186. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 3

A new church to be established by the Lord. (11)

1-5 They will live for a long time without the truths and goods of the church, but they will become a church from the Lord, when He comes, and will acknowledge Him. (11)

8686. 'And the people stood before Moses' means obedience at that time to God's truth. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as God's truth, as immediately above in 8685, so that 'standing before him' means consulting God's truth and awaiting the reply from it, and then acting in accordance with it, that is, obeying it. These words in the internal sense describe the first state, in which the Lord leads a person who is being regenerated by means of truth. The truth by which He leads him is the Word, since this is God's truth.