5888. 'And do not have any anger in your eyes' means sadness in the spirit or understanding. This is clear from the meaning of 'anger' here as sadness, for the words used here are a kind of repetition expressing much the same as those they follow - 'do not be grieved' - by which anxiety in the heart or will is meant (for when an apparent repetition occurs in the Word, one expression has reference to the will, the other to the understanding; or what amounts to the same, one has reference to the good of love, the other to the truth of faith. The reason for this is the heavenly marriage, which is one of goodness and truth, present in every detail of the Word, dealt with in 683, 793, 801, 2173, 2516, 2712, 5502); and from the meaning of 'eyes' as the understanding, dealt with in 2701, 4403-4421, 4523-4534.

683. As regards the use twice of the verb 'did' comprehending both good and truth, it should be recognized that in the Word, especially the Prophets, one matter may be described in two ways, as in Isaiah,

He has passed on in peace, a way He has not gone with His feet. Who has performed and done this? Isaiah 42:3, 4.

Here the first statement has regard to good, the second to truth, that is to say, the first regards things of the will, the second those of the understanding. Thus 'passing on in peace' embodies things of the will, 'a way he did not go with His feet' those of the understanding. The same applies to 'performing' and 'doing'. In the Word things that belong to the will and to the understanding, that is, to love and faith - or what amounts to the same, celestial things and spiritual things - are joined together in such a way that each individual part images a marriage, and answers to the heavenly marriage. The same applies here with the repetition of the same verb.