10449. Verses 15-20. And Moses looked back, and came down from the mountain, and the two tables of the Testimony were in his hand; the tables were written on the two crossings, hereupon and hereupon were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. And Joshua heard the voice of the people in their shouting, and he said unto Moses, There is a voice of war in the camp. And he said, It is not the voice of a cry for victory, neither is it the voice of a cry for being overcome: the voice of a miserable cry do I hear. And it came to pass, as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dances; and Moses waxed hot with anger, and he cast the tables out of his hand, and broke them beneath the mountain. And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it even to powder, and strewed it upon the faces of the waters, and made the sons of Israel drink. “And Moses looked back and came down from the mountain,” signifies the Word let down from heaven; “and the two tables of the Testimony were in his hand,” signifies the Word of the Lord in special and in general; “the tables were written on the two crossings, hereupon and hereupon were they written,” signifies by which there is the conjunction of the Lord with the human race, or of heaven with the world; “and the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables,” signifies that the external and the internal sense of the Word were from the Divine, and are Divine truth; “and Joshua heard the voice of the people in their shouting,” signifies survey and taking notice in respect to the quality of the interiors of that nation; “and he said unto Moses, There is a voice of war in the camp,” signifies an assault upon the truth and good which are of heaven and of the church, by falsities and evils which are from hell; “and he said, It is not the voice of a cry for victory, neither is it the voice of a cry for being overcome,” signifies heaven acting on one side and hell on the other, thus falsity against truth and truth against falsity; “the voice of a miserable cry do I hear,” signifies the lamentable state of their interiors; “and it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp,” signifies hell, in which that nation then was; “that he saw the calf and the dances,” signifies infernal worship, which was according to the delight of the external loves of that nation, and its consequent interior festivity; “and Moses waxed hot with anger,” signifies the turning away of that nation from the internal of the Word, of the church, and of worship; “and he cast the tables out of his hand, and broke them beneath the mountain,” signifies the external sense of the Word changed and different on account of that nation; “and he took the calf which they had made,” signifies the delight of the idolatrous worship of that nation; “and burnt it with fire,” signifies derived altogether from the loves of self and the world, which are condemned to hell; “and ground it even to powder,” signifies the infernal falsity therefrom; “and strewed it upon the faces of the waters,” signifies commixture with truths; “and made the sons of Israel drink,” signifies conjoined and appropriated to that nation.