6840. 'And Jehovah ¹ called to him' means an influx from the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'calling' as an influx; for what is meant in the internal sense is not a calling effected by spoken language, as in the external sense written as history, but a calling effected by influx into the will, which is an inner calling. For Jehovah or the Lord flows into the will, and in so doing impels a person to do what He pleases. When this inner experience comes to be portrayed by events on a historical level, a level on which everything is of an external nature, it comes to be expressed by the verbs 'command', 'call', or 'speak to', or others like them.

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