Angels, and the Spirit ascend to God,

The angels and
The Spirit ascend
Unto Him in a Day
The measure whereof
Is (as) fifty thousand years:

Ruh: "The Spirit"., "the Spirit and the
angels", and, "the angels and the Spirit".
We have translated Ruh by "inspiration". Some Commentators
understand the angel Gabriel by "the Spirit". But I think
a more general meaning is possible, and fits the context better.


It is God Who has
Created the heavens
And the earth, and all
Between them, in six Days,
Then He established Himself
On the Throne:
Ye have none, besides Him,
To protect or intercede (for you):
Will ye not then
Receive admonition

He directs the affairs
From the heavens
To the earth: then
It ascends
Unto Him, on a Day
The measure of which is
A thousand years
Of your reckoning.

Six Days: The "Day" does not mean
a day as we reckon it., one apparent course of the sun
round the earth, for it refers to conditions which began
before the earth and the sun were created.
A Day is compared to a thousand years of our
reckoning, 4 to 50,000 years. These figures "as
we reckon" have no relation to "timeless Time", and must
be taken to mean very long Periods, or Ages, or AEons.

God created to World as we see it in six
great Stages. But after the initial creation, He is still in
authority and directs and controls all affairs. He has not
delegated His powers to others, and Himself retired.

How could the immense mystery of Time behind our ideas of it be
on our minds better? Our Day may be a thousand or fifty thousand
years, and our years in proportion. In the immense Past was God's
act of creation: it still continues, for He guides, rules, and controls all
affairs: and in the immense Future all affairs will go up to Him, for
He will be the Judge, and His restoration of all values will be as in
a Day or an Hour or the Twinkling of an eye; and yet to our ideas
it will be as a thousand years!