300. As regards the first arcanum, that 'Jehovah God' is used to mean the Lord and at the same time heaven, it should be recognized that in the Word, always for some hidden reason, the Lord is sometimes called simply Jehovah, sometimes Jehovah God, sometimes Jehovah and God interchangeably, sometimes the Lord Jehovah, sometimes the God of Israel, and sometimes simply God. In Genesis 1, for example, where again an utterance is made in the plural, 'Let Us make man in Our image', God is the only name used. Not until the next chapter, where the celestial man is the subject, is He called Jehovah God-Jehovah, because He alone has Being and is Living, and so from His essence; God, because of His ability to accomplish all things, and so from His power, as is clear in the Word where the two names are used separately, Isaiah 49:4-5; 55:7; Psalms 18:2, 28, 30-31; Psalms 38:15. Consequently any angel or spirit who spoke to a person, or who people thought had the ability to accomplish something, they called God, as is clear in David,

God stands in the assembly of God, in the midst of the Gods will He judge. Psalms 82:1.

And elsewhere in David,

Who in the sky will be compared to Jehovah? Who will be likened to Jehovah among the sons of gods? Psalms 89:6.

And elsewhere in the same,

Confess the God of Gods; confess the Lord of lords. Psalms 136:2-3

It is from power that even men are called 'gods', as in Psalms 82:6; John 10:34-35. And Moses is spoken of as 'a god to Pharaoh', Exodus 7:1. And this also is why [in Hebrew] the word for God, Elohim, is plural. But because angels have no power whatsoever from themselves, as they themselves also confess, but from the Lord only, and as there is but one God, Jehovah God is therefore used in the Word to mean the Lord alone. Yet when anything is accomplished through the ministry of angels He is spoken of in the plural, as in Genesis 1. In the present chapter too, since a celestial man, as man, did not bear comparison with the Lord, but with angels, it is therefore said that 'the man has become as one of Us in knowing good and evil', that is, become someone wise and having intelligence.

9833. 'And the violet, and the purple, and the twice-dyed scarlet, and the fine linen' means the good of charity and faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'the violet' as the celestial love of truth, dealt with in 9466; from the meaning of 'the purple' as the celestial love of good, dealt with in 9467; from the meaning of 'the twice-dyed scarlet' as spiritual good, dealt with in 4922, 9468; and from the meaning of 'the fine linen' as truth which has a celestial origin, dealt with in 5319, 9469. Thus these threads taken all together mean the good of love and faith, though at this point they mean the good of charity and faith since they have regard to things in the spiritual kingdom, 9814. 'The violet', 'the purple', 'the twice-dyed scarlet', and 'the fine linen' come to mean forms of love or charity and aspects of faith because of their colours. For the colours which appear in heaven owe their origin to the light of heaven, this light being Divine Truth which emanates from the Lord, the Source of all intelligence and wisdom. Consequently all the variations of that light, which appear visually there as colours, are variations of intelligence and wisdom consisting of truths and forms of the good of faith, charity, and love, see 1042, 1053, 1624, 3993, 4530, 4677, 4741, 4742, 4922, 9466; and in the measure that colours there are derived from red they are the sign of good, whereas in the measure that they are derived from white they are the sign of truth, 9467.