3349. What has been stated so far shows what correspondences are, and what representations are. In addition to what has been stated and shown at the ends of the two previous chapters, in 2987-3003 and 3213-3227, see also what appears concerning them elsewhere, namely the following:
All things in the literal sense of the Word are representatives and meaningful signs of those present in the internal sense, 1404, 1408, 1409, 2763.
The Word given through Moses and the Prophets was written by means of representatives and meaningful signs, and could not be written in any other style if it was to have an internal sense through which communication existed between heaven and earth, 2899.
The Lord too therefore spoke by means of representatives, and for the added reason that He spoke from the Divine itself, 2900.
Where the representatives and meaningful signs contained in the Word, and in religious observances, had their origin, 2179.
Representatives arose from the meaningful signs of the Ancient Church, and these arose from the perceptivity of the Most Ancient Church, 920, 1409, 2896, 2897.
The most ancient people received their representatives from dreams as well, 1977.
Enoch means those who gathered together the perceptivity of the most ancient people, 2896.
In heaven representatives of the Lord and of His kingdom occur constantly, 1619. The heavens are full of representatives, 1521, 1532.
Angels' ideas are transformed in the world of spirits into various representatives, 1971, 1980, 1981. The representatives by which young children are led into intelligence, 2299.
Representatives in the natural order are the product of influx from the Lord, 1632, 1881.
Within the whole natural order there are representatives of the Lord's kingdom, 2758.
Within the external man there are things that do correspond and those that do not correspond to the internal man, 1563, 1568.
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