8942. 'For if you move your chisel over it' means if a product of the proprium or self. This is clear from the meaning of 'chisel' as counterfeit truth, thus a product of the self. For a chisel is a piece of iron used to carve and shape figures out of stones, and therefore the human self is meant here since this shapes things which are to compose religion, to make them look like the truth. Instead of the word 'chisel' some places elsewhere have '[a piece of] iron', while others elsewhere have 'axe', as in Deuteronomy 27:5; Joshua 8:30-31; 1 Kings 6:7; Isaiah 44:10-12; Hosea 13:2; Jeremiah 10:3-4; and these tools mean such things as are implements of self-intelligence used for fabrication.

1492. That 'he said, What is this you have done to me?' means that it grieved Him becomes clear-also from the very indignant way in which these things were said. The resulting grief itself is thus expressed. The internal sense is such that it is the emotion itself lying hidden within the words which constitutes the internal sense. No attention is paid to the words of the letter; it is as though these did not exist. The emotion held within the words used here is so to speak knowledge's indignation and the Lord's grief, and is indeed grief arising from the realization that the facts which He had absorbed with pleasure and delight were to be thus destroyed. It is the same with little children who, when something they love is taken away from them which their parents see is harmful to them, grieve over their loss of it.