992. 'Into Your hands let them be given' means possession of them by the internal man within the external. This is clear from what has been stated already and from the meaning of 'hand', dealt with already in 878. The phrase 'into your hands let them be given' is used because that is what seems to happen.

2469. MAN'S MEMORY AS IT REMAINS WITH HIM AFTER DEATH, AND HIS RECOLLECTION OF THINGS HE HAD DONE DURING HIS LIFETIME

Scarcely anyone has known until now that everyone has two memories, one exterior, the other interior, and that the exterior memory belongs properly to his body but the interior to his spirit.