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Rh without, by seeing and hearing; whereas the second is internal peace, because coming from within, through divine communication, and is therefore emphatically called by the Lord, My peace.

170. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond; [it is] engraven on the table of their heart, and in the horns of your altars. (Jer. xvii. 1.) By these words is described, that idolatrous worship was so deeply rooted in the Jewish nation that it could not be eradicated. That it was so deeply in-rooted, as to be incapable of eradication, is signified by the sin of Judah being written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, and being engraven on the table of their heart, and in the horns of their altars; the false principle which was in-rooted, is meant by being written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond; and the evil which was in-rooted, is meant by being engraven on the table of their heart, and in the horns of their altars.

171. It is written in the 144th Psalm, verse 15, Happy is the people whose is the ; in other words, whose truth is good; since God, according to the spiritual idea, denotes divine truth, and Lord, according to the same idea, denotes divine good.

172. The births of the two sons of Joseph, namely, Manasseh and Ephraim, are significative and representative of two very interesting states of regenerative life. For Manasseh, in the original tongue, means forgetfulness, and was a name therefore applied to