7827. 'He said, This month shall be for you the head of months' means that this state is the chief of all states. This is clear from the meaning of 'month' as the end of the state that is previous and the beginning of the one that comes next, thus a new state, dealt with in 3814; and from the meaning of 'the head', when used in reference to months of the year and in the internal sense to states of life, as the chief one. From this it is clear that 'this month shall be for you the head of months' means that this state is the chief of all states. The reason why that state is the chief one of all is contained in the words that come next.

2837. 'Jehovah will see' means the Lord's Providence. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing', when it has reference to Jehovah or the Lord, as foreseeing and providing, dealt with in 2807 - for Jehovah is the Lord, see 1343, 1736, 2156, 2329. In the literal sense this phrase is a place-name, but in the internal sense it is the character of the state under description that is meant. For periods of time and measurements of space belong solely to the natural order, and therefore when the sense of the letter of the Word passes over from the natural order into heaven the natural idea of those things perishes completely and becomes the spiritual idea which corresponds to them.