1185. “从那陆地出来往亚述去” 表具有这类外在敬拜的人开始推理敬拜的内在. 这从稍后有关 “亚述” 含义的论述清楚可知, 在圣言中, “亚述” 表理性和推理. 本节可用两种不同的方式来读, 也就是说, “亚述从那陆地出来” 或 “宁录从那陆地出来往亚述去”. 之所以如此表述, 是因为所表示的是两个观点: 对属灵和属天事物的推理是由这类敬拜产生的, 这是 “亚述从示拿地出来” 所表示的; 这类敬拜推理有关属灵和属天的事物, 这是 “宁录从那陆地出来往亚述去” 所表示的.

303. CONJUNCTION OF HEAVEN WITH MAN BY MEANS OF THE WORD.

Those who think from interior reason can see that there is a connection of all things through intermediates with the First, and that whatever is not in connection is dissipated. For they know, when they think about it, that nothing can have permanent existence from itself, but only from what is prior to itself, thus all things from a First; also that the connection with what is prior is like the connection of an effect with its effecting cause; for when the effecting cause is taken away from its effect the effect is dissolved and dispersed. Because the learned thought thus they saw and said that permanent existence is a perpetual springing forth; thus that all things have permanent existence from a First; and as they sprang from that First so they perpetually spring forth, that is, have permanent existence from it. But what the connection of everything is with that which is prior to itself, thus with the First which is the source of all things, cannot be told in a few words, because it is various and diverse. It can only be said in general that there is a connection of the natural world with the spiritual world, and that in consequence there is a correspondence of all things in the natural world with all things in the spiritual (see 103-115); also that there is a connection and consequently a correspondence of all things of man with all things of heaven (see 87-102).