AR 662 - The Song of Moses; AR 663 - The Lord Is Called

AR 662

To sing a new song means 
to joyfully confess from the heart and affection 
that the Lord alone 
is the Savior and Redeemer 
and the God of heaven and earth . . .. 
Here, however, the song is called not a new song, 
but the song of Moses, the servant of God, 
and the song of the Lamb; 
and the song of Moses symbolizes a confession 
springing from a life in accordance with 
the precepts of the Law 
that constitute the Ten Commandments, 
thus from charity, 
while the song of the Lamb 
symbolizes a confession springing from 
a faith in the Divinity of the Lord's humanity. 
For the Lamb means the Lord 
in respect to His Divine humanity, 
while Moses in a broad sense means 
all the law written in his five books, 
and in a strict sense, 
the Law called the Ten Commandments; 
and because this serves people in the way they live, 
the song of Moses is called 
the song of Moses, the servant of God. 
For in the Word a servant means 
someone or something that serves,
 in this case for the way one is to live.

AR 663

. . . the Lord is also called the Lord in the Word 
because of the Divine goodness of His Divine love, 
and God because of the Divine truth 
of His Divine wisdom.

The Lord is called almighty 
because He is, lives, 
and can do all things of Himself, 
and also directs all things from Himself . . ..

So it is that, in a universal sense, 
"Great and marvelous are Your works, 
Lord God Almighty!" means symbolically 
that everything in the world, 
in heaven and in the church 
was created and formed by the Lord 
out of His Divine love 
by means of His Divine wisdom.