10571. And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will do this word also that thou hast spoken. That this signifies that the Divine shall be in the external of the church, of worship, and of the Word, which is with them, is evident from the representation of Moses, in that as the head of that nation he denotes the external of the church, of worship, and of the Word, not so separate from the internal as was the external of these with the nation itself (of which above, n. 10557, 10563); and from the signification of “doing the word which Moses spoke,” when said by Jehovah, as being that the Divine shall be in the external; for by “doing the word” is meant to go with them and bring them into the land of Canaan, and by “going with them and bringing them into the land of Canaan” is signified that the Divine shall be manifested among them (n. 10569). The secret hidden in these and the following verses can with difficulty be described, unless there is some idea of the external of the church, of worship, and of the Word, which Moses represents; and of the external of the church, of worship, and of the Word, in which was the nation itself. The one is distinguished from the other in the fact that the external which Moses represents is an external not so separate from the internal as is the external in which was the nation itself. From this it is that at one time mention is made of “Moses and the people,” at another time of “Moses” without the people, and at another of “the people” without Moses; and that when Moses speaks to Jehovah, he says, “I and the people,” and when Jehovah speaks to Moses, He speaks of Moses alone (as in verses 12-14, 17, 19-23), or of the people separately from him (as in verses 2-3 of the following chapter, and elsewhere).