2326. “就起来迎接” 表承认和对仁爱的感觉. 这从以下事实清楚可知: 即他们一到, 罗得立刻承认他们是天使; 而所多玛人则不是这样, 关于他们, 经上说 “呼叫罗得, 对他说, 今晚到你这里来的人在哪里呢? 把他们带出来, 任我们所为” (19:5). 就内义而言, 这些话表示那些具有仁之善的教会中人承认 “那两个天使” 所表示的主的神圣人性和神圣活动, 但那些没有仁之善的人则不承认. 这些话还包含对仁爱的感觉, 这从以下事实明显看出来: 即代表那些具有仁之善之人的罗得 (事实上, “罗得” 表源于仁爱的良善本身) 邀请他们到他舍下.

'Hasten,' in reference to Joseph, as mentioned in Genesis 43:30, signifies what bursts forth from the inmost. This is because his compassions were moved, which signifies mercy from love. When this bursts forth, it bursts forth from the inmost, and this at the first striking of the eye, or at the first moment of thought, therefore, 'hastening,' signifies nothing but 'from the inmost.' 'To hasten' or 'hastiness' in the internal sense, does not denote what is quick, but what is certain, and also what is full, thus every event. For 'haste' involves time, and in the spiritual world there is not time, but instead of time there is state, thus the haste of time has relation to such a quality of state that corresponds, and the quality of the state which corresponds is that there are several things which are efficient together, from which results a certain and full event.

(Izinkomba: Arcana Coelestia 5284)