Verse 2. And this revelation is not only external but internal, and teaches that, in the worship of the Lord from Divine Good, man cannot, in every state of the church, enter into the perception and realization of inmost good which is celestial, and is distinguished from spiritual good by intermediate good, and wherein the Lord is present to hear and receive all worship, and to remove evil from man by his reception of the Divine Law in his heart; and the reason is, because, in this case, he would perish; but that still the Lord reveals Himself in the obscurity of man's states, which happens from the Divine Mercy.