![]() The twelve stones chosen by the twelve men in the Jordan to make a monument. The twelve branches to confirm the choice of Aaron. The twelve loaves of permanent offering on the golden table. The twelve names engraved on the pectoral. The twelve stones of the altar of the alliance. The twelve "minor" prophets of the Old Testament: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. ![]() In the Revelation: the twelve gates of the celestial City (Rv 21,12) the twelve kinds of precious stone of the celestial City (Rv 21,19-20) the twelve stars of the crown that wears the woman (Rv 12,2) the trees of life, which bear twelve crops of fruit in a year, one in each month (Rv 22,2). (Lk 6,12-16 Mt 10,2-4 Mk 3,16-19 Act 1,13)Ī woman suffered haemorrhage since twelve years she was cured by Jesus. The twelve apostles of the Jesus Christ: Simon whom he called also Peter, Andrew, James and John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Jude son of James, and Judas Iscariot, replaced after the Ascension by Matthias. It is the creative capacity, and in some religions, it expresses also the Divine Mother. Number attributed to the government of the world or the cosmos. Symbol of material and spiritual food, because of the 12 breads which Jesus Christ broke to the Last Supper, Himself being the Bread of Life. Symbolize the command and the good, and governs the space and the time, that is to say the operation of the Cosmos, from where its designation of cosmic number. Represent the manifestation of the Trinity to the four corners of the horizon - 3 X 4. Allendy tells that it expresses the idea that the Universe forms a whole, associated with the idea of differentiation - 10 + 2. In the ancient civilizations, like Oriental and Judaic, it corresponds to the plenitude, the completion and the integrality of a thing. Twelve is the number of what is completed, which forms a whole, a perfect and harmonious unit.
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