7932. Verses 25-28. “And it shall be that when ye shall come unto the land which Jehovah will give you, as He hath spoken, that ye shall keep this service. And it shall be, when your sons shall say unto you, What is this service to you? that ye shall say, This is the sacrifice of the passover to Jehovah, in that He passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when He inflicted a plague on Egypt, and liberated our houses. And the people bent itself, and bowed itself. And the sons of Israel went and they did as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.”

“And it shall be that when ye shall come unto the land which Jehovah will give you,” signifies to heaven which they shall have from the Lord; “as He hath spoken,” signifies according to the promise in the Word; “that ye shall keep this service,” signifies worship on account of liberation; “and it shall be, when your sons shall say unto you,” signifies the interior perception of truth, which perception is of conscience; “What is this service to you?” signifies when they are in worship; “that ye shall say,” signifies thought; “This is the sacrifice of the passover to Jehovah,” signifies the worship of the Lord on account of liberation; “in that He passed over the houses of the sons of Israel,” signifies that damnation fled away from the goods in which they were held by the Lord; “in Egypt,” signifies when in the vicinity of the evil; “when He inflicted a plague on Egypt,” signifies when they of the church were damned who had been in faith separate from charity; “and liberated our houses,” signifies that still nothing damnable came to them, because they were in good from the Lord; “and the people bent itself, and bowed itself,” signifies humiliation of the mouth and of the heart; “and the sons of Israel went and they did as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron,” signifies that they who were of the spiritual church obeyed truth Divine; “so did they,” signifies performance from the will.

[7932a.] ¹ “And it shall be that when ye shall come unto the land which Jehovah will give you.” That this signifies to heaven which they shall have from the Lord, is evident from the signification of “the land,” here the land of Canaan to which they were to come, as being the Lord’s kingdom, thus heaven (see n. 1607, 1866, 3038, 3481, 3705, 4116, 4240, 4447, 5757). For the sons of Israel represented those who were of the spiritual church and were in the world before the Lord’s coming, and could not be saved except by the Lord, and therefore had been preserved and detained in the lower earth, where meanwhile they had been infested by the hells which were round about. When therefore the Lord came into the world, and made the Human in Himself Divine, then when He rose again, He liberated those who had been preserved and detained, and after they had undergone temptations He raised them into heaven. These are the things which are contained in the internal sense in the second book of Moses, which is Exodus; by the Egyptians are signified those who had infested; by the bringing forth thence is signified liberation; by the life of forty years in the wilderness are signified temptations; and by the introduction into the land of Canaan is signified being raised into heaven (see what has been said above, n. 6854, 6914, 7091, 7828). For all this it is evident that by “when ye shall come unto the land” is signified to heaven which they shall have from the Lord.

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895. The waters were dried up from off the earth. That this signifies that falsities did not then appear, is evident from what has been said. Specifically it signifies that falsities have been separated from the things of the will of the man of this church. The “earth” here signifies man’s will, which is nothing but cupidity; wherefore it is said that “the waters were dried up from off the earth.” His “ground” as said above, is in his intellectual part, in which truths are sown-never in his will part, which in the spiritual man is separate from the intellectual; wherefore it is said afterwards in this verse that the face of the “ground” was dried. With the man of the Most Ancient Church there was ground in his will, in which the Lord sowed goods, and then from the goods the man could know and perceive truth, or from love could have faith; but if this method were followed now, man could not but perish eternally, for his will is wholly corrupted. How the case is with this sowing in man’s will part, or-as is the case now-in his intellectual part, is evident from considering that revelations were made to the man of the Most Ancient Church by means of which he from his infancy was initiated into a perception of goods and truths, but as those revelations were sown in his will part, he without new instruction perceived innumerable things, so that from one general principle he knew from the Lord the particulars and the singulars which now men have to learn and so know, and yet after all they can know scarcely a thousandth part of them. For the man of the spiritual church knows nothing but what he learns, and what he knows in this way he retains and believes to be true. Indeed even if he learns what is false, and this is impressed on his mind as true, he believes it, because he has no other perception than that it is so, for so is he persuaded. Those who have conscience have from conscience a certain dictate, but no other than that a thing is true because they have so heard and learned. This is what forms their conscience, as is evident from those who have a conscience of what is false.