9406. ‘Et sub pedibus Ipsius’: quod significet ultimum sensum, qui est sensus ipsius litterae, constat ex significatione ‘pedum’ quod sint naturalia, de qua n. 2162, 3147, 3761, 3986, 4280, 4938-4952, ita plantae, quae sub pedibus, sunt ultima naturae; quod ‘sub pedibus’ hic sit sensus ultimus Verbi, qui est sensus litterae, est quia dicitur de Divino Vero seu Verbo, quod a Domino et quod est Dominus, ut ex illis quae praecedunt constare potest; ac ultimum veri Divini seu Verbi est qualis est sensus litterae, qui est naturalis quia pro homine naturali; quod sensus litterae in se contineat sensum internum, qui est respective spiritualis et caelestis, constat ex omnibus illis quae de Verbo hactenus ostensa sunt; sed homo quo plus mundanus et corporeus est, eo minus hoc capit, quoniam is in lucem spiritualem non elevari se patitur, et inde videre quale est Verbum, quod nempe in littera sit naturale et in sensu interno spirituale; nam e mundo spirituali seu e luce caeli videri possunt inferiora usque ad ultima qualia sunt, non autem vicissim, n. 9401 fin. , ita quod Verbum in littera tale sit.

[2] Quia Verbum in littera est naturale, et per ‘pedes’ significantur naturalia, ideo ¹ ultimum Verbi, sicut ultimum Ecclesiae, ² vocatur ‘locus pedum Jehovae’, ut et ‘scabellum pedum Ipsius’, et quoque ‘nubes et tenebrae’ respective, ut apud Esaiam,

Aperient portas Tuas jugiter, ad adducendum ad Te exercitum gentium, et reges eorum deducentur; gloria Libani ad Te veniet; abies, taeda, buxus simul ad decorandum locum sanctuarii Mei, et locum pedum Meorum honorabilem reddam, 60:11, 13;

agitur hic de Domino ac Ipsius regno et Ecclesia; per ‘exercitum gentium’ intelliguntur qui in bonis fidei, et per ‘reges’ qui in veris fidei; quod ‘gentes’ sint qui in bonis fidei, videatur n. 1259, 1328, 1416, 1849, 4574, 6005, et quod ‘reges’ qui in veris, n. 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148; ‘gloria Libani’ seu cedrus est bonum et verum spirituale, ‘abies, taeda, et buxus’ ³ sunt bona et vera naturalia correspondentia, ‘locus sanctuarii’ est caelum et Ecclesia, et quoque Verbum, ‘locus pedum’ est caelum, Ecclesia, ut et Verbum, in ultimis; quod etiam sit Verbum, est quia caelum est caelum ex Divino Vero procedente a Domino, similiter Ecclesia; et Divinum Verum quod facit Ecclesiam et caelum est Verbum; inde quoque intimum tentorii, ubi arca in qua lex, vocatur sanctuarium, lex enim est Verbum, n. 6752:

apud eundem,

Caeli thronus Meus, et terra scabellum pedum Meorum, 66:1:

[3] apud Davidem,

Exaltate Jehovam Deum nostrum, et adorate versus scabellum pedum Ipsius; sanctus Ille; Moscheh et Aharon inter sacerdotes Ipsius; in columna nubis locutus est ad illos, Ps. 99:5-7;

‘scabellum pedum Jehovae versus quod adorarent’ est Divinum Verum in ultimis, ita Verbum; quod ‘Moscheh et Aharon’ in sensu repraesentativo sint Verbum, videatur n. 7089, 7382, 9373, 9374, et quod ‘nubes’ sit Verbum in littera, seu Divinum Verum in ultimis, Praefatio ad Gen. xviii, n. 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343 fin. , 6752, 8106, 8781; inde patet quid sit ‘loqui in columna nubis’:

[4] apud eundem,

Audivimus de Ipso in Ephrata, invenimus Ipsum in agris silvae; intrabimus in habitacula Ipsius, et incurvabimus nos scabello pedum Ipsius, Ps. 132:6, 7;

agitur ibi de Domino ac de revelatione Ipsius in Verbo; ‘invenire Ipsum in Ephrata’ est in sensu Verbi spirituali caelesti, n. 4585, 4594, ‘in agris silvae’ est in Verbi sensu naturali seu litterali, n. 3220, 9011 fin. , ‘scabellum pedum’ pro Divino Vero procedente a Domino, ⁴ in ultimis Verbi:

[5] apud eundem,

Jehovah inclinavit caelum, et densae tenebrae sub pedibus Ipsius; posuit tenebras latibulum Suum, tenebrae aquarum, nubes caelorum; a splendore ante Ipsum nubes Ipsius transiverunt, Ps. 18:10, 12, 13 [KJV Ps. 18:9, 11, 12];

agitur hic de adventu et praesentia Domini in Verbo; ‘densae tenebrae sub pedibus Ipsius’ pro Verbi sensu litterae, similiter ‘tenebrae aquarum et nubes caelorum’; quod usque isti ⁵ sensui insit Divinum Verum quale est in caelis, significatur per quod ‘posuerit tenebras latibulum Suum’; et quod ad praesentiam Domini ⁶ appareat sensus internus qualis est in caelo, in sua gloria, significatur per quod ‘a splendore ante Ipsum nubes Ipsius transeant’:

apud Nahum, Jehovae in procella et tempestate via, et nubes pulvis pedum Ipsius, 1:3;

etiam ibi ‘nubes’ pro Verbo in sensu litterae, qui etiam est ‘procella et tempestas, in qua Jehovae via’.

[6] Quando apud hominem translucet verum Divinum, quale est in caelo, ⁷ ex ipso sensu litterae, tunc hic sensus describitur per ‘pedes’ et per ‘splendorem eorum sicut aeris laevigati’, ut quoque apud Danielem,

Sustuli oculos meos et vidi, ecce vir unus indutus linteis, cujus lumbi cincti auro Uphasi, et corpus ejus sicut tarshish, et facies Ipsius sicut facies fulguris, et oculi Ipsius sicut faces ignis, brachia Ipsius et pedes Ipsius sicut splendor aeris laevigati et vox verborum Ipsius sicut vox turbae, 10:5, 6;

hic per ‘virum indutum linteis’ in sensu supremo intelligitur Dominus, et quia Dominus, etiam intelligitur ⁸ Divinum Verum quod ab Ipso, nam Divinum Verum quod a Domino est Ipse Dominus in caelo et in Ecclesia; verum Divinum seu Dominus in ultimis intelligitur per ‘brachia et pedes sicut splendor aeris laevigati’, tum per ‘vocem verborum Ipsius sicut vox turbae’; similiter apud Ezech. 1:7.

[7] Status Ecclesiae successivus in hac tellure ⁹ quoad receptionem veri Divini procedentis a Domino etiam intelligitur per statuam visam Nebuchadnezari, apud Danielem,

Caput statuae aurum, pectus ejus et brachia ejus argentum, venter ejus et femora aes, crura ejus ferrum, pedes ejus ex parte ferrum et ex parte argilla, quae non cohaerebant; et lapis ex petra contrivit ferrum, argillam, aes, argentum, et aurum, 2:32, 33, [:34, 35, ] 43[, 45];

primus status Ecclesiae quoad receptionem veri ¹⁰ procedentis a Domino est ‘aurum’, quoniam per ‘aurum’ significatur bonum caeleste, quod est bonum amoris in Dominum, n. 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 8932, secundus per ‘argentum’, quod est bonum spirituale, quod est bonum fidei in Dominum et charitatis erga proximum, n. 1551, 2954, 5658, 7999, tertius per ‘aes’, ¹¹ quod est bonum naturale, n. 425, 1551, et quartus per ‘ferrum’, quod est verum naturale, n. 425, 426; ‘argilla’ est falsum, quod non cohaeret cum vero et bono; quod ‘lapis ex petra contriverit ferrum, aes, argentum, et aurum’ significat quod Ecclesia quoad receptionem veri ex Verbo pereat, cum falsum et malum confirmantur per sensum litterae Verbi, quod fit cum Ecclesia in ultimo suo statu est, quando non amplius in aliquo caelesti amore sed solum in mundano et corporeo; tale fuit Verbum quoad receptionem ejus apud gentem Judaicam cum Dominus in mundum venit, et tale est apud plerosque Verbum hodie, usque adeo ut ne quidem sciatur quod aliquid internum sit in Verbo; et si diceretur quod sit et quale sit, non recipiatur; cum tamen in antiquissimis temporibus, quae significata sunt per ‘aurum’, in Verbi sensu litterae nihil aliud visum sit quam caeleste paene abstracte a littera. Ex his nunc constare potest quod per ‘Deum Israelis visum sub pedibus’ significetur Verbum in sensu ultimo, qui est sensus litterae.

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1661. 'And so it was in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim' means just so many kinds of apparent goods and truths which are not in themselves goods and truths, and which were present with the Lord's external Man. This becomes clear from the meaning of all these in the internal sense, and also from what follows. For the subject is the Lord's conflict against evils and falsities, here His first conflict which came during His childhood and earliest adolescence. That conflict He first entered into and endured after He had been endowed with knowledge and cognitions, hence the expression 'in the days of' these kings.

[2] Nobody can possibly fight against evils and falsities until he knows what evil and falsity are, not therefore until he has received instruction. A person does not know what evil is, still less what falsity is, before he is capable of understanding and of forming judgements for himself, which is the reason why a person does not enter into temptations until he has reached the age of maturity. Thus everyone is tempted in adult life, but the Lord was tempted even in childhood.

[3] Everyone fights first of all from the goods and truths he has received by means of cognitions, and it is from them and by means of them that he forms judgements concerning evils and falsities. Everyone furthermore when he first starts to fight imagines that these goods and truths from which he fights are his own, that is, he ascribes them to himself, and at the same time ascribes to himself the power by which he resists. This is allowed because a person cannot at the time know anything different. Before anyone has been regenerated he cannot possibly know, so as to be able to say that he knows, acknowledges, and believes, that no good or truth at all comes from self, but that everything good and true comes from the Lord; nor can he possibly know that he is unable by his own power to resist any evil or falsity. Indeed he does not know that evil spirits are activating and implanting the evils and falsities, still less that he is in communication with hell by means of evil spirits, and that hell presses on him like the sea against every part of a dike, which he can by no means resist by his own strength. Yet because he cannot do otherwise, until he has been regenerated, than imagine that he resists by his own strength, this too is permitted; and in this condition he is admitted into conflicts, or temptations. Subsequently however he becomes more and more enlightened.

[4] When a person's state is such that he imagines that good and truth originate in himself and that the power to resist is his own, the goods and truths from which he fights against evils and falsities are not really goods and truths, however much they appear to be so, for they have that which is his own within them, and he places self-merit in victory, boasting as though it were he that had overcome evil and falsity, when in fact it is the Lord alone who fights and overcomes. That this is indeed so none can know except those who are being regenerated by means of temptations.

[5] Because the Lord in earliest childhood was led into very serious conflicts against evils and falsities it was inevitable that at that time even He should think that way. This happened both because it was according to Divine order that His Human Essence should through continuous conflicts and victories be brought to the Divine Essence and united to it, and because the goods and truths from which He fought against evils and falsities belonged to the External Man. And because those goods and truths were not completely Divine they are for that reason called appearances of good and truth. His Divine Essence brought the Human Essence to itself in this way in order that it might overcome by its own power. The arcana here however are more than can possibly be described. In short, in those first conflicts the goods and truths residing with the Lord from which He fought were permeated by things inherited from the mother, and insofar as they were permeated by things inherited from the mother they were not Divine. Gradually however, as He overcame evil and falsity they were purified and made Divine.