* The things that happened to me now, and earlier, when I wrote about the Law delivered on Mount Sinai, are stupefying, and of such a nature that I dare not reveal them as yet [cf. 141].* [See the rest of WE 5386-90, concluding the explanation of this verse.]

[See WE 5392-5400, explaining Exod. 32:17.] 5401. Such a war, or such a "voice of war," is heard in all kinds of camps, specifically in the spiritual and the heavenly person, in a society of such people, or the Church, in the world at large, even in heaven. For this kind of a war is going on continually between those who are self-righteous about their works * In the original this paragraph was emphasized by the word "Obs." written in the margin. Above it the author had written and deleted:

"The things that have happened to me now and previously when I wrote about the Law delivered on Mount Sinai, as well as those portrayed to me today, the 11th of July, 1746 (old calendar), are stupefying, and so wicked, and of such a nature, that I dare not reveal them as yet."