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Sit, stand, and walk before Jehovah

  

In Genesis 18:22, this signifies the Lord's thought from His Human conjoined and adjoined with His Divine. (Arcana Coelestia 2245, 2247)

In Genesis 24:13, this signifies the state of conjunction of truth divine in the Human. (Arcana Coelestia 3065)

In Genesis 24:30, this signifies the presence of truth in general external knowledge of the natural man. (Arcana Coelestia 3135)

In Exodus 18:13, this signifies obedience from truth divine. (Arcana Coelestia 8686)

In Revelation 7:9, this signifies hearing the Lord and doing His Commandments. (Apocalypse Revealed 366)

In Psalm 1:1, to walk expresses life of thought from intention; to stand expresses the life of the intention from the will; and to sit, the life of the will. (Apocalypse Explained 687)

'To sit before Jehovah' is to be with Him, and so, it also means willing and acting from Him. 'To stand before Him,' is to look to and understand His will, and 'to walk before Him,' is to live according to His precepts, so from Him.

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Arcana Coelestia #8687

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8687. 'From morning until evening' means in every state [at that time], inwardly and outwardly. This is clear from the meaning of 'morning' and 'evening' as spiritual states which follow one another like the states belonging to times of day in the world, which are morning, midday, evening, night, and morning again; for these times of day correspond to the changes of state that take place in the next life, see 5672, 5962, 6110, 8426. The reason why inwardly and outwardly is meant is that people in the next life are governed on an internal level by goodness and truth when they pass through a morning state there, that is, a state corresponding to that time of day, but on an outward level when they pass through an evening state there. An evening state which they pass through is one of natural delight, whereas a morning state is one of spiritual delight, see 8431, 8452.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.