195. 5293. Just because a someone is permitted to speak with heavenly beings, with angels, with the dead as to the body, the person is not holy on that account, just as Jacob was not, Aaron was not, others were not merely because Jehovah had spoken with them. For we read that Jehovah spoke with Adam after the fall [Gen. 3:9], with Cain [4:9], even with the serpent [3:14], wherefore it can in no wise be inferred that such are holy above others. The fact that I have been granted to speak with angels, both good and evil, implies nothing holy about me, so that I cannot claim even the very least holiness on that account. But about these matters I will speak elsewhere, insofar as God the Messiah finds it fitting. [Jews] [See also WE 5294-97, concluding the explanation of Exod. 32:1 in particular.]
[See WE 5306-10, explaining Exod. 32:5-6.] 5311. What they deserve for the breaking of a most holy covenant [verses 1-6] cannot be unknown to them. Nations that had done like things, had not entered into a sacred covenant, nor had they any knowledge of Jehovah, being in the midst of darkness, while this people was in full daylight, as is proven by many passages; and yet they condemn those nations to Tartarus, and raise themselves up onto the throne of God the Messiah. Let them reply, if it is they who were present [194], for now there is silence! Nothing else
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