They shall teach no more everyone his friend and
everyone his brother, saying, Know ye Jehovah; for they
shall all know Me, from the least of them even unto the
greatest of them (31:33, 34).
And in Matthew,
Let your speech be Yea, yea, Nay, nay; what is more than
these is from evil (5:37).
"What is more than these is from evil" because it is not from the
Lord; and inasmuch as the angels of the third heaven are in love to
the Lord the truths that are in them are from the Lord. In that
heaven love to the Lord is willing and doing Divine truth, for Divine
truth is the Lord in heaven.
{Footnote 1} Of the correspondence of the ear and of hearing
(n. 4652-4660). The ear corresponds to and therefore signifies
perception and obedience (n. 2542, 3869, 4653, 5017, 7216,
8361, 9311, 9397, 10061). The ear signifies the reception of
truths (n. 5471, 5475, 9926). The correspondence of the eye and
its sight (n. 4403-4421, 4523-4534); from which the sight of
the eye signifies the intelligence that belongs to faith, and
also faith (n. 2701, 4410, 4526, 6923 9051, 10569).
272. There is a still further reason, and this is in heaven the
primary reason, why the angels are able to receive so great wisdom,
namely, that they are without the love of self; for to the extent
that any one is without the love of self he can become wise in Divine
things.
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