Now therefore let me alone , that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. --Exodus 32:10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That Mine anger may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them. That this signifies that in so doing they turn themselves away from internal things, thus from things Divine, so that they must needs perish, is evident from the signification of "anger waxing hot," when said of Jehovah, as being a turning away on the part of man (of which below), and from the signification of "consuming," when also said of Jehovah, as being to perish in consequence of their own evil. In many passages of the Word it is said of Jehovah that He burns with anger and is wroth, and also that He consumes and destroys. But it is so said because it so appears to the man who turns himself away from the Lord, as is the case when he does evil; and as then he is not heard, and is even punished, he believes that the Lord is in anger against him; although the Lord is never angry, and never consumes, for He is mercy itself and good itself. --Arcana Coelestia n. 10431, Emanuel Swedenborg
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