10007.
'And the breastplate' means Divine Truth shining forth from the Lord's Divine Good. This is clear from what has been shown regarding the breastplate in 9823, 9863-9873, 9905.a
Notes
a Sw. failed here to provide
any explanation of the words you shall gird him with the girdle of the ephod. J.F.I. Tafel, editor of the second Latin edition, suggested - on the basis of what appears in 9828, 9944, 9948, 10005
- a wording that may be rendered a general bond holding all things of love and faith in connection and form within itself, in order that they may all have the same end in view.