10524. THE INTERNAL SENSE

Verses 1-3 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Go! go up from here, you and the people whom you have caused to come up out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it. And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. [Go up] to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, since you are a stiff-necked people [and] perchance I might consume you on the way.

'And Jehovah spoke to Moses' means instruction regarding the essential nature of the worship and the Church among the Israelite nation. 'Go! go up from here, you and the people whom you have caused to come up out of the land of Egypt, to the land' means that this nation will represent the Church, but the Church will not reside among them, because they cannot be raised from external things. 'Which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, To your seed I will give it' means the Church promised to those who have within themselves from the Lord the good of love and the truths of faith. 'And I will send an angel before you' means that which is Divine and the Lord's, from which the Church and its worship spring. 'And I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite' means the expulsion from there of all evils and falsities. '[Go up] to a land flowing with milk and honey' means feelings of pleasure and delight derived from the good of faith and love. 'For I will not go up in your midst' means that nevertheless what is Divine does not reside with the actual nation. 'Since you are a stiff-necked people' means that they do not receive any influx from the Divine. 'Perchance I might consume you on the way' means that this nation would be destroyed if what is Divine were to flow in and reside with it.