Verse 18. But you shall acknowledge that they come from the Divine Love and Wisdom, and flow into the soul which will receive them into its interiors by influx from the Divine Humanity of the Lord, both into the interior will and into the truths and goods formed by its means, and into the subservient natural goods and truths, and into the desires which you have after genuine good which conjoin the soul to heaven; and thus the whole soul will be filled with joy from the Divine Love and Wisdom in all its efforts and progress.

354. Jehovah had respect for Abel and his gift' means that things constituting charity and all worship deriving from it were acceptable to the Lord. This has been explained already under what 'Abel' means and under 'gift'.