241. (Vers. 7.) "Et Animal primum simile Leoni," significat Divinum Verum Verbi quoad potentiam. - Quod "Leo" significet Verum in sua potentia, hic Divinum Verum Verbi quoad potentiam, constare potest a potentia leonis prae omni animali terrae, tum ex leonibus in mundo spirituali, quod sint imagines repraesentivae potentiae Divini Veri; et quoque ex Verbo ubi significant Divinum Verum in sua potentia; qualis potentia Divini Veri in Verbo est, videatur in Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Scriptura Sacra 49, et in Opere de Caelo et Inferno 228-233; inde est, quod Jehovah seu Dominus comparetur "Leoni," et quoque dicatur "Leo," ut in sequentibus:

"Leo rugit, quis non timeat; Dominus Jehovih ¹ locutus est, quis non prophetet," (Amos 3:8);

"Non revertar ad perdendum Ephraimum, post Jehovam ibunt, sicut Leo rugit," (Hoschea 11:9-10); ²

"Quemadmodum rugit Leo, et juvenis Leo, sic descendet Jehovah ad militandum super monte Zionis," (Esaias 31:4).

"Ecce vicit Leo, Qui est ex tribu Jehudae, Radix Davidis," (Apocalypsis 5:5);

"Catulus Leonis Jehudah, curvavit se, cubuit sicut Leo vetus, quis excitat eum," (Genesis 49:9);

in his locis describitur potentia Divini Veri, quod a Domino, per "leonem;" "significat ex potentia loqui et agere contra inferna, quae auferre volunt hominem, a quibus Dominus illum eripit, sicut leo praedam; "curvare se" est se mittere in potentiam; "Jehudah" in supremo Sensu significat Dominum, (96, 266).

"Angelus clamavit voce magna sicut Leo rugit," (Apocalypsis 10:3);

"Incurvat se, cubat sicut Leo vetus, quis excitat eum," (Numeri 24:9);

En populos sicut vetus Leo surgit, et sicut juvenis ³ Leo effert se," (Numeri 23:24); ⁴

haec de Israele, per quem significatur Ecclesia cujus potentia, quae in Divinis veris est, ita describitur; similiter,

"Reliquiae Jacobi in medio populorum erunt sicut Leo inter bestias sylvae, sicut Leo juvenis inter greges ovium," ⁵ (Micham 5:7 (B.A. 8)). ⁶

(Praeter in multis aliis locis, ut Esaias 11:6; 21:6-9; 35:9; Jeremias 2:15; 4:7; 5:6; 12:8; 50:17; 51:38; ⁷ Ezechiel 19:3, 5-6; Hoschea 13:7-8; Joel 1:6-7; Nahum 2:12; Psalm. 17:12; Psalm. 22:14 (B.A. 13) Psalm. 57:5 (B.A. 4); Psalm. 58:7 (B.A. 6); ⁸ Psalm. 91:13; Psalm. 104:21-22; Deuteronomius 33:20).

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When the Bible speaks of "Jehovah," it is representing love itself, the inmost love that is the essence of the Lord. That divine love is one, whole and complete in itself, and Jehovah also is one, a name applied only to the Lord. The divine love expresses itself in the form of wisdom. Love, then, is the essence of God -- His inmost. Wisdom -- the loving understanding of how to put love into action -- is slightly more external, giving love a way to express itself. Wisdom, however, is expressed in a great variety of thoughts and ideas, what the Writings collectively call divine truth. There are also many imaginary gods, and sometimes angels and people can be called gods (the Lord said Moses would be as a god to Aaron). So when the Bible calls the Lord "God," it is in most cases referring to divine truth. In other cases, "God" has reference to what is called the divine human. The case there is this: As human beings, we cannot engage the Lord directly as divine love. It is too powerful and too pure. Instead, we have to approach Him by understanding Him through divine truth. Divine truth, then, is the Lord in human form, a form we can approach and understand. Thus "God" is also used in reference to this human aspect, because it is an expression of truth.