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given, in the previous discourse, a general view of this Commandment in its literal sense, I now proceed to consider it in its internal or spiritual sense.

"The spiritual sense of this Commandment," says the Doctrine of the New Church, "is, that no other God than the Lord Jesus Christ is to be worshiped; for he is Jehovah, who came into the world and effected the redemption, without which neither man nor angel could have been saved. All who acknowledge and worship any other God than the Lord the Savior, Jesus Christ, who is Himself Jehovah God in the human form, sin against this Commandment. So also do those who per-