172. I put upon you no other burden, signifies that this alone should be guarded against. This is evident from the signification of "laying a burden" upon those in whom the internal can be conjoined with the external, as being that they should carefully guard against this, since the delights of these two loves are the sole cause of the closing of man's internal, which looks to heaven. When that is closed there is no conjunction of the internal with the external, which looks to the world, nor any influx from heaven. It is said "burden," because man's proprium [what is man's own], which is to love self above God and the world above heaven, offers resistance.