9373. Come up unto Jehovah. That this signifies conjunction with the Lord, is evident from the signification of “coming up,” as being to be raised toward interior things (see n. 3084, 4539, 4969, 5406, 5817, 6007), consequently also to be conjoined (n. 8760). That it denotes conjunction with the Lord, is because by “Jehovah” in the Word is meant the the Lord, (n. 1343, 1736, 1793, 2004, 2005, 2018, 2025, 2921, 3023, 3035, 5663, 6280, 6303, 6905, 8274, 8864, 9315). A secret which also lies hidden in the internal sense of these words, is that the sons of Jacob, over whom Moses was the head, were not called and chosen; but they themselves insisted that Divine worship should be instituted among them (according to wh at has been said in n. 4290, 4293); and therefore it is here said, “and He said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah,” as if not Jehovah, but another, had said that he should come up. For the same reason in what follows it is said that “the people should not go up” (verse 2); and that “Jehovah sent not His hand unto the sons of Israel who were set apart” (verse 11); and that “the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel” (verse 17); and lastly that Moses, being called the seventh day, “entered into the midst of the cloud.” For by “the cloud” is meant the Word in the letter (n. 5922, 6343, 6752, 6832, 8106, 8443, 8781); and with the sons of Jacob the Word was separated from its internal sense, because they were in external worship without internal, as can be clearly seen from the fact that now, as before, they said, “all the words which Jehovah hath spoken we will do” (verse 3); and yet scarcely forty days afterward they worshiped a golden calf instead of Jehovah; which shows that this was hidden in their hearts while they were saying with their lips that they would serve Jehovah alone. But nevertheless those who are meant by “the called and the chosen” are those who are in internal worship, and who from internal worship are in external; that is, those who are in love to and faith in the Lord, and from this in love toward the neighbor.
John 2
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And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
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And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
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And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
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Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
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His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
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And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
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Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
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And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
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When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
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And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
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This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
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After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
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And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
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And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
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And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
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And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
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And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
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Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
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Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
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Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
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But he spake of the temple of his body.
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When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
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Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
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But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
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And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
Arcana Coelestia #8878
8878. Of them that hate Me. That this signifies who absolutely reject the Divine of the Lord, is evident from the signification of “them that hate God,” as being those who are in evil and thence in falsity, for these are they who reject the Divine of the Lord; and so far as they are in evil and thence in falsity, so far they not only reject it, but also hold it in hatred. That it is the Divine of the Lord which they reject, is because they who are in evil are not in heavenly light, but in natural light, and finally are in sensuous light which is from the corporeal. From this light they cannot possibly see the Human of the Lord otherwise than as human, for they cannot perceive what the Divine Human is, because they have an idea about the Divine that is utterly empty and worthless. If they are told that the Divine Itself is Divine love, that the Divine love is the being of all life, and that from conception the Lord was this love, which was thus the inmost being of His life, thus was Jehovah, and that He glorified His Human to the likeness of this, that is, made it Divine, all this may indeed be in some measure apprehended by those who are endowed with some intellectual penetration; but still they do not believe it, for when they descend from the intellectual light in which they then are, into their own natural and sensuous light, they fall into mere thick darkness in respect to this truth, and from this into denial.
