2098. 'And God went up from over Abraham' means the Lord's entry into the state immediately previous to this. This is clear from what has been stated, and so is clear without explanation. The fact that the Lord experienced two kinds of state while He lived in the world, the first the state of humiliation, the second that of glorification, has been shown already in 1603, 2033. Since He experienced two kinds of state it is clear that He also had two states of perception. He was in a state of glorification, that is, of union of the Human with the Divine, when He perceived the things contained in the internal sense up to this point in this chapter. And the fact that He no longer had such perception is expressed by the statement that 'He finished speaking to him, and God went up from over Abraham'.

2033. 'You shall keep My covenant' means an even closer union. This is clear from the meaning of 'a covenant' as union and conjunction, dealt with already at verses 2, 4, 7, and in Volume One, in 665, 666, 1023, 1038. The further reference here to the covenant which has been mentioned so many times already denotes a closer union. In the historical sense which has to do with Abraham, nothing else may be said than that he was to keep the covenant; but in the internal sense, in which the Lord is the subject, the historical aspects disappear and things take their place which have to do with being united more closely. The union of the Lord's Human Essence with His Divine Essence was not accomplished all at once but gradually throughout the whole course of His life from early childhood to the end of His life in the world. Thus He was ascending continuously towards glorification, that is, towards union, which is what is stated in John,

Jesus said, Father, glorify Your name. A voice came from heaven, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. John 12:28.

See what has appeared already in 1690, 1864.