AE 461 - the progression

AE 461 [4]
The church, from the most ancient times to the end of the Jewish Church,
progressed like a person who is conceived, born, and grows up,
and is then instructed and taught;
but the successive states of the church after the end of the Jewish Church,
or from the time of the Lord even to the present day,
have been like a person increasing in intelligence and wisdom,
or becoming regenerate.
For this end the interior things of the Word, of the church, and of worship,
were revealed by the Lord when He was in the world;
and now again, things still more interior are revealed;
and in the measure that things interior are revealed
can a person become wiser;
for to become interior is to become wiser,
and to become wiser is to become interior.