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2) The letter 'nun'
The letter nun is also a number. It is the number 50. The number 50 is a special number as it refers to the year of Jubilee. In that year people reduced to labouring for others return to their inheritance. It is the number for redemption, freedom and happiness in the inheritance given. Fifty years marks the change from one generation to another. The age of fifty is when one is thought to have lived long enough to have acquired wisdom by experience. The Psalm in particular makes mention of the generations,
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. (Psa 145:4)
The return to the inheritance of the Jubilee, is a return to the inheritance promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So this speaks of the completeness of the plan of creation. As one reads the Psalm, one can see the praise of the return to the land, and the freedom of the 50th year.
The LORD uphold all that fall, and raises up all those that be bowed down. (Psa 145:14)
Those who 'fell' and become in debt, which led to bondage, are raised up. Their land which gave them food, is given back,
Thou open thine hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. (Psa 145:16) and
He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. (Psa 145:19)
This connection might not seems so obvious to us, but to the Hebrews who used letters as numbers daily, it would be more obvious.
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