9371. THE INTERNAL SENSE.

Verses 1-2. And He said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah, thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and bow yourselves afar off; and Moses, he alone, shall come near unto Jehovah; and they shall not come near; and the people shall not come up with him. “And He said unto Moses,” signifies that which concerns the Word in general; “come up unto Jehovah,” signifies conjunction with the Lord; “thou and Aaron,” signifies the Word in the internal sense and the external sense; “Nadab and Abihu,” signifies doctrine from both senses; “and seventy of the elders of Israel,” signifies the chief truths of the church which are of the Word, or of doctrine, and which agree with good; “and bow yourselves afar off,” signifies humiliation and adoration from the heart, and then the influx of the Lord; “and Moses, he alone, shall come near unto Jehovah,” signifies the conjunction and presence of the Lord through the Word in general; “and they shall not come near,” signifies no separate conjunction and presence; “and the people shall not come up with him,” signifies no conjunction whatever with the external apart from the internal.

12. 10. Thou shalt call His name Jesus, He shall save the people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).

The wise men came to adore the infant Jesus, and that He would be born in Bethlehem according to Micah 5:1 (Matthew 2:1-6).

The wise men adored Him and brought Him gifts (Matthew 2:11).

Jesus said to John, It becometh us so to fulfil all the justice of God (Matthew 3:15).

Jesus said to the devil who was tempting, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God; and again, Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve (Matthew 4:7, 10).

A ruler came and adored Jesus (Matthew 9:18).

He that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me (Matthew 10:40).

All things are delivered unto Me by my Father, wherefore come ye all unto Me (Matthew 11:27-28).

They that were in the ship adored Jesus, saying, Of a truth Thou art the Son of God (Matthew 14:33). A woman of Canaan (Matthew 15:25), the disciples (Luke 24:52), a blind man (John 9:38), adored Him.

Multitudes glorified the God of Israel (Matthew 15:31). There is one Rabbi and one Master, that is, He teaches what is good and true (Matthew 23:8,10).

Of the sign of the coming of the Lord and of the consummation of the age (Matthew 24:1 to end).

Then shall there be wars and rumor, and they will say, I am the Christ; false prophets shall arise and seduce many; signifies the heresies in the first times, which were many (Matthew 24:5-14).

The women, running to Jesus, adored Him (Matthew 28:9).

He said, All power is given unto Me in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18; Psalms 8:6-7).

2768. That God did tempt Abraham. That this signifies the Lord’s most grievous and inmost temptations, is evident from what follows. That in the internal sense by “Abraham” is represented and meant the Lord, is manifest from all that precedes where Abraham is treated of. That the Lord suffered most grievous and inmost temptations, which are described in this chapter in the internal sense, will be made evident. But its being said that “God did tempt,” is according to the sense of the letter, in which temptations and many other things are attributed to God; but it is according to the internal sense that God tempts no one; but in the time of temptations is continually liberating from them, as far as possible, or as far as the liberation does not do harm, and is continually looking to the good into which He is leading him who is in the temptations; for God never takes part in temptations in any other manner; and though it is predicated of Him that He permits, still it is not according to the idea which man has of permission, namely, that by permitting He concurs. Man cannot comprehend it in any other manner than that he who permits is also willing; but it is the evil within the man which causes, and even leads into the temptation; and no cause of this is in God-as the cause is not in the king or in the judge, when a man does evil and suffers punishment therefor. For he who separates himself from the laws of Divine order, all of which are the laws of good and thence of truth, casts himself into the laws that are opposite to Divine order, which are those of evil and falsity, and thence of punishments and torments.