3110. When the Messiah is understood by "Joseph" in this passage, then He Who constantly prays and intercedes for the Church, and for the coming of His Kingdom, arises as the supereminent meaning. Then by "the house of Pharaoh," the very house of God the Messiah is understood, which must constantly pray to God the Messiah Himself that His Kingdom may come, and indeed, using the Prayer of God the Messiah Himself, in which nothing at all is contained that does not concern this Kingdom. That prayer you may, by the mercy of God the Messiah, find explained elsewhere [WE 826]. For whoever prays to the Father in the name of God the Messiah, shall receive [John 15:16, 16:23], that is, whoever prays through God the Messiah Himself, directing the prayer to Him, but not to Jehovah His Father - for no one no one can approach Jehovah the Father except through the Son [John 14:6] - he shall receive. This is to pray in the name of This is to pray in the name of God the Messiah.* The human race, and those who have died, both the saints and others, as well as spirits and angels, can never approach Jehovah the Father except through the one only Son - this is clear from what has gone before. For without the Son, the world is entirely cut off, and would perish in an instant. To do so would be like trying by some higher faith or sight to see into a bottomless pit where nothing is encountered but the thickest darkness; or like trying to approach Him by outward obedience, that is, by the works of the law, while inwardly being like a most filthy vessel, and like dung. By such obedience some do try to approach Jehovah the Parent. How absurd this is, I have just now discussed [Lord; Jews; Mediation] * In the original, this and the next paragraph were emphasized by the symbol "NB." written twice in the margin.