AC 8863 - the beginning, first & second Commandments

AC 8863
"I am Jehovah thy God,"
signifies the Lord as to the Divine Human
universally reigning in each and all things of good and truth;
"who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of servants,"
signifies liberation by Him from hell;
"Thou shalt have no other gods before My faces,"
signifies that truths must not be thought of
from any other source than the Lord;
"Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image,"
signifies not from self-intelligence;
"nor any likeness,"
signifies a semblance of those things which are from the Divine;
"of that which is in the heavens above,
or that which is in the earth beneath,"
signifies of those things which are in spiritual light,
or of those which are in natural light;
"or that which is in the waters under the earth,"
signifies of those which are in the sensuous corporeal;
"thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them,"
signifies no Divine worship is to be paid them;
"for I Jehovah thy God,"
signifies the Divine from the Lord in each and all things;
"am a zealous God,"
signifies that falsity and evil are therefrom (the sensuous corporeal);
"visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons,"
signifies the consequent prolification of falsity derived from evil;
"upon the thirds and upon the fourths,"
signifies in a long series, and the conjunction of them;
"of them that hate Me,"
signifies who absolutely reject the Divine of the Lord;
"and doing mercy unto thousands,"
signifies good and truth unto them forever;
"of them that love Me,"
signifies who receive the good of love;
"and keep My commandments,"
signifies who receive the truths of faith;
"Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain,"
signifies profanings and blasphemings of the truth and good of faith;
"for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless
that taketh His name in vain,"
signifies that these things cannot be forgiven.