8893. 'And rested on the seventh day' means that at that time peace and the good of love are present. This is clear from the meaning of 'resting' as peace; and from the meaning of 'the seventh day' as the state of celestial love, dealt with in 84-87, and therefore what is holy, 395, 433, 716, 5265, 5268. The reason why 'resting on the seventh day' means peace and the good of love is that before a person has been regenerated or created anew there is no serenity or rest, since his natural life engages in conflict at that time with his spiritual life and wishes to have dominion over it. Consequently the Lord at that time labours, for He fights for the person against the hells that attack. But as soon as the good of love has been implanted conflict comes to an end, and rest takes over; for now the person is brought into heaven and is led by the Lord in accord with the laws of order there, and so is at peace. These things are meant by 'Jehovah's rest on the seventh day'.

We tend to speak somewhat casually of "truth from the Lord," but in actual fact the Lord's truth -- the immediate expression of His infinite love -- is of such brightness and blinding power that it actually is light itself, the light of heaven, bright beyond human imagination, and must be filtered down through multiple levels to a state where we can form it into mental concepts and express it in language. Indeed, this is why the Bible is written with an internal sense; only through such indirect expression can it serve as a container for the real truth that lies hidden within. That brilliance, that overwhelming light from the Lord contained in the Bible, is what "glory" means in the Bible's natural language. That's why it is seen so often in passing, or imagined, or seen within a cloud: We cannot look at it directly.