10508. 'Behold, My angel will go before you' means that Divine Truth will still be the leader. This is clear from the meaning in the highest sense of 'the angel of Jehovah' as the Lord's Divine Human, and in the relative sense as that which is Divine and the Lord's among angels in the heavens, dealt with in 1925, 2821, 4085, 6831, 9303, so that it means Divine Truth, 8192; and from the meaning of 'going before you' as being the leader.

1924. Verse 7 And the angel of Jehovah found her near a spring of water in the desert, near the spring on the road to Shur.

'The angel of Jehovah found her' means thought in the interior man, 'the angel of Jehovah' here being the interior thought which came from the Lord's Internal. 'Near a spring of water in the desert' means natural truth that has not yet acquired any life. 'Near the spring on the road to Shur' means that this truth was an assemblage of things which come from facts.