Otherwise, how could there be said to be a height of twelve
thousand furlongs, the same as the length and the breadth? That
"breadth" in the Word signifies truth is evident from David:-
Jehovah, Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the
enemy, Thou hast made my feet to stand in a broad place
(Psalm 31:8).
Out of straitness I called upon Jah; He answereth me in a
broad place (Psalm 118:5). Besides other passages (as in
Isaiah 8:8; and in Habakkuk 1:6). So in all other cases.
198. From all this it can be seen that although there are spaces in
heaven as in the world, still nothing there is reckoned in accordance
with spaces but in accordance with states; and in consequence spaces
there cannot be measured as in the world, but can be seen only from
the state and in accordance with the state of the interiors there.{1}
{Footnote 1} In the Word length signifies good (n. 1613, 9487).
"Breadth" signifies truth (n. 1613, 3433, 3434, 4482, 9487,
10179). Height signifies good and truth in respect to their
degrees (n. 9489, 9773, 10181).
199. The primary and veriest cause of this is that the Lord is
present with everyone in the measure of his love and faith,{1} and
that it is in accordance with the Lord's presence that all things
appear near or far away, for it is from this that all things in the
heavens are determined.
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