AC 9428 - The Lord Calls Moses Up Into Mount Sinai

AC 9428

And the glory of Jehovah tarried upon Mount Sinai,
and the cloud covered it six days;
and on the seventh day He called
unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
And the aspect of the glory of Jehovah
was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain
in the eyes of the sons of Israel.
And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud,
and went up unto the mountain;
and Moses was in the mountain
forty days and forty nights.
(Exodus 24:16-18)


"And the glory of Jehovah tarried upon Mount Sinai,"
-- signifies the interior things
of the Word of the Lord in heaven;
"and the cloud covered it,"
-- signifies the ultimate of the Word,
which is thus relatively obscure;
"six days,"
-- signifies when in a state of truth;
"and on the seventh day He called unto Moses,"
-- signifies the coming of the Lord
when truth has been conjoined with good;
"out of the midst of the cloud,"
-- signifies out of the obscurity there was before;
"and the aspect of the glory of Jehovah
was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain
in the eyes of the sons of Israel,"
-- signifies Divine truth in heaven itself
resplendent from the good of love,
but injuring and vastating with those
who are in its external separate from the internal;
"and Moses entered into the midst of the cloud,"
-- signifies the Word in the external sense;
"and went up unto the mountain,"
-- signifies elevation to heaven;
"and Moses was in the mountain
forty days and forty nights,"
-- signifies what is complete
in respect to instruction and influx.