Jerusalem" is "the measure of a man, which is that of an angel?"{5}

{Footnote 1} "Jerusalem" means the church (n. 402, 3654, 9166).

{Footnote 2} The "wall" means truth defending against the
assault of falsities and evils (n. 6419).

{Footnote 3} "Twelve" means all truths and goods in the complex
(n. 577, 2089, 2129, 2130, 3272, 3858, 3913). Likewise
"seventy-two," and "a hundred and forty-four," since this comes
from twelve multiplied into itself (n. 7973). All numbers in
the Word signify things (n. 482, 487, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963,
1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 5265). Multiplied numbers
have a like signification as the simple numbers from which they
arise by multiplication (n. 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973).

{Footnote 4} "Measure" in the Word signifies the quality of a
thing in respect to truth and good (n. 3104, 9603).

{Footnote 5} In regard to the spiritual or internal sense of
the Word see the explanation of The White Horse in the
Apocalypse, and the Appendix to The Heavenly Doctrine.


74. Let us now turn to experience. That angels are human forms, or
men, has been seen by me a thousand times. I have talked with them as
man with man, sometimes with one, sometimes with many together; and I
have seen nothing whatever in their form different from the human
form; and have occasionally been surprised to find them such. And
that this might not be said to be a delusion or a vision of fancy, I