248. The Jewish church and the Jews. The statutes, judgments and laws, which were commanded in the Jewish Church, were in part like those which existed in the Ancient Church, nos. 4449, 4835. In what respect the representative rites of the Jewish Church differed from those of the Ancient Church, nos. 4288, 10149. A representative Church was instituted among that nation, but in the nation itself there was no Church, nos. 4899, 4912, 6304. Therefore, as to that nation itself, it was the representative of a Church, but not a Church, nos. 4281, 4288, 4311, 4500, 6304, 7048, 9320, 10396, 10526, 10531, 10698. The Israelitish and Jewish nation was not chosen, but was accepted to represent the Church, on account of the stubbornness with which their fathers and Moses insisted upon it, nos. 4290, 4293, 7051, 7439, 10430, 10535, 10632. Their worship was merely external, apart from any internal worship, nos. 1200, 3147, 3479, 8871. They were entirely unacquainted with the internals of worship, and were not willing to know them, nos. 301, 302, 303, 3479, 4429, 4433, 4680, 4844, 4847, 10396, 10401, 10407, 10694, 10701, 10707. How they consider the internals of Worship, of the Church, and of the Word, no. 4865. Their interiors were filthy, full of the loves of self and the world, and of avarice, nos. 3480, 9962, 10454-10457, 10462-10466, 10575. On this account the internals of the Church were not discovered to them, because they would have profaned them, nos. 2520, 3398, 3480, 4289. The Word was altogether closed to them, no. 3769. They see the Word from without and not from within, nos. 10549, 10550, 10551. Wherefore, their Internal, when in worship, was closed, nos. 8788, 8806, 9320, 9377, 9380, 9962, 10396, 10401, 10407, 10492, 10498, 10500, 10575, 10629, 10692. That nation, also, more than others, was of such a character that they could be in external sanctity while the Internal was closed, nos. 4293, 4311, 4903, 9373, 9377, 9380. Their state at that time, no. 4311. On this account also they have been preserved to the present day, no. 3479. Their external sanctity was miraculously raised by the Lord into heaven, and the interior things of Worship, of the Church, and of the Word were thus perceived, nos. 3480, 4307, 4311, 6304, 8588, 10492, 10500, 10602. In order that this might be effected, they were compelled by external means to observe strictly their rites in their external form, nos. 3147, 4281, 10149. Since they were able to be in external sanctity, apart from any internal, they could represent the holy things of the Church and of heaven, nos. 3479, 3881, 4208, 6603, 8588, 9377, 10430, 10500, 10570. Still those holy things did not affect them, no. 3479. It does not matter what is the quality of the person who represents, because the representation has respect to the thing, and not to the person, nos. 665, 1097, 1361, 3147, 3881, 4208, 4281, 4288, 4292, 4307, 4444, 4500, 6304, 7048, 7439, 8588, 8788, 8806. That nation was worse than other nations; its quality is also described from the Word of both Testaments, nos. 4314, 4316, 4317, 4444, 4503, 4750, 4751, 4815, 4820, 4832, 5057, 5998, 7248, 8819, 9320, 10454-10457, 10462-10466. The tribe of Judah turned aside into a worse state than the other tribes, no. 4815. How cruelly they treated the Gentiles, from a feeling of delight, nos. 5057, 7248, 9320. That nation was idolatrous at heart, and more than other nations worshipped other gods, nos. 3732, 4208, 4444, 4825, 5998, 6877, 7401, 8301, 8871, 8882. Even their worship, when considered as it was in that nation itself, was idolatrous, because it was external apart from any Internal, nos. 4281, 4825, 8871, 8882. They worshipped Jehovah only in name, nos. 6877, 10559, 10560, 10561, 10566; and solely on account of miracles, no. 4299. Those are mistaken who believe that, at the end of the Church, the Jews will be converted, and taken back into the land of Canaan, nos. 4847, 7051, 8301. Many passages are adduced on this subject from the Word, which, however, are to be understood according to the internal sense, thus otherwise than according to the letter, no. 7051. On account of that nation the Word was changed, as to its external sense, but not as to its internal sense, nos. 10453, 10461, 10603, 10604. According to their quality, Jehovah appeared to them on Mount Sinai, in a consuming fire, in a thick cloud, and in smoke as of a furnace, nos. 1861, 6832, 8814, 8819, 9434. The Lord appears to every one according to his quality; as a vivifying and invigorating fire to those who are in good, and as a consuming fire to those who are in evil, nos. 934, 1861, 6832, 8814, 8819, 9434, 10561. One origin of that nation was from a Canaanitish woman, and its two other origins were from whoredom with a daughter-in-law, nos. 1167, 4818, 4820, 4874, 4899, 4913. These origins signified the quality of their conjunction with the Church, namely, that it was like the conjunction with a Canaanitish woman, and like whoredom with a daughter-in-law, nos. 4868, 4874, 4899, 4911, 4913. Their state in the other life, nos. 939, 940, 5057. Since this nation, although of such a quality, represented the Church; and since the Word was written among them and concerning them; therefore Divine-celestial things were signified by their names, as by Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Ephraim, Joseph, and the rest. Judah, in the internal sense signifies the Lord as to celestial love, and His celestial kingdom, nos. 3654, 3881, 5583, 5603, 5782, 6363. The prophecy of Israel concerning Judah (Gen. xlix. 8-12), wherein the Lord is treated of, explained, nos. 6363-6381. The tribe of Judah and Judaea signify the celestial Church, nos. 3654, 6364. The twelve tribes represent, and therefore signify, all things of love and faith in the aggregate, nos. 3856, 3926, 4060, 6335; consequently also heaven and the Church, nos. 6337, 6637, 7836, 7891. Their signification is according to the order in which they are named, nos. 3862, 3926, 3939, 4603, et seq., 6337, 6640. The twelve tribes were divided into two Kingdoms, in order that the Jews might represent the celestial Kingdom, and the Israelites the spiritual Kingdom, nos. 8770, 9320. The seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, signifies the goods and truths of the Church, nos. 3373, 10445.