Saint Joseph endured during eight years various great sufferings before to die, according to visions of Mary Agreda. The eight persons who were saved from the Flood in Noah's Ark. The eight creative words of God in six days, in Genesis chapter 1, verses 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26. The eight steps of the staircase leading to the external square of the Ezekiel's temple. Jesus was circumcized eight days after his birth, according to the law established. The eight sentences of the Magnificat or Hymn of Mary. The eight beatitudes of the sermon on the mountain.
It is the number of the restful day, after the 7th day of the creation. The number 8 means the multiplicity, for the Japanese.Ī favorable number, associated to the prosperity. In Babylon, in Egypt and in Arabia, it was the number of the duplication devoted to the sun, from where the solar disc is decorated of a cross with eight arms. The Pythagoreans have made the number 8 the symbol of the love and the friendship, the prudence and the thinking and they have called it the Great "Tetrachtys". Represent the earth, not in its surface but in its volume, since 8 is the first cubic number. In China, it expresses the totality of the universe. Represent the totality and the coherence of the creation in evolution. It is the symbol of the new Life, the final Resurrection and the anticipated Resurrection that is the baptism.Īccording to Clement of Alexandria, the Christ places under the sign of 8 the one he made to be born again. The number eight corresponds to the New Testament, according to Ambroise.
Number expressing the matter, it is also the symbol of the incarnation in the matter which becomes itself creative and autonomous, governing its own laws.
Number of the balance and of the cosmic order, according to the Egyptians. In China, the 8 expresses the totality of the universe. It represents also the final point of the manifestation. Number figuring the immutable eternity or the self-destruction. In mathematics the symbol of the infinity is represented by a 8 laid down. New! Calculate the number of your name with the Gematria Calculator Properties of the number 8
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