8271. And I will exalt Him. That this signifies that now also He has Divine worship, is evident from the signification of “to exalt,” when it is said of man that he “will exalt Jehovah,” as being worship; for Divine worship consists in the exaltation of the Lord relatively to oneself, which is done according to the degree of the self-humiliation before the Lord. Humiliation is the essential of Divine worship. When man is in this essential he is hence in a state of receiving from the Lord the truth which is of faith and the good which is of charity, consequently in a state of worshiping Him. But if man exalts himself before the Lord, he hence closes the interiors of his mind for the reception of good and truth from the Lord. (What is meant by “exalting oneself,” when it is said of the Lord that He “exalts Himself,” see above, n. 8264)