2245. The men looked forth thence. That this signifies the Lord’s thought from the Divine, is evident from the signification of “looking forth,” as being to think (for to “see,” in the internal sense, as in common discourse, is to understand, since understanding is internal sight, and in the same way to “look forth” is to think, which is of the internal sight, that is, of the understanding); and also from the signification of “the men,” as being the Divine. In this chapter throughout mention is sometimes made of “the men,” and sometimes of “Jehovah” instead of “the men:” when mention is made of “the men” there is signified a Trine, namely, the Divine Itself, the Divine Human, and the Proceeding. The Lord’s thought from this Divine is signified by “the men looked forth thence.” The thought was from the Human conjoined with the Divine, which conjunction was treated of at the beginning of this chapter; but the perception from which came the thought was from the Divine, therefore mention is now made in this same verse of “Jehovah”—that “Abraham was standing before Jehovah;” and when the Human was conjoined with the Divine, there was also together with them the Proceeding.