O Senhor é o próprio amor, expresso na forma da própria sabedoria. O amor, então, é a sua essência, o seu íntimo. A sabedoria - a compreensão amorosa de como colocar o amor em ação - é um pouco mais externa, dando ao amor uma maneira de se expressar.

Quando a Bíblia fala de "Jeová", está representando aquele amor íntimo que é a essência do Senhor. Que o amor é um, inteiro e completo em si mesmo, e Jeová também é um, um nome aplicado somente ao Senhor. A sabedoria, porém, é expressa em uma grande variedade de pensamentos e idéias, o que os Escritos coletivamente chamam de verdade divina. Há também muitos deuses imaginários, e às vezes anjos e pessoas podem ser chamados de deuses (o Senhor disse que Moisés seria como um deus para Arão). Portanto, quando a Bíblia chama o Senhor de "Deus", na maioria dos casos ela se refere à verdade divina.

Em outros casos, "Deus" tem referência ao que é chamado o divino humano. O caso ali é este:

Como seres humanos, nós não podemos engajar o Senhor diretamente como amor divino. É demasiado poderoso e demasiado puro. Em vez disso, temos de nos aproximar dEle, compreendendo-O através da verdade divina. A verdade divina, então, é o Senhor na forma humana, uma forma que podemos abordar e compreender. Assim, "Deus" também é usado em referência a este aspecto humano, porque é uma expressão da verdade.

(Odkazy: Apocalipse Revelado 21; Arcanos Celestes 300, 391, 624, 2001, 2769, 2807 [2], 4287 [4], 6905, 7268, 10154)

7268. 'See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh' means the law of God and the power it has over those steeped in falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'making you a god' as Divine Truth, or what amounts to the same thing, the Divine Law, and also the power it has, for in the Word when truth and also the power of truth are referred to the name 'God' appears, but when good is referred to the name 'Jehovah' does so, see 300, 2586, 2769, 2807, 2822, 3910, 3921 (end), 4287, 4295, 4402, 7010; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as those who are steeped in falsities and engage in molestation, dealt with in 6651, 6679, 6683. To pursue further the meaning of GOD, it should be recognized that in the highest sense 'God' is the Divine which is above the heavens, but that in the internal sense 'God' is the Divine which is within the heavens. The Divine which is above the heavens is Divine Good, whereas the Divine within the heavens is Divine Truth. For Divine Good is the source from which Divine Truth springs, and Divine Truth springing from Divine Good makes heaven and brings order into it. What is properly called heaven is nothing other than the Divine that has been given form there, for the angels in heaven are human forms receptive of the Divine, which together constitute an all-embracing form which is that of a Human Being.

[2] The use of 'God' in the Old Testament Word to mean Divine Truth within the heavens explains why the word for God in the original language is Elohim, a plural form. It also explains why the angels in heaven, being receivers of Divine Truth, are called 'gods', as in David,

Who in heaven will compare himself to Jehovah? Who will be likened to Jehovah among the sons of gods? Psalms 89:6-8.

In the same author,

Give to Jehovah, O sons of gods, give to Jehovah glory and strength. Psalms 29:1.

In the same author,

I said, You are gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you. Psalms 82:6.

In John,

Jesus said, Is it not written in your Law, I said, You are gods? If ¹ He called them gods, with whom the Word of God came to be . . . John 10:34-35.

In addition there are those places in which the Lord is called 'God of gods' and 'Lord of lords', such as Genesis 46:2, 7; Deuteronomy 10:17; Numbers 16:22; Daniel 11:36; Psalms 136:2-3. From all this one may see in what sense Moses is called 'a god', here 'a god to Pharaoh' and in Exodus 4:16 'a god to Aaron' - that he was called such because Moses represented the Divine Law, which is Divine Truth and is called the Word. This also explains why here Aaron is called his 'prophet', and in a previous place his 'mouth', that is, one who declares in a way suitable for the understanding Divine Truth which comes forth directly from the Lord and surpasses all understanding And since a prophet is one who teaches and declares Divine Truth in a way suitable for the understanding, 'a prophet' also means the teachings of the Church, a subject dealt with in what follows next.

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