322. * For they are continually trying to attack those who belong to God the Messiah, nor do they ever refrain, as long as they are permitted to be present. About them, so much could be told, that I would run out of pages. They are more poisonous and sly than anyone of mortals could imagine - as I have quite often been allowed by God the Messiah to experience. [Jews] [See the rest of WE 6665, concluding the explanation of Lev. 26:7.]
[See WE 6671 up to this point, explaining Lev. 26:13.] * "They would go upright" answers to the words that they will not be under "a yoke." So they would no longer look downwards, to the worldly and bodily objectives to which they had bowed down, or which they had worshipped;
* but they will be raised up on high, and will behold heaven. To "walk upright" is to be lifted up; for a child of the true Israel is raised up, that is, all its thought is uplifted and withdrawn from mankind on earth toward heaven, and toward God the Messiah, and consequently, altogether separated from the body. This has happened to me so
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