《Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtue》數字的神秘象徵 (Occult Power of Numbers)William Wynn Westcott (1890)
The group of twelve Apostles seems to have been the traditional twelve descendants of the patriarch Jacob. Note also the twelve stones of the breastplate of the Jewish High Priest, by which it is supposed divination was performed.
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