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The woman who appeared to you a little while ago, whom you saw mourning and began to console --
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but you do not now see the form of a woman, but an established city has appeared to you --
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and as for her telling you about the misfortune of her son, this is the interpretation:
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This woman whom you saw, whom you now behold as an established city, is Zion.
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And as for her telling you that she was barren for thirty years, it is because there were three thousand years in the world before any offering was offered in it.
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