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'.