6839. 'And Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see' means reflection brought about by the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'turning aside to see' as reflection, dealt with above in 6836; and 'Jehovah' is the Lord, see 1343, 1736, 2921, 3023, 3035, 5667, 6303. What the sense of the letter of the Word is like is also evident here. It says that Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, as though He had not known beforehand what Moses would do, and as though He had not put it into Moses' mind and made him turn aside to see. This way of describing what happened was adopted however because it accorded with outward appearances. But the internal sense shows what ought in fact to be understood, which is that the Lord flowed into his thought in such a way that he would reflect on what he beheld. From this one can see what the relationship is of the sense of the letter of the Word to its internal sense. One can see that descriptions in the sense of the letter are of a kind suited to the understanding of simple people who believe only what agrees with appearances. They do not believe what does not agree with appearances because they have no ability to look into things at a deeper level. That being so, unless the Word had been such as it is in the letter it would not have been accepted. A person whose thought is limited to what he apprehends with his senses and who is preoccupied with worldly interests cannot understand things at a deeper level. He wishes to see with his own eyes the things he is required to believe; and those he does not see are so to speak foreign. He casts them aside as things he refuses to believe, or at best holds in doubt, when he relies on his own ideas to think about them.

3035. 'Jehovah, the God of heaven' means the Lord's Divine itself. This is clear from what has been stated above in 3023 - that 'Jehovah, the God of heaven' is the Lord's Divine itself, for the name 'Jehovah', which occurs so many times in the Old Testament Word, was used to mean the Lord alone. Every single detail there refers in the internal sense to Him, and every single religious observance of the Church represented Him, see 1736, 2921. Furthermore the most ancient people who belonged to the celestial Church did not mean by 'Jehovah' anyone other than the Lord, 1343. Here and elsewhere in the sense of the letter it seems as though someone other, who is higher, is meant by Jehovah; but the sense of the letter is such that it sets forth as separate entities things which the internal sense presents as one. The reason for this is that man who has to be taught from the sense of the letter is unable to have the idea of one without first of all having the idea of several. For with man that which is a single whole is formed from several parts, or what amounts to the same, things existing simultaneously come into being consecutively. Many attributes exist in the Lord, and all are Jehovah, and therefore the sense of the letter regards these as separate entities, whereas heaven never does so. Heaven acknowledges one God with an idea that does not divide Him; nor does it acknowledge anyone other than the Lord.