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"Here then is the meaning of the vision. This is the explanation of the woman who appeared to you a little while ago,
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whom you saw mourning and whom you began to console
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(though now you don't see a woman, but a fully constructed city has appeared to you),
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and who told you about the fate of her son.
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This woman whom you saw is Zion, whom you now see built as a city.
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As for what she said to you, that she was infertile for thirty years, it is because there were three thousand years in the world when offerings weren't yet made in her.
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After three thousand years, Solomon built the city and made offerings. That is when the infertile woman bore a son.
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As for what she said to you, that she nourished him with labor, this was the time that Jerusalem was inhabited.
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And as for what she said to you, that her son came into his wedding chamber and died and that misfortune happened to her, this is the destruction that happened to Jerusalem.
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Indeed, you saw her likeness, how she mourns her son, and you began to console her over these things that had happened. (These things were to be shown to you.)
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Now the Most High, seeing that you are sincerely saddened and that you suffer for her with all your heart, has shown you the splendor of her glory and the beauty with which she is adorned.