AC 10436 - worship and the church; AC 10441 - repentance

AC 10436 [2]
Be it known that the church is not the church
from external worship, but from internal worship;
for external worship is of the body,
but internal worship is of the soul.
Consequently external worship without internal
is of the outward act only,
thus is worship without life from the Divine.
Through the interior things of worship
the person of the church communicates with the heavens,
to which the external serves as a plane
upon which the interior things may subsist,
as a house upon its foundations;
and when it so subsists it is complete and firm,
and the whole person is directed by the Divine. 
   
AC 10441
. . . the signification of "repenting," when said of Jehovah,
as being to be merciful.
That "to repent" denotes to be merciful
is because Jehovah never repents,
for He foresees and provides all things from eternity.
Repentance is applicable only
to him who does not know the future,
and who, when the thing comes to pass,
finds that he has erred.