10689. 'And so it was, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai' means the flow of what is inward into the outward form that the Word, the Church, and worship take. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming down' - when used in reference to Moses, who represents the outward form of the Word containing what is inward - as the flowing of the Lord through the inward level of the Word into the outward form that it takes (for this meaning of 'coming down', see 5406); from the representation of 'Moses' as the outward form that the Word, the Church, and worship take, containing what is inward, dealt with in 10563, 10571, 10607, 10614; and from the meaning of 'Mount Sinai' as heaven where the Lord is and from which the Law or the Word comes forth, dealt with in 9420.