'Hasten,' in reference to Joseph, as mentioned in Genesis 43:30, signifies what bursts forth from the inmost. This is because his compassions were moved, which signifies mercy from love. When this bursts forth, it bursts forth from the inmost, and this at the first striking of the eye, or at the first moment of thought, therefore, 'hastening,' signifies nothing but 'from the inmost.' 'To hasten' or 'hastiness' in the internal sense, does not denote what is quick, but what is certain, and also what is full, thus every event. For 'haste' involves time, and in the spiritual world there is not time, but instead of time there is state, thus the haste of time has relation to such a quality of state that corresponds, and the quality of the state which corresponds is that there are several things which are efficient together, from which results a certain and full event.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 5284)

5284. 'And God is hastening to do it' means a total fulfillment. This is clear from the meaning of 'doing', when used in reference to God, as providence, dealt with in 5264, and therefore also the fulfillment, for what is of Divine Providence is certainly fulfilled; and from the meaning of 'hastening to do' as a total fulfillment. 'Hastening' or hastiness does not in the internal sense describe swiftness but certainty, also completeness, and so it means a total fulfillment. For hastiness has a temporal connotation, but in the spiritual world there is no time. Instead of time there is state, so that hastiness, which has temporal associations, is connected in that world with the kind of state that corresponds to hastiness. The nature of that corresponding state is one in which many forces are at work simultaneously, and these are such as accomplish certain and complete fulfillment.