10. The "fulness of time" also signifies consummation and desolation: the reason is that "time" signifies the state of the Church (see Rev. x 6; and in Ezekiel). The same also is signified by "a time, times, and half a time" [see Rev. xii 14; Dan. vii 25; xii 7]. Times in the world are spring, summer, autumn; and the fulness of them is winter. Times as to light are morning, noon, evening; and the fulness of these is night, etc., etc. This is meant by the Lord's coming being in "the fulness of time" or of "times"; that is, when there is no longer any truth of faith and good of charity remaining. (Concerning "the fulness of time," see Rom. xi 12, 25; Gal. iv 4, and, especially, Ephes. 9, 10; Gen. xv 16).