489. 'And they shall trample upon the holy community forty-two months' signifies that it shall have dispersed every truth of the Word to such an extent that nothing is left. By 'the holy community' or city is understood the holy Jerusalem, and by 'holy Jerusalem' is understood a New Church that is in truths of doctrine, for 'holy' is predicated of Divine Truth (n. 173); and 'a city' signifies doctrine (n. 194); and therefore by 'to trample upon that community' or city is signified to disperse the truths of its doctrine; by 'forty-two months' is signified even to the end when there is nothing left. By 'truths of doctrine' truths derived from the Word are understood, because the doctrine of the Church and everything of it is therefrom. That they who are in the internals of the Church at this day shall in this manner have dispersed the truths of the Word and of the doctrines of the Church therefrom and everything of it is described in this chapter by 'the beast coming up out of the deep' killing the two witnesses (verse 7). This can also be seen from the MEMORABLE OCCURRENCES out of the spiritual world, which have been added to several of the chapters. [2] By 'forty-two months' is signified even to the end when there is not anything true and good of the Church left, because by 'forty-two' the like is signified as by six weeks, for six times seven are forty-two, and by 'six weeks' is signified what is complete even to the end. For the number 'six' signifies this, and 'a week' signifies a state, and 'seven weeks' a holy state, which is the new state of the Church when the Lord begins His reign. The like is signified by this number in the things following (n. 583):-