5248. “换衣裳” 表就内层属世层的覆盖物而言, 通过披上适合它之物所作的改变. 这从 “换” 和 “衣裳” 的含义清楚可知: “换” (即改变) 是指移除和抛弃; “衣裳” 是指内层属世层的覆盖物, 如下文所述. 由此可知, 披上的是新 “衣裳” 所表示的适合之物. 圣言经常提到 “衣服”, 以此表示在下面或外面, 用来覆盖在上面或里面的事物. 因此, “衣服” 表示人的外在, 因而表示他的属世之物, 因为该事物覆盖他的内在和属灵部分. “衣服” 尤表属于信的真理, 因为这些覆盖属于仁的良善. “衣服” 的这种含义来源于灵人和天使看上去所穿的衣服. 灵人看上去穿着缺乏亮光的衣服, 而天使看上去穿着充满亮光的衣服, 可以说是由亮光做成的. 因为他们周围的亮光本身看似一件衣服, 和主在变形像时的衣裳差不多, 这衣裳 “洁白如光” (马太福音 17:2), “洁白放光” (路加福音 9:29). 从他们所穿的衣服也能辨别就信之真理而言, 他们是哪类灵人和天使, 因为这些由他们的衣服来代表, 尽管诸如存在于属世层里面的那类信之真理. 诸如存在于理性层里面的信之真理就表现在脸和它所拥有的美丽上. 其衣服的亮光来源于爱与仁之良善, 因为这良善通过照耀而产生亮光. 由此可见衣服在灵界代表什么, 因而 “衣服” 在灵义上表示什么.

但约瑟所换下, 也就是脱下的衣裳是坑里或监里的衣服; 这些衣服表示在试探状态下由恶魔和恶灵所激发的错误和虚假的观念. 因此, 他 “换衣裳” 表示就内层属世层的覆盖物而言的抛弃和所作的改变. 他所换上的衣裳表示诸如适合的那类事物; 因而表示披上适合的事物. 可参看前面关于衣服的阐述和说明: 属天事物是裸露的, 而属灵和属世事物不是 (297节); “衣服” 表示相对它们所包裹之物来说较为低级的真理 (1073, 2576节); “换衣服” 代表需要披上神圣真理, 因此 “衣服的更换” 具有相同的含义 (4545节); “撕裂衣服” 代表为真理的丧失和毁灭而哀悼 (参看4763节); 没穿婚礼的礼服进来的人是什么意思 (2132节).

9373. 'Come up to Jehovah' means being joined to the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming up' as being raised to more internal things, dealt with in 3084, 4539, 4969, 5406, 5817, 6007, and therefore also being joined to them, 8760. The reason why it is a joining to the Lord is that 'Jehovah' in the Word means the Lord, 1343, 1736, 1793, 2004, 2005, 2018, 2025, 2921, 3023, 3035, 5663, 6280, 6281, 6303, 6905, 8274, 8864, 9315. A further arcanum which lies concealed within the internal sense of these words is that the children of Jacob, over whom Moses presided as their head, were not called or elected; rather, they themselves insisted that Divine worship should be established among them, as accords with what has been stated in 4290, 4293. This is why it says, And He said to Moses, Come up to Jehovah, as though not Jehovah but another was telling him to go up. For the same reason it says in what follows that the people should not come up, verse 2, and that Jehovah did not lay a hand on the children of Israel who had been set apart, verse 11; also that the sight of Jehovah's glory was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel, verse 17; and finally that Moses, when he was called on the seventh day, went into the middle of the cloud, [verses 16, 18.] 'The cloud' means the Word in the letter, 5922, 6343 (end), 6752, 6832, 8106, 8443, 8781; and among the children of Jacob it was the Word separated from its internal sense, since their worship was external devoid of anything internal. This becomes perfectly clear from the fact that they now said, as they had done before [at Exodus 19:8], All the words which Jehovah has spoken we will do, verse 3; yet scarcely forty days went by after this time and they were worshipping the golden calf instead of Jehovah. From this it is evident that such idolatry lay concealed in their heart when they said with their lips that they would serve Jehovah alone. However, the people who are meant by the called and the elect are those with whom internal worship exists, and also external worship springing from internal, that is, those with whom love to the Lord and faith in Him, and consequently love towards the neighbour are present.