The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 97
97. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 31
Of the new church that will be established by the Lord. This is meant by Israel and Zion. (1, 11)
1 The Lord will be their God. (1, 11)
2-5 The loved one will receive the goods of the church. (11)
6-8 They are to be brought near. (11)
9 They will come, and will understand truths. (11, 11)
10-11 The redeemed will be guarded against falsities (11, 17)
12-14 and will receive things spiritual and celestial (11, 17)
16-17 but they will finally return. (11)
18-21 They will come out of ignorance of truth into the truths of heaven. (11)
22 They will understand them. (11)
23-28 They will be imbued with wisdom. (11)
29-30 They will have no falsity of evil. (11)
31-34 They will be conjoined with the Lord, and from that conjunction truths will be inscribed on their life. (11, 15)
35-37 This will be established to eternity. (11, 1)
38-40 They will have abundant and extended doctrine of life. (11)
Jeremiah 31:35-37
35
Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:
36
If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
37
Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.
