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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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And after three thousand years Solomon built the city, and offered offerings; then it was that the barren woman bore a son.
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And as for her telling you that she brought him up with much care, that was the period of residence in Jerusalem.
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And as for her saying to you , `When my son entered his wedding chamber he died,' and that misfortune had overtaken her, that was the destruction which befell Jerusalem.
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And behold, you saw her likeness, how she mourned for her son, and you began to console her for what had happened.
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For now the Most High, seeing that you are sincerely grieved and profoundly distressed for her, has shown you the brilliance of her glory, and the loveliness of her beauty.
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Therefore I told you to remain in the field where no house had been built,
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for I knew that the Most High would reveal these things to you.
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Therefore I told you to go into the field where there was no foundation of any building,
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for no work of man's building could endure in a place where the city of the Most High was to be revealed.