Verses 1-3. The worship of the Lord from the highest degree of celestial love is described.

Verse 4. Then follows a description of worship from interior celestial love, or charity to the neighbour, showing how it is connected with that from the highest celestial good, which is pure love to the Lord, and the lowest

Verses 5-6. A similar description of worship from celestial good in the Internal of the Natural succeeds, accompanied by an account of the arrangement of truths there, and of the influx of inmost celestial good.

Verse 7. And lastly, worship from the External of the Natural is described, showing that it is similar to worship from higher loves, but is in a lower degree

Verses 8-10. It is then shown that celestial worship in all these degrees and ways involves certain particulars, namely: the power to worship must be ascribed to the Lord; it must be acknowledged to be from celestial good inmostly derived from Him; and it must be exercised from Him. Also the worshiper will realize the conjunction of truth with good as from himself; he will be able to devote his life to the service of the Lord; he will experience a state of heavenly joy and peace; he will be able to appropriate good and truth; and he will worship the Lord from pure love

Verses 11-13. Again this worship of the Lord must be free from falsity; it must not be vitiated by merely natural delight; such imperfect worship only appertains to preparatory states; and in all worship there must be the mutual desire of truth for good and of good for truth, or in other words, every one who really loves the truth will desire also to be good, and all who sincerely desire to be good will also long for the truth

Verses 14-16. And also, during such worship, in preparatory states, it will be from natural good, and truth influenced by celestial good, and involving the sincere acknowledgement of the Lord.

9992. ‘Et panem azymorum’: quod significet purificationem caelestis in intimo hominis ¹ , constat ex significatione ‘panis’ quod sit caeleste, de qua n. 2165, 2177, 3478, 9545, et ex significatione ‘azymi’ quod sit purificatum, de qua sequitur; quod sit intimum hominis, est quia caeleste est bonum amoris, et bonum amoris est intimum; sunt tria apud hominem quae consequuntur in ordine successivo; illa tria vocantur caeleste, spirituale, et naturale; caeleste est bonum amoris in Dominum, spirituale est bonum charitatis' erga proximum, et naturale inde est bonum fidei, quod quia est ex spirituali, ² vocatur spirituale naturale; nam similiter se habet apud hominem, prout in caelis: in intimo caelo, quod etiam tertium caelum vocatur, est caeleste, in secundo seu medio caelo est spirituale, et in primo seu ultimo caelo est naturale inde seu spirituale naturale; quod similiter se habeat apud hominem prout in caelis, est causa quia homo qui in bono, est caelum in minima forma, videantur ³ citata n. 9279. De tripartitione etiam caeli seu regni caelestis, in ⁴ sequentibus dicetur ubi de placentis, et laganis ex simila triticorum.

[2] Quod ‘azymum’ significet purificatum, est quia ‘fermentum’ significat falsum ex malo, n. 2342, 7906; inde ‘azymum’ seu infermentatum significat purum seu absque falso illo; quod ‘fermentum’ ⁵ significet falsum ex malo, est quia id falsum conspurcat bonum, et quoque verum, tum quia excitat pugnam, nam accedente illo falso ad bonum fit fervor, et ad verum fit collisio; inde est quod minhah ex pane azymo in holocaustis et in sacrificiis adhibita fuerit; ideo ⁶ statutum est quod omnis minhah quam adferrent Jehovae non conficeretur fermentata, Lev. 2:11;

quod non sacrificarent super fermentato sanguinem sacrificii, Exod. 23:18;

quodque in festo paschatis prorsus non comederent fermentatum, et quod qui comederet exscinderetur ex Israele, Exod. 12:15, 18-20; quod exscinderetur ex Israele qui in festo paschatis fermentatum ederet, fuit causa quia festum paschatis significabat liberationem a damnatione, ac in specie liberationem a falsis ex malo, apud illos qui patiuntur se a Domino regenerari, videatur n. 7093, 9286-9292; inde quoque festum illud vocabatur festum azymorum.

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