8070. 'And you shall keep this statute at the appointed time from year to year' means that this law of order shall always hold for that state. This is clear from the meaning of 'statute' as a law of order, dealt with in 7884, 7995; from the meaning of 'time' as state, dealt with in 2625, 2788, 2837, 3254, 3356, 3404, 3827, 3938, 4814, 4882, 4901, 4916, 6110, 7381, so that 'at the appointed time' means in that state; and from the meaning of 'year' as a whole period from start to finish, dealt with in 2906, so that 'from year to year' means always.

2837. 'Jehovah will see' means the Lord's Providence. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing', when it has reference to Jehovah or the Lord, as foreseeing and providing, dealt with in 2807 - for Jehovah is the Lord, see 1343, 1736, 2156, 2329. In the literal sense this phrase is a place-name, but in the internal sense it is the character of the state under description that is meant. For periods of time and measurements of space belong solely to the natural order, and therefore when the sense of the letter of the Word passes over from the natural order into heaven the natural idea of those things perishes completely and becomes the spiritual idea which corresponds to them.