104. * when spirits are permitted to pour in convictions, together with feelings, and at the same time to snatch away anything that refutes them. But they do not realize that in spite of this, they still have not overtaken the person, for that evil is turned by God the Messiah into good, so that they are compelled to admit afterwards they had not overtaken him at all. [Agreement; Persuasion; Spirit] [See also WE 4039-42, concluding the explanation of this verse.]
[See WE 4069, explaining Exod. 15:22-27 in general.] 4070. Now although the [sons of Jacob] were of this character, still God the Messiah did not wish to abandon them, both because of the promise [made to Abraham] and, especially, because of the portrayal in them of the sons of Israel [see 46, 99, WE 2806, 3142, 3337-38, 3392]. For when God the Messiah saw their external rites and the statutes He had commanded them, He did not see them with human eyes, but with Divine ones, that is, He saw the Heavenly things they portrayed, thus calling to remembrance the Church of the Gentiles, both the earliest one and the one to come, that is, the sons of Israel; and so he did not wish to forsake them. Outer things entirely interact with inner ones - but [only] with Him Who is in the innermost regions and in the highest. For there is such an interaction that whatever exists on the earthly plane and is named, is understood entirely spiritually by those who are spiritual - as I once found out when I was telling in a series
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