractatus de numerorum mysteriis (Greek).

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