7933. 'As He has spoken' means in accordance with the promise contained in the Word. This is clear from the meaning of 'speaking', when the Lord talks of heaven to which those belonging to the spiritual Church are to come, as the promise contained in the Word. For the internal sense of the Word, both in the Books of Moses and in the Prophets, deals with the deliverance of those who before the Lord's Coming were held back on the lower earth, where they were molested by the evil, and with their being raised into heaven. And these people are meant in those books by 'the children of Israel'. This promise [of deliverance] is what 'as Jehovah has spoken' means here.
[2] When the Lord says in various places that all things in Scripture are to be or have been brought to completion in Him, He means the things contained in the internal sense of the Word; for that sense deals exclusively with the Lord's kingdom, and the highest sense with the Lord Himself. For example in Luke,
Jesus said to the disciples, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me. Then He opened their minds, in order that they might understand the Scriptures. Luke 24:44, 45.
In the same gospel,
Behold, we are going up into Jerusalem where all things will be accomplished that have been written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man. Luke 18:31.
And in Matthew,
Do not think that I came to destroy the Law and the Prophets; I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. Truly I say to you, Even until heaven and earth pass away, one lot or one little horn [on a letter] will not pass away in the Law till all things are done. Matt 5:17, 18.
[3] In these statements and in those which the Lord makes elsewhere about the fulfilment of the Law or Scripture He means, as has been stated, the things foretold about Himself in the internal sense. Every single detail in that sense, even to each jot or each smallest tittle, has to do with the Lord. This is why He says that 'one jot or one little horn will not pass away in the Law till all things are done'. And in Luke,
It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the Law to fall. Luke 16:17.
Anyone who does not know that every detail even to the smallest of all has to do in the internal sense with the Lord and His kingdom, and that for this reason the Word is most holy, cannot begin to understand what this may mean, that not one tittle will fall, that not one jot or little horn will pass away, and that it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away. For although the details that present themselves in the outward sense do not seem to be so important, the continuity of the text inwardly is such that not a part of a word could be left out without causing a break in the sequence of thought.
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