177. * together, but must be kept separate, what is worldly submitting like household servants to what is heavenly. If they are mixed together, there is death. In man they follow one after the other and are not mixed together, for which reason it is providentially guarded against lest they should be mixed. About these secrets, if God the Messiah finds it fitting, [more will be said] elsewhere. [See also WE 5068, concluding the explanation of verse 33.]
5075. [Exod. 29:] verse 35. Not even the least detail was Moses allowed to change from what had been commanded, for there was not the least thing in the ritual of sacrifices, in the garments, in the tent, etc., that did not portray something distinct and thus refer to something in the teachings of the faith, that is, in the teachings on the acquisition of righteousness through belief. * For every single part of this ritual has an infinite content, just as does every single mental image, as
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