179. The cause of the coming of the Lord [is] because strength is in ultimates and so in the material body. Let the causes be investigated, whence it is that strength is in ultimates; (see Ps. 68:29, 30), otherwise it has not power over the natural man, where all evil is. "The beasts of the reeds"* is the natural man. Wherefore He is called the strength, and the right hand by which is signified a]l power. * Notes on the Psalms, by Rev. O. Prescott Hiller, in a translation "directly from the Hebrew", gives verse 30 of Ps. 68 as follows:
Rebuke the beast of the reed, the assembly of the strong, Among the calves of the People, treading down pieces of silver, They disperse the people, they delight in wars.
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