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denotes that difference which implies opposition, enmity, and<br />

oppression.*<br />

Number 3<br />

Three, therefore, stands for that which is solid, real,<br />

substantial, complete, and entire. All things that are specially<br />

complete are stamped with this number:<br />

•God’s attributes are: omniscience, omnipresence, and<br />

omnipotence.<br />

•There great divisions completing time: past, present, and<br />

future.<br />

•3 persons, in grammar, express and include all the<br />

relationships of mankind.<br />

•Thought, word, and deed, complete the sum of human<br />

capability.<br />

•Three degrees of comparison complete our knowledge of<br />

qualities.<br />

•The simplest proposition requires three things to complete it;<br />

viz., the subject, the predicate, and the copula.<br />

•Three propositions are necessary to complete the simplest<br />

form of argument: the major premise, the minor, and the<br />

conclusion.<br />

•3 kingdoms embrace our ideas of matter; mineral, vegetable,<br />

and animal.<br />

When we turn to the Scriptures, this completion becomes<br />

Divine, and marks Divine completeness or perfection.<br />

Number 4<br />

Now 4 is made up of three and one (3+1=4), and it denotes<br />

His creative works. He is known by the things that are seen.<br />

Hence the written revelation commences with the words, “In<br />

the beginning God CREATED.” Creation is therefore the next<br />

thing – the fourth thing, and the number four always has

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