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많은 사람이 연단을 받아 스스로 정결케 하며 희게 할 것이나 악한 사람은 악을 행하리니 악한 자는 아무도 깨닫지 못하되 오직 지혜있는 자는 깨달으리라
신명기 32
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하늘이여 귀를 기울이라 내가 말하리라 땅은 내 입의 말을 들을지어다
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나의 교훈은 내리는 비요, 나의 말은 맺히는 이슬이요, 연한 풀 위에 가는 비요, 채소 위에 단 비로다
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내가 여호와의 이름을 전파하리니 너희는 위엄을 우리 하나님께 돌릴지어다 !
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그는 반석이시니 그 공덕이 완전하고 그 모든 길이 공평하며 진실무망하신 하나님이시니 공의로우시고 정직하시도다
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그들이 여호와를 향하여 악을 행하니 하나님의 자녀가 아니요 흠이 있는 사곡한 종류로다
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우매무지한 백성아 여호와께 이같이 보답하느냐 ? 그는 너를 얻으신 너의 아버지가 아니시냐 ? 너를 지으시고 세우셨도다
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옛날을 기억하라 역대의 연대를 생각하라 네 아비에게 물으라 그가 네게 설명할 것이요 네 어른들에게 물으라 그들이 네게 이르리로다
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지극히 높으신 자가 열국의 기업을 주실 때 인종을 분정하실 때에 이스라엘 자손의 수효대로 민족들의 경계를 정하셨도다
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여호와의 분깃은 자기 백성이라 야곱은 그 택하신 기업이로다
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여호와께서 그를 황무지에서, 짐승의 부르짖는 광야에서 만나시고 호위하시며 보호하시며 자기 눈동자같이 지키셨도다
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마치 독수리가 그 보금자리를 어지럽게 하며 그 새끼 위에 너풀 거리며 그 날개를 펴서 새끼를 받으며 그 날개 위에 그것을 업는것 같이
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여호와께서 홀로 그들을 인도하셨고 함께 한 다른 신이 없었도다
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여호와께서 그로 땅의 높은 곳을 타고 다니게 하시며 밭의 소산을 먹게 하시며 반석에서 꿀을,굳은 반석에서 기름을 빨게 하시며
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소의 젖 기름과 양의 젖과 어린 양의 기름과 바산 소산의 수양과 염소와 지극히 아름다운 밀을 먹이시며 또 포도즙의 붉은 술을 마시우셨도다
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그러한데 여수룬이 살지매 발로 찼도다 네가 살지고 부대하고 윤택하매 자기를 지으신 하나님을 버리며 자기를 구원하신 반석을 경홀히 여겼도다
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그들이 다른 신으로 그의 질투를 일으키며 가증한 것으로 그의 진노를 격발하였도다
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그들은 하나님께 제사하지 아니하고 마귀에게 하였으니 곧 그들의 알지 못하던 신,근래에 일어난 새 신,너희 열조의 두려워하지 않던 것들이로다
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너를 낳은 반석은 네가 상관치 아니하고 너를 내신 하나님은 네가 잊었도다
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여호와께서 보시고 미워하셨으니 그 자녀가 그를 격노케한 연고로다
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여호와의 말씀에 내가 내 얼굴을 숨겨 그들에게 보이지 않게 하고 그들의 종말의 어떠함을 보리니 그들은 심히 패역한 종류요 무신한 자녀임이로다
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그들이 하나님이 아닌 자로 나의 질투를 일으키며 그들의 허무한 것으로 나의 진노를 격발하였으니 나도 백성이 되지 아니한 자로 그들의 시기가 나게 하며 우준한 민족으로 그들의 분노를 격발하리로다
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내 분노의 불이 일어나서 음부 깊은 곳까지 사르며 땅의 그 소산을 삼키며 산들의 터도 붙게 하는도다
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내가 재앙을 그들의 위에 쌓으며 나의 살을 다하여 그들을 쏘리로다
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그들이 주리므로 파리하며 불 같은 더위와 독한 파멸에게 삼키울 것이라 내가 들짐승의 이와 티끌에 기는 것의 독을 그들에게 보내리로다
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밖으로는 칼에 방안에서는 놀람에 멸망하리니 청년 남자와 처녀와 젖 먹는 아이와 백발 노인까지리로다
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내가 그들을 흩어서 인간에서 그 기억이 끊어지게 하리라 하였다 마는
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대적을 격동할까 염려라 원수가 오해하고 말하기를 우리 수단이 높음이요 여호와의 행함이 아니라 할까 염려라 하시도다
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그들은 모략이 없는 국민이라 그 중에 지식이 없도다
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그들이 지혜가 있어서 이것을 깨닫고 자기의 종말을 생각하였으면
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그들의 반석이 그들을 팔지 아니하였고 여호와께서 그들을 내어 주지 아니하셨더면 어찌 한 사람이 천을 쫓으며 두 사람이 만을 도망케 하였을까
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대적의 반석이 우리의 반석과 같지 못하니 대적도 스스로 판단하도다
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그들의 포도나무는 소돔의 포도나무요 고모라의 밭의 소산이라 그들의 포도는 쓸개포도니 그 송이는 쓰며
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그들의 포도주는 뱀의 독이요 독사의 악독이라
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이것이 내게 쌓이고 내 곳간에 봉하여 있지 아니한가
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보수는 내 것이라 그들의 실족할 그 때에 갚으리로다 그들의 환난의 날이 가까우니 당할 그 일이 속히 임하리로다
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여호와께서 자기 백성을 판단하시고 그 종들을 인하여 후회하시리니 곧 그들의 무력함과 갇힌 자나 놓인 자가 없음을 보시는 때에로다
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여호와의 말씀에 그들의 신들이 어디 있으며 그들의 피하던 반석이 어디 있느냐 ?
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그들의 희생의 고기를 먹던 것들, 전제의 술을 마시던 것들로 일어나서 너희를 돕게 하라 너희의 보장이 되게 하라
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이제는 나 곧 내가 그인 줄 알라 나와 함께 하는 신이 없도다 내가 죽이기도 하며 살리기도 하며 상하게도 하며 낫게도 하나니 내 손에서 능히 건질 자 없도다
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내가 하늘을 향하여 내 손을 들고 말하노라 나의 영원히 삶을 두고 맹세하노니
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나의 번쩍이는 칼을 갈며 내 손에 심판을 잡고 나의 대적에게 보수하며 나를 미워하는 자에게 보응할 것이라
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나의 화살로 피에 취하게 하고 나의 칼로 그 고기를 삼키게 하리니 곧 피살자와 포로된 자의 피요 대적의 장관의 머리로다 하시도다
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너희 열방은 주의 백성과 즐거워 하라 ! 주께서 그 종들의 피를 갚으사 그 대적에게 보수하시고 자기 땅과 백성을 위하여 속죄하시리로다
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모세와 눈의 아들 호세아가 와서 이 노래의 모든 말씀을 백성에게 말하여 들리니라
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모세가 이 모든 말씀을 온 이스라엘에게 말하기를 마치고
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그들에게 이르되 `내가 오늘날 너희에게 증거한 모든 말을 너희 마음에 두고 너희 자녀에게 명하여 이 율법의 모든 말씀을 지켜 행하게 하라
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이는 너희에게 허사가 아니라 너희의 생명이니 이 일로 인하여 너희가 요단을 건너 얻을 땅에서 너희의 날이 장구하리라'
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당일에 여호와께서 모세에게 일러 가라사대
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너는 여리고 맞은편 모압 땅에 있는 아바림산에 올라 느보산에 이르러 내가 이스라엘 자손에게 기업으로 주는 가나안 땅을 바라보라
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네 형 아론이 호르산에서 죽어 그 조상에게로 돌아간 것 같이 너도 올라가는 이 산에서 죽어 네 조상에게로 돌아가리니
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이는 너희가 신 광야 가데스의 므리바 물 가에서 이스라엘 자손중 내게 범죄하여 나의 거룩함을 이스라엘 자손 중에서 나타내지 아니한 연고라
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내가 이스라엘 자손에게 주는 땅을 네가 바라보기는 하려니와 그리로 들어가지는 못하리라 하시니라
Arcana Coelestia # 3969
3969. 'And she said, God has taken away my reproach. And she called his name Joseph, saying, May Jehovah add to me another son' in the highest sense means the Lord as regards the Divine Spiritual, in the internal sense the spiritual kingdom or the good of faith, and in the external sense salvation, also fruitfulness and multiplication. This is clear from the representation of 'Joseph' in the Word, dealt with below, also from the meaning of 'God has taken away my reproach', as well as 'May Jehovah add to me another son', for the name Joseph was derived from the verbs 'to gather up' and 'to add'. 'God has taken away my reproach' means that Rachel was now no longer barren, and so no longer 'dead', as she spoke of herself to Jacob in verse 1 above; see 3908. For 'Rachel' represents the affection for interior truth, that is, the interior man as regards truth, 3758, 3782, 3793, 3819. The interior man is so to speak dead as regards truth and good if the exterior or natural man does not correspond to it as regards goods and truths, see 3493, 3620, 3623. They must be so joined each to the other that they are not two but together form one man.
[2] But the two cannot become joined together until the natural or external man has been prepared, that is, until it has received and acknowledged the general truths which have been meant by Jacob's ten sons by Leah and the servant-girls, and until the good of the natural man has been joined to the truths in that man, which joining together was meant by Jacob's last son by Leah, namely Zebulun, who was so called from the expression 'dwelling together', 3960, 3961. After this joining together has taken place the interior man and the exterior man enter into the heavenly marriage spoken of in 3952. The reason they do not enter it until then is a very deep arcanum, for it is the good of the interior man which in that case joins itself to the good of the exterior man, and through that exterior good to the truth in the exterior man. At the same time the good of the interior man joins itself through the affection for truth in that interior man to the good of the exterior man and also to the truth there, and so joins itself directly and indirectly. concerning this direct and indirect linking together, see 3314, 3573, 3616. Since the interior man is only then joined to the exterior, and until this joining together has taken place the interior man is seemingly non-existent and so seemingly dead, as stated above, the phrase 'God has taken away my reproach' is therefore used. This then is what is meant by 'the reproach' which God is said to have 'gathered up', that is, to have taken away, meaning to have released her from it.
[3] But the words which follow - 'May Jehovah add to me another son', from which Joseph received his name - mean a second arcanum, which is this: 'Joseph' represents the Lord's spiritual kingdom and so the spiritual man, for that kingdom exists within every spiritual man. There are two things which constitute the spiritual man - charity and faith, or what amounts to the same, good and truth. Charity from which faith, or good from which truth springs, is the thing that Joseph represents. And faith which has charity within it, or truth which has good within it, is the thing that the second son means - that Benjamin represents, dealt with at Genesis 35:16-18. So Joseph means the celestial-spiritual man, and Benjamin the spiritual-celestial. The nature of the difference between them may be seen from what has been said fairly often already about good from which truth springs and truth that has good within it. This then is what is meant by Rachel's second utterance 'May Jehovah add to me another son'. But these arcana cannot be seen except by those who are governed by charity from which faith springs, for interiorly those people are dwelling in the light of heaven, which light also includes intelligence within it. But those arcana cannot be seen by those who are dwelling solely in the light of the world, for that light does not include intelligence except insofar as it holds the light of heaven within itself. To angels who dwell in the light of heaven these arcana belong among the most ordinary things they know.
[4] From these considerations one may now see that the words 'God has taken away my reproach' and 'May Jehovah add to me another son' in the highest sense mean the Lord as regards the Divine Spiritual, and in the internal sense the Lord's spiritual kingdom or the good of faith, for such good is the spiritual as this exists in that kingdom. But the reason why those words in the external sense mean salvation, also fruitfulness and multiplication, is that these come as the product of that good, 3971. But what the Lord's spiritual kingdom is may become clear from what has been stated and shown many times already about that kingdom, that is to say, it consists of those who are governed by charity and from charity by faith. This kingdom is distinct and separate from the Lord's celestial kingdom, for the celestial kingdom consists of those who are governed by love to the Lord and from that love by charity. The latter constitute the third or inmost heaven, whereas the spiritual constitute the second or interior heaven.
[5] The reason why the name God is used first, in 'God has taken away my reproach', then Jehovah, in 'May Jehovah add to me another son', is that God has regard to the ascent from truth up to good but Jehovah to the descent from good down to truth. The spiritual man is governed by the good of faith, that is, by the good from which truth springs; but prior to his becoming spiritual he is governed by the truth of faith, that is, by truth that has good within it. For the name God is used when truth is the subject, but Jehovah when good is the subject, 2586, 2769, 2807, 2822, 3921.
[6] The fact that 'Joseph' represents the Lord's spiritual kingdom, or the spiritual man, and so represents the good of faith, becomes clear also from those places in the Word where his name is mentioned, as in the prophecy of Jacob, who by then was Israel,
The son of a fruitful one is Joseph, the son of a fruitful one beside a spring; O daughters, he trails over the wall; and the archers will exasperate him and shoot at him and hate him. And he will sit in the strength of his bow, and the arms of his hands will be made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob; from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel. By the God of your father, and he will assist you; and with Shaddai, and he will bless you with the blessings of heaven from above, with the blessings of the deep lying beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb. The blessings of your father will prevail over the blessings of my ancestors, even to the desire of the everlasting hills. They will be upon the head of Joseph and upon the crown of the head of the Nazirite among his brothers. Genesis 49:22-26.
These prophetic utterances in the highest sense contain a description of the Lord's Divine Spiritual, in the internal sense a description of His spiritual kingdom. What each detail entails will in the Lord's Divine mercy be discussed in the explanation of that chapter.
[7] Similarly in the prophecy of Moses,
For Joseph he said, Blessed by Jehovah is his land, of the precious things of heaven, of the dew, of the deep also lying beneath, and of the precious things of the fruits of the sun, and of the precious things of the produce of the months, and of the precious things of the mountains of the east, and of the precious things of the everlasting hills, and of the precious things of the earth and of its fullness; and the good pleasure of Him dwelling in the bramble bush. They will come upon the head of Joseph and upon the crown of the head of the Nazirite among his brothers. Deuteronomy 33:13-17.
[8] Because 'Israel' represents the Lord's spiritual Church, 3305, 3654,
Jacob, who by then was Israel, said to Joseph,
Your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt, before I came to you in Egypt, will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be as Reuben and Simeon. May the angel who has redeemed me from every evil bless the boys, that in them my name may be called, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they increase into a multitude in the midst of the earth. Genesis 48:5, 16.
There are two things which constitute the spiritual Church - the understanding and the will, the understanding being represented by 'Ephraim' and the will by 'Manasseh'. From this one can see why Joseph's two sons were adopted by Jacob, by then Israel, and acknowledged as his own. Ephraim is also mentioned often in the Word, especially the prophetical part, in which places that name means the ability which the spiritual Church possesses to understand what is true and what is good.
[9] In Ezekiel,
Jehovah said, Son of man, take a stick and write on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions. And take another stick and write on it, For Joseph - the stick of Ephraim and of the whole house of Israel, his companions and join them together, one to the other into one stick for you, that both may be one in your 1 hand. Thus said the Lord Jehovih, I, behold, I am taking the stick of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and of the tribes of Israel his companions, and I will add them to the stick of Judah, and make them into one stick, and they will be one in My hand. And I will make them into one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king to them all, and they will no longer be two nations, nor will they ever be divided into two nations again. Ezekiel 37:16-17, 19, 22.
This refers to the Lord's kingdom, to the celestial and to the spiritual - 'Judah' being the celestial kingdom, 3654, 3881, 3921 (end), and 'Joseph' the spiritual. It is also said that those kingdoms will not be two but one - they were actually made one by the Lord's Coming into the world.
[10] By the Lord's Coming the spiritual were saved, see 2661, 2716, 2833, 2834. It is those who are spiritual that the Lord is speaking about in John,
And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice, and there will be one flock and one shepherd. John 10:16.
This is what is meant by 'the two sticks', the stick of Judah and the stick of Joseph, which will be joined into one, and will be one in the Lord's hand, like one nation, even as they are one in the Lord's kingdom. For celestial angels constitute the third heaven, which is the inmost heaven, but spiritual angels the second, which is the interior heaven, and in that kingdom they are one because one flows into the other, namely the celestial heaven into the spiritual. The spiritual kingdom is so to speak the groundwork on which the celestial is based, and in this way the two are made firm and stable. For the Divine celestial within the third or inmost heaven is love to the Lord, the celestial-spiritual in that heaven being charity. The latter, namely charity, is the chief thing in the second or interior heaven where spiritual angels are. This shows the nature of influx and also how things are made firm and stable by means of influx. 'Wood' means good, both the good which belongs to love to the Lord and the good which belongs to charity towards the neighbour, 2784, 2812, 3720. For this reason the command was given to write Judah and Joseph on the two sticks which were to be made one.
[11] In Zechariah,
I will make the house of Judah powerful, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will restore them, 2 for I have had compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not forsaken them, for I am Jehovah their God and I will answer them. Zechariah 10:6.
This too refers to the two kingdoms, the celestial and the spiritual, 'Judah' being the celestial kingdom and 'Joseph' the spiritual. Also referred to is the salvation of the spiritual.
[12] In Amos,
Thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel, Seek Me and you will live. Seek Jehovah and you will live, lest like fire He invades the house of Joseph and it devours and there is nobody quenching it. Hate evil, and desire good, and establish judgement in the gate; it may be that Jehovah God Zebaoth will have compassion on the remnant of Joseph. Amos 5:4, 6, 15.
Here also those who are spiritual are meant by 'Joseph'. 'The house of Israel' means the spiritual Church, 3305, 3654, 'Joseph' the good of that Church. Hence the statement 'Jehovah said to the house of Israel, Seek Me and you will live, lest like fire He invades the house of Joseph'.
[13] In David,
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock. You who are seated on the cherubim, shine forth before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Stir up Your might and come to save us. Psalms 80:1-2.
Here similarly 'Joseph' means the spiritual man, 'Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh' being three essentials of that Church.
[14] In the same author,
Raise a song, and sound the timbrel, the sweet harp with the lyre; blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the festival, on our feast day. For it is a statute for Israel, a judgement to the God of Jacob. [As] a testimony for Joseph He appointed it, when He went out against the land of Egypt. I heard a language that I did not know. Psalms 81:2-5.
From each individual word or term used here it is evident that 'Joseph' means the spiritual Church or spiritual man. For there are in the Word terms which present spiritual realities and terms which present celestial ones, and these terms occur consistently throughout the Word. In this quotation terms that present spiritual realities are used - 'a song', 'the timbrel', 'the harp with the lyre', and 'blowing the trumpet at the new moon, at the festival, on a feast day'. From this also it is evident that the subject is the spiritual Church meant by 'Joseph'.
[15] In Ezekiel,
Thus said the Lord Jehovih, This is the boundary by which you will inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel, the portions for Joseph. Ezekiel 47:13.
This refers to the Lord's spiritual kingdom, and therefore the phrase 'the portions for Joseph' is used. The Lord's Divine spiritual is that which is also called His kingship, for the Lord's kingship is Divine Truth, but His priesthood Divine Good, 2015, 3009, 3670. The Lord's kingship itself is that which 'Joseph' represents, in that he was made king in the land of Egypt. That representation will in the Lord's Divine mercy be dealt with when that chapter is reached.
[16] As regards the Lord's Divine spiritual, or Divine Truth, which is represented in the highest sense by 'Joseph', it does not exist within the Lord but flows from the Lord; for the Lord is nothing else than Divine Good. But Divine Truth proceeds from Divine Good. To use a comparison, it is like the sun and the light of the sun. Light does not exist within the sun but proceeds from the sun. Or it is like fire. Light does not exist in fire but proceeds from it. And in the Word Divine Good itself is compared to the sun and also to fire, and is actually called sun and fire. The Lord's celestial kingdom receives its life from the good which proceeds from the Lord, but the spiritual kingdom receives its life from the truth derived from that good. For this reason in the next life the Lord is seen as the Sun by those who are celestial, but as the Moon by those who are spiritual, see 1053, 1521, 1529-1531, 3636, 3643. For both warmth and light proceed from the sun. Its warmth is comparable to the good of love, which is also called celestial and spiritual warmth, its light to the truth flowing from it, which is also referred to as spiritual light, see 3636, 3643. But the celestial warmth and the spiritual light which proceed from the Lord as the Sun in the next life, include within them the good of love and the truth of faith, and so include wisdom and intelligence, 1521-1523, 1542, 1619-1632, 2776, 3138, 3190, 3195, 3222, 3223, 3339, 3485, 3636, 3643, 3862. For things which proceed from the Lord are living.
[17] From this one may see what the Divine Spiritual is; in what the spiritual kingdom and the celestial kingdom have their origins; and also that the spiritual kingdom is the good of faith, which good is charity, flowing in from the Lord directly, and also indirectly through the celestial kingdom. In the Word the Divine Spiritual which proceeds from the Lord is called the Spirit of truth, and is holy truth. The Divine Spiritual does not belong to any spirit but is the Lord's, who imparts it through a spirit sent by Him, as becomes clear from the Lord's own words in John,
When He the Spirit of truth comes He will guide you into all the truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak. He will also declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify Me, for He will receive from what is Mine and declare it to you. John 16:13-14.
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