AC 7014 - Moses in Mount Horeb Then With Jethro

AC 7014

When Moses was in Mount Horeb
with Jehovah seen in a flame,
he then represented the Lord as to Divine truth;
but now with Jethro his father-in-law,
who is the good of the church
which is in the truth of simple good,
he represents the Lord as to truth from the Divine.
Here and elsewhere in the Word,
in the internal sense,
are described all the states of the Lord's life in the world,
how He then made His Human Divine.
That the states were successive,
can be seen from the fact
that the Lord when an infant was like an infant,
and that He afterward grew in intelligence and wisdom,
and continually instilled into these the Divine love,
even until He became the Divine love,
that is, the Divine being or Jehovah,
as to His Human also.
And as the Lord in this way successively put on the Divine,
He therefore first made Himself truth from the Divine,
afterward Divine truth, and at last the Divine good.
These were the steps of the glorification of the Lord
which are described here
and elsewhere in the internal sense of the Word.