A thousand is a great number, a full number,1 and therefore it is put for all great numbers. It is a leading number, therefore the word in the Hebrew for a thousand, cometh from a root which signifies to lead, and the Noun, Duke or a Captain, who is a chief and a leader of men, Gen. 36. The Dukes of Edom, or the leaders of Edom, As also a master or teacher, because he goes afore, and is a chief over those he instructs. And hence the number thousand in the Hebrew hath it's name, because a thousand, is (as it were) a prince among numbers, a chief number, a captain number; and is therefore put for all great numbers, or for the greatest numbers that can be imagined: to say, one of a thousand, is, as much as to say, One amongst all. One is not a number, it is but the seed, principle or beginning of number, Aunity hath a seminal virtue in it; all numbers are made out of ones, but one it self is no number. So that to say, One of a thousand, is to put the greatest and the least number in opposition, it is as much as to say, a man cannot answer God in any thing that ever he did in the whole course of his life (2 Pet. 3.8.) One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, 2and a thousand years as one day. When he saith, a thousand years, he means all years, all time put together, is but as one day to the Lord. A day was the first distinction of time; the first perfect time that was created, was a day: now put a thousand years together, it is but as one day to the Lord; All times and one time are all one to him who inhabits eternity. In Psal. 90.6. it is, a thousand years are but as yesterday, which notes all time past, as Peter notes, all time to come, is, but as one day.
A thousand is a great number, a full number,1 and therefore it is put for all great numbers. It is a leading number, therefore the word in the Hebrew for a thousand, commeth from a root which signifies to lead, and the Noun, Duke or a Captain, who is a chief and a leader of men, Gen. 36. The Dukes of Edom, or the leaders of Edom, As also a master or teacher, because he goes afore, and is a chief over those he instructs. And hence the number thousand in the Hebrew hath it's name, because a thousand, is (as it were) a prince among numbers, a chief number, a captain number; and is therefore put for all great numbers, or for the greatest numbers that can be imagined: to say, one of a thousand, is, as much as to say, One amongst all. One is not a number, it is but the seed, principle or beginning of number, Aunity hath a seminall vertue in it; all numbers are made out of ones, but one it self is no number. So that to say, One of a thousand, is to put the greatest and the least number in opposition, it is as much as to say, a man cannot answer God in any thing that ever he did in the whole course of his life (2 Pet. 3.8.) One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, 2and a thousand years as one day. When he saith, a thousand years, he means all years, all time put together, is but as one day to the Lord. A day was the first distinction of time; the first perfect time that was created, was a day: now put a thousand years together, it is but as one day to the Lord; All times and one time are all one to him who inhabits eternity. In Psal. 90.6. it is, a thousand years are but as yesterday, which notes all time past, as Peter notes, all time to come, is, but as one day.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Paedagogus, dux quod alijs praeire solet, sicut Al•ph prima litera reliquas omnes praecedit, hinc Eleph, mille numerorū princeps.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Paedagogus, dux quod alijs praeire solet, sicut Al•ph prima litera reliquas omnes praecedit, hinc Eleph, mille numerorū princeps.
- 2Unitas huic numero opposita, pro nihilo habetur.Ʋnitas huic numero opposita, pro nihilo habetur.
