Excerpt from The Heavenly Mysteries Contained in the Holy Scripture, or Word of the Lord Unfolded in an Exposition of Genesis and Exodus, Vol. 3 of 12: Together With a Relation of Wonderful Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels; Genesis, Chapter XVIII. To Chapter XXII Prophets, also, a cloud everywhere signifies the Word in the letter and glory the Word in its life. The nature and quality of the internal sense of the Word has already been frequently shewn, and pointed out in the explanation of each particular expression in the foregoing chapters. In our Lord's time, those skilled in the [mosaic] law were the last to believe that anything in the Word had relation to the Lord at the present day, those skilled in the law do indeed know, but possibly will be the last to believe, that there is any other glory in the Word than what appears in the letter, which nevertheless is the cloud wherein that glory is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.