Arcana Coelestia #9390
9390. ‘Et misit pueros filiorum Israelis’: quod significet illa quae sunt innocentiae et charitatis, constat ex significatione ‘puerorum filiorum Israelis’ quod sint quae innocentiae et charitatis apud illos qui ab Ecclesia; per ‘lactentes’ enim, ‘infantes’, et ‘pueros’ significantur illi qui in innocentia et charitate, seu abstracte a personis illa qua sunt innocentiae et charitatis, 1 n. 430, 5236, et per filios Israelis significantur illi qui ab Ecclesia, seu abstracte a personis 2 Ecclesia n. 9340.
Fotnoter:
1. The Manuscript inserts videatur.
2. Ecclesiae, in the First Latin Edition and in the Second Latin Edition
Jehovah
The Lord, in the simplest terms, is love itself expressed as wisdom itself. In philosophic terms, love is the Lord's substance and wisdom is His form. Of course, we feel the Lord's love and hear His wisdom in many different ways, depending on our state in life and how receptive we are. That's why the Lord has so many different names in the Bible, and is referred to in so many different ways.