Der Herr ist die Liebe selbst, ausgedrückt in der Form der Weisheit selbst. Die Liebe ist also sein Wesen, sein Innerstes. Die Weisheit - das liebevolle Verständnis, wie man Liebe in die Tat umsetzt - ist etwas äußerlicher und gibt der Liebe eine Möglichkeit, sich auszudrücken.

Wenn die Bibel von "Jehova" spricht, dann repräsentiert sie jene innerste Liebe, die das Wesen des Herrn ausmacht. Diese Liebe ist eins, ganz und vollständig in sich selbst, und Jehova ist auch eins, ein Name, der nur auf den Herrn zutrifft. Die Weisheit drückt sich jedoch in einer großen Vielfalt von Gedanken und Ideen aus, was die Schriften kollektiv als göttliche Wahrheit bezeichnen. Es gibt auch viele imaginäre Götter, und manchmal können Engel und Menschen als Götter bezeichnet werden (der Herr sagte, dass Moses für Aaron wie ein Gott sein würde). Wenn die Bibel den Herrn also "Gott" nennt, bezieht sie sich in den meisten Fällen auf die göttliche Wahrheit.

In anderen Fällen bezieht sich "Gott" auf das, was als göttlich-menschlich bezeichnet wird. Der Fall ist folgender:

Als menschliche Wesen können wir den Herrn nicht direkt als göttliche Liebe einsetzen. Sie ist zu mächtig und zu rein. Stattdessen müssen wir uns ihm nähern, indem wir ihn durch die göttliche Wahrheit verstehen. Die göttliche Wahrheit ist also der Herr in menschlicher Gestalt, eine Form, der wir uns nähern und die wir verstehen können. So wird "Gott" auch in Bezug auf diesen menschlichen Aspekt verwendet, weil er ein Ausdruck der Wahrheit ist.

(Odkazy: Enthüllte Offenbarung 21; Himmlischen Geheimnissen 300, 391, 624, 2001, 2769, 2807 [2], 4287 [4], 6905, 7268, 10154)

1921. 'Do to her what is good in your eyes' means complete control over. This is clear without explanation. In the internal sense these words represent and mean that by His own power the Lord overcame, subdued, and cast out the evil which from what was hereditary had wormed itself also into this first rational, for, as has been stated, the rational was conceived from the Internal Man, which was Jehovah, as a father, and born from the exterior as a mother. Whatever was born from the exterior man possessed this hereditary element within it, thus evil as well. This was what the Lord overcame, subdued, and cast out by His own power and at length made Divine. The fact that He did so by His own power is clear from every single detail in this verse - the comment, 'Your servant-girl is in your hand' which means that He had this rational under His controlling power, followed next by 'so to her what is good in your eyes' which means complete control over it; and immediately after that 'Sarai humiliated her' which means subjection.

[2] These things were said to Sarai, who represents intellectual truth which the Lord Himself had and was the source from which He thought, as stated above in 1904, 1914, and from this truth He had complete control over the rational and also over the natural that was part of the exterior man. Anyone who thinks from intellectual truth and perceives from Divine good - which good was also His because it was the Father's, for He had no other soul - cannot do other than act from the power that is his own. Since therefore by His own power He tamed and cast out the evil present by heredity, it was by His own power as well that He united the Human Essence to the Divine Essence - the one being a consequence of the other.

[3] One who is conceived from Jehovah has no other Internal, that is, has none but Jehovah as his soul; for that reason He was as regards His very life itself Jehovah Himself. Jehovah, or the Divine Essence, cannot be divided in the way a human father's soul from which a child is conceived can be divided. To the extent the offspring moves away from the likeness of its father it moves away from the father himself, more and more so as it grows older. This is why a father's love for his children diminishes as they grow older. In the Lord's case it was different. As He grew older He did not so move away as regards the Human Essence but constantly drew closer until perfect union was achieved. From this it is clear that He is identical with Jehovah the Father, as He Himself also plainly teaches in John 14:6, 8-11.