9385. 'And said, All the words which Jehovah has spoken we will do' [means an acceptance at the same time with the heart]. This is clear from the meaning of 'the words which Jehovah has spoken' as truths from the Word that are rules of life, as above in 9383; and from the meaning of 'doing' as acceptance by the will part of the mind, dealt with in 9282, thus acceptance with the heart, for 'the heart' in the Word means the will, 7542, 8910, 9050, 9113, 9300. The reason why these words mean acceptance with the will and the words immediately before them acceptance with the understanding is this: Every single part of the Word contains the marriage of truth and good, 9263, which is the heavenly marriage, that is, heaven and in the highest sense the Lord Himself; and truth has connection with the understanding and good with the will.

7542. 'Onto your heart' means into what is inmost. This is clear from the meaning of 'heart' as that which belongs to a person's will, thus to his love, dealt with in 2930, 3317, 3888, 3889, consequently what is central to the actual life within him; for his love, belonging intrinsically to his will, constitutes that life within him. This is why 'heart' means what is inmost. What is inmost in the case of the good is love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour, whereas what is inmost in the case of the evil is self-love and love of the world. The latter is what is meant here; and what is around it, constituting so to speak the surrounding parts, are the evils and falsities that lend support, arranged into order according to the ways in which they support it. In the next life they are brought out into the open in the order in which they have been arranged. First to come forth are those that occupy the outermost surrounding parts, then those that lie further in; and finally what is inmost is revealed. So it is that a person in the next life passes through a large number of states, and that the evil are afflicted in successive stages by scourges or plagues before they are cast into hell, as accords with what has been stated immediately above. What is inmost, which they come to last of all, is hell itself residing with them, for it is the evil that had been central to their love, and so the end which they held in view in everything they did and which in the world they had kept deeply hidden within them.