10506. And Jehovah said unto Moses, He that hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book. That this signifies the reply, that those will perish who turn themselves away from the Divine, is evident from the signification of “Jehovah said unto Moses,” as being the reply; from the signification of “sinning against Jehovah,” as being to turn one’s self away from the Divine (see above, n. 10498); and from the signification of “being blotted out of the book of Jehovah,” as being not to appear in heaven, thus to perish in respect to the spiritual life. That this is signified by “being blotted out of the book of Jehovah,” is because those who are in things external separate from what is internal cannot receive anything from heaven; for it is the internal which receives from heaven, and the external without the internal does not receive from any other source than hell. (That heaven with man is in his internal, and that the internal is the book of life, and that what is in the internal is out of heaven from the Lord, may be seen just above, n. 10505)