Verse 14. When you are come to that heavenly state with which you shall be gifted, if the dictates of Divine Love and Wisdom are followed, and shall be habitually therein, and shall desire to be governed by definite and fixed principles of doctrine in spiritual things, as in moral and external things,

101. That the Lord is the “east” also appears from the Word, as in Ezekiel:

He brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh the way of the east, and behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east; and His voice was as the voice of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory (Ezekiel 43:1-2, 4).

It was in consequence of the Lord’s being the “east” that a holy custom prevailed in the representative Jewish Church, before the building of the temple, of turning their faces toward the east when they prayed.