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76 the literal sense, for this clothes the spiritual sense; for in the literal sense of the Word the Lord's Divine thoughts are clothed in language and in imagery that bring them down to our feeble capacities. If the literal sense of the Word is understood by the coat which Jacob made for his son, then the many different books of which the Bible is composed, are the many pieces of the mystic coat; Genesis is one piece of this sacred garment, Exodus another, the Psalms another, Isaiah another, and all the other books are different parts. Each of all these may be said to have a different colour: that is, each presents the Lord's Divine truth under a different quality and aspect; no two are alike, yet they all harmonise like the various colours of the rainbow. As all the various colours come from the one pure white light, so do all the different books, and even all the different truths of the Divine Word, come from the one pure truth, which has its fountain in God, as pure white light has its fountain in the sun. The history tells us that Joseph's father made this peculiar coat for Joseph, which fact teaches us, in its