AE 419 - He Rebuked the Wind

AE 419 [24]

There arose a great storm of wind,
and the waves beat into the boat,
so that it was now filling.
But Jesus was in the stern,
slumbering on a pillow;
and they awake Him, and said to Him,
"Teacher, don't You care if we drown?"
And He awoke, and rebuked the wind,
and said unto the sea,
"Be still, be dumb."
And the wind ceased,
and there was a great calm.
(Mark 4:37-39

This miracle of the Lord, like all the rest,
involves arcana of heaven and interior things of the church.
The difference between Divine miracles and those not Divine
is that Divine miracles also signify Divine things,
because the Divine is in them,
while miracles not Divine signify nothing,
because there is nothing of the Divine within them;
and moreover,
in the description of the Divine miracles in the Word,
and in every particular thereof, there is a spiritual sense.
This miracle involves spiritual temptations;
"a great storm of wind,
so that the waves beat into the boat,
and it was filling,"
signifies such temptations;
and that when they were in extreme fear,
"Jesus awoke, and rebuked the wind,
and said to the sea, 'Be still, be dumb';
and the wind ceased, and there was a great calm,"
signifies deliverance from temptations.
Moreover, every single word here contains a spiritual sense;
but this is not the place to unfold it particularly,
but only to note that the "storm" and "tempest of wind"
signify temptations,
for these are irruptions (a bursting in) of falsities,
or inundations of the mind by falsities.
This, too, is plain from the rebuke of the wind and the waves,
and from the words of the Lord to the sea,
"Be still, be dumb,"
as if He were speaking to those things
or those persons that induce temptations.