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 and holiness, that their affections may be thereby nourished and strengthened in the Divine Life, the wish is instantly granted; where there is an earnest wish for goodness of life, it is sure to be obtained. This is in perfect agreement with the language of the Shepherd of Israel, who says in his word, "Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.' (Psalm lxxxi. 10.) "Ask and it shall be given unto you." (Matt. vii. 7.) But as man cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, so the attainment of the bread, or that nourishment to the affections by which the life of goodness is strengthened and established in the soul, naturally begets an ardent thirst of the understanding for the truth of heaven. Hence the Israelites were no sooner supplied with the manna, than they desired water. That Divine Truth which strengthens the understanding, and cleanses from interior impurities, is here represented by the water drawn from the rock in Horeb. Paul, speaking of this subject, says, in reference to the Israelites, that "they drank of that spiritual Rock which followed them, and that Rock was Christ." (1 Cor. x. 4) The Lord is called a Rock, in reference to all the truths of the Word in the complex, by which a firm and settled faith in Him as the Rock of Ages, is established in tke soul of man. Hence it is said that Jehovah would stand before Moses upon the Rock in Horeb, to denote the Lord's perpetual presence in His Word. It is in the Word of Revelation—at this Rock in Horeb, where the Lord will meet with us, and from whence He will amply supply all our spiritual wants. It is here where the Divine Law was promulgated; here the covenant was made; and from this Everlasting Rock, the