1477. 'My soul may live because of you' means that in this way the celestial could be saved. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'soul' as the celestial, for being the essential life itself the celestial is the soul itself. From this it is clear what 'so that my soul may live because of you' means. From what follows it will be clear that celestial or Divine things were not so joined to the Lord that they constituted one Essence until He had undergone temptations and so had cast out hereditary evil from the mother. This verse and those that follow describe how in the meantime the celestial itself had no violence done to it but was saved.