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136 EXODUS. [Chap, xxiii. neither heaven, and at length that there is no God; consequently whence it is that he laughs at every thing of the church so far as concerns himself, but affirms so far as concerns the simple, that they may be in other bonds than what are derived from the laws. Hence it maybe known what it is to be in externals and not at the same time in internals, and that man, when he is in externals, is in cold and in shade as to those things which are of heaven and which are of the Lord; and also hence it may be known who in the world are intelligent and wise, namely, they who are in the truth and good of the church, because these savor of heaven; also who are foolish and delirious, namely they who are not in the good and truth of the church, because they are in science only from the world; and that such of them, as by sciences of the world have confirmed themselves against the truths and goods of the church, are more delirious and foolish than the rest, howsoever they believe themselves more intelligent and wiser than others, and call them simple who are in the good of life from the truths of doctrine, when yet the simplicity of these latter is wisdom before the angels, and these latter also after death are elevated into angelic wisdom by the Lord. That this is the case, the Lord also teaches in Matthew, "Therefore I speak by parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, neither understand," xiii. 13,11. And in John, "I will send the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, since it does not see Him, neither acknowledge Him; yet a little while the world shall see Me no more," xiv. 17, 19. That the world cannot receive the Spirit of Truth, since it does not see Him, neither knoweth Him, signifies that it will not acknowledge the Lord by faith of the heart, because the external things which are of the world will obscure; hence who at this day adores Him as the Lord of the whole heaven and earth, Matt. xxv iii. 18; when yet all who are in the heavens, thus who are in things internal, see the Lord as their only God.

9279. "And on the seventh day thou shalt cease"—that hereby is signified a state of good when in things internal, and tranquillity of peace on the occasion, appears from the signification of the seventh day or sabbath, as denoting when man is in good, and by good is led of the Lord, concerning which see n. 8195, 8510, 8891, 8893; and from the signification of ceasing or resting from works, as denoting the tranquillity of peace on the occasion; concerning this state, see what was said and shown above, n. 9274, 9271. But it may be expedient briefly to say whence it is that man, when he is in good, is then in things internal. , See n. 6057, wherefore also the externals receive those things which are of the