Verse 15. That if any one unknowingly violates the Divine law in internal worship, apparently, from love or good, still he shall acknowledge the Lord and worship Him from the good of innocence in the internal or spiritual degree, uncontaminated with evil, according to the quality of spiritual truths with him, to which good is conjoined, in order that guilt may be removed.

2957. 'Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him' means a state of receptivity. This is clear from the meaning of 'answering', when assent is being given, as receptivity, dealt with above in 2941. The fact that it is a state of receptivity which is meant here by answering and saying is evident from what follows.