AE 750 - our soul

AE 750a
. . . those who are in the combats of temptation
regard the life of the world as of no account
in comparison with the life of heaven,
and consequently regard the death of their body
as of no account in comparison with the life of the soul . . ..
The reason is, that they know that life in the world,
which is only for some years,
is as nothing compared with the life in heaven, which is eternal life;
yea, there is no ratio between the time of a person's life in the world
and the life in heaven that will continue to eternity.

AE 750e[6 & 16]
Thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart,
with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
(Deuteronomy 6:5; 10:12; 11:13; 26:16).

Jesus said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy soul
and with all thy might.
(Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30, 33; Luke 10:27).

"To love Jehovah God with all the heart and all the soul"
means with all the will and all the understanding,
also with all the love and all the faith,
for "heart" signifies the love and the will,
and "soul" signifies the faith and the understanding . . .
"With all the might and with all the mind"
signifies above all things.

Be ye not anxious for your soul what ye shall eat and what ye shall drink,
nor for your body what ye shall put on;
is not the soul more than nourishment,
and the body more than the raiment?
(Matthew 6:25; Luke 12:22, 23)
Although this is said of the life of the body,
still it signifies such things as pertain to the life of the spirit,
for all things of the sense of the letter of the Word, which is natural,
contain within them an internal sense which is spiritual;
in this sense "to eat," "to drink," and "food" signify spiritual nourishment,
which is the nourishment of faith together
with the nourishment of the understanding,
from which comes intelligence in spiritual things;
therefore it is said,
"Be not ye anxious for your soul what ye shall eat and what ye shall drink;
is not the soul more than nourishment?"
"To eat" means to perceive good intellectually and thus spiritually;
"to drink" means to perceive truth intellectually and thus spiritually;
and "nourishment" means good and truth from which is nutrition.
"To clothe the body" and "raiment"
signify truth investing the good of love and of the will;
"raiment" signifies such truth,
and the "body" the good of love which is the good of the will.